What’s on our minds

It’s time to inspire nonprofit leaders and teams to collaborate, get creative, innovate, and coalesce around a path forward. Appreciative Inquiry is a transformative approach to organizational change that focuses on highlighting what’s working well rather than fixing what’s broken.

We hope your annual end-of-year appeal is going splendidly and bringing in heaps of donations. Don’t forget that it’s not just about the dollars raised – this is your chance to forge individual connections with your donors.

Brian Saber, president of Asking Matters, recently published Fundraising for Introverts: Harnessing Our Powers for What Matters. This look at successful fundraising strategies builds on Brian’s already impressive life’s work with his company, Asking Matters – helping people determine their personal asking style and improve their approach to fundraising.

We believe that it’s imperative that nonprofits strive to embrace the values of diversity, equity, inclusion, and belonging (DEIB) in their operations and governance. This starts with the board of directors. If you are looking to build a board that reflects DEIB, here are a few suggestions.

New York City services millions of youths, homeless, and seniors in poverty through human service nonprofits whose government contracts ironically pay workers poverty wages. Most of the workers are people of color and more than half of the 80,000 in the city-funded nonprofit sector are women of color.