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Tag Archives: nonprofits
Bob Dorf – Two customers
Recently I, together with Acumen’s Global Fellows, had the chance to spend the day in a training session with Bob Dorf. Bob, together with Steve Blank (who writes a must-read blog), is the author of The Startup Owner’s Manual: a … Continue reading
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Tagged bob dorf, business model canvas, fundraising, Lean Startup, nonprofits
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More not less
Recently I had the chance to attend a roundtable discussion on how to scale innovations in global development. One of the participants, a successful serial entrepreneur, related an important and telling story about why it’s hard to seed innovation in … Continue reading
Scarcity
A student at a nonprofit school of management told me that they are learning a lot about how to operate under conditions of scarcity – because that’s what the nonprofit sector is like. The catch is that if you start … Continue reading
20 questions every fundraiser must be able to answer
(subtitle: this is why I can’t for the life of me understand how “fundraiser” became synonymous with “not totally integrated with the core work of the organization”) What are your top three priorities right now? Where will the organization be … Continue reading
What your Board members are thinking
Here’s what people do in groups: they look around to figure out the normal way to behave. Your Board members do it too. They are looking around the Board room to figure out what’s normal – especially around giving and … Continue reading
Each and every dollar
If you work at a nonprofit, as I do, you might pause and consider: each and every dollar for your organization comes from a gift. Obvious at some level, but if you stop to think about this for a second … Continue reading
What I care about, what you care about
Having beat up on the MTA once before for its ads, it only seems right now to sing their praises. I liked this subway ad a lot. 3.2 million minutes saved every day (80,000 riders x 40 minutes saved) seems … Continue reading
Too big
Of all the reasons cited to give or not to give a philanthropic donation, “you’re too big” is the one that I have the hardest time digesting. First, a clarification. In my experience, most people who say that they want … Continue reading
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Tagged accountability, fundraising, metrics, nonprofits, philanthropy
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To give (at all) or where to give?
When you’re talking to a philanthropist about giving to your organization, you’d better know what question they’re answering for themselves. Are they deciding whether to give above and beyond what they had planned to give (…this year …in their lifetimes) … Continue reading
