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Elizabeth H. Cottrell

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https://heartspoken.com

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Elizabeth H. Cottrell believes a handwritten note can change someone's day—and occasionally, someone's life. She's spent years proving it.

As founder of the Heartspoken Movement and author of HEARTSPOKEN: How to Write Notes that Connect, Comfort, Encourage, and Inspire (originally published by Koehler Books in 2022, now published by Heartspoken Press), Elizabeth has helped thousands of readers find the right words for life's hardest and happiest moments—sympathy, gratitude, apology, encouragement, and celebration.

Her readers include grandmothers and CEOs, nonprofit leaders and new graduates, all discovering that a few sincere sentences on paper can accomplish what no text message ever will to build the personal and professional relationship ...more

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Heartspoken: How to Write Notes that Connect, Comfort, Encourage, and Inspire

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The November Action Calendar for Small Nonprofits

Nonprofit professional man writing notes in November

Whom to write, what to say and when to send it, from Election Day to Giving Tuesday

November may be the busiest month of the year in a small nonprofit office. The year-end appeal is going out, Giving Tuesday is around the corner and the board wants an update before the holidays. Writing notes can feel like one more thing on a list that is already too long.

Here’s what I learned over more than three

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Quiet: The Power of Introverts in a World That Can't Stop Talking

by Susan Cain (Goodreads Author)

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Success Was Never What I Thought: A Gen X Executive's Journey Beyond Burnout and the Corporate Climb

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The Humanizers Strike Back: How to Use AI Without Losing Yourself (The Humanizers Series)

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“Reality, in fact, is usually something you could not have guessed. That is one of the reasons I believe Christianity. It is a religion you could not have guessed. If it offered us just the kind of universe we had always expected, I should feel we were making it up. But, in fact, it is not the sort of thing anyone would have made up. It has just that queer twist about it that real things have. So let us leave behind all these boys' philosophies--these over simple answers. The problem is not simple and the answer is not going to be simple either.”
― C.S. Lewis

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“So long as we are being remembered, we remain alive.”
― Carlos Ruiz Zafón, The Shadow of the Wind

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