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For many, the end of a year brings opportunity for reflection, followed by resolutions to guide the months ahead. Perhaps you’ve got a new practice or habit in your life you plan on starting. Maybe you have a word that will guide your decision making over...
When you surround yourself with good people, whether you hire them or hang out with them, you can’t help but want to discover the best version of yourself.For me, I enjoy learning from people smarter than me or drawing comfort from those who walk in...
Few can argue the importance of a nonprofit’s year-end campaign. Historically, 63 percent of donors give only on November’s Giving Tuesday. Almost one-third of all annual giving occurs in December, with 12 percent of that in the last three days. And more...
Ah yes, year-end planning — arguably, the best time for nonprofits to solicit donations. But there’s greater concern for successful results now than in recent years. While overall donations in 2021 remained strong and as late as April 2022 most donors...
Forget about brainstorming. The telegraph was just fine, until Alexander Graham Bell invented the telephone. So were covered wagons for cross-country travel, until George Stephenson’s successful train. And after that, the Wright brothers’ plane.The point...
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In school, the power of research for a paper was pretty obvious — the better it was, the higher the grade. With truthful, well-rounded research, what we wrote was richer with objectivity and authoritative information.
When a nonprofit is planned and then founded, entrepreneurial energy carries the day.
If you want to keep going, you need to hit “Pause”It’s been way too long since we had a Zoom-less Hot Start, and wow! It was great on several levels.