Nonprofits, How We Love Thee (Not!)
Photo by Metaphox And now I shall be the skunk at the garden party, and speak of the thing nonprofits can be willfully oblivious to, but which rest assured everyone talks about openly: nonprofits can...
View ArticlePay Your Staff Well Or Someone Else Will
Photo by klynsis Quick! What do you think when you see the words “nonprofit?” Idealism? Humanitarianism? Visionaries who make the world a better place? Yes! Also, lack of business savvy (that whole...
View ArticleThe Prime Directive: Make It Easy
Do What Now? (Photo by AdmlCrunch) If there is one thing companies should never forget, it is this: make it easy. Make that call-to-action, the white paper download, the listserv subscription, join, or...
View ArticleDollars and Sense: NonProfit Budget Basics
Don't you wish it would be that simple? (Image by Tax Credits) And now a post about money. Because as we all know, it’s what makes the world go around. Okay, that’s a mild understatement. But it’s very...
View ArticleThe Nonprofit’s Digital Afterlife And Proper Goodbyes
Photo from Creative Commons The digital afterlife no longer takes most of us by surprise. We know that what we put up on the Internet is forever. And we know that unless we do some digital “estate...
View Article5 Things Nonprofits Can Learn From the Royal Baby
Photo by jkbrooks85 Congratulations to the Duchess of Cambridge and Prince William on the birth of their first son! New babies are big news – especially new, royal babies. Here are five takeaways for...
View ArticleGoing Paperless: So Near, Yet So Far
Photo by Whitney Archer Going paperless is a dream of mine. I have this vision of a clear desk, where everything remains on neat, brick-sized hard drives, accessible with a click of a mouse, in...
View ArticleAre You Really Busy or Are You Just Saying That?
Photo by Robert Mehlan I read an interesting article from Harvard Business Review last week. The article was titled, “Please Stop Complaining About How Busy You Are.” The article makes a few...
View ArticleIs Your Website Turning Away Donors?
Photo by Skley Recently, Philanthropy.com published a survey of millennials who were asked to respond to different nonprofit websites. The headline of the results, published on July 18, 2013, caught my...
View ArticleNow’s the Time to Search for Corporate Partners
Photo by Shahrukh Hasan Now is a good time for you to start the search for corporate partners. A recent article for The Nonprofit Times suggests that increasingly, Fortune 500 and Fortune 100 companies...
View ArticleData Hygiene: It Does A Growing Org Good
Photo by Plutor Tell me if you recognize this scenario: your nonprofit’s finally got legs, the membership is growing, your community visibility is up, the media’s paying attention, you have a steady...
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