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By sethbloom, on June 23rd, 2011
Focusing on building – or establishing for the first time – your endowment fund is perhaps the best way to respond to the challenges presented by a strained economy.
Given the recent challenges nonprofit organizations have been facing, focusing now on strengthening – or perhaps establishing for the first time – your endowment fund, may seem [...]
By susandetwiler, on May 2nd, 2011
Read outside your box! Reading for-profit business magazines gives you new ways to look at management and communication.
Read outside your box! Reading arts and leisure newspaper sections gives you conversational fodder in building relationships.
Read outside your box! Reading nonfiction books outside your field expands your perspective on the world.
Read outside your [...]
By lewgrafman, on April 15th, 2011
Is there any issue that creates more consternation for nonprofit boards or management, than the presentation of actual or potential conflicts of interest? In this day and age, it is fair to assume that most nonprofits, and virtually all 501(c)(3) organizations, have adopted some sort of conflict of interest policy, either as part of the [...]
By lewgrafman, on March 16th, 2011
Last month in this space Jeff Metz posted a wonderful blog titled Cultivating a Donor: Like Cultivating a Garden. http://www.nonprofitwatercooler.com/2011/02/cultivating-a-donor-like-cultivating-a-garden/
Too bad that NPR fundraising vice president Ron Schiller did not bother to visit the Nonprofit Water Cooler before he went to lunch with what he thought were representatives of the Muslim Education Action Center. [...]
By jeffmetz, on February 7th, 2011
When growing a garden, the gardner has to plan the garden, plant the seeds, provide the right balance of water, sun and nutrients and keep the garden free of weeds and threatening pests. Cultivating a donor is much the same process. You need to have a plan, plant the seeds of knowledge about the good [...]
By sethbloom, on January 12th, 2011
If we had a nickel for every time we heard this comment from prospective clients, we would have enough money to retire. OK, well maybe that’s an exaggeration, but you get the picture.
Perhaps the irony of needing financial resources to support a nonprofit organization is most apparent when we’re meeting with organizations to discuss our [...]
By lewgrafman, on September 23rd, 2010
What a strange time to be a Philadelphia Eagles fan. On Sunday and Monday, September 20 and 21, Coach Andy Reid stated definitively that Kevin Kolb was the team’s starting quarterback. On Tuesday, September 22, in the late afternoon Coach Reid appeared to completely reverse his position, and announced that Michael Vick is now the [...]
By sethbloom, on September 2nd, 2010
As consultants working with nonprofit organizations on various aspects of nonprofit life including fundraising, strategic planning, marketing and leadership development, we are often asked why an organization should engage our services rather than just do it themselves. My answer is that consultants bring experience, focus, perception, accountability, objectivity and style that make the realization of [...]
By marlacooper, on March 10th, 2010
I’ve been watching the dues committee at a non-profit where I’m a member spend the past year, researching, studying, analyzing, considering, projecting and estimating what impact a new membership dues structure would have on the organization. I’ve also been watching them present this new idea to board members and some of our bigger donors [...]
By Guillermina Gonzalez, on February 5th, 2010
Nonprofit crisis can generate the energy to transform Delaware’s sector into one that more efficiently and productively serves its diverse constituency and supplements efforts to foster economic development.
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