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Walking During Board Retreats: A Few Tips

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Not only was the work on trying to figure out outcomes (and the measures) stimulating, we also incorporated movement into our day long meeting. You can feel the malaise and energy drain when you are at meeting table. ” Our board retreat meeting required the group to break into smaller groups to do more detailed work.

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Does Your Nonprofit Organization Have Measurement Malaise?

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Malaise is a feeling of general discomfort or uneasiness, of being “out of sorts.&# Lately, I’ve been hearing about “measurement malaise&# infecting nonprofits and not just social media measurement. Flickr photo by Allain Bachellier. Idealware Study.

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Meet Dr. James A. Levine: The 1st “You can walk and work!”Evangelist

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He says that you feel the excess malaise if you walk into any office filled with chairs, or people sitting in conferences or training all-day long on their bottoms. But also productivity and well-being improves step by step along side of the health measures. He notes that the health burden of sitting also impacts the mind as well.

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Nonprofit Suffering: Action Steps

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Chuck Bean, executive director of the Nonprofit Roundtable of Greater Washington, recommends workplace-giving campaigns and other measures to. help the region's nonprofit sector survive economic malaise , funding cuts, and scandal at the local United Way, in a letter to the editor in The Washington Post.

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How To Make Measurement Fun!

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Last week I wrote about nonprofit “ measurement malaise &# that keeps some nonprofits putting a measurement strategy for their integrated communications campaigns into practice. In the comments, I asked how can we make measurement fun ? We measure EVERYTHING, all the time. Flickr Photo by Martin Deutsch.

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The Fives Stages of Measurement Acceptance

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KD Paine , my co-author of the Measuring the Networked Nonprofit (due out in later in 2012), pointed me to this gem of a measurement checklist in an infographic format. I like the positive frame they put on measurement malaise and the hat tip to Kobler-Ross. Denial: You can’t measure it.

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