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Women, Girls, and Charitable Giving
Fifteen years ago, I found myself sitting at Door County Coffee with Jane Stevenson, Sue Todey, and the late BJ Cassidy discussing the status of women and girls in Door County. In the succeeding months, Sherry Mutchler, Barb Perloff, and Orlaine Gabert would join us as we collectively poured over statistics, looked at benchmarking data,…
Collaborating to Keep Homes Affordable
In the charitable world, we love to talk about the value of collaboration, but the reality is that great collaborative partnerships are uncommon. An effective collaboration brings together organizations that have different, but complementary capabilities so that working collaboratively makes both more impactful. A truly innovative and effective collaboration is quite rare, yet Door County…
Missed Opportunity for Many Nonprofits
The success of a charity often hinges on its ability to diversify its fundraising strategies. Among traditional development methods lies a less traveled but immensely potent path: soliciting gifts of stock. A new study of nonprofit tax returns demonstrates both the potential of this approach and the sad reality that fewer charities are treating it…
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