Learning From Warren
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I am pleased to discover that I have a few things in common with Warren Buffett. (Unfortunately, being fabulously wealthy is not one of them.) Like Warren, I’m not one…
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My friend Rory, who has made a good living selling medical equipment, shook his head describing a failing company. “They violated the first rule of business,” he told me. “Make…
Read More How Philanthropy (Strangely Enough) Can Widen the Wealth Divide
With the growing concern about the wealth gap, most of us can at least assume that charitable giving helps in some way to redistribute the wealth from the rich to…
Read More The Best Kind of “Ask”
I was giving a fundraising seminar a couple of weeks ago. Most of the audience members were nonprofit CEOs, development directors, and Board members. A woman asked me, “So the…
Read More A More Powerful Kind of Legacy
My friend Susan is a fan of my blog and usually sends a note to say that she agreed with what I wrote that week. But not when she read…
Read More Keeping the Glass Filled
More years ago than I’d care to admit, I spent four months as a Russian language exchange student in what was then the Soviet Union. One night I went to…
Read More As Rich as Rockefeller?
All of you who are struggling to get your next foundation grant application pulled together and those of you who work earnestly as foundation staff or trustees may want to…
Read More Simple: Bequests
I ended my last blog post on a cliff-hanger, saying that I would reveal what the 99% of the nonprofits without a designated planned giving officer can do to bring…
Read More The Big Deal About Planned Giving
For a small place, my home state of New Hampshire puts up some pretty impressive numbers. For example, we have 424 members in our state legislature, the fourth-largest English-speaking legislative…
Read More An Approach to Funding That Might Actually Work
As you may know, I’m a bit of a skeptic about the efficacy of traditional endowments. In an earlier blog post, “THIS is the Rainy Day,” I urged nonprofits with…
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