Dear Clients, Colleagues, and Sector Leaders, As we enter into month six of distancing, we’d like to extend an opportunity for connection next Tuesday, August 11th from 1 - 2:30 PM MST through a virtual co-working session with sector peers and Black Fox Philanthropy! The goal of the 90 minutes working together is to advance [...]
Recognizing that less-resourced NGOs can’t afford to engage our fundraising services, one of the ways Black Fox Philanthropy serves the social sector is to be open-source on much of the content we’ve developed. We regularly release this content via our blog, and today is another one of those days! Note this blog is a good [...]
by Natalie Rekstad, Founder & CEO of Black Fox Philanthropy, B Corp Recognizing that less-resourced NGOs can’t afford to engage our fundraising services, one of the ways Black Fox Philanthropy serves the social sector is to be open-source on much of the content we’ve developed. We regularly release this content via our blog, and today [...]
In Joseph Campbell’s landmark book entitled The Hero with a Thousand Faces, he illustrates common patterns running through hero myths and stories from around the world. He discovered several basic stages that almost every hero-quest goes through, and we could not fail to notice the many client leaders we serve follow a similar arc in [...]
by Natalie Rekstad, Founder & CEO of Black Fox Philanthropy, B Corp Recognizing that less-resourced NGOs can’t afford to engage our fundraising services, one of the ways Black Fox Philanthropy serves the social sector is to be open-source on much of the content we’ve developed. We regularly release this content via our blog, and today [...]
By Natalie Rekstad This past January I was in Davos, Switzerland for the World Economic Forum. While there, I was invited to a gathering called Women in Blockchain by a beloved client, Pencils of Promise. I was eager to join in to learn more about how cryptocurrency is impacting the world of philanthropy - and [...]
By Helena Ronis This article originally appeared in Thrive Global by Arianna Huffington. Natalie Rekstad is what Meg Jay, the clinical psychologist and a bestselling narrative nonfiction writer, calls ‘Supernormal’: One who reaches unexpected heights after childhood adversity. Natalie was raised in a household with a single mother and five siblings, and together they faced [...]
Photo by Amanda Jones on Unsplash Weeks ago, we had plans to publish an exciting report, Bold & Big Bet Philanthropic Landscape, here on our blog. This report, compiled from the findings of a series of generous and candid interviews conducted with major funders across the sector, and in-depth research and analysis, seeks to answer the question “What inspires [...]
Photo by J. Kelly Brito on Unsplash PART 2: Engaging Mission-Aligned Funders | Advancement Outreach Best Practices Echoing our sentiment from Part 1 of this series, Black Fox Philanthropy would like to congratulate the entire Skoll Foundation team on hosting such a valuable virtual gathering. The first of its kind in the convening’s [...]
(©MicroOne/stock.adobe.com) PART 1: Funder Research | Best Practices in Uncovering Mission-Aligned Funders First and foremost, we want to extend an enormous thank you to the Skoll Foundation and their incredible efforts in pivoting this year’s convening to a virtual forum, where a series of Black Fox Philanthropy webinars were presented. The Skoll team’s [...]
