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White Women Friends & Colleagues: Join me on LinkedIn Live for an “Unlearning Series”
Join me on LinkedIn Live on March 20th @ 1:30PM EST to kick off a community reading of “White Women: Everything You Already Know About Your Own Racism and How to Do Better.” Check out the LinkedIn Event for details.
https://www.linkedin.com/video/event/urn:li:ugcPost:7042506532789387264/
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Relationships as Wealth and Lunar New Year
The Lunar New Year is one of the few holidays I really dig in to, albeit in my own western-white-Buddhist cultural flavor. I missed it this year due to illness (the whole house had COVID, despite our maxxed vaxxed status) and loss and illness of loved ones. I gave myself some grace about not […]
Read MoreWorkshop: The Journey of Becoming
Interested in making decisions and goal-setting easier in 2023? It’s easier (note I didn’t say easy) when you start with your vision, with “who” you and “why” you are. Answering that question is the bedrock for creating the processes and goals that feel authentic, vibrant and fulfilling. I always start with “WHY” when working with […]
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Move over #GivingTuesday, it’s now #WTFWednesday!
When I think about this time of year, one of things that activates my clients in fundraising is Giving Tuesday. What should I be doing for Giving Tuesday? And oh my gosh, the end of the year people are gonna wanna give at the end of the year, I should have a campaign! My answer […]
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If your fundraising practice was a garden. . . .
“And don’t think the garden loses its ecstasy in winter. It’s quiet, but the roots are down there riotous.” ~ Rumi
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I’ll be at the Race Equity Conference in Detroit Oct 13-14, will I see you there?
I’m getting excited to attend the Just Lead; Race Equity Conference by New Detroit. Amazing speakers, an interesting hybrid on-line / in-person format, a wonderful list of attendees that includes my lovely friends, mentors & colleagues Dr. Diana Wong and Wayne Millette!!!! Buckle up for some posting and perhaps a couple of awkward selfies (I […]
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It’s a good day when I get a loving recommendation from someone I admire deeply. . .
Yodit Mesfin-Johnson from Nonprofit Enterprise at Work talks about her work with Patricia Berry from Patricia Berry Consulting.
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Creating a Fundraising Manifesto!
Nonprofit Enterprise at Work here in Ann Arbor, MI is taking aim at evolving the field of philanthropy. Read their Fundraising Manifesto and get inspired for what is possible when values drive your fundraising!
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A lot of things had to happen for me to become me. . . .
This is a sad story. . . told in three words, welcome home from the North Patricia “You’ve Got Mail”
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What if we took the “emergency” out of fundraising?
When #MentalHealthAwarenessMonth came around, my marketing self put a to-do list in my brain. I should be doing something! I should be writing something! I should have a deadline associated with this! The longer I sat in my garden thinking about this “to-do”ingness, the more I realized the calendar is an invention. If I am […]
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Come join us for a Conversation Incubator. Apply by April 1, 2022.
Deadline April 1, 2022 to apply! Come join me and Sharonda Simmons from Thrive & Shine Consulting for a lively, interactive and vision driven conversation on what it means to make DEI and Fundraising practice an integral part of your ecosystem. These conversations are small by design — we want to really get to know […]
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