What do building trust and decolonizing our nonprofits have to do with each other?

MT: Alright, hey everybody. This is Mazarine Treyz with Wild Woman Fundraising and the Nonprofit Leadership Summit. Today I have the pleasure and the privilege of chatting with Denechia Powell who is currently in Atlanta and just moved there and working at Carolyn Peruth Consulting. Could you tell us more about you a little bit, […]

Make Your Nonprofit Stop Bleeding Money-Interview with Pamela Uppal

How can you make your nonprofit stop bleeding money with turnover? Decent work! Read on for more on how this works! You can listen to the video, or read the transcript below. MT: Thank you Pamela Uppal so much for being here with me now. You will be speaking at the Nonprofit Leadership Summit this […]

#MeToo in our Nonprofits-Interview with Maria Ramos-Chertok

When you heard the first #MeToo stories, did it resonate with you? For me, I felt like a lot of us have been there. I know I certainly have. Reading Uma Thurman’s interview in the New York Times recently made me reflect on the importance of telling our stories, and being heard around the issue […]

6 questions to get the best performance from your team.

Do you manage people at your nonprofit? How could you figure out people’s motivation to help them perform better in their roles? You should check out these motivations-and try to match them to people in your organization. Have you ever read Conversations for Creating Star Performers by Shawn Kent Hayashi? In this book he talks […]

Should you talk with your donors about politics?

Have you seen this video ad by Heineken? This is the antidote to that Pepsi ad. What does the video do? It has three sets of people meet for the first time, and build bar stools together, then build a whole bar together. It asks them, what 3 things do we have in common? And […]

Donor Sexual Harrassment

Here’s a message from Captain Obvious! Feminism is good for everyone! Real equity and Diversity is good for everyone.  Who agrees with me? Let’s see. Nonprofit Pro. Sofii. The Agitator. Vanessa Chase of The Storytelling Nonprofit started the Fundraising is Female issue hashtag, and here are the issues we see as female fundraisers.   Why […]