Birthday Wishes from Readers
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We're grateful for the support we've gotten during our 12 months, and now that our very first birthday is here, we're pleased to share the birthday wishes sent our way by a few of our friends and readers. Please consider "signing" our birthday guest book by adding your own Comment!
Happy birthday to the most clever and refreshing nonprofit newsletter on the block! Congratulations on completing the first of many laps around the sun. -- Alana Conner, Stanford Social Innovation Review
Congratulations to Blue Avocado on an inaugural year filled with penetrating insights and timely ideas always accompanied by a healthy dose of fun.†-- Kathleen Enright, Grantmakers for Effective Organizations
HAPPY BIRTHDAY TO OUR FAVORITE AVOCADO! In only one year you have grown from just a little sprout to a lovely tree that supplies all of us with wisdom and nourishment with just the right amount of spice! We are so proud to be a small part of your important work. On behalf of our nearly 9,000 NIAC and ANI-RRG members, we thank you for your practical, interesting, and provocative articles. Keep them coming! -- Pamela Davis, Nonprofit Insurance Alliance Group
Happy Birthday, Blue Avocado! Awfully precocious for a one-year-old, and wise beyond your year. -- Rick Moyers, Meyer Foundation, Washington, D.C.
I've meant to tell you how much/why I like Blue Avocado...the layout is engaging, the scope is manageable, it provides fresh takes on issues, and you can tell there are live, thinking, caring humans producing it. I've looked at other things for nonprofits from time to time...and come away feeling overwhelmed... and never engaged on a personal level. Reading those is more like taking care of a chore on a "to-do" list... rather than having the feeling, "oh, goody, a new Blue Avocado's out today." --Karen Aitchison
What a year! I've had the great privilege of working with the Blue Avocado team to help launch this baby, and as we mark our first anniversary, I'm signing off as senior editor. I've met so many dedicated souls - both virtually and in the flesh and blood - who've done a ton to shore up this occasionally jaded 'I'm over it with nonprofits' editor. That's what makes Blue Avocado great - it's so nourishing! Happy Birthday! - Lynora Williams, Senior Editor
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Happy Birthday, Blue Avocado. I'm glad you were born. You are one of a very few e-newsletters I'm elated to see in my inbox when it arrives. Your fresh perspective enlightens me. Here's to many more Blue Avocado birthdays. - Pam Baker, Woods Charitable Fund
Blue Avocado: Thank you for making me laugh! Even serious jobs like building capacity and building community need humor. Your magazine is refreshing. Linda Schotthoefer, Center On Nonprofit Effectiveness (C-One), powered by Hands On Miami.
You have the best magazine that I have ever received. Please know h ow much we in the non-profit world value you and your expertise. You explain concepts in a way that I can easily understand. Right to the point!
Gratefully,
Janice
Congrats on your first anniversary! About to share it with my own group of friends.(I had the opportunity to enjoy your Metrics Mania class here in Los Angeles when you were first launching.)
Happy Anniversary -- I am always delighted to find a new Blue Avocado in my in-box -- and here is a link to a three minute celebration your readers might enjoy - put out by a company whose news is always welcome in my in-box too. They manage to package their sales pitch so artfully and with so much attention to providing value to the customer just for reading - (like this free little mini-vacation) I actually look forward to it's arrival! All of us on Boards should be so good at our job!.
www.thelaughtermovie.com
Karen Sell
Lions Clubs International
Congratulations on Blue Avocado's first BD!! Like your many readers, I too look forward to the newsletter. I most appreciate the brevity and lighthearted tone. What a gift you have given us. A simple thanks. I will begin sharing it with my community college students.
Best always
Cecilia
Congratulations to you all on your first Blue Avocado birthday! I'm thrilled to have stumbled across your site my first week on the job at a nonprofit. I'm new to the world of nonprofits and it's been terrific to have such a great resource to help me learn the ropes. Here's hoping you can continue bringing out this resource for many years to come.
Happy Birthday, Blue Avocado, and congratulations, Jan and Co.! This is a great newsletter, and it's helpful for non-profits and foundations alike. I serve a both a foundation program officer and as a board member of a non-profit (At The Crossroads, www.atthecrossroads.org), and I've found articles and information that are useful on "both sides of the table."
Mary Gregory
Pacific Foundation Services
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