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A new publication about Board recruitment
The Nonprofiteer has a piece in the new issue of Contributions Magazine.
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Dear Nonprofiteer, How many roles does it take to screw up an organization?
Dear Nonprofiteer, Several friends and I have started a new musical arts ensemble and are seeking to incorporate as a non-profit. There are 8 artists in the ensemble, so we are a very small...
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Whether women are more generous than men, and whether it matters
The Women’s Philanthropy Institute at Indiana University’s Center on Philanthropy has just released a study showing that at all income levels women give more than men—both more frequently and more...
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An oldie but a goodie
A recent publication in Contributions Magazine of the Nonprofiteer’s rant “Board Members are not Hypothetical Constructs” produced the following helpful comment from Pamela Hawley of Universal Giving:...
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The 5 Ws of Individual-Gifts Fundraising
As all budding journalists know, every story can be told through judicious use of the 5 Ws: Who? What? When? Where? Why? Here the Nonprofiteer employs this efficient system to tell the story of how...
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Dear Nonprofiteer, Who quit and made me president?
Dear Nonprofiteer: Recently I started serving on a board of a small social service organization. In the last six months our board president has slowly retreated from his leadership duties due to a...
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Fired up to volunteer
The Nonprofiteer first learned of the work of catchafire.org several months ago through our mutual colleagues at Mission Research. She’s been getting around to writing about Catchafire’s work placing...
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A delicate balance
If fundraising is concentric circles, as consultants often say (you ask your friends and then their friends and then their friends’ friends), then it seems to make the most sense to start asking right...
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Ownership and its Discontents
Many years ago the Nonprofiteer lived briefly in a cooperative apartment building, which looks like a condominium building but differs from it in a fundamental way. In a cooperative, owners don’t own...
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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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