Sharing what I’m up to + tips and stories for nonprofit communicators, fundraisers and friends
After a July 15 workshop sold out, and with fall appeal and election advocacy season ahead, I'm offering v 2.0 of Storytelling as Strategy to help jumpstart or advance your thinking on strategic storytelling. Join us 9:30 a.m. to 12:30 p.m. on...
I'm offering a storytelling as strategy workshop from 9 a.m. to noon, Wednesday, July 15. It's in person at Impact House, 200 W. Madison. The cost is $185 or free if your nonprofit is paying and its annual budget is under $500,000, or you're paying...
Process note: the workshop described in this post took place in 2023, and this is the first post of 2025! But it's too good a story not to tell. Meanwhile, Umuwi Ethnic Studies has grown and prospered. In addition to visiting their website and...
The Corporate Coalition of Chicago brings together C-suite leaders to “move beyond ‘business as usual’ to catalyze permanent systemic change.” Leaders from some of Chicago’s civic-minded companies and nonprofits such as AT&T, Discover, and United Way Metro Chicago, among others, co-founded the Corporate Coalition in 2020.
The best advice I got from a friend and colleague when I started consulting was to spend some Saturday time on my business. I recharge, reset my inbox (the email count doesn't have to get to zero, I just try to avoid dropped balls, add commitments...
The past few autumns I’ve been helping multiple groups plan end of year appeals. Since last year has disappeared from my memory, I think the photo above is from a campaign two years ago, for which I interviewed residents and clients of an...
I blog about nonprofit communications and, occasionally, cooking.I love to cook but feel like a perpetual amateur. When checking cookbooks out of the library, I gravitate to the “basics.” I feel like a passable cook – as measured by whether my...