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Donate Your Brain! Microvolunteering at TechSoup

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Our virtual volunteering offerings also include Donate Your Brain , a microvolunteering initiative. In our Donate Your Brain initiative, volunteers choose how and when to participate whenever they want to. We mapped out the process we would use to promote Donate Your Brain opportunities. Simple, right? Not even hundreds.

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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. The World Café Format To maximize the brain power of our.orgCommunity professionals and to allow for a robust exchange of ideas, Sharon facilitated this conversation in a World Café format. The problem might be something you’ve never considered.

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

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Accountants Content moderators Legal Assistants Proofreaders Entry-level stock traders Transcribers Graphic designers, where creativity isn’t a priority Customer service representatives Soldiers Writers, where quantity is a greater concern than quality I reviewed several of these lists. Don’t waste valuable brain power.

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Spring Clean Your Work Life: Tips from Your Fellow Social Good Pros

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Lora Cowan , assistant director, advancement services at Tennessee Technological University. Foster Mindfulness. Blackbaud Champions recommend a spring cleaning for your mind, too! Our office has a weekly mindfulness session. Sharla Donohue , database manager, American Brain Foundation. Leave work at work!

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AI For Good: How 3 Nonprofits Grew Their Impact With Machine Learning

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Have you exchanged data with like-minded organizations to grow your impact? billion people lack access to regulated financial services , such as credit cards and loans. The UCSF Brain and Spinal Injury Center improves treatment guidelines using insights from machine learning. To improve equity in your programs?

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Using Technology for Mission: Ontario 211 and NTEN Hear From the Brain Tumour Foundation of Canada

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Organization: Brain Tumour Foundation of Canada. We aim to reach the the 55,000 Canadians affected by a brain tumour with a variety of tools and technology such as our website and social media communities play a large part in this reach. We’ll share what they told us in this series of blog posts. Website: [link].

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New Ideas at TED2014

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Our near-term approach is to reach the more urban, wealthier portion of the blind in these countries, with the expectation of extending our services to the blind in disadvantaged, rural communities someday in the future. Andrew challenged me on that idea. The rural blind are truly among the poorest of the poor in the world.

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