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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 […]

Overcome Nonprofit Scarcity With Capacity Funding

Overcome Nonprofit Scarcity With Capacity Funding

October 9, 2020 By Nell Edgington

I was talking to a nonprofit leader earlier this week who was unknowingly torturing herself. One part of her had a big vision for growing her nonprofit to reach more people and create change to a broken system. But another part of her felt stuck because she lacked so many things to make that big […]

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 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 […]

Figuring Out How to Do Better

Figuring Out How to Do Better

June 8, 2020 By Nell Edgington

These past few weeks have been heartbreaking and hopeful at the same time. The protests around the country, around the world, fighting for racial justice and equality are growing by size and number every day. And those protests are already starting to result in some policy changes that only a couple of weeks ago felt […]

How a Single Nonprofit Leader Can Shift How Money Flows to Social Change

How a Single Nonprofit Leader Can Shift How Money Flows to Social Change

May 27, 2020 By Nell Edgington

I received a great comment from a reader of my recent post, “The System for Funding Nonprofits is Crumbling. That’s a Good Thing.” While blog reader Vanessa agreed with my assessment that how we fund social change is horribly broken, she very rightly wanted to know what an individual nonprofit leader can do to overcome […]

The System for Funding Social Change is Crumbling. That’s a Good Thing.

The System for Funding Social Change is Crumbling. That’s a Good Thing.

May 12, 2020 By Nell Edgington

There is much discussion lately about the financial doom that this pandemic is unleashing on nonprofits. Cancelled galas, shrinking corporate donations, fearful foundation donors, disappearing government coffers. It seems that the entire way nonprofits and social change are funded might be crumbling before our eyes. It’s about time! That’s because how money flows to the […]

Nonprofit Leaders Deserve So Much More

Nonprofit Leaders Deserve So Much More

May 6, 2020 By Nell Edgington

Perhaps one of the worst things about this pandemic is that in practicing social distancing for days on end we begin to believe that we are alone. Zoom calls, emails and conversations with the same few people you are quarantining with can only get you so far. The silence, the physical distance from staff, board, […]

InReach Solutions Interview with Nell Edgington of Social Velocity

Talking About the Road to Nonprofit Abundance

February 26, 2021 By Nell Edgington Leave a Comment

I’ve been spending a lot of time over the past couple of months doing interviews and podcasts related to my book, Reinventing Social Change, and I have so enjoyed the conversations, that I wanted to share some of them with you.  I also have several more podcasts and interviews coming up, so I’ll continue to […]

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How To Ask For (and Receive) The Help Your Nonprofit Needs

February 10, 2021 By Nell Edgington Leave a Comment

So often in the nonprofit sector scarcity manifests as a lack of money — nonprofit leaders constantly bemoan the (perceived) fact that there just isn’t enough money to go around. But if we dig a little deeper, money is just a means to an end. Likely the first thing you would buy if an abundance […]

Join Me to Learn How to Start Attracting Abundance

January 28, 2021 By Nell Edgington Leave a Comment

It’s almost here, the official launch of my new book, Reinventing Social Change: Embrace Abundance to Create a Healthier and More Equitable World. And to celebrate, I’m hosting a special virtual event on Thursday, February 11th, 12pm – 1pm Eastern. I hope you can join us for this free event because it’s going to be […]

Reinventing Social Change Book Available Now!

Order Your Copy of Reinventing Social Change

January 21, 2021 By Nell Edgington Leave a Comment

I’m excited to announce that my new book, Reinventing Social Change: Embrace Abundance to Create a Healthier and More Equitable World is now available!  Reinventing Social Change charts a path for you as a nonprofit or philanthropic leader to: Break free from limiting beliefs and restrictions Reclaim your power Kiss scarcity goodbye Attract financial abundance, […]

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Move From Nonprofit Fundraising to Social Change Financing

January 14, 2021 By Nell Edgington Leave a Comment

Last week I talked about how to make money your new best friend. That is a mindset shift, which is the critical first piece, but then you need to start to use money in a MUCH BIGGER WAY.  I have said for years that traditional nonprofit fundraising is broken. So broken. Because if you think […]

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Make Money Your Nonprofit’s New Best Friend

January 8, 2021 By Nell Edgington Leave a Comment

This past week has been one of the most trying for our country. We obviously have a lot of work to do to heal our country and fix our broken systems. But I absolutely believe that 2021 is going to be a much better year. In fact, I believe it holds the opportunity — since […]

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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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Overgiving is a Nonprofit Disease

October 2, 2020 By Nell Edgington 2 Comments

If this year of turmoil has taught us anything, it is that we need those with solutions to be fully empowered. That means you, social change leaders. In order to benefit from the solutions you offer for the many social problems we now face, we need you to reclaim your power as the social change […]

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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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InReach Solutions Interview with Nell Edgington of Social Velocity

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How To Ask For (and Receive) The Help Your Nonprofit Needs

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Reinventing Social Change Book Available Now!

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