Have Fun - Do Good

MAY 16, 2012

The fourth blogger in this run of the Have Fun, Do Good guest post series is the delicious Meg Worden (I say delicious because I love her e-cookbook, Salad Alchemy). Doing good is fun. And it’s a sweet life to have been able to turn service into a supportive business model. And incredibly fun.

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Have Fun - Do Good

MAY 3, 2012

My second guest blogger in this run of the Have Fun, Do Good guest post series is the warm and wonderful Jocelyn Harmon. Developing deep, engaging, inspired and inspiring relationships with my nearest and dearest is one of the great joys of my life. I also LOVE being a connector, coach and mentor to others and helping them to succeed.

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Have Fun - Do Good

MARCH 2, 2011

The second guest blogger in my Have Fun, Do Good series is Wendy Harman. Wendy is a listener, innovator, online community member, information synthesizer, big picture thinker, and Director of Social Media for the American Red Cross. I get to have fun and do good for a living. Thank you for letting me be part of this community.

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Have Fun - Do Good

MARCH 3, 2011

The third guest blogger in my Have Fun, Do Good series is by Tara Sophia Mohr. You can connect with Tara on her blog, Wise Living , and on Twitter at @tarasophia Tara Sophia Mohr, Wise Living: How I Have Fun, Do Good Every woman has a unique brilliance, an important message to share with the world, a set of gifts the world needs.

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Have Fun - Do Good

MARCH 8, 2011

The sixth guest blogger in my Have Fun, Do Good series is Desiree Adaway. She uses her superpowers-her voice, sense of adventure and belief in the transformative power of community-to help organizations design programs that create unrestricted revenue, volunteers and advocates. I see life and humanity at its best.

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Get Fully Funded

JULY 13, 2021

Manage Your Time Ok, tools are great, but the discipline of using your time wisely is where your nonprofit productivity will skyrocket, lowering your stress and making work more fun. It’s not fun. But it is a good task to schedule after blocking off time to work on a complex grant or other task that requires a lot of brain power.

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Whole Whale

NOVEMBER 8, 2022

Moreover, the image is focused on an individual which allows the reader to empathize with the child and imagine her succeeding — and the key stats about the DREAM community suggest she will! Donate Life America. Donate Life America helps Americans easily register to be an organ donor. ICA Fund Good Jobs.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MARCH 19, 2019

Rituals are also used by professionals to boost personal productivity because rituals capitalize on our brains’ ability to direct our behavior on autopilot, allowing us to reach our goals even when we are distracted or preoccupied with other things. Name this event something fun such as, Taco Tuesdays or Pizza Fridays.

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Whole Whale

JUNE 22, 2021

There are so many communication tools these days, but our favorite is Slack. We even have fun channels like “Travel” and “Music” where employees can post non-work related content. This will do wonders for your mind and will get your brain out of relaxing mode and into work mode (even if your desk is within arm’s reach of your bed).

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NonProfit Hub

APRIL 14, 2017

The impact of volunteerism can be felt in communities of all shapes and sizes. No matter the size of the community, though, the impact of volunteerism is always huge. With those strong social ties, you’re always surrounded by a community that’s willing to help you out when times get tough. Contributes to a longer life.

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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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Get Fully Funded

JANUARY 9, 2022

Nonprofits that struggle live this life every day of the year. You won’t get every grant you apply for, but applying, building relationships, and understanding the grant landscape in your field and your community will keep the grant money flowing. Cold calling doesn’t work well in fundraising, and it’s no fun.

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Classy

APRIL 27, 2021

She knew the job aligned her life experience, education, and passion to learn more about trauma, grit, grief, and resilience. The most common signs of employee burnout we’ve seen are: Brain fog that causes forgetfulness of something a person has done before or randomly forgetting to complete tasks.

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NTEN

OCTOBER 30, 2009

In the spirit of fun and Halloween -- and because we're NTEN -- we, with a little help from our terrific community, have zombified 12 of the winning taglines: "Big Sky. Save a Life." So, as a bonus, here are two more: "Brains: they're what's for dinner." " "Brains: the other white matter."

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

AUGUST 16, 2017

One of the participants mentioned that they were going to start regular walking meetings with staff, to ensure they keep moving but also build community. Is everyone suffering from “foggy brain” caused by too much sitting down meetings? Meetings can not only be a waste of time but also zap our energy. Planning and Preparation.

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Nonprofit Tech for Good

OCTOBER 22, 2009

My brain was completely fried and those around me were getting pretty fed up with the fact that I was never present, only connected… online, all the time. Pick one social networking profile and keep it entirely for fun and your personal life. This is community building. This an important one.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MARCH 23, 2011

Howard Gardner has dedicated his life work to this Theory of Multiple Intelligences. Yet, many conference panels are designed to accommodate only one or two styles of learning and go shallow instead of going deep. You need to engage the whole brain in learning. Straight presentation kills all learning.

