Explore women’s leadership in nonprofits: aging into wisdom, claiming authority, and challenging systems that undervalue, erase, or resist women’s power.

This dispatch holds space for the in-between: where personal leadership meets structural underinvestment. You’re not a fraud. You’re doing high-level strategy in a field that doesn’t pay for strategy. You're not underperforming. You're building infrastructure in scarcity logic.

This piece examines what it feels like to step fully into your leadership, without being invited. Especially for women and BIPOC leaders, authority is often developed through action — not granted by position. You age into wisdom, grow through lived experience, and earn your expertise over time — and still find yourself underestimated, unpaid, or treated as “support” rather than strategy.

What They Are A Donor-Advised Fund (DAF) is essentially a charitable investment account, usually managed by a public charity. That could...