If your non profit were invited to speak at your local Rotary club would your first thought be to send an intern on your behalf? What about a dinner with your organization’s major donors – would you ask a 23 year old to go and build relationships for you? Your answer to these questions is [...]

Non profits and foundations are in the business of solving complex problems. To get people to come along for the ride and help they need to understand both the problem and our solutions. But how do we usually go about explaining these? Through complex written documents, pie charts and lots of text. Dan Roam, the [...]

SXSW Interactive has come and gone, but there’s still plenty to learn. Here’s the second in a series of posts with insights & tips for non profits & foundations from SXSW. Over the last year Planned Parenthood has given all non profits two strong examples on how to handle, and leverage, a communications crisis. First was [...]