What We Do: Organizational Development | BE4SI
Part of our series on the services BE4SI provides to nonprofits and social enterprises in Europe, the United States, and beyond.
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We're talking non-profit / non-government organizations, philanthropy, civil society, and social impact in the heart of Europe and in the U.S. Each month, we produce the NGO Leadership Update and the CEE Regional Roundup.
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Black Philanthropy Month 2026 – My Reality Check for Me
We're talking non-profit / non-government organizations, philanthropy, civil society, and social impact in the heart of Europe and in the U.S. Each month, we produce the NGO Leadership Update and the CEE Regional Roundup.
Nonprofit Undictionary
If you are tired of defining your entire career by what you don't do, this will be the most liberating page you read all year.
At Last! A Proven Way for Nonprofit Leaders, Managers, and Teams to Escape Hollow Jargon, End Meeting Fatigue, and Revitalize Their Action
If you are tired of defining your entire career by what you don't do, this will be the most liberating page you read all year.
What We Do: Grant Reporting and Impact Narratives | BE4SI
Part of our series on the services BE4SI provides to nonprofits and social enterprises in Europe, the United States, and beyond.
What We Do: Capacity Building | BE4SI
Part of our series on the services BE4SI provides to nonprofits and social enterprises in Europe, the United States, and beyond.
[BE4SI] NGO Leadership Update - Issue #15
Our monthly update for leaders, teams, and organizations in the non-governmental / nonprofit sector
What We Do: Strategic Planning | BE4SI
Part of our series on the services BE4SI provides to nonprofits and social enterprises in Europe, the United States, and beyond.
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[BE4SI] CEE Regional Roundup - Issue #12
Our social impact sector recap of July 2026 from Central and Eastern Europe
European movements, American fundraising
During the research and writing for my first book a curious side story regarding advocacy, charity, fundraising, philanthropy, civil society and politics started to form.
They Smirked When I Opened My Laptop at the Strategy Meeting... But When I Quoted the "NGO Undictionary," the Whole Room Stared in Shock!
For years, I felt like an imposter in our agency and development meetings, nodding along to empty buzzwords while feeling completely exhausted by the endless jargon
Positioning Is Not the Same as Performing
How to prepare your organization for the second half of the year without pretending to be something you’re not
[BE4SI] What we're Substacking (July 2026)
Who and what we're reading lately on Substack for social impact, philanthropy, civil society, nonprofits/NGOs, social change (and what not)
Low Tide, Counted Twice
Epistemologies, genealogies, causalities, and generosities as we nonprofit while we work
Beyond the Grant Application
A quick wide look at resources (too) many organizations never think to ask for
Spatiotemporal recuse
Asking to be saved by a system uncertain of its standing
Mid-year narratives of rescue and trust
What your donors actually hear when you ask them for help, and why the story matters more than the ask
Floccinaucinihilipilification (or nonprofit royales with quease)
When credit becomes its own currency and collaboration becomes diplomatic warfare.
The Summer Audit Nobody Wants to Run
Why testing strategic reality in July is the least comfortable, most necessary thing your organization will do this summer
Epistemectomy for impactful egos
Respecting, neglecting, and accepting leadership piles and pits of our own making
Demokracie, nezávislost, svoboda. Je to složité, obzvlášť na 4. července.
Zatímco se USA potýkaly se svými morálními rozporuplnostmi, Evropa se stále zotavovala z demokratických povstání roku 1848. Léto roku 1852 ve střední Evropě nevonělo svobodou, ale železem a strachem.