Archive for the ‘ Fundraising ’ Category

 

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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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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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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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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Want to sell your hybrid nonprofit to a larger corporation? Start collaborating

Friday, July 16th, 2010 | Read full article | No Comments

Oh holy moly.

World of Good got acquired by eBay and Greater Good!
Now you can find World of Good at eBay.

What is World of Good?
World of Good was founded in 2004 by Priya Haji, MBA with the mission to help small artisan producers improve their livelihoods by providing them with access to mainstream retail markets.

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Magic Crystal Ball: What will happen to nonprofits?

Thursday, July 15th, 2010 | Read full article | 1 Comment

Crystal Ball
Gertrude Kasebier, The Magic Crystal, c. 1904

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My Fantasy Nonprofit Conference

Wednesday, July 14th, 2010 | Read full article | 8 Comments

Have you ever sat there, BORED OUT OF YOUR SKULL at yet another presenter who was just READING OFF THE POWERPOINT SLIDES and wondering where all of the smart, crazy, funny speakers were? Seriously. We’re colorful nonprofit professionals, not drab grey suited dorks. We need people to engage us.

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Octavia Butler on Leadership

Tuesday, July 13th, 2010 | Read full article | No Comments

A picture of Octavia Butler

“Beware, all too often we say what we hear others say. We think what we are told that we think. We see what we are permitted to see. Worse, we see what we are told that we see. Repetition and pride are the keys to this. To hear and to see even an obvious lie again and again and again, maybe to say it almost by reflex, and then to defend it because we have said it, and at last to embrace it because we’ve defended it.”
-Octavia Butler

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