Hi everyone, if you’re free this week on June 18th from 11:30am to 1pm Pacific, here’s a great webinar: “What If our Trans siblings were fully included and protected in all spaces? A guide to substantive allyship for Trans rights and how to do better with Nathan Rodriguez of Trans Equity Coalition.” It’s free. Register here and spread the word.
And next Monday, June 22nd, at 1pm, there’s a briefing on Donor-Advised Funds, put on by the Philanthropy Project, whose Working Group I’m on. Register here.
In the sixth grade, I became fascinated by four-leaf clovers. Something about their mythology and the fact that they can be found. During recess, I started looking for these symbols of luck. Eventually other kids became curious and started looking for them too. For a week it became a craze, with all the kids hunched on the grounds, combing the schoolgrounds. We found dozens, which we pressed in our books until dry and then laminated with packing tape.
I’m bringing this up because I often hear this question being asked in our sector: “What are the trends?” A colleague asked this in a group chat when another colleague said he attended a fundraising conference. At another event, a speaker talked about “AI trends,” while on a panel I was on recently a fellow speaker recommended people “go where the energy is” as that’s often the most productive path when several are available.
It can be helpful to be aware of trends and collective energy, as they can be helpful in developing strategies, especially when it comes to preparing for contingencies. It is helpful to know such as things, for example, as:
· Smaller donors are decreasing in number while mega donors are increasing
· Donor-Advised Funds (DAFs) continue to increase, while regulations on them continue to be nonexistent
· More organizations are looking into four-day workweeks
· Flatter organizational structures are on the rise
· While companies are using AI more, there is rapid pushback against AI, especially among young people
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