A Time for Boldness: Let’s Unleash Our Full Potential to Create a Just and Equitable World- presented by APA, IONS (Impact Organizations of Nova Scotia) and Theatre Nova Scotia
Friday, September 23 from 4:30 pm – 5:30 pm
St. Matthew’s Church, 1479 Barrington St
The pandemic and society’s reckoning with systemic racism affirm the critical role that nonprofits play in our community. At the same time, we also have tons of challenges holding us back. The Hunger Games we play with one another. The scarcity and martyrdom mindset. The general public’s lack of knowledge of our work. Our strained relationships with funders and for-profits. The fear of advocacy work. Really crappy chairs we’ve been duct-taping together. We are at an inflection point. We cannot return to the past. We must examine the harmful philosophies and practices we’ve internalized, own our full power, genuinely engage with race and equity, and flip some tables over.
Vu Le
Vu Le (“voo lay”) writes the blog NonprofitAF.com. He is the former executive director of RVC, a nonprofit in Seattle that promotes social justice by supporting leaders of color, strengthening organizations led by communities of color, and fostering collaboration between diverse communities. Vu is a founding board member of Community-Centric Fundraising, a movement that aims to ground fundraising practices in racial equity and social justice. Vu was born in Vietnam. He and his family came to the US when Vu was eight. He spent several years in Seattle, attending elementary and middle school, before moving to Memphis, Tennessee for high school and St. Louis for college and graduate school. He has a BA in Psychology and a Master in Social work. He is a vegan, a father of two kids (ages nine and six), and a staunch defender of the Oxford Comma.