Creating more strategic, financially savvy, and confident nonprofit leaders and organizations.
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 […]
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 […]
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 […]
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 […]
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 […]
“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 […]
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 […]
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 […]
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 […]
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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 […]
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: […]
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 […]
