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Walking As Work: Why Movement Is the Killer App

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Master Trainer, Author, and Blogger. My doctor''s advice was to start eating a heart-healthy diet and get more exercise. health Leadership Organizational Culture work/life balance' Beth Kanter. Get your feet moving and your creative juices flowing by swapping sitting for walking meetings.

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5 Tricks for Writing Better Fundraising Emails

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Wouldn’t life be easier if people opened and read your fundraising emails? Think about it: If you receive three or four emails in a row from a nonprofit you support, a blogger you follow, or your favorite store and the content is boring or useless to you, how long before you stop opening them? Try my kitchen table exercise.

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January Nonprofit Blog Carnival: What Are You Doing To Be Happier, Healthier in 2016?

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This month’s carnival was an opportunity for nonprofit bloggers to share a post that addressed this question: What self-care techniques, rituals, or habits do you personally live and breath everyday that keep you inspired, calm, and effective at your nonprofit? Mary Cahalane: Your Work or a Life.

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Creating Learning Experiences That Connect, Inspire, and Engage

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

This gave me an excuse to look at different types of peer learning exercises and facilitation techniques. These are brief, introductory exercises that help participants to get know each other, get connected to the topic, and their own learning outcomes. Luckily, there is no shortage of techniques and resources and books.

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Jennifer Moore, Monaluna Designs: How I Have Fun, Do Good

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Today's guest blogger is Jennifer Moore. I feel that exercising the creative aspects of ourselves is vitally important, and I love being able to offer the tools that people can use to unleash that vision and joy. Jennifer is a textile and surface designer, and owner of Monaluna , a small business specializing in organic cotton fabrics.

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10 Ways Nonprofits Can Use Blogs and Bloggers to Support Their Cause

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A lot of nonprofit blogs have come on the scene in the year between these events and I feel like it is time to revise and update my "10 Ways" post to include not only ways that nonprofits can use blogs, but also engage bloggers to support their cause. 10 Ways Nonprofit Can Use Blogs and Bloggers to Support Their Cause 1.

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Grants for Kids To Create Healthy Living Programs in Their Community: What blogs provide inspiration?

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I'm also trying to teach them to make good food choices, get exercise, and be healthy. They teach youth to grow, harvest, prepare, and eat vegetables from the school garden in order to help them become more engaged in school, eat better, exercise more, and connect with the environment and each other. I can always use some help.

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