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Fundraising and Philanthropy in a Tightening Economy

“When the waterhole starts to shrink the animals begin to look at each other very differently.”

How should not-for-profits react and recalibrate when faced with an economy that is tightening as oil prices slump? My belief is that if you’ve been conducting your development and fundraising in a planned, strategic and professional way and had your eye on the long game, you shouldn't need to do a lot of recalibrating and certainly no panicking.


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Are All Entrepreneurs the Same?

When I started working with small to midsize businesses in my consulting business I believed that with over 20 years experience I could craft and develop one strategic business planning process that would work well for all businesses to be successful. The more I worked on my execution of this master plan, I quickly realized that not everyone is wired the same in the business community and started to research the concept. I came across a book called Entrepreneurial DNA by Joe Abraham.

Joe did a lot of research understanding how and why different people look at business through different lenses. He conducted this research with over 1,000 entrepreneurs and created the breakthrough discovery that aligns your business to your strengths and developed an assessment tool that can identify that DNA so you can build business processes and teams to create powerful business plans to optimize business success that is scalable and sustainable for all business types and size.


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Affiliate's Corner

A few blog posts from our UK affiliate - Alium Partners.

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