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| Nonprofit Newswire | July 30, 2010 |
| The Editors | |
| July 30, 2010 | |
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Nonprofit news from around the country and the world. Today, trickle up philanthropy, WikiLeaks challenged, and Michel Moore creates nonprofit movie houses.| The Torrent | July 28, 2010 |
| Aaron Lester | |
| July 28, 2010 | |
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Do you feel like you're caught in a torrential downpour of information? Us too. That’s why we’ve created The Torrent. We’ve taken the torrential downpour, distilled it into a fine spirit, and served it nice and neat in your favorite tumbler. This week: verisimilitude, leaks, whisky-flavored toothpaste, and celebrity action figures. Relax, enjoy.| A Direct Mail Contest |
| Ruth McCambridge | |
| July 28, 2010 | |
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I'd like to pose a challenge to you. With a prize even! First, a confession - I'm a direct mail nerd. I like receiving direct mail, but what gets forgotten is that giving is very often a function of the "gut"—an expression of the donor's humanity and values. |
| Unraveling Development: Basic Principals of Fund Development |
| Simone P. Joyaux, ACFRE, Joyaux Associates | |
| July 22, 2010 | |
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Over the years, I’ve developed a handy-dandy document called “basic principles of fund development.” I update and change it as the spirit moves me. I’m particularly fond of the current version, shared here. Use this for discussion with your staff and with your board. |
| The Cohen Report | July 15, 2010 |
| Rick Cohen | |
| July 15, 2010 | |
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Last week in the Cohen Report I wrote about Obama's hidden hand of privatization. This week, in the last of a three-part series, I explore the implications of privatization on the nonprofit sector. |
| The Nonprofit Ethicist: Fuzzy Math and Scarce Resources |
| Woods Bowman | |
| July 08, 2010 | |
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Fuzzy math and the misallocation of scarce resources has the Ethicist concerned. Bad management, he says, almost always creates ethical dilemmas and always leads to bad policy. |
