EveryAction

MAY 11, 2023

But the real test is whether or not they’ll do the work of volunteering time and effort. Their diversity in experiences, skillsets, passions, and viewpoints ensures that good missions get the brains and heart they deserve. You can help by ensuring that your ask is clear. Learn more and get connected at MediaCause.com !

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Get Fully Funded

OCTOBER 5, 2021

You might want to write three urgent subject lines, three intrigue subject lines, two that combine intrigue and urgency, and two that don’t fall into either category but still pop into your brain. Creating a sense of urgency helps your donor’s brain prioritize your email as something that needs to be opened. Then pick your favorite!

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JUNE 22, 2017

Anne Grady, in a recent HBR blog post , describes the harm that repeated stress triggers can create in the workplace: “When you are triggered, the emotional part of your brain takes over. Your logical brain temporarily shuts down, and you lose the ability to solve problems, make decisions, and think rationally.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

AUGUST 17, 2017

In Finland, classroom time incorporates “brain breaks” after 50 minutes when one’s natural focus and energy begins to wane. And, it pays off as students perform better on educational tests than their peers in other European countries. Taking brain breaks is an important work skill as well.

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The Modern Nonprofit

APRIL 13, 2021

There’s reputable neuroscience research showing that people’s brains light up when they hear their own name. So our brains are actually hard-wired to respond to appeals that speak to us directly. Our brains are always looking for shortcuts, and the word because triggers us to comply.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MARCH 5, 2014

This useful handbook summarizes and explains the brain science of how people learn and provides easy to use frameworks to help you design and deliver training where people learn. Brain-Based Learning: The New Science of Teaching and Training. The Accelerated Learning Handbook. By Dave Meier. by Eric Jensen. by Jane Bozarth.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JANUARY 5, 2021

Rituals leverage our brains’ ability to run on autopilot, allowing us to reach our goals even when we are distracted by other things, such as potentially contracting a deadly disease. Reflection: As a trainer and facilitator, I am constantly learning and testing new facilitation and training techniques.

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Byte Technology

DECEMBER 1, 2015

Indeed, with the Internet now funneling so much information into our brains on a daily basis it’s easy to get lost in the cacophony of the web and the short attention spans it’s created. Once people are hooked on your cause, be absolutely sure it’s as easy as possible to make an on-line donation.

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Media Cause

MAY 28, 2021

In Part 3, Ansley breaks down how colors work in the brain to create relationships — for better or worse — that shape our perceptions of sameness, otherness and contribute to racial bias. . First, acknowledge that it’s there – consider taking this test called the Implicit Association test to learn your subconscious bias towards race.

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Whole Whale

SEPTEMBER 20, 2022

Brain Lacy & Associates provide services for nonprofits including augmentation, analysis of data, prospect research, major donor information, and matching gift data. Donorly provides a powerful team of fundraising professionals with experience across sectors to get results. Brian Lacy & Associates. Website: [link].

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sgEngage

AUGUST 22, 2022

I’ll bet they are able to identify improvements in your processes and do some testing before rolling the changes out to the rest of the team. But the journey from silo living is worth your time and brain power. Have a couple of your cross-departmental team members work together on a starter set of procedures.

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Amy Sample Ward

APRIL 9, 2010

Different brains – visual vs words. Step 5: Testing the policies: refining, educating. This session will take a look about these trends and how nonprofits can equipment themselves to be networked nonprofits. —— [link]. The writing process for the book: Expository vs storytelling. Hired an arbitrator to be the editor.

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Top Nonprofits

JULY 20, 2022

Test out different shapes. The positioning and size of the text immediately draw the viewer’s focus to the call to action, planting the seed in their brain for taking action and helping your cause. Tip 7: Test out distinct shapes. Include QR codes. Make it mobile friendly. Aesthetic tips for your fundraising flyer.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

AUGUST 31, 2011

Another way is to let qualitative data inform a hypothesis that you go on to test with numerical data. Here’s their storytelling collection tool. They’re using software – called sensemaker – to see patterns in the data that is far too much for human brains to summarize. The above shows the methods.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

APRIL 2, 2013

This highly interactive and engaging community conversation will look at how nonprofits can create a culture of experimenting, testing, learning and correcting. This session will be brains on and hands on and cover the best practices of content curation for nonprofit. The Benefits of Content Curation. April 13, 2013 10:30-Noon.

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Whole Whale

MAY 20, 2021

Brain Lacy & Associates provide services for nonprofits including augmentation, analysis of data, prospect research, major donor information, and matching gift data. Donorly provides a powerful team of fundraising professionals with experience across sectors to get results. Brian Lacy & Associates. Website: [link].

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NonProfit Hub

AUGUST 13, 2015

In those few seconds, a flurry of thoughts flash inside your brain: Who is the sender? As a nonprofit marketer, you are on the other side of this great brain fire. Bad jokes can also be a turnoff, so spend a little time crafting those jokes and test them out on your coworkers before hitting the send button. Test It Out.

