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New Year’s Rituals for Nonprofits To Improve Resilience in 2021

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Start A New Professional Journal: For as long as I can remember, I have kept a professional journal. There are many approaches to journaling and types of notebooks, but I have settled in on using a variation of the bullet journal technique and the one-sentence five-year journal.

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5 Methods for Avoiding Procrastination for Nonprofits

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That shift is easier when you have some good techniques for actually get those tasks done. Here’s five ways to avoid procrastination and be more productive: Flickr Photo by TBN97. Pomodoro : The pomodoro technique is a time management methodology created by Francesco Cirillo. Bullet Journal is done by hand.

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Curiosity Kills Bad Work Habits

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It is a simple technique: 1) notice the habit; 2) Ask yourself what you are getting out of it in the moment. While writing The Happy Healthy Nonprofit: Impact without Burnout , we interviewed nonprofit professionals about how they have changed bad work habits or replaced them with better routines. Wendy Harman, Daily Questions.

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The Unanticipated Benefit of Content Curation

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I was honored to write a feature article in the recent issue of the NTEN journal called “ The Unanticipated Benefits of Content Curation: Reducing Information Overload.” ” I’ll be doing a FREE webinar on Thursday, July 12 at 11 am PST to walk you through the idea and practices described in the area.

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Why Self-Interested Volunteers are the Best for Nonprofits

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Authored by Capulet’s Julie Szabo and Darren Barefoot, this report is based on in-depth interviews with leading practitioners and a literature review. Six key lessons surfaced from our interviews with more than 35 global nonprofits. Beyond the First Click is a project of Capulet, Change.org and the Mobilisation Lab at Greenpeace.

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Giving 2.0 ProjectU

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In a recent interview with the Wall Street Journal , Laura shared why she is releasing the curriculum and the basic frameworks. At the time, I was working on “ Measuring the Networked Nonprofit ,” with co-author KD Paine. The goals for the Giving 2.0

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Self-Care for Social Changemakers: What I learned from Aisha Moore

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Aisha was interviewed for a podcast as part of the Mindful Leadership Summit by Meditate This Podcast and shared some of her thinking about creating a self-care plan. ” Whether this is writing in a journal, coloring in an adult coloring book, yoga, meditation, listening to music, or walking, she does something for herself.