And a new beginning! ANYWAY If you want new blog posts, and to keep following my work, please go to MazarineTreyz.com   The post And so… it’s time to come to an end appeared first on Wild Woman Fundraising ..read more

In this interview with Mary Sobecki, executive director of the NeedMor Fund, we talk about why involving people in the community in grantmaking decisions is important. Chris Hedges writes, “When we cannot tell ourselves the truth about our past, we become trapped in it. This is especially true about race in America. Our undiscovered self cripples us.” When we think about race, when we talk about it, and when we uncover different ways to look at it, we help uncover biases and beliefs that people have. I taught a bias workshop last year that helped white people look at their unconscious bias ar ..read more

Listen, Subscribe and Rate to our new podcast episode, here We are so psyched to speak with Kishshana Palmer, CEO of Kishshana & Co. and Chief Growth Officer of The Future Project. She and Helen Choi talk about the pay gap, the leadership gap, women of color and the advancement challenges they face, and the recent race to lead study. In this interview we go deep into what it feels like to be a person of color in the nonprofit sector, trying to make your way. And seeing the unconscious privilege people from the dominant culture have. If you listen, you’ll find some ways to help stop unconsc ..read more

  Welcome to the NAME IT! podcast Today we’re going to talk about disability accessibility in the sector with disability activist Jewelles Smith. This is a movement. Join us! You can listen right here On Stitcher On TuneIn On Google Play On iTunes On Spotify Disability is dismiss-ability!   The post New Podcast! Disability Rights! Interview with Jewelles Smith appeared first on Wild Woman Fundraising ..read more

Are you a feminist? Do you believe that people of different genders should be equal? if so, then YES! if no, then GTFO There is a lot to say about feminism in the sector, and what AFP in particular can do better for women! Vanessa Chase, founder of The Storytelling Nonprofit and #FundraisingIsFemale, shares a few tips with us in this next episode of NAME IT! Podcast! Listen to the podcast here or watch the video below! Here are some of the articles we mention: Feminist Nonprofit Leadership: Feminism is awesome! We have so many women and woman-identified folks inside our nonprofits. 70-80% o ..read more

When you don’t know yourself- When you don’t know others… You’re hostage to the … UNSPEAKABLE! Like Michael Jackson says, “You’ve been hit by-You’ve been struck by! The UNSPEAKABLE!” Chris Hedges writes, “When we cannot tell ourselves the truth about our past, we become trapped in it. This is especially true about race in America. Our undiscovered self cripples us.” This last weekend I took part in a dance and psychology workshop called Shadowtender. This project helps people explore their shadow, the parts of themselves they do not want to see. When you throw something away from yourself, say ..read more

Read my review of Angela Duckworth’s Grit book here Are you looking outside of yourself for the answers? I dare you, right now, to be your own fundraising guru. How does that look? Recently I checked my library account, and I checked out over 100 books in the last year. Did I read them all? No! But did I skim all of them? Yes! I read most of them. I love learning! To be a fundraising guru, you must love learning. Read my review of Failing Forward, here You must love reading, and you must read a lot! Not just books about fundraising! Books about leadership. Books about how to get your team ..read more

Are you looking forward to valentine’s day?  This time of year always makes me think about the love in our sector. Going out on a limb here. a lot of people are all about donor love. Not me! Nope! I say, “NUTS to donor love, how about staff love? Hmm? How about THAT?” It’s all about the love for you, the nonprofit worker, the fundraiser, this month! Why? We need love. We need appreciation. We need respect. Because sometimes we are not getting the respect, appreciation or protection we need. Some of us work without getting paid overtime. Some of us work without healthcare. Some of us work ..read more

Have you ever wanted to leave the sector, but you’re 5 to 10 years in, and it’s looking like you can’t leave? What keeps you stuck? What makes you stay?   Recently I was talking with a friend of mine who is looking for a job. She confessed, I’m thinking of getting a government job. I said, I don’t blame you. It’s stable, you’ll be represented by a union, better benefits, cost of living wage increases, and you might actually be nurtured to move on up in your department. She said yeah… but I still want to make a difference! We’ve been trained to think that the nonprofit world has the market ..read more

Welcome to Martin Luther King Jr. Day! And welcome to our new podcast! Helen Choi and I met up in November, in Toronto at AFP Congress. We started talking about the conference theme, disrupting philanthropy. And we started to talk about what we wanted to see for the sector. She said, let’s start a podcast! So, we had to figure out-what would we talk about? And decided that we wanted to interview people about what they saw in the sector. We wanted to share potential solutions to the problems people face. And resources, and stories of hope. the result? Name It! Podcast! This is a podcast for peo ..read more