Vu Le
Vu Le is a writer, speaker, vegan, Pisces, and the Executive Director of Rainier Valley Corps, a nonprofit in Seattle with the mission of developing and supporting leaders of color to strengthen the capacity of communities-of-color-led nonprofits and foster collaboration between diverse communities to effect systemic change. Known for his no-BS approach, irreverent sense of humor, and love of unicorns, Vu has been featured in dozens, if not hundreds, of his own blog posts at nonprofitwithballs.com. He is also the humor columnist for the awesome nonprofit online magazine, Blue Avocado.
Hey, you want nonprofits to act more like businesses? Treat them like businesses.
Either nonprofits are fully businesses, with all the rights that entails, says this Seattle nonprofit leader, “or else we are beautiful and complex snowflakes of equity and justice and need different considerations.” But stop judging the sector by the standards of business when it doesn’t get many of the benefits of the for-profit sector.