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GEO Guest Post: From Uncomfortable Truths to Courageous Action

May 3, 2018 By Nell Edgington 2 Comments

Note: The third guest blogger in the Grantmakers for Effective Organizations (GEO) conference blog series is Pia Infante, Trustee and Co-Executive Director of The Whitman Institute. Her post is below. The 2018 GEO National Conference came to a close yesterday, and 950 of us headed back to our respective cities, families, teams, and desks with fresh […]

GEO Guest Post: Confronting Our Complicity in Racial Inequity

May 2, 2018 By Nell Edgington Leave a Comment

Note: The second guest blogger in this week’s Grantmakers for Effective Organizations (GEO) conference blog series is Sean Thomas-Breitfeld, Co-Director of Building Movement Project. His post is below. And don’t forget to follow the conference via #2018GEO. Nikole’s 2016 article about choosing a school for her daughter in New York City’s segregated school district highlighted the systemic […]

Philanthropy in Troubled Times: Blogging the 2018 GEO Conference

April 24, 2018 By Nell Edgington Leave a Comment

Next week, as part of the 2018 Grantmakers for Effective Organizations (GEO) Conference, I’m excited to host some exceptional guest bloggers here on the blog. GEO’s biennial conference is where the most engaged philanthropists gather to talk about how they can more effectively support nonprofit leaders. GEO has asked me to host a blog series about […]

When A Funder Takes Your Nonprofit Off Course

January 29, 2018 By Nell Edgington 4 Comments

It’s fairly common knowledge that in the nonprofit sector the relationship between funders and nonprofit leaders is often fraught. A power imbalance between those with the purse strings and those without can sometimes lead to poor decisions about a nonprofit’s future direction. The other day I was advising a nonprofit leader — let’s call him […]

What I Learned on My Social Media Break

January 9, 2018 By Nell Edgington Leave a Comment

Happy New Year, dear Social Velocity readers! After taking almost 4 months away from the blog (and largely away from social media in general), today I’m jumping back in. I certainly haven’t figured it all out, but I feel I’ve given myself enough space to climb back into the fray. But before I do, I […]

Why I’m Taking a Small Break From The Blog

September 14, 2017 By Nell Edgington Leave a Comment

You may have noticed that I haven’t been posting to the blog as often lately. There is a good reason for this, and I want to share it with you, since you all have been such wonderfully loyal and engaged readers. I launched the Social Velocity blog in September of 2008, nine years ago this […]

Creating Honest Conversations Between Nonprofits and Funders: An Interview With Eric Weinheimer

August 29, 2017 By Nell Edgington Leave a Comment

In today’s Social Velocity blog interview, I’m talking with Eric Weinheimer, President and CEO of Forefront, the only regional association that represents grantmakers, nonprofits, advisors, and social entrepreneurs. With 1,100 members in Illinois, Forefront provides education, advocacy, and research, and mobilizes its members around issues that are important to the nonprofit sector. Prior to his current […]

When The Searing Truth Comes Into Focus

August 22, 2017 By Nell Edgington Leave a Comment

It has been a really difficult couple of weeks. And I think for those of us in the social change sector — the sector that works for equity, justice, compassion, inclusion, civility — these days have been particularly challenging. The events in Charlottesville have made obvious that there is so much work to do, and […]

10 Great Social Innovation Reads: June & July 2017

August 1, 2017 By Nell Edgington Leave a Comment

Since I was on vacation (and off social media) for a chunk of June, I decided to combine the June and July 10 Great Reads lists into one. But that proved to be a tricky feat, since there was no shortage of activity in the world of social change during those two months. From the […]

3 Questions To Regularly Ask Your Development Director

July 27, 2017 By Nell Edgington Leave a Comment

Beyond the mistakes nonprofit leaders often make in staffing their fundraising function, the relationship itself between a nonprofit executive director and the development director (or whatever you call the staff person in charge of bringing money in the door) can often be fraught. In an ideal world, the executive director and development director have a symbiotic […]

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