NOMAD on Language

In the nonprofit sector, much of the language used to describe program recipients is patronizing, full of bias, and connected with stigma—as a culture, we have been conditioned to understand the charity sector as the “haves” giving to the “have-nots”. At NOMAD we come to nonprofit work from a different mindset: functioning in an ecosystem of people where everyone has something to contribute. We try to reflect this in our writing.

Carrie BoucherApril 16, 2026Language, Carrie BoucherComment

On documenting our work

…we’re all standing in the river of life, and if something floats by—an idea, an email, a gem of a moment—and you don’t act on it right then, or mark it somehow for future action, it just continues downstream.

ReflectionsCarrie BoucherApril 16, 2026NOMADCarrie Boucher