A key reason I was drawn to Community-Centric Fundraising (CCF) is Principle 5: Time is valued equally as money. Yet, in most nonprofit organizations, volunteer engagement is not valued as equally as donor engagement.
The Content Hub
The Content Hub is a free, educational resource featuring essays, podcasts, art, poetry, and practical fundraising guidance, completely resourced from the members—those who are new and those who are true to the CCF movement!
Don’t roll back your DEI initiatives. Leverage your power and show some solidarity.
Now is the time for those of us with privilege to leverage our power and show some solidarity. Now is a great time to examine our ability to divest from federal funding and commit to building a future rooted in justice and authenticity.
Tired of fair-weather funders who pull funding when it’s most needed? Fund it yourselves.
Self-funding means your board doesn’t have to side-eye every press release. It means you can call out injustice, push for systemic change, and stay true to your mission—without sugarcoating or playing nice. Our work is about breaking chains, not asking for longer ones.
Anger is beautiful. Anger is generative. Anger is ancestral.
Righteous rage is the sacred, ancestral fury that knows injustice is not meant to be swallowed but spoken, screamed, sung into being. It is the riot which brings freedom from slavery, fuels the gay-liberation movement, and keeps land and water defenders rallying in the face of police brutality.
Embracing the immigrant experience and the power of inclusion
The question I grapple with now is not new but remains painfully unresolved: When does someone truly become American? Is it a matter of time? Generations? Sacrifice? How many years must a person live here, and how many contributions must they make before their “Americanness” is no longer questioned?
Trump and Trumpers aren’t to blame for everything happening right now. It’s white supremacy culture, and you might be contributing.
…we’re letting far too many people and entities off the hook when we desperately need them to examine their behavior, beliefs, and actions that contribute to the oppression that those of us who are minoritized have always experienced and led to this fascist regime we’re sliding toward now.
Ethical layoffs: 10 steps to minimizing harm and supporting employees
Nonprofit organizations forced to do layoffs can take steps not to leave their ex-employees high and dry and actually support them during this time of need.
Feedback as a tool for liberation
There’s an entire sector of nonprofit professionals, funders, and organizations dedicated to fostering meaningful conversations that go beyond the surface. This isn’t feedback for feedback’s sake; it’s feedback as a tool for transformation.
Chrissplains Nonbinary Advocacy to Cisgender People, Topic: We’re here. We’re natural. We’re nonbinary. And we’re not going anywhere.
Trying to remove us from the public eye isn’t going to change the fact that we exist. And it’ll be nearly impossible to scrub us from history this time around… But it will make it so that not all of us survive until this onslaught of attacks end.
“Poor people” don’t “give back.” They just give.
Philanthropy is a cure for the symptoms of a disease the world created. It does some good to keep the disease at bay, but it doesn’t really heal it.
Defying philanthropy: No good deed (goes unpunished)
…a white woman hates a woman of color for simply not being white, and a woman of color has a disdain for a racist woman. And yet somehow, the grace of the kingdom is given to the white woman. I don’t have to tell you what a familiar experience this is for those of the global majority.
Creating sustainable movements: Expanding capacity in grassroots nonprofits with CRM technology
Many CRM programs are built to be highly customizable for entrepreneurs and small businesses both for revenue generation and streamlining workflows. So, what if we used these programs for nonprofits? And, most importantly, used them to their fullest extent?