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Discover how furniture rental solutions from CORT empower nonprofits to create functional workspaces that align with their mission and budget goals. Our latest blog explores the benefits of flexible furniture arrangements, including cost-effectiveness, scalability, and adaptability. Learn how CORT supports nonprofits in optimizing their workspace needs while maximizing resources. Todd Simpson Sourcewell #NonprofitSolutions #FlexibleFurniture #CORTforNonprofits

Food for thought on this lovely Thursday! Organizing is most effective when approached as a continuous process rather than a one-time, scheduled event. When we make organizing part of our daily or weekly routines, it becomes more manageable and less overwhelming. Organizing as an ongoing process can easily be integrated into daily life with small, thoughtful actions. For example, imagine you're searching for a jacket in the entrance closet and come across a pair of boots your family hasn’t worn in years. Instead of leaving them where they are, take a moment to put them in a donation basket. By doing this, you're gradually clearing out unused items as you encounter them, rather than waiting for a massive decluttering session. Over time, this habit keeps your space more organized and reduces the need for overwhelming clean-up projects. This small, consistent effort ensures your home stays clutter-free, and that unwanted items are regularly being repurposed or donated. It also promotes a sense of consistency and discipline, making it easier to maintain an organized environment without the stress or pressure of dedicating an entire day to decluttering. Ultimately, continuous organizing leads to long-term results with less effort. If this approach resonates with you but you feel like you could use some help getting started, I’d love to chat about how I can support you in the process. Whether it’s creating an action plan, offering hands-on help, or simply giving you tips for maintaining progress, I’m here to help make organizing easier and more enjoyable for you!

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Empowering Communities through Sustainable Furnishing Solutions Ever wondered about the journey of your old office furniture? The Ethical Furniture Network (EFN) isn't just about moving furniture; it's on a mission to create a greener, more caring future. Here's why you should be part of this impactful journey: ✔️ Community Empowerment: EFN connects donors with local schools, charities, and healthcare facilities. By providing essential furniture, we're not just furnishing spaces; we're positively impacting lives and fostering a sense of community. ✔️ Quality Furnishings Access: Receivers get access to high-quality, pre-loved furniture for only the cost of delivery and installation. This budget-friendly solution ensures that resources can be directed to other critical needs within organizations or community projects. ✔️ Promoting Sustainability: Being part of EFN contributes to a #circulareconomy . By diverting furniture from landfills, we reduce waste, support ethical sourcing practices, and contribute to environmentally conscious practices. ✔️ Demonstrating CSR: By joining EFN, donors and receivers alike fulfill their Corporate Social Responsibility. It's not just about furniture; it's about aligning your brand with a network dedicated to positive impact. 🌟 Join the Ethical Furniture Network today and be part of the change! City Transport Tel: 0113 248 9283 Email: [email protected] https://lnkd.in/eP_k3Air

🌟 Exciting Community Project Alert! 🌟 Hello, wonderful Bolton community! 🏗️ We at Recycle-IT! are thrilled to announce our next big leap: the creation of a Digital Community Space right here in Bolton. This space will serve as a beacon for digital inclusion, offering access to recycled IT equipment and training to those in need. We're reaching out to our local heroes in construction and shop fittings to help bring this vision to life. We need skilled hands and big hearts to help us construct a place where technology meets community. If your company can assist with building work, fittings, or any construction materials, we would love to collaborate to make this dream a reality. 🙌 We Offer: A chance to be part of a landmark project boosting local tech accessibility. Promotion of your firm’s contribution in our vast network across social media and community engagements. A partnership that celebrates and supports local business growth and community development. 📞 Please get in touch if you can help or know someone who can! Your support can make a huge difference in bridging the digital divide and building a stronger community. How Can You Help? Construction Services: Help us with the build and fitting out of the new space. Material Donations: Provide materials that can be used in the setup of the community centre. Spread the Word: Share this post within your network to reach potential collaborators. Let's build something great together! 🛠️💙 #Bolton #CommunityDevelopment #DigitalInclusion #ConstructionCollaboration #RecycleIT

Happy Friday, everyone! Continuing our "reset and refresh" theme from last week, let’s look at physical decluttering and making the most of our marketing assets. Here are five tips to help you end the week on a high note and get ready for a productive week ahead Audit your marketing assets - take a moment to review your marketing materials. Identify which assets can be refreshed for new campaigns. Repurposing existing materials can save time and resources while maintaining brand consistency. Recycle and repurpose - if certain assets are no longer relevant, consider recycling them or donating them to schools and colleges. Old banners, posters, and other materials can be valuable resources for educational institutions and help reduce waste. Elevate your brand with giveaways - think about how you can use existing assets as giveaways at events that align with your business. Branded merchandise can enhance your brand’s visibility and create a lasting impression on potential clients and partners. Shred and donate - declutter your office by shredding unnecessary paper. Don’t let those shreds go to waste – donate them to animal shelters where they can be used as bedding for animals. It’s a simple way to give back to the community. Create a decluttering schedule - implement a regular decluttering schedule for your team. Set aside time each month to review and organise both digital and physical assets. This practice not only keeps your workspace tidy but also ensures you’re making the most of your resources. By focusing on decluttering and maximising your marketing assets, can improve efficiency, reduce waste, and support our community. Small efforts like these contribute to a more organised, sustainable, and impactful business. #ResetAndRefresh #MarketingAssets #PhysicalDecluttering #Sustainability #Productivity #CommunitySupport