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NTEN

JANUARY 6, 2011

Fun with Social CRMs" -- when asked if she thought relationships really matter in social media, said: I don't think they matter, I KNOW they matter. Research has shown, however, that the average person's brain can only manage about 150 quality relationships. Relationships are what brings the "social" aspect to social media.

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Judi Sohn

MARCH 3, 2011

Much more fun to have the time to plan. In my case, I'll be talking about some of my hard-learned lessons of not having a well-defined personal brand in social media when I first started out way back in 2002 and how that has carried over to the work side of my life. This is actually my first time officially speaking at NTC.

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Judi Sohn

MARCH 3, 2011

Much more fun to have the time to plan. In my case, I'll be talking about some of my hard-learned lessons of not having a well-defined personal brand in social media when I first started out way back in 2002 and how that has carried over to the work side of my life. This is actually my first time officially speaking at NTC.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

SEPTEMBER 12, 2011

Like Spring Break , it’s young, libidinous and fun. They want their brains to matter. Who will be their community in the years to come? They know they’re smart, they know their skills are in demand and they don’t want to settle for less than a life in which skills and values are aligned.

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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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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

OCTOBER 5, 2009

The 3D space where this virtual symposium will take place is a private version of the Second Life platform that Linden Labs and NMC have created, called the Hakone Project. I've been having a lot of fun researching some metaphors for the future and of course, I went straight to the Jetsons. What do non-profits need to do to thrive?

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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. She was also featured in the book, The Girl's Guide to Kicking Your Career Into Gear and her art visioning work is showcased in The Vision Board: The Secret to an Extraordinary Life. Who are they as a person?

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

AUGUST 17, 2010

Jonny will provide live graphic facilitation of the highly interactive and fun panel. Its true impact has yet to be measured, but Twitter, Facebook, Foursquare, and every other social media platform have already caused a revelation in how people want to communicate. SoTropia Life in 2040 Let’s peer into the near future.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JANUARY 26, 2007

Photo in flickr from Community Technology Foundation. We also discussed the aggregation and publishing side and some initial goals for the NPTech Community site. Check out the SDCTC Community Portal (is the idea of a "portal" web 2.0 See this one-page parody of Second Life. functionality. or more like web 1.0?)

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Bloomerang

FEBRUARY 1, 2022

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. Next, it’ll allow us to cultivate trust and confidence with the communities that we serve. Okay, so positive trend.

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Connection Cafe

JULY 30, 2013

You’ve got life experience and stories to tell. You’ve mentored some people new to the industry along the way and enjoy your status as a community brain trust on all-things-planned giving. It’s fun to ponder the cards that turn over, but ultimately, I’m the one who decides what to do next. The Future for the Veteran.

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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? I see that you???ve

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Bloomerang

AUGUST 21, 2021

In addition to being super active in her San Francisco nonprofit community, she also does a lot, including teaching a CFRE class. But during the past year and a half, people have really been questioning the meaning of life and their own mortality in unprecedented ways and kind of wondering, “Well, what will my legacy be?”

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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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Bloomerang

NOVEMBER 20, 2021

Thank you for what you grow and the communities you build and all that you do and the work that is seen and unseen. I’ve lived here most of my life. I think our days and our brains can sometimes feel like this calculation. . What specifically in your community do you want people to do? I live in Minneapolis.

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Bloomerang

JULY 17, 2021

My house that I loved so much that I’m sure that I overpaid and was a fundraiser at Big Brothers Big Sisters at that time and really had to learn to navigate some really choppy waters around what it meant to help folks understand investing in their community in trying times, investing in young people, investing in our staff. Absolutely.

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Nonprofits Source

APRIL 12, 2023

For your association to continue on the path to growth and overall success, you need a plan for expanding your community. Videos : Our brains process visuals 60,000 times faster than text. Photos/Photo Galleries: Photos can bring your association’s work to life. This is why videos are so popular on social media.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MAY 10, 2016

Last Tuesday, May 3, 2016, was Give Local America Day , a day when community foundations across the country rally to support local nonprofits in what is marketed as the largest community-driven crowdfunding event of the year. Our site went down for what seemed like a life time but in reality was about 45 minutes. And it did.

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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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Have Fun - Do Good

OCTOBER 16, 2009

She is a co-founder of the award-winning SheSource.org , an online brain trust of women experts designed to close the gender gap among commentators in the news media. Women are engaged in their community. But this sense of creating a collective community is more important to women than it is men. It may be animal rights.

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