Diego at Metacool has an instructive and inspiring new post. He has a picture and a great discussion of a "To Do" list that was publicly displayed by the staff at the Denver Art Museum, which showed the things that they still needed to get done on a new addition.  I love this because it not only advertises to donors what things they need money for, it also creates public pressure on the staff to get things done.  As research on commitment shows, public proclamations are far harder to reverse than those that are made in private.  Perhaps this is the kind of thing that they suggest at the Department of Doing.