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What Would Homer Simpson Do? Your Messages and the Emerging Science of Behavioral Economics

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Any money you donate will go to Rokia, a seven-year-old girl who lives in Mali, Africa. They all use principles of behavioral economics to influence their audience's decisions. For program staff, decisions can lift or sink an advocacy call-in campaign. Peer pressure still works. The answer? And you can too.

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The 2016 - 2017 Best Nonprofit Conferences Calendar

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Your great work will be validated, and you will be energized to move beyond current paradigms and find innovative ways to increase your impact. Affect is a new community event highlighting the diversity of work and design behind social change. It is an opportunity to share and learn from each of our corners of the work.

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Benetech: the Equilibrium Change Machine

Beneblog: Technology Meets Society

I just read the new book from Sally Osberg, President and CEO of the Skoll Foundation, and strategy guru Roger Martin, Getting Beyond Better: How Social Entrepreneurship Works. But, it’s always useful to explore the framework of one’s work. Osberg & Martin, Getting Beyond Better: How Social Entrepreneurship Works, 2015.

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Women's Global Green Action Network: An Interview with Melinda Kramer

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Melinda Kramer: Women's Global Green Action Network is an international organization that is linking and empowering women working in environmental sustainability around the world. We also take part in trainings that are relevant to most of their work. We do it in a number of ways.

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Visual Storytelling for Nonprofits

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With a successful photo-essay or multimedia piece, organizations can attract partners, appeal to donors and grantmakers, influence policymakers, and perhaps most importantly, drive a movement. Before relocating to San Francisco, she worked in New York with the Aperture Foundation, the International Center of Photography, and UnionDocs.

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Women's Earth Alliance: Co-Directors Melinda Kramer and Amira Diamond

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It simply doesn't work to stay in your silo, and to grab hold of your mission statement and work alone. There is something really exciting about looking at every juncture for how we can work together, and pool our knowledge and our ability to open doors. We do that by coordinating training, technology, and advocacy support.