Note: I was asked to write a guest post for the Nonprofit About.com site about how to move a nonprofit’s board of directors from fundraising to financing. An excerpt of this blog post is below, and you can read the entire post on the Nonprofit About.com site here. Nonprofit boards of directors are notoriously […]
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Financing Not Fundraising: Stop Apologizing for Needing Money
It becomes increasingly obvious to me that the nonprofit sector suffers from a lack of confidence. Centuries of being sidelined as “charities” while the real work of the world (business) took center stage has made the nonprofit sector continually apologize for the work they do and how they do it. Nowhere is this more true […]
New Financing Not Fundraising, Vol. 3 E-book
I am delighted to announce today’s release of the newest volume in the Financing Not Fundraising e-book series, Financing Not Fundraising, vol. 3. The idea behind Financing Not Fundraising is that the traditional way nonprofit leaders, boards and donors have approached funding the work of nonprofits doesn’t work anymore. Traditional nonprofit fundraising forces nonprofits to […]
Financing Not Fundraising: 5 Taboos Nonprofits Must Get Over
Yep, it’s true, the nonprofit sector doesn’t have enough money. There are lots of reasons for that, but part of it stems from the taboos the nonprofit sector (and the staffs, boards and donors within it) perpetuates. But perhaps if we lay them bare, we can start to break free from them, which is the […]
New Nonprofit Tools Store Coming to Social Velocity
There are some exciting things happening at Social Velocity. I have spent the last several months revising and expanding the e-books, webinars, and step-by-step guides I offer nonprofit leaders in the Tools store of the website. These Tools help nonprofit leaders, board members and donors understand the trends facing the nonprofit sector and how to […]