by Martin Ricard | May 26, 2026 | Blog
How many times have you heard “We love what you’re doing” and then watched the funding go somewhere else? We hear this constantly from justice-motivated leaders: the programs are running, the community is being served, the impact is real. But the...
by Martin Ricard | Apr 21, 2026 | Blog
We’ve been talking a lot lately about trust—how it’s shifting, why it matters more than ever, and what justice-motivated organizations need to do differently to earn it in a climate where even nonprofits are no longer given the benefit of the doubt. But...
by Martin Ricard | Mar 24, 2026 | Blog
There’s a tension a lot of justice-motivated organizations are sitting with right now, and most aren’t talking about it out loud. It goes something like this: We know what we believe. We know the communities we serve. We know why this work matters. But if...
by Martin Ricard | Feb 26, 2026 | Blog
What if we told you that posting on social media isn’t the same thing as being heard? A lot of justice-driven organizations are online—sharing updates, posting announcements, reacting to the news—but still feel invisible. It’s not because the work isn’t...
by Martin Ricard | Dec 7, 2025 | Blog
If you work in the social impact world long enough, you start to believe that the only way to get people to care is by tugging at their heartstrings or walking them through the heaviness of the issues. We get used to telling stories about the struggle because struggle...
