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		<title>Mission Achievable: Better Boards, Better Management, Better Fundraising</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 22 Sep 2011 13:30:23 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Good morning, and thank you for continuing to follow The Alford Group here and elsewhere! This morning I wanted to share a little with you about our new video series for Executive Directors, Development Directors, and Boards. For the last year, I and my colleagues have been working on a video training series that will [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=thealfordgroup.wordpress.com&amp;blog=12538756&amp;post=312&amp;subd=thealfordgroup&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>The Alford Group in Movie Mondays</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 31 Aug 2011 23:50:13 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Our Senior Vice President and Midwest Division Manager, Brenda Asare, was featured this week in 501 Video&#8217;s Movie Monday! To see Brenda&#8217;s video, click here. If you haven&#8217;t already signed up for Movie Mondays, they are a great way to get insight from your colleagues in the not-for-profit world on issues from governance to major [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=thealfordgroup.wordpress.com&amp;blog=12538756&amp;post=306&amp;subd=thealfordgroup&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Taxes – Why should we pay them?</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 01 Aug 2011 17:00:14 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Thank you to those who commented on my thoughts last week.  You had good comments and ideas.  Let me spend a few moments expanding on the recent difficulties in Washington DC due to a lack of “collaboration” and the inability to get an agreement on expanding the debt ceiling.  Hopefully we will see that impasse [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=thealfordgroup.wordpress.com&amp;blog=12538756&amp;post=302&amp;subd=thealfordgroup&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Collaboration is Easy to Discuss and Difficult to Do</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 20 Jul 2011 18:41:59 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Every day the news carries another story about the work in Washington, DC to negotiate a deal on the debt limit and serious debt reduction activities.  The issues are familiar – potential spending reductions and potential tax increases.  One side will not budge from its position of no new taxes – and the other will [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=thealfordgroup.wordpress.com&amp;blog=12538756&amp;post=295&amp;subd=thealfordgroup&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>The Unfortunate Lure of Small Not-For-Profit Governing Boards</title>
		<link>http://thealfordgroup.wordpress.com/2011/06/27/287/</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 27 Jun 2011 15:55:02 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>thealfordgroup</dc:creator>
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		<category><![CDATA[benefits of larger boards]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[Over the past several years, many not-for-profits have begun to shrink their boards to sizes ranging from 9 to 12 people.  Both board and staff leaders have argued that a smaller board is more productive and easier to manage.  This model seems to be coming from the for-profit board where smaller boards are the norm [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=thealfordgroup.wordpress.com&amp;blog=12538756&amp;post=287&amp;subd=thealfordgroup&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>People Keep Giving Money Away!</title>
		<link>http://thealfordgroup.wordpress.com/2011/06/20/people-keep-giving-money-away/</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 20 Jun 2011 16:39:35 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>thealfordgroup</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Today, June 20, 2011, the latest Giving USA numbers were released by the Giving USA Foundation estimating the giving for 2010 based on the recently released actual numbers for 2008 to include their re-revised numbers for 2009.  In past years the revised numbers were usually revised upward.  Due to the recession that began in late [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=thealfordgroup.wordpress.com&amp;blog=12538756&amp;post=279&amp;subd=thealfordgroup&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>The Economy in a Stall</title>
		<link>http://thealfordgroup.wordpress.com/2011/06/06/the-economy-in-a-stall/</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 06 Jun 2011 17:20:13 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>thealfordgroup</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Two weeks ago everything seemed bright on the economic horizon with the stock market moving well and unemployment numbers from April looking better and better all the time.  What a difference a fortnight makes. The news this past week from Wednesday on was not cheerful, and was not bright.  Only 58,000 jobs were created over [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=thealfordgroup.wordpress.com&amp;blog=12538756&amp;post=276&amp;subd=thealfordgroup&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>There are donors and then there are donors!!</title>
