YOU can change the world through fundraising
Every time someone tells you something/accuses you of being something, instead of just passively accepting that you must be that thing, why not be like Wikipedia and say, “Citation Needed”?
Did you see that New York Times article called “Frazzled Moms Push Back Against Volunteering”? The New York Times may ALSO have some style pieces about women that are not based in reality. Perhaps “small but growing” is code for “three people I found on the corner two hours before deadline.” ORLY. Have YOUR volunteers [...]
Have you been having a hard time finding a nonprofit job?
Do you have years of experience that can translate to helping nonprofits, but no idea how to go about getting a foothold in this field?
Have you thought about becoming a nonprofit consultant?
Yesterday at the last Nonprofit Career Club meeting, we talked with Mike Bacon of Bacon Lee and Associates about becoming a nonprofit consultant. Here’s what he shared with us.
Recently, I was biking up my street, on my way home from a meeting. About 50 feet from my house, which is just on a random street, in a sleepy section of the city, a guy catcalled at me. Some random guy, dressed in a shirt and tie, who was selling magazines in the neighborhood. [...]
On Saturday I went into four different craft stores, and Halloween decorations were everywhere. “Boo!” said a banner. “SCARY SAVINGS!” screamed a poster. “Horrors!” yelled the candy packaging. Witches, vampires and Fairy princess costumes hung waiting for people to put them on.
Horrors indeed. Anyone wanting some real life horrors, not some made up Hollywood horrors, should look no further than the Democratic Republic of Congo. Over the past 20 years, hundreds of thousands of women have been raped.
What causes do you wish that more foundations would make a priority?
Foundations have so little money that I don’t think about them very much.
