Welcome to The Organizer archive, a collection of all the newsletter articles dedicated to nonprofit workers and people working to create equitable, sustainable communities.
Dreaming of a better world is easy. Bringing it to life is hard. With regular articles covering leadership, communications, fundraising, impact, management, and personal growth, The Organizer is here to help.
Use the Pixar formula to paint a memorable picture of your work.
Good management can help prevent burnout in social impact work. How to spot the risks and what to do to make good work easier.
Set up your communications infrastructure in advance so you can quickly and easily deliver an important message to the right group of people.
Teams are often defined by the way people cooperate and depend on each other to achieve a goal.
Sometimes, you need to trim to grow. Personal growth shouldn’t just about adding — it should also be about subtracting.
To start measuring impact, keep it simple. Build routines that collect and share impact stories.
Look at each stage of your fundraising process to see why you are missing your targets.
Simplify hard work with project management stages: Initiating, Planning, Designing, Implementing, Evaluating, and Closing.
If you want your work to be seen online, you have to know how to do Search Engine Optimization (SEO).
Writing is part of every aspect of nonprofit work, from leadership to planning to fundraising to advocacy to service.
The best leaders are the ones with a healthy mistrust of power. Approach your role your own way. The Organizer #25.
Embrace learning for your own sake, for your team, for your organization and for your cause.