Fundraising experts: Enough with the donor sycophancy! – Nonprofit AF

very elites who give back through philanthropy for ignoring their complicity in causing the problems they later seek to solve.

customers or anybody else. “When

the focus on data, transactions, return on investment. I’ll buy my way to a better world, to a clearer conscience, to heaven – that’s the dynamic, the assumption. What is eclipsed by the calculations, however, is the complex context that gives rise to any of these charitable ‘causes.’ History, trauma, economic exploitation, relationships – all thes