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3 New Year’s Rituals for Nonprofit Professionals to Build Resilience

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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. I’ve used Chris Brogan’s technique for over a decade and found it very helpful in keeping me focused. Here they are: My Three Rituals. I also use it as a year in review tool.

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Reflections from Networked Nonprofit Workshop for Latin American NGOs

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Both ideas were new, so it took a little bit of adaption of the templates and techniques, but we managed to come up with something useful for all. We also looked at a campaign strategy developed by the office in Peru called Nofilter and looked at ways to incorporate some of the takeaways from the Networked Nonprofit workshop.

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Web Video for Social Benefit Sector: Some learnings.

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They make it somewhat difficult to incorporate storytelling techniques. The video producers, a husband/wife team, started their company after doing some volunteer work in Peru with CARE. It is a two-minute elevator speech by the founder of the organization, a warm and personal telling of the organization's programs.

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