How Will Your Summer Redefine the Power of Philanthropy? Summertime has arrived! Yes, it’s time to kick back, relax, and enjoy the sweet languor of the lazy summer vacation. Whether you’re soaking up the sun on a pristine beach, exploring the rugged beauty of the mountains, or simply enjoying the tranquility of your backyard, […]
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When nobody is offering you constructive criticism, take an honest look in the mirror. I’d hazard a guess that in philanthropy circles, people aren’t often calling each other out for being delusional. That’s why I wrote a book on it. It’s called Delusional Altruism. In a nutshell, it’s about human behaviors we’re not even aware of
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Four Almost-Free Things You Can Do To Help Nonprofits After You’ve Spent Your Grant Budget If you are like most of my philanthropic clients, when COVID-19 hit, you jumped into action. You heroically provided additional funding to grantees, created or joined local crisis response funds to coordinate resources, extended grant deadlines, eliminated funding restrictions, and
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As a donor, you want to change the world. You seek transformational change. Lasting change. You don’t want band-aid solutions. You want to tackle a problem at its root, so it no longer exists. But something is standing in your way. That thing between well-intentioned donors and transformational giving is what I call Delusional Altruism.
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Nonprofit leaders are exhausted. Many were planning to leave even before 2020 happened. There were the white boomers trying to retire, the young leaders of color trying to navigate cultures not ready to put them in power, and the many in between ready to cry uncle because of the never-ending steep uphill climb. These are the
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Transform your giving and accelerate your speed to impact. Questions are surprisingly powerful. The right questions spark learning, fuel innovation, create clarity, build trust, mitigate risk, and save money. That sounds pretty good, right? I believe that achieving a transformational impact as a philanthropist starts with asking the right questions. In my book Delusional Altruism, I
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