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		<title>Ten tips for a successful wealth screening</title>
		<link>http://www.helenbrowngroup.com/2012/05/ten-tips-for-a-successful-wealth-screening/</link>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 17 May 2012 17:02:22 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Helen Brown</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[You may remember a few months ago I talked about how Brown University got a 500% return on the proactive research they did for the Boldly Brown campaign.  One part of that was successfully integrating the results of several wealth screenings that they did. Because some of the vendors are offering database screenings at a [...]]]></description>
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		<title>A Day in the Life</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 19 Apr 2012 00:03:22 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Helen Brown</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[As I listened to my colleagues talking about what they were working on in our staff meeting last Thursday, it occurred to me that the varied nature of the work we do here at HBG is really interesting.  It reminded me that one organization I used to work for put on a yearly program for [...]]]></description>
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		<title>For fundraisers working with a research team…</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 30 Mar 2012 15:44:02 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Helen Brown</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Are you sometimes waiting (and waiting!) to have research requests completed for you? Or getting completed research *after* the visit? Frustrating, isn’t it? Wish you had a way to get your research requests done first? It can’t work all the time, but there is a way… I read a blog post by Rajesh Setty the [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Welcome Heather to HBG!</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 19 Mar 2012 06:30:32 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Helen Brown</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[It is with great pleasure that we welcome our newest team member, Heather Willis. Heather was one of the first people I trained when I began my consulting business and I have always been impressed by her intelligence, professionalism and can-do attitude. Heather’s background in prospect research includes working for the Rocky Mountain Elk Foundation [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Solutions for the frustrated</title>
		<link>http://www.helenbrowngroup.com/2012/03/solutions-for-the-frustrated/</link>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 09 Mar 2012 21:28:58 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Helen Brown</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[&#160; I’ve been thinking about Chris Cannon’s blog post “3 Solutions to Prospecting Problems” ever since I read it earlier this week.  Chris’s solutions to common issues we face in the development office are these: We need to respect our colleagues, honor their experience and their contributions… …come up with a good plan … …and [...]]]></description>
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		<title>New Google = New Coke</title>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 15 Jan 2012 17:10:46 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Helen Brown</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Let me tell you a short story:  Back in the 1980s there was a pseudo war, and it was a big deal at the time.  Named the Cola Wars, it was a knock-down, drag-out to decide which of the two mega brands of cola was better, Coke or Pepsi.  Both felt that neither could survive [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Finally!  A journalist GETS prospect research</title>
		<link>http://www.helenbrowngroup.com/2011/12/finally-a-journalist-gets-prospect-research/</link>
		<comments>http://www.helenbrowngroup.com/2011/12/finally-a-journalist-gets-prospect-research/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Mon, 19 Dec 2011 21:40:39 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Helen Brown</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Every half year or so, some newspaper or magazine comes out with an article about how creepy prospect research is (last spring’s example: the Wall Street Journal in a May blog post by Anne Kadet called “Is your favorite charity spying on you?”) (and no, I’m not going to do them the favor of linking [...]]]></description>
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		<title>You&#8217;ve Got A Secret&#8230;</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 08 Dec 2011 22:00:32 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Helen Brown</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[So let’s say you want to email a password-protected document to someone.  Or give them access to the back end of your website.  You need to send them the password to open it …but what if they’re half a world away, sound asleep?  Or they’re in a meeting, or just unavailable to take your phone [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Helen&#8217;s interview with Mark Schaefer</title>
		<link>http://www.helenbrowngroup.com/2011/12/helens-interview-with-mark-schaefer/</link>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 01 Dec 2011 20:34:30 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Helen Brown</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[He may be a marketing guru now, but Mark Schaefer’s background in journalism became clear to me a couple of weeks ago. Despite the sudden blowout of power in the restaurant we were in and the three fire trucks that raced up outside shortly thereafter with alarms bwomping and red lights circling, Mark ran out [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Meaty Take-aways</title>
		<link>http://www.helenbrowngroup.com/2011/11/meaty-takeaways/</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 23 Nov 2011 19:50:07 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Helen Brown</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Next Wednesday, November 30th I’m going to be speaking at a conference sponsored by the Massachusetts chapter of the Association of Fundraising Professionals. I mention this because it got me to thinking about what I like and don’t like about conferences. I like really meaty sessions at conferences, and I get disappointed when speakers are [...]]]></description>
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