Ken's Corner

Merger mania

The Spring 2010 issue of the Stanford Social Innovation Reveiw hit my desk as I was leaving for a week away from the office.

Stanford Social Innovation Review's most read articles of 2009

The Stanford Social Innovation Review sent out an email last week revealing the five most read articles from its website.

Writing sound bites

One reason I stress writing skills is that your words, written and spoken, are a key link between the people your organization helps and funders.

What if there is no more normal?

““Normal” may be a thing of the past.”

Making change work for you

There is a old saying, "No news is good news." But that really doesn't apply to grant writing and your work with funders.

The challenge of development work

As we begin the New Year I reflect back on a conversation I had with a development staff early in the fall.

Looking ahead at a challenging year

The current issue of the Chronicle of Philanthropy offers an article “Daunting Challenges Face the Nonprofit World.” The crux of the article is that its survey of the top 400 fund raising organ

Web Sites, not web pages

Last week I was driving up I-5 through California’s Central Valley. I won’t go into the long story behind why I drove from just north of LA to Medford in one day.

On presentation and proposal letters

One of the most engaging presentations at this year's PSGA conference was Michael Shadow's Making Persuasive Prese

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