S Joye & Associates
COMING JUNE 2026
IT'S TIME TO TELL THE TRUTH ABOUT WHAT HAPPENS INSIDE NONPROFITS.
For decades, nonprofits have been positioned as the solution to society's biggest problems.
Behind the mission statements, fundraising campaigns, and annual reports is a sector shaped by money, power, scarcity, burnout, and extraordinary people trying to hold everything together.
Nonprofits Unfiltered pulls back the curtain on what nonprofit work really looks like from the inside.
"As a longtime grant-writing trainer and nonprofit practitioner, I see every day how much invisible emotional labor, structural pressure, and quiet resignation lie beneath the polished stories we tell in proposals, campaigns, and annual reports. Nonprofits Unfiltered: Money, Power, and the People Who Carry America’s Charities names those realities with a clarity and compassion our sector has needed for an exceptionally long time.”
— Dr. Beverly (Bev) Browning
Formerly The Grant Doctor
Author of Grant Writing For Dummies, Fundraising For Dummies,
and Nonprofit Kit For Dummies
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WHAT'S INSIDE
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Who really holds power inside America's charity sector
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Why fundraisers are often blamed for problems they didn't create
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The racism philanthropy still struggles to confront
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Why burnout is often structural, not personal
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How money quietly shapes mission and decision-making
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The conversations nonprofit workers have behind closed doors
There is an unspoken rule in nonprofits: you are allowed to name inequity in society, but internally, we pretend it does not exist.
THE WORK IS SACRED.
THE SYSTEM IS NOT.
WHO SHOULD READ THIS
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Nonprofit professionals
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Executive directors and CEOs
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Board members
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Funders and philanthropists
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Nonprofit management students
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Professors and instructors
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Social work and public policy students
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Donors who want to understand how the sector really works
Simone Joye is a national award-winning philanthropy strategist, nonprofit executive, former journalist, and author with nearly three decades of experience in the nonprofit sector. A three-time CEO and veteran fundraiser, she has helped organizations raise millions of dollars while leading efforts in fundraising, governance, strategy, and community impact. In Nonprofits Unfiltered, Joye combines professional experience with candid insight to examine the realities of money, power, leadership, race, burnout, and sustainability in nonprofit organizations.
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