Nonprofit Lowdown #380- No More Poverty Porn in Fundraising with Maria Rio
In this episode, I sit down with fundraising strategist Maria Rio, founder of Further Together Fundraising and host of the Small Nonprofit Podcast. Maria brings a powerful perspective to the conversation—not only as a longtime fundraiser, but as someone who once relied on nonprofit services herself after arriving in Canada as a refugee.
We talk about one of the most important questions in fundraising today: How do we tell stories that inspire giving without exploiting the people we serve?
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