Conservative funders focus on the big picture, act quickly, do not micromanage, provide significant general operating funds, fund for twenty or thirty years, support leaders and movements, engage in policy and politics, and treat grantees as equal partners. Progressive funders—with a few exceptions—intellectualize, are severely risk-averse, focus narrowly, fund isolated strategies and programs, avoid politics,Continue reading “10 things progressive funders must learn from conservative ones, or we are all screwed | Nonprofit AF”
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Digital Security & Grantcraft Guide / Ford Foundation
Funders ask us all kinds of questions about our financial, leadership, cultural, and management capacities. Not once has a funder asked me about our digital security capacity, even when awarding $100,000-plus grants. This guide is geared towards grantmakers, but is also useful for grantees to self-asses our digital security threats. In the digital age, grantmakersContinue reading “Digital Security & Grantcraft Guide / Ford Foundation”
↜ GrantAdvisor: A TripAdvisor for nonprofit funders
A new service where nonprofit professionals can review and rate their experience with funders, see other nonprofits’ experience with prospects, and read funders’ responses to their reviews.
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We are building an ecosystem of active transportation professionals across the nonprofit, government, academic, institutional, and private sectors. When our employees gain diverse experiences in diverse settings, it enriches all of our organizations.
📊 We already run our nonprofits like businesses
“You should run your nonprofit like a business” is common unsolicited advice that often signals a fundamental misunderstanding or ignorance about the nonprofit sector. We already run our nonprofits like businesses because they ARE businesses.
🤔 Combating Decision Fatigue
Decision fatigue is a real thing. We all have a finite daily capacity for making decisions. Stewarding that capacity is a key part of success in the nonprofit world, and I’ve picked up a few tips and tricks along the way.
👻 Funders who ghost
The all-too-common problem of funders going radio silent without the courtesy say “no”.
💩💰Nonprofit life goes up, down, and sideways
It’s never a dull day in this world, and often the full range from good to bad happens on the same day.
Ⓜ The Four M’s of Nonprofit Decision-Making
How nonprofits can make decisions about what’s important.
Eric Rogers 