December is often a season of nonprofit competition disguised as season of giving. We want to shake things up. The GoodGiving Challenge starts TODAY and this is our organization’s first go at the challenge as Ampersand. To achieve Ampersand’s vision: freedom from sexual violence, we need you. Our vision cannot be achieved without you. There

In 2007, Tarana Burke founded a non-profit organization to help victims of sexual violence.  Her mission was propelled by the phrase she coined: me too.  She sought out resources and support for victims that she had struggled to find previously.  Over a decade later, her words became a movement.   As I was preparing my

Ampersand staff, board and supporters, As we have recently heard the news that our president’s arrival in town for a speaking engagement in Richmond may have an impact on how our event runs on Saturday night, it feels important to acknowledge this and to get on the same page in our response.  We are preparing

I was one of those kids that liked school. Gross, right? But I loved the whole set-up: the books, the syllabi, the intense and uncomfortable testing. I wanted to learn about anything, studying Latin one day, geology the next, and art history the day after. So, it’s probably not terribly surprising that when I reached

How We Decided Our Brand Just Wasn't Who We Are Anymore Just like any other nonprofit, what we do is ever-evolving, absorbing pieces of popular culture and politics and social changes. Starting out as The Women’s Center of Lexington, the founders of this agency were determined to fill in a canyon where services