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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 […]

What the Nonprofit Sector Could Leave Behind

What the Nonprofit Sector Could Leave Behind

April 14, 2020 By Nell Edgington

Last week Shari Graydon — editor at Informed Opinions, a Canadian nonprofit working to elevate women’s voices in the media — wrote a beautiful article about the opportunity that the pandemic is offering us. She argues that this crisis is an opportunity to decide what we want to take forward with us, and what we […]

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You Can Turn Any Challenge into Opportunity

May 5, 2022 By Nell Edgington Leave a Comment

Did you know that when you choose to focus on the positive aspects of a difficult situation you can transform it?  Like when you are trying to re-engage an errant board member. You could choose to focus on their many absences, how frustrating they can sometimes be, the countless missed opportunities they’ve created.  Or, you […]

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A Social Change Army is Amassing

April 28, 2022 By Nell Edgington Leave a Comment

I love to imagine things that I want to come true. As you well know, I’m a huge proponent of the tremendous power of imagination (here and here) to create the world you want.  I’m telling you, there is enormous power here for you, too. Lately I’ve been really excited about imagining an army of […]

Own the Fundraising Room

March 3, 2022 By Nell Edgington Leave a Comment

I’ve been thinking about energy a lot lately. Not the wall socket variety, but the energy that flows between two human beings – like you and your prospective funder.  Think about the last time you met with a potential funder. Picture that meeting – whether it was in person, over the phone or (everyone’s favorite) […]

Radical Self Love is the Key to Your Work

February 17, 2022 By Nell Edgington Leave a Comment

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 […]

You Don’t Need Permission to be Powerful by Nell Edgington

You Don’t Need Permission to be Powerful

January 20, 2022 By Nell Edgington Leave a Comment

I’ve been on a journey for the last 5 years – likely for my whole life – back to my power.  It’s been a journey from worrying what others think, to feeling rock solid in my own knowledge.  A journey from doing what others think I should do, to doing only what brings me joy.  […]

Free book Reinventing Social Change by Nell Edgington

Grab Your Free Book!

November 29, 2021 By Nell Edgington Leave a Comment

I have a Giving Tuesday gift for you! From now through this Wednesday, you can get the e-book version of Reinventing Social Change for FREE! I believe so strongly that this book can help social change leaders like you dramatically grow:  The amount of money you raise  The number of supporters and volunteers in your […]

How a Nonprofit Raised $18M with an Abundance Mindset by Nell Edgington

How a Nonprofit Raised $18M with an Abundance Mindset

November 11, 2021 By Nell Edgington Leave a Comment

​I love it so much when a fundraiser shifts their mindset from scarcity to abundance and then attracts a huge money windfall. This happened again for another one of my clients just the other day, let’s call him “Bob.”   Bob emailed me to tell me that the shift I helped him make to an abundance […]

Stop Just Reacting To Your Funders

November 4, 2021 By Nell Edgington Leave a Comment

A funny thing happened to a nonprofit leader the other day.  A funder called to let the Executive Director know that their funding priority areas had changed again (Ugh!). So, the ED quickly moved into program development mode to see if she could adapt to keep this funder happy.  Not funny, right?  And it didn’t […]

Use Your Gut to Overcome the Fear Holding You Back

October 28, 2021 By Nell Edgington Leave a Comment

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 […]

Nonprofit Leaders, You are Worthy of So Much More by Nell Edgington

Nonprofit Leaders, You are Worthy of So Much More

October 21, 2021 By Nell Edgington Leave a Comment

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:  […]

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