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		<title>How to present a new idea without getting lynched!</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 10 Mar 2010 14:42:10 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>marlacooper</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[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 [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Anyone Know Why We&#8217;re Meeting?</title>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 14 Feb 2010 22:54:23 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>susandetwiler</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Congratulations! You’ve limited your meeting attendees to those who need to be there.
Now, how are you going to keep from wasting their time?
Your valuable volunteers are smart. They can come up with great ideas and engage in really substantive conversations that result in good policy. That only works though, if they’ve been given time to [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Delmarva’s call for community leadership: SmartDrive</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 05 Feb 2010 20:40:54 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Guillermina Gonzalez</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Collaborations between corporations and nonprofits, another way of giving back to the community.]]></description>
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		<title>Vet the Interim Exec: 6 Critical Steps Toward Making it Work</title>
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		<comments>http://www.nonprofitwatercooler.com/2009/07/vet-the-interim-exec-6-critical-steps-toward-making-it-work/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Fri, 31 Jul 2009 01:03:06 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>susandetwiler</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[How do you get your money's worth from an Interim Executive Director? First, make sure their skills match your needs. Then stay in touch.  Six steps to making the Interim Executive Director position work for your organization.]]></description>
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		<title>Client Genealogy &#8211; Donor Genealogy</title>
		<link>http://www.nonprofitwatercooler.com/2009/06/client-genealogy-donor-genealogy/</link>
		<comments>http://www.nonprofitwatercooler.com/2009/06/client-genealogy-donor-genealogy/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Mon, 01 Jun 2009 16:51:38 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>susandetwiler</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Donor Genealogy can help you focus your dollars and energy -- and your board -- where they will be most productive. This article gives an overview of how it works. ]]></description>
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		<title>6 Steps to Developing a Strategic Marketing Plan That Works</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 19 May 2009 19:34:16 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>marlacooper</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Why is it that I’m often met with those glazed stares when I’m brought in as a Strategic Marketing Consultant and I ask to see an organization’s “Communications Plan”. This should be as basic to any organization as an Operating Budget and yet it seldom exists as a comprehensive, integrated and well thought out document. [...]]]></description>
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