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Lucky13 Clairity Click-it: Nonprofit Links + Free Resources

I happen to have been born on a Friday the 13th. So was my son. So, it’s one of my favorite days!!! And I can think of no better day to share with you some thoughts about how you might move forward towards creating a better world.

The future

If there was a website you could visit to find out what the future held, how often would you visit it?

We do that with the weather, sometimes daily.

People are drawn to breaking news and social media buzz because they have an urge to know the now, which is a bit like the future, except it already happened.

One alternative is to spend that time and energy inventing the future instead. There are countless things we can do today to change tomorrow.

— Seth Godin

What are you doing today to change tomorrow? Think carefully. Are you simply focused on maintaining the status quo?  In our rapidly changing and technologically revolutionized world, that’s probably not going to work – either for you or for those who rely on you.

This issue of the Clairity Click-it brings together a carefully curated mix of ideas and resources to help you invent a better future. You’ll find content to support leadership, decision-making, communication, and fundraising —  all organized by category so you can easily scan for what’s most relevant to you right now. Or come back when your priorities shift.

As you read, I invite you to look for just one idea you might try or adapt. If something resonates, save it, make a note, and put it on your calendar so it’s there for you when the moment is right.

As always, a big thank you to my sponsor, Bloomerang, for making it possible for me to spend the hours of time hunting, gathering and choosing the eclectic resources I believe will best meet the needs of the diverse range of folks who comprise our critically important social benefit sector.

Thank you for doing your vital work, with gratitude,

Claire

claire@clairification.com

P.S. If you’re an enrolled Clairification School student, your exclusive MARCH TIPS are live.  If you’re not yet enrolled, please consider helping me simply cover my costs. [This is a labor of love, but if the enrollment fee is a hardship, please email me and we’ll work it out. I want you on board – even if it costs me money. My motto: “If I know it I want you to know it!”

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Marching Forward Clairity Click-it: Nonprofit Links + Free Resources

It’s a new day. What will you do with it? Will you march forward, backward or get stuck in place?  Hopefully, whatever you do, you won’t be lulled into complacency. The work ahead is hard, but as James Baldwin wrote: “Not everything that is faced can be changed, but nothing can be changed until it is faced.” 

Lulled.

Selfish is easy.

Short term is easy.

Complacent is easy.

Turning our head and ignoring the problem is easy.

Going along to get along is easy.

But easy isn’t the point.

Better is.

Challenging the status quo is difficult, and worth it.

— Seth Godin

I’m counting on you – each of you — to use some of the insights you glean in this week’s issue of the Clairity Click-it to be better, do better, and help others do the same.  I hope, as you dig through this hand-curated content from across the web, it will make your job easier, and more fulfilling.

I pick every resource thoughtfully (no AI used here) specifically to bring you the big ideas and useful tools you need to make our world a better place. It is my sincere pleasure and honor to help you find the ideas, strategies, templates and tools you need to succeed.

As always, a big thank you to my sponsor, Bloomerang, for making it possible for me to spend the hours of time hunting, gathering and choosing the eclectic resources I believe will best meet the needs of the diverse range of folks who comprise the critically important social benefit sector.

You’ve got this!

Thank you for doing your vital work, with gratitude,

Claire

claire@clairification.com

P.S. Even if you don’t care about all the Clairification School benefits, and are happy just being on the Clairity Click-it newsletter list, if you enjoy reading it and want to send a little love my way by enrolling, I would be most appreciative.

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Love is in the Air Clairity Click-it: Nonprofit Links + Free Resources

Good (February holiday) news department, and couldn’t we use some!

• Valentine’s Day reminds us to come from a place of love.
• The Year of the Fire Horse means rapid, often chaotic change, bold action, and transformation.
• President’s Day gives a long weekend (in the U.S.) to relax.

But one of my favorites, on February 17th, is little known, and perfect for the social benefit sector. It’s Random Acts of Kindness Day!  The mission/motto for this year is: “Together, we can make the world a better place, one act of kindness at a time.”

Your mission, should you choose to accept it, is to shower your donors — and everyone you can think of (co-workers, volunteers, family, friends and even strangers ) — with acts of kindness. Think about what you can do to make someone’s day. There’s no better way to build a loyal, loving relationship than to give more than you receive.

Get creative!

My hope is this issue of the Clairity Click-it will help you discover new ways to love your supporters so, together, you can transform the world — bending the arc towards justice. There’s no surer way to energize and enthuse yourself as you work towards guiding others on the pathway to passionate philanthropy. As always, you’ll find a range of voices from across the nonprofit world so you can resource, learn and digest at your own pace, coming to your own decisions. 

