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Thursday Thoughts: attracting passionate nonprofit advocates

EveryAction

The Campaign Workshop is an award-winning political consulting firm that specializes in targeted communications, digital, mail, and video for advocacy and political campaigns. Instead, find the people closest to the problem you’re trying to solve and go deep in organizing among those communities. Connect with her on LinkedIn !

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July Cause Awareness: Disability Pride Month

Qgiv

This Disability Pride Month is a perfect time to let your elected officials know about accessibility problems in your community and policies that help and hurt the people with disabilities that they represent. You can also spend time volunteering and donating to nonprofits that provide important services to people with disabilities.

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How To Create A Positive Work Experience

Eric Jacobsen Blog

Joy can open brains to better see connections and various options to solve work problems. He is the co-founder and CEO of Switch And Shift , an advocacy and consultancy focused on the human side of business. And, avoid relying on the usual suspects, the same few superstars, to handle high-profile projects. Joy is about playing.

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Don’t Bring Your Phone in the Shower

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

He spoke about creativity and what psychologists and brain scientists are learning about it. Some of the greatest breakthroughs arrive when people who are outside the traditional structure take a look at a problem. The Stanton Fellowship asks six fellows from diverse fields to work on solving an intractable problem in LA.

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Zero Waste and Electronics Reuse

Tech Soup

I just attended a great event at the EPA offices in San Francisco called the Zero Waste Brain Trust , which was organized by Portia Sinnott of the nonprofit Zero Waste Sonoma County. Over the years in our advocacy for computer reuse and refurbishment, TechSoup has been publicizing the environmental case for refurbished IT equipment.

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The Crumbling of Nonprofit Arts Organizations: What models will rise from the ashes?

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

Allison suggests in her post that there is definitely a business model problem. Allison says that arts organizations need a new organizational model: The problem of trying to figure out a new business model for arts organizations is much more difficult. What do you think?

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Play is the Mother of Social Innovation

Have Fun - Do Good

In her review of Brown's book, Play: How it Shapes the Brain, Opens the Imagination, and Invigorates the Soul , Liz Massey of Creative Liberty relays an anecdote from Brown's book about the connection between play and innovation " Play juices our problem-solving abilities.

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