NEW Name It Podcast!: Critical Consciousness and Ethical Nonprofit Storytelling Interview with Jarell Skinner-Roy
We were lucky to get the chance to sit down with Jarell Skinner-Roy, who wrote a powerful article on dismantling white supremacy in nonprofits. Here’s the link to listen to the podcast! 1) Jarell, what is your background in the nonprofit sector? 2) In your YNPN Twin Cities article, you ask people in nonprofit organizations […]
How to talk about your nonprofit mistakes
I’ve been watching Givewell for the past couple of years, because I think they’ve been trying to take on a serious issue with accountability and transparency for nonprofits.
8 ways to get people to read and answer your emails in your fundraising job
Are you sending emails and just feeling like you’re beating your head against the wall? You’re not alone. So many of our fundraising emails go unanswered! WHY? Because maybe the recipient doesn’t know you. Or maybe your subject line sucked. Or maybe the body of the email was really long and not logically set up, […]
9 ways to tell an old story in a new way
If you’ve worked in marketing or fundraising a nonprofit for any length of time, you’re probably familiar with the problem of how to keep telling your nonprofit’s story in a fresh way. You’ve got grants to write, appeals to write, and newsletters to write so often it can be a challenge to keep the […]
Are you a foundation looking for nonprofits to fund? Consider this.
Are you trying to ‘maximize” your “resources” and “optimize” your “funding dollars”?
Are you looking for a nonprofit with a good 5 year plan, and programs based on research?
Are you looking for a predictable (yet innovative) model of human behavior that other nonprofits can follow for “reproducible” or “Replicable” results?
Strategic philanthropy? Yep, still insulting.
“Why would you not only give the fox full rein of the henhouse, but on top of that, let the fox tell the chickens how to live?”