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For Keeps
Answering your questions about turning volunteer work into a paid position, and more (2/14/2008)

Back in Circulation
Answering your questions about returning to the job market after a long illness, gearing up for a communications career, and more(1/10/2008)

Showing Results
Answers to your questions about proving that a small charity's programs are working, making grants to individuals, and more (8/9/2007)

Good Intentions
Answers to your questions about creating a charity, getting a refund when a grantee misuses an award, and more (5/3/2007)

International Studies
Answers to your questions about getting the right degree for an overseas career, setting limits on volunteer chores, and more (5/3/2007)

Face to Face
Answering your questions about getting experience in wooing major donors, program- management careers, and more (2/8/2007)

Finding Leaders
Answers to your questions about recruiting business executives for top jobs at charities, acquiring free legal help, and more (12/7/2006)

Corporate Support
Answering your questions about gaining entry to workplace-giving programs, explaining employment gaps, and more (10/26/2006)

Pay Scale
Answers to your questions about setting executive compensation at a new charity, nonprofit jobs for English majors, and more (8/17/2006)

Party Starters
Answers to your questions about landing a job in events planning, writing better grant proposals, and more (6/15/2006)

Winning Support
Answers to your questions on wooing corporate donors, delegating fund-raising tasks, and more (5/4/2006)

Naming a Price
Answering your questions on grant-proposal writer fees, moving into a fund-raising career, and more (3/9/2006)

Making a Debut
Answers to your questions on landing a first fund-raising job, registering as a charity, and more (1/12/2006)

Switching Sides
Answers to your questions on transferring government skills to nonprofit work, accepting noncash gifts, and more (10/27/2005)

Hanging Out a Shingle
Answering your questions about building a consulting business, making a career switch, and more (9/1/2005)

Rung by Rung
Answers to your questions about climbing up to midlevel management, car donations, and more (7/21/2005)

A Delicate Situation
Answers to your questions about what to do when a donor's check bounces, fighting the 'overqualified' label, and more (6/16/2005)

Follow the Money
Answers to your questions about misused grants, leaving academe for charity work, and more (5/26/2005)

Finding Feedback
Answers to your questions about getting a résumé critiqued, raising money from out of state, and more (4/21/2005)

Making Payroll
Answers to your questions about raising funds for staff salaries, determining a charity's effectiveness, and more (3/24/2005)

Selling a Mission
Answers to your questions about nonprofit marketing jobs, volunteering while retired, and more (2/24/2005)

Planning a Future
Answers to your questions about special-events careers, the best seasons for job hunting, and more (1/19/2005)

HOTLINE
All the Right Moves
Answering your questions about relocating without a job, the 'glass ceiling' for minorities, and more (12/15/2004)

Dealing With Big Donors
Answers to your questions on major-gifts jobs, insuring trustees, and more (11/4/2004)

Going Pro
Answering your questions on writing grant proposals, preparing for a nonprofit career, and more (10/7/2004)

Business Allies
Answers to your questions about corporate sponsorships, planned gifts, and more (8/19/2004)

Getting the Goods
Answers to readers' questions about moving into planned giving, finding cheap office supplies, and more (7/8/2004)

Making 'The Ask'
Answers to your questions on learning to approach donors, proposal writing, and more (6/3/2004)

Building Benefits
Answers to your questions on providing perks for employees, getting nonprofit experience, and more (5/6/2004)

The Seasons of Giving
Answering your questions about the best times for fund raising, the limits of graduate education, and more (3/4/2004)

Guiding a Grant Maker
Answering your questions about snagging a family foundation job, seeking support for a youth group, and more (2/12/2004)

Persuasive Powers
Answering your questions on creating jobs, the need for charity audits, and more (1/22/2004)

Shifting Gears
Answers to your questions about nonprofit hiring practices and changing jobs (12/11/2003)

Tough Transitions
Answering your questions about updating management skills, moving into fund raising jobs, and taking pay cuts (9/18/2003)

Work for Wordsmiths
Answering your questions about writing speeches for charity leaders, fund-raising job titles, and more (7/31/2003)

The Numbers Game
Answering your questions about reporting salary requirements, organizing a volunteerism day, and more (6/19/2003)

Moving Up
Answering your questions about getting hired from the volunteer pool, part-time work, and more (5/15/2003)

Mass Communications
Answering your questions about hiring journalists, providing writing samples, and more (3/27/2003)

A Dose of Humility
Why nonprofit employers may shut out job seekers from the business world, and other answers to your questions (2/27/2003)

A Checkered Past
Answering your questions about explaining résumé gaps, moving from the technology field to charities, and more (1/30/2003)

Crossing Over
Answering your questions about changing from social work to fund raising, job hunting without a diploma, and more (12/19/2002)

Between the Lines
Answers to your questions about deciphering job ads, courting minority donors, and more (10/17/2002)

Cultural Exchange
Answering your questions on diversity, moving from sales into fund raising, and more (9/19/2002)

The Gifts That Keep Giving
Answering your questions on establishing endowments, finding salary data, and more (8/15/2002)

Sizing Up a Specialty
Answering your questions on snaring program-officer jobs, the value of graduate degrees, and more (7/25/2002)

Keeping Up While Staying Home
Answering your questions about maintaining your skills while on family leave, marketing charities, and more (6/17/2002)

Joint Effort
Answering your questions about hiring by committee, prospect research, and more (5/16/2002)

The First Donor
Answering your questions about starting a charity with the founder's personal funds, what "overqualified" really means, and more (4/15/2002)

Into the Real World
Answering readers' questions about finding a first job, incentive pay, and more (3/18/2002)

Help! My Ex-Boss Hates Me
Answering your questions about troublesome references, volunteering, and starting a consulting career in our monthly advice column (2/11/2002)

Q, Meet A
Look for answers to your questions about working in the nonprofit world as our monthly advice column makes its debut (1/14/2002)


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