Girls on Boards: An initiative to give young women a voice

CALL TO ACTION: Girls on Boards is recruiting professional women with governance and/or mentorship experience to be Coaches for the 2021-2022 cohort. For more information on the Coaching Program, please check out G(irls)20’s website at https://girls20.org/programs/girls-on-boards. As a University of...

Collecting Courage: ‘Reads like an exposé’ of Canada’s nonprofit sector

Collecting Courage: Joy, Pain, Freedom, Love, edited by Nneka Allen, Camila Vital Nunes Pereira and Nicole Salmon, Gail K. Picco Books, Civil Sector Press, November 24, 2020, 227 pp., $39.99 CAD/$29.99 USD Canada’s charitable sector consists of over 170,000 charities...

Diversity, Equity and Inclusion (DEI): Why this matters in volunteer management leadership

The majority of nonprofit organizations serve clients from vulnerable, marginalized communities. These people are more likely to be racialized clients who experience complex challenges and issues related to racism, poverty, mental health, the criminal justice system, and domestic violence.  ...

The Small Nonprofit Podcast: Dismantling white supremacy in the nonprofit sector with Hawa Mire

How can we have a real conversation about systemic racism and white supremacy, especially at our workplace with power dynamics involved? On today’s podcast, Hawa Mire, strategy and equity consultant and community organizer, walks us through how we might build...

A valiant vocation: Why young professionals are drawn to the nonprofit sector

“What do you want to do after you graduate?” Like many other young millennials, I often hear this question from relatives, colleagues, and even strangers, especially given that I am a 2020 graduate. In contrast to aiming for a more...

COVID-19, social justice and its impact on women

This article originally appeared in the October 2020 issue of Advancing Philanthropy magazine, the Association of Fundraising Professionals’ flagship magazine. The Great Equalizer. In the early days of the COVID-19 pandemic, New York Governor Andrew Cuomo called the coronavirus the “great...

The Small Nonprofit Podcast: Sharing the responsibility for decolonization with Tim Fox

How do you go beyond the land acknowledgement? In recent years, we see more and more nonprofits including decolonization as their strategic priorities. But if we do a gut check, how’re we actually committing to decolonization every day? On today’s...

The invisible me – Shaping my leadership

In summer 2020,the Invisible Man movie was out in drive-in theatres and on online streaming platforms due to social distances measures of the COVID 19 pandemic. The story of the Invisible Man has been popularized with several blockbuster films over...

How to start with community-centric fundraising

Community-centric fundraising is new to us, but it is going to be here for the long haul. It is timely, much needed, and most importantly, it is challenging – to our beliefs and the way we know Philanthropy. And if...

True Freedom

Tell me what you goin’ do to me Confrontation ain’t nothin’ new to me You could bring a bullet, bring a sword, bring a morgue But you can’t bring the truth to me ~ Kendrick Lamar I believe the truth...