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Five New Year’s Rituals for Nonprofit Professionals

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

Rituals can also be used by professionals to boost personal productivity because rituals capitalize on our brains’ ability to direct our behavior on autopilot, allowing us to reach our goals even when we are distracted or preoccupied with other things. I use the themes to guide my professional work and writing. Pictured above).

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Five New Year’s Rituals for Nonprofit Professionals

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

Rituals can also be used by professionals to boost personal productivity because rituals capitalize on our brains’ ability to direct our behavior on autopilot, allowing us to reach our goals even when we are distracted or preoccupied with other things. I use the themes to guide my professional work and writing. Pictured above).

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How to Decide Which Fundraising Software Your Nonprofit Should Use

Nonprofit Tech for Good

Goals can include: Gain insight into donor data through reporting and data analytics. Many nonprofit professionals will tell you that the answer is “time” and/or “resources.” An instructor travels to your place of business to teach you how to apply your new features to your existing processes, one-on-one. In-person training.

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Learning Analytics: Big Data Applied to Training, Teaching, and Learning

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

Learning Analytics comes from a report about the impact of emerging technologies for practitioners in a field. That sounds like the title of a report that NTEN might produce that surveys the technology landscape and nonprofit usage and provides an overview of what technologies nonprofits should be looking at in the next 1-5 years.

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How can professional development advance nonprofit performance and ensure sustainability?

ASU Lodestar Center

Professional development (PD) is the "process of improving and increasing capabilities of staff through access to education and training." While conferences were once the only idea in gaining professional development skills, peer-to-peer mentoring is shown to give the highest output of learned skills. Illustration by Jocelyn Ruiz.

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Kids and Philanthropy: Teaching Your Children To Be Charitable

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

I loved hearing about Isadora Faber, a preteen girl who lives in Florianópolis and is the creator of the page Daily Class on Facebook, which aims to help other teens in her country who want to make a difference in their communities by reporting problems in their schools. While her parents were concerned about her safety, she kept going.

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Celebrate National Volunteer Week at your association to show you care!

Nimble AMS

But Community Brands Research estimates that only 23% of association professionals plan to ask their members to volunteer. Some members may volunteer for professional reasons like networking at your association, building their resume, or growing their leade rship skills. Send impact reports. Give awards.

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