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Grow the Human Skills: Critical Thinking, Creativity, Collaboration, and Communication

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Leaders who promote professional development and education of all kinds also encourage teams to bring an expansive perspective to their work. Don’t waste valuable brain power. Open-minded humanists, interested in a broad spectrum of topics and issues. Set the example by modeling the behavior you would like to see.

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Do Negativity And Alarm Really Raise More Funds?

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Does negativity and alarm really raise funds?” —John, CEO of a civic education nonprofit Dear John, This is a top-of-mind question for many fundraising professionals. Science says: We’re wired for negative Sadly, our brains are wired to respond to negative messages. Negative events impact our brains more than positive events.

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AI For Good: How 3 Nonprofits Grew Their Impact With Machine Learning

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Have you exchanged data with like-minded organizations to grow your impact? The UCSF Brain and Spinal Injury Center improves treatment guidelines using insights from machine learning. Featured Photo: ICT Education and Job Creation for Rural Africa by Learning Lions gUG. To improve equity in your programs? LEARN MORE.

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Connecting the dots: What Corporate Training Can Learn from Formal Education

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Connecting the dots: What Corporate Training Can Learn from Formal Education. When we reach our breaking point or time where we decide that we are officially done with our formal education, we often immediately disregard the skillset that made us so successful in school. This may seem entirely second nature.

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Break Out of Your Comfort Zone…and into Breakout Rooms!

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We love putting like-minded individuals together in a brainstorming space! Especially for higher education clients, the student/teacher contact can be crucial for development, so meeting directly after a Workshop can help everyone strike while the iron is hot and the session content is fresh on the brain. .

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People Want To Belong To Your Nonprofit’s Community

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People have different values (some want to help children; others animals; others education, the environment, the arts… and so on). And how you should never feel bad about asking someone for a philanthropic gift, because it delivers a shot of dopamine that lights up the pleasure center of their brains. Alas, this feeling is short-lived.

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July Cause Awareness: Disability Pride Month

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A disability is any condition of the mind or body that makes it more difficult for someone to partake in certain activities and may impair their ability to participate easily in normal daily pursuits. There is so much diversity in the world, but one type of diversity that often gets overlooked or forgotten is disability diversity.