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Tammy Tibbetts

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Tammy Tibetts

Tammy Tibbetts

Co-Founder & CEO
She's the First
Radical Candor
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Radical Candor by Kim Scott

I'm such a doer and I avoid confrontation, so managing other employees didn't come naturally to me. Providing critical feedback was challenging for me. This book told me everything I needed to know to be a better manager

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Nonprofit AF

Working in the nonprofit space, no one will express your frustrations with more truth and humor than Vu Le. His blog can be great therapy.

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Yours for the Asking: An Indispensable Guide to Fundraising and Management

This was one of the first books I read when I started working full-time for STF and it was transformative, giving me a totally new mindset when it comes to fundraising. The key point: Fundraising is about giving people an opportunity to be part of something bigger than themselves, not taking something away from them.

About Tammy Tibbetts

Tammy Tibbetts, Co-Founder & CEO of She's the First, oversees the organization's business development and communications. She’s a first-generation college graduate from The College of New Jersey. When Tammy had the idea for She’s the First, she was working at Hearst Magazines, where she was a pioneering web editor and Seventeen’s first social media editor. At STF, Tammy is active in “Sweat for STF,” a community of fitness fundraisers, and she’s a frequent speaker about the mission.