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	<description>Helping Nonprofits and NGOs Around the World Thrive in Challenging Times</description>
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		<title>Electronic voting on your board</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 13 Jun 2013 17:04:36 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Sometimes your board does not have the luxury of meeting in person when an important matter must be voted on. Whether the circumstance is a cancelled meeting due to weather or the urgency of an issue needing to be addressed prior to your next scheduled meeting, your process for coordinating a board action by email [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Coach your board to be better ambassadors</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 06 Jun 2013 16:13:39 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>susan</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[The success of your nonprofit is forever linked to the strength of your board of directors. In our consulting work with nonprofits and international NGOs, the theme of board development—from recruitment, orientation, engagement, and reward—is a constant. And although nonprofits often enjoy the gift of caring, intelligent, willing board members, regrettably few organizations are effectively [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Can other sectors teach us about ethics?</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 30 May 2013 17:27:08 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>susan</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[The Ethisphere Institute is a leading international think tank dedicated to the creation, advancement and sharing of best practices in business ethics, corporate social responsibility, anti-corruption and sustainability. Each year they honor a dozen organizations—usually huge corporations, although a few government agencies and nonprofits sometimes make the list—as the “World’s Most Ethical Companies.” It’s a [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Why introverts make great leaders</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 23 May 2013 15:57:28 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>susan</dc:creator>
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		<category><![CDATA[Executive recruitment and evaluations]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[Need someone in your organization who can make bold decisions, inspire others, and communicate effectively? Hire a quiet, reserved person. Yes, there is a growing tide of research that introverted people can make really great leaders. This idea, explored in Forbes magazine back in 2009, covered more recently on Time.com and the subject of several [...]]]></description>
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		<title>A fresh batch of favorite quotations</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 16 May 2013 16:39:00 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>susan</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[It’s spring here in Colorado and it’s nearly impossible not to garner some inspiration and hope from everything greening up, popping up, and renewing itself. What is the quote or phrase that hangs on your wall at work or at home? We often encourage bold leadership and taking risk in Rich TIPS, but we’re not [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Big data, open data, and you</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 09 May 2013 17:03:02 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>susan</dc:creator>
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		<category><![CDATA[Fundraising strategies]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Strategic planning]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[One of the realities of life in our sector is that we get buried in our work, our missions, our industries. Endlessly raising money and valiantly delivering programs, we’re too often immersed in our own causes and don’t always have time to come up for air and take a good 360-degree look at the world [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Cross-generational understanding</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 02 May 2013 17:40:49 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>susan</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[We can safely assume that every person reading this TIP is either a member of, or works closely with, the generations known as Baby Boomers (b. 1946-1964) or Millennials (b. 1982-1999). If you’re a mid-life Generation X person, you’re not being disregarded here, and in fact, you’re more likely in a ringside seat with colleagues [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Communicating during, and following, a disaster</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 25 Apr 2013 17:29:21 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>susan</dc:creator>
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		<category><![CDATA[Donor development]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[The immediate crisis of the Boston Marathon tragedy has passed and we are moving into a phase of trying to understand what internal and external forces influenced the bombing suspects’ thoughts and subsequent actions. Last week, in the confusing heat of the crisis with a major U.S. city frozen in place, this is what nonprofit [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Working remotely&#8211;pros and cons</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 18 Apr 2013 17:00:49 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>susan</dc:creator>
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		<category><![CDATA[Organizational assessments]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Staffing and HR]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[When the top executive at Yahoo famously announced earlier this year that she was requiring all employees to work from company offices, the dialogue on both sides—in favor of working remotely, and in defense of the conventional office setting—was fast and furious. There are significant arguments to be made for both points of view, of [...]]]></description>
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		<title>How helpful are you . . . really?</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 11 Apr 2013 17:25:54 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>susan</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[When have you had laughably bad customer service? Restaurants and airlines are common culprits, of course, and our favorite “horror stories” of poor customer service also come from contact throughout the corporate world&#8211;financial institutions and cable companies and behemoth retailers. We all know what it feels like to experience voicemail hell, script-reading call centers, or [...]]]></description>
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