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Taking Advantage of a Crisis

Tech Soup

All key metrics declined for the index as a whole for the first quarter of 2009 as compared to the first quarter of 2008. Target Analytics' Index of National Fundraising Performance for the first quarter of 2009 had nothing but bad news.

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What is Microsoft Lync?

Tech Soup

Microsoft Lync is one of the least understood Microsoft product donations in the TechSoup catalog; however if yours is a larger organization that already runs on Windows Server 2008, uses Office Professional Plus 2010 , and has multiple offices or lots of work out in the field, it's definitely worth looking at. People in the U.S.

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Grant Decision Making. How do you choose which grants to chase?

DH Leonard Consulting & Grant Writing Services

In 2008, I accepted a position as a Major Gifts Officer at the largest independent nonprofit air and space museum in the world. Remember 2008/2009, the Great Recession? For example, I inherited the reporting phase for a project in which we had committed to improving a visitor metric that we HAD NEVER actually measured!

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Leaving Academia With Dr. Julie Ann Ward, Dr. Stephanie Weaver, and Dr. Krista Kurlinkus

Grant Writing Made Easy

I started my PhD in Hispanic Languages and Literatures at UC Berkeley, in one of the more prestigious programs in my field, in 2008. There’s so much experimentation in entrepreneurship, and you have to create your own metrics for success, whereas in academia, your main metric for success is being hired and then being tenured and promoted.

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