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Everything on this blog since it began. A firehose of wisdom, you might say.

Posts

• End of the Blog 3/12/2013
• 9 Lessons from a Year in Development 12/07/2012
• 12 Laws of Email Newsletters 10/09/2012
• A fun and useful litmus test for your board 10/09/2012
• Mobile Text Message Fundraising 6/14/2012
• It's OK to be Clueless 6/06/2012
• People who aren't important for strategic planning 6/06/2012
• Instead of a Mission Statement 5/16/2012
• Why is Fundraising a Dirty Word? 4/18/2012
• How Board Meetings can turn your board members into donors 3/25/2012
• 10 Facts about Planned Giving 3/21/2012
• Where are you most vulnerable? 3/09/2012
• Storytelling in a business setting 3/06/2012
• Book Review: The Story Factor 3/05/2012
• Hosting Experiences, Not Events 3/01/2012
• YouTube and Non-Profits 2/23/2012
• Defending the Annual Fund 2/16/2012
• Give it Back, Jack: Asking for a donation to be returned 2/15/2012
• Happy Birthday 2/10/2012
• Best of the Non-Profit Chas Blog 2/09/2012
• A Tale of Honey and Vinegar 2/08/2012
• How to waste your board member's donations 2/06/2012
• Business Cards that People Will Actually Remember 2/03/2012
• Dreaming Big, I Mean Really Freaking Big 1/20/2012
• The $20 Million Dollar Dream 1/12/2012
• More Bad Words (for PR) 1/09/2012
• I Don't Want Your Support 1/01/2012
• 12 Lessons from Client Service 12/15/2011
• When someone loves your nonprofit 11/23/2011
• New Research on Why People Donate 11/15/2011
• A New Leader's Guide to Board Management 11/07/2011
• Advice for Non-Profit Newbies 10/30/2011
• Board Behavior 10/14/2011
• Facebook Engagement Trick: Blast from the Past 10/08/2011
• 3 Cases Where Social Media is Worth Your Time 10/04/2011
• A Non-Profit without a Cause 8/06/2011
• Why You Should Ignore Mobile Giving 6/13/2011
• Starting a New Strategic Plan 5/24/2011
• How to Track if Your Billboard is Effective 3/15/2011
• My Last Board Meeting: Stepping down from Camp Fire USA 3/10/2011
• Big, Little, and In-Between 1/22/2011
• Going Back to my Future 1/04/2011
• Be Relevant 12/28/2010
• Let's Chop off Some Heads 11/11/2010
• Steal This Marketing Plan 10/05/2010
• Top 4 Policies You Need 9/28/2010
• Aggressive Fundraising, Transparency, and the Worst Case Scenario 9/21/2010
• Saying Thanks 8/17/2010
• A Leader's Note to the Future 7/20/2010
• Giving Up on Altruism 4/08/2010
• 1 Facebook Page, 2 Weeks, and 3 Realizations 3/10/2010
• 3 Sad Stories about Your Non-Profit 3/07/2010
• 3 Lessons from Girl Scout Cookies 2/11/2010
• Visual Guide to Giving 12/13/2009
• 7 Tips for a More Profitable Silent Auction 10/31/2009
• Inefficient but Effective: Dartmouth 6/15/2009
• Hired! How to Recruit and Hire in this Economy 3/14/2009
• Hiring! Executive Director 2/09/2009
• To Print or Not to Print: the Annual Report 2/09/2009
• What's the point of strategic planning? 1/27/2009
• Accountability++ 1/25/2009
• Not All Non-Profits Deserve Donations 1/24/2009
• What to Look for in an Executive Director 1/20/2009
• What's your Bus Quotient? 1/19/2009
• Dissecting A Marketing Newsletter 1/17/2009
• BlawgTips: Does Blogging Matter? 1/12/2009
• A Look at Wikipedia's Annual Appeal 12/29/2008
• The Ghost Town: A Social Media Story 12/24/2008
• Strategic Planning: SWOT Analysis Toolkit 12/21/2008
• Mere Exposure leads to Big Returns? 12/19/2008
