Leadership isn't a matter of grand gestures, big gambles or game-changing ideas. Instead, leadership is grounded in the small but important principles that good fundraisers practise every day. Janet Gadeski reviews the ideas of leadership mentor Terry Starbucker.
Fundraising counsel Jose Van Herpt channels The Naked Chef to strip your fundraising down to its bare essentials and build it up by getting back to the basics. It's tough, but essential, to stick to your priorities.
Is the Harper government empowering communities as it seeks to copy Britain's "Big Society" experiment, or simply handing off its rightful responsibilities to the nonprofit sector without helping nonprofits pay for new programs? Sumac Research has ideas to help you get ready.
Regular participation in a religious community has been a consistent marker of above-average philanthropy for decades - and believers give generously to secular as well as sacred institutions. But as religion declines, who will give like the faithful?
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