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How Your Attitude Shapes Your Nonprofit

Connection Cafe

I make a conscious effort not to get overly pessimistic or have an irritable attitude towards my coworkers because I want to be mindful of the type of work environment I’m creating. Keeping that in mind, I’ve put together a few thoughts on how to keep a positive attitude at the workplace, even when things seem dire. Why is that?

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How To Build Immunity To Burnout In The Workplace

Eric Jacobsen Blog

And making too many personal sacrifices, wanting to leave your job, and having a bad or cynical attitude about your work. After several months of recovery and spending time reflecting on my unhealthy relationship with work, I decided to enroll in a doctoral program at The University of Pennsylvania.

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The Great Good Place Book Discussion Part 2: Small Rural Museums as Third Places

Museum 2.0

This guest post was written by Rebecca Lawrence, Museum Educator, Schwenkfelder Library & Heritage Center in Pennsylvania. As I was reading The Great Good Place I identified with Oldenburg’s description of Main Street USA, small town America, and rural life. One book was about farm life and the other about a knight and his dragon.

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How to Turn Your Staff from a Group into a Team

NonProfit Hub

Garry, a nonprofit consultant who teaches nonprofit communication and leadership at the University of Pennsylvania, said a team usually possesses characteristics like trust, collegiality and a shared vision, while a group is a bunch of people and a collection of individuals. Expect the Expectations.

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Memorial Day 2012

VisionLink

Abraham Lincoln As a young boy in Oil City, Pennsylvania, I marched in our annual Memorial Day parade with my Cub Scout troop. It was here I was taught that we are all created equal, endowed by our creator with certain inalienable rights, among which are life, liberty and the pursuit of happiness. Memorial Day, 2012 Stan Stahl, Ph.D.

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This federal program helps families pay utility bills—but Trump just fired the entire staff

Fast Company Tech

As a particularly cold winter sputters to an end, Pennsylvanias Low Income Home Energy Assistance Program (LIHEAP), which helps residents pay their heating bills, closed on Fridayseveral weeks earlier than expected. In 2025, Pennsylvania had so far received $71 million by early April. About $19 million has yet to be sent to the state.

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Seven ways of looking at Elon Musk

Recode by Vox

SpaceX and Tesla founder Elon Musk speaks at a town hall with Republican Senate candidate Dave McCormick at the Roxain Theater on October 20, 2024, in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania. The appetite for danger extends to his personal life. The gambles worked out, of course, but easily could have bankrupted him.