With high interest debt to Ambrose Bierce and On Product Management, I present a short Devil’s Dictionary for the nonprofit industry:
Advancement: See Fundraising.
Consultant: A lucrative Sisyphus, cursed to eternally push legacy data from CRM system to CRM system.
CRM System: An advanced duplicate management system, used to sustain obsolete fundraising practices.
Development: See Advancement.
Direct Mail: A technique for turning trees into recycled paper.
Fundraising: See Development.
Nonprofit: A type of corporation tasked with addressing all the corner cases of capitalism and government while delivering consistent stakeholder returns.
Nonprofit Technology: An archive of tools and best practices from the recent past.