Tip$ and Treasure$ Weekly

Tip$ and Treasure$ Weekly is a brief email update containing relevant nonprofit management tips, information about upcoming workshops and seminars, announcements about open positions in the nonprofit sector and other useful information.

What readers are saying...

"Thanks so much for a lively and informative weekly publication. I know it is a huge commitment and wanted you to know how much it is appreciated- and read! Thanks, too, for the community fundraising calendar. What a huge help!" -- Julee Durham, Community Impact Coordinator, United Way of Thurston County

Past Issues

9/26/09 - Leadership versus Parenting

9/11/09 - Disaster Volunteering This Winter

8/21/09 -Structure national-chapter relationships to maximize organizational success

8/14/09 - ACTION ALERT: NonProfits Not Included in Healthcare Bill Subsidy

8/07/09 - Does Your Organization Have a High Impact Board?

7/31/09 - Mobile giving is catching on

7/17/09 - Research pays off when pitching stories

7/10/09 -Don't Even THINK about Social Media until Your Web Site and E-news Are Working Well

6/26/09 - Raising Money in Hard Times

6/19/09 - President Uses Video To Push Public Service

6/12/09 - Top Ten Steps to Successful Sponsorship Development 

6/05/09 - The Nonprofit Wage and Benefit Survey 

5/29/09 - Communication Strategies to Enhance the Climate of Giving 

5/22/09 - An Announcement from AFP Washington 

5/15/09 - 11 Tips for Your Nonprofit Blog

5/08/09 - The 60-second Newsletter Concept

5/01/09 - Keep Dire Talk Out of Fund-Raising Letters 

4/24/09 - Jay Buhner coming to town, Statewide Volunteer Website,  New NPS column 

4/17/09 - Make Sure Your Policies are Grounded in Reality 

4/10/09 - Want Stimulus Money? Act Fast!

4/06/09 - New Solutions for Organizations in Hard Times

3/27/09 - Integrated Marketing -Nirvana or Illusion

3/20/09 - It's Not All Bad News - 25 Things That Make the Nonprofit Sector Great

3/13/09 - Planning for the Worst - Steps to Take in Performing a Downsizing Assessment

3/06/09 - Half of Wealthy Americans Say Taxes Don't Affect Their Giving 

2/27/09 - Nonprofit Mergers

2/20/09 - The Most Important Part of Your Strategic Plan 

2/13/09 - A Few Tips for Displaced Nonprofit Staff 

2/06/09 - Fall in Love with your Job All Over Again

1/30/09 - Nonprofit Website Mistakes: Lack of Transparency 

01/23/09 - The Development Audit - A Return on Investment You Can't Afford to Not Make

01/16/09 - Unleash the Power of your Email Signature

01/09/09 - Important Information from the Volunteer Center

01/02/09 - 5 Resolutions for a Tough New Year

12/05/08 - Born to Lead?

11/21/08 - Ten Characteristics of Excellent Nonprofit Consultants

11/14/08 - The New IRS Form 990: Are you Ready?

11/07/08 - Website Features User Feedback on U.S. Charities

10/31/08 - Strategies for Overcoming the Global Financial Crisis

10/24/08 - 5 Ideas for High-Impact Governance

10/17/08 - Nonprofit Board of Directors Paradox

10/10/08 - Red Flags for Federal Audits 

10/03/08 - Kick Can't to the Curb

9/26/08 - Donors and Nonprofits Separated by a Common Language

9/19/08 - 5 Steps for Advanced Marketing Campaigns

9/12/08 - 30 Tips for Effective Nonprofit Board Leadership

9/05/08 - Recruiting Volunteers....3 Approaches

8/29/08 - Starting a New Program: Is it Feasible, How Will We Fund, Where do we Go From Here? 

8/22/08 - 6 Tips for Writing Nonprofit Marketing Copy That Works

8/15/08 - IRS Shares New Proposed Rules for Charitable Gift Deductions

8/08/08 - Announcing the Nonprofit Leadership Institute Faculty

8/01/08 - Strategic Planning Starts with Questions, not Answers

7/25/08 - Give or Get: Board Members Must Provide Cash

7/11/08 - New Survey Looks at Tomorrow's NonProfit Leaders

6/27/08 - To Blog Or Not To Blog.... Is There A Question?

6/20/08 - Where to Have a Board Retreat

6/13/08 - Major Gifts... 4 Media Ideas For Preparing Your Donors

6/06/08 - Fertilizing Your Rural Appeals

5/30/08 - YouTube Nonprofit Program

5/23/08 - Get the Most From Your Gen-X Leader By Working Together

5/09/08 - Thurston Community Television is a Partner in Your Communications

5/02/08 - Major Gifts – How Events Can Lead to Really Big Gifts

4/25/08 - Volunteers Worth 3.3 Times Minimum Wage

4/18/08 - Carrots or Karats: Rethinking Benefits for Nonprofit Employees

4/11/08 - Top 10 Ways To Make Sure Your Prospects Never Become Major Donors

4/04/08 - 8 Steps to Strategic Planning

3/28/08 - How Events Can Lead to Really Big Gifts

3/21/08 - IRS Updates March 2008

3/14/08 - 9 Guideposts for the CEO

3/07/08 - Essential Policies and Procedures

2/29/08 - Keys to Building a Monthly Donor Base

2/22/08 - 8 Reasons to Adopt a Board of Director's Policies Manual

2/15/08 - Ten mistakes to avoid with email newsletters

2/08/08 - Donor management without the tears

2/01/08 - Marketing – You're not selling soap

1/25/08 - Web site layout becoming commonplace

1/18/08 - What middle managers really think

1/11/08 - Management – 16 consistent due diligence checkpoints

12/14/07 - Training Your Board Members to Make the Ask

12/07/07 - Compensating internal or external fundraisers

11/30/07 - Volunteer Recruitment, Screening & Selection

11/16/07 - NonProfit Solutions teams up with DSI

11/09/07 - Plan now to invest in your staff in 2008 - 2009

11/02/07 - Five tips for Board recruitment

10/26/07 - The value of an Advisory Council

10/19/07 - Resources at your local library

10/12/07 - Strengthening the Nonprofit Workforce

10/05/07 - Getting real help from the IRS

9/28/07 - Six practices for high-impact nonprofits

9/21/07 - The value of a good annual giving plan

9/14/07 - Assessing your organization’s capacity

9/07/07 - Preparing for the Future

8/31/07 - The importance of personnel policies

8/24/07 - Managing change

8/17/07 - Training survey results

8/10/07 - Don’t be afraid to ask for help

8/03/07 - Tips for securing major gift

7/27/07 - Volunteer Training and Development

7/20/07 - Media Relations 101

7/13/07 - South Sound non profit event calendar

7/06/07 - Fundraising – 9 ways to pull dollars out of a hat

7/05/07 - Professionally Speaking

7/03/07 - How changing demographics affect nonprofits

7/02/07 - Sales to fund development

6/29/07 -The development audit

6/28/07 - Foundations and corporate giving programs

6/27/07 - Nonprofit organizations need to regularly communicate

6/26/07 - Nonprofit organizations rely on volunteers

6/25/07 - What yardstick do you use to measure the board candidate