Choosing a life of charity and social work or even just deciding to allocate your time to charity and social work is a very big decision that must be thought through. One cannot simply just jump in the water without knowing how to swim.

Recent discussions with numerous colleagues indicate that service on non-profit boards is certainly not getting any easier. How much does a board need to know? Can policies be crafted to guide the board and its management staff on this issue? Or, is it more of an art than a science? A judgment call rather than a rule? This article will attempt to address this issue using feedback from several colleagues with many years of non-profit board experience. I believe there are more questions than answers, but the questions can serve to stimulate useful dialogue, much like the opportunity I enjoyed with my colleagues.

You never know what context you might see a breast cancer fundraiser in. There are walk-a-thons, pledge drives, and all kinds of other fundraising efforts run by people whose lives have been touched by breast cancer. If you have been eager to find a way to help out, and you work in a large building or for a big company, a great idea is to run a breast cancer fundraiser in your office. A breast cancer fundraiser in the workplace can not only raise money for research, it can also help raise awareness and bring people together to fight for the cure.

If you are helping organize a local chapter of a breast cancer 3 day fundraising walk, obviously the first thing you think of in terms of money-making is the pledges that the walkers will be bringing in. Pledges are important, of course, but there are so many more opportunities for raising money at breast cancer 3 day fundraising walk. You can use any number of ideas as supplementary fundraising for the walk, and in turn that can really bring in a lot of extra cash for the cause.