If you can’t tell your board chair where the money is in June, you’re not behind on fundraising—you’re behind on clarity. In this installment of Ask Rhea, she walks through how to diagnose your financial pipeline leaks before you’re running out of runway.

Keeping the community at the center requires boards to look past familiar and comfortable strategies, even when doing so creates friction, costs a gift, or demands change no one is quite ready for.

Fundraising with integrity and community accountability is an art that keeps the sector alive. It is the connective tissue between lived experience and institutional power, yet it is structurally undervalued.

he Trump administration is creating anticipatory obedience by threatening and indicting institutions that do not align with their agenda, even when those charges are flimsy. To fight this piece of their authoritarian playbook, we must resist and not give in to the fear it is designed to instill.

In this installment of Ask Rhea, Rhea answers a reader’s question about board members, fundraising, and building lasting partnerships.

In this installment of Ask Rhea, Rhea offers advice on how to rethink pitching to major donors and avoid negotiating against yourself.