Ghostwritten three-part blog series highlighting award winners, I didn't want to do the usual resume recap. I focused on what made the individuals interesting.

Focusing on one aspect of national influence study.

At his first appointment at the Center for Child Counseling for childhood trauma, 8-year-old Thomas* asked his trauma therapist if she “liked to hurt kids, too.”

Most freelancers don’t do an adequate job reporting back to their clients on how they did.

Millennials (born 1980-2000) have been tarred by the same brush for quite a while now: Apathetic. Self-centered. Not politically active. And no matter what data someone presents to the contrary, stereotypes refuse to bend. But they need to.

You can take steps right now to ensure the next campaign is less stressful and even more successful. Just make sure you don’t fall into the “We’ll tackle that in a month or two” trap.

It all boils down to one thing: Don’t let too much of an internal focus derail your fundraising efforts.

Should freelancers use video to market their businesses? The answer, says photographer and videographer Matthew Lemke, is an unequivocal yes.

The good news and the bad news: Joe Raiola isn’t likely to run out of material for his one-man show, The Joy of Censorship, any time soon. With the release of the documentary Bully and its R rating by the Motion Picture Association of America, Raiola has a new topic on which to unleash his ability to find humor in the absurd.

Some freelancers in the communications business can work just about anywhere. For others, like me, my location influences everything about my final product.

Jim Lehrer (of PBS NewsHour fame) had his first novel published in 1966. It was satire, he said. But when the editor of The Texas Observer met with him after writing a so-so review and told Lehrer, “Have you read any Kurt Vonnegut? Go read Cat’s Cradle and call me back,” he did just that.

As a nonprofit professional, unless you’ve been living under a rock for the past few years, you know that storytelling – sharing the real stories of real people whose lives were enriched by your help – is the best way to reach potential donors. More and more, causes are using stories in their solicitations. So why do they sometimes not work?

Banning books never works. Just ask Kurt Vonnegut.