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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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From our Stats Don’t Lie Department, shocking proof of the effectiveness of TG

As regular visitors to this blog know, we love Joanne Fritz’s About.com column and we read it assiduously. We love Joanne’s column even more after her recent post, No Money for Donor Acquisition? Focus on Retention, where she recaps comments … Continue reading

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