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What a Week: Making Women’s History and Future Every Day

Fundraising Leadership

When asked how to address the backlash against DEI, she said we have to persist and be intersectional about it, especially in leadership. She pointed out that there is a widespread belief backed up by data that gender equality is beneficial to everyone. The theme is “Together We Lead.” I promise, we’ll make history together.

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Teaching Cooperative Intelligence, for a Solidarity Economy

NonProfit Quarterly

In my experience as a practitioner and advocate in the field, the solidarity-economy field has focused mostly on higher education, professional skill development, popular education, and community-based adult education, mostly led by small nonprofits or training cooperatives.

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Dr. James explains why the feeling “People like me make gifts like this” is so powerful in major gifts fundraising

iMarketSmart

Social comparisons and pro-social behavior: Testing “conditional cooperation” in a field experiment. Social networks and charitable giving: Trusting, doing, asking, and alter primacy. Nonprofit and Voluntary Sector Quarterly, 47 (2), 376-394; Lieber, E. American Economic Review, 94 (5), 1717-1722; Herzog, P.