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How to Move Your Nonprofit From Scarcity to Abundance

How to Move Your Nonprofit From Scarcity to Abundance

December 4, 2020 By Nell Edgington

In my last blog post, I talked about how making decisions from a place of fear is solidly rooting you in the world of scarcity. And that’s the last place you want your nonprofit and your social change work to be.  Yet, scarcity is such an omnipresent ethos in the social change sector — from […]

How to Overcome Your Nonprofit’s Limiting Beliefs

How to Overcome Your Nonprofit’s Limiting Beliefs

August 17, 2020 By Nell Edgington

It feels like right now we are surrounded by can’ts. We can’t be near most other humans, we can’t travel as we used to, many can’t find work, we can’t really plan for the future because things seem to change by the minute. The can’ts seem to be everywhere. The sadder part is that in […]

Nonprofit Scarcity Thinking Will Get You Nowhere

Nonprofit Scarcity Thinking Will Get You Nowhere

March 20, 2018 By Nell Edgington

Scarcity thinking is incredibly pervasive in the nonprofit sector. And it makes sense that it would be. Nonprofit leaders have been told for so long that they must scrape by, are not worthy of real investment, and deserve only the leftovers. No wonder the belief that resources are scarce is baked into their DNA. This […]

To Save the World, Save Yourself

April 7, 2022 By Nell Edgington Leave a Comment

Do you suffer from the misguided belief that many nonprofit and philanthropic leaders do? The belief that you can save someone else – your clients, your staff, the world – before you save yourself. The truth is that you can’t.  Because you have to first fully embrace and address your own needs before you have […]

Imagine the World You Want to See

March 24, 2022 By Nell Edgington Leave a Comment

There is an incredibly powerful tool in your possession, but I bet you rarely use it.   Your ability to imagine the world you want to see.  So often as social change leaders we focus on the problems we see in the world – the inequities, the injustice, the illness, the brokenness. The problems are big […]

A Gift For You: Find Your Joy

March 17, 2022 By Nell Edgington Leave a Comment

“Joy” is such a foreign word in the nonprofit sector. Let’s be honest – in the world in general, especially right now.  It may feel, as you work tirelessly to fix what ails the world, that you are surrounded by everything but joy — anxiety, frustration, depression, exhaustion.  But the fact is, you will be […]

Radical Self Love is the Key to Your Work

February 17, 2022 By Nell Edgington Leave a Comment

Do you give yourself enough love? Social change efforts like yours – nonprofit organizations, foundations, social movements – are so often borne from an act of love. It might be love for your fellow human beings, the animals we share the planet with, or the earth itself. Someone sees an injustice and creates an organization […]

The One Way The Wealthy Are Different

The One Way The Wealthy Are Different

January 27, 2022 By Nell Edgington Leave a Comment

Here’s a radical idea for you:  What if the funders you seek, fear and/or worship are actually just like you?  What if the money they hold (and you likely covet) came to them not because they are smarter, luckier, more worthy, or more privileged than you, but simply because they believe more strongly than you […]

Is More Freedom Calling You? by Nelll Edgington

Is More Freedom Calling You?

January 13, 2022 By Nell Edgington Leave a Comment

Happy New Year, lovely ones! I am really excited for this new year. It feels to me (call me strange!) like something has deeply shifted – that we are being invited to step into a new level of freedom.  “Now, hold on a minute!” I can hear you saying, “Don’t you know there is a […]

Free book Reinventing Social Change by Nell Edgington

Grab Your Free Book!

November 29, 2021 By Nell Edgington Leave a Comment

I have a Giving Tuesday gift for you! From now through this Wednesday, you can get the e-book version of Reinventing Social Change for FREE! I believe so strongly that this book can help social change leaders like you dramatically grow:  The amount of money you raise  The number of supporters and volunteers in your […]

Use Your Gut to Overcome the Fear Holding You Back

October 28, 2021 By Nell Edgington Leave a Comment

Last week I gave you a quick tool for making hard decisions.  But did you know that when you’re agonizing over a tough decision what’s actually happening is that your brain and your gut are at war? Your gut knows the right path forward, but your brain is throwing up all kinds of roadblocks, usually […]

Nonprofit Leaders, You are Worthy of So Much More by Nell Edgington

Nonprofit Leaders, You are Worthy of So Much More

October 21, 2021 By Nell Edgington Leave a Comment

Let me be honest for a second. As a social change leader you are the victim of so many defeating messages, on likely a daily basis. If you’re like a lot of my clients, you probably don’t even realize how much you’ve internalized these messages.  As a society, we say things to nonprofit leaders like:  […]

The Powerful Shift from Judgement to Curiosity

September 16, 2021 By Nell Edgington Leave a Comment

I am in love with a new (for me) TV show. I’m sure you’ve heard of it since I’m late to the game — “Ted Lasso” is about a lovable American leader of a troubled English soccer team. But really the show provides an example of how to go through life as a force of […]

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