Have Fun - Do Good

FEBRUARY 16, 2010

Do something purely for the fun of it? Inspired by a Speaking of Faith interview with Stuart Brown , the author of Play: How it Shapes the Brain, Opens the Imagination, and Invigorates the Soul , I committed to playing every day, which took many forms. Playing: This was actually the hardest thing for me to do. No larger purpose?

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Have Fun - Do Good

JULY 31, 2009

"You cannot run a community if you're not informed. Journalism is really the act of informing communities so that they can make better decisions, that is part of the public service, informing communities so that together we can know where else we need to help." --David Cohn, Founder, Spot.us It's not fun for some people.

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Have Fun - Do Good

JULY 3, 2011

Samin Nosrat Samin Nosrat creates community around food with her varied endeavors as a cook, teacher, writer, and accidental activist. If you have suggestions for people I should interview, please email me at britt AT brittbravo DOT com. You can listen and subscribe to the Big Vision Podcast via iTunes , or on the player above.

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Classy

APRIL 27, 2021

Read the full interview with our experts to get answers to questions nonprofit leaders may ask about employee burnout, such as: How has COVID-19 impacted employee burnout and individual stress management? To take it a step further, bring some fun into the workplace with an employee-driven break activity that happens at the same time each day.

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Culture Nonprofit Attitude Awareness 105

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

NOVEMBER 7, 2008

The conference was fun because I finally got a chance to meet Rosetta Thurman face-to-face! At the end of the conference, I interviewed Rosetta along with Ashely Cecil , Erin McMahon , and Diana Church -- all young nonprofit professionals. The first group wants to wrap their brains around it and gets overwhelmed quickly.

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Bloomerang

FEBRUARY 1, 2022

And you all got to know Elizabeth because she’s all over the place speaking, she’s doing podcasts, she’s getting interviewed. And what we’re seeing is that while this is encouraging, the numbers are going up, nonprofit boards are still far from representing the communities that they serve. She works over at CCS.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

APRIL 27, 2012

4. Design To Build A Community of Practice. A workshop that simply attempts to stuff content into people’s brains is highly ineffective. The curriculum incorporated “overnight” reflections everyday as well as many exercises to help process what they learned. Make It Fun, Celebrate.

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Pakistan NGO Network Exercise 111

Bloomerang

JUNE 14, 2024

It’s actually FUN; a way to meet like-minded folks. Don’t forget, MRI studies show merely thinking about and considering giving lights up the pleasure centers of our brain and brings a warm shot of ‘feel good’ dopamine. What circles of influence in your community are underrepresented? You need a vigorous process.

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Have Fun - Do Good

JANUARY 30, 2009

She is the author of The Right-Brain Business Plan e-Book and the creator of the Unfolding Your Life Vision Kit. Below is the edited transcript from my Big Vision Podcast interview with Jennifer Lee from January 22, 2009. You've also written and created the Right-Brain Business Plan e-Book. Who are they as a person?

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JULY 6, 2006

As you'll note from that article, Nedra has also been exploring Second Life and we bumped into each other at the TechSoup space there where we completed our interview. ve been teaching a course on social marketing at the UCLA School of Public Health, which has been a fun experience for me. Why did you start blogging?

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Nonprofits Source

MAY 8, 2024

Some might give for personal reasons while others might be inspired to make a difference in their community. Let’s say your nonprofit focuses on promoting literacy and discovers that many of your donors are older teachers and parents in your community. This is because our brains process them almost instantly. Reasons for giving.

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Have Fun - Do Good

OCTOBER 16, 2009

If you are in charge of communications for your nonprofit or NGO, I recommend you read The She Spot: Why Women Are the Market for Changing the World, and How to Reach Them by Lisa Witter and Lisa Chen. Women are engaged in their community. But this sense of creating a collective community is more important to women than it is men.

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Bloomerang

JANUARY 14, 2022

But we’re going to start with something just a little fun. Actually, the whole thing is going to be fun. We need to have a little bit of fun. But let’s just start with something fun. They’re always looked so, so fun. Who do you know that wants to see our community do X?

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Bloomerang

JANUARY 30, 2022

But we’re going to start with something just a little fun. Actually, the whole thing is going to be fun. We need to have a little bit of fun. But let’s just start with something fun. They’re always looked so, so fun. Who do you know that wants to see our community do X? Because it’s 2022, things are crazy.

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Raise Map Fundraising Money 75

Neon CRM

DECEMBER 14, 2023

That’s why you have to plan ahead: A robust content plan will save you time—and brain space—and help you produce great nonprofit content while also tackling the rest of your mile-long to-do list. The calendar is available as a downloadable PDF , which also comes with a list of related blogs, videos, ebooks, and community resources.

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Bloomerang

NOVEMBER 26, 2021

We’re not just solving the world’s most complex problems, we’re solving some of the most important problems that on the whole, the large human community of this world would like to see these problems solved too. But three months is a little too long for that human brain to imagine. Yay, Leslie is our winner.

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Bloomerang

DECEMBER 10, 2021

Or is it somebody that you see them as a kind, caring, community-minded person who might be able to make a difference? . So if you care about the donors and their feelings and their contribution to the community, that makes a difference. . Who else in the community should we talk to? . Is it just an ATM machine?

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MARCH 31, 2016

In advance of next week’s “ National Walking Day ,” I did an interview with Gina about how her organization’s culture is changing one sneaker at a time. Our mission is to create a healthier and more sustainable Jewish community, and a healthier and more sustainable world for all. Make it fun and functional.

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Bloomerang

NOVEMBER 5, 2021

Because it’s not just about the issue, because let’s say you’re helping with hunger relief, well, there might be 10 organizations in your community helping with hunger relief. Make it personal, maybe you just saw them in the gym, make a fun note about that, I mean, or around town, or wherever it might be.

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Money Personal Relationship Raise 101

Bloomerang

JULY 31, 2021

And so maybe trying to reduce that so nonprofits can do the work that they are really good at and really being assets in the community is critical. And if you’re not familiar with those, you can take a look at that within your community. And it’s also just centrally located in the community.

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Bloomerang

MAY 28, 2021

Things opening up and also I feel like we really are just getting a handle now on what COVID has done to the communities that we serve. In our brains, in the back of our brain here is our instinct, that fight or flight. Our prefrontal cortex of our brain is where. And really, what I want to share with you is.

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Have Fun - Do Good

NOVEMBER 10, 2006

Below is an edited transcript of my interview with Jessica, which you can also hear on the Big Vision Podcast. Basically, we had lunch every few weeks for that year and I was able to pick his brain and ask questions. And how fun would it be to keep in touch with them and watch their progress and encourage them along the way.

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Have Fun - Do Good

JANUARY 6, 2007

Below is a transcript of my interview with him for the Big Vision Podcast. You are about community development. So it is the creation of social synapse; you could call it "community." They want that sense of global community. Kevin Danaher: My name is Kevin Danaher. What is possible now, for us, is conscious evolution.

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