Investing in yourself and your giving today will reap rewards tomorrow! Too many funders have a scarcity mindset. Are you one of them? In last week’s newsletter, I shared eight ways you can ditch your scarcity mindset, and instead embrace a mindset of abundance. Even better, none of them will cost you any money! But […]
Isn’t it Time You Embrace an Abundance Mindset and Invest in Yourself? Read More »
Here are 8 sure-fire indicators to find out! Many people assume that wealthy people, foundation leaders, and corporate donors, and celebrity activists feel abundance. And we assume their mindset reflects this abundance. After all, they have big money, big ideas, and often big passion. While it’s true that they do have an abundance of resources
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Last week I received this email from a foundation CEO: “I do have your book and it’s just fabulous. You are really one of the best sources for meaningful information in the foundation world – Thank you!” I’m not sharing this to toot my own horn. I’m sharing it to emphasize the critical importance of investing
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Long before the pandemic hit, it was clear philanthropy needed an overhaul. But the health and economic crisis, combined with a national racial reckoning, forced grant makers’ hands. Foundations largely rose to the challenge by speeding up their grant making, increasing flexibility, and reducing funding restrictions. But now it appears those changes may be short lived. In the most
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Just about every aspiring mom (and dad) has big plans and preconceived ideas about what pregnancy and parenthood will be like. You picture the way your life might change, you plan out a nursery, order a crib – it’s pretty straightforward stuff. Straightforward, that is, until you discover you’re having twins! Suddenly, all those plans
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Don’t slide back to your old ways. If you’re like many funders, the changes you made in 2020 were swift and dramatic. You dropped tightly held practices like hot potatoes: loosening funding restrictions, eliminating burdensome policies, offering general operating support, collaborating with new partners, increasing grant payout, and dramatically expanding support for racial justice. As
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