Over the course of the hour-long LBF Convening, Greg shared great insights about tenacity, resilience, fundraising, and serving the most vulnerable people who represent a contentious community issue—homelessness. This post covers major highlights from our conversation with Greg!

At the opening of any Little Big Fund Bootcamp, everyone present is invited to respond to the question: What’s your favorite way to eat a potato? There are plenty of mouth-watering answers: crispy fried slices sprinkled with lots of salt; small round ones, peeled and boiled; a scoop of mashed served with butter or gravy. This opening question about eating a potato is of course, an ice breaker, a way for the group to ease in to hearing our own voices and the voices of others. But also, by talking about the humble potato and how we enjoy it, even if briefly and perhaps in an unoriginal way, Abhinav and I bring to mind why we host Bootcamps for emerging social change-makers: we think a simple, down-to-earth, self-determining approach to starting an initiative can cultivate endless possibilities.

Our top 5 tips on running a successful family & friends fundraiser!

Our favorite takeaways from Little Big Fund’s annual State of Fundraising Panel, consisting of social impact and philanthropic leaders from around the world.

A snippet from our monthly Convening event where Teju Ravilochan of GatherFor spoke about the power of community and the argument for redistribution of wealth.

Creating a shared space between funders and fundee to further shift the conversations and actions towards greater equity in the social impact space.

Last year, when COVID-19 pushed us all to go indoors, we started a monthly gathering of our Believers -- called it Little Big Convening. A Convening is a 1-hour event where we invite a subject matter expert, usually from the field of nonprofit and social entrepreneurship, to share their story, insights, and resources for our community.

Pavel Reppo, the Founder and Executive Director at FineMind, shares advice on finding and building a relationship with a funder as an early stage organization.

Proximate leaders is a term that has been made famous over the past years, especially with the discourse around race, and equity in fundraising has deepened at various levels. As an organization that has directly funded 40 proximate leaders from 26 countries with $58000+ in microfunds, we have learned a great deal about the process of finding and supporting proximate leaders at a global scale. This piece will dive into that process with the goal of supporting other institutions looking to grow their strategy of supporting proximate leaders.

A quick update from Neejan Shrestha (2020 Believer) on his clean water project in Bhangeta, Nepal.

Launching our new collaboration with the Resolution Project, here is a short reflection of our first session with four brilliant non-profit leaders from Venezuela, India, Ghana, and the US!