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[Tip Sheet]

20 Questions You Should Be Able to Answer About Your Org's Financial Health

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20 Questions That You Should Be Able to Answer At Any Given Time About Your Organization's Financial Health

  1. For each revenue line item, are we meeting our goals? If not, how much are we off, and do we have an explanation for why?


  2. What are acceptable variations and fluctuations in expected revenue?  
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[Recommended Book]

7 Habits of Highly Effective People

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Average: 4.9 (22 votes)
By Stephen R. Covey
Another example of how business principles can effectively be applied in the nonprofit world.

Publisher's Description:

The 7 Habits Of Highly Effective People is a comprehensive program based on developing an awareness of how perceptions and assumptions hinder success—in business as well as personal relationships. Here's an approach that will help broaden your way of thinking and lead to greater opportunities and effective problem solving.  Read more



[Workshop]

Advancing Your Career Through Professional Writing [1.5 CFRE Credits]

November 6, 2010
Sponsored by: CharityChannel Summit 2010
St. Petersburg, FL
Presenters: Linda Lysakowski, ACFRE, Stephen Nil, Norman Olshansk, Amy Eisenstein, CFRE, Kent Stroman, CFRE

One of the most effective ways to rapidly advance your career is through writing. This session discusses writing articles for CharityChannel, AAGP, and other professional associations, as well as authoring books for CharityChannel Press and other publishers. The session is moderated by Stephen Nill, CEO of CharityChannel Press (a CharityChannel imprint), which publishes the In the Trenches™ line of books. Mr. Nill will be joined by experienced and successful colleagues who will share their experience on how they advanced THEIR careers through writing articles and books.  Read more



[Workshop]

Almost Everything You Wanted to Know About Capital Campaigns [3.0 CFRE Credits]

November 4, 2010
Sponsored by: CharityChannel Summit 2010
St. Petersburg, FL
Presenters: Linda Lysakowski, ACFRE & Norman Olshansky

Part I: Getting Ready for a Capital Campaign

Part II: Bringing the Campaign to a Successful Conclusion  Read more



[Workshop]

Ask the Consultants [1.5 CFRE Credits]

November 3, 2010
Sponsored by: CharityChannel Summit 2010
St. Petersburg, FL
Presenters: Linda Lysakowski, ACFRE, Norman Olshansky, Terri Temkin, Ph.D.

Do you have questions about best practices or how to solve problems you are dealing with in your workplace? This session offers a unique and free opportunity to meet with and pose questions to several leading nonprofit consultants. After meeting each of the consultants and learning about their areas of special expertise, you will have an opportunity to break out into small groups for focused questions and discussion with the consultants and other participants on topics of interest and/or concern to you. You may visit with each of the consultants or just stay with one during the allotted time.  Read more



[Tip Sheet]

Avoiding Development Office Horrors Tips

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Development offices have faced a lot of “horrors,” not just at Halloween. Anything from the CEO leaving in the middle of a capital campaign, to naming a building for a convicted felon, to having their major fundraising event of the year “snowed out.”  Read more



[Recommended Book]

Beyond Fundraising: New Strategies for Nonprofit Innovation and Investment

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Average: 2.5 (4 votes)
By Kay Sprinkel Grace
Kay Grace leads readers through the process of fundraising, development and philanthropy and guides them to the next level of thinking.

Publisher's Description:

Do you or your volunteers fear rejection or feel like a beggar when fundraising? Do you worry about soliciting donors too often? Are you tired of the relentless cycle of fundraising activities necessary to generate revenues for your programs?  Read more



[Tool]

Board Boot Camp

Does your board understand and embrace their role as fundraisers for your organization? If not, check out our board boot camp, an intense four-hour session to help board members understand what makes a development program successful, what their role is in fundraising, and how to develop a network of support for your organization.    Read more



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