Beyond Office Walls: The Lifespan of Your Furniture Your office furniture has a lifespan beyond office walls. The Ethical Furniture Network ensures that this lifespan contributes positively. Here's why your furniture journey doesn't end with an office move: ✔️ Extend the Lifespan: EFN extends the lifespan of your furniture. Desks, chairs, and more continue to serve, enriching the lives of those in need. ✔️ Reduction of Waste: Instead of contributing to waste, your furniture becomes part of a circular economy. It's a small act that collectively makes a significant impact on waste reduction. ✔️ Transparent Impact: EFN offers transparency. Track the impact of your donation, from the local charities supported to the environmental benefits of diverting furniture from landfills. 🔄 Give your furniture a meaningful afterlife. Join the Ethical Furniture Network! City Transport The Ethical Furniture Network 0113 248 9283 [email protected] https://lnkd.in/eiDckBKB

Most of the decluttering techniques out there involve step-by-step processes that force you to develop new habits and try new approaches. Many of them rely on some of the same principles: You should go through your stuff and designate it into piles based on what you’ll keep, throw, donate, or sell, then you should organize what you keep, typically putting it into containers. That leaves a lot of room for you to keep things you don’t really need, though, so while you’re working through the steps of your preferred decluttering method, you need to add in one more. Stop creating “delayed decisions” This tip comes from my personal favorite pro organizer, iOrganize, aka Christen Fackler. I look at her feed all the time for organizing and decluttering inspo because she’s got a knack for making even a seasoned organizer rethink parts of their home and approach. For instance, she recommends thinking of your house like a store when figuring out how to organize bulk essentials. Her ideas about “delayed decisions” caught my attention recently because, like the retail angle, I hadn’t really thought of my decluttering like that before. When you’re going through what you own and designating it for keeping, tossing, donating, or selling, it’s easy to err on the side of keeping. I’m guilty of doing this with clothes, especially, telling myself they might come back in style, I might need them for a specific kind of event, or I should hold onto them in case my body undergoes changes, even if they don’t presently fit. I am, of course, lying to myself. I’m almost certainly never going to wear them again. The same is true for batteries, miscellaneous screws, old charging cables, tools with a hyper-specific use, and all kinds of other items that get banished to various drunk drawers, storage closets, and hidden containers. Sure, I’m putting them away, containing them, and organizing them—but since they’re useless to me, they’re still clutter, no matter how meticulously stored they are. Choosing to delay my real decision about these things—which should be “donate” in most cases and straight-up “throw away” in a few others—isn’t helpful to the overall decluttering process, even though it aligns well enough with the standard rules about designating and containing kept items. It’s important, then, to build in another step when decluttering: Stop creating delayed decisions altogether. Do not hold onto anything if the justification is “just in case.” How to stop delaying decisions when decluttering On the iOrganize website, Fackler sells a list of 50 questions you should ask yourself to gauge whether you really need to hold onto something. That includes questioning whether the items represents who you are now, not who you used to be, and what kinds of emotions it brings out of you. Using a list of questions like that is smart, since it can help you disentangle complex emotions and sentimentality, looking at your

While it's encouraging to see more companies re-examining the office to fit the way work happens, there continues to be a bad habit of operating off the assumption you must work with the office footprint you have. While I understand there are limitations and you can't always start with a blank slate, the bias toward "we must work with this, so how do we optimize it" rather than "what are we really trying to accomplish and what do we actually need to accomplish that" is disappointing. I've worked with a handful of companies who got this right and completely reimagined their entire office purpose and footprint, thinking creatively through things like subletting portions, donating portions for charitable purposes, and repurposing to give back to the community. In the end, the footprint that remained made sense for what they actually needed the office for. It will be interesting to see how this continues to evolve as companies and employees figure out what they want and need from "the office." #futureofwork #hybirdwork #remotework

Non-profit founders be like: ‘We want to create an organization to solve a problem and no longer need to exist.’ But it’s rarely the case. At the end of the day, the goal is to build an ecosystem. And to make it, or leave it, blossom. That’s the case for Spud. He created one of the first coworking spaces around. Then, they started popping up everywhere. The environment became… lush. And then… They had the town they always wanted. They truly weren’t needed anymore. That’s how Spud’s first space, New Leaf, shut down. To leave room for other spaces. To give ‘space’ to the next generation. #coworking #remotework #community