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Which of these 12 Business Launching Lessons have you learned?
This is the blog post where I don’t just show you my successes, but I show you my failures. At least, I show you what I’ve LEARNED from my failures. What Were Some Big Lessons for me in the last two years? The Song Cycles of 2010-2011: How to fail at business by trying [...]
Who will listen to the dead?
Today’s post is for every person reading this blog who is working to help the dead be heard. Whether you’re working at a domestic violence shelter and you work for each woman who is murdered before she can leave for good, or perhaps you’re working at an environmental nonprofit that helps people cut down on [...]
Rotten To The Core: Now the truth can be told
You may think I’m the wild truth teller, but I’ve been holding something back from you for years.
HOLD ONTO YOUR HATS!
I’m about to let you know that for all of the stories of corrupt nonprofits, and how it brings the sector down when we focus on them, sometimes we HAVE to focus on them, because justice is NOT BEING SERVED.
Have you ever bought an auction “vacation package”?
Then Guy Debord has something to say to you.
“In its most advanced sectors, a highly concentrated capitalism has begun selling “fully equipped” blocks of time, each of which is a complete commodity combining a variety of other commodities. This is the logic behind the appearance, within an expanding economy of “services” and leisure activities, of the “all-inclusive” purchase of spectacular forms of housing, of collective pseudo-travel, of participation in cultural consumption and even of sociability itself, in the form of “exciting conversations.” “meetings with celebrities” and suchlike. Spectacular commodities of this type could obviously not exist were it not for the increasing impoverishment of the realities they parody. And, not surprisingly, they are also paradigmatic of modern sales techniques in that they may be bought on credit.”
So, have you ever been to Disney world? Have you been to a Disney “timeshare”? Me TOO.
It was a completely artificial experience. It made me want to seek out nature, and the dark, and something more real.
If you have been similarly dissatisfied with Disney and its sanitized backward-looking version of life, perhaps you might enjoy this video.
Interview: How can you start fundraising from nothing?
Ever wanted to learn how to start fundraising?
Need some tips on where to start getting more website traffic for your nonprofit?
Read this interview.
Dear Reader… Can I make a confession to you?
OK, Radical honesty time!
I’m not a catholic, but here’s my confession….
