Hello!
Happy New Year to you all! Around
here, the beginning of a new year always energizes us to tackle everything we
want to do, all at once. You will see what we mean when you dive into this
month’s newsletter!
If you missed our last newsletter, you will find it here:
Here’s what we have for you in this edition:
1) New Article!
Executive Transition as a Celebration of What is Possible (or How
Standard Executive Hiring is Set Up to Fail)
2) New Store!
The Download Depot!
3) New Products!
3
New Downloadable Tools to Use Now
4) New Website coming in
February! Help 4 Consultants
5) Best of the Blog:
So
Much to Learn from the American Red Cross...
6) Use It Today:
Special for Start-ups: Showing a Track
Record
7) Community-Driven Brain Teaser: Young People and Philanthropy
Part 2
8) Cool Distractions: Wonderful,
Wonderful
9) Forward this Newsletter
10) What They're
Saying
11) Tell us what you think!
Please read and enjoy, and pass
these items along. We know it will help you improve the quality of life in your
community. And isn’t that why we all do the work we do?
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New Article:
Executive Transition as a Celebration of What is Possible (or How
Standard Executive Hiring is Set Up to Fail)
We are so tired of watching one
after another Executive Transition go awry. If your organization is preparing
for a key person to leave, read this PLEASE! And if you think you are not about
to face an Executive Transition, but you do not have a plan just in case, read
this PLEASE!
Learn
more
http://www.help4nonprofits.com/____________________
New Store!
The Download Depot!
As part of our seemingly ongoing
site re-do, 2008 will add tons more downloadable products to the tools we offer.
So we added a whole new place for them - the Download Depot. Check out what’s
there - and check back as we add more!
Check it
out!
http://www.help4nonprofits.com/____________________
New Products!
To cut the ribbon on the Download Depot, we have 3 new products this
month - products to make your lives easier, and to help you create more impact
in your communities!
What Do Funders
Want? (And Why Do They Want It?)
$5.95
Funder tested / funder
approved!
http://www.help4nonprofits.com/____________________
The Most
Important Thing Is...
Exercises for Determining Your Organization’s Core
Values
$7.95
Values exercises to move your board
forward.
http://www.help4nonprofits.com/____________________
Life List
Generator: A FriendRaising Tool
$5.95
One of the most powerful strategies in FriendRaising,
now available on its own!
http://www.help4nonprofits.com/____________________
New Website!
Help 4 Consultants!
In February, we will be launching an
entirely separate website - Help 4 Consultants. This site will be for all
consultants, not just those working with nonprofit organizations. If you want to
be notified when that site is up and running, let us
know!
Notify me!
http://www.help4consultants.com
Best of the Blog:
The American Red Cross and YOU
Hildy’s blog posts on the Red Cross
were the most linked-to stories we have ever done this month. Perhaps that is
because they don’t focus just on the Red Cross, but on what we can all learn
from their mistakes, to apply to our own organizations.
What Can Your Organization Learn
from the American Red Cross?
http://hildygottlieb.com/2007/12/10/the-red-crosss-real-problem-its-not-what-you-think/
11 Ways to Focus on Vision and
Values (the real issues at the Red Cross!)
http://hildygottlieb.com/2008/01/12/11-ways-to-focus-on-vision-and-values/
Use It
Today: Special for Start-ups: Showing a Track
Record
How can you show you have a track record when you are just starting out?
(The same goes for any new program, no matter how old your organization
is!)
Learn more
http://www.help4nonprofits.com/____________________
Community-Driven Brain
Teaser: Young People and Philanthropy (Part
2)
This was SUCH a hot topic in our newsletter last month, that we have
continued the conversation at the blog, and we have added a great new book to
our bookstore - Raising Charitable Children.
How can we get
young people involved in philanthropy?
In case you missed last month’s
brain teaser
http://www.help4nonprofits.com/BrainTeaser/BrainTeaser-Young_People_and_Philanthropy.htm
Raising
Charitable Children
http://www.help4nonprofits.com/BOOKS-RaisingCharitibleChildren.htm
DP: The firefox tab on this
product says Life List and QuickTools - they should all be just 1 or 2 words,
no?
Cool Distractions:
Wonderful, Wonderful
You can see from all we have been
doing that things have been even more insane this month than our normal
fever-pitch of activity. But when Hildy’s daughter shared this video, everything
stopped. We all smiled. And for a moment, we could
breathe.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TMCf7SNUb-Q
Forward This
Newsletter
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What They're
Saying
Every month, hundreds of new subscribers sign up for our newsletter.
Here's one of our favorite comments this month:
Have ERIN get
this
Tell Us What You
Think!
As we continue to develop the Community-Driven Institute, helping you
create the future of your community, we hope you will let us know what you
think. What would be helpful to have on our website, or to include in our
newsletter? How have you used the products and programs we already have in
place, and how have they worked for you? We appreciate the feedback, because our
goal is to help you change the world (or just your piece of it). So let us
know!
Thank you, as always, for the work you do to make your communities better places to live. We wish for you all the possibilities life holds.
Hildy and Dimitri
Community-Driven
Institute
at Help 4 NonProfits
http://www.Help4NonProfits.com
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