It sure caught my eye A question that I hope was a mental exercise was posed recently on an online forum: Should staff and board be limited to 10-year terms? The question received a variety of responses – all of which, to me, highlighted an unfortunate divide. Younger people felt they had the fresh thinking […]
Serendipity: another word for smart fundraising?
Do we make our own luck? Many years ago, I was doing one of my favorite tasks – opening the mail. I bet you know what I mean. It’s a whole lot of fun to see a stack of appeal returns waiting for you. One day, I opened an envelope to find an unexpected large […]
Have you failed today?
When I was young, I observed that nine out of ten things I did were failures. So I did ten times more work. George Bernard Shaw If you’re not failing every now and again, it’s a sign you’re not doing anything very innovative. Woody Allen I took part in a small, short staff retreat today. […]