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Adding Matterness Into Your Holiday Giving
[Note: This article is cross-posted at the Nonprofit Times.] #Giving Tuesday was , more or less kicking off the giving season. Studies show that more than one-third of all annual giving to causes...
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ALS’ Happy Problem
What would you do with an extra $100 million? That’s the happy problem facing the ALS Association after this summer’s mega-viral ice bucket challenge. According to the ALS, the Challenge raised over...
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3 Steps to Go-Go Juice
It is just about a week from the launch of my new book, Matterness: What Fearless Leaders Know About the Power and Promise of Social Media! Here is an excerpt published last week in the Nonprofit Times...
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Why Giving Matters More Than Receiving
On the heels of the wildly successful #GivingTuesday (first estimates put money raised at nearly $46 million just online, more than double last year’s total!) the idea of giving is in the air. My...
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Verizon and Anti-Matterness
As you all know, I am currently immersed in Matterness, the space where organizations make their people matter more. Where they listen more than they speak, engage as real human beings and work with...
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Action Cascades Over Viral Videos
Invisible Children announced yesterday that it is closing its doors. You may not know the organization, but you almost certainly know their signature effort, the Kony 2012 video. The video is very...
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The Gift of Making Others Matter
It is a sad week in our family. My husband’s aunt Beverly passed away from cancer on Sunday, her funeral is this week. It was far too soon for such a vibrant, energetic, life-loving person to go. Our...
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More Thoughts on Matterness for Associations
Earlier this year, I had a terrific opportunity to share my thoughts about Matterness with associations on a webinar hosted by Wild Apricot. (You can watch the full recording of the webinar here. Go...
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Revised Matterness Chapter (Free Download)
It is remarkable to me how often I hear talk of “invisible” people. I first heard the term from Mark Horvath, and his efforts to make homeless people visible became the opening story for my book,...
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