A More Powerful Kind of Legacy
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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…
Read More A Trail Goes Cold
So these two guys walk into a bar. Actually, I was one of them. It was the end of a conference in Minneapolis last fall, and I had to kill…
Read More What’s in a Name?
First, a story about my mother. It’s the kind of story I can tell, but you can’t, because she’s my mother, not yours. My mom, who recently turned 87, is…
Read More Fish Stories
I was visiting with the staff of a small human services agency the other day. I asked them how they liked their board of directors, and they were generally positive,…
Read More All Bequests Are Generous; Some Can Also Be Smart
Those of you with an oil-burning furnace may be familiar with efficiency percentage tags. If you don’t heat with fuel oil: When the oil company maintenance crew comes at the…
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