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Typing 501(c)3

Posted 10/19/11

Does anyone else working in the nonprofit sector find it annoying that Microsoft Word constantly corrects 501(c)3 to read 501©3?
I finally had it this morning and figured out how to prevent this on an …

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Advanced Board Leadership

Posted 10/08/11

In November, I’ll be teaching Advanced Board Leadership, a course designed for experienced board members to sharpen their skills. The class is a joint effort of United Way of King County, UW Nancy Bell …

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Taking the Offensive-Why Strategic Planning is Worthwhile

Posted 03/21/11

Recently, Blue Avocado ran a series of articles on nonprofit strategic planning: Strategic Planning: Failures and Alternatives and ?In Defense of Strategic Planning: A Rebuttal. The first article pointed out the ways in which …

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Whidbey Winter Gathering

Posted 02/27/11

I just spent four days at the Whidbey Institute at an invitational gathering dedicated to “actively engaging people in shifting the catastrophic course humanity is currently on.” I was uncertain what to expect. Rick Ingrassi …

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