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How can nonprofits improve staff well-being to achieve desired results?

ASU Lodestar Center

These six recommendations that nonprofit leaders can enact today will help improve staff well-being while achieving results. John Hester offers solutions to keeping employees happy , including focusing on renewal and balance while exploring ideas such as working from home or on-site childcare. Develop a strategic incentive structure.

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4 Ways Nonprofits Can Start Using AI in 2024

Nonprofit Tech for Good

Whether it’s brainstorming a long-dreamed-of children’s book for your cause or exploring a campaign idea that’s been on the back burner, passion makes the process more enjoyable. Results may not always be perfect, and it can be disheartening when outputs don’t meet expectations.

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Mastering Employee Engagement: Best Practices + 13 Ideas

Nonprofits Source

Fortunately, there are many formal and informal changes you can implement into your organization’s structure to keep your employees motivated. Baking employee engagement into your organization results in better recruitment numbers. We’ll go over some ideas later! Talent attraction. Enhanced community impact.

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How Innovation Naturally Emerges From Deliberate Inefficiency

Eric Jacobsen Blog

“The fact is that most companies are structured to maximize efficiency and minimize risk, resulting in an environment that ultimately prevents meaningful innovations,” explains Elliott Parker , author of the new book, The Illusion of Innovation. Thriving companies are deliberatively messy, not sterile.

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Beyond Bronze, Silver, and Gold—Grow Success With Purpose

.orgSource

Sharon offered an idea that has been on my mind for some time. For example, the idea of ‘being a leader’ in the profession, which is a goal that’s included in many association’s mission statements, is self-interest. The tiered structure is a trap I’d stay clear of. Those are value-based outcomes that may result in growth.

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Bright Idea: Post-Event Communications On Your Event Page

Qgiv

CISE accomplishes this through excellent academics, the formation of values for life, and a safe, structured, and supportive environment in which all are welcome. Instead, adding another channel for post-event follow-up helps ensure those interested in learning about the results of the event can access that information in a transparent way.

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Nonprofit Innovation Toolkits: Methods To Invent, Adopt, and Adapt Ideas to Deliver Better Results

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

Here is a write up about how the toolkit was designed and piloted, but of interest is how they framed the design challenge of designing the toolkit: How could they structure it so that people could dip in and out without having to wade through theory first? Generate new ideas. Thinking Hats: To generate new ideas.

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