Archive for the ‘Board’ Category

New Webinar: Stellar Nonprofit Events with LinkedIn May 7th

April 19th, 2013Posted by Mazarine

In this 90 minute webinar you’ll learn:

  1. How to create a group for your nonprofit, step by step
  2. How to create a page for your nonprofit
  3. Getting people to give testimonials for your nonprofit on LinkedIn
  4. How to use Groups to drive traffic and signups for your events
  5. How to auto-post to your LinkedIn profile
  6. Getting more people at your events by integrating LinkedIn with other forms of promotion
  7. Using LinkedIn’s new Board Member Connect Feature: What you need to know

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Do you have people from the community you help on your board?

March 6th, 2013Posted by Mazarine

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Happy Birthday!

December 18th, 2012Posted by Mazarine

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10 Shocking Scary Secrets of Working in Fundraising

October 30th, 2012Posted by Mazarine

Scary by Marco Mazzei from Flickr

If you’ve ever had a crazy fundraising job, you need to read this post.

Here’s a secret blog post from October 2009, that I put on my private blog, before I had started Wild Woman Fundraising.com. It was just after I finished a crazy job, and so many things on this list rang true for me.

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Surprise! Your Funders Want…

July 31st, 2012Posted by Mazarine

Pam Grow has put together a fantastic post about what foundation directors want. It’s a video. From 501videos. And I love it because; 1. It talks about how foundation directors like to see a good relationship between the executive director of the nonprofit and the development director. I do not usually see this. Do you? [...]

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Which of these solution focused questions can you ask today?

April 18th, 2012Posted by Mazarine

Lately, thanks to my friend Christina Attard, I’ve been reading a book called Fry the Monkeys by Alan Kay. In it, I am learning about how to talk about solutions instead of just problems. I think it’s a useful lesson for us as nonprofit leaders and managers, when people come up to us in a [...]

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What to Do When Someone Messes With Your Appeal letter

March 5th, 2012Posted by Mazarine

Have you ever tried to write your appeal letter by committee? Did you ever regret that you let other people have input into your writing? Here’s what happens. You study your grand controls. You make sure that you take an appeal letter webinar, you interview that international and famous copywriter, you read books on how [...]

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Lessons for Your Board from Linchpin’s Lizard Brain

March 1st, 2012Posted by Mazarine

Does your board suffer from one of these lizard brain reactions?

Don’t ship on time. Late is the first step to never.
Procrastinate, cling that you need to be perfect.

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Would you like to learn how to grade your boss? Here’s your checklist

February 23rd, 2012Posted by Mazarine

Are you a nonprofit employee? Do you want a clear system to figure out if your nonprofit boss is doing right by your organization or not? Or are you a nonprofit board member? How do you provide oversight and make sure that your organization stays on track? Do you need a model to figure out [...]

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Do you want to sit on a nonprofit board?

January 11th, 2012Posted by Mazarine

If yes, then click on through to BoardNet. http://www.boardnetusa.org/public/home.asp If you need a little more WHY: Why would you want to sit on a nonprofit board? Because you believe in the mission. But also, it’s a good way to move on up in your nonprofit career. Have you ever known an executive director who previously [...]

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