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How Anonymous Giving Challenges Even the Best Givers

How “anonymous” is an anonymous gift? An even better question: how anonymous is a gift to a nonprofit organization in today’s

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How Understanding Nonprofit Duplication Makes You a Better Donor

Sitting across the table was a gentleman I had just met. He excitedly described how the new nonprofit he envisioned,

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How SMART Gifts Can Transform Faith-based Giving

Smart is such a great word. It makes us feel good, as in what great glasses – they make you

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When to Have This One Talk to Ensure an Enduring Legacy

Are we too late? That was the question asked casually by an acquaintance. Too late for what? Too late for

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Nine Best Life Lesson Tips to Enhance Generations of Giving

  Blinking lights. School zones. Weather changes. Fall is right around the corner. Recent rainy days here at the start

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I still love this work

Yes, I STILL Love This Work!

As I sit here in our NEW Your Philanthropy office space surrounded by boxes needing to be unpacked, it is

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Bill Gates

How to Give Bill Gates Style        

Make it fun! That’s how Bill Gates tells us he gives. If your first thought is “oh, sure, with all

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valuable ideas

Curiosity Triggers Valuable Ideas

“The two best interview subjects are children under 10 and people over 70 for the same reason; they say the

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giving recipe

Still in Search of the Secret Recipe

Four years ago, I wrote about finding the “secret recipe” for doing great philanthropy. I answered the question often asked,

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executive directors

Strong Executive Directors Lead Healthy Nonprofits

Henry sits patiently at the back door every night. He parks in the middle of the metal threshold, so it’s

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