Short Story in the Southshire Pepperpot

You can now pre-order the Southshire Pepperpot. It’s a collection of stories by writers in South Western Vermont called the Southshire Roundtable. I’m actually part of a group in Manchester, but the Southshire group put this anthology together.
My story is called “A Bittersweet Land,” a story about my first experience with Turkish coffee while studying [...]

Fund Raising with Christine Graham

If you’re looking for some some help in the non-profit sector with fund raising, a good place to start is with Christine Graham and her web site: www.cpgfundraising.com.
Christine has a lot of experience with non-profits and has published a wide array of books, newsletters, and other materials. She describes herself on the web site as [...]

Sites For Non-Profits

Beth has some links to Kivi Leroux Miller’s home page and Miller’s Writting 911 page. Miller is a non-profit consultant in the area of communication. The Writing 911 page has some tips on writing, while her blog has some links worth checking out.
communication, writing
Technorati Tags: communication, writing

Connecting Through Blogs

The Wall Street Journal Reports that churches are currently using blogs as a way of connecting with those outside of their congregations.
“In a bid to attract new members and shed their persistently Luddite image, churches across the country are embracing technology and Web sites like MySpace. Blogs and podcasts have become part of religious leaders’ [...]

Simple Tags

My friend Todd Hiestand just walked me through the installation process for a WordPress plugin called “SimpleTags.” A plugin is essentially a ready-made component you can add to your site that provides a nice extra feature after a few quick clicks.
The nice part about SimpleTags is that you do not have to copy and paste [...]

Review of Google Calendar

I just began using Google Calendar this week and have pratically driven my wife crazy with my excitement. The beauty of Google calendar is two-fold, but there are many other parts that are good-looking as well.
Nevertheless, the two best parts are: it can be accessed anywhere and it can send reminders to your gmail account. [...]

Christian Blogs: Fulfilling Grenz’s Communal Vision for Theology

Two months ago I wrote up a tribute to theologian and noted author Stanley Grenz. It was in response to a call for papers. Knowing that a many theological giants would be submitting their own reflections and tributes, I figured that I didn’t have too much of a chance to get in
Nevertheless, I spent a [...]

Blog and Web Tools

Todd Heistand, who designed this site by the way, has a great list of tools at his site: www.toddhiestand.com. What particularly caught my eye is a wordpress plug-in called “SimpleTags”. I sometimes tire of adding the Technorati Tags, so I may have to waste some time adding them here.
Todd also has the usual list of [...]

Lacking Nothing: Preparing for Volunteers

The season is about to drive into full-swing and I’m rather busy preparing for the volunteers. The chief task I have right now is to prepare a training time and a type of manual for the volunteers.
I am convinced that one of the best ways to care for volunteers is by preparing for volunteers. When [...]

Getting the Word Out

Jeff Dickson, the managing editor of the Manchester Journal came to the most recent Northshire Non-Profit Network meeting to give some pointers on press releases. Though I plan on posting my notes from the meeting at the NNN site, I wanted to share a few that I thought were particularly helpful:

Keep the press release to [...]