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		<title>How (Often) Do You Thank Your Donors?</title>
		<link>http://www.bilou.info/blog/how-often-do-you-thank-your-donors</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 16 Jan 2013 12:32:47 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Valerie</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Sally* made a donation using her son’s name to test her organization’s acknowledgment policy.  The results were disappointing.  The letter took three weeks, his name was misspelled, and the gift was posted to the wrong fund.]]></description>
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		<title>Fix It Or Forget It?</title>
		<link>http://www.bilou.info/blog/fix-it-or-forget-it-2013-01-09</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 09 Jan 2013 11:14:15 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Valerie</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Ideally, we want a job that requires us to work mostly on the tasks that we excel at, along with other duties that will stretch us to learn. Unfortunately, work doesn’t exist in a vacuum, as Percy* and Rosalyn* discovered.]]></description>
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		<title>Save the Endangered Corporate Sponsor!</title>
		<link>http://www.bilou.info/blog/save-the-endangered-corporate-sponsor</link>
		<comments>http://www.bilou.info/blog/save-the-endangered-corporate-sponsor#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Wed, 19 Dec 2012 11:45:36 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Valerie</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Imagine for a moment that your annual office holiday party was in the same restaurant each year.  In exchange for this promotion, patronage, signage &#038; acknowledgment during the event, food was free and there was a cash bar.]]></description>
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		<title>Fix It Or Forget It?</title>
		<link>http://www.bilou.info/blog/fix-it-or-forget-it-2012-12-12</link>
		<comments>http://www.bilou.info/blog/fix-it-or-forget-it-2012-12-12#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Wed, 12 Dec 2012 11:36:00 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Valerie</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[After the honeymoon period is over, your job might not be what you thought. What clues do you look for while interviewing so that you’re not surprised down the road? See what Natalie*  and Olympia*  learned at their new jobs.]]></description>
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		<title>Accentuate the Positive, Eliminate the Negative</title>
		<link>http://www.bilou.info/blog/accentuate-the-positive-eliminate-the-negative</link>
		<comments>http://www.bilou.info/blog/accentuate-the-positive-eliminate-the-negative#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Wed, 05 Dec 2012 12:43:30 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Valerie</dc:creator>
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		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://www.bilou.info/?p=3373</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[As you assess which portions of your campaign have been more successful than the others, no doubt you are considering which parts to eliminate or start anew.  It can be tempting to see what the trends are and mimic them.]]></description>
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		<title>Fix It Or Forget It?</title>
		<link>http://www.bilou.info/blog/fix-it-or-forget-it-2012-11-28</link>
		<comments>http://www.bilou.info/blog/fix-it-or-forget-it-2012-11-28#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Wed, 28 Nov 2012 12:46:48 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Valerie</dc:creator>
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		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://www.bilou.info/?p=3363</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[Sometimes your workplace situation isn’t quite what it appears to be.  When that happens, how do you go about discovering what lies beneath the surface?  Should you Fix It or Forget It?  See what Leonard* and Maxine* did. When Leonard* came to me, he was frustrated about his job.  Although he liked it, he was [...]]]></description>
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		<title>The Devil is in the Details</title>
		<link>http://www.bilou.info/blog/the-devil-is-in-the-details</link>
		<comments>http://www.bilou.info/blog/the-devil-is-in-the-details#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Wed, 21 Nov 2012 11:30:58 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Valerie</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Fundraisers are concerned about 2012 year-end giving. Not only has philanthropic giving been slugging along, but Hurricane Sandy’s impact may well further diminish what is typically the most crucial giving season of the year.]]></description>
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		<title>Fix It Or Forget It?</title>
		<link>http://www.bilou.info/blog/fix-it-or-forget-it-2012-11-14</link>
		<comments>http://www.bilou.info/blog/fix-it-or-forget-it-2012-11-14#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Wed, 14 Nov 2012 11:45:33 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Valerie</dc:creator>
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		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://www.bilou.info/?p=3349</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[Even when the work, pay and/or location are desirable, the other conditions may not be.  When co-workers and their policies end up making your job more difficult, do you Fix It Or Forget It? See what Aidan* and Bridget* did.]]></description>
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		<title>How Will Sandy Alter Your Year-End Campaign?</title>
		<link>http://www.bilou.info/blog/how-will-sandy-alter-your-year-end-campaign</link>
		<comments>http://www.bilou.info/blog/how-will-sandy-alter-your-year-end-campaign#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Wed, 07 Nov 2012 12:42:02 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Valerie</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[So much has been donated during election season, that many fundraisers have been looking forward to the end of the election, so that donors can refocus on other priorities.  Namely, theirs.  Then, along came Hurricane Sandy.]]></description>
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		<title>Fix It Or Forget It?</title>
		<link>http://www.bilou.info/blog/fix-it-or-forget-it-2012-10-31</link>
		<comments>http://www.bilou.info/blog/fix-it-or-forget-it-2012-10-31#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Wed, 31 Oct 2012 11:35:05 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Valerie</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[The economy has made the job market so difficult, that many have taken positions they otherwise wouldn’t, and stayed longer in situations they previously would have deemed “intolerable.” Yetta* and Zeke* share their stories.]]></description>
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