July 2011


Shine A Light: transforming the lives of street kids

Posted on: July 22nd, 2011.
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D2 helped Brazil-based, Shine A Light, evaluate their work teaching digital media to marginalized children.  When the leaders of the nonprofit Shine A Light wanted to evaluate their work over the past ten years, Decisions Decisions helped ...

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March 2011


The Retirement Bomb

Posted on: March 4th, 2011.
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  The Retirement Boom. The impact of an aging workforce is being felt throughout the country in all sectors. The exodus of the baby boomer generation from the nonprofit sector will have a dramatic impact on many organizations at both the ...

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October 2010


Building Board Leadership: A Special Presentation by Marc Smiley

Posted on: October 22nd, 2010.
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Building Board Leadership: A Special Presentation by Marc Smiley. What happens when two great organizations like Decisions Decisions and the Nonprofit Association of Oregon (formerly TACS) collaborate? A whole lot actually. Beginning this ...

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Land Trust Alliance’s 2010 Rally in Connecticut

Posted on: October 21st, 2010.
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Land Trust Alliance's 2010 Rally in Connecticut. Energizing, exciting, inspirational, and a whole lot of fun! That is how Solid Ground team members Allison Handler, Jim Morris and Marc Smiley described their experience at Rally 2010 in ...

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August 2010


Adding Value Through Vacation

Posted on: August 18th, 2010.
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Adding Value Through Vacation. Most of our time here at D2 is spent working hard for our clients by acting with intention, responding to requests with authenticity, producing quality work, making sure we speak with integrity, and taking any and ...

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July 2010


July: A Sunny Outlook at D2

Posted on: July 29th, 2010.
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July: A Sunny Outlook at D2. Despite the unpredictable and not-so-sunny weather, July has been an exciting month here at Decisions Decisions. We are happy to end this month by sharing a couple of great new projects that have recently come our ...

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Moving to “The Cloud”

Posted on: July 14th, 2010.
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Moving to “The Cloud.” Decisions Decisions is moving to “The Cloud”! No, we are not literally moving to the puffy white things in the sky but we certainly are electronically. After only two years we have already outgrown our network server and ...

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Playing for The Pangaea Project

Posted on: July 8th, 2010.
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Playing for The Pangaea Project. On Saturday June 26th, Decisions Decisions’ Allison Handler and her duet partner, Mary Rondthaler, performed at a benefit concert for The Pangaea Project, held at Mississippi Pizza. The intimate setting provided ...

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Making Good on the Promise of Perpetuity

Posted on: July 1st, 2010.
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Making Good on the Promise of Perpetuity: The Great Hawaiian Land Trust Merger. This story begins with protecting land. It all started two years ago with a conversation among land trusts in Hawaii that wanted to figure out a way to better ...

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June 2010


Marc Smiley Shares the Key Principles of Growing a Strong Board

Posted on: June 21st, 2010.
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Marc Smiley Shares the Key Principles of Growing a Strong Board. How can a Board better manage unforeseen challenges? What does it take to grow a stronger Board? How can an unengaged Board become re-engaged? Decisions Decisions’ senior partner ...

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Portland Children’s Museum Cooks up a Staff Retreat with a Dash of Fun

Posted on: June 11th, 2010.
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  Portland Children’s Museum Cooks up a Staff Retreat with a Dash of Fun. Over 45 staff members of the Portland Children’s Museum gathered for a two-day staff retreat on Wednesday, June 2nd to contribute their collective wisdom to the ...

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May 2010


Carri Munn Celebrates 5 Years with Decisions Decisions

Posted on: May 26th, 2010.
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Carri Munn Celebrates 5 Years with Decisions Decisions. It all began with the Chalkboard Project....Joe Hertzberg needed a research assistant to help document the innovative public policy collaboration of five Oregon foundations seeking to ...

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November 2009


Two Decisions Decisions Clients make Oregon’s Top Ten

Posted on: November 9th, 2009.
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Susan G. Komen for the Cure, a Decisions Decisions client,  was recently named by Oregon Business magazine as the "Best Nonprofit to Work for in Oregon." The Oregon and SW Washington Affiliate is part of a national grassroots network of breast ...

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