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ThePurpose issue #2 🔥🔥🔥
Hello there, join us as we present bitesize ideas, business trends and weird digital stuff for charities, social enterprises, b-corps and purpose driven organisations of all shapes and sizes.
Spending the next 3 minutes reading The Purpose is guaranteed to make you more money, more purposeful and at least 10% better-looking* and will give your brain a mental workout x25 better than trying to keep up with the revolving door at No. 10.
Now let's make like Kate and get running 👇
In this issue
🏖️ I'm off, see you in September
🔗 F*ck you pay me, or actually just a kind deed will do ta
😎 The best tweet we've seen today
🤖 Free tools you can use in your org
🌐 Web 3 dictionary series to make you smarter
🌶️ Hot quick takes
🤩 Accounts you should follow
Social enterprise staff get August off
It's 31st July, you set your Out of Office ahead of your August break, a Cheshire cat-style grin spreads across your face as you skip ahead until 1st September to turn it back on. SEPTEMBER??? WTF
This is what staff at small social enterprise, 64 Million Artists, have in store. What's more, this is in addition to their 25 days' standard holiday entitlement AND Includes their freelancers.
What gives?
CEO Jo Hunter noted that people needed a reset after Covid, and a month was the ideal timeframe. It cost £35,000 in salaries and costs and obviously, no work will get done during that time. She also mentions that clients were very much on board with the initiative.
In addition, the social enterprise had alreay introduced a 4-day working week - and that led to a £200,00 increase in turnover. Blimey.
Hello is that HR? quick question.....
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Pay with a smile. No really.
Fancy a coffee? great. Got no cash/card/phone on you? No prob. At the Neighbourgood cafe, they only accept kind deeds.
The aim was to bring people together (it ran June 30-July 2) and spread a bit of kindness. Visitors committed to doing a good deed and meeting some of their neighbours at the same time.
A pledge board was created in the Cafe, with people pinning deeds on it and offering skills like time, energy or business acumen. Nice initiative. Could it work in your organisation? - bartering? Skillswap? pledges?
Find out more here: Neighbourgood cafe
Tweets we saw today that rock
We've all been there. The ridiculous feedback received from bosses, mentors, colleagues. Have a look through some of these - pure gold. Mine: "Hi, I'm The Purpose, I'm not very fair and I have gotten away with blue murder, multiple times.
Free tools: Notion templates for non-profits
If you don't know notion.co, they're like a simpler version of notes, your internal document system and a whiteboard - a bit like the McGyver of the Internet.
It can do a whole load of useful stuff - like be used for an internal wiki, host a simple website or even put to use as a basic project management tool.
Here's a link to some free templates from the notion team themselves, could be handy in a pinch
Volunteer management tracker
Board meeting info and notes
Job board template
Donation management
Have a look at them here: https://www.notion.so/templates/categories/nonprofit
Web 3.0 dictionary 101 for non-techies
Look sharp when you get asked about the metaverse/crypto/NFTs in your next meeting
WAGMI / NGMI Ok so these two terms you'll hear and see bandied around a lot on your feed. WAGMI stands for 'We're all gonna make it' whilst NGMI relates to 'Not gonna make it'. Supporters of decentralisation, metaverse and such often end tweets/messages with one of these messages.
WAGMI generally refers to a positive or maximalist view of the crypto space where everyone wins, makes bag, takes over the world. Whereas NGMI means the opposite and can often be used in a disparaging way to someone who doesn't 'get it' or has spent a ton of time/money/effort on some rug pull and lost all their coin.
Know the lingo, know the code :)
Quick takes
Summer Games, Done Quick raises £2.5m from gaming
The Simpsons get organised, it's taken a while
When is a volunteer not a volunteer: Shady practices in gaming to watch out for
Small, purpose-driven organisations you should follow.
Show some love to these small orgs, all doing great work across diverse areas of good - from mental health, fundraising, better dadding. Hit the list below to easily follow them all in a twitter list, 'cos handiness.
Follow them all here;https://twitter.com/i/lists/1543239814308413443
Let us know how we're doing, you lovely people
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