From the Edge

San Antonio Fun Raising

My one-day journey to San Antonio with Jana Mullins of Rockwell Fund and my colleague Shuchi Sharma was both filling and fun. Trips to San Antonio often are.
                The local chapter of the Association of Fundraising Professionals invited Jana and me to lunch with 60-plus members, asking that we reimburse them by sharing our stories and maybe a lesson or two garnered during our years of nonprofit work.

An Alternative Paradigm for Nonprofits, Pt. V: The Challenge is Competition

Not long before my partner and I decided to devote Edge Creative to serving altruistic organizations, I learned that Houston was home to 10,000 nonprofits. Ten thousand!

I naturally thought, “What a rich palette of colors with which to create a future! How can this not be great?”

An Alternative Paradigm for Nonprofits, Pt. II “Be Interesting or Be Absent.”

If your email box is like mine, then a lot of junk collects there. And a fair amount comes from nonprofits to which I have contributed money, volunteered time or otherwise showed support. I read it all, but then that’s my business. Most working people are unlike me. They delete more than they read. They go the way of incentives to order Xanax, Cialis and Levitra — no prescription needed.