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  • This article demonstrates that there are substantial costs to employers caused by the stresses associated with poor personal financial behaviors of employees. Approximately 15% of workers in the United States are currently experiencing stress from poor financial behaviors to the extent that it negatively impacts their productivity.
  • The Negative Impact of Employee Poor Personal Financial Behaviors on Employers
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    The Negative Impact of Employee Poor Personal Financial Behaviors on Employers Author: E. Thomas Garman, Irene E. Leech and John E. Grable This article demonstrates that there are substantial costs to employers caused by the stresses associated with poor personal financial behaviors of employees. Approximately 15% of workers in the United States are currently experiencing stress from poor financial behaviors to the extent that it negatively impacts their productivity. The proportion of workers experiencing financial problems that negatively impact productivity for a single employer could range as high as 40 to 50% depending upon certain factors. The costs of reduced employee productivity because of poor personal financial behaviors are substantial. The full extent of the costs to employers is unknown. Key Words: absenteeism, employee assistance program, employee productivity, personal financial behavior, stress, substance abuse
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Positive Futures - Impacting on Young People's Lives | Home Office - 0 views

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    Govt programme using sports to get youths off drugs, check it out - impact
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CharityComms - Six things we learned at the Measuring Impact, Communicating Results con... - 0 views

  • Use case studies
  • tell us what you would have done differently,”
  • Keep it simple: tell us how and why you make a difference.”
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  • ask the question “So what?” about every stat they include. “It’s what people get out of your services that really matters,”
  • If the information you gather will make you change nothing, don’t bother,”
  • “There WILL be things that your charity already measures,
  • Social Return on Investment (SROI)
  • measuring SROI is about giving value to the change that your charity makes to people’s lives
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Whitepaper: Sustainable Social Media Infrastructure « Miro - Internet TV Blog - 0 views

  • Whitepaper: Sustainable Social Media Infrastructure
  • A new type of non-profit organization is emerging, one that has never been possible in an offline world. These new organizations are creating permanent, sustainable public knowledge and communications infrastructure that is designed for public benefit.
  • The foundation world, largely absent from these success stories, should seize the opportunity to create new funding models for the next generation of long-term, public interest technology projects.
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  • Non-profit projects online can build vibrant collaborative communities of volunteers and evangelists that would have been extremely difficult and very expensive to organize offline.
  • Mozilla Key TakeawaysOnline, a small amount of resources can serve millions of people. Web-based organizations can become self-sustaining in a way that has never been possible offline. When creating a website or building software, costs do not rise linearly with the number of people served. Successful social tech projects can quickly transition from being grant recipients to granting organizations. Non-profits have competitive advantages in the marketplace: high levels of trust and credibility and volunteer communities can multiply the reach of the paid staff. Open-source software can create a better product than the proprietary competition.
  • Tiny amounts of money can let smart projects reach enormous audiences. Avoiding some types of revenue can help protect the credibility and therefore success of certain non-profit tech projects. Revenue requirements relative to people served may be so small that perpetual grant support is the best long-term strategy.
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    Xtine, here's tons of bits that you could nick to justify the impact of elearning @ CLP ;-) it will really, really - REALLY! inspire you ;-) will skype it to you ;-)
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Stanford Social Innovation Review : Articles : Creating High-Impact Nonprofits (Septemb... - 0 views

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      Six high impact practices for non profits: bust myths and put your charity on steroids!
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10 seeeeeriously cool workplaces - 0 views

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    Fab website to do with workplaces and productivity - links nicely to May's edition of mind magazine. Research pointed to design and workplaces, hospitals, etc - and impact on wellbeing. Enjoy ;o) nicking some of this for my presentation ;o)so check out his article on 12ways to pimp up your office.
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Emerald: Article Request - Funky offices: Reflections on office design in the 'new econ... - 0 views

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    Funky offices: Reflections on office design in the 'new economy' Explores how & whether there is a sufficiently quantitative impact of the new economy work culture and new economy organisation's perspective on fun work environments. Paid for though. £13.00
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Purpose of this group? Q by: Raeli Savitt - 0 views

Hi Raeli, Thanks for the question. my main intent and purpose for this book is to share inspirational resources out there that will help charities and social enterprises to develop their capacitie...

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Made To Stick: Why Some Ideas Survive and Others Die | by Chip and Dan Heath :: - 0 views

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    I read this book and it is fantastic! - it will turbo charge your communications into a new planet! - you are mavericks, with this no one will touch you! - some things you are doing naturally! - get the free resources and follow links to get a feel!
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    Saved the free resources!! I'm ready to read another book so I'll go and get it
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Stanford Social Innovation Review : Articles : Reel Impact (April 1, 2003) - 0 views

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    EB this is a job for us and Bunny
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Stanford Social Innovation Review : Articles : Loud and Clear (December 1, 2003) - 0 views

  • Loud and ClearCrafting messages that stick—What nonprofitscan learn from urban legends
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    fromm the authors of made to stick
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Psychological Resilience and Positive Emotional Granularity: Examining the Benefits of ... - 0 views

  • Psychological Resilience and Positive Emotional Granularity: Examining the Benefits of Positive Emotions on Coping and Health
  • Positive emotional disclosureInterventions that promote positive emotions are beneficial to health. To illustrate, in one study, participants were assigned to one of three groups: (1) count your blessings, (2) list daily hassles or (3) control. People who “counted their blessings” weekly for 10 weeks by listing things for which they were grateful or thankful evidenced better subjective health outcomes, including fewer physical complaints, more time exercising, more hours of sleep, and better sleep quality.
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      the impact of +ve emotion, will bookmark more related research - laughter & stress, laughter and health. ;o) am I having a laugh posting this at 1.20am? no, I'm bolstering my presentation in the area with some solid research, enjoy ;o)
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    For centuries, folk theory has promoted the idea that positive emotions are good for your health. Accumulating empirical evidence is providing support for this anecdotal wisdom. We use the broaden-and-build theory of positive emotions (Fredrickson, 1998; 2001) as a framework to demonstrate that positive emotions contribute to psychological and physical well-being via more effective coping. We argue that the health benefits advanced by positive emotions may be instantiated in certain traits that are characterized by the experience of positive emotion. Towards this end, we examine individual differences in psychological resilience (the ability to bounce back from negative events by using positive emotions to cope) and positive emotional granularity (the tendency to represent experiences of positive emotion with precision and specificity). Individual differences in these traits are examined in two studies, one using psychophysiological evidence, the second using evidence from experience sampling, to demonstrate that positive emotions play a crucial role in enhancing coping resources in the face of negative events. Implications for research on coping and health are discussed.
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