Speaking of acts of kindness, I’ve also got a little piece of wisdom to share with you from Mr. Rogers:

“Imagine what our real neighborhoods would be like if each of us offered, as a matter of course, just one kind word to another person.”

As always, a big thank you to my sponsor, Bloomerang, for making it possible for me to spend the hours of time hunting, gathering and choosing the resources I believe will be most useful to you.

It is my sincere pleasure and honor to help you find the ideas, strategies, templates and tools you need to succeed.

Thank you for doing your vital work, and making our world a better place,

Claire

claire@clairification.com

P.S. Please scroll down to see all my Clairification School sponsors who enable me to offer enrollment in ‘Clairification School at an affordable price [NOTE: If the enrollment fee is a hardship, please email me and we’ll work it out. I’d love for you to be able to access ALL my content.]

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Ice Everywhere All at Once Clairity Click-it: Nonprofit Links + Free Resources

It’s been chilling, inside and out. I’d like to warm you up with a new poem that spoke to me this week. It’s about love and giving. Extraordinarily appropriate for the time in which we’re living. And, for philanthropic organizations, all the time.

An Upcoming Meeting

Sometimes I think
about the day I’ll get to have
some kind of conversation with,
yes, my maker.

Not with the man
with the white beard,  no gates, but still
— some kind of reconciliation,
some kind of reckoning.

I think we’ll all have it –
and we will feel the people
we loved and helped,
and also those we hurt,
the ones we judged, or deceived
the ones whose pain
we turned away from.

I picture Spirit saying to us,
not with anger, but with passion:

Do you know how much I loved that person?

Do you know how much I thought about them,
when I dreamed up their being,
when I mixed the combination
of dreams and wounds, gifts and life lessons
that, in combination, only they are?
I made them, like a precious work of art.

Do you know how much I gave of Myself,
how I poured love and life into them?
It was Me I poured into them.

One day, you and I
will have a conversation with
that larger creative force of life,
and we will be asked to look
to look
at how we treated
each one
that Life loved so much.

—Tara Mohr

This issue of the Clairity Click-it brings together a carefully curated mix of ideas and resources to help you both feel those you love and help, and engage more effectively with those who love and help you.

You’ll find content to support leadership, communication, and decision-making, all organized by category so you can easily scan for what’s most relevant to you right now. Or come back when your priorities shift.

As you read, I invite you to look for just one idea you might try or adapt. If something resonates, save it, make a note, and put it on your calendar so it’s there for you when the moment is right.

As always, a big thank you to my primary sponsor, Bloomerang, for making it possible for me to spend the hours of time hunting, gathering and choosing the eclectic resources I believe will best meet the needs of the diverse range of folks who comprise our critically important social benefit sector.

Thank you for doing your vital work, with gratitude,

Claire

claire@clairification.com

P.S. If you’re an enrolled Clairification School student, your FEBRUARY TIPS are live.  If you’re not yet enrolled, please consider helping me simply cover my costs. [This is a labor of love, but if the enrollment fee is a hardship, please email me and we’ll work it out. I want you on board – even if it costs me money. My motto: “If I know it I want you to know it!”]

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Brrr… Clairity Click-it: Nonprofit Links + Free Resources

It’s been pretty cold in my neck of the woods, so let’s warm up with a cup of cocoa, coffee or tea and some good reads. I’ve got a lot of great stuff for you this week, so let’s get right to it!

The Clairity Click-it exists to bring you a range of voices from across the nonprofit world so you can resource, learn and digest at your own pace, coming to your own decisions. My hope is some of the free resources I’ve collected and curated for you will energize and enthuse you as you work towards guiding others on the pathway to passionate philanthropy.

As always, I’ve also got a little piece of wisdom to share with you from the inimitable Seth Godin:

Make and take

In a world of automation, AI and outsourcing, what exactly do we do for a living?

Perhaps we make decisions.

And what’s in short supply?

A willingness to take responsibility.

If you choose to sign up to make and take, there have never been more tools or more leverage available to you.

— Seth Godin

Even though we’re entering a world of endless automation, you still have plenty of autonomy. You just must choose to use it! This issue of Clairity Click-it brings together a carefully curated mix of ideas and resources to help you show up humanly for the people you serve and lead. Every piece is selected thoughtfully — by me personally, not AI — with an eye toward practical insights and tools you can use to strengthen your work and its impact.

As always, a big thank you to my sponsor, Bloomerang, for making it possible for me to spend the hours of time hunting, gathering and choosing the eclectic resources I believe will best meet the needs of the diverse range of folks who comprise our critically important social benefit sector.

Thank you for doing your vital work, with gratitude,

Claire

claire@clairification.com

P.S. If you’re an enrolled Clairification School student, your JANUARY TIPS are live.  If you’re not yet enrolled, please consider helping me simply cover my costs. [This is a labor of love, but if the enrollment fee is a hardship, please email me and we’ll work it out. I want you on board – even if it costs me money. My motto: “If I know it I want you to know it!”]

