Organizations are not doing the work, so retention rates continue to be an embarrassment of epic proportions. Forget smart business for a moment. Just think about being nice and respectful.
Simone is back! Budgets allow people to have conversations based in reality. They are tools for learning and accountability, but only if staff people and boards are familiar, even intimate with them.
It’s May, and many schools are preparing to graduate their seniors. To mark the occasion, Simone Joyaux concludes her multipart column and takes a moment to revisit what they are being graduated into—an environment that challenges us each day to step up, even when it makes us uncomfortable or a laughingstock. Those are the tolls of real leadership.
Simone Joyaux continues her series of recollections focused on gender inequality.
Simone Joyaux generally writes about fundraising, but a social justice perspective always informs her work. Today, her column has a tighter focus on gender inequality.
The job of fundraising is finding and retaining customers, even if we call them donors. In the end, loyalty is what matters.
Groups must keep their values alive, practiced, and promoted. This is a choice. This is an intentional act.
What does values integrity in your organization have to do with fundraising? Quite a bit, Simone Joyaux thinks; she has some thoughts about how values are authentically identified and expressed!
This is the last in a multipart column by Simone Joyaux about linking autobiography to notions of philanthropy.
This is the third in a multi-part column by Simone Joyaux about linking autobiography to notions of philanthropy. Whose stories do you collect? Whose stories do you understand the best? Why?