		<link>http://thealfordgroup.wordpress.com/2011/05/23/there-are-donors-and-then-there-are-donors/</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 23 May 2011 17:13:19 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>thealfordgroup</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[This past week I was away from Seattle doing client work for a national organization with many programs around the country and the world.  They are doing incredibly good work for a large number of people and have significant volunteer and donor support.  Over the past four years they have seen a decline in their [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=thealfordgroup.wordpress.com&amp;blog=12538756&amp;post=269&amp;subd=thealfordgroup&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Keeping in Touch</title>
		<link>http://thealfordgroup.wordpress.com/2011/05/10/261/</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 10 May 2011 15:33:32 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>thealfordgroup</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Thank you to my colleague, Debbie Marchione, for her post last week on communications.  A simple concept – yet often over looked.  She illustrated that we have many ways to communicate these days and we need to do our best to take advantage of those communication lines. Communications is an active process, a thoughtful process [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=thealfordgroup.wordpress.com&amp;blog=12538756&amp;post=261&amp;subd=thealfordgroup&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Finding Your Organization&#8217;s Voice By Listening</title>
		<link>http://thealfordgroup.wordpress.com/2011/05/03/finding-your-organizations-voice-by-listening/</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 03 May 2011 18:16:26 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>debmarchione</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[With non-profits working even harder to do more with less, it becomes even more important to find out if your stakeholders – volunteers, donors, prospects – are actually hearing your messages.   Do you know when, where and how your stakeholders want to hear from you? The number and variety of communication channels have increased exponentially [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=thealfordgroup.wordpress.com&amp;blog=12538756&amp;post=234&amp;subd=thealfordgroup&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>A Test of Values and Choices</title>
		<link>http://thealfordgroup.wordpress.com/2011/04/26/a-test-of-values-and-choices/</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 26 Apr 2011 18:20:46 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[I was in Connecticut last week listening to the radio news while driving between appointments.  It was announced that the state legislature had reached an agreement on the state budget for the next year.  This was accomplished with a few tax increases and plenty of budget reductions.  Choices had to be made and I am [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=thealfordgroup.wordpress.com&amp;blog=12538756&amp;post=230&amp;subd=thealfordgroup&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Taxes, Deficits and the Government We Want</title>
		<link>http://thealfordgroup.wordpress.com/2011/04/18/taxes-deficits-and-the-government-we-want/</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 18 Apr 2011 17:32:44 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[It has been way too long since I have posted my thoughts on this blog, but today seems like a good day to continue a dialogue in which many of you have participated.  Today, tax returns are due and the news is filled with stories about taxes, deficits, income groups, corporate tax rates and government [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=thealfordgroup.wordpress.com&amp;blog=12538756&amp;post=224&amp;subd=thealfordgroup&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Brenda Asare is featured in today&#8217;s Movie Monday video!</title>
		<link>http://thealfordgroup.wordpress.com/2011/01/31/brenda-asare-is-featured-in-todays-mov/</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 31 Jan 2011 15:10:28 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Brenda Asare is featured in today&#8217;s Movie Monday: The New Look of Board Meetings. Check it out! http://www.501videos.com/mm2011/01/mm_5_bm.html?awt_l=6PLU3&#38;awt_m=1bo5NTZvt0SBtP Filed under: Uncategorized<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=thealfordgroup.wordpress.com&amp;blog=12538756&amp;post=222&amp;subd=thealfordgroup&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>A New Year….and New Unknowns</title>
		<link>http://thealfordgroup.wordpress.com/2011/01/24/a-new-year%e2%80%a6-and-new-unknowns/</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 24 Jan 2011 18:10:47 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[This is a fun time of the year when you get to reflect on the past and look forward to the future.  Over the holidays I read article after article summarizing the growth made during 2010, taking our country out of recession (ever so slowly) and into more future opportunities.  And then there were the [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=thealfordgroup.wordpress.com&amp;blog=12538756&amp;post=219&amp;subd=thealfordgroup&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>The Role of the Board: What Board members should be thinking and doing</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 22 Dec 2010 18:46:06 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Last week, I wrote on how staff should be working to support the efforts of their not-for-profit board members.  A few days later I received a comment from a reader encouraging me to write about the board members’ responsibilities.  Over the years, I have kept a list of board member responsibilities that I have used [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=thealfordgroup.wordpress.com&amp;blog=12538756&amp;post=215&amp;subd=thealfordgroup&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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