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You Know You Are A Grant Writer When…
Wednesday, May 16, 2012
Spend enough time in any profession, and the inside jokes that only your peers will typically laugh at annual professional conferences and the like, begin to build up. After reading Rebecca Shawver’s recent article about why more young professionals are not entering the grant writing field, I stopped to think about some of those common characteristics and traits that those of us who have been in the field for awhile can connect with.
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Contributed by:
Diane H. Leonard
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Try, Try, Try Again
Wednesday, May 09, 2012
Yesterday was “one of those days” for me. Our office received another rejection of our National Science Foundation grant application.
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Rebecca Shawver
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Reducing the Stress of Identifying and Utilizing an Outside Evaluator
Wednesday, April 18, 2012
As the expectations of funders grow with regards to evaluation, selection and utilization of an outside evaluation firm often brings on feelings of stress within a nonprofit team. This article provides straightforward advice on how to locate potential evaluation firms and key questions to ask potential evaluation firms - all designed to take the stress out of the process of beginning to work with an outside evaluator.
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Diane H. Leonard
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Managing Board Meetings: A President’s Checklist - Part 1
Wednesday, April 11, 2012
All boards can use tips from time-to-time on how to lead and manage more effective meetings. In this first of a two-article series ideas are presented to help board chairs (or presidents) do just that, with a check-list of things to think about before the meeting.
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Contributed by:
Lynne Dean
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Capital Campaign Budgeting: Beyond Construction Costs
Tuesday, April 10, 2012
If you and your nonprofit are considering a major capital initiative, such as a renovation or construction of new facilities, one of the first things to do is to develop a realistic budget, which you can use as a beginning basis for developing your campaign goal. Nonprofits usually start the process of budgeting by....
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Contributed by:
Norman Olshansky
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Bad Planning, Misuse of Mission, Contradictions of Cause Marketing?
Wednesday, April 04, 2012
Certain specific demographic cohorts flock to the annual swimsuit issue of Sports Illustrated each year, presumably to experience nature and the environment up close.
Some of our friends at Nature Conservancy were intrigued with the demographics of these readers, clearly holding the prospect of adding to NC constituency and donors, so they entered into a three-pronged sponsorship of this year’s swimsuit edition with the magazine and a high-end luxury website.
Unfortunately, the deal blew up in their faces....
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Contributed by:
James V. Toscano
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We’re All Development Officers Now!
Friday, March 30, 2012
A much emailed and referenced article from McKinsey Quarterly by Tom French, Laura LaBerge and Paul McGill, “We’re all marketers now,” stresses the need for commitment from everyone in an organization to fully engage customers.
The authors advocate a total organizational approach to marketing. Quoting the article: “…customers no longer separate marketing from the product—it is the product…In the era of engagement, marketing is the company.”
What about nonprofits?
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Contributed by:
James V. Toscano
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The Best Job Ever
Wednesday, March 21, 2012
Whether we are consultants who work at home or employees in large fundraising departments, many of us feel like we work alone. But how alone are we really when the online communities seem to be ever-expanding? Are those connections real and if so, why do we all still feel so alone?
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Contributed by:
Stacey Abate
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Strategic Boards in All-Volunteer Organizations
Wednesday, March 14, 2012
How can an all-volunteer board be strategic and still get the work done? If the board doesn’t make time for governance and strategy, a great many good-hearted, hard-working volunteers will waste some of their time and effort on conflicting priorities and less than critical tasks. The more limited your resources, the more important it is that you use them very wisely.
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Contributed by:
Jane Garthson
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