Tools and Resources
- Get free music for a link from Icons8. Music is categorized three ways: theme, genre, and mood. Examples are fashion and nature (themes), acoustic and cinematic (genres), and dramatic and relaxed (moods). You get the picture.
- How to Fill a Column with Sequential Dates in Google Sheets was a savior. Have used the knowledge multiple times since learning.
- Innovation Capacity Diagnostic for Nonprofits (mentioned in a FastCo article below).
- 30 Brand New Design Tools. You'll find another free stock photo site and two new icon sets.
At work
- How To Fix The Nonprofit World's "Innovation-Aspiration" Problem (Fast Company)
- Why Great Employees Quit -- Instead Of Admitting They're Unhappy (Forbes)
- Why Fair Scheduling Laws Will Be The New Minimum Wage Battle (Fast Company)
- Word Limits, Page Limits, and my secret super power reminds me of a prep school teacher who, in response to the question "How long should the paper be?" said "Long if you don't have time, short if you do." That has served me well.
Learn something
- Earned Income for Nonprofits: What it is and How it Works (Nonprofit Hub)
- Looking for webinars through the end of May? Here are some aggregated by Wild Apricot: Peer-to-Peer Fundraising When Disaster Strikes (May 24) and The Whys and Ways of Assertiveness at Work (May 31).
- How to Optimize Your Facebook Page Preview in the News Feed (SocialMedia Examiner)
- Public Webinar: How to Manage 501c3 and c4 Affiliated Projects and Coalitions, July 17: $35. (Alliance for Justice)
- Public Webinar: Recordkeeping and Reporting for 501(c)(3) Organizations that Lobby, September 25: $35. (Alliance for Justice)
- Designing for Online Engagement: How to Build Your Website with Brand Strategy, June 21: $49.
Good reads
- When "Made In China" Means Sustainable, Ethical, And Expert (Fast Company)
- Community Colleges and how easy it is to make fun of someone else (Mistress of the Animals)
- 5 books worth reading this summer (Gates Notes)