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Generosity Clairity Click-it: Nonprofit Links + Free Resources

Let’s begin with a bit of wisdom for the new year…

Generosity and gratitude

A gift doesn’t diminish the giver. Sharing creates connection, possibility and energy.

And the magic of gratitude is that it improves everything it touches, especially the person who offered it in the first place.

So, what holds us back?

Fear. Fear of connection, of change, of seeing what is possible. It might feel safer to focus on scarcity.

Generosity and gratitude often go together. They light a path on the way to better.

— Seth Godin

Of course, I lead with this sage advice because now is the time for channeling as much gratitude as you can muster. All those year-end donations you received? If you want them to be repeated in the coming year, there’s nothing more important you can do than deliver a prompt, personal thank you focused on the impact the donor’s gift will make. Don’t make this one about you, your accomplishments, and all the need that still exists. Simply be thankful.

I’ve filled this issue of the newsletter with a mix of topics to help you begin the coming year thoughtfully. I encourage you to dig through this curated content from across the web and pick one or more doable strategies. Approach this with a learning mindset, vowing to find at least one thing you’ll do a bit differently (if not today, then tomorrow; save the idea and put it on your calendar so you’re sure to revisit it at the appropriate time).

As always, a big thank you to my sponsor, Bloomerang, for making it possible for me to spend the hours of time hunting, gathering and choosing the resources I believe will be most useful to you.

It is my sincere pleasure and honor to help you find the ideas, strategies, templates and tools you need to succeed.

Thank you for doing your vital work, and making our world a better place,

Claire

claire@clairification.com

P.S. Please scroll down to see all my Clairification School sponsors who enable me to offer enrollment in ‘Clairification School at an affordable price [If the enrollment fee is a hardship, please email me and we’ll work it out. Truly, if I know it I want you to know it!]

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New Year Clairity Click-it: Nonprofit Links + Free Resources

As this year draws to a close, I want to share something from the heart. This isn’t just about saying thank you — though gratitude is at the center of it. It’s also a reminder for anyone feeling uncertain or a bit unsteady right now: you are not alone. Your community surrounds you. And even when the road ahead feels unclear, we’ve always found our way by walking it together. That hasn’t changed, and it never will.

This issue of the “Clairity Click-it” brings together a carefully curated mix of ideas and resources to help you engage more effectively with the people you serve and lead. Every piece is selected thoughtfully — by me personally, not AI — with an eye toward practical insights and tools you can use to strengthen your work and its impact.

You’ll find content to support leadership, communication, and decision-making, all organized by category so you can easily scan for what’s most relevant to you right now. Or come back when your priorities shift.

As you read, I invite you to look for just one idea you might try or adapt. If something resonates, save it, make a note, and put it on your calendar so it’s there for you when the moment is right.

As always, a big thank you to my sponsor, Bloomerang, for making it possible for me to spend the hours of time hunting, gathering and choosing the eclectic resources I believe will best meet the needs of the diverse range of folks who comprise our critically important social benefit sector.

Thank you for doing your vital work, with gratitude,

Claire

claire@clairification.com

P.S. If you’re an enrolled Clairification School student, your DECEMBER TIPS are live.  If you’re not yet enrolled, please consider helping me simply cover my costs. [This is a labor of love, but if the enrollment fee is a hardship, please email me and we’ll work it out. I want you on board – even if it costs me money. My motto: “If I know it I want you to know it!”]

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Shining a Light Clairity Click-it: Nonprofit Links + Free Resources

As we enter the season of light, and you move into full-steam-ahead year-end fundraising mode, there’s something I want to remind you about your messaging.

Oh, by the way, it’s not about you.

The biggest mistake you can make is thinking your organization is the story.  People aren’t buying your organization.  When someone asks: “What do you do?” they’re not interested in your organization so much as what your organization accomplishes.

Imagine you’re at a dinner party and someone asks “What do you do?”  Are you going to tell them your entire life story?  Every aspect, from job to education to family to hobbies? No, of course not! You’ll tell them one thing about yourself.  Why?  Because they don’t know you. They’re not yet that interested in you. First, you have to intrigue them.

The same holds true with your nonprofit.  Whenever someone asks the “What do you do?” question, whether explicitly or implicitly, your job is simply this: tell them about ONE thing you accomplish.

“If you write what you yourself sincerely think and feel and are interested in,” Rachel Carson wrote as she contemplated the loneliness of creative work after her unexampled books about the sea made her one of the most beloved writers of her time, “you will interest other people.”

