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Nine Nonprofit Trends that Need to Die
Vu Le of the Rainier Valley Corps, calls out some of the most annoying nonprofit trends. We would add the use of word clouds (see left). 1. Ignite-style presentations AKA “presentation by karaoke” “Ignite” involves a five-minute Powerpoin …
Mediocrity Starts with ME (Humor)
After being in this sector for over a decade, I can say that nonprofit professionals are some of the most awesome people on earth. We are smart, talented, dedicated, passionate, caring, humble, witty, cool, and hilarious. Also, we are really good-looki …
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 …
Downward-Facing Budget and Other Nonprofit Yoga Poses
Don’t you love Vu Le, Blue Avocado’s humor columnist? This time he turns to giving us health hints! We in nonprofits work a lot and oftentimes neglect important things. Like flossing. And exercise. There are many benefits of yoga, which are the …
Bring Unicorns Back to Our World: The Problem with Outcomes
How many outcomes and logic models can fit on the head of a pin? Humor columnist Vu Le enlightens us: The concept of “outcomes” has been well-beaten into all of us nonprofit folks. So much so, in fact, that I start to apply this concept to all s …
The Sustainability Question: Why Is It So Annoying?
This morning, I woke up early and realized I was face-to-face with my son Viet, who has been sleeping in the same bed with his mom and me. Looking at our sweet little baby, who was still sleeping peacefully, one tiny hand under his soft and rosy cheek, …
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 …
How to Schedule a Nonprofit Meeting: Point of Vu
Our humor columnist, Vu Le, comments on the joys of meeting scheduling. But first, a cartoon about meetings from Planet 501c3: As a field, we have a lot of meetings. And we totally suck at scheduling them. Each week, I get at least a doze …
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 …
