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Why Nonprofit Workplaces Are Stressful and What To Do About It

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

One of the points he brings up is the importance of creating an environment where life/work balance flourish. This is already happening in Europe (France has a no after hours email law ) and many Scandinavian countries focus on work life balance. How has your nonprofit activating a culture of work/life balance?

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34 Clever Summer Fundraising Ideas

Whole Whale

Tour-de-France (July). It’s not summer without the Tour-de-France in July (or get a head-start with World Bicycle Day on June 3). Take a look at how HikeFor.com is helping Donate Life America raise funds. Have your supporters send pictures of their causey ink. Actually, please do this and send us a picture.

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The Importance Of Employee Engagement

Eric Jacobsen Blog

She developed her marketing expertise while working in the high-tech industry, the Consumer Marketing Department at Disneyland Paris in France, the nonprofit arena, and the insurance industry. Then the uncertainty impacted people’s jobs, family life, hobbies, and more. How do you define employee engagement?

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A Tribute To Simone Joyaux

Bloomerang

I will add to this post several pictures so all of you can muster a true sense of what she was to members of the Love clan. Then in 2012, Ross Hendrickson and myself decided to start Bloomerang based upon the premise of bringing proven best practices in professional fundraising to life. They say a picture is worth a thousand words.

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Sheroes You Should Know: Inspiring Stories for #WomensHistoryMonth

EveryAction

Since beginning her career, the immensely talented Ava DuVernay has experienced some significant "firsts" - she was the first African American female director to receive a Golden Globe nomination and the first to have her film, Selma , nominated for the Academy Award for Best Picture - but she's not finished yet. Shero Explorers. Mae Jemison.

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Making Stories Work for Your Org: What the Data Says

NTEN

The argument for stories In 2003, John Sadowsky and Loick Roche, two professors at the Grenoble Graduate School of Business in France, reviewed the major academic literature on storytelling and wrote a paper called, "The power of stories: a discussion of why stories are powerful". Nonprofits are adding stories to their fundraising messages.

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If we’d had Twitter on 9/11

Connection Cafe

International phone lines were jammed & I couldn’t reach my husband where he was working in France, to let him know I’d flown to LA, and I’d made it. I’d have taken a picture and figured out TwitPic. Bandwidth was a problem then, too. I sent him an email because we didn’t have texting yet.

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