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

.orgSource

Don’t waste valuable brain power. Welcome every proposal. Open-minded humanists, interested in a broad spectrum of topics and issues. Set the example by modeling the behavior you would like to see. Ask probing questions, consider a variety of opinions, including ideas that may be unpopular, and insist on objective analysis.

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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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How to Thrive When Work Doesn’t Love You Back

sgEngage

Rest is a necessary and important productivity tool—and an important part of doing the inner AND outer work of being a mindful changemaker. If you want to lower your meeting number, try time-blocking your non-meeting activities, such as writing a grant proposal or working on the budget for next fiscal year.

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Top 2021 Fundraising Strategies: Mastering Relevant Content Marketing

Bloomerang

It’s important to showcase how what you do relates to what’s top of mind for folks. Finally, after hearing a lot of nuts and bolts from them about numerous programs and processes around which I couldn’t quite wrap my brain, I said “Tell me why I should give in one sentence.” In this post, I’ll explore the third strategy. .

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Content Curation for Nonprofits – Notes from #13ntccur8

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

Will is also does a lot of work with video – so when he proposed that we incorporate video interviews as part of the session, I was thrilled. While it is hard to measure actual attention spans, there is research that people pay closest attention during the first 10-18 minutes of lecture – and then their minds wander.

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Mastering the Art of Work/Life Balance in a Digital World

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

Meet my colleague, Meico Marquette Whitlock, who is the Founder and CEO of Mindful Techie. I had an opportunity to interview Meico about being a Mindful Techie. You have now moved into the area of “Mindfulness and Technology,” what inspired the move from nonprofit techie into mindfulness?

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How to Make People Believe in Your Cause

NonProfit Hub

Members of the panel can then choose to invest or not invest in the proposed business. After all, this is their idea, their brain-child, their life. It’s a question on the minds of thousands of small businesses, startup tech companies and—yes—nonprofits.

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