Bloomerang

OCTOBER 12, 2021

This blog series is designed to help nonprofit professionals like you make subtle mindset shifts that can make a big difference in your work, as well as increase your job satisfaction. . And by getting comfortable with our stories and sharing them, we can make a great deal of difference both personally and professionally. .

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Eric Jacobsen Blog

APRIL 23, 2015

Your brain doesn't have to work hard to be successful. It makes you tired to think you could be doing the same job a year from now. You are consistently getting positive feedback. You don't prepare for meetings because you already know the answers. You've stopped learning something new every day. You are busy but bored.

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Top Nonprofits

MAY 19, 2021

I’m not saying you need to go anywhere exotic or even far away, but taking time away from your work is essential to your physical, emotional, and professional health. It helps your brain. I took a full week off of work and did something that had nothing to do with work. . When you’re not there, this gives your team some time to focus.

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Eric Jacobsen Blog

MARCH 27, 2021

Your brain doesn't have to work hard to be successful. It makes you tired to think you could be doing the same job a year from now. You are consistently getting positive feedback. You don't prepare for meetings because you already know the answers. You've stopped learning something new every day. You are busy but bored.

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Get Fully Funded

MARCH 6, 2022

It might be hard to look at these figures and to wrap your brain around how much money you need to raise to employ the staff you need. The Job Description for Your First Hire When hiring staff for your nonprofit, the first hire can be the most intimidating. Start with a job description. Would you do this job? 20% a year?

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Get Fully Funded

JUNE 18, 2023

Screens can overstimulate your brain and keep you from sleeping. If, despite your best efforts, you are still struggling with burnout or compassion fatigue, you may want to consider seeking help from a professional life coach or therapist to help you sort through your priorities and your tasks. Literally, take a hike! Get out of town.

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Nonprofit Tech for Good

JANUARY 14, 2013

It’s commendable, but after four years of recession and the likelihood that you generously added social media to your already packed job description without compensation, it’s not sustainable and being overworked and underpaid will only lead to burnout and resentment. 4) Read more books.

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Get Fully Funded

APRIL 23, 2023

There are two parts to thanking donors: Connecting with the donor’s brain by providing a gift receipt and more importantly, touching the donor’s heart by letting them know they are heroes for giving to your organization’s cause. You make the brain connection when you give them the data they need for their records.

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Bloomerang

AUGUST 31, 2022

Most nonprofit professionals can relate to the idea of wearing many hats, some of which we don’t always feel super confident with, which is where a quick, no-nonsense guide to nonprofit storytelling can come in handy. Storytelling engages our sensory cortex in the brain , allowing the listener to feel, hear, taste, and even smell the story.

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Achieve

SEPTEMBER 2, 2015

Eventually, I realized that if development professionals really want to make a difference in their organization’s ability to raise money, they not only need to think about their donors, they need to understand how the donor brain works. What does that mean for the fundraising professional? It’s simple. help others.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MARCH 4, 2016

I was an early adopter of using the Internet in 1992 where I had a virtual job working online for a program of the New York Foundation for the Arts called ArtsWire. I’ve found that it lights up different parts of my brain and helps think more creatively than starring at a screen or typing. Zentangle Pens and Pencils.

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Have Fun - Do Good

OCTOBER 30, 2009

NEWS This week, Echoing Green partnered with Jobs for Change on a new Be Bold Podcast. In the first edition of this partnership, I interviewed Erin O'Connor Jones , the Director of Candidate Services and Managing Associate at Nonprofit Professionals Advisory Group. It's been a been a busy few weeks! Early registration deadline is Nov.

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Classy

APRIL 29, 2021

43 years of experience as a development professional, nonprofit leader, and LGBTQ+ community activist . Army Traumatic Brain Injury Program, developing the Army’s brain injury prevention and treatment strategies for soldiers . Job Opportunities Task Force. Job Opportunities Task Force’s youngest CEO . Caryn York.

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Bloomerang

OCTOBER 5, 2022

Relationships evolve, professional development occurs, where we live, what we do, who we see, what we enjoy, how we act… it all changes. Structural change – this include teams, departments, and job structure. How will this change make their job or lives easier or more rewarding? Technological change – new software and systems.

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NonProfit Hub

FEBRUARY 8, 2019

After all, this is their idea, their brain-child, their life. Nonprofit professionals may not be asking for million-dollar investments from the likes of Mark Cuban, but they’re still on a mission to convince the community that their cause is worth something. Or, at the least, how can they convince them that it’s potentially lucrative?

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Eric Jacobsen Blog

MARCH 7, 2017

is a technique that slows the brain down. This technique is one used effectively by the best improv professionals and Kulhan believes it's essential to succeeding in business. Kulhan, who was trained in improv by notables including Amy Poehler and Tina Fey , also teaches you in his book the powerful difference between "Yes, and."

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Business Attitude Brain Technique 40

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

AUGUST 16, 2017

Is everyone suffering from “foggy brain” caused by too much sitting down meetings? Professional Networking Meetings: Meetings with people for coffee or lunch or visiting their office (or vice a versa) for professional relationship building. Meetings can not only be a waste of time but also zap our energy.

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Eric Jacobsen Blog

SEPTEMBER 2, 2015

Your brain doesn't have to work hard to be successful. It makes you tired to think you could be doing the same job a year from now. You are consistently getting positive feedback. You don't prepare for meetings because you already know the answers. You've stopped learning something new every day. You are busy but bored.

