Bureaucracy has faces. A long time ago, in a past life it seems, it wore mine. I was a refugee resettlement officer on the continent of Africa, straddling nonprofit immigration work and public service.
Abigail Oduol Archive
Can people change? Captain America: Brave New World and CCF.
This is about superheroes, but more than that, it’s about how we judge changing, redemption, and accountability in our real-world institutions.
We live with abundance. Philanthropy scarcity is fake news.
The narrative about philanthropy being about charity needs to change. People need to become aware that we are investing in our own futures and in our own collective prosperity.
How are we living our CCF value of courage in this moment?
I ask all of us to reflect on that value of courage and consider: How are we living up to our value of courage in this space, context, and moment? And how are we falling short of living up to our value of courage in this space, context, and moment?
USAID’s pause and its effect on one Kenyan organization
One day, Bernadette and others were working in the office, when they received the news that everything was being put on hold indefinitely due to the order made by the US president to stop funding the President’s Emergency Plan for AIDS Relief (PEPFAR).
Donor-Advised Funds (DAFs) and how the sector resists change
Donor-advised funds (DAFs) continue to grow at a ridiculous rate, and criticism of them continues to be limited, and I thought it time to follow up on how the sector resists needed change.
Work-life imbalance: I am Black Girl Magic
I don’t want to define myself by what I do, or my performance. I want to instead be. People pursue what my life looks like because capitalism wills us to. It looks like success. Expectations to look like things are working for you are literally chewing people up and spitting them out…
Donor-Advised Funds (DAFs) and changing the sector
Some nonprofits and a lot of nonprofit workers they surveyed love those mysterious little packages from phantom donors. All I see is unfettered, hyper-individualistic capitalism with little structure to consider community needs.
My workplace aligned with CCF; they didn’t know it.
It is easy to feel frustrated when you are passionate about CCF but your workplace does not seem interested or is hesitant to engage. Do not despair! The people where you work might be more aligned than they initially seem.
What Loki can teach us about dealing with organizational change
With your work universe imploding, how might you respond and take part in creating a plan that leads to collective flourishing? We’ll focus on Episode 4, which weaves a narrative of a broken organization coming back together and having a chance to grow in a fresh way. Using this framing, we can draw our own conclusions about how to deal with organizational change.