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		<title>Endowments Now! and here&#8217;s why&#8230;.</title>
		<link>http://www.nonprofitwatercooler.com/2011/11/endowments-now-and-heres-why/</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 02 Nov 2011 16:16:36 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>heidi</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[by Heidi Sadowitz Hauptschein, Bloom Metz Consulting
Bloom Metz partner, Seth Bloom, recently wrote an article titled, Endowments Now! which was published in the Summer 2011 edition of  Partners for Sacred Places, (a nonprofit organization that  helps to preserve the use of older sacred places). 
Many nonprofit organizations are feeling the pinch of the strained [...]]]></description>
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		<title>If You Don&#8217;t Ask &#8211; The Answer is Always NO!</title>
		<link>http://www.nonprofitwatercooler.com/2011/07/if-you-dont-ask-the-answer-is-always-no/</link>
		<comments>http://www.nonprofitwatercooler.com/2011/07/if-you-dont-ask-the-answer-is-always-no/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Fri, 08 Jul 2011 17:39:58 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>wilsherk</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[We hear it all the time, but we STILL find ourselves or our volunteers in that terrible quandary of “is it the right time?”  Well friends, eventually, your prospects will wonder why you never brought up the subject. 
•          Sophisticated donors understand the cultivation process, and if you haven’t moved the process forward, they will lose [...]]]></description>
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		<title>READ outside your box! nonprofit nugget for you to think about</title>
		<link>http://www.nonprofitwatercooler.com/2011/05/read-outside-your-box-nonprofit-nugget-for-you-to-think-about/</link>
		<comments>http://www.nonprofitwatercooler.com/2011/05/read-outside-your-box-nonprofit-nugget-for-you-to-think-about/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Mon, 02 May 2011 15:59:53 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>susandetwiler</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[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 [...]]]></description>
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		<title>There&#8217;s Gold in them Hills!</title>
		<link>http://www.nonprofitwatercooler.com/2011/03/theres-gold-in-them-hills-securing-the-future-for-your-nonprofit-organization/</link>
		<comments>http://www.nonprofitwatercooler.com/2011/03/theres-gold-in-them-hills-securing-the-future-for-your-nonprofit-organization/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Thu, 24 Mar 2011 13:44:00 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>sethbloom</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Securing the Future for Your Nonprofit Organization
Especially in our challenging economy, more and more nonprofit organizations are wishing their past leadership had established a stronger culture for planned giving in order to supplement operations with a reliable source of income through a permanent endowment fund.  Understandably, organizations are trying harder than ever to sustain their [...]]]></description>
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		<title>What is Happening With Religious Fundraising?</title>
		<link>http://www.nonprofitwatercooler.com/2011/03/what-is-happening-with-religious-fundraising/</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 23 Mar 2011 01:58:21 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>lewgrafman</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Am I the only one confused? On the evening of March 21, 2011, The Chronicle of Philanthropy, reporting from the Association of Fundraising Professionals conference in Chicago, released an article about one of the sessions at the conference, “Religious Fund-Raising Faces a ‘Crisis,’ Says Speaker” http://philanthropy.com/blogs/prospecting/religious-fund-raising-faces-a-crisis-says-speaker/29254?sid=&#38;utm_source=&#38;utm_medium=en.. The article begins by quoting one of the panel [...]]]></description>
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		<title>How NOT to Fundraise:  Lessons from the NPR Fiasco</title>
		<link>http://www.nonprofitwatercooler.com/2011/03/how-not-to-fundraise-lessons-from-the-npr-fiasco/</link>
		<comments>http://www.nonprofitwatercooler.com/2011/03/how-not-to-fundraise-lessons-from-the-npr-fiasco/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Wed, 16 Mar 2011 18:17:33 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>lewgrafman</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[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.  [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Cultivating a Donor: Like Cultivating a Garden</title>
		<link>http://www.nonprofitwatercooler.com/2011/02/cultivating-a-donor-like-cultivating-a-garden/</link>
		<comments>http://www.nonprofitwatercooler.com/2011/02/cultivating-a-donor-like-cultivating-a-garden/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Mon, 07 Feb 2011 17:59:44 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>jeffmetz</dc:creator>
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		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://www.nonprofitwatercooler.com/?p=221</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[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 [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Holiday Cheer, Business Ethics and Employee Receipt of Gifts</title>
		<link>http://www.nonprofitwatercooler.com/2010/11/holiday-cheer-business-ethics-and-employee-receipt-of-gifts/</link>
		<comments>http://www.nonprofitwatercooler.com/2010/11/holiday-cheer-business-ethics-and-employee-receipt-of-gifts/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Tue, 16 Nov 2010 02:53:23 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>lewgrafman</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Once again the holiday season, the time for giving and receiving gifts, is upon us.  Does your nonprofit have a clear policy limiting or prohibiting employees from accepting holiday gifts from vendors? 
For a nonprofit employee a holiday gift from one of the nonprofit’s vendors can be viewed as both appealing and harmless.  Surely acceptance of [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Delmarva’s call for community leadership: SmartDrive</title>
		<link>http://www.nonprofitwatercooler.com/2010/02/delmarva%e2%80%99s-call-for-community-leadership-smartdrive/</link>
		<comments>http://www.nonprofitwatercooler.com/2010/02/delmarva%e2%80%99s-call-for-community-leadership-smartdrive/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Fri, 05 Feb 2010 20:40:54 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Guillermina Gonzalez</dc:creator>
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		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://www.nonprofitwatercooler.com/?p=86</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[Collaborations between corporations and nonprofits, another way of giving back to the community.]]></description>
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		<title>It Can’t Be Just About the Economy, Stupid!*</title>
		<link>http://www.nonprofitwatercooler.com/2009/09/it-can%e2%80%99t-be-just-about-the-economy-stupid/</link>
		<comments>http://www.nonprofitwatercooler.com/2009/09/it-can%e2%80%99t-be-just-about-the-economy-stupid/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Wed, 16 Sep 2009 15:54:30 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>sethbloom</dc:creator>
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		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://www.nonprofitwatercooler.com/?p=68</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[While I agree the economy has presented challenges for nonprofit organizations, I think it has become a convenient “excuse” for some nonprofit organizations as well as donors.  The donors are easy so I’ll start with them.  For many people, their income is the same as it was one year ago, even if their savings/investments have declined, [...]]]></description>
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