Electronic Newsletter Archive

Newsletter
(and Recent Electronic Newsletter Archive)

Jean Block Consulting publishes a newsletter full of great tips on fundraising, board development and volunteer management. This page contains an electronic archive of the newsletters since January, 2005, which can be viewed in either PDF or HTML formats. To view our older newsletters, please click here.

"Thank you for the newsletter. You have no idea how very often I find myself quoting you. You are remarkable and talented beyond words. Corny as it may sound, you inspire me."

Ginny Favede
Junior League of Wheeling

If you want to see the electronic version as a duplicate of the printed version, you can view it in Adobe Acrobat (PDF) format. To view this format successfully, you will need to have Adobe Acrobat Reader installed on your computer.

PLEASE NOTE: These files can be very large. The size of each newsletter is listed in parentheses.

You can also view HTML versions of the newsletters. These versions contain the same content as the printed newsletter, but have been reformatted for the Web.

PLEASE NOTE: Web sites change all the time and, although all of the links listed in our newsletters are valid when they are originally posted, some of them may not work anymore. If you try to follow a link and it doesn't exist, please send me an email () and let me know. Thanks.

July 2008 - Acrobat (380 KB) / HTML
(Board or Bored?, Getting Help with Grant Writing, Is Social Enterprise Right for Your Organization?)

May 2008 - Acrobat (365 KB) / HTML
(The Truth About Consultants, Governance Issues for Nonprofit Boards, Best Practices of Best Boards, More Truth About Consultants.....)

March 2008 - Acrobat (421 KB) / HTML
(Making Your Organization Remarkable...Not Just Good, Reporting Special Events Income on the IRS Form 990)

January 2008 - Acrobat (315 KB) / HTML
(11 Rules for Deciphering IRS Rules on Disclosure)

November 2007 - Acrobat (388 KB) / HTML
(Charity? Or Mission-Driven Business?, Changes in the IRS Form 990 for Smaller Nonprofits, Please Don’t Attend This Event!)

September 2007 - Acrobat (260 KB) / HTML
(Are You a High Trust Organization?, Put Peak Life Habits to Work for You!, Tips from “The ABCs of Building Better Boards”)

July 2007 - Acrobat (235 KB) / HTML
(Are You at Risk for Fraud?, How To Prevent Organizational Fraud, Pillars of Accountability)

May 2007 - Acrobat (181 KB) / HTML
(Assessing the Impact of Changes to the Form 990, Trends and Other Stuff - What Can You Learn from This?, Let it Happen By Listening, How Changes in Charitable Giving Laws Can Help You)

March 2007 - Acrobat (226 KB) / HTML
(A New Twist on Planned Giving, Using Language Skills to Move Prospects to Action)

January 2007 - Acrobat (111 KB) / HTML
(Show Me The Money: Current Trends in Corporate Giving, Federal Regs You Should Know About)

November 2006 - Acrobat (103 KB) / HTML
(Earned Income = Self Sufficiency!, Getting Started on Earned Income in Your Community, Become a Senior Consultant/Trainer with SEV, LLC)

September 2006 - Acrobat (95 KB) / HTML
(Charity or Nonprofit Business?, Corporations Realigning Giving...and other news, Tight Training Budget?)

July 2006 - Acrobat (136 KB) / HTML
(Thinking Strategically, Have You Read...?)

May 2006 - Acrobat (144 KB) / HTML
(IRS Rules and Regs Reminder, Substantiation Required for Contributions, Spring Cleaning Your Files)

March 2006 - Acrobat (174 KB) / HTML
(Time for Review: Jean’s 10 Rules for FUNdraising Success, Live Internet Seminars Make Training Affordable)

January 2006 - Acrobat (153 KB) / HTML
(Make the Internet Work for You, Why You Should Get Smart about Internet Fundraising, Critical Success Factors for Internet Fundraising)

November 2005 - Acrobat (170 KB) / HTML
(Social Enterprise: Get on Board!, The Social Enterprise Alliance - A Great Resource, Some Examples of Social Enterprise)

September 2005 - Acrobat (190 KB) / HTML
(Show Me the Money - by Tod C. Novak, Legislative Issues for Nonprofits, Online Seminars Coming This Month, Saving Money with Electronic Communication, Raising Money with Electronic Communication)

July 2005 - Acrobat (190 KB) / HTML
(Shape Up Your Board of Directors, Operating Your Nonprofit on a Shoe String, Online Seminars Coming This Fall, Saving Money with Electronic Communication, Raising Money with Electronic Communication)

May 2005 - Acrobat (95 KB) / HTML
(So Much Information - So Little Space - The Grant Writer's Dilemma, Effects of Sarbanes-Oxley Act on Nonprofits, Other Grant Writing Dos and Don'ts)

March 2005 - Acrobat (220 KB) / HTML
(The Questions I am Asked Most Often...and Some Answers, 10 Nonprofit Resolutions for 2005)

January 2005 - Acrobat (84 KB) / HTML
(Make Your Special Events "Special," Things to Know...Places to Find Them, New IRS Regulations Regarding Donated Vehicles)

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