July 1, 2011 | Read Time: 1 minute
Fund raisers and nonprofit leaders who use Twitter can find dozens of serious people who regularly offer advice on how to do their jobs better.
Now they also have the option of getting “nonadvice.”
The satirical Twitter account @npnonadvice today began tweeting tongue-in-cheek tips to followers in the nonprofit world. And some of its sharply worded advice is already drawing laughs—and more than a few groans.
Its first tip: “Grass-roots organizations have no need for protocol or professional decorum. For the people, by the people.”
The woman behind the account, who didn’t want to be named, has worked at a nonprofit for the last year-and-a-half. She said in a phone call that she had submitted her two weeks’ notice on Wednesday and is leaving the nonprofit world.
Her tweets, then, come from some experience.
“Some of them do stem from mistakes that some nonprofits do make but don’t want to own up to,” she said. “I think what makes it funny is that people have to ask themselves, ‘Is that real? I hope that’s not real.’”
But this isn’t a statement on the state of nonprofit management, she said, just a way to make people laugh. She hopes others will join in with the same spirit.
Here is some more nonadvice:
