For our U.S. readers, the Labor Day holiday weekend has marked the effective end of summer and, vacations over, fundraisers are back on the job.

To ease your re-entry, today’s post presents no mental heavy lifting. Just some fun stats.

Harris Interactive recently polled Americans on which they would most want to be — richer, thinner, smarter or younger?

The largest group “wish” was … drum roll … richer, at 43%. That’s Americans for you! Then thinner at 21%, smarter at 14%, and younger at 12%.

I was disqualified from the survey for insisting that I wanted to be all of these.

Here’s more detail …

Actually, maybe there is a nonprofit insight here.

Which would you like your organization to be?

  • Richer – speaks for itself!
  • Thinner – as in “lean & mean”, producing more bang for the buck
  • Smarter – in all it does
  • Younger – as in “the glory days” when anything and everything was possible!

Tick one!

Tom

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