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.

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Fast Company Tech

MARCH 31, 2025

Do you feel stuck navigating office politics, micromanagement, or being overlooked at work? Below, Melody shares five key insights from her new book, Managing Up: How to Get What You Need from the People in Charge. Its about taking control of your own work experience. and its not going to work for long.

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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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Nonprofit Tech for Good

JULY 13, 2020

Posting without a mindfulness of the trending topics and conversations can cause organizations to appear insensitive and tone-deaf. However, we were mindful of the best practices that suggest brands and organizations not post about every issue or trending event so to avoid piggybacking via hollow, void content.

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Fast Company Tech

FEBRUARY 27, 2025

According to a recent study conducted by MissionSquare Research Institute, the debt thats carried by one in four Americans under 40 affects job-acceptance decisions for 56% of public-sector employees and 62% of those working in the private sector. When they choose to accept.

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The NonProfit Times

JANUARY 9, 2025

With competition for skilled professionals rising and work environments shifting, finding and keeping great talent takes more than just passion. Crafting a Compelling Employer Brand People want to work where they know theyll make a difference. When candidates see the real-world impact of your work, theyll want to be part of it.

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Nonprofit Tech for Good

SEPTEMBER 16, 2021

By Rosie Powers , a Strategist at Mission Minded —a branding firm that works exclusively with nonprofits, foundations, and independent schools. As summer fades into fall, end-of-year fundraising season is top-of-mind for nonprofits. Have these changed over the past year? 4) Focus on the Benefit. 6) Don’t Forget A/B Testing.

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Nonprofit Tech for Good

AUGUST 15, 2024

By Sean Kosofsky, The Nonprofit Fixer — a strategic advisor who has worked in nonprofits for 30+ years and served as an executive director for five organizations in the past 20 years. His consulting firm, Mind the Gap Consulting , focuses on executive director coaching and training as well as fundraising and board development.

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Futurism

MARCH 13, 2025

In this case, Lu's work duties shifted, and he found that his system access had been reduced. Lu may not know it, but he joins a tradition of like-minded neo-Luddites, a term harkening back to militant worker groups in Britain who smashed shiny new textile machines to protect their jobs from automation. Cyberslacking, in a word.

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Nonprofit Tech for Good

MARCH 4, 2023

According to Pew Research Center , 85% of people have a smartphone and even more than that are active on a number of social media platforms. If you mostly work with baby boomers, for example, then you may want to prioritize establishing a Facebook page. Share your number as a quick and easy option for people to donate.

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Nonprofit Tech for Good

AUGUST 21, 2021

Water.org ’s approach to empowering people with safe water and sanitation delivers on long-term impact expectations and makes it convenient for donors to create the change they wish to see in the world. Each month, they help create financial opportunity that previously did not exist for people in poverty. Creating powerful solutions.

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Fast Company Tech

FEBRUARY 13, 2025

Wellness works, but the way we are working doesnt. After spending a decade on Wall Street, I can attest that high stress periods at work are inevitable. Not all work tasks need to be stressful. These moments happened multiple times a day when I worked in client-facing roles in investment banking and private equity.

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Bloomerang

JANUARY 22, 2025

Rushed pre-work : High-quality planning sessions start with pre-work that takes time to create and time to complete. Comprehensive pre-work The best strategic planning sessions arent rushed; theyre carefully developed through input from board members, staff, and facilitators. The team should be no more than five people.

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Fast Company Tech

MARCH 17, 2025

Two billion people worldwidethats 80% of the global workforcemanufacture products, provide services, or work directly with customers. If you received this newsletter from a friend, you can sign up to get it yourself every Monday morning. Leaders, are you listening to your frontline employees?

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Bloomerang

MARCH 31, 2025

Grant consultants are often experienced grant writers and fundraisers whove chosen to work with multiple organizations instead of being on staff with a single nonprofit. While many people think of grant consultants as simply people who write grants on contract, they can be so much more!

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Nonprofit Tech for Good

JULY 2, 2020

The social media platform has more than 1 billion users — beating Twitter, Snapchat, and TikTok — and is especially popular among people aged 18-29. Here are four strategies your nonprofit should keep in mind when using Instagram for fundraising: 1. Work With Influencers. Start With the Right Profile Type.

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sgEngage

JANUARY 8, 2025

As part of my book launch, I hosted gatherings where I asked people to write on sticky notes their answers to two separate prompts: “What dysfunctions in the social impact sector do you want to disappear”, and “What is emerging that gives you hope? And feeling stuck often makes people feel powerless, ignored, and exhausted.

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Nonprofit Tech for Good

MAY 8, 2023

When the first text message was sent on December 3 rd , 1992, no one could have conceived how important this mode of communication would become for people worldwide. With more eyes on your message, more people will be persuaded to take action and help support your mission. Now, text messaging is ingrained into our everyday lives.

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Nonprofit Tech for Good

APRIL 24, 2020

For many people, issues that are out of sight are also out of mind. While someone might offer a donation, they don’t necessarily put themselves in the shoes of the people they’re trying to help. Stars would ask for donations and answer phone calls, and people would ring in to donate over the phone.

