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See you in Chicago for #TAG2026?

Hi friends! Short one today: I’m very delighted to share that I’ll be presenting alongside one of my excellent clients at the Technology Association of Grantmakers conference this November. Our session is called “Fine, We’ll Make an AI Policy: A Community-Informed Approach to Making Decisions About AI” and if you like this blog, you’re probably […]

how I’m thinking about AI

I get asked fairly often, mostly in professional spaces, how I think about AI. Readers of this blog probably have some sense of what that is, but it comes up often enough that it seemed worth having a place where that answer lives explicitly. This is mostly for me, and I hope it helps others […]

we have other choices

a writeup about 26NTC, the Nonprofit Technology Conference

decisions, decisions

You know more about your work than your systems do.

1/11/2026

I’m drafting this from the MASS MoCA campus in North Adams, MA, a site of one of my closest and most formative friendships, fifteen years after the death of that friend. I’m setting aside this time for SDB, not because it’s the most important thing in the world right now, but because sometimes we have to […]

okay, but should we?

A test for the coming year.

Leading in Times of Crisis is here!

I’m extremely excited that this is out in the world. If you didn’t preorder, you can grab your copy here or from your local indie bookstore, or request it from your library. The zine isn’t long enough for an acknowledgments section, really, but that doesn’t mean I can’t say thank you on the internet to […]

Book rec: Reimagining Nonprofits and Philanthropy by Vu Le

For many readers of this blog, I suspect all I have to do is say “hey, did you know the guy who writes NonprofitAF has a new book out?” and we’re done here. If that’s you, go, enjoy, money-flying-away emoji, etc. If you’re not familiar with Vu Le’s work, what you need to know is […]

what we can do, today

Every so often I’m presented with a reason to rethink what I’m doing for a living. Over the past few years that’s generally come in the form of layoffs, or the big global crises that make one want to quit one’s job and go work someplace (usually an imaginary someplace) that is better aligned with […]

even more leading in times of crisis

My zine on leading in times of crisis is here!