Hi everyone, the Seahawks lost again, so I chugged two bottles of Ace blackberry pear cider (I don’t really follow football; I just needed a reason to chug some pear cider). Being tipsy makes me philosophical and rambly, so I am not sure how much sense this post is going to make.
At a conference panel I was on a few weeks ago, I brought up the Nonprofit Hunger Games and how the survival mentality has been affecting all of us in the sector. A woman raised her hand and said, “I see what you’re saying, but I’m afraid that if I share information about funders and donors with other nonprofits, I might lose funding.”
It made me realize a couple of things. First, “Nonprofit Hunger Games” would make a great movie:
Katniss: Peeta! What happened to you?!
Peeta: Theory…Theory of Change Swamp…it was brutal…Katniss…you have to win the final grant for District 12…
Katniss: Stop talking, save your strength.
Peeta: It’s better this way. Eventually we’d have to…(cough)…kill each other anyway in the Storytelling round…
Katniss: Here…a sponsor sent in some food…Have some hummus, Peeta… Continue reading “Waiting for the dough: How fear and other existential forces affect the nonprofit sector”