Is your job eating your life?
This post is part two of how we abandon ourselves at work. Go back and read part one if you haven’t yet. How could you be abandoning your chance of happiness at work? Abandoning our physical selves. In a relationship, sometimes we will do physical things we don’t want to do, for the sake of […]
Epiphany! This struck me like a lightning bolt
Recently I was talking with an urban planner from Portland Development Commission, or PDC. He is in charge of getting more economic growth in the city of Portland, specifically in areas like Athletic apparel, Tech, and Manufacturing. Because I am a nonprofit cheerleader, I asked him, “Why not nonprofits? Why not focus on helping them?” […]
Women and Workaholism in your Fundraising Office
Have you read the first post in this series? If not, here it is! “Evil begins when you treat people as things-either yourself or other people.” -Granny Weatherwax I just read this wonderful book called Working ourselves to death and I just had to tell you about this particular piece of it: Women and Workaholism: […]
Incredible CRISIS! Again!
Do you have unrealistic deadlines at work? Are you there past 5pm every day, along with most other people? Do you feel like it’s never going to get done? Is your work a series of crises, one after another? Is it, “how are we going to make payroll?” or “We’re losing two big government grants, […]
Changing our Nonprofit Culture, one person at a time
Last year I came out with a research report, called Shafted. How did I do my research? I did some research on JSTOR, I did some online research, I read the YNPN research reports and also read Uncharitable by Dan Pallotta, and Donor Centered Leadership by Penelope Burk. And I did more research outside of […]
Are you giving your power away?
Have you ever given your power away to someone or something without realizing you were doing it?
Well, I have, and it taught me a lot about how to step back from a situation, and look at it with a pair of critical eyes.