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  • How to find amazing fundraising breakthrough innovation

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    I love big, game-changing ideas. I’ve seen a few of them happen. But they don’t come along very often. Looking back, you forget something important about those big ideas. Most of them were preceded by big failures. Usually a lot of big failures. Like Thomas Edison’s thousand attempts to create a working lightbulb before he…

  • How to succeed when everything is changing

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    Change is coming at us so fast right now: new digital media channels. AI. Sweeping changes in culture and politics. It can be overwhelming. It can even make you feel paralyzed at times. The best way to handle it is to be flexible, pay attention … and know what isn’t changing. That’s why I love…

  • How you can find innovation in fundraising

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    Everyone wants innovation. Because things could be better. And every innovation creates the need for more innovation. Fall asleep on the job, and you could find yourself caught in a trap. I recently came across a wonderful article in Mental Floss that tells us a thing or two about real-world innovation: The History of CTRL…

  • Nonprofit tries Groupon — is it worthwhile?

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    Jeff Brooks
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    In my daily Groupon email the other day, I saw an interesting announcement: $15 for a $30 Charitable Donation to Save the Children. See it here. (I’ve also posted a screenshot below in case this page goes away.) I’m skeptical. Several things seem askew: The audience As Groupon proudly points out in its own demographics…