Transparency isn’t just a tactic for fundraising campaigns. It’s what the community deserves, especially when you’re asking them for money. And yes, when you practice it, you’ll raise more, build deeper relationships, and future-proof your organization.
Nel Taylor Archive
Maybe it’s time to acknowledge scarcity… in order to cultivate collective abundance
Someone working from [a Collective Abundance] model doesn’t wait for big grants to trickle down. They find creative, hyper-local ways to resource others in the community by sharing donors ethically, co-hosting campaigns, exchanging labor, pooling sponsorships, and even trading non-cash resources that reduce expenses.
Making DEI unshakeable: Why it needs to be embedded in your organization and not just a program in it
This is a time to move beyond only diversity-based initiatives… and make the structural changes necessary to create a workplace where Black, Indigenous, People of Color, disabled, queer, trans and gender-expansive people, and others who face systemic oppression are safe to work.
If I could put sexworker on my resume…
Requiring a college degree narrows a hiring pool to those who have access to a college education and can lend to a homogenous candidate pool, which will be reflected in the staff makeup. An organization pursuing equity can look beyond bureaucratic requirements and checkboxes to value a wide array of lived experiences.
7 ways to tell stories ethically: the journey from exploited program participant to empowered storyteller
One thing we are learning when it comes to community-centric fundraising is to move away from individual storytelling and toward organizational storytelling.
But what if you have an incredible, compelling story to share? Is there a way to do it in a community-centric way?
The following is my experience as a storyteller and a storytell-ee.