Archive April 2012

Five Rules to Have Money for Outreach, Even After the Fact

Posted by Beth on Apr 30, 2012 in Stories, Tools | No Comments

An organization I care about created a gorgeous new website that is alive but not thriving: no delicious hubbub of new activity, an eerie stillness permeating the pages. I knew why but I asked anyway: there’s no money for outreach. That inspired me to write down the rules I know about how to have ...

Your Bed Can Be the Center of the Universe

Posted by Beth on Apr 27, 2012 in Sacred Work, Stories, Tools | 3 Comments

The third time’s the charm. Today, my third client told me about how her health is being affected by her work. She’s my soul-colleague: the Universe is talking to me. I listened. What does RAISING CLARITY say to do when health challenges work? Let work support health: talk less; mean more. do less; accomplish more. ...

One Entrepreneurship Secret from Silicon Valley: It’s Sometimes Okay to Fail

Posted by Beth on Apr 25, 2012 in Sacred Work, Stories, Tools | No Comments

Thank you to the author of this post, co-founder of THINK BIG Partners, Tyler Prochnow, for permission to reprint it in entirety here. And thanks for their encouragement to Think Big! Silicon Valley Knows a Secret: It’s Okay to Fail! Right or wrong, there is a perception in the entrepreneurial/startup space that when looking for ...

What on Earth is Fun about Fundraising?

Posted by Beth on Apr 24, 2012 in About RAISING CLARITY | One Comment

Here’s “The FUN in Fundraising,” the other workshop I’ll teach this summer at the Faces of Leadership 2012, the Annual Conference of Volunteer West Virginia,Tuesday, August 7-Thursday, August 9, 2012, Charleston, WV Civic Center: Workshop Title: The FUN in Fundraising Questions Guiding this Workshop: What on Earth is fun about fundraising? Why on Earth is ...

The Secret to Fundraising

Posted by Beth on Apr 22, 2012 in About RAISING CLARITY | One Comment

Here’s “The Secret to Fundraising,” a workshop I’ll teach this summer at the Faces of Leadership 2012, the Annual Conference of Volunteer West Virginia, held Tuesday, August 7-Thursday, August 9, 2012, Charleston, WV Civic Center. Workshop Title: The Secret to Fundraising Questions Guiding this Workshop: Who is a donor? What do they look like? How ...

Fundraising-Related Blogs

Posted by Beth on Apr 18, 2012 in Tools | No Comments

Some years ago, my favorite fundraising journal, The Grassroots Fundraising Journal, asked, “Know of any great blogs on fundraising and philanthropy?” Below were the five related to fundraising they recommended. I’ve reviewed them and added my thoughts about each. I never diss anyone in this blog. So I tell you below what I think each ...

Our Financial “Cabal”: It’s All Our Money

Posted by Beth on Apr 17, 2012 in Sacred Work, Stories, Tools | One Comment

The term “cabal” comes from the Kabbalah, the sacred Jewish mystery texts and the study of them. Our word has its root in the French term cabale for these sacred texts. But we use it in English in a way not sacred but scared. Our word “cabal” is applied to a small, insular group whose ...

It’s All Your Money: Fundraising and Non-Duality

Posted by Beth on Apr 16, 2012 in Tools | 2 Comments

Try this, next time you feel stuck fundraising: No one is asking. No one is doing the planning. And no one is using the proceeds. How could the work get done, if someone got in the way? Nonduality means no us and them. This makes fundraising easier: It’s all your money. PS: no, this is ...

You Can Stop Fearing Time Now

Posted by Beth on Apr 13, 2012 in Time-Sculpting | One Comment

This will be my final post on time. Teaching you how to bend time as a precious but unlimited resource, I taught myself new ways to teach about money. Just like in my post about my LinkedIn practice: I set out to give and in the process, received much more abundance than I confess it ...

Time-Sculpting 101, Second Step

Posted by Beth on Apr 11, 2012 in Time-Sculpting | No Comments

This past week, watching yourself experience time, you’ve experienced it going faster or slower. This is way better than my telling you it does: now you know how fast-time feels. You know how slow-time feels. You probably thought the next thing I was going to ask you to was to change something: make fast-time go ...

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