Wild Woman Fundraising

I want to tell you about something completely incredible that happened last night. I put this simple message out on Twitter: “Hey Twitter, can you help me out? I am looking for small rural clinics and hospitals using social media.” The response was instant and tremendous, because @TweetSmarter picked up my question and retweeted it [...]

Oh man. Have you ever tried to redesign your nonprofit website? Was that fun? No? Why not? Is it because you were trying to skimp on people who knew what they were doing, and decided to DIY? Is it because you trusted people who said they knew what they were doing, and then they didn’t [...]

So I’m doing a webinar today! You can totally come! It’s free!

Which would YOU rather be?

Well, isn’t everyone?

Let me give you some free tools you can use to make your annual report sparkle, and your e-newsletter shine!

Two words.

Gimp.
Brushes.

This video is very um… just don’t watch it at work, okay? You will have a hard time explaining it to passerby.

This question is from the marvelous Shuai in California, who will start a nonprofit one day, and wants to know ALL about fundraising, and also, specifically, about which fundraising blogs and books she should read! Here’s what she said. > Currently, I am volunteering with various nonprofits that focus more on > sustainability and repurposing [...]

This last week, Katya Anderson wrote about the numbing of our compassion when we have heard lots of statistics and lots of stories. I was just reading about this trend in “Half the Sky” and it frankly shocked me, that people could care less and less about greater quantities of people, the more stories that [...]

Hi Molly!

First off, I love that you’re helping women get wheels. When I worked in a domestic violence shelter, this is something that would hamper women in getting the services that they needed, whether baby-sitting, counseling, welfare, etc. A car can mean the difference between a job and no job, and between a woman having to return to an abuser or not. Thank you for recognizing this.

“We are tired of being the subject of aid.” “We have to reform our economies, change our leadership, and be more democratic, and we have to do it ourselves.” -Ngozi Okonjo-Iweala, Finance Minister in Nigeria