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Letter from the Editor
Howdy Blue Avocado readers! We’re overjoyed to share this amazing issue, full of concrete insights, helpful tools, and actionable best practices. Dive in and get a firsthand take on how to mindfully and gracefully navigate an E.D. transition, ri …
3 Tips & Tools for Better Peer-to-Peer Fundraising
Peer-to-peer fundraising is a crowdfunding strategy that empowers individuals to raise money on behalf of a worthy cause. Fundraisers have their own customized donation pages where their friends and family can donate to your nonprofit. …
How to Cure Founder’s Syndrome
Founders—the people who create nonprofits—are remarkable. They miss sleep to build websites, skip lunch to meet with potential donors or partners, and do whatever it takes to turn their dreams of a better world into reality, creating an organization in …
Successfully Navigating an Executive Director Transition
Children’s Fairyland is the nation’s first storybook theme park; definitely not your typical nonprofit. So maybe I shouldn’t have been surprised when the park’s executive director said to me, her replacement, as she handed over the keys to the kingdom, …
NextGen Nexus: Empowerment as the Key to Engaging Youth
I recently had the chance to lead new research on generational messaging related to voting. Our big takeaway: empowerment is key to participation, plus it also influences giving and other key types of engagement nonprofits seek from younger generations …
Reducing Unconscious Bias in Recruiting
Ideally, the decision to hire someone is based on how well someone’s skill set aligns with your needs. But in the real world, hiring processes are often subjective and affected by some degree of bias…whether you know it or not. Bias—prejudice in …
Ask Rita: What Are My Obligations to an Employee Receiving Infertility Treatments?
Dear Rita: We have an employee who has been trying to start a family for a long time. We have recently been advised that the female employee may be starting treatment for infertility and may need to take time off for those treatments. We are wondering …
Letter from the Editor
Hello again! Welcome back Blue Avocado, and you’re in store for one of our most insightful, tip- and tool-laden issues yet! Read on for some easy-to-implement, helpful morsels from a variety of authors, many of whom also con …
Funder’s Corner: The Grateful Donor
Cultivating a long-lasting relationship with donors is often top of mind for nonprofit leaders and a popular topic in this and other publications. But when I read articles about how to attract and retain donors, I am …
NextGen Nexus: A Peek Inside the Millennial Mind
What if you could have a young person sit in front of your board and authentically share their viewpoint about your social issue and cause? What would they say, and how can you learn from it to better engage the next generation of …
