• Home
  • About
  • BOOK!!
  • Contact/FAQ
  • Shop
  • Speaking
  • Support NAF!
  • Advertise
  • Report Crappy Funders

Nonprofit AF

Exploring the fun and frustrations of nonprofit work

NAF logo
NAF logo
  • Home
  • About
  • BOOK!!
  • Contact/FAQ
  • Shop
  • Speaking
  • Support NAF!
  • Advertise
  • Report Crappy Funders

dress for success

20 tips to help you dress for nonprofit success

Posted on July 16, 2018 by Vu

[Image description: A brown poodle, looking very well dressed, wearing a red button-down shirt with a grayish collar. It’s also wearing a black neck collar bedazzled with colorful rhinestones. Image by The Poodle Gang at unsplash.com]
Like other nonprofit professionals, I wear clothing. So every morning I wake up and immediately have to make an important decision: what to wear for the rest of the day. Now, this does not sound like a very big decision, but I have learned that how we dress in this field is critical to our work, determining how we and thus our organizations are perceived. Although I am not a style guru, I have worn clothing, so here are some tips I have picked up over the years that may be helpful for you. Feel free to add your suggestions in the comment section. Continue reading →

Posted in Funder Relations, Fundraising, nonprofit field, Office Culture, Random stuff 0 Comments

Primary Sidebar

Grant Station Ad

Support NAF
FOLLOW NAF BY EMAIL. MAKE TUESDAYS SUCK LESS!
Enter your email address below and get notice of hilarious new posts each Tuesday morning. Unsubscribe at any time.

Random Posts

  • Why we need to move away from empathy in our fundraising approach
  • What Loot, the show on Apple TV+, gets right and wrong about nonprofit and philanthropy
  • When Wombats Go Wild: Cultural Competency at the Mezzo and Macro Levels
  • Is it just as hard to give out money as it is to seek it?
  • Feng Shui for Nonprofits, Part 2: The 7 Basic Meeting Formations

Share NAF

FOLLOW NAF BY EMAIL. MAKE TUESDAYS SUCK LESS!

Subscribe to Blog via Email

Enter your email address to subscribe to this blog and receive notifications of new posts by email.

Join 51.4K other subscribers

Recent Posts

  • Donor engagement and the retail-ification of equity and justice
  • Donors and funders, instead of freaking out or being numb, here are things you can do to fight fascism:
  • Annual performance reviews suck. Here’s how to make them better. Or maybe we should just ditch them.
  • Funders, please stop trying to be unique snowflakes
  • How to stay motivated when everything is on fire and you look and feel like crap

Categories

  • AI (1)
  • Board Relations (32)
  • Capacity Building (31)
  • Community Engagement (79)
  • Community organizing (10)
  • Cultural Competency (46)
  • Data (7)
  • Donor Relations (48)
  • ED Life (86)
  • Finance (34)
  • Funder Relations (179)
  • funding (19)
  • Fundraising (214)
  • Grantwriting (120)
  • Hiring (6)
  • Humor (59)
  • leadership (87)
  • Marketing (6)
  • nonprofit (10)
  • nonprofit field (311)
  • Office Culture (82)
  • Personal (36)
  • philanthropy (36)
  • Policy and Advocacy (21)
  • Race, Equity, Diversity, Inclusion (120)
  • Random stuff (89)
  • self-care (26)
  • Special Events (25)
  • Staff Dynamics (31)
  • Uncategorized (40)
  • Unicorns (62)
  • US Culture (17)
  • volunteers (4)
  • Work-Life Balance (31)
  • Writing (1)
  • Zombies (14)

Archives

Tags

board board of directors capacity building collective impact communities of color community-centric fundraising community engagement cultural competency diversity donors equity feedback foundations funders funding funding dynamics fundraising game of thrones grantmaking grants grantwriting hiring hummus humor inclusion leadership nonprofit nonprofit funding nonprofit humor overhead oxford comma philanthropy power dynamics race restricted funding salary Seahawks self-care social justice special events sustainability taxes Thanksgiving unicorn unicorns

© Vu Le NWB Consulting
Design: SN