In These Times

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• • 20 Aug 06
  • 9:52 am

  Hi Greg, Thanks for an important article. I too have worked much of my life in the social justice field, most recently these days as independent Fundraising Counsel. Have often lamented the fact that too many of our organizations don't "walk the talk" when it comes to their own staff and volunteers. Today there is a serious lack of experienced professional fundraisers to meet the needs of our community organizations. Much if it has with our inability to on the left to come to terms with money in our society (Kim Klein at the Grassroots Fundraising Journal has written and talked …

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• • 20 Aug 06
  • 10:29 am

  Hi Christopher, Though Kim stands firmly on the left, on this point, she is absolutely right when she says "an over-reliance on foundation money is the 'number one dysfunction' of the movement." Recently just got back from Raising Change, an inspiring conference that she and the Grassroots Fundraising Journal hosted in Berkeley for 500 progressive fundraisers from the U.S., Latin America, Canada and the Pacific Rim. The main focus was that fundraising is organizing, and that if we don't provide individuals the opportunity to invest in their own communities, then we can't claim to represent the grassroots. For more on the …

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