This is more notes from last weekend’s Craigslist Foundation’s Nonprofit Bootcamp.
Majora Carter, founder of Sustainable South Bronx, gave the afternoon keynote (I think the afternoon speech of a conference should be called a plenary). She spoke from experience in designing socially and ecologically sustainable projects. I think she covered some good points in her speech, but overall I felt like she was pitching to investors more than having an intimate discussion with peers—the latter being a tone I think Nancy Lublin nailed at last year’s Bootcamp (audio; my notes). Also, I felt that her points were somewhat antagonistic (though perhaps reasonably so) but left out a sense of reality-check: yeah, you’re pissing off The Man, but does that mean that you’re changing society, or just being a nuisance?
- Take neither a vow of poverty nor stupidity
- Fight for something, not against something.
- Help can come in man forms
- Groundbreaking solutions abhor orthodoxy
- If nobody knows what you are doing, how are people going to care?
- Build on sucess and momentum. Why reinvent the wheel?
- If you feel like you have a target on your head, you are probably doing something right
- Be part of alliances that make sense for your organization
- When the time is right, don’t be afraid to move on
- You will know who your real friends are when you are doing well (I may have written this down wrong)
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