by Cyndi Lauren | Jul 1, 2014 | Board Development, communications, development and fundraising, Fresh Eyes, membership, Nonprofit operations, Volunteers
Cindy Lauren RT @littlebiancakay: When your best friend tells you she turned down a horse and carriage ride on a date because it’s bad for the animals @jaderibe ??? about an hour ago Cindy Lauren RT @margaretcho: Kathryn Knott was acquitted for brutal beating of...
by Cyndi Lauren | Feb 20, 2014 | Commentary, communications, development and fundraising, Volunteers
Cindy Lauren RT @littlebiancakay: When your best friend tells you she turned down a horse and carriage ride on a date because it’s bad for the animals @jaderibe ??? about an hour ago Cindy Lauren RT @margaretcho: Kathryn Knott was acquitted for brutal beating of...
by Cyndi Lauren | Jul 17, 2013 | Emergency Planning, Strategic Planning
Despite all the warnings and common sense in the world, sometimes we simply don?t get to things we know we need to address. If threatened with big and immediate penalties, such as the ones the IRS can mete out, we do force ourselves to do unpleasant or unfun things....
by Cyndi Lauren | Jun 28, 2012 | fiscal management
I love numbers, love, love, love them. Not sure why, but I have always felt there is a beauty and elegance and purity about them. That doesn?t mean we don?t have a troubled relationship: when they just don?t add up, won?t fit, are endlessly elusive or are simply too...
by Cyndi Lauren | Feb 22, 2012 | board direction, development and fundraising
We have clients, patients and family members on the board, but they don?t have money. Heard this before? Probably more than anything else, and sorry, this one is a deal breaker. Money is what makes the nonprofit function and do its work, kind of critical, essential...