Independent / Small Business Owners

Quote of the Month:
“Research is what I’m doing when I don’t know what I’m doing.”
—Wernher von Braun, German rocket physicist (1912-1977)

Adrienne Grizzell, MPA, CAE, has a background in marketing and since 1999 has been in association management. She owns Management, Inc. She is very familiar with nonprofit organizations and suggests two sites for you to use as research tools before you donate to any nonprofit group.

http://www.GuideStar.org
http://www.CharityNavigator.org

At these sites you’ll be able to see any given organization’s 990 forms, what they pay their staff and what their expenses are. “Anything less than 25% for administrative costs is a good thing,” said Adrienne.

Quote of the Month:
“There are risks and costs to a program of action. But they are far less than the long-range risks and costs of comfortable inaction.”
— John F. Kennedy, 35th American President (1917-1963)

Barry Miller is an attorney with
Fowler Measle & Bell. He chairs the firm’s technology committee and heads the Electronic Discovery practice. “I hope this topic doesn’t affect you,” said Barry, of e-discovery. But in this litigious society, we all need to be aware of electronic discovery and what it means.

Quote of the Month:
“The only limit to our realization of tomorrow will be our doubts of today.”
— Franklin D. Roosevelt, 32nd American President (1882-1945)

Andy Friedman has been with Friedman, Rosenwasser & Goldbaum since the mid-1980s. Based in Boca Raton, Florida, he moved to the Lexington office nine years ago. His practice is devoted to business law, particularly franchise issues. The first thing Andy told us were a couple of lawyer jokes. Then he said, “The problem with lawyer jokes is that lawyers don’t think they’re funny and nobody else thinks it’s a joke.”