Fast Company Tech

MARCH 31, 2025

Whats the big idea? Do you feel stuck navigating office politics, micromanagement, or being overlooked at work? Listen to the audio versionread by Melody herselfin the Next Big Idea App. Its about taking control of your own work experience. and its not going to work for long. She is the author of Trust Yourself.

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Nonprofit Tech for Good

MARCH 25, 2022

Here are a few ideas about how to make virtual/hybrid versions of your favorite in-person events. Why not take some of these ideas and apply them to a fundraising format? Another fun scavenger hunt idea is to hire a developer to alter your website’s layout, placing hints across the pages in order to provide players with clues.

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Nonprofit Tech for Good

NOVEMBER 15, 2024

Here’s how Quick Stores works: Sign up and create a store: Register with Printful for free and create your store in just a few clicks. Need merch ideas ? Printful’s goal is to make on-demand manufacturing the norm for a planet with finite resources and people with infinite ideas.

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Futurism

FEBRUARY 23, 2025

Sure, the code works, but ask why it works that way instead of another way? It was slower, but you came out understanding not just what worked, but why it worked." "Every junior dev I talk to has Copilot or Claude or GPT running 24/7. Crickets,"he wrote. Ask about edge cases? Blank stares." "The It's sound logic.

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Engadget

APRIL 13, 2025

While Apple had once considered the latter setup for AR glasses , it shifted the idea over to the Vision Pro so it can create an ultra-low-latency system for streaming a users Mac display or for connecting to high-end enterprise applications, according to Gurman.

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Fast Company Tech

MARCH 8, 2025

Whats the big idea? Extracted from the complexity of foods impact on health, economy, wellbeing, nature, civil strife, and so on, there are common principles that characterize food systems that work for us and for the planet. Listen to the audio versionread by Julian himselfin the Next Big Idea App. is just the wrong question.

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Nonprofit Tech for Good

NOVEMBER 10, 2024

They seek to be part of the organization’s daily work and want content that makes them feel included and engaged. Download this free Social Media Content Calendar has four example content pillars and a month of content ideas to take the guesswork out of social media planning and save valuable time for your nonprofit.

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Fast Company Tech

APRIL 18, 2025

Whats the big idea? Too many of us feel unseen, undervalued, and unhappy at work. Listen to the audio versionread by Kaplan herselfin the Next Big Idea App. But fitting in at work? Work is not familyits a professional environment where people collaborate to achieve shared goals. Do they see me? They shrink.

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.orgSource

SEPTEMBER 4, 2024

When you focus on what’s iconic to you, you can find deeper meaning in life and work. That kind of bold idea makes.orgCommunity’s Solutions Day an eye-opening event. This session sends you back to the office with an updated work style that will meet the moment and exceed your members’ expectations. Earn up to 5.25

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Bloomerang

FEBRUARY 27, 2025

They bring energy, fresh ideas, and an eagerness to make a difference. Try these ideas to inspire young donor participation , make a meaningful impact, and foster lasting connections. Short, impactful shifts often work best. The post Creative Event Ideas To Get Students Involved In Your Nonprofit appeared first on Bloomerang.

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Bloomerang

APRIL 10, 2025

Well cover the following topics: Volunteer recruitment FAQs 18+ creative and effective volunteer recruitment strategies Every nonprofit is unique, meaning volunteer recruitment strategies that work for some organizations arent always as effective for others. But what about getting your donors involved in hands-on volunteer work?

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.orgSource

JANUARY 30, 2024

Remote work was the pandemic’s big gift to employees. walk, remote work came with some not-so-fun trade-offs. walk, remote work came with some not-so-fun trade-offs. Social skills— along with empathy, help teams successfully collaborate to get work done. 78% would work longer hours for a more empathetic company.

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.orgSource

DECEMBER 19, 2022

Over a lifetime, we spend approximately 90,000 hours working. Maybe one reason people aren’t happy at work is because they don’t expect to find happiness there. When I Googled “How to create joy at work” these are a few of the best ideas I found. There’s a reason they call it work. Let’s make joy a priority.

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.orgSource

APRIL 8, 2025

Aligning People: Moving in the Same Direction with Purpose When an organizations people are aligned, theres a clear throughline between the mission, the strategic plan, and the daily work being done at every level. Leaders must constantly ask: Do our people understand the “why” behind our work?

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Fast Company Tech

APRIL 14, 2025

Youre mid-sentence in a meeting, sharing an idea or outlining a strategy youve been thinking through for weeksthen it happens. These polite reentries signal youve been cut offand trained to work around it. Youre the idea originatorbut someone else gets the credit. Someone jumps in, cuts you off, and shifts the conversation.

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Nonprofit Tech for Good

JANUARY 20, 2023

There’s a lot going on in the world (we’re looking at you, recession worries and existential dread), and fundraising efforts that have worked in the past may not be delivering the same results. If it works, do more of it. It’s a strategy that works well in business, and it can do the same for nonprofits. Franklin D.

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Fast Company Tech

APRIL 14, 2025

Years ago, while working at a regional bank, I was promoted from trainer to leading a training team in another department. After all, people have grown accustomed to your old ways of working. THE GUILT TRAP Moving into a new leadership role can sometimes unsettle colleagues accustomed to our old ways of working.

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Association Analytics

JANUARY 7, 2025

The Past Is Not Always Prologue On its face, it can make a lot of sense to look at what has worked, and continue doing that. What worked last year will likely be relevant to the interests of your members next year. Data can tell you what works much more than just the whims and musings of a longtime executive or board member.

