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Donate Your Brain! Microvolunteering at TechSoup

Tech Soup

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. The organization also has to think about how it will track those who contribute to microvolunteering tasks. Simple, right?

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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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Nonprofit explainer videos: 4 tips to inspire supporters

Candid

For example when watching a video, audio and visual channels activate separate parts of the brain , and when these two elements combine, it helps supporters better understand and engage with your mission. . These short films, which take viewers on a journey into the specifics of your work in 90 seconds or less, have many benefits.

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Rediscovering Your Creative Spark During the Pandemic

Media Cause

One in particular that piqued my interest was Mindful Design , a new framework that supports the intentions of people using our products and services instead of pushing our own agendas—making purposeful design decisions that actually help people. I was prompted to choose an area of work-life I find unpleasurable—I chose time-tracking.

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10 New Year’s Resolutions for Nonprofit Social Media Managers

Nonprofit Tech for Good

One of the biggest downsides for me personally from being connected to the Social Web 50-70 hours a week is that my brain has a hard time reading for extended periods of time. My mind wanders after a couple of paragraphs even when reading New York Times Bestsellers. In 2013, keep these two words at the forefront of your mind.

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Get Organized and Increase Your Nonprofit Productivity

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They allow you to collaborate with others so you won’t waste time sending Word docs and Excel spreadsheets back and forth while tracking versions. But it is a good task to schedule after blocking off time to work on a complex grant or other task that requires a lot of brain power. I can do it even when my brain feels fried.

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How Nonprofit Professionals Can Manage Workplace Stress Triggers

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

Anne Grady, in a recent HBR blog post , describes the harm that repeated stress triggers can create in the workplace: “When you are triggered, the emotional part of your brain takes over. Your logical brain temporarily shuts down, and you lose the ability to solve problems, make decisions, and think rationally.