Writing With a Mission is available for purchase on Amazon now! Bruce Ripley and I are so excited to announce that after many months of writing, editing, and dealing with the COVID-19 pandemic, our third book has gone on sale TODAY. Writing With a Mission: How to Create a Successful Career as a…
Many people are re-evaluating career options right now. Currently, many employers are laying off or furloughing workers, parents are trying to juggle working from home and homeschooling, and both personal and business finances may be in precarious situations. With all this uncertainty, people need more flexibility in their lives to make it all work (which…
The NEA has released details on the next round of funding for their ‘Arts and Artifacts Indemnity Program: International Indemnity’ grant. Although only certain organizations and objects are eligible, if your organization is a museum or has an interest in running exhibitions, this may be one to take a look at. The NEA website…
Most of my blog posts are how-to’s where I walk you through how and why to do something related to grant writing, marketing, or web development. But this blog post, and this month, are going to be a little different. As most of you surely know, on May 25th George Floyd was murdered by…
Things are incredibly strange and scary right now. Everything seems uncertain, our routines, have been upended, and on top of it all most of us are worried about the wellbeing of our organizations as well. As you probably know, most of my clients and readers come from nonprofits in the arts and culture…
2019 has flown by, hasn’t it? As the year comes to a close I’ve been engaged in tracking my progress, my goals, and my stats from 2019 as well as looking ahead to determine what I want to accomplish and what I want to offer my readers and clients in 2020. You’ve most likely…
Have you ever watched the TV show “Doomsday Preppers”? It was on the National Geographic channel from 2011 -2014 and showcased American families who believed that Doomsday (or at least hard times) were coming and were preparing accordingly by building fallout shelters, water filtration systems, and stockpiling supplies and gold. The larger prepper movement…
As a nonprofit pro, you’re probably interested in making sure that your grants, social media, and marketing strategies are as effective as possible. Luckily, there’s one secret to getting all of them right. Mastering this one thing will align your marketing, funding, and social strategies and have them working together like well-oiled machinery. So…
This is the second episode of my Program Notes series, where I interview professionals working in arts and culture nonprofits from across the United States. These are dedicated pros who are actually working in the field and have their fingers on the pulse of current challenges, opportunities, and issues facing the nonprofit world and the…
Welcome to the Program Notes Series! This is the first in what I hope will become a regular series I’m calling ‘Program Notes’, wherein I talk with leaders in the arts and culture nonprofit world to discuss pressing issues, current events, and best practices. For the first edition of ‘Program Notes’, I spoke with Alek Peugh,…