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Month: May 2025

The Call is coming from inside the House

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The crisis of our own making There has been an INORDINATE amount of talking about the decline of giving in the United States. Yeah, let’s just take a breath, shall we? Philanthropy in the US is nearly a trillion dollar industry. That’s TRILLION. With a T. $557.16 Billion was given charitably in the US in […]

🦄 Death to Unicorns: Why “No” Is Your Most Powerful Fundraising Tool

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I like unicorns, I have friends who are unicorns. But let’s get something straight: you are not a unicorn. The myth of the “nonprofit unicorn” is cute—until it’s weaponized. Until it becomes the excuse leadership uses to demand superhuman results from already maxed-out staff. Until it becomes the reason we normalize burnout, turnover, and trauma […]