Peak Performance Enterprises

11/20/2025

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Despite its misleading name, the term has nothing to do with an actual shower or anything found in a bathroom.

05/04/2010

About time! Letting donors select the research projects they want to fund.

For the 30 years I've been in community benefit work, the conventional wisdom of non-profit voluntary health organizations (like American Heart Association, where I worked for 21 years, or March of Dimes, ...

04/23/2010

On the heels of the recession, our sector is poised for changes. Some of it will be self-initiated and embraced; much will be imposed by realities of new times. Most probably these changes will be reluctantly ...

04/23/2010

It's that time of year again! A time when nonprofit organizations across the nation will be celebrating the volunteers who help them be great. National Volunteer Week is a time to celebrate volunteers' ...

03/16/2010

With annoying Farmville and Mafia Wars, tt had to happen eventually ... Facebook beats Google in total traffice for first time!

Guess it had to happen, and it did, last week. Hitwise figures show Facebook's national domination as the most popular U.S. web destination. For the week ending March 13, Facebook grabbed 7.07 percent of all U.S. ...

03/16/2010

It's undeniable: social media are here to stay. Every non-profit, regardless of size, needs to think about their presence in this sphere.

The rise of social media in the last few years has created exponential growth in web usage. Here's a "real time" app that shows just how dynamic and active the social side of the web is. It helps put the ...

03/05/2010

Secret millionaire gift to college: great planned giving story See it here - http://tinyurl.com/yhmz8gb

Grace Groner was exceptionally restrained with her money.Her clothes came from rummage sales. She never owned a car. She lived in a one-bedroom house.She was orphaned while quite young, and came of age during the Depression. ...

12/01/2009

Results of experiment earlier this month are in ....

Early in November, while on Facebook, I noticed that my Peak Performance Philanthropy fan page had attained a 5-star rating and a very high post quality score.I proposed an experiment and promised to report back. ...

11/25/2009

All about National Day of Listening: How to record an interview with a loved one to preserve for generations to come. Great idea.

On Friday (that is, the day after Thanksgiving), each of us is encouraged to spend an hour recording interviews with loved ones, and preserve them for generations to come.It's called the National Day of ...

11/20/2009

Happened to me one year ago today: Here's advice to prepare for when you are laid off or involuntarily separated.

One year ago today, I took the shuttle from a White Plains, NY hotel to the headquarters office of the health charity where I worked -- day one of a four-day road trip, away from my Emeryville, California office. ...

11/20/2009

Great stewardship from DonorChoose - my personal experience with charity that makes it easy to help students in need

I just got an "impact report" today from a school teacher in Oakland.Back in April, I went to DonorsChoose.org, an online charity that makes it easy for anyone to help students in need.1. Public school teachers from every corner of America post classroom project requests. ...

11/06/2009

5 Star rating of Post Quality. What's it all mean? Let's play a game with FB's metrics!

I've got the greatest fans on Facebook! Checked in today to the Peak Performance Philanthropy fan page and saw this 5 Star rating of my post quality.When one's fans choose to interact with posted material ...