Collective Joy = How to Harness the Power of #Occupy for Your Nonprofit Cause
How can progressives use collective joy to help motivate people and promote our causes?
People who are working for change need to think about how to make their events draw on the solidarity and creativity of lots of people together. That’s been happening … but it’s something we need to address. Bringing art and culture into politics is a way to express what we are seeking, what our vision of the world is. -Barbara Ehrenreich
Is your nonprofit a “safe bet”? Let’s Get Dangerous!
Do you want to be a nonprofit consultant? Read this interview with Desiree Adaway
Reader Questions: How do you partner with a nonprofit, get AKA Fiscal Sponsorship?
1. What is Fiscal Sponsorship?
Well, when a nonprofit loves an individual very much, they get together and 9 months later fiscal sponsorship is born!
Do we really have too many nonprofits? Citation needed!
I mean, come on! We have tech for-profits starting up every day, and no one says to them, “There are too many tech startups! Cut it out already, there’s not enough need!”
Do you have any thought-terminating clichés? Are you sure?
So thought-terminating clichés, what are they? Coined in a book called “Thought Reform and the Psychology of Totalism,” a book written in 1956 about brainwashing in China, A thought-terminating cliché is a commonly used phrase, sometimes passing as folk wisdom, used to quell cognitive dissonance. Though the phrase in and of itself may be valid […]