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Fast Company Tech

MARCH 25, 2025

Not only do we have our daily work tasks but we also have more meetings, longer commutes, and more interactions with more people in more locations than at any time in the history of work. It might be admiration from you, an acknowledgment of their enthusiasm, or a bit of respect for their work. We call this comparing.

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.orgSource

FEBRUARY 11, 2025

Empower Cross-Functional Collaboration : Create opportunities for different teams to work together on shared goals. Promote a Growth Mindset : Encourage staff to embrace change, experiment with new ideas, and learn from both successes and failures. When teams feel empowered to innovate, they are more likely to drive meaningful change.

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Nonprofit Tech for Good

APRIL 13, 2025

Relying solely on generative AI to create messaging means forfeiting the work and creativity required to forge real relationships. Creativity and Innovation AI is trained on past data; it cannot invent truly novel ideas outside existing trends.

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Fast Company Tech

APRIL 13, 2025

They helped me generate article ideas or navigate complex, ambiguous problems. Its almost like this weird in-between world that Im living in, and problems that I was working on the day before now have a pathway forward. But over time, I realized that those wakeups werent always bad. It turns out that I wasnt alone.

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Fast Company Tech

APRIL 11, 2025

After meetings, emails, unplanned interactions, and rest breaks, how many hours do we have left in a day for thinking and productive work? Burnout is the result of prolonged work stress. Symptoms include overwhelm, constant exhaustion, and a feeling of being ineffective at work no matter how hard you try.

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.orgSource

JANUARY 21, 2025

How.orgSource Can Help: We work with associations to create actionable, future-focused strategies that align with industry trends and member needs, ensuring your vision is resilient and achievable. They provide clarity on whats working, what isnt, and where adjustments are needed.

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Fast Company Tech

APRIL 1, 2025

The ability to make sound, high-impact decisions isnt about working harder; its about creating space for deep thought. Without time to reflect, innovation suffers, and leaders struggle to connect disparate ideas or generate fresh insights. Redesigning meeting culture is another way to protect deep work.

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Fast Company Tech

MARCH 17, 2025

Getting an idea of how much a dental visit is going to cost can be difficult, even if its staring you straight in the mouth. Yet, the work needs to be done, so you may tell the dentist to go ahead and do it, and then wait weeks for a bill to arriveor not. Thats what ReviewPass is hoping to clear up.

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Mashable Tech

MARCH 12, 2025

Spoiler alert: It didn’t work. Jerry concludes that the gigacasting method for making car frames is great for Tesla’s other cars but may not be the best idea for the Cybertruck.

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Nonprofit Tech for Good

MARCH 19, 2023

Inspiration has struck and you have an amazing, world-changing idea for a public good group that you would like to make a reality. How does someone test an idea for a nonprofit without committing the time, effort, and money to apply for 501(c)(3) status, find a board, and secure long-term funding? What do you do to get started?

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Ars Technica

MARCH 3, 2025

While some of this is marketing fanfare, enough people in the field are taking the idea seriously that it warrants a closer look. And one thing is clear: The systems being touted as evidence that AGI is just around the corner do not work at all like the brain does. That may not be a fatal flaw, or even a flaw at all.

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Fast Company Tech

FEBRUARY 27, 2025

Many of us want to get promoted at work, but dont often stop to consider what that means. Moving into the executive ranks often means leading the very people you once worked alongside. In those cases, Id wait to ensure that this high performer is making an effort to work on leadership quality, including their peer relationships.

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Fast Company Tech

MARCH 24, 2025

We’re looking for current hotbeds of innovationorganizations that are working to sustain a creative culture and aren’t resting on the laurels of a handful of breakthroughs from a decade ago. How’d the idea come about? We’re looking for companies that do more than just talk the talk. How big was the team?

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Fast Company Tech

APRIL 14, 2025

Experts have credited Lettering for popularizing the idea of type families and directly inspiring the creation of Univers and Helvetica, two of the worlds most famous typefaces. Now, theres a team working to fix that. People worked with them, a lot was traced in them,” Harb explains.

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Fast Company Tech

MARCH 31, 2025

The total value of the hours of unpaid work volunteers put in totals an estimated U.S.$170 If you arent volunteering today, here are a few ideas to help you begin. Halvorsen is an associate professor of social work at Washington University in St. Start small.

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Nonprofit Tech for Good

JANUARY 11, 2024

Each tip includes additional resources and ideas for getting the best experience for any RFP or hiring your next partner. Read other RFPs to understand what works. If you put in the work for the first three tips, you’ll get the best proposals possible! Why This Works: More time encourages more considered and detailed proposals.

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Fast Company Tech

MARCH 17, 2025

And yet, there is a well-established science on human potential, with decades of empirical research resulting in replicable generalizations to predict and explain why some people perform better than others (across different work settings), and why some people develop more than others. How can you work out if you may be one of them?

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Fast Company Tech

APRIL 18, 2025

For instance, I once worked with a biotech executive who revitalized their R&D team with a single question: What are we missing in the data that could change the trajectory of our discovery? They asked a simple yet profound question: What inspires you to do your best work? Run curiosity workshops where no idea is too wild.

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Association Analytics

APRIL 26, 2023

Guy Raz, the host of one of my favorite podcasts, How I Built This , always asks the question “How much of your success do you attribute to luck, or just hard work?” We talked about the power of hard work, dedication, loyalty, perseverance, resilience and “helping the unit and village” in any way you could.

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