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How to Prepare for Life’s Untimely Events

While sitting at a stoplight, I answered a phone call expecting one voice but hearing another. The voice I expected

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Bridge Building

How to Forge Stronger Relationships with Your Favorite Nonprofits

The world of private philanthropy is often an enigma in the eyes of nonprofit leaders. We create confusion and frustration

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40 years of learning

Philanthropy Made Easy… After 40 Years of Lessons Learned!

It started this way, “The questions that loom large as you navigate a college education are: What’s next? What career,

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fundraising events

How to Make the Most of Your Time at Fundraising Events

How many special event fundraisers have you attended – this year, last year, the last decade?  I’ve been to so

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True Cost

Do You Know the True Cost of Success for Your Favorite Nonprofit?

What keeps you reading when you open the envelope and find a fundraising letter? Do you scan for the client

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Pondering Philanthropy Questions from a “Little Old Lady”

Sometimes when I sit down to write the YP Journal, a philanthropy issue is on my mind. But today there

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How One Family Brings Their Faith to Work and Changes the Lives of Children!

Listening to someone talk about family is always full of emotion – funny, sad, uplifting, surprising. Such a conversation is

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Disasters

How to Make Wise Giving Decisions When Disasters Strike

We’re right in the middle of hurricane season. Whether it’s a storm in the Atlantic or the Eastern Pacific, August

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learn together

How Four Simple Behaviors Improved My Giving Habits

Once July 4th rolls around, I begin to anticipate another year rapidly coming to an end. The list of things

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nonprofit transition

How to Give Well When a Nonprofit is in Transition

A recent five-hour drive to my dad’s home was more than enough time for thoughts to drift in and out

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