Norm Bour
Community Development Director for OPIS Network, providing outreach programs to support the for-profit and nonprofit sectors. The "helping 100 businesses for 100 days" has proven its success in Santa Ana (x2), Buena Park, Newport Beach, and in September, the City of San Bernardino.
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Find Your Passion with Local NonprofitsThis is where you start to start making a difference.
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Newport Beach City Council PresentationWe awarded the top prize to the Newport Beach Helping 100 Businesses for 100 Days program -
Why Starting a Nonprofit Can Be a Really BAD IdeaThe odds of success are overwhelming, but that is not the biggest reason to NOT start a nonprofit.
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The Best Ways to NOT Get Your Grant or Financial SupportBelieve it or not there are some things you can do that will almost guarantee you not getting your funding! Everyone wants to know what to do, and that information I can share, but here are some hints of what not to do.
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Grant Strategic Plans- How to Improve Foundation FundingFoundations, endowments, banks and corporations WILL support you if you show them you are Grant-worthy. Find out how. -
Jack of All Trades, Master of Most- My Best Bike EverMy Triumph Thunderbird Sport was the best damn bike I ever had- and maybe the best I will ever have. -
The FIVE Biggest Misconceptions About Non-profitsA Non-profit is easy to form: it's simply a legal entity and a check mark when you file papers, but that's just the beginning and from there on it must be run according to very strict rules. And there are many misconceptions. -
How to Transform Your Business in Two Easy StepsStep one: Acknowledge that business is NOT the way it used to be Step two: Be willing to accept it and change.
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Are We a Nation of Workers or Entrepreneurs?Remember the "good old days" when we could start working for a company right out of school? Stay with that company for 30, 40 years and retire with a nice pension, a gold watch and comfort in knowing that our futures were secure?
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How to Make Your Business Last ForeverMost small business owners have a desire to leave a legacy; a successful and thriving business that can be passed on through the generations. This does not happen by accident.
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When is a Gas Station More Than a Gas Station?You've driven by it hundreds of times and probably used it before. "It's just a gas station" you think, "just like all the others." But it's not. You must be distinctive; you must stand out and this one does.
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Why Business Will Never Again Be the Way it Used to Be"Once upon a time" as the fairy tales begins, the world of business remained fairly constant with periodic improvements, worldwide events and social influences causing changes to take effect. That "business model" is no more, and will never return.