20 Degrees

We are thrilled to welcome our newest Scarcity Slayer to 20 Degrees! Allyson D. Andrews, MSW, LLMSW, joins our team as our director of early childhood. She will lead and guide our bold vision of serving early childhood providers with high-quality back-office support, user-centered budgeting tools, and training that meet the sector's needs today?and tomorrow. We are grateful for the opportunity to keep showing up for providers?with a team with big hearts, lived experience in ECE, and rock-solid business chops. Welcome, Allyson! We can't wait for our community to meet her! Onward! #newteam #culture #earlychildhood

Join us this Friday at 10AM EST for our upcoming Giving Trends. This free webinar is our view of the data on philanthropy, giving and other relevent trends for nonprofit leaders. We are cheering for you if you are looking ahead to 2025 and deepening your planning! We also want to help make it lighter. Join us. Sign up below. And yes, it will be recorded. Together, we endure. Together, we rise. #nonprofit #2025planning #data #revenue #philanthropy https://lnkd.in/exgRPvkp

Sara Gibson and I were honored to author a piece in the The Chronicle of Philanthropy to help nonprofit leaders navigate the current moment. In the article we advise that amidst uncertainty, leaders should return to three fundamentals: (1) Scenario Plan; (2) Track Cash; and (3) Proactively Communicate. Do all of these with your values as your guardrail and mission as your North Star. Visit the link below for more. AND stay tuned for more. Our team at 20 Degrees is hard at work to ensure leaders continue to have the tools and resources necessary to activate their organizations' missions. In the coming weeks, we will roll out a new toolkit for nonprofit leaders, including practical guides for scenario planning, managing cash and more. Grateful to The Chronicle of Philanthropy team for their support and to all of my colleagues at 20 Degrees. Together, we endure. Together, we rise. https://lnkd.in/eyqQHN6A

20 Degrees is very proud to share insights for nonprofit leaders in this moment in the The Chronicle of Philanthropy. If you are a nonprofit leader wondering, "What now?" this piece is for you. We offer a checklist of things to do soon, from scenario planning to cash flow monitoring. A follow-up toolkit is coming. "While it may feel like there are two Americas right now, nonprofit leaders working on the front lines of our most pressing societal problems have a unique opportunity to reinforce the strength of our communities. The good news: For many of us, we can flex the muscle memory we honed after the 2016 and 2020 elections. We’re also gleaning information in real time about American values, priorities, and hopes, and these insights need to shape our conversations as we move forward." In this piece, Tom Bartlett and Sara Gibson?share the insights and pathways that have allowed organizations to stay steady and even grow in other unclear moments and full of more questions than answers. Together, we endure. Together, we rise. Do share this piece and leave any feedback in the comments. #election2024 #nonprofit #scenarioplanning https://lnkd.in/ekJVVG6t

At 20 Degrees, we remain deeply rooted in the strengths of our nonprofit sector and its work to build America today and tomorrow. Veterans Day holds special meaning as we honor the brave men and women who have served our nation. Their unwavering commitment to protecting our freedoms—including our right to engage in democratic discourse—exemplifies the very best of American values. This year, our team stepped in deeply to the organizations serving veterans and their families as we worked alongside organizations across states and the country serving men and women who have served. Through these collaborations, we witness firsthand how service to others transcends political differences. In veterans' organizations across the country, Americans from all backgrounds continue to work side by side, united by their shared commitment to strengthening our communities. Veteran's Day also holds the seeds of 20 Degrees' history. Before 20 Degrees, Sara Gibson and Tom Bartlett collaborated at Miriam's Kitchen and Boeing to address veteran homelessness in the District of Columbia. We are profoundly grateful to all veterans and their families for your sacrifice, courage, and continued leadership in our communities. And to all veterans and your families, we are still working to ensure your service is honored by a country that is grateful for the values you make real for us through your sacrifice. Happy Veterans Day. #veteransdays2024

#SOCAP24 wrapped up well. Time spent connecting and learning was powerful. A few key takeaways: 1. We are still figuring out how to do remote and IRL stuff, but sometimes...you just need to be around the people driving towards a better world in big and small ways. 2. Like the Girl Scout song says, "Make new friends, but keep the old" is spot on. Tom Bartlett and Sara Gibson enjoyed real connection time with long-standing friends and colleagues and also soaked in the new conversations and new connections. Our co-founders soaked in the time with great leaders like Christian Rhodes and Arti Doshi of Harlem Children's Zone, Janis Dubno, MBA and Gabe Freeman of Sorenson Impact, Meg Massey of Social Finance, Jamie Moon, Kaitlin Watts and Mary Garvey of Institute for Child Success, and so many others. 3. 20 Degrees is impatient for change and is still clear-eyed that big stuff still takes time, sometimes even decades. It doesn't mean we like the pace. It doesn't mean we won't keep pushing. But we get that big stuff still takes time. It doesn't mean we are always happy about it. 4. Impact investing is a tool we need to keep improving and growing. There aren't yet the dollars moving that might yet come. And in the meantime, philanthropy, government, and even the capital markets will continue to surface opportunities. 5. Climate, ownership structures, systems change, education, and how to generate revenue for nonprofits are still at the top of people's minds. Great job, Sorenson Impact and especially Robert Munson and his great team. Thanks for a week that has us thinking hard and feeling more in community than when we left DC a week ago! #impactinvesting #nonprofit #leadersconnecting

