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Going Beyond the Dollar: The Community Leadership Role of Foundations

sgEngage

Foundations play a crucial role in supporting nonprofit organizations and driving positive change within communities. By embracing a community leadership role, foundations can amplify their impact and empower grantees to achieve long-term, sustainable success. However, in my experience, such fears are largely unfounded.

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How To Build Immunity To Burnout In The Workplace

Eric Jacobsen Blog

So, what did these resilient role models have in common? Usually the origins of these automatic, unconscious responses can be traced to childhood, where we learned them from caregivers. Let me say that again – they experience very high levels of chronic stress, but they are NOT burned-out.

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How to Overcome a Victim Mindset in Order to Better Serve Your Nonprofit and Your Community

Bloomerang

These mindsets can be observed and adopted throughout childhood, adolescence, or even adulthood. The Victim thinks life is happening to them. The Thriver is optimistic and has a “doing” mindset; they want to learn, succeed, and take charge of their life. You’ve assumed the role of the author of your life.

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Preparing Your Nonprofit to Move Beyond the Founder

Blue Avocado

Stepping away is part of the nonprofit circle of life. It is a stage of development in the nonprofit life cycle. One that, like actual childhood and early adolescence, is full of hazards, and that inevitably must come to an end. Over the years, I have worked with many founder-led (or until-recently-founder-led) organizations.

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64 Online Stores That Benefit Nonprofits and the Greater Good

Nonprofit Tech for Good

Audubon Marketplace gifts are unique and play an important role in protecting our birds and butterflies. Jude Children’s Research Hospital continue to treat and defeat childhood cancer and other deadly diseases. 4) Life is Good :: lifeisgood.com. 5) Audubon Society :: audubon.org/marketplace. 3) Ivory Ella :: ivoryella.com.

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Breaking the Cycle & Starting the Mental Health Conversation

Saleforce Nonprofit

As someone who suffered from anxiety and panic attacks his “whole life” as a result of unresolved trauma, it wasn’t until age 32, when a doctor put a name to it and diagnosed him with anxiety, that Charlamagne started to face his mental health head-on through therapy.

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Michelle’s RiseUP Fellowship Experience: RiseUP Fellow to Full Time Employee

Media Cause

But, it’s time to face the music for the opportunity to share what, in short, as cliche as it sounds, has changed the trajectory of my career, and life. Due to family circumstances and life situations, I started a small business in high school to pay the bills. I was the self-taught applicant that didn’t have a degree. .