Case statement helps organizational efficiency - The NonProfit TimesThe NonProfit Times

Case statement helps organizational efficiency - The NonProfit TimesThe NonProfit Times: "Nonprofit managers and fundraisers are aware of the need for a good case statement to rally support of one kind or another. What many of them overlook is the benefit case statements can have beyond fundraising."



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Statistics and Damn Lies (and Your Case Statement)

Statistics and Damn Lies (and Your Case Statement): "Excerpted from Making a Case Your Donors Will Love

Even 19th-century British Prime Minister Benjamin Disraeli had something to say on the subject. "There are three kinds of lies," he said. "There are lies, damned lies, and statistics."

I'm careful about statistics. I much prefer inspiring and convincing anecdotes. Statistics have all the spontaneity and passion of drying paint.

The typical reader doesn't have the time or patience to slog his or her way through a sludge of stats. But you'll find he or she is open to anecdotes. They provide action and feeling and more dramatically reveal your organization."



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Questions I'm Most Often Asked About Case Statements

Questions I'm Most Often Asked About Case Statements: "Excerpted from Making a Case Your Donors Will Love

I'm not a writer.

That's what makes me a good choice to write about case statements.

Let me explain.

I don't earn my bread and board with a pen but I love to write. Long ago I found in me cacoethes scribendi—the urge to scribble."



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