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Videos, Podcasts, Articles, and Trusted Resources to Help Your Journey Towards Inspiration and Discovery
Yin Yang of Growing Your Cause
Grow your cause by both incrementally improving the programs, funding, etc, while looking for the breakthrough.
Reframing Problems
Symbols and Change
The Hero's Journey
Beautiful Trouble's Toolbox
How Do Ideas Spread?
Wicked Problems
Bold Goals
Appreciative Inquiry
A process of inquiry and dialogue, AI focuses on peoples’ and groups strengths, successes, and potential.
Positive Deviance
Design Thinking
Done is Better than Perfect
As you create projects and campaigns to improve the world, don’t shoot for perfect: go for the done.
Americans Who Tell the Truth
“Harmonic Portal.” Robert Shetterly’s inspirational portraits of American truth-tellers, with stories.
Kaizen
Kaizen means good change—making small improvements to any kind of work that over time add up to create dramatic results.
The Flywheel
Why Native Plants?
The Mighty Message
Tell your stories, present your case, call us to action through all kinds of media. Your words can change the world!
Mind Mapping
Creative tool for organizing thoughts, understanding, planning and writing. Works for individuals or groups.
Liberating Structures
Community Asset Mapping
A process to help communities discover their potentials by identifying resources, strengths, and capacities.
How can Hospitals improve access?
“Harmonic Portal” at Stakeholder Health. 10 ways hospitals can inprove healthcare access.
Tenacity
Fueled by determination and a refusal to give up, tenacity becomes the driving force behind meaningful change.
Framing for Change
Framing through language. Shape conversations, expose wrongs, inspire action. Words pave paths, establish legitimacy.
Social Marketing
Social marketing uses traditional marketing tools to promote beneficial ideas, good behaviors, and social causes.
Bias for Action
Prioritazing action over inaction. It’s being proactive and agile in responding to challenges or opportunities.
Imagine a Better World
World changers need at least a rough sense of what the new world they want to create looks like. Can you picture it?
Target Marketing
Target Marketing for Nonprofits: Identifying and reaching your niche audience for effective mission-driven impact.
Power of Repetition
Unlock the Power of Repetition: Master skills, conquer tasks, and build lasting habits for individuals and groups.
Community Tool Box
Harmonic Portal: Tools for building healthier societies. Community assessment, planning, intervention, evaluation, and advocacy.
Ask for Help
Learn effective ways to ask for help and drive change with practical strategies, videos, and valuable resources.
Yaupon Tea
North America’s caffeinated tea. Thousands of years old is resurging again thanks to flavor, environment and local entrepeneurs.
Nonprofit Burnout and Wellness
Explore ways world changers can deal with burnout & create wellness
Yin & Yang of Growth
Grow your nonprofit or cause by doing two seemingly opposite things at once. First, incrementally improve the programs, funding, and so on, that already work well or at least have potential. At the same time, constantly look for those breakthrough ideas that can take your cause and impact to a new place.
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10 ways to reframe problems… rather, challenges
Reframe problems before you spend energy looking for answers, Make sure you have a question worth asking. How you frame your challenge governs what kind of solutions you’ll get.
Balanced Wellness: Practical Solutions for Nonprofit Burnout
Go to the Nonprofit Burnout & Wellness Portal HERE! "Self-care is never a selfish act—it is simply good stewardship of the only gift I have, the gift I was put on earth to offer others,” says Parker Palmer. Cosmorock.org offers a new portal on Nonprofit Burnout...
Yaupon Tea’s Latin-name Rabbit Hole
Go to Yaupon Tea Portal HERE! By Tom Peterson Not long ago I discovered several small yaupon hollies growing in my yard. The plant actually originated in the Ouachita Mountains (my Little Rock yard sits in their foothills) and made its way over the ages to the...
The marketing exchange: cookies for…
By Tom Peterson One day driving on a busy street in my neighborhood, I noticed a couple of kids in their yard holding up signs, flagging down cars. A few adults sat nearby in lawn chairs watching and laughing. I was about to keep going when I realized what was...
10 ways to be audacious
Most of us aren’t naturally bold. Fortunately, audacity is an attitude to be nurtured and a skill that can be learned. Audacity for its own sake is not the point. It’s not about being loud and wearing a large yellow hat to stand out in the crowd (although if you want...
More audacity needed to save democracy, the Earth!
ORDER the Book HERE Democracy at risk. Last chance to save the world. Enormous gap between the ultra-rich and billions of struggling people. Huge needs in every community. In Want to Change the World Tom Peterson celebrates the giant Movement that is taking...