by Lauren Brownstein | Feb 3, 2022 | Inspiration, Nonprofit
Organizations tend to spend a lot of time creating (or refining) their mission statements… only to forget about them. In the midst of changes, crises, and emerging opportunities, a mission statement can sometimes seem like just an exercise in semantics. But,...
by Lauren Brownstein | Jan 17, 2022 | Inspiration
Each year, I choose a Word for the Year. Something to guide my thoughts and attitude, and hopefully create new habits. This year’s word: Gratitude. If you are like me, and if you peruse some of the self-help hippy-dippy web sites and magazines that I peruse,...
by Lauren Brownstein | Jun 3, 2021 | Fundraising, Nonprofit
In most of the US, life is slowly, SLOWLY, creeping back towards some sense of normalcy. At the beginning of summer 2021, COVID-19 and its ravenous impacts still are with us, but many people, companies, and organizations are re-initiating travel, in-person gatherings,...
by Lauren Brownstein | Apr 7, 2021 | Fundraising, grants, Nonprofit
Grant Proposals are Like Baseball – You Won’t Hit A Home Run Every Time After nearly 30 years in the fundraising profession, most of them in foundation relations (grant proposal writing, prospect research, etc.), I couldn’t even begin to calculate...
by Lauren Brownstein | Mar 5, 2021 | Fundraising, Nonprofit
Sometimes, our organization’s fundraising (and other) efforts don’t need to be quite as complicated as we’ve made them. Can you keep things simple, or simpler? Especially as we round the corner of one year in our global pandemic? How much is too much...
