The Board’s Role in Fundraising

“Should my board help me raise funds?” The obvious answer is yes, of course, they should! Now comes the hard part. Getting the board to actually raise money is a lot tougher than simply saying they should. Many nonprofits, of all sizes and types of missions, overlook the basic steps necessary to engage the board […]

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Mindfulness Attitudes – Acceptance

  Acceptance is a very active process, there is nothing passive about it, it’s not passive resignation but an act of recognition that things are the way they are… Acceptance doesn’t mean we can’t work to change the world or circumstances, but it means that unless we accept things as they are, we will try […]

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The Relationship Between Insurance and Finance

Insurance and finance are closely interwoven fields of business, not least because they both involve money. They also often both involve speculation and risk, and often where one goes, the other will follow. Take property investment, for example, it involves a large amount of capital outlay, swiftly followed by insurance to protect the capital investment. […]

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Information to Nonprofit Fundraising

Introduction Nonprofit fundraising is a sophisticated matter and a vital operation. Nonprofits are in a singular place from companies in that they can not worth their services and products to, properly, make a revenue. Working budgets have to be conceived from different sources than program revenues. This can be information targeted on fundraising for nonprofits. […]

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Tips for Strategic Fundraising Planners

Fundraising may sound like a simple event with small activities aimed at attracting people to chip in for something you believe in. In reality, fundraising can be anything but simple. Any professional fundraiser would tell you how detailed and intricate the whole process is. For a fundraiser to be a success, it must come with […]

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The Power of Cultural Symbolism

Everywhere we look in society we see forms of symbolic representation which identify and illustrate our cultural ethos. Symbols that we use, as distinct from signs, carry multiple meanings depending on the context and culture in which they appear. A symbol can be a gesture, an object or a ritual that informs solidifies and influences […]

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Why Photography in a Wedding Is Important?

Wedlock is the most beautiful bond in the life of every couple, the memory of which revitalize their soul. The flashback comes around thousands of times of their event and they tell the story thousands of times of their children and their loved ones, however “a picture speaks louder than words”. A wedding involves emotions […]

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Life Lessons From The King’s Speech

First of all, let me state my disclaimer: I am NOT a movie critic, nor do I pretend to be. However, I am a lover of quality and films are no exception. The King’s Speech is at the epitome of genius filmmaking – cinematography, acting, music and costumes. However, it’s the powerful storyline that caused […]

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The Psychology of Torture

There is one place in which one’s privacy, intimacy, integrity and inviolability are guaranteed – one’s body, a unique temple and a familiar territory of sense and personal history. The torturer invades, defiles and desecrates this shrine. He does so publicly, deliberately, repeatedly and, often, sadistically and sexually, with undisguised pleasure. Hence the all-pervasive, long-lasting, […]

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Fundamentals of Crowdfunding

By definition, crowdfunding is a method of financing a business venture by raising monetary contributions from a large number of people. It is mostly achieved with the use of the internet through websites that allow business people to raise money, but the concept can also be carried out through other means. Of recent, crowdfunding has […]

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