Test your financial assumptions as much as possible and, if possible, spend some time researching and talking to other charities that have walked the path you intend to as part of your process.
Contrary to common perception, 3D printing using metal has been possible for some time - but the price has limited its availability to industry rather than hobbyists.
Is it possible that some time within the next five years, the U.S. Treasury will run an auction in which there are not enough bids to roll over the debt?
It seems possible that some time next year a vaccine may be available for use on people who have already been exposed to Ebola, though it will still not be cleared for general use.
While the two companies had held very preliminary talks about a possible union some time ago, Coca-Cola and Monster were never engaged in formal merger discussions, a person briefed on the matter told DealBook on Monday afternoon.
And while it has been possible for some time to make voice calls in remote areas with satellite telephones, their use has been limited because of their high cost.
While such a computer has been theoretically possible for some time, the scientists, writing in last week's issue of the journal Nature, said this was the first programmable autonomous computing machine in which the input, output, software and hardware were all made of DNA molecules.
It is possible that some time next autumn a couple of big banks will announce big losses in their prime-brokerage and proprietary-trading businesses and if this were to raise their cost of funding substantially, it could begin to be a crisis.On a less cataclysmic note, however, all markets overshoot, and new instruments and risk-control techniques, plus new participants, make it more likely.
Caller ID spoofing has been possible for some time on traditional phone networks, but generally required access to specialized hardware.
The BBC's deputy political editor James Landale said Mr Balls appeared to be nudging Labour in the direction of a possible referendum some time in the next decade.
