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Word on the Street About: The Mortgage Crisis and Transitional Housing
With the mortgage crisis and all the foreclosures, most people expected us to have a lot more families coming in. But instead, the issue has been that it’s harder to get people out [of transitional housing] into [permanent] housing. People that a …
Queries & Communiques for Feb 15 2009
For upcoming Blue Avocado issues:* What drives you crazy about the nonprofit sector? Pitch us a First Person Nonprofit article/OpEd by clicking here about where you’re coming from and what you’d like to see different.* For a future article: does your o …
Nonprofit Jargon Watch
Something old, something new . . . something to sprinkle into your lunchtime conversations . . . • Mouse-click activism: activities such as signing Internet petitions or posting the color of your bra on Facebook (to raise awareness of breast cance …
Queries & Communiques for June 15 2009
* Six Word Novel Contest: Ernest Hemingway once wrote a novel in just six words: "Baby shoes: for sale, never worn."In the August 1 issue of Blue Avocado we’ll print the winning entries in the Blue Avocado Six Word Novel Writing Contest, and …
Take a 3-Minute Vacation Right Now: Jabbawockeez
There’s only been one thing worth watching on MTV in the last ten years: this spring’s “America’s Best Dance Crew.” Put a mental spring in your step and enjoy the winner: Jabbawockeez from San Diego! “You are changing our country!” commented judge Lil’ …
Against the Current: Jose “Che” Ramirez
For close to 25 years, I worked in the basement of America’s largest homeless shelter, where we built D.C, Central Kitchen into the model program it is today. But no matter how efficient and impactful we were, we still operated amongst the chaos & …
Take a 3-Minute Vacation with Auld Lang Syne
Take a few minutes to remember moments in your nonprofit life that mean something to you.Here's one from me: I was the accountant at a job-training nonprofit and we had a group of very low-income people doing summer paid internships. On their last …
Vote with Your Mission Campaign in California
We like the new campaign to get 100% of nonprofit staff and volunteers to vote: the Vote with Your Mission campaign at the California Association of Nonprofits. After all, if 100% of the people who work and volunteer for the arts voted, we'd have b …
Take a 3-Minute Vacation Right Now: Visit the World of Fish!
From Washington, DC, reader Bob Kim, a former ACLU staff attorney, writes: Did you know that watching fish is clinically proven to reduce stress, lower your blood pressure, even stave off Alzheimer’s? Several ye …
Is Your Board Less Than the Sum of Its Parts?
Have you ever wondered about a board member who seldom says or does a thing: How did in the world did she achieve the professional heights she has, shen she just sits there like a lump? Or about a lackluster board chair: He couldn’t possibly run meet …
