Tools and Resources
- Nonprofit Library offers free educational resources. Think board governance, fundraising, major gifts, and volunteer management.
- Pexels has a new app, available for iOS and Android. From the announcement:
Use all free photos from Pexels on your phone – edit them, share them on social media, organize them in collections, use them as your wallpaper or just browse through the newest inspiring photos. All the beautiful photos are contributed by our talented community of photographers.
- Online Triage and Intake may detail how technology is helping legal services providers manage clients, intake information, and case flow, but the guide is applicable to many organization types. Free from Idealware.
- The Zillow Neighborhood Boundaries dataset includes more than 17,000 US neighborhood boundaries. Data for 49 states (no Wyoming), DC and PR.
At work
- GM Has a 2-Word Dress Code, and It's Actually Brilliant (Inc.)
- Overhead and what makes it up and the cost of it continues to confound nonprofits, governments, foundations, and individual donors alike. Here are some different takes on nonprofit overhead:
- The Nonprofit Starvation Cycle (SSIR)
- A Graphic Re-visioning of Nonprofit Overhead (Nonprofit Quarterly)
- Nonprofit Overhead Costs: Breaking the Vicious Cycle of Misleading Reporting, Unrealistic Expectations, and Pressure to Conform (The Bridgespan Group)
Learn something
- The Anatomy of a Great Social Media Post is a must-read for new and experienced sm staff.
- Visit Ideas42, whose "mission is a simple one: to use the power of behavioral science to design scalable solutions to some of society’s most difficult problems." Particularly interesting: Sparking Civic Action and NYC Summons Redesign.
Good reads
- Listen to danah boyd talk about "stepping outside of our narrow worldviews" in "Seeing New Worlds", a Team Human podcast episode.
- We still don’t understand motion sickness, but it’s likely to get worse in the digital age (Quartz)
- No Apple Presenter Speaks for Longer Than 10 Minutes, and the Reason Is Backed by Neuroscience (Inc.)
