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12 free nonprofit books to help you achieve year-end fundraising success

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Whether you’re looking to brush up on best practices for annual appeals, boost your fundraising game on social media this GivingTuesday , or build expert storytelling skills to win over supporters this giving season and beyond, we’ve got you covered with this list of 12 free nonprofit books. So is almost every other nonprofit.

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6 Tips for Nonprofits to Combat Digital Distraction and Improve Productivity

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The word itself is an abbreviation for ‘no-mobile-phone-phobia’ and refers to the anxiety you feel when you don’t have your mobile phone handy or have a signal. We wrote about this in depth in the book, The Happy Healthy Nonprofit. Start to notice how much time you are on your phone and what you are doing.

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Can Using iPhone Night Shift Avoid Disrupting Your Sleep?

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The best way to do this is to stop using your mobile phone too close to bedtime or kick it out of your bedroom entirely. The circadian region of the brain connects directly to special photoreceptors in the eye called ganglion cells. The ganglion cells then send signals directly to the circadian region of the brain.

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How To Stop Your Nonprofit’s After Hours Email Habit

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I recently taught several leadership development workshops at the Rutgers Institute for Ethical Leadership based on my new book, The Happy Healthy Nonprofit: Strategies for Impact without Burnout. One of the workshops was focused on technology wellness in the nonprofit workplace , more specifically how to avoid collaboration overload.

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The Perils of Fake News, Coordinated Misinformation, and Social Media Addiction

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

We had great hopes (and still do) about the potential for “social media for social good,” how networks, connected society, and movements can be catalyzed to solve complex social change problems, for good causes and for philanthropy. Five years ago, Howard Rheingold wrote a book called Netsmart, that presaged the attention economy.

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Reboot Yourself: Take A Digital Detox Day

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Another way to take a break is a “Digital Detox,” a period of time when a person does not use technology, the Internet, or mobile phone in order to reduce stress. The art form was created Rick Roberts and Maria Thomas and you can learn more about in their book or web site.

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Conscious Computing: 7 Apps and Tips That Help You Focus, Reduce Stress, and Get Work Done

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We all know that with so much content out there, it is eating our brains and memory , relying more on “google it.” ” These apps can transform our mobile phones, tablets, and computers from agents of distraction into agents of mindfulness. If you want to get everyone in your office on board, use the app Fi.tt