I’ve been busy interviewing people who work for nonprofits for my next book, The Happy Healthy Nonprofit: Strategies for Impact without Burnout, with Aliza Sherman. The book looks at how individuals can avoid burnout through self-care and how nonprofits can support it with workplace well-being strategy. I've really enjoyed interviewing individuals about the self-care practices they can do for themselves to improve work life balance and their own well-being. In our book, we examine the … [Read more...]
Archives for February 2016
Why Creating Space for Creative Time in the Nonprofit Workplace Improves Productivity
I've been busy interviewing people who work for nonprofits for my next book, The Happy Healthy Nonprofit: Strategies for Impact without Burnout, with Aliza Sherman. The book looks at how individuals can avoid burnout through self-care and how nonprofits can support it - through activities that promote well-being, cultural cues, or an overall strategy. Activities are designed to support organizational wellness for greater productivity and morale boosts. Activities are typically group … [Read more...]
How Nonprofit Leaders Create An Authentic Personal Brand on Instagram
Instagram, the popular Millennial photo sharing site, is gaining traction with world leaders, government leaders and nonprofit executive directors. According to the "World Leaders on Instagram Study" released yesterday by Burson-Marsteller as part of its latest research into how world leaders, governments and international organizations communicate via social media, the heads of state and government and foreign ministers of 136 countries currently have an official presence on Instagram, … [Read more...]
Crisis Text Line Opens Nation's Largest Set of Crisis Data for Limited Research
I've been a huge fan of Crisis Text Line since it launched back in August, 2013. I remember when I first saw it when its was in its infancy as a project at DoSomething. Nancy Lublin, who was CEO at the time, hosted a book party for "Measuring the Networked Nonprofit" and during a tour of the office, she introduced me to Bob Filbin, DoSomething's Data Scientist at the time. Nancy said, "Bob, show her the crisis text line data set." He showed me the project and explained the vision for … [Read more...]
Source Codes: The Most Useful Measurement Strategy You May Not Be Using
Source Codes: The Most Useful Measurement Strategy You May Not Be Using - Guest Post by Laura Quinn You’re likely using more than one channel to communicate. Email, Facebook, posting to listserves, your website, direct mail—the list goes on and on. How do you know which of those channels is actually driving people to donate, register for an event, or even sign up for your eNewsletter? How do you know what story—across every channel—is doing the best job of driving people to take action? Enter … [Read more...]