– Maria Popova, The Marginalian

Now is a good time to personally re-connect with your organization’s mission. What really jazzes you about the work your efforts make possible? If you’re not excited, don’t expect others to get excited. Philanthropy is a passion business!

Okay! It’s biweekly newsletter time again, and my hope is some of the free resources I’ve collected and curated for you will help you share your passions and guide others on the pathway to passionate philanthropy. This issue is filled with a mix of topics to help you engage more effectively with all sorts of people. I pick every resource thoughtfully (no AI used here), specifically to bring you the big ideas and useful tools you need to inspire others to enact their values.  As always, a big thank you to my Clairity Click-it sponsor, Bloomerang, for making it possible for me to spend the time hunting and gathering.

Thank you for doing your vital work, and helping make our world a better place,

Claire

claire@clairification.com

P.S. Your support via enrollment in ‘Clairification School’ means a lot, and I am deeply appreciative. It is my honor to deliver original articles direct to your in-box every week, give you access to all my webinars, and offer up exclusive monthly tips, bonuses and more! 

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Gratitude Clairity Click-it: Nonprofit Links + Free Resources

Once again, I’m sharing a bit of inspiration.

Kinds of Power

There’s the James Bond villain sort of power, based on division, dominance and destruction. This is the short-term power of bullies, trauma and mobs.

And then there’s a more resilient form of power. This is power based on connection, discussion and metrics. A power based in reality over the long term.

Divisive power tears things down. Resilient power builds things up.

Resilient power creates the conditions for the community to produce value over time. Resilient power uses optimism and fairness to create value because participants can see ways they can participate and contribute.

Fear might be for sale, but that doesn’t mean we have to buy it.

Better is possible.

— Seth Godin

What will you do in the weeks and months ahead to demonstrate your resilience and step into your power on behalf of those who need your help?

What will you do to engage others in your mission and vision?

What will you do to make the world, or your little corner of it, a better place?

Hopefully, you can use some of the insights you glean in this week’s issue of the Clairity Click-it to help you move forward. So, start digging through the curated content from across the web. I hope it will make your job easier, and more fulfilling.

As always, a big thank you to my sponsor, Bloomerang, for making it possible for me to spend the hours of time hunting, gathering and choosing the resources I believe will be most useful to you. It is my sincere pleasure and honor to help you find the ideas, strategies, templates and tools you need to succeed.

Thank you for doing your vital work, and making our world a better place.

You’ve got this!

Claire

claire@clairification.com

P.S. Your support via enrollment in ‘Clairification School’ means a lot, and I am deeply appreciative. It is my honor to deliver original articles direct to your in-box every week, give you on-demand access to all my webinars and archived articles, and offer up exclusive monthly tips, bonuses and more! It’s less than $2/week [If the enrollment fee is a hardship, please email me and we’ll work it out.]

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Clairity Click-it: Cornucopia of Nonprofit Links + Free Resources

Do you know what’s in your donors’ backpacks?

“The other backpacks

A powerful metaphor from a long hike:

Every hiker is intimately aware of their backpack. They picked it out, choosing from dozens of options. They know which straps are loose and which are digging into their skin. They can tell you if it’s lopsided, and what is in each pocket.

And yet…

Even after days on the trail, they probably couldn’t tell you a thing about anyone else’s backpack. Except, perhaps, that everyone else has one.”

That’s the first step toward empathy: Realizing that everyone else has a backpack, and that it’s different from yours.

— Seth Godin

When you engage with donors, do you ask yourself what matters to them? What do you do to try to find out? If you don’t know, empathy becomes impossible. And empathy is one of the prime ways we connect with others. Donors included.

Consider that your supporters are all on a journey. Backpacks strapped on. Waiting for you to be their empathic guide.This issue of the Clairity Click-it is filled with a mix of topics to help you engage more effectively with all sorts of people. To inspire others to enact their values.  To lead. To amplify. To create abundance. It’s arranged by category, to help you locate the pieces of curated content that most intrigue you and/or meet your needs of the moment.

Approach this with a learning mindset, vowing to find at least one thing you’ll do a bit differently (if not today, then tomorrow; save the idea and put it on your calendar so you’re sure to revisit it at the appropriate time).

As always, a big thank you to my sponsor, Bloomerang, for making it possible for me to spend the hours of time hunting, gathering and choosing the eclectic resources I believe will best meet the needs of the diverse range of folks who comprise our critically important social benefit sector.

You’ve got this!

Thank you for doing your vital work, with gratitude,

Claire

claire@clairification.com

P.S. If you’re an enrolled Clairification School student, your NOVEMBER TIPS are live.  If you’re not yet enrolled, what are you waiting for? [The enrollment fee just covers my costs, but if it is a hardship, please email me and we’ll work it out. My motto: “If I know it I want you to know it!”]

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