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The Nonprofit Bubonic Plague Syndrome, Part I: The Symptoms

Traditional transactional fundraising (ttf) is dying a slow and particularly gruesome death in this present recession. Stats on that later this week. It still holds appeal, though, for some nonprofits who continue to bloody their knuckles clinging fiercely to the … Continue reading

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Corporation relations means more than selling banquet table sponsorships to area businesses

Great post by Nathaniel Wittemore at Social Entrepreneurship on the story of ZURB, a San Francisco design house whose corporate philanthropy takes the form of an annual “coffee fueled marketing marathon” in which they do an entire pro bono marketing … Continue reading

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Here’s what it looks like to move from Participation to Engagement to Ownership

Thanks to Joanne Fritz for the link to the story of the Salwen family, authors of the new book, The Power of Half, in which they chronicle their Transformational Giving style journey of selling their home, giving half of the … Continue reading

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