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The Practice of Personal Gratitude in Fundraising

Get Fully Funded

Raising money for your small nonprofit is stressful during the holidays, and practicing personal gratitude can pull you through. Studies show that people who practice personal gratitude have more positive emotions, less stress, fewer health issues, a greater sense of optimism, and higher satisfaction with their jobs and co-workers.

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How to Approach a Nonprofit Job Interview with a For-Profit Attitude (and Résumé)

EveryAction

What does this look like in practice? Have the right attitude. Now that you have a better idea of how to tout your for-profit accomplishments, here are some interview attitude tips to help you shake off the nerves and put your best self forward. I’ll share an example from my personal experience with you. Get creative.

Attitude 101
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How To Harness Your Experiential Intelligence

Eric Jacobsen Blog

Digging deeper: Mindsets : Your attitudes and beliefs about yourself, other people and the world. Additionally, toward the end of the book, Kaplan offers you a link to his XQ Toolkit – a practical set of digital tools that you can use to develop your Experiential Intelligence and apply it to your team and organization.

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Want To Be a Leader? Get to Know Yourself

.orgSource

Success requires intention, practice, honesty, and effort. Become an active listener by practicing these skills. Practice questioning your attitudes and intentions before every decision. However much you want to know how others perceive you, revealing that bald-faced reality may not be in your employees’ best interests.

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How Your Attitude Shapes Your Nonprofit

Connection Cafe

I make a conscious effort not to get overly pessimistic or have an irritable attitude towards my coworkers because I want to be mindful of the type of work environment I’m creating. Keeping that in mind, I’ve put together a few thoughts on how to keep a positive attitude at the workplace, even when things seem dire. Why is that?

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How can small nonprofits be successful in strategic human resources management?

ASU Lodestar Center

SHRM is the intentional application of formalized policies and practices that create organizational successes by investing in the human capital of employees. With an overwhelming number of employees seeking to leave the nonprofit sector by 2025 , the concerns surrounding HR practices in small nonprofits are more critical than ever.

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Thinking About Donors as Customers

Bloomerang

We actually didn’t mind and adjusted our attitude. Donor cultivation is other- centered too; we even have a name for the best way to practice it–donor-centered. David Dunlop, former senior development officer at Cornell University and inventor of Moves Management , boils it all down to “changing people’s attitudes so they want to give.”

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