A great day of connecting and learning at #socap24 for 20 Degrees! Co-founders Tom Bartlett and Sara Gibson are soaking in the conversations around how to move more money to impact and where collaboration can accelerate possibility. It was also a great time to connect with partners and friends in the work. Meeting with Possibility Labs CEO Donna Daniels, Ph.D., to see where an even deeper conversation might be possible and sharing a moment with Opportunity Finance Network CEO Harold Pettigrew, Jr., hearing about last week's conference and saying hello to great Sorenson Impact friends and colleagues Gabe Freeman, Janis Dubno, MBA and Robert Munson were a few highlights in a day full of them! On to day 2!

?? Exciting news! Our co-founders, Sara Gibson and Tom Bartlett, will be attending #SOCAP24 this week! Our team can't wait to connect face-to-face with leaders and changemakers in the impact and change-making sector, particularly those in the nonprofit and early childhood sectors. Tom and Sara are thrilled to discuss innovative solutions for nonprofit revenue, funding sustainability, and building resilient communities. The 20 Degrees team is especially interested in talking with anyone who is thinking about how we bring wealth (and income) to the #earlychildhoodsector. We are thinking about innovations around employee ownership, wage growth, and cost containment that actually work (AI in ECE). We are also interested in talking about revenue models for nonprofits. We are seeing some bright spots around earned revenue and how financial models and value proposition work, which are powerful tools that seem to be making an outsized difference in the process. We are also interested in connecting with anyone who has received big bet funding but is unsure about what is realistic in terms of how it is deployed. We are seeing some promising pathways and would love to share what we are learning to keep in line with our field buidling value. If you’re attending #SOCAP24, we’d love to meet up! ?? Comment below if you’ll be there or send us a message via the app to schedule a time to chat. #NonprofitLeadership #FundingSustainability #NonprofitInnovation #ConferenceConnections #ResilientCommunities

Have you seen our latest newsletter from 20 Degrees? See our hot take on year-end, meet three great new scarcity slayers and more! https://lnkd.in/evwYfS-c

20 Degrees often recommends and sits alongside organizations doing scenario planning, often for the first time in a formal way. Now is the time to think through what *might* happen and begin to know what your organization will do if one candidate or the other wins in November. Factoring in a time of political uncertainty or even violence--and the impact on your staff and community--is also something to plan for, even as we all hope it doesn't come to pass. With a deadlocked presidential contest entering its final weeks, handicapping the odds of who will win might be a fruitless exercise. What’s more important for charities is grappling with the possible outcomes now, during a time of relative calm, says Trista Harris, a?philanthropic futurist. Waiting to plan until after the election might lead to panic as the brain shifts into “fight or flight” mode, she says." The good news: we've already done this, in 2020 and 2021. We actually all have some muscle in the question of: "what is happening and what should I do?" Take a look at what the National Women's Law Center is doing to prepare for different outcomes. It is a strong example. Funders should follow the lead of groups like the Greater Washington Community Foundation and to their own scenario planning too. Here are a few of the tips we really liked in the article: "Protect the core.?If certain scenarios will likely result in a financial hit to a charity, identify in advance where cuts can be made. “Be super clear about your core work,” says Trista Harris, a philanthropic futurist. “Often charities can become franken-nonprofits, as they drift away from their sweet spot. During times of crisis, that’s when organizations fall apart. You need to say, ‘Here’s the actual center — here are the most important services we provide.’” Focus on the scenarios that matter to your organization.Laura Lanzerotti, a Bridgespan consultant, recently suggested a scenario-planning exercise related to the national election to a charity she works with that focuses on affordable housing in California. But the charity said local election-related outcomes were far more important to its future, including an upcoming vote on a bond measure. Our recommended next steps: read this piece about funding and the election. Schedule 45 minutes to think through scenarios for your work. Give us a call if you want company as you are thinking through the next few months. Togehter, we endure. Together, we rise. #scenarioplanning #election #nonprofits https://lnkd.in/etG3qmu9