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TA Tuesday (February 20, 2018)

Here's your weekly dose of TA. Enjoy.

Tools and Resources

  • If you want to shake up the text in your social media content, consider using YayText. The tool gives you almost unlimited text formatting options from underline to strikethrough to bold to bubble text. Free.
  • If your organization is on Facebook, read Nonprofits! This Is How to Use Facebook’s Fundraising Tools. The article summarizes the experiences of the Beagle Freedom Project so you can learn from their successes and the ways they are handling challenges.
  • The US Census' 2017 Economic Census resource page provides a wealth of business and commercial information. Data recently released is presented in a user-friendly, accessible manner: linking data to holidays, commercial and otherwise (think Valentine’s Day, Inventors' Day, and National Pizza Day & National Bagel Day).
  • Go to Facilitating Intentional Group Learning and you'll find one great tool after another. There's the free guide, free downloadable activity matrix, video, and slide deck.

At work

  • Get your staff thinking about things such as appreciation, listening, compassion, and focus with these one word resolutions from ArtBar. They can be part of a formal exercise or an informal prompt to think about something bigger.

Learn something


Good read

  • Bill and Melinda Gates' intro to their annual letter:
    A decade ago, we started a new annual tradition: sitting down to write a letter about our work in philanthropy. This year we're marking our 10th letter by answering 10 tough questions about our work that people often ask us. We hope you enjoy reading it as much as we enjoyed writing it! And if you have a question of your own, you can post it in the comments section of the letter. We'll answer some of the best ones in the coming weeks.


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