It’s so nice to get up on my millennial soapbox once again and find a few more folks standing up here with me: Kristen Eddings of the Washington Global Health Alliance and UW School of Law student Jessica Smith. These two fellow impassioned millennials gave a great presentation at last week’s Northwest Development Officers Association winter [...]
My one-year-old has a tummy ache, or at least he did in the middle of last night. After an hour of cooperative efforts to quell his angst and crying, I decided to spare my wife some of the noise and walk around with him for a bit. With lights dimmed, we walked from room to [...]
The Collins Group is happy to welcome two new staff members into the TCG family: Julie Bianchi has joined the firm as an Associate Consultant. You may know Julie from her time in Relationship Banking at Pacific Continental Bank or perhaps you saw her at the last NDOA Conference (she co-chaired the 2009-2010 Conference Committee [...]
For any of you who attended my session at the Northwest Development Officers Association Spring Conference in January, you may remember when we brought up the topic of changes at the website Charity Navigator. Since that session, I have received number of inquiries from people wanting further information. In this January 11 blog post, Charity [...]
Aggie’s post last week got me thinking about how I give. And the result is: I give somewhat haphazardly. For the most part, I know to whom I give every year, but when I do my taxes I am often surprised when I see the pile of receipts stuffed into my tax folder. I tend [...]
Lately, I’ve spent time lately reviewing my 2010 giving plan and setting plans and budgets for 2011. I generally start prep work for my tax return in January — preparing my list of charitable donations and organizing the related receipts takes longer than the whole rest of my return! Many years ago, my husband and [...]
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Happy holidays to our clients, partners, and friends. We’ll be taking a holiday break and closing our office from December 24th through January 2nd. Our Blog and Facebook page will be quiet over the next week or so as our staff takes time to celebrate with family and friends, reflect on the year that was [...]
Or, “children are tomorrow’s leaders.” We hear variations of these familiar messages from nonprofits across sectors – from education to social services, from the arts to the environment. But what do we really mean when we use these well-worn statements? This past weekend I had the privilege of working with a group of high school students participating in the [...]
This week, we had the pleasure of sponsoring and attending National Philanthropy Day celebrations in Portland and Seattle. In both cities, the rooms were filled with fundraisers, philanthropists, and community leaders. Energy was high and there were happy greetings all around. At my table, someone remarked wryly, “Good luck getting all these fundraisers to sit [...]
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