353. Building Community First Partnerships: Meet Little Bit of Good - Monique Parker

Community WeekMission StoryCommunity

Nov 20

Written By Andie Murphy

Monique Parker, Little Bit of Good, Blow Candle Co., We Are For Good Podcast

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This episode is part of Community Week, a celebration of the radical connections and community of belonging exploding here at We Are For Good.

Meet Monique. This We Are For Good rabid-fan is all over the Community and studying in PRO. What doesn’t this incredible human do? Her career started in the recruiting and job placement space - where her interest in DEI and representation grew. Without any nonprofit experience, she launched Little Bit of Good in Central Texas, a four month capacity building accelerator program for Black-let nonprofits. She believes change is possible and that funding and resource inequities in the nonprofit sector can be changed. Oh yeah, and she’s a candle maker at Blow Candle Co. where each purchase supports local nonprofits. 🕯😍 Tune in to meet this incredible do-gooder.

Today’s Guest

Monique Parker, Founder + Executive Director, Little Bit of Good

“Call out what you don’t know and reach out for help.”

— Monique Parker, Founder + Executive Director , Little Bit of Good

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Episode Highlights

Monique’s story and journey to where she is today (4:00)
Community Partnerships + Little Bit of Good (16:00)
Accelerator Program (20:00)
Monique’s dreams for Little Bit of Good (25:00)
Monique and Taylor’s podcast (27:00)
Community is everything (30:00)
A powerful moment of philanthropy in Monique’s life (37:00)
Monique’s One Good Thing: We Are For Good Community + PRO and “Just do it” (41:00)

Powerful quotes

“I felt like I really got to see how community can really come together and support missions and impact, but also how the lack of knowledge on nonprofits and organizations lead to underfunding in certain areas.” -Monique

“I really saw the inequity between white led and black led organizations, and what capacity building meant for funding.” -Monique

“It starts with one person, which leads to another person, which leads to another person.” -Jon

“I would love for this to exist in every large metropolitan city and be able to expand the size of each of the cohorts.” -Monique

“It’s going to be a longer process in order to really start promoting equity in funding, so creating that ourselves for us and specifically having that money to give to other organizations, that’s what I see.” -Monique

“If you are in a hiring position or position to build and create strategy internally, figure out a way to center experiences that you're not familiar with.” -Monique

“Take the time to make sure you have a diversity-focused strategy.” -Monique

“Call out what you don’t know and reach out for help.” -Monique

“We need to have those conversations in order for you to expand your work and expand who you’re serving.” -Monique

“Whatever idea you have that is on your heart is there for a reason. You can literally do anything.” -Monique