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12 free nonprofit books to help you achieve year-end fundraising success

Candid

Whether you’re looking to brush up on best practices for annual appeals, boost your fundraising game on social media this GivingTuesday , or build expert storytelling skills to win over supporters this giving season and beyond, we’ve got you covered with this list of 12 free nonprofit books. Don’t know where to start with digital fundraising?

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How To Avoid Becoming Addicted To Your Mobile Phone

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

The book is about our behavioral addictions to our smartphones, video games, social media, and email and how to break them. Recently, 60 Minutes did a piece on Brain Hacking or intentionally designing apps so you feel the need to to check in constantly. The diagram below illustrates a Ludic Loop in checking your email.

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4 Signs You Are A Burned Out Nonprofit Fundraiser

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

When you’re overworked and over stressed, it affects your concentration—your mind wanders, you forget things easily, you can’t focus. Self-care solution: Add more movement into your workday—stand up and walk around to clear your mind. Instead, incorporate a brain-replenishing walk into your lunch hour.

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3 Easy Ways to Make Employees Want to Come to Work

NonProfit Hub

Here at Nonprofit Hub, we have a fun, creative workspace filled with lots of food and games. Games=Brain food. Playing a game every once in a while is a great way to reset and activate parts of your brain you wouldn’t normally use at work. We go on walks when we feel overwhelmed. Get some fresh air.

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How To Use Failure As A Way To Success

Eric Jacobsen Blog

Shed the discomfort of uncertainty, which is the only way to open your mind to all possibilities. It’s our brain signaling that if we try something and fail, we’ll be embarrassed or judged. Wooditch : Because some companies look at success and failure as a zero-sum game. Wooditch : Be aware of the origin of the voice.

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How To Use Failure As Your Path To Success

Eric Jacobsen Blog

Shed the discomfort of uncertainty, which is the only way to open your mind to all possibilities. It’s our brain signaling that if we try something and fail, we’ll be embarrassed or judged. Wooditch : Because some companies look at success and failure as a zero-sum game. Wooditch : Be aware of the origin of the voice.

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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

The app is called Forest that turns putting down your phone into a game. 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. There’s an app that can help you break your mobile phone addiction and it makes it fun.

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