Comments on: Financing Not Fundraising: 5 Lies to Stop Telling Donors

By: Financing Not Fundraising: 5 Lies to Stop Telling Donors | Social Velocity | Entrepreneuriat, Management & Créativité pour Entreprises sociales | Scoop.it

Sat, 09 Feb 2013 00:47:21 +0000

[...] Nonprofit leaders have to stop telling funders what they want to hear. Here are the 5 top lies nonprofits have to stop telling their donors. [...]

By: Financing Not Fundraising: 5 Lies to Stop Telling Donors | Social Velocity | Nonprofit Funding Opportunities | Scoop.it

Tue, 05 Feb 2013 21:21:05 +0000

[...] Nonprofit leaders have to stop telling funders what they want to hear. Here are the 5 top lies nonprofits have to stop telling their donors. [...]

By: Overhead versus Outcomes - Greenlights for Nonprofit Success

Overhead versus Outcomes - Greenlights for Nonprofit Success — Tue, 29 Jan 2013 15:28:58 +0000

[...] Edgington of Social Velocity believes the distinction between program and administrative costs is meaningless because it is [...]

By: 5 Things Nonprofit Donors Can Do to Transform the Sector | Texas Entrepreneur Networks

Tue, 02 Oct 2012 15:01:41 +0000

[...] they use it for ill. And because of the power imbalance between funder and fundee, it is unusual that anyone ever tells nonprofit donors what they could do to really help the sector and the organizations they [...]

By: Financing not Fundraising: How to Rebut Crazy Donor Demands | Texas Entrepreneur Networks

Mon, 23 Apr 2012 12:36:53 +0000

[...] relationship between nonprofits and their donors. I’ve talked before about how nonprofits should stop lying to their donors. But today, in this month’s post in the on-going Financing Not Fundraising blog series, I want [...]

By: Preventing Social Change Burnout | Texas Entrepreneur Networks

Preventing Social Change Burnout | Texas Entrepreneur Networks — Mon, 19 Dec 2011 18:09:32 +0000

[...] Honest. With your donors, with your board members. Stop telling people what they want to hear and start being honest about the limits of your time, your staff’s capacity, your program’s scope. And stop chasing [...]

By: Why Nonprofit Overhead is Destructive | Texas Entrepreneur Networks

Why Nonprofit Overhead is Destructive | Texas Entrepreneur Networks — Fri, 02 Dec 2011 13:50:15 +0000

[...] #1: “How much goes to the cause? How high are their expenses?” As I’ve written before, the distinction between program (or “cause”) and administrative expenses is meaningless at best, and destructive at worst. If a nonprofit organization is creating change, then everything they do [...]

By: Nell Edgington

Nell Edgington — Thu, 03 Nov 2011 13:55:12 +0000

J, that was a really powerful post. Thanks so much for sharing. We all need to be much more open and honest about the realities we are dealing with.

By: J.

J. — Thu, 03 Nov 2011 13:24:25 +0000

Some of us in the aid sector are writing about this, too…

http://talesfromethehood.com/2011/08/29/aid-marketing-id-love-to-see/

By: Kevin Gray

Kevin Gray — Wed, 02 Nov 2011 11:59:56 +0000

GREAT ARTICLE!!!!!It seems unrealistic to donors today that a real non-profit has to, in some shape form or fashion, have little to no administrative cost to run the foundation properly. I was over joyed to read the comments. As was mentioned, it so hard to keep up with all the excellent reading material thats out there today, but keep it coming. Now let’s all stick together and really make a difference. w2wbcf.org