An example I like to use here is Fair Trade work. Some solutions focus on ensuring producers are paid fair, livable wages for things like produce, spices, textiles, or coffee. This is important. Particularly, the removal or monitoring of abusive
Notations on Non-Profits
Notations on Non-Profits, published by Erin Mcclarty, PLLC, focuses on issues relevant to nonprofit organizations, including capacity building, community engagement, and organizational development. The blog explores themes such as fostering generative conversations within polarized environments, reframing perceptions of art in community contexts, and centering joy in nonprofit work. It also addresses collaboration dynamics in collectives and backbone organizations, emphasizing agency, empowerment, and ownership. The content is aimed at helping nonprofits navigate challenges and enhance their impact through thoughtful reflection and strategic approaches.
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How to Create Sustainable Revenue and Impact: The Social Enterprise
In partnership with Dallas SCORE, I had the privilege of giving a introductory talk on social enterprises. Still nascent in Texas, social enterprise as a framework is a direction consumers continue to demand of organizations. Fewer and fewer people want…
How To Build a Board: For Nonprofits and Socially Conscious Businesses
Who founders choose to have on their board is a decision that comes early, and quick. Too often, in a rush to get started, founders breeze through this process. Only to find themselves stuck in a Jerry Springer-esque scenario with…
How To Build a Board
Who founders choose to have on their board is a decision that comes early, and quick. Too often, in a rush to get started, founders will breeze through this process. Only to find themselves stuck in a Jerry Springer scenario…
Can I Move My Business or Nonprofit To Another State?
Lots of calls coming in on this, and with everything that’s happening this may be a question for more of us as time goes on. When a founder or executive director decides to move, sometimes there is a question of…
Community-Building or Colonizing? The Case For And Ways To Build In Agency
Consultants, community organizations, and funders are starting to work with communities on stabilizing and rebuilding after a number of pandemics (race and health-related). We have rebuild while dismantling the ways of engaging, thinking, and relating that have caused many of…
Our New Normal Requires You Start Running Experiments
Holding on to certainty, assumptions, and control is going to cost a lot of people their businesses and impact organizations. It’s a bold statement, but it’s a story we’re already seeing play out. Organizations intent on operating the same way…
Reframing Business Plans and Strategic Plans Post COVID
1. Grieve and Acknowledge the Loss in Business and Strategic Plans An organization’s founder. Its staff, contractors, and suppliers. Its community and beneficiaries. These are all people. The reminder might sound silly, but most businesses and organizations I come across…
Feature Alert! “Starting A Conscious Business: Turning Your Challenges Into Coins”
I can never make that “whomp” noise at the beginning of a remix or DJ Khalid album but imagine I’m doing that. New feature alert! I wrote a short article for Black+Well on how we can turn our challenges into…
Businesses Need to Work With Nonprofit Partners Right Now
Short post today! Really, this is more of a reminder. Every business, that includes yours, needs to be working with an ecosystem of partners right now. Paramount in that eco-system is a good group of charitable partners. This is the…