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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. If you track current events, Sharon advised, you are aware of the erosion of public confidence across a spectrum of institutions. The problem might be something you’ve never considered. Could the issue be trust?

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#Fakecommute: A Ritual for Work-Life Balance When You #WFH

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

For me, it is valuable as a ritual that helps me shut off my work brain and creates a boundary between me and overworking. . If you had a 20-minute commute to work, whether by public transportation, driving, walking, or biking, keep the same time. Your mind and body need these boundaries. Keep moving and practice mindfulness.

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

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The nominees varied depending on the publication. Don’t waste valuable brain power. Open-minded humanists, interested in a broad spectrum of topics and issues. A career slated for extinction on one appeared on another among professions listed as the most viable. Set the example by modeling the behavior you would like to see.

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

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Story or Die: How to Use Brain Science to Engage, Persuade, and Change Minds in Business and in Life by Lisa Cron. We invite you to browse our free, public collection of eBooks and audiobooks on nonprofit leadership, fundraising, operations, and many related topics all year round. Happy reading!

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

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Dear Charity Clairity, I’m wondering if you have a data point readily available in your brilliant brain? or something like that? Whatever your mission, the better you tailor your message to what’s top of mind for people, the more likely you’ll be able to inspire them to make a gift to you now.

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Nonprofit Content Creation: Back-To-The Basics of the Writing Process

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The brain dump. Just write whatever comes to mind. Madison Gonzalez is a National Public Speaker, Storyteller of the Year Award-Winner, Best-Selling Author of Dear Mirror, Events Manager, and Published Poet. Pre-writing. . Once you can actually start visualizing your story it will help you know which direction to go with it.

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