how to fundraise when the world is on fire
I would like all these fundraising experts to look around them. Everything is burning down. Many of the issues we’ve been tackling have worsened significantly. The earth is rapidly becoming uninhabitable. The basic rights our predecessors fought for—reproductive rights, voting, marriage equality, etc.—are quickly being reversed while fascism... See more
Fundraising experts: Enough with the donor sycophancy! – Nonprofit AF
As Citizens, we must develop a sense of belonging in community, cultivate relationships with one another, help heal each other, and collectively build the world that will cease to make philanthropy necessary.
Jon Alexander • Citizens: Why the Key to Fixing Everything is All of Us
Freedom School of Philanthropy
freedomschoolforphilanthropy.org
In philanthropic interactions, we can return to the soul of money: money as a carrier of our intentions, money as energy, and money as a currency for love, commitment, and service; money as an opportunity to nourish those things we care most about.
Lynne Twist • The Soul of Money: Transforming Your Relationship with Money and Life
It could be said that a great fund-raiser is a broker for the sacred energy of money, helping people use the money that flows through their lives in the most useful way that is consistent with their aspirations and hopes for humanity.
Lynne Twist • The Soul of Money: Transforming Your Relationship with Money and Life
altruism → reciprocity
Decolonizing Wealth by Edgar Villanueva