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Trainer’s Notebook: Facilitating Brainstorming Sessions for Nonprofit Work

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

I’ll be sharing tips and techniques on how to generate ideas or “brainstorming” techniques. ” The nickname “brainstorm sessions” because participants were using their brains to storm a problem. ” The nickname “brainstorm sessions” because participants were using their brains to storm a problem.

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The Happy Healthy Data Nerd: Using Your Personal Health Data to Support Your Wellbeing

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

As someone who loves using data for decision-making, I found the health data generated by my Fitbit was highly actionable. I realized that I was in front of my computer monitor, trying to squeeze out one more email or just one more bar chart. Identify a goal, track your progress, and reflect on how to improve your results.

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Conscious Computing: 7 Apps and Tips That Help You Focus, Reduce Stress, and Get Work Done

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

We all know that with so much content out there, it is eating our brains and memory , relying more on “google it.” My presentation will focus on personal productivity in an age of distraction, tools, skills, and best practices that staff members of nonprofits – large and small need.

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NTEN and TechSoup Webinar: Share Your Story - ROI and Social Media - Slides and Notes

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

But it is always a good exercise to make your brain think in a different way. It is a flow chart that calculates business performance taking into account not only whether the company had a profit, but whether that profit was good enough relative to the assets it took to generate it. Document on the fly. Test and tweak.

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Philanthropic Leadership: Engaging Board Members As Fundraising Ambassadors

Bloomerang

And if you think about this pie chart, what I really want to call out is that bequests, which are about 9%, are gifts made by individuals. So first is how we can reflect on the importance of diversity to our board’s work, specifically fundraising. It’s how my brain works. The first is advocate.

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[VIDEO] Raising More Money By Asking (And Answering) Better Questions

Bloomerang

” So we have in our brains, the amygdala, the fear center, where you have flight, fright, and freeze as the emotional reactions to things that’s scare you. So fundamentally, I think for major donor conversations what you want to be doing is asking questions, then you reflect back what they’ve said. I just did. .

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112 Nonprofit Blog Posts, Articles, and Stories from 2013 You Can’t Miss.

Connection Cafe

From #batkid to #GivingTuesday, the Next Generation of American Giving to Content Marketing for Nonprofits , storytelling to social fundraising, retention rates to relationship building, the roundup below covers it all (and everything in between). It’s projected that there will be more than $602 billion generated this holiday season.

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