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3 New Year’s Rituals for Nonprofits That Can Boost Professional Success

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My rituals include: 1) Review the Year: For as long as I can remember, I have kept an annual professional journal, using a variation of bullet journal technique. In early January, I read through the year’s journal and think about accomplishments:What gave me a sense of purpose and feeling of professional fulfillment?

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3 New Year’s Rituals for Nonprofit Professionals To Begin 2018 with Clarity

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1) Review the Year: For as long as I can remember, I have kept an annual professional journal, using a variation of bullet journal technique. In early January, I read through the journal and think about accomplishments:What gave me a sense of purpose and feeling of personal and professional fulfillment? Year in Review.

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Giving 2.0 ProjectU

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Stanford University lecturer Laura Arrillaga-Andreessen teaches students at Stanford about how to master philanthropy. The author of the book, Giving 2.0 , has just released all her teaching notes and syllabi, along with philanthropy library. The goals for the Giving 2.0 3) Giving 2.0: Philanthropy'

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Read This Post If You Want Your Most Successful GivingTuesday

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Sometimes a surprise donation request has value A study of around 6,000 participants from the Journal of Public Economics found that alerting the participants to the upcoming ask for a donation decreased click-through rates. Share simple instructions for how to alter email signatures. Or do both!

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Happy, Healthy 2016: What’s Your Theme for the Year?

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One annual ritual is to create “To Do/Not To Do/Reflection” notebook where I use modified bullet journaling to track my progress. I was honored to lead a featured season at the United Way Leadership Conference on Networked Leadership and teach many workshops networked leadership skills. My Three Words.

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Taking 18 Minutes Day Towards A Year-Long Focus

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To be successful in either teaching or learning, you have to slow down. I’ve been immersed in writing about measurement and testing instructional frameworks this year. I’m also interested in content curation and have been practicing it and teaching it, but want to take that to the next level.

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Empowering Young Children through Philanthropy

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One of them was Vincent Law who is doing interesting work with teaching young children about giving and philanthropy. For example we use the Chinese folk story, The Empty Pot to teach kids about honesty. Joseph PULITZER, renowned for his International Prizes in Journalism later on, was the owner of newspaper The World.