Generosity in Motion – Fundraising Trends of 2025

Generosity in Motion – Fundraising Trends of 2025

If you’ve been working in the nonprofit world lately, you’ve probably felt it: the ground shifting beneath our feet. Fundraising isn’t just changing—it’s transforming. Globally, organizations are facing new donor behaviors, economic uncertainty, political shifts, and...
Battle of identities – in fundraising and beyond

Battle of identities – in fundraising and beyond

Fundraising while minoritized often feels like translating your own soul—switching tongues, choosing which parts of yourself the world can see. Here’s a reflective journey through that “battle of identities,” and six lessons that show why our layered backgrounds are...
Connections for growth – The power of donor engagement

Connections for growth – The power of donor engagement

Engaging your donors isn’t just good fundraising practice; it’s an opportunity to build bridges between those who care and those who carry the daily weight of the work. Nonprofits are often the connectors in this relationship, translating values into action, and...

Prompting Acceptance

This Month we are focusing on resilience Let's Prompt Acceptance A vivid collection by our team, where hardship transforms into hue, line, and light. Subscribe to Bold Waves Newsletter AttentionA lone candle steadies in a restless room, its flame bowing, rising,...

Ways to Show Up for Indigenous Peoples Month

A reflection and call to action for newcomers with lived experiences of colonialism and displacement When you arrive in Canada, the first stories you often hear are about opportunity, peace, and diversity. We felt this warm welcome, and witnessed it as newcomers to...
Building Resilience in Nonprofits: 3 personal lessons

Building Resilience in Nonprofits: 3 personal lessons

I have just finished reading Parable of the Sower and the reference to change is inspired by the book.  In the Parable of the Sower, Octavia Butler takes us on a journey through a dystopian America where society has collapsed under the weight of environmental...