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#Fakecommute: A Ritual for Work-Life Balance When You #WFH

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

If we learned anything during 2020, work-life balance is much harder when working from home. For me, it is valuable as a ritual that helps me shut off my work brain and creates a boundary between me and overworking. . Create a conscious shift from work to life and life to work. Your mind and body need these boundaries.

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Spring Clean Your Work Life: Tips from Your Fellow Social Good Pros

sgEngage

There’s no better opportunity to spring clean your work life than to take a break to tidy your space. Give your desk a wipe-down, remove any clutter, change up your décor, or add a new plant. What if you can’t change up your physical workspace? Sharla Donohue , database manager, American Brain Foundation.

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Navigate Change Management: Set Your Nonprofit Up For Success

Bloomerang

Change is inevitable, growth is an option.” – John C. It’s no secret that as a global society we’ve had a few changes thrown at us in the last few years. Even aside from a global pandemic, an ever changing landscape of technology and politics have caused all of us to have to navigate change. All About Change.

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5 Design Techniques That Will Increase the Lifespan of Your Nonprofit’s Website

Nonprofit Tech for Good

While these techniques can’t change the past, here are some design ideas to help your organization adjust and optimize your website in the future. Once your website is designed and structured according to this technique, it becomes easier to update it when those needs change by asking these questions: Which tasks don’t apply anymore?

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Mental Health Awareness Month: 10 Nonprofits Advocating For Change

Kindful

Mission: Through education and advocacy, the Colorado Mental Wellness Network seeks to provide opportunities for individuals to improve the quality of their lives, give back to the community through meaningful roles, and to change the perceptions of mental health. Impacting: Mental health. Headquarters in: Denver, CO. Let us know !

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How To Build Immunity To Burnout In The Workplace

Eric Jacobsen Blog

They view stressors as changes, not threats. Ask your manager for a change in your work conditions. Then the brain, ever on a quest for both equilibrium and efficiency, noted the response’s effectiveness and will turn to it again the next time stress hits. They can handle the discomfort of learning curves and uncertainty.

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What Nonprofit Professionals Need to Know about the Brain

Connection Cafe

Additionally, I have been doing research on the brain for years and am an expert on the brain of teenagers, and on how stress impacts the brain. How the brain impacts our clients. Living in poverty has physical manifestations that start in the brain. How the brain impacts our staff.

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