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Simone Joyaux, ACFRE, Joyaux Associates | January 4 2013
What Do You Talk about at Your Board Meetings?
Board meetings require intentional design and good facilitation so that the board can do the work of governance without getting sidetracked by management stuff and other matters. -
Simone Joyaux, ACFRE, Joyaux Associates | March 29 2013
Advisory Boards and Other Bodies: Yes or No and Why or Why Not?
Before you set up an advisory group or a community council, it’s important to be very clear about what you’re trying to accomplish and whether a new group will help in that effort.
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The Case against Rainy-Day Framing of Budgets and Taxes
Few things are more loathed by the public than taxes, and our cultural models encourage us to view government as something to be resisted and our tax system as a ...
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The tippy top of the donor pyramid in fundraising – just how relevant is it now? Simone Joyaux shares her thoughts.
Just a warning…this is a weird column. No overall theme. Just a collection of tidbits and miscellaneous thoughts that I wanted to share with you.
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