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5 Ways to Maximize Your Fundraising Event Sponsorships

Achieve

Target the Right Businesses Start by identifying businesses within your networks where your nonprofit has a personal connection, whether it’s through a staff member, board member, planning committee member, or dedicated volunteer. He lives and golfs in Lincoln, Nebraska with his wife and three sons.

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SCD Group: Do "Best Practices" prevent association innovation?

SCD Group

You CAN clone a cow (apparently), and the cow operates pretty much the same in Iowa as it does in Nebraska. I seek key trends from business and consumer marketing that stimulate your thinking about your organization and its members or donors. Does print still work for association marketing & Tune-up Your Association.

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Boozing, Bribing and Brawling on Election Day

Reid All About it

Since market day was Wednesday in most towns, that day didn’t work. Since then, several in Congress have attempted to make Election Day a federal holiday or move it to the weekend, but their bills never made it out of committee or died on the House floor. Why Tuesday? Back in the 1840s, the U.S. was an agrarian society.