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Improvisation Over Strategy: What Nonprofit Managers Can Learn from Theater

NonProfit Quarterly

Image credit: Ahmad Odeh on Unsplash In this interview, the CEO of a California-based CDFI offers her observations on what her work as a theater director has taught her about nonprofit management. SD: At a National Community Reinvestment Coalition Conference last year, you mentioned you majored in sociology and theater.

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How to make sure the experience you deliver to donors makes their giving feel worthwhile

iMarketSmart

1] Many small nonprofit managers dream of the million-dollar donation. It’s in foundations, funds, trusts, and endowments. The Sociological Review, 35 (1), 150-169. [3] Donations come because the donor’s experience is worth the gift. Getting big gifts means delivering big value to the donor. It’s not in auctions.