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Sep 2007

Hello!
There is so much going on here at the Community-Driven Institute! This month we have added 2 Prizes, so look for the Prize Patrol and let us send you stuff!!!

   If you missed our last newsletter, you will find it here: CLICK   

Here is what we have for you in this edition:

Newsletter Index Links

Articles Review:A Look at Sustainability

Bookstore: Our Favorite Books for Building Support!

FREE Sustainability Workshop:Los Angeles, California
Best of the Blog:The Sad, Sad Triumph of Means over Ends

Use It Today: Dashboards

Community-Driven Brain Teaser: Evaluating Your Executive Director's End Results
Help Us:A Movement to Create an Amazing Future
Cool Distractions:Set Them Free!
Forward this Newsletter
What They're Saying
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?



Articles Review:
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


Bookstore:
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 HERE


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


Community-Driven Brain Teaser:
Evaluating Your Executive Director's End Results

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



Cool Distractions
Set Them Free!

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


Forward This Newsletter

If you find our newsletter useful, forward it to a friend
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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 this way.

Lynne Burt-Jenkins


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).
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.







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