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If You Give a Board Treasurer A Cookie…
Blue Avocado columnist Vu Le inspires us again with his ideas for nonprofit-themed children’s books. We should all be writing some! Today, I want to talk about children’s books. I am so sick of these children’s books that my one-year-old …
Cow Board Members Give of Their Time, Not Milk
Blue Avocado humor columnist Vu Le is taking a brief vacation, so we’re bringing you a guest humor column by John Suart of the Non-Profit Humour Blog in Canada: The board of directors of the Metro Foundation says they don’t need to make a donati …
Woe or Whoa? Contest Winners Tell Nonprofit Board Tales
Truth or Dare, Blue Avocado Style: sitting around a campfire sure makes our readers blurt out funny, sad, silly or gut wrenching stories. Our Truth or Dare game (from the September 2013 bonus issue), gave our readers to the opportunity to tell their ta …
Humor: Nonprofit Advice on Love, Marriage, and Other Stuff
Vu Le, Blue Avocado humor columnist and executive director of Vietnamese Friendship Association, makes us smile: Executive directors are problem solvers. That’s why we get paid the big bucks. But why keep it to just nonprofit problems? We would …
New Sitcom: Nonprofit Life
Vu Le, by day the executive director of Vietnamese Friendship Association in Seattle, exercises his funny muscles at night as our humor columnist in Point of Vu. Here he proposes a new tv show called "ED" . . . no, not the same ED featured in …
Dress for Nonprofit Success?
Our humor columnist Vu Le gives some fashion advice to us nonprofit folk: Like other nonprofit leaders, every morning I wake up and immediately have to make an important decision: Should I play a round of Scramble with Friends on my phone, or sleep in …
The Automatic Nonprofit Salary Calculator
Jon Pratt of the Minnesota Council of Nonprofits uses a tongue-in-cheek version of the familiar Salary Calculator model to comment trenchantly on the indiscriminate — and not so indiscriminate –differences in how nonprofit staff get paid:How muc …
The Trouble with Turkey
If there’s one day when socially conscious do-gooders can be excused for letting the cares of the world slip away in a haze of tryptophan, it’s Thanksgiving. As major holidays go, Thanksgiving is remarkably worry-free, its main focus n …
