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Dear Nonprofiteer, How do I turn Board generosity into Board requests for...
Dear Nonprofiteer, I’m the ED of a growing nonprofit doing bridge-building work on a highly divisive social issue. Our work is getting rave reviews. Our Board, however, is really struggling with its...
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Dear Nonprofiteer, How can we reduce the effort of acknowledging event-based...
Dear Nonprofiteer, I have been a long time reader, and appreciate your blog tremendously! I have a question, and if you choose to publish it, I would prefer to remain anonymous. My organization is the...
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Dear Nonprofiteer, For whose benefit, exactly?
Dear Nonprofiteer, I have an ethical dilemma that I need help sorting out. I’m really bothered by this and I want to know 1. if I am seeing this from the wrong perspective and 2. what you would advise...
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Dear Nonprofiteer, Victory on points?
Dear Nonprofiteer, I recently saw an offer to serve on a non-profit board where there was a monetary donation requirement each year, but the amount could be substituted by service or other activities...
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Tom Sawyer was wrong
This branch of Habitat for Humanity has chosen to charge volunteers for the privilege of helping out. When the Nonprofiteer pointed out that volunteers give more readily to the agencies they serve than...
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The power of thanks
So here’s something the Nonprofiteer heard yesterday: if an agency’s response to every initial donation is to have a Board member pick up the phone and call the donor to thank him/her, the likelihood...
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Dear Nonprofiteer, Why do nonprofits ask for the moon?
Dear Nonprofiteer, I am a nonprofit professional “in transition” otherwise known as job hunting. In the course of my job search I have come across two job postings that have left me incredulous and I...
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Existing forever versus doing some good
An op-ed piece a few weeks ago in the Wall Street Journal (behind a paywall) argued that donors should construct their foundations to spend down assets as rapidly as possible, lest the foundations end...
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Giving Tuesday: A Holiday Tradition Worth Creating
This is glorious: someone figuring out how to divert some of that pointless holiday shopping into social good. Go bust some charity’s door today!
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Dear Nonprofiteer, Is the banquet deductible?
Dear Nonprofiteer, I am the Development Manager for a small nonprofit that operates on a budget of around $500,000 a year. Something came up this year for the first time, and I’d like your opinion. The...
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