Last week Good Day New York invited me to talk about career stress in light of Steven Slater’s quitting his job by jumping out of a JetBlue plane. The interview is below. But there was so much more that I sent to Good Day New York. The entire 5-page article is available here: Changing Careers [...]
Entries Tagged as 'Odd'
Career Change Without Felony Charges
August 16th, 2010 · 1 Comment
Tags: Natural Abilities · Odd · Stories
Fundraising oddity: Bet you’ve never seen THIS before!
November 12th, 2009 · 1 Comment
Earlier this week, I walked into an office here at Inland Hospital and saw this. After being a bit grossed out, I read that it was one way this office was collecting for our hospital’s United Way drive. Being the geek I am, I decided to run a photo caption contest by posting this picture [...]
Tags: Odd
Homeless man leaves $4 million estate
September 22nd, 2009 · 1 Comment
Do you remember Jean Preston, the unassuming librarian who’d amassed an $8 million estate? Or Helene Whitlock Alley, the $100 donor that bequethed $7.3 million to a diabetes group. Well here’s another entry in the never underestimate anyone category: Richard Walters. Perhaps you’ve heard his name on NPR: “Support for NPR comes from the estate [...]
Tags: 2. Engage · 3. Ask · Fundraising Secrets · Odd · Samples & Tools
Are nonprofit’s helping postpone Alzheimer’s?
May 18th, 2009 · No Comments
Apparently 2009 is going to be the year of learning to delay Alzheimer’s. In today’s news, work is apparently officially proven to delay Alzheimer’s. The equation? 1 year or work = 6 weeks of delay. Earlier this year, I read that drinking strong coffee may reduce the risk of dementia or Alzheimer’s by 65%! What [...]
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Thoughts on fundraising “sales”
December 23rd, 2008 · 2 Comments
See’s Chocolates sent me a tin of chocolates they use for a chocolate fundraiser. I told them my blog doesn’t talk about fundraising sales, but they insisted and who am I to turn down free chocolate? The tin came yesterday. I was pleasantly surprised by both the assortment of chocolates in the tin and at [...]
Tags: Odd · Samples & Tools
