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		<title>Who put the Moron in Oxymoron?</title>
		<description><![CDATA[My sister’s second career is as a fifth grade teacher in a Washington, DC public school.  She is just starting the unit on the Civil War, and this year, as she has done for the last four, she introduces the unit by talking about oxymorons.  Each year, some of her students know what an oxymoron [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.nonprofituniversityblog.org/2012/02/who-put-the-moron-in-oxymoron/</link>
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		<title>The Mistake Bank</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Sometime after Newsweek and The Daily Beast joined forces, the last page of each issue of Newsweek is now “My Favorite Mistake.”  Each issue some bigwig—from business, entertainment, even politics,  talks about his/her favorite mistake that s/he has made along the way. Sometimes, they have been game-changers in that person’s life, such as Paula Deen [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.nonprofituniversityblog.org/2012/01/the-mistake-bank/</link>
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		<title>Might as well face it&#8230;you&#8217;re addicted</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Several years back, a funder introduced me to a group of her grantees as the “bad cop” in the tag team which was about to do a presentation, a persona that continues today. Call me what you will, but I am on a crusade to help you help yourself, your organization, your group move forward [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.nonprofituniversityblog.org/2012/01/might-as-well-face-it-youre-addicted/</link>
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		<title>Don&#8217;t Squelch Happiness</title>
		<description><![CDATA[There’s a happy face on the cover of the current issue of the Harvard Business Review.  Never, ever thought I’d see that!  It’s the come-on for the issue’s theme:  happiness.  Here is HBR, in many people’s minds one of the premiere business journals, doing a whole on happiness in the workplace:  what makes people happy [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.nonprofituniversityblog.org/2012/01/dont-squelch-happiness/</link>
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		<title>We Can Do Better</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Here&#8217;s a new year&#8217;s resolution that doesn’t show up on the routine list  of working out more, spending less , being a better person.  But it should be one of the ones that you don’t break—ever. Everyone must adopt a code of ethics and live by it, no ifs, ands or buts.  I’m almost embarrassed [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.nonprofituniversityblog.org/2012/01/we-can-do-better/</link>
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		<title>Looking to the Stars</title>
		<description><![CDATA[This is going to sound all wrong, but would everyone and their mothers, brothers, aunts and uncles just stop fundraising? Please! I just went to my browser and there was a message asking me to join a bunch of celebrities and “do good for the world this holiday season.”  Seriously?  My browser is now doing [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.nonprofituniversityblog.org/2011/12/looking-to-the-stars/</link>
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		<title>Lessons from Bloomingdales</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Every year I give each of my nephews and nieces a Christmas tree ornament, from the tme they are born until they get married.  My thinking was that I didn’t want the first Christmas tree of their own to be bare or have cheesy ornaments or lacking sentiment.  When they were all young, it was [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.nonprofituniversityblog.org/2011/12/lessons-from-bloomingdales/</link>
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		<title>What Feeds your soul?</title>
		<description><![CDATA[I am sure that if you are fortunate, as I am, you have eaten your way through the recent Thanksgiving holiday and anxiously anticipating the holiday feasts still to come.  Thus, I’m pretty certain that for most of you, your body is well fed. But how’s your soul doing?  This is a need which I [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.nonprofituniversityblog.org/2011/12/what-feeds-your-soul/</link>
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		<title>Dumbing Down</title>
		<description><![CDATA[A number of years ago, there was a scandal within the world of academia:  it was said that some professors at some of the most prestigious institutions of higher learning were dumbing down their grading systems.  Apparently, a sizeable number of students, and parents, assumed that if you were smart enough to get into these [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.nonprofituniversityblog.org/2011/12/dumbing-down/</link>
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		<title>Start with Why</title>
		<description><![CDATA[I have frequently written over the years about the importance of understanding that for-profit practices are not inherently wise and good simply because they are part of the vaunted for-profit sector, and, alternatively, nonprofit practices are not inherently inferior. Each sector has some of the right answers and/or best practices that could work equally well [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.nonprofituniversityblog.org/2011/11/start-with-why/</link>
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