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Challenge Brain Teach Skills 40

Gyrus

JULY 12, 2016

Professional Drive. Beyond that, in the organizational environment, effective learnings must be applicable to daily life and reflect experiences that could be faced every day on the job. Elearnings as a package can be one of your greatest allies in the world of professional development. But you cannot just stop there.

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Achieve

APRIL 30, 2014

After ten years of working professionally in the nonprofit sector, I decided to take a short sabbatical to refocus and align my daily activities with my long-term professional goals. Professionals may argue that it is easier for small nonprofits without paid staff to offer “real” opportunities to volunteers. Probably true.

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Lesson Volunteer Professional Mind 40

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MARCH 14, 2013

pistachio is someone who considers part of her job as “twitter whisperer” — nice. When the energy drops, people’s brains go to sleep. Laura Fitton, Hubspot: Coaching Your CEO. What are some ways to get your CEO on board using social as part of your strategy? Rachel Weidinger, UpWell.

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Connection Cafe

JULY 2, 2019

Steep billing rates, adversarial positions, and dense subject matter hindered my ability to be really great at my job, so I turned to more mission-driven work in the nonprofit sector. I suspect my experience is not unique to lawyers, and can be extrapolated to other professional service industries. After all, it’s a vocation, right?

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

AUGUST 29, 2017

I landed my first “real” job in the sector when I graduated from college. But I reached a point a few years ago where I felt frustrated by the separation between my personal spiritual journey and my professional work. What’s your advice to nonprofit professionals?

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

FEBRUARY 24, 2012

Leng Sopharath has graduated, has a job, and now we’re even connected on Facebook where I learned she also got married. His framework above, “The Healthy Mind Platter” describes the balance of different brain activities you need to incorporate into your life to be balanced. Healthy Mind Platter.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JUNE 21, 2013

Unpacking the Relationship Between Volunteering, the Brain and the Body ” featuring author Adam Grant, “ Give and Take.” The study also illustrates that employers benefit from employees who volunteer in terms of better employee health and in professional-skills development that employees use in the workplace.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JANUARY 27, 2014

I’ll be sharing my best tips and secrets for designing and delivering training for nonprofit professionals that get results. Whatever the structure for your learning activities, they should use four different kinds of activities that help the brain learn rapidly and identify your discussion questions. Talking and hearing (Auditory).

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Instructional Design Instruction Instructional Training 111

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

SEPTEMBER 13, 2012

In fact, Lucy has been terrific in finding new ways, like Branch , to use the social tools to facilitate a global brain around these ideas. It used to be twenty years ago that the “do gooders” would go off and take lower paying jobs in the nonprofit sector. Let’s start with a definition first.

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Skills Reflection Management Aggregator 96

Connection Cafe

FEBRUARY 12, 2020

Working in marketing at a university is one of the hardest jobs in the world. One that I like was created by Kristina Halvorson and her team at Brain Traffic , called the Content Strategy Quad: A simple way to look at this is by dividing the top and bottom quadrants. There are a few accepted models for content strategy.

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Top Nonprofits

JULY 20, 2022

The positioning and size of the text immediately draw the viewer’s focus to the call to action, planting the seed in their brain for taking action and helping your cause. The advertiser did a great job of featuring one of their most famous products and employing brand association for viewers. That’s not an accident.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MAY 17, 2011

Because webinars were a new medium to trainers, I used Richard Mayer’s research on multi-media learning based on understanding how the brain works and the ability to pay attention to guide the instructional design.

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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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Culture Nonprofit Attitude Awareness 105

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

FEBRUARY 4, 2015

The benefits of walking to “clear your brain” or build relationships is not a new leadership technique. ” Steve Jobs was famous for it and, perhaps because of that, walking meetings are common in Silicon Valley, as this article points out. But incorporating walking into your work has many advantages, too.

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The Fundraising Authority

OCTOBER 28, 2021

Fundwriter is a writing assistant for nonprofit professionals. Fundwriter is trained by veteran nonprofit professionals and fundraisers to follow proven writing models that work again and again. January 2016 Anthony visited LACC for the first time where brain cancer was confirmed and he met with Dr. Marootian. Fundwriter.ai

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Museum 2.0

MAY 28, 2020

Some Internet People say some that sparks something in your brain. There were many, covering the personal and the professional (which, as this community knows well, is also personal), but I kept looking for some elusive grand unified theory to tie them all together. Some Internet People strike the flint every time.

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Judi Sohn

MARCH 3, 2011

Here's where I'll be (the links are to MyNTC, the social community site for the conference): New to NTC Orientation (9-10:30 am Thursday) - As an NTEN Member Ambassador, I'll be helping NTEN's fabulous new Membership Director Amy Sample Ward (a perfect choice for this job, don't you think?) I love it.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

FEBRUARY 3, 2015

If you’re like most nonprofit folks, you’ve probably made a few New Year’s resolutions, including being more effective at your job. Ritu Sharma, Social Media 4 Nonprofits, offers up Top Productivity Hacks for Nonprofit Social Media Professionals. But maintaining productivity, especially online, can be challenging.

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Museum 2.0

MARCH 30, 2010

I figured I could pay someone a lot of money to go to graduate school, or I could pay nothing (and hopefully get paid) to learn on the job. Graduate students try to get entry level jobs that involve desks, not aprons. And senior professionals are not encouraged to waste their time talking to visitors in the lobby.

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