CSR=Look at the shiny thing while we trash your world!

Thursday, July 29th, 2010 | Read full article | No Comments

“Yes, we disabled the alarms on the Deepwater Horizon. Oh, like you’ve never hit the snooze button? http://ow.ly/2fQ6x” 1:57 PM Jul 23rd @BPGlobalPR Today British Petroleum announced a new CEO, Robert Dudley, an American, meant to appease the millions of Americans without livelihoods now, and the millions of environmental activists up in arms about the [...]

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How you can become a Chief Development Officer

Wednesday, July 28th, 2010 | Read full article | No Comments

So how she got her executive position was at first through just volunteering, and she said, “You would not believe how many people become executives through volunteering first” and it’s definitely true in my experience as well.

“Money makes the world go around. If you can raise the money, you can do the good works.” -Lisa Avra

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Come to our Nonprofit Career Club Today at 5:30pm in Austin TX

Tuesday, July 27th, 2010 | Read full article | No Comments

Have you ever wanted to take your nonprofit career to the next level? Join us today at 5:30pm at 2500 Exposition Blvd, Howson Library, in Austin, TX, when we’ll be talking with Lisa Avra, CDO of the Ransom Center! She’s going to be talking about her Development career thus far, about what she does all [...]

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Do you want to learn how to ask for help?

Monday, July 26th, 2010 | Read full article | No Comments

I’ve got some good news for you! You can read these articles I’ve written. I’ve written a guest post last week for Sharp Skirts about how to ask for help, and how to find your magicians who help you here. I’ve written a guest post on how to manage volunteers for Vivanista.com! And thanks for [...]

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Fun and Forgotten Gems from ProBlogger’s Challenge!

Sunday, July 25th, 2010 | Read full article | No Comments

I’m taking the 7 link challenge from Darren Rouse at ProBlogger! 1. Your first post – Gosh… my first post ever, I think was back in 1999 on Diaryland. I’m not going to embarrass myself now by posting it! I’ll give you the first post here (What is Fundraising?) instead. 2. A post you enjoyed [...]

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Which Places Are The Least Sexist?

Friday, July 23rd, 2010 | Read full article | 2 Comments

There have been a lot of features lately on the most liveable cities. Vancouver BC, Vienna, Melbourne, Toronto, and Helsinki have been at the top of the Economist Intelligence Unit’s 2010 list. Sure, we care about if we can get out and hike easily from the city center, and the cost of living, and opportunities [...]

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How you can attain influence

Thursday, July 22nd, 2010 | Read full article | No Comments

Recently my friend Vicki Flaugher recommended a book to me. It’s called Influence, by Robert Cialdini. I started to read it last night and I could barely put it down. It has case study after case study that show how to attain influence. Dr. Cialdini tells the story of a car salesman who sold, on [...]

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Have you ever been fired? Was that awesome, or what?

Wednesday, July 21st, 2010 | Read full article | 2 Comments

Here’s some advice from Dr. Bernadine Healy, former President of the American Red Cross, who raised over $3 BILLION dollars for them before being fired. She did all of this, mind you, with a brain tumor.

“Life isn’t a straight upward trajectory, but I think you will win more than you lose if you stand for something.”

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Are You Tired Of Being Unemployed?

Tuesday, July 20th, 2010 | Read full article | No Comments

Are you looking for a job right now? How long have you been looking? Barbara Ehrenreich tried to find a corporate job for a year, and she wrote a book about it called “Bait and Switch” in 2005 which I feel is still relevant today. She writes, “As my crisis management instructor, Jim Lukaszcwski, made [...]

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Do you have what it takes to be Chief Development Officer?

Tuesday, July 20th, 2010 | Read full article | No Comments

Why not come and find out? This July 27th, at 5:30pm at 2500 Exposition, Howson library in Austin, Texas, we’ll be listening to Lisa Avra, Chief Development Officer, Harry Ransom Center at University of Texas at Austin. Ms. Avra graduated from Baylor University with a BA in Mass Communication and English. She then went on [...]

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