Tools and Resources
- The Do Lectures is an encouragement network via lectures, workshops, books, a newsletter, more. Talks include You have to notice when the universe is cheering you on (Tina Roth Eisenberg), Go with Your Gut (Dearbhla Reynolds), and How to have faith in people no matter how hard life gets (Christy MacFarlane).
- r/nonprofit learning and sharing:
- New Manager Resources
- How do you store your digital documents?
- How do you manage e-mail signatures standards in your organization?
- Need help understanding press releases and how to appeal to newspapers
- How to Delete Online Accounts You No Longer Need (Consumer Reports)
- Want to learn more about voluntarism? r/volunteer has information for volunteers and organizations and is a place to ask and answer questions.
- 50 Nonprofit Blogs You Need To Follow Right Now (Wild Apricot)
- EveryAction's 8 Nonprofit Annual Reports We Love also contains a link to their guide to putting together an annual report that inspires and impresses.
- YES! A Massive Amount of Iconic Works Will Enter the Public Domain on New Year's Eve, These 1923 Copyrighted Works Enter the Public Domain in 2019, and A Landslide of Classic Art Is About to Enter the Public Domain each explain a different aspect of copyright that kept works protected until December 31, 2018. The last two give examples of what is now in the public domain, among which, per Lifehacker are:
- Poetry by Edna St. Vincent Millay, E.E. Cummings, William Carlos Williams, Rainer Maria Rilke, Wallace Stevens, Robert Frost, Sukumar Ray, and Pablo Neruda
- Works by Jane Austen, D.H. Lawrence, Edith Wharton, Jorge Luis Borges, Mikhail Bulgakov, Jean Cocteau, Italo Svevo, Aldous Huxley, Winston Churchill, G.K. Chesterton, Maria Montessori, Lu Xun, Joseph Conrad, Zane Grey, H.G. Wells, and Edgar Rice Burroughs
At work
- Great South Arts Jobs is a new website for jobs in creative fields. Posted so far are titles such as Performing Arts Director, Hospitality Assistant for a music festival, museum internships, and performing arts archivist.
- Final Analysis of Disaster Plan Initiation and Evac Debrief Says that Employees Need to Actually Read the Disaster Plan on r/museumpros is an essential read. It covers preparedness and execution as well as the more important organizational culture and leadership issues.
- The New Competitive Advantage: Employee Fulfillment (Aaron Hurst, Co-Founder & CEO, Imperative, on LinkedIn)
- Everyone's least favourite dating trend has hit the office (Orlando Crowcroft, News editor at LinkedIn and Author, on LinkedIn)
Learn something
- Tweet Chat: Nonprofit Tech Trends for 2019, Wednesday, January 16: Join in or simply follow along, this chat is a must.
- Building an Effective Online Donation Page: 5 Expert Tips (Get Fully Funded)
- Faves January 2-15, 2019 from 42 Free Nonprofit Webinars For January 2019: Motivate Monday (January 7 on), Be Found: The Secrets of SEO for Nonprofits (January 9), How to Write Effective Web Copy (January 10), and Telling the Story of Volunteer Impact (January 10).
Good reads
- In the Land of OZ (Opportunity Zones) Who Will Benefit? (The Beeck Center, Georgetown University)
- What the California Wildfires Can Teach Us About Data Sharing (Wired)
- Trouble in board land
Tech isn't the only space where women have a tough time breaking in. The highest echelons of corporate America – the boardrooms – are still out of reach for most women.
In fact, barely 15 percent of the board seats of companies in the Standard & Poor's 1500 index were held by women in 2014, up modestly from 9.7 percent in 2003, explain business and entrepreneurship professors Yannick Thams, Bari Bendell and Siri Terjesen.
They looked deeper into the data on a state-by-state level to reveal some startling findings – and also point to some potential solutions that could increase boardroom diversity. Instituting quotas – such as the one California passed in 2018 – is one idea. Another is more training.
"Making it into the highest echelons of a corporation is very difficult and typically requires opportunity for training and access to social networks, both of which are jeopardized when, for example, women suffer harassment on the job or incur a 'motherhood penalty,'" they write.