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Grow Or Stagnate?: Nurturing A Growth Mindset

The NonProfit Times

In the context of this column, growth is not about structured acquisition of new knowledge or skills but focused on learning to apply knowledge in unexpected ways and stretching boundaries of comfort. Like fitness and exercise, build learning into your daily routine. What Is Growth?

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Move DEI Beyond Words

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It’s an exercise that will provide the opportunity to explore lessons learned in training and reflect on how they impact real-life situations. Attaching benchmarks to your statement provides structure and something for people to work toward. If you don’t already have a diversity statement outlining your vision is an obvious step.

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Centering the user perspective

Candid

For example, one customer mentioned that they can review up to 500 funder profile pages in one day using Candid’s Foundation Directory , a time-consuming and tedious exercise! Sometimes we encounter unexpected insights or novel ways that people use our products. We do this through a program called Follow Me Home (FMH).

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Preparing Your Nonprofit to Move Beyond the Founder

Blue Avocado

For staff, working in a start-up nonprofit is often an exercise in mindreading. They may hew to an established strategic plan or question ambitious fundraising goals, for example. In a successful nonprofit, the board’s primary responsibilities include exercising fiduciary duties and supervising the Executive Director.

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Tips for Activating a Culture of Wellbeing in the Nonprofit Workplace

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

One of the workshop exercises was to teach leaders a process they can facilitate back in their organizations to begin the discussion about how to activate a culture of well being. As part of the set-up to the exercise, I share some examples from the Happy Healthy Nonprofit: Strategies for Impact without Burnout.

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Brilliant Careers Are Built With Bold Moves

Eric Jacobsen Blog

It can also be used for those who coach, mentor, counsel and advise early career women, with insights and exercises for those you are supporting. For example, from a race perspective, in most settings, this is white women.

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Why Movement Is the Killer Learning App for Nonprofits

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

That’s when you can add a brief stretch break, energizer , or incorporate an exercise that requires getting up and moving around. It is a more structured body break and incorporates more in-depth debrief on content. I’ve done this as a reflection exercise towards the end of a multiple day training or full day training.