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Why we’re all burned out and what to do about it  

Candid

Lack of accomplishment: struggling to be effective or efficient at work, noticing lower productivity or capability, or feeling low on morale and coping skills. Anyone can and will burn out if they are placed in an environment with too many demands and not enough resources. Proposing new projects? Sound familiar?

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How to Find and Work with a Nonprofit Virtual Assistant

Get Fully Funded

It may make sense to hire someone to give you that help, especially if that person has the skills you need and can work remotely. Many VAs can help with the more skilled and technical tasks required for communication, development, volunteer management, and program management. What you need is a nonprofit virtual assistant or VA.

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Games for Change Keynote: James Shelton, US Department of Education

Amy Sample Ward

You are in the business every day of figuring out how to have people engage, have fun, and build skills – change their behaviors through games. For example, we just closed an RFP to solicit proposals to build a game for kids k-3 to better understand STEM. The current environment is ripe for this to happen.

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Educating To Mobilize the Masses

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

Often the effective practices are well documented, but the novices -- who are often in the majority -- lack both the core civic skills and the confidence for independent experiential learning. They produce a model that shows the consequences of the proposed change. They don't learn the skills. Not Sim Doorknocker.

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Build, Buy, or Customize?

Connection Cafe

Be sure to understand the nature of any proposed “customization” first in order to avoid misunderstanding. Often not, but the exercise of trying to do so is often worth the effort. Evaluate your team: Do you have the right skills sets and capacity in house? What about development environments and tools?

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Games for Change Keynote: James Shelton, US Department of Education

NTEN

You are in the business every day of figuring out how to have people engage, have fun, and build skills - change their behaviors through games. For example, we just closed an RFP to solicit proposals to build a game for kids k-3 to better understand STEM. The current environment is ripe for this to happen. So how do you do that?

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8 Tips for Facilitating Nonprofit Hybrid Meetings

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

It means creating a meeting environment where people feel valued and heard. Technology can be a huge barrier for inclusion if we don’t consider the digital divide of skills, tools, and Internet speeds when selecting platforms and tools for meetings. Center Inclusion. Inclusion is the “I” word in “DEI.”