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Nonprofit Spotlight
A new feature of Blue Avocado. Each issue, we’ll highlight a community nonprofit that is doing great work within their sector. This issue brings you a nascent nonprofit that bridges social services and the arts. The Trenton Community A-Team (TCAT) in T …
What Kind of Avocado Do you Want to See?
As we get ready to welcome our new guest editor, we want to hear from you! What kind of avocado do you want to see? Let’s face it, sometimes running a nonprofit can feel about as easy as folding a fitted sheet, but here at Blue Avocado, w …
A Tiger Escaped Today, and I’m on the Zoo Board
It made international headlines: tiger attacks three visitors and kills one of them after escaping her enclosure at the San Francisco Zoo. What was it like to be on the Zoo board at that time? We are grateful to our friend for sharing his First Person …
What You Should be Getting Out of Being on a Board
There are enough books and articles to fill a library on the subject of how board members can contribute to the nonprofits on whose boards they serve. But what about the other way around? What should we board members get out of board service? And as ex …
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 …
How to Recruit Terrible Nonprofit Board Members
Susan Sanow has been a wonderful board member on most of the boards she's served on, and a terrible board member some of the time. So she knows of what she speaks:Board members wanted. Requirements: Warm Body. Nice. Has a title or an employer or a …
Nonprofit Finance People: Take this Survey! NOTE: study now closed
American Nonprofits and Blue Avocado want to learn more about the backgrounds, experiences, joys and frustrations of being in nonprofit finance. If you have responsibilities for the accounting and finance of a nonprofit — regardless of your position – …
Nonprofit Funding: Buying a Cake and Restricting it Too
Blue Avocado’s humor columnist Vu Le dreams about restricted funding for cakes: For the past few months one of our staff has an eye that’s been twitching. “It’s this grant!” she says. “It’s for our after-school program. It pays for instructo …
Kirk Kramer: An Uncomplicated Path for Developing Leaders
Kirk Kramer of The Bridgespan Group suggests some new approaches to leadership development in his recent papers. For Blue Avocado readers, he cuts right to the chase: Blue Avocado: Kirk, what’s the single most interesting point you have to m …
In the Swirling Dust of Change, Life Still Goes On for an ED
It just makes sense that the founder of the Center for Digital Storytelling would tell his own story in a remarkably compelling way. Here’s Joe Lambert with a thoughtful First Person Nonprofit account of how organizational problems can bring out …
