{"id":68405,"date":"2025-12-08T11:30:00","date_gmt":"2025-12-08T06:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/idronline.org\/?post_type=article&p=68405"},"modified":"2025-12-05T12:59:22","modified_gmt":"2025-12-05T07:29:22","slug":"yoga-asanas-for-managing-funding-conversations-nonprofit-humour","status":"publish","type":"article","link":"https:\/\/idronline.org\/kn-in\/article\/humour\/yoga-asanas-for-managing-funding-conversations-nonprofit-humour\/","title":{"rendered":"Yoga asanas for managing funding conversations"},"content":{"rendered":"

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an illustration of the yoga pose dhanurasan, with this text: \"Me ready to launch into phase 3 of the project when the donor has not even released the money for phsae 1\"--nonprofit humour<\/source><\/source><\/source><\/picture><\/figure>

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an illustration of the yoga pose mayurasan, with this text: \"Me trying to put my foot down when the donor says we will have to spend all the money on programme costs and none of it on organisational costs\"--nonprofit humour<\/source><\/source><\/source><\/picture><\/figure>

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an illustration of the yoga pose badhpadmasan, with this text: \"How I imagine the donor responding when I ask for unrestricted funding\"--nonprofit humour<\/source><\/source><\/source><\/picture><\/figure>

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an illustration of the yoga pose ardhimatsendrasan, with this text: \"Me looking away when the donor asks how we plan to scale the programme sustainably\"--nonprofit humour<\/source><\/source><\/source><\/picture><\/figure>

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a composite of two illustrations. at the top, an illustration of uttanpadasan, with this text: \"Me when I finally get an update on the status of our funding proposal\" at the bottom, an illustration of the yoga pose shavasan, with this text: \"Me when I learn that our application has been denied\"--nonprofit humour<\/source><\/source><\/source><\/picture><\/figure>

Picture courtesy: Counterclockwise via Flickr<\/a> \/ CC BY<\/a>  <\/p>\n

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