Tools and Resources
- 10 Simple Things You can do to Support Your Favorite Nonprofit Without Spending a Single Dime (PDF) includes telling someone about your favorite organization, forwarding emails to your friends, and my favorite, adding info about the organization in your email signature (!!!). (do good Consulting)
- 45 Quotes That Celebrate Teamwork, Hard Work, and Collaboration. Yay! (HubSpot)
- The Master List of Peer to Peer Fundraising Ideas. Who knew there were so many ideas?! (Fundful)
- The Complete List of Instagram Features for Marketing Experts (Sprout Social)
At work
- The Role of Senior Leaders in Building a Race Equity Culture (The Bridgespan Group)
- If you want to engage people 50 and older in your work with young people, take a look at The Gen2Gen Learning Hub. You'll find goodies like 10 steps to take to engage adults 50+ in youth-serving organizations, a seven-page guide. To get the most out of the learning hub, you will have to register (free).
- How and When to Let a Volunteer Go (Nonprofit Hub)
- Are you a leader or a manager? Here's the difference. Knowing the difference matters not only to individuals but to supervisors and boards. How often does someone get promoted to a leadership position (where leadership actually matters) but they have no leadership skills? A good read from Fast Company.
- The Challenge of Scaling Soft Skills (MITSloan Management Review)
Learn something
- Volunteers in the Workplace: Safeguarding Your Reputation and Protecting You From Liability Through Background Screening, August 30. Free.
- Nonprofit Best Practices: Online Donation Appeals (Idealware)
Good reads
- The Challenge of Scaling Soft Skills (MITSloan Management Review)
- Three reasons the US is not ready for the next pandemic (Christine Crudo Blackburn, Andrew Natsios, Gerald W. Parker)
- Advertising is obsolete – here’s why it's time to end it (Ramsi Woodcock)
- Why Middle-class Families Can No Longer Afford America (Knowledge@Wharton)
- Brain tissue samples from people of all ages suggest we stop growing new neurons in our early teens (Los Angeles Times)
- Many people take drugs that interfere with their blood pressure pills (Reuters)
