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Funding you control is the only funding that's actually yours. (opens the original)
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On GivingTuesday in 2025, 87 percent of Americans who were asked to give, gave.Fifty percent were never asked at all.I have been turning that pair of numbers over for weeks. It is the cleanest description I have seen of what is actually wrong with fundraising in this country, and it has nothing to do with donor fatigue or a bad economy.<a class="image-link image2 is-viewable-img" href="https://images.unsplash.com/photo-1579208575657-c595a05383b7?crop=entropy&cs=tinysrgb&fit=max&fm=jpg&ixid=M3wzM
Feel Good Friday: The $2,000 that changed how I run my business. (opens the original)
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Last year I won a new business grant from Dubsado.Seventy-five hundred dollars. I remember reading the email twice.Here is what actually showed up. Two thousand dollars in cash. Two free years of Dubsado Premier applied straight to my account. Access to Taylor Hedden, a Certified Dubsado Specialist, to build out my setup. And six months inside Jennifer Skinner’s Operations Advisory Course, gifted.Do the math with me. Of a $7,500 award, roughly a quarter arrived as money.The other three quarters
The words in your proposal are doing work you didn't assign them. (opens the original)
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Pull up the last grant proposal you submitted.Somewhere in the first two paragraphs, there is a phrase you chose without thinking about it, because it is simply how your sector describes the work. Equity. Justice. Underserved. Community-centered. Rights. Access.Three years ago those words were shorthand. They moved a reviewer through your narrative quickly because everyone in the room shared the vocabulary.That has changed, and it changed fast enough that most templates never caught up.What is a
Your funder meeting is not an audition. (opens the original)
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Last week we looked at a number I cannot stop thinking about. Americans trust nonprofits at 56 percent. They trust institutional philanthropy at 29 percent.Now hold that next to how a funder meeting actually goes.For years I walked into those rooms like I was auditioning. I over-prepared. I rehearsed answers to questions nobody asked. I braced for the moment they would find the gap in our numbers and decide we were not worth it. The whole conversation happened in my body before it happened in th
You are more trusted than the foundations funding you. (opens the original)
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Independent Sector and Edelman Data & Intelligence surveyed 3,000 nationally representative American adults this year for a study called The State of Trust in Nonprofits and Philanthropy. Margin of error, 2 percent.Here is what they found.Fifty-six percent of Americans say they trust nonprofits.Twenty-nine percent say they trust philanthropy.Read those two lines together. The organizations doing the work are trusted at nearly double the rate of the institutions funding the work. And you are the
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