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Forging a DEIJ Partnership
For many years, VISIONALITY has faced a major hiring challenge: attracting talent from our local Latinx community. To exacerbate the problem, the more specified our job descriptions are to fundraising, the less likely we are to bring Latinx candidates to final-round interviews. This problem must be overcome. As nonprofit consultants who serve counties that are…
Transitioning from “Employee” to “Alumni”: Making Former Employees Your Greatest Recruiting Tool
Last week, I called Emily with news I never anticipated I’d deliver: That I’d accepted a job as Chief Operations Officer with a pretty large nonprofit. On top of this, last month we offboarded one of our long-time employees, the fabulous Cecily Hendricks, as she decided to take a step away from work altogether to…
Nine Accommodations We Made to Create a Parent-Inclusive Workplace
Many companies begin building parent-inclusive-environments (yes, I made that up) when a working mother steps into a c-suite leadership role. VISIONALITY is no different, except she was our first employee! When Llewellyn joined VIS, she was learning to be a first-time mom, and I was learning to be a first-time employer. We built the system…
When Will It Be Enough?
When will it be enough? When will we finally decide that children deserve to be safe in schools? That teachers deserve to come home from work. That grandparents deserve to checkout at a grocery store. That mental health is health. That safety is not the opposite of freedom. That you can’t solve gun violence with…
Donor Stewardship: Ten Creative Minutes a Day
I think often about gratitude. Or, rather, I think about gratitude, and how sometimes I lack it for the people, places, and things that add immeasurable value and joy to my life. It is too easy for me to lose sight of the blessings I’ve received in life when I’m head down in my work…
Happy Mother’s Day to You! Yes, Even You.
This blog post is inspired by Mother’s Day. BUT IT’S NOT JUST FOR MOTHERS. This blog post is built on a foundation of deep respect for the daily norms of parenting that are nothing short of heroic. We hope to show our respect not with kudos, BUT WITH COLD, HARD FACTS. The fact is that…
Anti-LGBTQ+ Legislation
The beauty of people is that we are each delightfully unique; it makes life surprising and diverse. It also means that we each need different, unique, diverse—and sometimes even surprising—tools to show up in life and at work as are full, true, best selves. Every individual deserves to exist in the world as their most…
The Parallels in Pay Inequality Between Soccer and the Nonprofit Sector
By Emily & Taryn In the U.S., Equal Pay Day symbolizes how far into this year the “average median woman” must work to earn what the “average median man” earned in the previous. In other words, the “average median woman” must work until March 15, 2022 just to equal what the “average median man” earned…
How to Add Some Dr. Dre to Your 2022 Fundraising Plan
Like any regular Geriatric Millennial, I LOST MY MIND when I watched the Super Bowl Halftime Show this year. It was the music that defined the most awkward years of my life – middle school and high school – and while I was able to sing every lyric to every song that was woven into…
Let’s Not Sugar Coat How Hard Things Are…
Shoutout to the ones who are doing it right! We wanted to spotlight Alison Kenis, the brilliant co-owner of Sugar Lab in Ventura. Here’s why… I LOVE THIS SO MUCH! Here are a whole bunch of reasons why Ali….and this email….and her business….and her desserts….are badass. First, it’s honest – she clearly explains what’s going…
Feelin’ 22 or 2020…Too?
If you are anything like me (an enneagram 7, “the enthusiast”) you walked into this new year bright-eyed and bushy-tailed (especially since we paid week off – thanks, Emily!), holding onto a small sliver of slightly-apprehensive hope that 2022 was finally going to be the year that things were different! That we were finally starting…
Reflections and Predictions: Part 2
In our last post, Emily and Kristiana reflected on the joys and trials of 2021, and today, they share their predictions (both for VISIONALITY and the nonprofit industry) for 2022! EMILY #WFH IS THE NORM: I don’t think we’ll be seeing successful back to office transitions anytime soon. We’re not our of COVID, and many…
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