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Interview with Carolyn Appleton: How to Launch Your Grant Writing Career

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I had an exceptionally knowledgeable mentor who ran an office engaged in multiple types of fundraising activities: endowment (major gifts), special project fundraising (grant writing), annual fund (with a corporate slant), membership, database administration, special events, and volunteer management. My mind was a sponge.

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[VIDEO] 3 Steps To Closing $10K+ Gifts By December 31

Bloomerang

If you put your question in there, it might have a little bit more visibility. But no matter where you ask that question, we’ll see it, and we will try to get to it before the 4:00 Eastern hour here. You can also tweet us those questions and comments, we’d love to hear from you there. I’m based in Los Angeles.

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ASU Lodestar Center Blog: Research Friday: The Office or the Impact?

ASU Lodestar Center

my colleague Professor Mark Hager dissected the conundrum faced by nonprofit researchers in answering that question. As researchers attempt to explain this and other questions, they are sometimes charged with the claim, "Oh, you people are just too academic!" So a better question than "Where is the office?" city, county, etc.).

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How to Celebrate AAPI Heritage Month: Listen, Reflect & Connect

Saleforce Nonprofit

To help us personally reflect and connect with these stories, I’ve included questions from Terri Givens’ book, Radical Empathy: Finding a Path to Bridging Racial Divides. Through empathy and identifying shared values, we can bridge racial divides. How can we undo these false and debilitating assumptions?

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AAM 2010 Recap: Slides, Surprises, and a Banjo

Museum 2.0

This year, the American Association of Museums annual conference was in Los Angeles (my hometown). I talked about using the design question: "How can visitors make this project better?" I asked them to think about how they could ask questions or share ideas in ways that would be as useful as possible to everyone in the room.

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