Apologies for the long absence. We have both been busy in nonprofitville and forgot, just for a second, to dismantle it from the inside with our sultry, bow chica bow wow, sexiness--the nonprofit kryptonite.
Ms. Shoelaces is off in the land of her birth: Texas(!) to check out the Southern Too Sexy movement but upon her return we will be printing the new t-shirt designs.
For now, lets kick off 2010 right--with the TOO SEXY FOR 501C3 AWARDS!!!!!
Yes, you read right: We are excepting nominations for your comrades who rock the boat without a paper trail!
You know, those organizations that are just a group of people in someones messy kitchen who manage to scrap together the little resources they do have and throw a better demo than a temporary coalition of ten nonprofits fighting for housing rights! The ones who with a stick of gum, some eye glitter and spraypaint that can send a message farther than Democracy Now! The ones who don't get paid to revolt and who don't write it in their resumes!
Yes, you know them! They are the ones at the demo who aren't wearing the same shirt as their coworkers! Their banner is a sheet, their signs are cardboard and held up with popsicle sticks! Foundations will not fund them because they are scared to death of the raw honesty that can come blurting out of their mouths at any moment! Nonprofits will not employ them because they have spent time in jail or their skirt is too short or they are simply Too Hardcore for the Ford Foundation.
It is time we recognize those of us that resist the professionalization of community work!
BRING ON THE NOMINATIONS!!
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On the flip side, we will also be accepting nominations for THE NEW THE MAN AWARDS.
The New the Man is for the nonprofit organizations or individuals that are doing the work of the oppressors for them under the 501c3 tax code. Those nonprofits that get funded by the banks that foreclose on homes and then use that funding to 'fight' for housing rights. Those nonprofits that deny our loved ones adequate medical care and then force them to speak out in support of health care in low-income communities. Those nonprofits that are named after Black women from the civil rights movement yet have no Black women in power positions. Those migrant rights groups that backed Hillary Clinton or have an "Obamanos" bumper sticker.
Do you know any Executive Directors that don't pay their employees a living wage and then spend their eco tourist vacation in Costa Rica? What about the Exec directors that use the wrong pronouns and hit on every new young woman doing the phone banking? Or an Exec Director that has never done the phone banking themselves? Now is the time to call them on their shit! Now is the time to start demanding they answer some questions! This outrageous behavior must be stopped!
To nominate, comment here or email thenewtheman (at) gmail dot com.
*You can nominate one individual and one group for both the Too Sexy and New The Man awards.
You can also just let us know who you would like to nominate, you know who we are. ;)
