Armando Zumaya - Training and Consulting
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      • "You Don't Belong Here"
      • Adelante! A Message for Latinx Focused Nonprofits
      • Separate Worlds: Let's Unify the Worlds of Prospect Research and Development
      • Whole Community Fundraising
      • All Together Now: Discovering Your Nonprofit’s True Potential
      • The Unread Article
      • Missed Opportunity: Why Don’t Foundations Give More Support to Development Teams?
      • Finding the Right Mix: Unraveling the Mystery of Powerful Major Gifts Management
      • Seeing the Elephant in the Room: Low Board Diversity and How to Change It
      • Silent Service: Breaking the Bubble of Silence in Nonprofit Fundraising
      • Latino's Stand Ready to GIve, Why are they being overlooked?
      • Three Simple Things You Can Do To Boost Your Board’s Fundraising Knowledge
      • Philanthropy’s Sleeping Giant: Why Can’t We Engage Latino’s More Successfully?
      • "Power to the Researchers"
      • What’s a “Vampire Fundraising Event” and Is It Time To Kill It?
      • How To Evaluate Your Development Officer
      • The Crisis of Development Officer Short Tenures
      • From Chicken Soup to Gumbo
      • Disconnect: Why Most Institutions Don’t Use Prospect Researchers Effectively.
      • The Fundraising Boogie Man
      • The $5 Million Dollar Chocolate Bar
      • Jumping Off the Merry Go Round !
      • "Fundraising is Beautiful"
      • Chronicle of Philanthropy OpEd March 2014: "Give Fundraising Researchers More Influence and More Credit"
      • The Prospect Profile: The Killer of Great Prospecting
      • Secret Weapon: The Freelance Prospect Researcher
      • Under Investing in Fundraising: The Myth of the One Person Development Shop
      • " I am a Fundraiser"
      • The Non Profit Achievement Gap: Seven Ways Small and Medium Nonprofits Stunt Their Own Fundraising
      • Let's Go Beyond Prospect Research and Talk about Fundraising
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Humor


I am a big believer in humor. One needs a well developed sense of humor in our work.


Top Ten Signs that your Development Staff are clueless about Prospect Research


10. Your Development Director doesn’t understand the need for screening because he hasn’t seen a mosquito in the office in months.

9. Your Development Director keeps calling you Marcia.

8. You have to explain that liquid assets aren’t wine collections.

7. When you ask about inclination, your DoD is surprised you know how to find out what gender they prefer.

6. Your Major Gifts officer thinks APRA is new French bra.

5. Your Development Director wants you to find out the shoe size, favorite color of your key board member. She also wants to know if they are Elvis Costello fans. She wants it by 5pm today.

4. Your DoD and ED hire an expensive firm to do a 6 month feasibility study that you could in a weekend with a pint of good ice cream and some Starbuck’s latte’s.

3. Your Executive Directors thinks you have access to personal bank records, criminal records and are afraid your going to find out about 5-10yr stint they did for armed robbery in the state pen. Of course you lord it over them to maneuver for a raise.

2. You just met your Major Gifts Director after she has been there for…4 years.

1. When you say you purchased Lexis Nexis your development staff are thrilled you replaced your old Toyota.


All humor can only be reproduced with permission of Armando Zumaya
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Don Knott's...being cool ...always funny
Great Humor Websites !!
http://nphumour.blogspot.com/

http://www.pinterest.com/pin/259590365993113246/

Andy Borowitz: 
https://www.newyorker.com/humor/borowitz-report​

http://funinfundraising.tumblr.com/
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