Is Your Nonprofit Work Meaningful Work?
“I’m using every ounce of my will, my intelligence, my heart and my soul.” Can you say that when you wake up every day, and go to work? If not, Alice Walker has some advice for you. We are often distracted from effective direct action by the project of improving ourselves, of […]
Fascinating interview with Roger Craver + My Favorite Part
Roger Craver lays it down with this podcast with Jeff Brooks! He says a lot of interesting things! He’s been fundraising longer than I’ve been alive, and he has so many tidbits of wisdom. Here are my favorite parts of Roger Craver’s interview: He says social media is bullshit! (And I actually agree, it’s bullshit […]
Reader Questions: What needs to be done the first 90 days in a fundraising position
Efficient Charities: Is your nonprofit pursuing something inhuman?
I have to tell you these things! Because the people running your nonprofit are thinking about these things. They’re thinking,
“How can we make this nonprofit run more like a business, with RUTHLESS EFFICIENCY?” and this may be the wrong question to ask.
What really rich people want
How can you get in touch with what a rich person wants?
What their deepest fears and desires are?
Firing Your Development Director? It’s not you, it’s me!