• I'm Ok with Offending You 12/17/2008
• 7 Signs You're a Great Board Member 12/15/2008
• 6 Steps to Meet Your Fundraising Goals 11/29/2008
• Tin Cup and the Lottery Ticket 11/26/2008
• How to Set Fundraising Goals 11/23/2008
• Who should you ask for money? 11/20/2008
• 4 Strategic Planning Team Exercises 11/17/2008
• When NOT to do social media 11/05/2008
• To Blog or Not to Blog? 11/03/2008
• Make the most when social media kicks In 10/31/2008
• Should I Do Social Media? 10/28/2008
• Sasha Dichter's Manifesto for Non-Profit CEOs 10/27/2008
• #1 Reason You're Not More Successful 10/27/2008
• 5 Minutes to Online Donations 10/20/2008
• GOYA: Blog Action Day 10/15/2008
• Tech tips you may not know 10/15/2008
• Easy Mapping with GeoCommons 10/13/2008
• Nptech101: How I Read 2,000 Articles in 30 Days 10/12/2008
• Link Lovin' 10/08/2008
• I Love Magic! 10/07/2008
• Some Tips on Qualified Deductions from USA Today 10/07/2008
• Nptech 101: A Healthy PC 10/06/2008
• The Transition Curve for Non-Profits 10/05/2008
• Nptech 101: Web Hosting 9/28/2008
• Generalists and Specialists 9/22/2008
• Nptech 101: Domain Names 9/22/2008
• Non-Profit Technology 101 9/21/2008
• Sunday Clarity: Mission, Vision, and Strategy 9/14/2008
• The Strategic Planning Glossary 9/14/2008
• Does Humor Work in Fundraising? 9/12/2008
• Customer Service via Twitter 9/10/2008
• Shut Up and Listen to the Internet 9/08/2008
• Kivi's Public Relations 101 9/04/2008
• Recruiting Generation Y to Give and Get Involved 8/31/2008
• What All Those Fundraising Books, Blogs, and Seminars Don't Tell You 8/30/2008
• Just who do I think I am? 8/26/2008
• Lessons from Watching the Olympics 8/20/2008
• The Right Fundraising Software 8/14/2008
• How to Lose Money on Fundraising 8/12/2008
• Volunteeraholic Personality 8/09/2008
• Do People Really Use Feeds? 8/08/2008
• The Email Monkey 8/08/2008
• How to Charge for Service and Not Lose Customers 8/07/2008
• A Mailbox isn't a Lonely Place 8/05/2008
• Minister of Gratitude 8/03/2008
• How to Stop Negativity in your Organization 7/22/2008
• Entrepreneur.com talks about strategy pitfalls 7/12/2008
• Time and Taxes: The Deal with Deductions 7/04/2008
• Technology lets you down 7/03/2008
• What to do if your audience are baby boomers 6/20/2008
• Donors are people, too 6/14/2008
• Planning Your Strategic Planning 6/14/2008
• How to Tell a Story? 6/09/2008
• Delegate good times, come on! (Let's delegate) 6/07/2008
• Strategic Planning: The Journey Begins 5/31/2008
• IYI Library 5/27/2008
• How to Fix Everything 5/27/2008
• Treat Donors Right 5/22/2008
• Making Connections and Making a Difference 5/22/2008
• How to Not to do Strategic Planning 5/12/2008
• Chameleons are Dumb 5/11/2008
• An Alternative to Advertising 5/11/2008
• Non-Profit Manifesto 5/11/2008
• Taxes and Philanthropists 5/09/2008
• Are you hardy? 3/30/2008
• Small Victories to Big Success 3/23/2008
• Hey Old Folks: Think like a startup! 3/11/2008
• Don't ask for money 3/09/2008
• On Recruiting Board Members 3/08/2008
• Non-profit vs not-for-profit 3/08/2008
• A Naive Newcomer's View of Fundraising 3/08/2008
• Zero to fundraising in how many seconds? 3/05/2008
• Fundraising from the Marketing Department 3/01/2008
• From the Expert: Fundraising Tips 2/21/2008
• Non-Profit Marketing: Camp Fire USA 2/14/2008
• Non-profit Marketing: Donors don't care about you 2/05/2008