These findings may help to explain the recent troubling loss of market share for some of these organizations. We need to give increased attention to the investment capital needs of nonprofit organizations and consider ways to help level the playing field for nonprofit access to capital.

Like other nonprofit organizations, we've had a tough year, and those added revenues from the signs would help maintain our level of offerings like concerts, theater and dance productions.

We just really wanted to help both of them. They're two really good organizations,

It surprised me how quickly things came together. A lot of organizations stepped up to help. They knew what we wanted to accomplish and they really stepped up to help give this community a little economic boost.

We're problem-solvers for organizations, we're team-builders and we help when things get hot. Typically we're called in when the company is in reactive mode. It would be better -- and cost less -- if we got involved sooner. But organizations are more comfortable with lawyers when conflicts become big problems.

How can we overcome the resistance to innovation that plagues most organizations?