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Why I Use Nozbe to Manage Projects and Tasks

August 9, 2017
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Evernote, Nozbe, Personal Growth and Productivity, Software

Why i use nozbe to manage projects and tasks If you're running a small nonprofit, you are likely juggling a heavy load. Under the press of deadlines and unexpected challenges, you can easily forget to do important things, both on the job and in your personal life. You need a way of managing projects and tasks and, ideally, the tool for doing that should be something that integrates with other things you are already using. That's what led me to…

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By Barbara Hopkins
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A Summer Learning List: 15 Books, Blogs, and Podcasts for Nonprofit Professionals

May 20, 2020
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Blogs & Newsletters, Books, Donor Newsletters, Management and Leadership, Personal Growth and Productivity, Podcasts

As the pandemic restricts where we can go and what we can do, there will undoubtedly be time for some extracurricular reading/listening this summer. Below are 15 books, blogs, and podcasts that I would characterize as essential reading/listening for any nonprofit professional. A SUMMER LEARNING LIST: THE BOOKS 1. Donor CARE: How to Keep Donors Coming Back After the First Gift (John Haydon, 2020) Nationally, nonprofits retained, on average, just 45% of donors from one year to the next in…

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Media Monitoring: Tools for Mastering the Management of Digital Information

March 15, 2020
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Evernote, Netvibes, Nozbe, Personal Growth and Productivity, Start.me

Among the many responsibilities we have as nonprofit leaders is media monitoring: serving as air traffic controllers for the daily, ubiquitous flow of digital information from social media, websites, email and the like. For the sake of simplifying the discussion that follows, let’s put the information in two buckets: Current Events: In this category are things like a local elected official introducing a bill that stands to impact our organization, the local paper reporting on an issue related to our…

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The Remote Nonprofit: Meeting Your Mission Virtually

May 31, 2019
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Blinkist, Books, Evernote, G Suite, Management and Leadership, Nitro Pro, Nozbe, Personal Growth and Productivity, Remote Work, Snagit, Software

In thirty years’ time, as technology moves forward even further, people are going to look back and wonder why offices ever existed. (Richard Branson, CEO, The Virgin Companies) Remote nonprofit work is more prolific than you think. The 2018 Digital Adoption Report found that 41 percent of employees at nonprofits it surveyed were working exclusively outside the organization’s office delivering programs and services, working from home, or telecommuting. (NTEN, Digital Adoption in 2018). The report also found that roughly 12…

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By Barbara Hopkins
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Integrate Evernote: Add a Note to Evernote for Every New Calendar Entry

January 27, 2018
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Evernote, Personal Growth and Productivity, Software

Integrate Evernote: Add a Note to Evernote for Every New Calendar Entry It’s no secret that I’m an Evernote fanatic. The reason is really simple. Because you can integrate Evernote with so many other applications, you can automate a lot of small but necessary tasks and save time. This allows me to focus confidently on other more important things, which is a key to being more productive both personally and professionally. As author and financial advisor, Nathan W. Morris, has…

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A lot of People are Depending for Better Lives on Our Ability to Manage US

September 23, 2017
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Books, Evernote, Nozbe, Personal Growth and Productivity, Software

"The purpose of life is not to be happy. It is to be useful, to be honorable, to be compassionate, to have it make some difference that you have lived and lived well.” (Ralph Waldo Emerson). That's what drives so many of us to this work: using our talents and skills to make a difference. And a lot of people are depending for better lives on our ability to manage us, so that we can make the difference they so desperately…

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Top 10 Nonprofit Management Apps for Saving Your Sanity and Advancing Your Cause

July 4, 2017
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Evernote, Software

10 Nonprofit Management Apps for Saving Your Sanity and Advancing Your Cause If much of advancing your nonprofit's cause rests on your shoulders, you need a few tools that will help you lighten that load. If you are going to build a base of donors or sponsors, moreover, you are going to need to build an email list and track and communicate with the people on that list in a professional way. Here are my top ten nonprofit management apps…

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December 28, 2016
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