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Download McKay-Dee Hospital Foundation acquisition package
This is a before-and-after acquisition package for McKay-Dee Hospital Foundation in Ogden, UT. It did well. See what was changed between the first draft and the final items that were mailed.
Download PPMD annual report FY08
Keiren Havens and ChristieLyn Diller put together (yet again) an exceptionally confident and borrow-worthy annual report.
Download A NY Planned Parenthood donor newsletter
Read this front page headline/deck in isolation, ignoring the article (just as most will). What do you think? Is it doing a great job? A good job? Or an uncertain job?
Download 2 thank you notes from advocacy groups
We made gifts. We got thanked. Briefly, but nicely. See what makes these notes work.
Download Institute for the Study & Practice of Nonviolence newsletter
The Institute had become a legend in its own time, for doing something effective about surging gang violence. Question is: Is the newsletter as tough as the work?
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Campbell Rinker
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CASE
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  Quick tips for improving your donor communications: a handy PDF to have on your computer desktop.
Critiques
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  Nonprofits that can take the heat come into my critical kitchen.
Direct mail "friend-raising"
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  Community foundations seek to acquire qualified prospects for cultivation
Case Statements
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WFRI bequest package
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  Here's the entire package used by the Women's Fund of RI to inform donors about leaving a charitable bequest.
Model donor newsletter
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Campaigning for a Bond
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  In 2006, RI voters approved a $50 million bond to build affordable housing, thanks to a remarkable coalition effort funded by a community foundation, a United Way, and a quasi-state agency. Here are the lessons learned.
NYCT bequest brochure
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  The New York Community Trust launched a new ad campaign to attract charitable bequests. Anyone responding to the ads received this booklet.
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