That is a slogan on a t-shirt, and while meant as a joke, it is all too familiar for many nonprofits. Meetings that waste your time! When we talk about healthy nonprofit work culture, the fit nonprofit, it goes beyond having organizations create wellness policies and practices that encourage staff to eat right, exercise, take vacation time, and get enough sleep. And, healthy meetings are not just about avoiding salty and sugary snacks. It's about creating collective organizational energy … [Read more...]
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The Secret Every Successful Nonprofit Leader Knows About Being Productive
I'm facilitating a peer learning project on practical networked leadership skills for emerging nonprofit leaders. As we all know, living in a networked world creates opportunities for abundance. But having many choices and opportunities requires developing a special set of skills in order to be successful. These skills are: self-management and attention training. That's the focus of one of the sessions - so I have been reflecting a lot on this topic to come up with some useful exercises, … [Read more...]
The Benefits of Using Data to Bring Mindfulness to Your Work
Never in a million years did I ever think I would use data and mindfulness in the same sentence. For the past two months, I've been wearing a rock in a bra, a device called Spire. You think of it as a fitbit for stress developed by the Calming Technology Lab at Stanford University. You wear it in your bra or clip it to your waist, and it measures your breath. It streams data to an app on your phone like your step count, but more importantly gives you a report on whether you are calm, … [Read more...]
Future of Social: Gen Z
[slideshare id=49590448&doc=london-future-of-social-keynote-final-150619082337-lva1-app6892] I’m thrilled to be spending a few days in London where I am keynoting The Future of Social conference hosted by Social Misfits Media. I’ll be talking about Gen Z donors and why nonprofits need to engage them in their fundraising and programs. If you want to learn more about what I'll be talking about, read this interview in the Guardian. This post includes my slides and summary of the main points … [Read more...]
How Gen Z Donors Harness the Power of Online Giving
Note from Beth: Next week, I'll be keynoting the "Future of Social Media Conference" in London hosted by Social Misfits in partnership with Facebook, JustGiving, the Hospital Club Foundation, and the Guardian Voluntary Sector Network. I'll be talking about the next generation of donors and how they use social media, mobile, and other technology to raise money for causes they care about. This guest post is part of many recent posts you have read from my about Generation Z. How Gen Z Donors … [Read more...]
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