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Four Tips To Boost Your Personal Resilience While Doing Nonprofit Work

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

We will be doing early morning sessions to engage participants in some mindful moment and movement exercises. I’m going to share different techniques for weaving mindful moment and exercises into your workday. It helps center and refocus our brains which is important for learning.

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Are Associations Losing Their Members’ Trust?—The Leadership ColLAB Explores This Critical Question

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Trust isn’t a challenge that is currently top of mind for association leaders. ENA’s commitment to bring culture to life is even expressed in the organization’s physical environment. The problem might be something you’ve never considered. Could the issue be trust?

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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! Breakout rooms can facilitate that smaller group setting, fostering an environment where mentoring or an advising session can occur. But what happens when a more niche session topic is ready for discussion amongst an even smaller group of interested attendees?

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People Want To Belong To Your Nonprofit’s Community

Bloomerang

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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[ASK AN EXPERT] What’s A Good New Donor Acquisition Rate?

Bloomerang

Dear Charity Clairity, I’m wondering if you have a data point readily available in your brilliant brain? or something like that? You are not, however, simply at the mercy of the environment. Today’s question comes from a nonprofit employee who wants advice on what would be considered a good new donor acquisition rate.

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4 Signs You Are A Burned Out Nonprofit Fundraiser

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

Given the harsh working environment for nonprofits , it is a perfect recipe for a whole bunch of burnt out nonprofit fundraising professionals and others. When you’re overworked and over stressed, it affects your concentration—your mind wanders, you forget things easily, you can’t focus.

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Networked and Hyperconnected: The New Social (and work) Operating System

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

The presentation looks at how younger generations are always connected and are multi-taskers who count on the Internet as their external brain and approach problems in a different way from older generations. It raises the question (unanswered) whether this is a good or bad thing. Being strategically future-minded.

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