book review

Wanna breakthrough in fundraising? First, change the way you think!

Mike.Delponte — Sun, 05 Oct 2008 16:05:33 -0400

If I could give you one piece of advice on fundraising, it would be this: go to the For Impact Web site and absorb everything they offer.

Attend a free teleseminar.
Read all of their nuggets.
Invest in a training camp.

The folks who lead For Impact have over 30 years of social sector experience, and they’ve fundraised more than $1 billion (yes, that’s billion with a “B”). They are the experts; I’m just a messenger. But the message I have today is simple and powerful, so start here and then check out the resources mentioned in this post.

So here's my #1 suggestion to transform your fundraising results: CHANGE THE WAY YOU THINK. Change the way you think about yourself, your organization, and funding your vision. read more »

Conscious Lifestyle recommends: the Omnivore's Dilemma

mattswriting — Tue, 01 Apr 2008 04:19:06 -0400

If Americans were to 'get Michael Pollan' about what they ate (or in other words—really think about what they consume), their eating habits would radically change. Michael Pollan's The Omnivore's Dilemma is billed as "a natural history of four meals," but it is about much more than food. Pollan begins the book closely examining the omnipresence of corn in the modern American diet. And then he goes beyond the territory traversed by other books like Eric Schlosser's Fast Food Nation, and as an investigative food journalist, Pollan does not only offer critiques of the unsustainable megaliths of industrial corn farming and the PETA-angering Concentrated Animal Feeding Operations (CAFOs), but offers alternatives to these destructive systems. read more »