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The 5 Ws of Individual-Gifts Fundraising
As all budding journalists know, every story can be told through judicious use of the 5 Ws: Who? What? When? Where? Why? Here the Nonprofiteer employs this efficient system to tell the story of how...
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Fired up to volunteer
The Nonprofiteer first learned of the work of catchafire.org several months ago through our mutual colleagues at Mission Research. She’s been getting around to writing about Catchafire’s work placing...
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The Nonprofiteer has been wondering what to write about . . .
but she’d really have preferred not to have this as an inspiration. There is no excuse for the decision of Susan G. Komen for the Cure, until now a respected source of information and funding in the...
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Give the people at Komen a piece of your mind . . .
as they seem to have lost their own. Komen’s decision to de-fund Planned Parenthood at the behest of an anti-choice Board member reminds us how ready the right wing is to sacrifice women’s health for...
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Eternal vigilance is the price of—birth control?
The lesson from this past week’s Komen/Planned Parenthood contretemps is that when women make our voices heard in defense of the health care we need, we win the argument. So let’s not hesitate to make...
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Valentine’s Day Edition: For Love of Nonprofits
The Nonprofiteer would not be so taken with the following story were she not a formerly voracious reader of Harlequin romances and, in fact, the author of a romance novel rejected by Harlequin for...
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Dear Nonprofiteer, Why do nonprofits ask for the moon?
Dear Nonprofiteer, I am a nonprofit professional “in transition” otherwise known as job hunting. In the course of my job search I have come across two job postings that have left me incredulous and I...
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Existing forever versus doing some good
An op-ed piece a few weeks ago in the Wall Street Journal (behind a paywall) argued that donors should construct their foundations to spend down assets as rapidly as possible, lest the foundations end...
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Dear Nonprofiteer, Whose money is too filthy to take, and why?
Dear Nonprofiteer: I’d be interested in your take on the Tucker Max/Planned Parenthood issue. That whole issue, which I’m sure you’ve touched on before, of NPOs making tough decisions about accepting...
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Dear Nonprofiteer, What’s this “shared sacrifice” I keep hearing about?
Dear Nonprofiteer, My mom works for a small nonprofit that recently went through financial hardship. The organization did everything in its power to keep afloat, including (unfortunately) firing...
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