Oddly Precise Nonprofit Predictions for 2008

Year of the PIG
Key leaders at your organization will be unable to make decisions. On the whole, this will be a good thing.

Year of the SNAKE
Your fundraising and marketing departments will become locked in a turf battle over an exciting new program. Someone in leadership will attempt the old King Solomon trick — “Let’s just divide this budget between you” — knowing that doing this will render the program functionally dead. Both parties will agree to this course of action.