Being a good #fundraiser does not make you a good person. These two things are not intrinsically linked, in spite of what people in our sector may think. Raising millions…
“If knowledge is power then understanding is liberation.” Manulani Aluli Meyer Artists—especially writers and activists—have long before productively recognized the need to carve out spaces to give voice to injustices…
I first came across Nneka Allen, CFRE, COC, PCC‘s name when I picked up a copy of Collecting Courage. Reading the first-person narratives shared by accomplished Black fundraisers and equity,…
I’m about to leave town. I am going on a well deserved break. By the time I return, Black History Month will be over. I plan on having fun. My…
If we want to see change we need to be part of the change – even when it’s hard to do. I have met some pretty amazing people throughout my…
The pull of ‘whiteness’ is real. Being brown in rooms full of white folks and not showing up the way you want or need to out of self-preservation or fear.…
“There is no greater agony than bearing an untold story inside you” – Maya Angelou In Us and Them: What It Really Means to Belong, Nneka Allen, CFRE, COC, PCC…
In reading Us and Them: What it Really Means to Belong, a story shared by my sister-friend Nneka Allen, CFRE, COC, PCC about confronting Anti-Black Racism in the charitable sector,…
“If you’re silent about your pain, they’ll kill you and say you enjoyed it.” ~ Zora Neale Hurston. The purpose of light is to allow us to see things in…
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Nneka Allen