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PODCAST: Understanding Fundraising & Human Behavior

The Charity CFO

And, um, as soon as you said that you did this little, uh, gosh, I used to work in the food service industry a long time ago. You get nothing tangible in return. They’d be like, does not compute does not compute. They called secret shopper, secret shopper. You’re like the secret shopper of donors. That’s right.

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Unlikely Advocates: Worker Co-ops, Grassroots Organizing, and Public Policy

NonProfit Quarterly

Yet movements haven’t been as reticent to engage philanthropy, even when that pursuit pushes them toward funder-driven priorities and dynamics that Ruth Wilson Gilmore refers to as the “shadow state.” Dr. Gilmore locates our movements within the gargantuan field of philanthropy as a “shadow of the shadow state.”