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Here's a video that shows how creativity gets crushed in corporate environments. I think you're going to recognize a lot of these as common in the nonprofit world too.
Or watch it here on Vimeo.
(Don't let your accounting or legal departments see this. They'll probably think it's an instructional video.)
Thanks to Nonprofit Execs on the Edge for the tip.
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Jeff Brooks has been serving the nonprofit community for more than 30 years and blogging about it since 2005. He considers fundraising the most noble of pursuits and hopes you'll join him in that opinion. You can reach him at jeff [at] jeff-brooks [dot] com. More.
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