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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 […]

You Are Powerful Beyond Measure

You Are Powerful Beyond Measure

September 29, 2020 By Nell Edgington

There is something that I find nonprofit leaders often forget. And this is that you are immensely powerful. You are, in fact, powerful beyond measure. But there are so many ways that our society attempts to strip you of your power. To name a few: Legal and norm limits on your ability to influence policy […]

The Great Reset Requires a New Kind of Social Change

The Great Reset Requires a New Kind of Social Change

September 15, 2020 By Nell Edgington

2020 continues to uncover the many social problems we need to solve, and broken systems we need to reinvent. This is crystal clear most recently with the horrific wildfires that have demonstrated how desperate we are for a solution to climate change. 2020 has been crisis after crisis, but these crises are also incredible opportunities. […]

Our Social Change Moment is Dawning

Our Social Change Moment is Dawning

August 24, 2020 By Nell Edgington

I have been feeling lately that we social changemakers are on the cusp of something really big and new. It is an opportunity — an opportunity we have likely been training for our entire lives — to remake the world in ways we could formerly only imagine. Social change leaders, who have for so long […]

How Board Members Can Stop Nonprofit Leader Burnout

How Board Members Can Stop Nonprofit Leader Burnout

September 9, 2019 By Nell Edgington

This summer, after much convincing, one of my clients (who was close to burnout) reluctantly took a long weekend off. She said it felt amazing. But she also felt guilty. It is insane that three very short days away felt somehow wrong to this beleaguered nonprofit leader. But, her plight, nonprofit leader burnout, is so […]

The Magic of Refusing to Go it Alone

The Magic of Refusing to Go it Alone

July 29, 2019 By Nell Edgington

Fear, anxiety and anger seem to be swirling lately. These are dark times for our country, there is no doubt. And perhaps particularly in the social change sector — a sector built on creating a more equitable, loving, and connected society — these dark times are particularly hard to take. But the true danger in […]

Are You Making Fear-Based Decisions?

Are You Making Fear-Based Decisions?

April 23, 2019 By Nell Edgington

As a nonprofit leader you no doubt face an endless barrage of critical decisions. Should we grow this program? Do we add this new staff position? Should we invite this new board member to join? Should we pursue this new funder? The list goes on and on. And often the direction nonprofit leaders choose is […]

Nonprofit Leaders Need More Compassion

Nonprofit Leaders Need More Compassion

April 16, 2019 By Nell Edgington

Nonprofit leaders are, as a rule, a pretty compassionate bunch. By definition, someone who has decided to start or lead a nonprofit probably has a greater ability than the average person to see pain and feel compelled to relieve it. Whether it’s a desire to ease the suffering of homeless populations, or help kids access […]

3 Questions to Ask Before Saying Yes to a New Opportunity

3 Questions to Ask Before Saying Yes to a New Opportunity

April 1, 2019 By Nell Edgington

As part of the martyr complex from which so many of them suffer, nonprofit leaders often think that it’s best to push themselves and their organizations harder, faster, farther. Nonprofit leaders are continually faced with new opportunities – new client populations to serve, new demands for program expansion from funders, new partnership opportunities. And while […]

Now is The Time for Bold Nonprofit Leaders

Now is The Time for Bold Nonprofit Leaders

January 12, 2017 By Nell Edgington

Nonprofit leaders tend to err on the side of caution. But these times call for something quite different. These times demand that you overcome the fear and risk-aversion that sometimes cripple your work. You no longer have the luxury of sitting by and waiting for “permission” to do what you have to do. This is the time […]

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What Does Your Nonprofit Really Want?

December 10, 2020 By Nell Edgington Leave a Comment

So, now that you know the power of the word “Yet” to move you from scarcity to abundance, it’s time to start thinking about what you really want. Perhaps the most egregious part of being stuck in scarcity is that you get so used to thinking there is never enough that you lose touch with […]

Fear is not a nonprofit's friend

Fear is Not Your Nonprofit’s Friend

November 12, 2020 By Nell Edgington Leave a Comment

I’m not gonna lie, last week was rough. As I know you are well aware, there was a palpable sense of fear and anxiety everywhere you looked. Even my friends in other countries reached out to say they, too, were watching our elections in the U.S. with fear and anxiety. No matter who you voted […]

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Becoming Our Own Superhero

September 22, 2020 By Nell Edgington Leave a Comment

As if 2020 hasn’t been hard enough, this weekend we lost a true social change warrior, Ruth Bader Ginsburg. A stalwart for gender equality, she spent her life working to make life better for women. Her death came on the heels of the death of another champion for those who have been held back — […]

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Take a Break Nonprofit Leaders

July 28, 2020 By Nell Edgington Leave a Comment

There is a palpable sense that people are hitting a wall. 2020 has been exhausting. I think particularly for social change leaders, who have borne the brunt of the tremendous social upheaval this year has brought, there is a sense of looming burnout. So I beg you — take a vacation. Every summer I work […]

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When It is Dark, Seek Out Beauty

June 17, 2020 By Nell Edgington Leave a Comment

These are really dark days. We are in midst of a global pandemic that shows no sign of weakening, while we simultaneously begin to reckon with centuries of racial violence and inequality. Emotions are running high. People are worn out. There is simply a pallor of exhaustion, hopelessness, overwhelm that pervades much of our world […]

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If You Are Afraid, Lead

April 6, 2020 By Nell Edgington Leave a Comment

These are scary times, there is no doubt. But sometimes, surprisingly, the antidote to fear is looking it squarely in the eyes and moving forward anyway. Believe me, since mid-March I have woken up most mornings with a constant companion — worry — waving from the sidelines. But each of us has the power to […]

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Nonprofit Leaders, Reclaim Your Social Change Power

June 25, 2019 By Nell Edgington Leave a Comment

Whenever I’m meeting with a prospective client one of the first questions I ask is, “What is your vision for your organization? What do you want ultimately to accomplish.” It never ceases to amaze me how often the answer is either: Some version of “I hadn’t really thought about that”, or worse, “Just a bit […]

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A Letter to Nonprofit Leaders

January 29, 2019 By Nell Edgington 4 Comments

Note: The last couple of years have been particularly trying for nonprofit leaders — those of you who are working tirelessly to build a better world. I know that it can sometimes seem that your work is a thankless, never-ending list of tasks, while you face increasing challenges from every corner. So I wanted to […]

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The Gentle Art of Taking a Break

September 26, 2018 By Nell Edgington 1 Comment

In one of my coaching sessions with a nonprofit leader last week, we spent a good deal of time discussing how to take a break. But like so many leaders in the nonprofit sector, this exhausted, worn down, borderline burned-out nonprofit leader was very resistant to what every cell in her body was craving — […]

Why Nonprofit Leaders Should Play Big

May 31, 2018 By Nell Edgington 4 Comments

One of the many books I read on my social media hiatus last Fall, was Tara Mohr’s Playing Big: Practical Wisdom for Women Who Want to Speak Up, Create and Lead. Her argument is that there are countless women out there who could be contributing so much more to society but are holding themselves back […]

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