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Nonprofit Employee Recognition: 5 Stellar Appreciation Ideas

Achieve

Employee recognition helps you to engage your staff, creating a positive working environment for employees to thrive. A handwritten thank-you letter can be a deeply personal method of showing appreciation and leaves your employees with tangible evidence that you value them. Create an employee recognition wall.

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PCI Compliance for Nonprofits Guide

Greater Giving

Nonprofits are increasingly turning to online payment methods. Implement two-factor authentication wherever possible on devices used within your organization like laptops/tablets/phones etc… PCI compliance applies to nonprofits that accept credit card payments.

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How to Train and Develop Millennials

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As such, we are comfortable in most environments, are quick to adapt at the introduction of a foreign software and interface, and willing to take on complicated items they may seem daunting to the world before us. Multi-tasking. Perhaps our greatest perceived weakness is our greatest strength. To many, this is construed as a distraction.

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The Future of the Nonprofit Office: Working from Home v2.0

NTEN

The average smartphone outperforms the laptop computer of the previous decade. It's true: the employees of tomorrow may not have laptops or PCs. The new realm of net-enabled personal communications devices will cut down on the need for many employees to have an expensive-to-maintain PC or laptop.

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Flexible Space: The Secret To Designing Powerful Training

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

The instructional design included different delivery methods: interactive lecture with slides and whiteboard, facilitation with sticky notes, small group exercises, posters, group discussion, self-directed activities, and self-directed online activities. I most often have to hack the space. The flexible classroom is a large open space.

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Interview with Carolyn Appleton: How to Launch Your Grant Writing Career

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But I came away with the mental framework required for meaningful, methodical grant work. And keep in mind: As a grant writer, you will need to focus and spend long stretches of time in a quiet environment working on your computer or laptop. I admit, I was a bit intimidated. If you cannot concentrate, you will be in trouble.

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Collecting Data in Low Resource Areas: How to Get Started

NTEN

You have paper and pen, but in this harsh environment, even collecting data the old fashioned way can be unreliable. They include things like: Access/FileMaker databases on desktops or laptops. People can fear or mistrust or envy someone walking around with a laptop or a PDA. There is no real infrastructure. So what do you do?