Nobody told you to take a vow of scarcity when you entered this sector…

But the culture made it pretty clear.

That wanting more pay means you are not really committed. That staying late is what dedicated people do. That talking about your own money is somehow unseemly in a field full of people raising it for others.

This is a money script. It lives in the nervous system. And in the nonprofit sector, it gets institutionalized, normalized, and called mission alignment. Then it gets called culture. Then it gets called “fit”.

In this session, fundraising strategist and Trauma of Money™ certified consultant Esther Saehyun Lee brings the TOM™ framework directly into the sector. We will name where the scarcity vow comes from, how it shows up in hiring, compensation, fundraising avoidance, and burnout, and what a different relationship to organizational money can look like.

This is not a session about budgets or salary negotiation tips (although that is a topic we should also dive in to!). It is about the story underneath those conversations that nobody names out loud.

What we will cover

• Where the scarcity vow comes from and why the sector reproduces it

• How money scripts shape the way you ask, receive, and lead

• The compounding effect for fundraisers of colour and first-generation nonprofit professionals

• What it looks like to name it and start moving differently

Register below. Free. May 20, 12PM start. 75 minutes. Recording available to all registrants.*

*First 50 registrants will be entered into a draw to win a copy of Elevate’s Changemaker Journal!