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When donors want to get personally involved in challenging causes, don’t rebuke or patronize them. Train them!

In one of my series of posts on how nonprofits and donors responded to the Haiti earthquake, I noted that the conversation between nonprofit disaster relief agencies and donors typically unfolds like so in situations like this: Donor: How can … Continue reading

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Who holds donors accountable for their giving?

A fun New York Times piece by Susan Dominus on The Secret Society for Creative Philanthropy raises a killer question that virtually never gets talk about in our line of work, namely: Who holds donors accountable for their giving? The … Continue reading

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Changing your logo? Spend less time and money to achieve the same level of ambivalence

As regular readers of this blog know, I grieve over the amount of time and money nonprofits spend on (re)creating their brochures and tweaking their logos. Brochures? Not transformational. Logos? Not transformational. Coaching your champions? Priceless. So in an effort … Continue reading

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