Photo credits: Alberto Gerosa, @thyaudiovisuallab
(purple-ification is mine)
This is Anita,
the witchy heart, PhD brains and home-maker’s fingers behind NoProfitIdeas 🙂
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Ciao!
This is Anita 🙂
Thank you for asking why and how!
THE WHY
The “hourly value” of a non-profit consultant with a relevant PhD fares 100 Euros per hour, at the market rates of Euroamerican contexts.
This would not be affordable for any of the NGOs and communities that allowed me to participate in their spaces and activities, to share knowledges and experiences. Thank to their unconditional trust and openness I could acquire the experience, skills and the academic certification that allegedly justify that pricing.
“Use a sliding scale!”, corporate-trained consultants say … as they go around dispensing for-profit answers, corporate standards, and quantitative impact measurements tools to no-profit questions, problems and needs.
I saw the consequences of their work: FOMO, zero-sum games, and pointless self-questioning. Not cute, to say the least.
Plus, a 70% discount would allow access to just a scant minority of the communities and organization I interact with – mostly those located in Fortress Europe.
This makes no sense to me.
So, here is my best attempt to do things differently.
THE HOW
1. This virtual space is and will always be free, ads-free, safe and open.
2. Each contribution and shared piece of knowledge will give emotional, intellectual, political and financial recognition to those who participated in co-creating such knowledge.
3. My services are offered on a pay-as-you-can basis, mainly depending on the organization’s positionality, and spanning from Let-me-treat-yo’-self, to pro-bono, to let’s undo the imperialist, white supremacist, capitalist, cis-hetero-patriarchy.
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