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A Look at
Sustainability |
If we are going to create significant
impact in our communities, we need to stop focusing on the shortfall, and start
aiming at sustainability for the long haul.
If you have not
checked out the sustainability articles in our library, here are a few to get
you started!
Sustaining Your Mission for
the Long Haul LEARN MORE
Work with What You've Got: A
Model for NonProfit Financial Sustainability LEARN MORE
FriendRaising and Your
Board LEARN MORE
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Our Favorite
Books for Building Support! |
We carry only our
favorite books at our bookstore. If you have not checked out the Fundraising /
Resource Development section, there is great stuff there.
Grant-writing Writing Fundraising Letters Asking for
Money Public Speaking FriendRaising
IT'S ALL HERE!
FREE Sustainability Workshop: Los Angeles,
California |
Resource Development. Community
Engagement. Sharing resources. Collaboration. FriendRaising. Sustainability.
Want to learn how to put all that
together?
Want practical tips you can use right
now?
Want to be inspired, jazzed, ready to
link arms to make your community an amazing place?
Join Hildy for a 90 minute workshop
at the Center for Nonprofit Management in LA!
Admission is FREE (and seating is
limited). LEARN MORE AND REGISTER
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Best of the Blog: The Sad, Sad Triumph of
Means Over Ends |
This month's Best of the Blog is
"I Only Hurt You Because I Love You." It was chosen the "best" at the
urging (ok, pleading and whining and "please please please!") of our staff, who
have spent the past few weeks sending this post to everyone they know.
READ IT
HERE
So what's the antidote? Here are 11
Ways to start focusing on the end results we want! READ IT
HERE
PRIZE Patrol: Got a favorite post at Hildy's blog?
Let us know which is your fave, and WHY. The best entry will win a signed copy
of one of Hildy's books as a thank you!LET US
KNOW
Use It Today: Dashboards |
How can your board be MORE attentive
to the organization's key indicators, in LESS time? How can even the least
financially literate board member understand the financials? A dashboard can
help get you with all this and more! LEARN
MORE
As you start aiming your work at
creating the future of your community, new ways of seeing often catch you by
surprise. So here is this month's Brain Teaser:
What do you want your Executive
Director to accomplish this year? GET THE ANSWER
HERE
Help Us Join the Movement to
Create Amazing Communities! |
We can create amazing communities.
Don't believe it?
Consider this: We are creating
the future, every day, with every action we take and every decision we make.
From that, creating an amazing future for our communities is not just possible
- it's our responsibility!
That's the movement we are about to
kick off!
A movement to create visionary,
comprehensive improvement in our communities.
A movement to aim our work at what
is possible.
A movement to aim this sector at
making our communities amazing places to live.
There is much to do! Will you join
us? JOIN THE
MOVEMENT
Attention Book-a-holics! Stay away
from this month's Cool Distraction! (Don't say we didn't warn you!)
If your love of books borders on the
unnatural, then you will love Bookcrossing.com.
The premise is simple: Share the
books you love with the world. Just take a favorite book, and put a note on the
cover explaining, "I'm not lost - please read me!" Then leave that book in a
public place, and let BookCrossing track the book's journey.
Leave an uplifting book in a hospital
waiting room. Leave a funny book at a bar. Leave a book about meditation or
journal-writing at an assisted living facility; a book about global warming at
a plant nursery. Our minds are going wild with the possibilities!
CHECK OUT
BOOKCROSSING
PRIZE Patrol: Come up with a great place to set free
one of Hildy's books! The best idea will win a copy of that book for you, and a
second copy to set free!LET US
KNOW
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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:
These are my first few minutes at
your site, but an 'atta boy!' This is so to the heart of what we should be
doing, making better communities. So glad to hear there are more of us who feel
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Think! |
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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
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