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Volunteers donate 50% more than non-volunteers, but ten years after that discovery nonprofits don’t seem to care

Here’s a news flash so old that it’s available on microfiche down at the county library: [H]ouseholds in which members volunteer for charitable causes or at their church give more than twice as much money to charities than households with … Continue reading

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The two best pieces of advice you can give to a speaker preparing for a nonprofit fundraising banquet are…

I mentioned in my previous post that I was in SoCal emceeing a banquet for With This Ring last week. While there, I heard the best banquet speaker I’ve yet heard, Stan Patyrak from Living Water International. I wish I … Continue reading

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The Mongoliad, the future of nonprofit-as-narrative, and the demise of nonprofit-as-organization

There’s an intriguing piece in Fast Company on Neal Stephenson’s effort to reinvent the novel as a “social media app”. The best and most detailed description of what Stephenson has in mind is found on the Mongoliad’s Facebook page. Let … Continue reading

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