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Leading with Reflection: New Year’s Rituals for Nonprofit Professionals

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Start A New Professional Journal(s): For as long as I can remember, I have kept an annual professional journal(s), using a variation of bullet journal technique. Chris Brogan’s technique is to select three words, but I modify it by articulating key themes. Since I do this every year, I also look at what I wrote the previous year.

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The Nonprofit Book We’ve Been Waiting Four Years To Read Is Finally Here: New Power

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

We, in the social good sector, especially need to keep honing our skills in unleashing new power for good causes. It also analyzes the skills – which are often misunderstand as the ability to use the social network platforms like Facebook. Each profile is illustrated with an in-depth case study.

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The Complete Volunteer Scheduling Checklist for Nonprofits

Top Nonprofits

Make profiles for each volunteer. Make profiles for each volunteer. Remember that each volunteer is unique, and paying attention to their different engagement histories, work experiences, skills, and program needs will ensure that everyone has a positive experience in your program. Skills and experience.

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8 Must-Have Tools For Your Fundraising Toolkit

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Sometimes we get one tool – one skill, one talent – and out of habit, we stick with it, never thinking about other tools we might need. It takes an entrepreneurial heart to start a nonprofit, fundraising and marketing skills to grow it, and leadership skills to manage it. And you need to use the right tools.

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Virtual Meeting Check-Ins & Icebreakers During A Pandemic

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Since those days, I have continued to hone my virtual facilitation skills to design and deliver effective virtual meetings and trainings. As nonprofits are impacted by the CoronaVirus and need more virtual meeting skills, I’d like to share what I have learned. Here’s a write of this technique.

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Is Instagram Useful for Nonprofit Marketing?

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Others are using Instagram by sharing visual stories about their programs using a branded profile, like Children’s LA and Unicef USA. It boils down the techniques to simply: Curate, Snap, Hashtag, Engage, and Repeat. But first best practices and measurement , learning, and improving.

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Help! My Nonprofit Needs A Data Nerd

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The hot button issue was capacity, skills, and lack of resources. It was articulated as: “We don’t have the skills to analyze, slice and dice, and make sense of our data, so it is hard to do it well.” I hear this too often from nonprofits. The people with skills are out there.

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