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March 1, 2017 By Helen Brown 3 Comments

This is Pride

For the past two years, I’ve gotten more and more excited as March approaches. Here in New England, March is not a month that you tend to look forward to, weather-wise. There are no bank holiday weekends. And it’s a loooong month. But if you’re in prospect development, March is now a very special month.

Because March is prospect development pride month, and boy do we have a lot to be proud of. We are a professional community of really smart people who get the opportunity to make the world a better place every day we go to work. Who are actively motivated to learn something new every day. And who are generous in sharing tips, methods, and resources with each other. [Read more…]

Filed Under: Career development, News, Research Department Success Tagged With: #ResearchPride, Amelia Aldred, Crystal Leochko Johnston, Danny Feygin, David Schein, Elisa Shoenberger, Elizabeth Crabtree, Erin Gernon, Estee Pierce, iWave PRO, James Rygg, Jen Filla, Jennifer Vincent, Joan Ogwumike, Kate Ingrao, Lindsey Nadeau, Marianne Pelletier, Matt Farrow, Preeti Gill, prospect development, prospect research, Sabine Schuller, Sarah Bernstein, Sharon Parkinson, Stephen Lambert

December 29, 2016 By Helen Brown 1 Comment

The most popular articles of 2016 from The Intelligent Edge

I’m going to get to the top posts of 2016 in just a second, but as we bid goodbye to 2016 – a rollercoaster year if ever there was one – we at The Helen Brown Group wanted to take a moment to say thank you.

To our clients, thank you for making 2016 our best year yet. Your missions – and your personal dedication to them – inspire us to do our best work for you. Our appreciation also goes out to the kind folks who point others in our direction – grateful thanks for your referrals.

To our 1,200+ Intelligent Edge subscribers and to the readers who drop by, thanks for signing up, for reading, and for your comments, both on and offline. Two years ago, our mailing list comprised 65 hearty souls! We couldn’t be prouder of the way our readership has grown or thank our wonderful guest bloggers enough. Thank you.

We also really appreciate our vendor partners, who make the great tools we use and who share our commitment to using quality information to make the world a better place.

And to our colleagues in the prospect development community – thank you so much for your support and for the part you play in building and growing this wonderful profession.

And now, to our top five… [Read more…]

Filed Under: Most popular, Non-profit trends Tagged With: Amelia Aldred, APRA North Texas, Elizabeth Roma, Factary, Heather Hoke, Jen Filla, Matt Farrow, Namrata Padhi, Nicola Williams, prospect research, Research Pride, Rick Snyder, T. Clay Buck, top 5 of 2016

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