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		<title>How Do We Know When We’re Ready for a Capital Campaign?</title>
		<link>http://www.nonprofitwatercooler.com/2012/01/how-do-we-know-when-we%e2%80%99re-ready-for-a-capital-campaign/</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 01 Feb 2012 02:44:36 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>sethbloom</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Recently, while meeting with a potential client, we were asked the important question, “what do we need in order to have a successful capital campaign?” Since we are often asked similar questions, I’ve been inspired to make it the basis for my latest blog to add to our ongoing conversation regarding our work as consultants [...]]]></description>
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		<title>How Could This Happen to our Nonprofit? &#8211; Fraud Protection</title>
		<link>http://www.nonprofitwatercooler.com/2011/08/how-could-this-happen-to-our-nonprofit-fraud-protection/</link>
		<comments>http://www.nonprofitwatercooler.com/2011/08/how-could-this-happen-to-our-nonprofit-fraud-protection/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Fri, 12 Aug 2011 02:44:35 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>lewgrafman</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[If you Google the phrase “nonprofit fraud prevention”, you will get thousands of articles and presentations, primarily from the accounting world, discussing the far too often occurrence of fraud or embezzlement in nonprofits of all sizes.  These articles are full of excellent suggestions on how to prevent fraud, embezzlement, or theft by valued employees, yet there [...]]]></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>What is Happening With Religious Fundraising?</title>
		<link>http://www.nonprofitwatercooler.com/2011/03/what-is-happening-with-religious-fundraising/</link>
		<comments>http://www.nonprofitwatercooler.com/2011/03/what-is-happening-with-religious-fundraising/#comments</comments>
		<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>Anyone Know Why We&#8217;re Meeting?</title>
		<link>http://www.nonprofitwatercooler.com/2010/02/anyone-know-why-were-meeting/</link>
		<comments>http://www.nonprofitwatercooler.com/2010/02/anyone-know-why-were-meeting/#comments</comments>
		<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>Why am I here?</title>
		<link>http://www.nonprofitwatercooler.com/2009/12/why-am-i-here/</link>
		<comments>http://www.nonprofitwatercooler.com/2009/12/why-am-i-here/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Mon, 21 Dec 2009 23:10:41 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>susandetwiler</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Wasting time in meetings is harmful to the bottom line. Inviting the right people is key to productive meetings and happier staff and volunteers.]]></description>
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		<title>Is this meeting necessary?</title>
		<link>http://www.nonprofitwatercooler.com/2009/10/is-this-meeting-necessary/</link>
		<comments>http://www.nonprofitwatercooler.com/2009/10/is-this-meeting-necessary/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Fri, 23 Oct 2009 20:38:42 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>susandetwiler</dc:creator>
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		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://www.nonprofitwatercooler.com/?p=74</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[We all have the experience: Sitting in a meeting, wondering when it will end, and too polite to just up and leave. Meanwhile, we&#8217;re screaming inside, &#8220;Get me out of here!&#8221; Of course, this never happens in your organization. But if this experience is so common, why does it still happen?
I contend it&#8217;s because no [...]]]></description>
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