Happy Birthday, #Pocahontas!

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  March 21, 2025 Happy Birthday, Pocahontas! Legend tells us that on this date (March 21), Pocahontas was born. The exact year is unknown but is estimated to be around 1595 or 1596. She is believed to have been born in the vicinity…

Gandhi’s Salt March and Why Your Favorite Organization Needs an Investment Policy

March 12, 2025 On this date (March 12) in 1930, Mohandas Gandhi began his 24-day, 240 mile (387 kilometer) “Salt March” to the Indian village of Dandi (then called Navsari) as an act of non-violent civil disobedience to protest the…

March 7: Happy Birthday to Poet and Activist Amanda Gorman!

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March 7, 2025 Born on this day in 1998, Amanda Gorman was just 22 years-old when she became the youngest U.S. inaugural poet at the 2021 swearing-in of President Joe Biden. She has said that she drew inspiration for her poem, “The…

On March 6, 1945, Iowan George Nissen patents the trampoline

Iowa Nonprofits Need to Jump Into Adopting and Implementing a Flexible-But-Firm Document Retention Policy

March 6, 2025 Iowa native George Nissen built his first "tumbling device" in 1934 out of angle iron, canvas, and rubber springs. He perfected the contraption, renamed it the "trampoline," after the Spanish word for springboard. On March 6,…

March 5, 1770: The Boston Massacre

And, The “Must-Have” Conflict of Interest Policy in Nonprofit Governance

March 5, 2025 On March 5, 1770, a group of American colonists gathered outside Boston's Custom House on King Street and began taunting the British private who was guarding it. The soldier sent word to his regiment that he needed backup,…

March Fourth (Forth)!

Your Fave Iowa Nonprofits MUST Adopt These Ten (10) Policies

March 4, 2025 I. INTRODUCTION The date that is also a command: MARCH FOURTH! Your fave Iowa Nonprofit MUST Adopt these Ten (10) “must-have” polices. II. IRS FORM 990 Every nonprofit, every year, must complete and file a version of Form…