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Do you need
tools, techniques, tips for doing your work more effectively? Are you seeking
connections for learning and bouncing ideas around? Are you looking for
opportunities to stretch to the next level of whats
possible? This months
newsletter has all that and more! |
If you missed our
last newsletter, you will find it
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New
Governance Resources! |
Great Boards:
Learn for Free! Who knows more tips for building GREAT boards than
great boards themselves!? That's why we launched a brand new Facebook group - How to Build Great Boards. Come find great tips and tools - and please share your own! Join and Get Board
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Courageous
Boards (More Free Stuff!) What would it take for your board to lose its fear and start taking courageous strides forward?
Find out in the archive of this month's Twitter chat. (Remember: Read from bottom to top of thepage) Read
the transcript now!
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Pollyanna
Principles Anniversary Special |
Its been 2
years since The Pollyanna Principles made its debut, with practical approaches for adding rocket fuel to this sector's ability to create amazing communities.
To celebrate, we
have TWO great deals!
20% off sale - Save $6 per book! Buy
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get 1 free! Get
them now!
The most
important and transformative nonprofit-sector work I have read. Steve Nill, CharityChannel
CEO Read
the whole review
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Fundraising
Lessons |
Last December,
Creating the Future embarked on its first year-end fundraising campaign. As promised, we are sharing everything we learned from that
campaign.
5
Last-Minute Fundraising Tips Some tactics that can create fundraising
success or failure.
Analysis
and Learning: When Failure is Success Reflections about traditional fundraising tactics and why we shut down our campaign.
Fundraising
True Confessions If we blew up fundraising and started over, what
systems might be more effective for sustaining thriving
communities?
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The
Road to Civil Discourse |
In this
months Making Change interview, Carol Rasco talks about creating
conversations that bridge political differences and actually create
change.
Carols
diverse background makes for great stories - Domestic-Policy Adviser to
President Bill Clinton, CEO of Reading Is Fundamental, and mom / advocate for a
disabled child.
Dont miss
this interview!
Streaming
online
Download from
iTunes
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Consultants
Corner
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Consultants: Do
you wish your work would stick longer after you leave? Do you wish
your clients made a bigger difference with everything youve taught
them?
The answer could
be as simple as asking a new set of questions. Watch this new
video!
Consulting to
Create the Future blends the being side of being a
consultant with the content side. Start
learning about both!
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Pay
It Forward!
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Time is so
precious.
What if you could
leverage every article that helps your thinking, and every video you learn from
- to create more ripples?
Its easier
than you may think. All it takes is paying it forward!
Pay It Forward
now!
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Cool
Distraction |
Reveling in the
joy of a child - especially when the child is an elk!
Playtime!
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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. |
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