Working Differently in a Crisis
Posted by Allison Fine on December 17, 2008
As awful as the economic crisis is (and just ask any nonprofit or foundation who lost money because of the Madoff disaster) there are stirrings in the nonprofit sector to work differently to survive.
The Nonprofit Roundtable in DC created a new social network on NING called Nonprofit 911 that has a big vision of “redefining the way the nonprofit sector operates.” The site shares resources, ideas, organize events. Hopefully the site will spur real conversations between funders and activists.
Maybe the crisis can help us to move away from cannibalistic fundraising habits towards collaborative fundraising as described in the Chronicle.
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jbehar said
Agree most definitely. A shift to a more collaborative fundraising model would be a good move. A number of other shifts might help as well, such as: encouraging and supporting npo leaders to take more risks (fail fast and learn what works and doesn’t work), blur the boundaries between nonprofits and social entrepreneurial efforts (so good people can work across both), normalizing pay levels for talent to make it easier for people to choose non-profit as a career path, shift the funding mindset from organization and funders to organization and stakeholders (it seems to be that a fast majority of private individual donors are rarely engaged in defining the agenda of the organizations they support).
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