If all you have is a hammer, everything looks like a nail. But you have options in nonprofit planning, and “strategic planning” is just one. Broaden your toolbox by browsing the aisles of this “virtual hardware store” of business planning tools.
The Age-Old Problem: Leasing versus Buying
FROM THE ARCHIVES
Many nonprofits face the question of whether to lease or buy their facilities. Few organizations have the expertise and track record of the Illinois Facilities Fund, whose analytical lens can help any nonprofit sort through its real estate options.
Nonprofit Taglines: The Art of Effective Brevity
A tagline should say it all. Does yours?
Next-Generation Riff: Schism Raised by Consciousness
One organization takes the generational challenge seriously and discovers that it has created a situation that can’t be healed.
Fundraising Tips for Surviving 2008
A colleague e-mailed me advice from the Agitator; it was a welcome note of sanity that reminded me of what I needed to do and the attitude I needed to maintain as the country’s financial eruptions and implosions continue.
A Bad Rap for Community Organizers from those Who Should Know Better
See the Republican National Convention attacks for what they really are – a recognition that community organization is powerful and, when done right, a challenge to the entrenched power of politicians and their corporate allies.
Fundraising Party Time at the National Conventions
Yes, happy days are here again, for the special interests that get to use the national parties’ conventions as venues where they can coagulate around lawmakers and delegates to ply their trade without the formalities of bothersome practices like much transparency and disclosure.
Nickel-and-Diming Volunteer Drivers: Time for a Change
Wouldn’t it be great if volunteer drivers for charities such as Meals on Wheels and the Salvation Army could take a charitable deduction of 74 cents for the mileage they drive as opposed to the measly, crummy, insulting 14 cents per mile currently allowed under U.S. law?They could—if they were volunteers in the United Kingdom, but not in the American cauldron of charitable sensitivity.
Economic Whitewater: A Tired but Apt Metaphor
I think we have to assume that there are many hidden rocks and swift currents in the river immediately ahead, and that many of us will, for a while, be in those rapids. We need to be ready for them.
Spring 2008 Digital Issue
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Summer 2008 Digital Issue
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Fall 2008 Digital Issue
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