Resources Worth Your Time
The Table by JB Favour | October 2026
Some conversations are easier to avoid than to have. The budget that needs a second look. The programme that may need to change. The team that is carrying too much. You know the ones.
This month’s resources worth your time are here to help you face those conversations with fresh perspective, practical tools, and a little more clarity—from rethinking your organisation’s health to preparing for year-end fundraising.
Because sometimes, the next step isn’t doing more. It’s asking the questions we’ve been putting off.
Resources worth your time this October
1. Your Giving Tuesday Playbook
Make your year-end fundraising count.
Giving Tuesday is an opportunity to mobilise generosity, but a successful campaign requires more than a compelling appeal and a donation link. It takes preparation, thoughtful messaging, and a clear understanding of what motivates people to give.
This playbook from Donorbox brings together lessons from seven Donorbox-powered organisations across 25 campaigns, offering practical insights into what worked and how other nonprofits can apply those lessons to their own fundraising efforts.
If you are preparing for Giving Tuesday or refining your year-end fundraising strategy, this is a useful place to start. Learn from campaigns that have already been executed, identify ideas worth adapting, and consider what your organisation can do differently this year.
2. A Practical Guide to Organisational Self-Assessment
Take stock before deciding what comes next.
It is easy for nonprofit leaders to move from one priority to the next without creating space to ask whether the organisation itself is healthy enough to sustain the work. We keep programmes running, pursue funding, and push towards the next milestone—but when was the last time we paused to assess how the organisation is actually doing?
This practical workbook from The Table by JB Favour helps Executive Directors and Chariy Leaders take an honest look at five areas: mission and programmes, financial health, team capacity, leadership and governance, and systems and operations.
Through guided questions, reflection exercises, and practical solutions, the workbook helps leaders identify what is working, recognise where the organisation is stretched, and decide what needs to change. It also includes a solution planner and a 30-day action plan to help turn reflection into manageable next steps.
Use it when you are planning for a new season, reviewing organisational priorities, or sensing that the way the work is being done may no longer be sustainable.
3. The Advice I Stopped Giving After I Became the Executive Director
Sometimes, experience changes the advice we give.
There is a difference between advising nonprofit leaders from the outside and making those same decisions when you are responsible for the organisation.
In this reflection, JB shares what changed when she moved from nonprofit consulting into the executive director role. The experience challenged her assumptions about best practices, particularly around board engagement, and reshaped how she approaches advising nonprofit leaders.
For consultants, executive directors, and anyone working closely with nonprofit leadership, this is a reminder that good advice must account for the realities leaders are navigating, not just the principles we know they should follow.
Because the conversations we have about leadership often sound different when we are the ones who have to make the decisions, manage the consequences, and live with the trade-offs.
Before you go…
You don't have to solve everything this month. But perhaps there is one conversation you've been postponing, one assumption worth questioning, or one part of your organisation that needs a more honest look.
Start there.
Sometimes, meaningful change begins not with a new strategy or another initiative, but with the courage to ask a better question.
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JB Favour is an International Nonprofit Executive, Fundraising Strategist, and Consultant with cross-regional leadership experience spanning the United States, United Kingdom, Europe, Africa, and global social impact ecosystems. She specializes in fundraising, nonprofit development, communications & strategic partnerships helping mission-driven organizations scale their impact. She served as Executive Director of PASS USA and is now the Director of Programs at OPEN for Girls where she leads a multi country programming to close the gap between girls and opportunity. JB writes about fundraising practices, the nonprofit sector, girl's education and nonprofit leadership.
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