philanthropissed

You know you’re really engaged with your nonprofit when the angle for your next grant proposal strikes you after midnight, and you are in bed, and you get up and go out and wake your computer up and spend 20 minutes emailing yourself the structure of your argument and fleshing out the details.While your fiance waits patiently.

When I feel this way, it makes me think I may never have been fully and truly engaged at past organizations. I always did the work. But I really, really care about this place.

And it’s up to me to keep it open. That’s a scary, but ultimately empowering thought.