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NonProfit Hub

AUGUST 13, 2015

In those few seconds, a flurry of thoughts flash inside your brain: Who is the sender? As a nonprofit marketer, you are on the other side of this great brain fire. Bad jokes can also be a turnoff, so spend a little time crafting those jokes and test them out on your coworkers before hitting the send button. Test It Out.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MARCH 19, 2011

It has to be with a split of our brain. There are two parts of our brain, the rational and the emotional. The emotional part of our brains is like an elephant. He talked about a test using a food drive with two sets of instructions, one complicated and one simple. It is the way we’re wired.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

NOVEMBER 2, 2016

Last June, I facilitated a leadership workshop at the Americans for the Arts Conference where I tested some of the assessments and checklist tools in our book. Then we had the whole staff brain storm together. Opening Acts executive director then shared a list of ideas. Each employee created their own plan.

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Connection Cafe

NOVEMBER 29, 2018

How to test and fine-tune a story over time. A picture is worth about 60,000 words because studies have shown that the human brain processes images about 60,000 times faster than plain text.”. Ways that organizations can make donors the heroes of the stories they’re telling. How visuals can help make data more comprehensible.

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Classy

APRIL 29, 2021

Double-certified neurologist and preventive medicine specialist with a background in public health, working toward the transition to replace the use of animal experimentation with superior human-based testing methods. Army Traumatic Brain Injury Program, developing the Army’s brain injury prevention and treatment strategies for soldiers .

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MARCH 19, 2011

It has to be with a split of our brain. There are two parts of our brain, the rational and the emotional. The emotional part of our brains is like an elephant. He talked about a test using a food drive with two sets of instructions, one complicated and one simple. It is the way we’re wired. Make it easy to give.

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Connection Cafe

NOVEMBER 17, 2017

Keep shivering, but also keep reading, because I’m going to show you two simple math tricks that will help you add a little left-brain to your portfolio of expertise. . While the answer is different for every organization, the path to that answer is always the same: Test! There are two basic ways to run a test. Full Test .

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NTEN

FEBRUARY 24, 2014

Never mind the Olympics; the NTC Geek Games are a true test of your geek strength. Make sure to bring your brain power to compete in Geek Bingo, a helicopter obstacle course, karaoke, and dodgeball! Learn more about the Progressive Parties on myNTC. Let the games begin! Come join us for fun and games at our second annual Geek Games.

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NTEN

MARCH 19, 2011

It has to be with a split of our brain. There are two parts of our brain, the rational and the emotional. The emotional part of our brains is like an elephant. He talked about a test using a food drive with two sets of instructions, one complicated and one simple. Science: What does psychology tell us about change?

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Have Fun - Do Good

JUNE 3, 2010

Do some small test runs of your ideas and adjust accordingly. Keep Track of What Others Are Doing You can learn a tremendous amount by paying attention to the "big brains" and the "cool kids." Do your homework on your target audience. Create a crisis plan so you know how to react in case the worst does happen. Then go do it!

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Amy Sample Ward

JUNE 21, 2011

The Brain exhibition, for example, has a table where people can work together to put together the pieces of the brain neuron by neuron. The goals include learning made personal, extension of experience onsite and online, and access for all learning and lifelong learning – underlying all of it is innovation in learning.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JANUARY 14, 2009

Flickr Photo by JTLowery The title of this post is play on the famous PSA " Brain on Drugs " from 1987 to raise attention to the harmful effects of drugs. The memorable tagline : This is your brain. This is your brain on drugs. Does growing up digital evolve young people's brains? Any questions? That's impressive.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

AUGUST 1, 2009

Each has withstood the test of time – Surviving no matter what the communication channel or how their message is spread. An excerpt from Brains On Fire helps drive home why movements are becoming more and more important in today’s highly connected world: Movements go on as long as kindred spirits are involved.

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The MatrixFiles

DECEMBER 22, 2021

I slept badly on Sunday, got tested on Monday and I’m thankfully negative BUT I know scores of people who have tested positive. Brian Tarallo from Lizard Brain led us through a two-hour reflection and asked us questions like: What has been your overarching mood in 2021? To make matters worse, I started feeling sick on Sunday.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

FEBRUARY 18, 2014

But, if you use reflection, documentation,pilot tests, and iteration, it is like tasting your soup while there’s still time to make adjustments. I use both. I have written a lot about how it is important to understand how the brain works, how people learn by using learning theories to guide the design of your workshops.

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NonProfit Hub

AUGUST 12, 2016

One interesting finding is that the human brain actually learns best in relaxed concentration. You can also do some testing and trials of your own for primary research of sorts. Research on nearly any topic can be found, from early childhood development to education to addiction recovery.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

OCTOBER 26, 2007

I still feel like I haven't totally wrapped my brain around all this. Tim Davies from the UK volunteered to be the guinea pig and test the thinking process (a logic model of sorts) for his newly launched web project that incorporates social media strategies. And, it will make your brain hurt!

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JULY 14, 2015

It prompted research and reading to find some ideas to test out on myself before using it in the leadership development program. I try to schedule time blocks that require high level concentration tasks (like writing) in the morning when my brain is better able to concentrate.

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Museum 2.0

SEPTEMBER 1, 2010

It was exhilarating at the end of the first day of testing to point to the poor performer, wag a finger, and dump it. I felt proud of all four of these ideas going into testing, but I was able to let the one that failed go easily, bolstered by the knowledge that the other three worked. Three were hits. One was a total dud.

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NTEN

MARCH 16, 2009

Convio is one of the featured companies at the first-ever Austin Interactive Showcase at SxSW as one of "16 Austin companies to showcase the interactive brain power and technology innovation" of the popular media conference's host city. M+R released a new case study on the impact of premiums in online fundraising campaigns.

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