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Mastering the Art of Work/Life Balance in a Digital World

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

I love connecting with nonprofit technology colleagues who are also promoting work/life balance and how to avoid digital distractions. Simultaneously, I was struggling with burnout related to work-life imbalance and feeling overwhelmed by all the digital technology in my personal life and professional work.

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Mental Health Awareness Month: 10 Nonprofits Advocating For Change

Kindful

This Mental Health Awareness Month, we’re proud to highlight the innovative and impactful work of these Kindful customers. Impacting: Mental health. Impacting: Mental health. Impacting: Mental health. Mission: Next Rung exists to make an impact in the lives of firefighters and first responders. Porter’s Call.

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Nonprofit Storytelling: The Quick and No-Nonsense Guide

Bloomerang

When a good story is shared, scientific research shows our brains connect to storytelling can have on us: Stories are remembered 22x more easily than data, facts, and stats. Storytelling engages our sensory cortex in the brain , allowing the listener to feel, hear, taste, and even smell the story. Meet Dewey: Part 1.

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What We Can Learn from Finnish NGOS About Resilience

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

When discussing the ideas in The Happy Healthy Nonprofit: Strategies for Impact without Burnout , people in Finland have figured out keeping calm versus fire drill culture. The latter may be due how children are taught in the Finnish educational system. Taking brain breaks is an important work skill as well.

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7 “Must Do’s” When Thanking Donors To Win Their Heart and Set Up Future Gifts

Get Fully Funded

There are two parts to thanking donors: Connecting with the donor’s brain by providing a gift receipt and more importantly, touching the donor’s heart by letting them know they are heroes for giving to your organization’s cause. You make the brain connection when you give them the data they need for their records.

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Break Your Mobile Phone Addiction: There’s An App for That and More

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

If gaming and a higher purpose doesn’t work in curbing your addiction, then maybe try adding apps on your phone that can enrich your life versus wasting time. The co-founder and executive director is Tristan Harris, a former Google employee, an expert on how technology steers the thoughts, actions, and relationships impacts everyone.

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Rediscovering Your Creative Spark During the Pandemic

Media Cause

I was prompted to choose an area of work-life I find unpleasurable—I chose time-tracking. The idea was the same as what we did in kindergarten as children: cut out images from magazines and assemble them into a new layout. On a macro level, Design Thinking is more left brain, more logical, more linear. How are they alike?