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Do you want to sit on a nonprofit board?
If yes, then click on through to BoardNet. http://www.boardnetusa.org/public/home.asp If you need a little more WHY: Why would you want to sit on a nonprofit board? Because you believe in the mission....
View ArticleWould you like to learn how to grade your boss? Here’s your checklist
Are you a nonprofit employee? Do you want a clear system to figure out if your nonprofit boss is doing right by your organization or not? Or are you a nonprofit board member? How do you provide...
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Lessons for Your Board from Linchpin’s Lizard Brain
Do you sit on a nonprofit board? Even if you don’t, do you know a nonprofit board? Does your board suffer from one of these lizard brain reactions? Don’t ship on time. Late is the first step to never....
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What to Do When Someone Messes With Your Appeal letter
Have you ever tried to write your appeal letter by committee? Did you ever regret that you let other people have input into your writing? Here’s what happens. You study your grand controls. You make...
View ArticleWhich of these solution focused questions can you ask today?
Lately, thanks to my friend Christina Attard, I’ve been reading a book called Fry the Monkeys by Alan Kay. In it, I am learning about how to talk about solutions instead of just problems. I think it’s...
View ArticleSurprise! Your Funders Want…
Pam Grow has put together a fantastic post about what foundation directors want. It’s a video. From 501videos. And I love it because; 1. It talks about how foundation directors like to see a good...
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10 Shocking Scary Secrets of Working in Fundraising
Scary by Marco Mazzei from Flickr If you’ve ever had a crazy fundraising job, you need to read this post. Here’s a secret blog post from October 2009, that I put on my private blog, before I had...
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Happy Birthday!
Happy Birthday to my blog! 3 years of rabble rousing! What Wild times we have had in the last 3 years! What were some of my most popular posts in the last few years? My mistakes! What were my mistakes...
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Do you have people from the community you help on your board?
I’ve written before about how quotas for women on our boards can help change the face of management, and Lucy Bernholz at Philanthropy 2173. She writes, “The People affected by the problem have to...
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New Webinar: Stellar Nonprofit Events with LinkedIn May 7th
Date: May 7th Time: 1pm EST, 12pm CST, 11am MT, 10am PST Cost: $79.97 Buy Now If you’ve ever wondered, “How can I use social media for my nonprofit?” If you have ever wanted more people to come to...
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This is all your sabotage!
I was sitting in a coffeeshop the other day and there was this woman sitting on a couch across from me. She said, “What day is it? I said, “The 19th” and she said, “No, no, it can’t be the 19th!” And...
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After Under-Developed, the Deluge
Shafted: Research Report Part 1 Why Nonprofit Fundraising Staff are Shafted We’ve got a problem. Our nonprofit culture is SICK. We’ve got low donor retention, high fundraising staff turnover, dwindling...
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How to Motivate Board Members: Interview with Simone Joyaux
Recently I interviewed Simone Joyaux about how to get a better board. Simone knows all about this, because she has founded two nonprofits, she has been an executive director, a development director, a...
View Article3 Places to Recruit Your Board Volunteers
If your nonprofit is new, making a tiny amount of money with events, or has a disengaged board, it might be time to get new board members. Where do you find them? You want people high up in a...
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6 Places to Find Volunteers NOW
Have you ever wanted to get MORE done every day? Have you ever been frustrated with how little it seems like you can accomplish in your office? Have you ever just been totally stuck with everything...
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Putting off what you need to do
Why do you put off what you need to do? Is it because you don’t have time? Is it because you don’t know how to do it? Or is it because you really don’t want to do it? What is it about? I know a...
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Book Review: Fired up Fundraising by Gail Perry
This book was a lot of fun to read. And yet, when I went to speak at a recent conference and I asked who had read it, only ONE PERSON there raised his hand, and he was the chair of the board of the...
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How can you get better board members?
How much is the right board member worth to your organization? A door opened for a sponsorship of $5,000 or more? A board-member hosted houseparty that results in 10 new monthly donors? A gala...
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14 Interview questions for Nonprofit Executive Directors
Mazarine Treyz How can you choose the right executive director? Here’s your first tip. Don’t choose a current board member. It may seem a convenient way to save money and time, but please don’t do...
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Do you want to create new income streams for your nonprofit?
Over the last two weeks I’ve chatted with lots of people on this mailing list. And I’ve found that I want to work more with you. I really like our chats! And tons of people wanted to be in on the...
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