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News from American Nonprofits and Blue Avocado 19 Aug 2013 | 01:47 am
August 18, 2013 • Email Print Credit union summit! As this issue of Blue Avocado goes to press, we are winding up a national summit on the creation of a finance co-op for nonprofits: the American N...
Crowdfunding is the New Donation . . . editor notes issue #89 19 Aug 2013 | 12:51 am
Editor's Notes • By Jan Masaoka • August 18, 2013 • Email Print One of the benefits of being a nonprofit, muses Jon Pratt, is that we have an unlimited supply of free advice from people in business,...
How to Deal with an Office Bully 13 Aug 2013 | 10:50 am
Ask Rita in HR • By Siobhan Kelley • August 12, 2013 • Email Print Dear Rita: I have a really awful co-worker -- Gossip Greta -- who is making me miserable. She goes out of her way to be rude to me ...
Charity Raters Part II: Managing Your Rating 12 Aug 2013 | 10:14 pm
Finance & Strategy • By Jan Masaoka • August 12, 2013 • Email Print In Part I of this two-part article, we summarized the features and criteria of six of the best known "charity raters" including Ch...
Humor: Nonprofit Advice on Love, Marriage, and Other Stuff 11 Aug 2013 | 05:54 am
Point of Vu • By Vu Le • August 10, 2013 • Email Print Vu Le, Blue Avocado humor columnist and executive director of Vietnamese Friendship Association, makes us smile: Executive directors are probl...
Extreme Board Makeover 11 Aug 2013 | 01:55 am
Board Cafe • By Jan Masaoka • August 10, 2013 • Email Print Despite the complaints of executive directors that their boards "need training," often the most effective way to change a board is to chan...
Three Minute Vacation: Talk to Yourself 9 Jun 2013 | 07:23 am
Nonprofit Life & Style • By Susan Sanow • June 8, 2013 • Email Print Guaranteed, you'll end up talking to yourself as you read the 22 Maps That Show How Americans Speak English Totally Differently F...
American Nonprofits News: free online course for board members, article about us in SSIR, more 9 Jun 2013 | 06:11 am
June 8, 2013 • Email Print Lots of news from American Nonprofits! Free just until August 15, 2013: The Role of Nonprofit Board Members in Revenue Generation is a new online interactive course desig...
Ask Rita in HR: Do we really have to do performance evaluations? 9 Jun 2013 | 01:10 am
Ask Rita in HR • By Ellen Aldridge • June 8, 2013 • Email Print Dear Rita: I just started as the first HR Manager for an environmental nonprofit that has grown to 65 employees, although at least 35...
Happy 88th Birthday, Blue Avocado! . . . editor notes issue #88 8 Jun 2013 | 12:25 pm
Editor's Notes • June 8, 2013 • Email Print In Japanese and Chinese traditions, 88 is an important number signifying long life. So in this issue we are celebrating 88 issues of Blue Avocado. Kampai!...