Tag: nonprofit

Replace missed donations with pledges

November 21, 2010
This WSJ article describes the potential fallout to nonprofit organizations from projected changes in tax rates. If personal income tax rates are going to increase, then, as the article states, it make sense to defer donations until the years when...
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Evaluate nonprofits by starting with the goal

November 11, 2009
This recent memo from the president of Guidestar.org moved way beyond the typical self-congratulatory non-news and sales announcements and started off with a bang: start with these two simple and profound questions: what is your organization’s mission and how are...
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Software Bounty: $250 for blackberry email tweak

October 2, 2008
Wanted: a work-for-hire (so it can be released under a CC license for non-commercial use, exact license TBD) software “widget” that, at a minimum, works on a GSM Blackberry Pearl (AT&T) using Hosted BES from Intermedia. Feature: allows for an...
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Buffett and sour grapes

May 16, 2007
We recently came across this brief interview from a “political philosopher.” Of course, that’s not going to mix well with our nothing-but-the-fundamentals view of business and achieving goals. (We tend to leave the philosophy for the goal-setting.) In brief, the...
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