Resource Round-Up: June 12, 2020
The world is getting more, not less, hectic and so this resource round-up stretches beyond the health pandemic and into the racial pandemic and changes underfoot across the country. We - like you all - continue to juggle it all but hope one more curated list of vetting articles is helpful to our nonprofit friends as you push through these trying times.
Read on…
Maybe you’re already “open” but if you’re still considering when and how, or reflecting on how it’s going so far, here are some tips for what to consider when deciding what a "reopen" means for your nonprofit: When to Return: Questions Nonprofit Executives Need to Think About.
One of the voices we turn to often, Al Cantor, elaborates on how the change to virtual meetings has benefited many-a-board’s effectiveness. Read on, Not Bad! Not Bad At All.
In last week’s post, Vu Le, of Nonprofit AF, wrote about whether philanthropy has become the “white moderate” that Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. wrote and warned about. This week, he followed up with a piece on how privilege, power, and other forces are slowing the change in philanthropy. These are both great read, and perhaps paved the way for the news in today’s piece in The NY Times about the Ford Foundation and four foundation peers shifting their giving to respond to today’s crisis with the urgency, creativity, and resources these times demand.
For those who are catching up on their terminology, this piece, Equity, Inclusion and Fundraising, describes what these terms mean for nonprofits, and how to integrate this thinking into your operations.
How are you communicating your story, thoughts, and feelings right now? This recent post from Allison Carney Consulting shows off our nerdy side, but raises a fantastic point that might shift your perspective: are you using the passive voice to articulate your nonprofit’s position? As Allison Carney writes, “Read through your communications materials. Are you naming the people responsible for the problems you are trying to solve? Or are you obfuscating the perpetrator to limit controversy?” When we use the passive voice, “we present the problem as an unfortunate situation that needs solving, sidestepping the obvious actor making it possible.”
For our NH friends, ICYMI: the Governor has announced a new $60 million fund to support nonprofits who expect to incur expenses or experience losses as a result of COVID between March and December of this year. Find out more here and register for the Center for Nonprofit’s informational webinar on the application process coming up on June 15th at 4pm.