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Nonprofits must bend 80/20 rule | TheNewsTribune.com | Tacoma, WA: "Nonprofits must bend 80/20 rule

LIZ HEATH
Published: August 24th, 2005 12:01 AM

Have you ever heard of the 80/20 rule? It comes in many forms. Eighty percent of the money raised is donated by 20 percent of your donor base. Or 20 percent of the people involved do 80 percent of the work.

There’s a corollary to the 80/20 rule. It is “the world is run by those who show up.” Here are a couple of nonprofit 80/20 scenarios I’ve heard about and a few ideas about how changes might be made.

“We have 15 people on our board, but it’s the same three or four who do all the work.”"