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Articles 1-5 of 5 Fundraising, relationships and trust The thing to know about fundraising is that it’s all about relationships and trust. Before you can successfully raise funds for a nonprofit organization, you have to develop the relationship with your constituents, and consistently prove that you will deliver on your commitments. Read more More and more on mission statements. Here are some good resources to read up on how and why to do it. Read more More on mission statements: How are you going to do it? Describing your goal requires specifics. Stop the war. End the killing of spotted chickens. Whatever. Read more A couple of years ago, I downloaded for my Palm a small shareware program called “Dilbert’s Mission Statement Generator.” At the click of a button, it would spit out an utterly incomprehensible mission statement, much like the ones I’ve seen generated over the years by corporate offices and nonprofit boards. A good example: “The customer can count on us to synergistically engineer market-driven intellectual capital for 100% customer satisfaction.” Read more I've been doing a lot of thinking lately about the experiences I've had in the past few years. I've written little about it here, but I've spent much of the last fifteen years as what you could call a serial entrepreneur, but in an unusual way -- starting up nonprofit and advocacy organizations. Read more |
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