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Nonprofit Tech for Good

JANUARY 30, 2021

As you develop your presentation, notice whether your mind wanders at moments where information isn’t easily digestible or understandable — either in your slides or in what you are saying. In your mind, establish how you want your audience to feel during your presentation: Enthusiastic? Go deeper — use empathy. Johnson & Johnson.

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Engadget

MARCH 25, 2025

They can even work as a hearing aid , though their six-hour battery life still isnt the best, and you should only get them if youre all-in on Apple hardware. Our review is coming soon, but TL;DR: If you only need an iPad for media consumption and lighter work, its still a fine value. The 13-inch iPad Air M3.

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Get Fully Funded

FEBRUARY 27, 2025

Should you fund your work out of your own pocket? Here’s something to keep in mind, starting now: self-funding a nonprofit is not sustainable. You have to get comfortable asking people for money – even if you think asking for money is the last thing you would ever feel comfortable doing. Where do you start?

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Bloomerang

NOVEMBER 1, 2024

The wrong message to the right people? The right message to the wrong people? People are different, but in predictable ways. Hands-on engagement – Towards emotional state of mind How about making “engagement opportunities” one of your core fundraising and marketing strategies? Both are crimes. Multiple times.

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Fast Company Tech

MARCH 8, 2025

They wanted a building with character that was conducive to creative work, and found it within a 25,000 square feet space at 55 Washington Street in Brooklyns Dumbo neighborhood, where about 70 workers will move in later this year. Having like-minded neighbors helps, as well as Brooklyn Bridge Park nearby, certainly helps.

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Mashable Tech

MARCH 17, 2025

All of these reasons are probably why so many people are turning to BitMar, a streaming service alternative. Wait…how does it work? You’ll use a far more user-friendly interface to plug in a channel, genre, actor, or a specific movie or TV show you have in mind, then this content aggregator scours the web to find it.

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Nonprofit Tech for Good

APRIL 3, 2022

The list created by Sean Kosofsky of Mind the Gap Consulting can be used by an executive director, board chair, or any individual board member to consider their contribution to your organization’s financial health. People who feel connected to the organization are more likely to stay involved. other people in your network.

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Eric Jacobsen Blog

MAY 6, 2024

“Too often, we don’t find out what’s truly on others’ hearts and minds because we don’t know how to ask the right questions in the right ways,” explains Jeff Wetzler , author of the new book, ASK. Wetzler explains that the only thing that allows you to understand what’s on another person’s mind better is just asking them. Zip your lip.

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Fast Company Tech

MARCH 31, 2025

Bickel As gerontologists social scientists who study aging populations we envision a future in which older people leave a doctors visit with a prescription to go volunteer for something. In addition, their blood pressure is lower , and they appear to be aging more slowly than other people of the same age. AP Photo/Joshua A.

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Fast Company Tech

MARCH 31, 2025

And last summer, it dropped work jackets and sweatshirts made in collaboration with the FX show The Bear , which was heading into its third season. “It’s a way to get back in front of people who maybe don’t know us or who used to know us,” she says. It’s about tapping into a sport that many people love.

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Bloomerang

NOVEMBER 14, 2024

Also, do bequest societies work to secure gifts? As I’ve previously noted, most people enjoy being recognized and appreciated. The point of such a society is to make people feel they belong to a community of like-minded folks. If so, what benefits should I list? Here’s a simple example from the Hospice East Bay.

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.orgSource

JUNE 25, 2023

You could assess how people were communicating, determine where the vibe registered on the stress meter, and take the opportunity to connect personally with employees. Now that remote work makes a casual stroll through the cubicles challenging, I suggest an intentional approach. Don’t let “out of sight” become “out of mind.”

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Fast Company Tech

FEBRUARY 12, 2025

Since I have spent much of my career posing as an extrovert, some people are surprised to discover that I really dont enjoy networking at large gatherings. If available, I use the conference app to keep track of the sessions I want to attend and message and connect with people before the conference.

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Blue Avocado

DECEMBER 3, 2024

A strong, involved board can transform an organization and take its work to new heights. This is the story of a board member going above and beyond, making connections, and contributing to the work of two organizations she is passionate about at once. Mary’s Pence accomplishes their work through two programs.

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Fast Company Tech

MARCH 13, 2025

When you think of an electrical outlet, the first thing that likely comes to mind is a simple, rectangular device mounted on the wallpurely functional, often hidden from sight. Working with the high-end electrical brand 22 System , Mahdavi reimagined the outlet as a cheerful pop of color thats reminiscent of a smiley face.

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Bloomerang

FEBRUARY 14, 2025

Heres how it works: All your core programs are of equal value when it comes to fulfilling your mission. Relate one short story most representative of the parts of your mission people most care about When people can connect to a relevant, memorable story, youll raise more money. Feature these! Later seldom comes. Lead with that.

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Fast Company Tech

MARCH 27, 2025

Part of the problem is that the restaurant hasnt made much of an investment in its marketing efforts to keep CPK top of mind. That work led them to the conclusion that their existing brand positioning and visual identity was strong enough to exclude the possibility of an actual rebrand. A lot of people grew up with it.

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Fast Company Tech

FEBRUARY 19, 2025

Designers & Books] “Many, many people know who Archigram are, but very, very few people have actually laid eyes on this thing,” says Thomas Evans, editorial director of D.A.P. It will be a chance for people to fully explore Archigram’s influential work as it was originally intended.

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