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Empathy: the key to better fundraising

Hands on Fundraising

Empathy – the feeling that you understand and share another person’s experiences and emotions: the ability to share someone else’s feelings While sympathy is compassion for someone else’s situation, empathy is feeling their pain. Empathy is a powerful connection to someone else. Sympathy keeps its distance.

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Weaving Empathy into Action: The Crucial Role of Storytelling for Nonprofits

Nonprofit Tech for Good

By showcasing the real stories of those they assist, they create an emotional connection with their audience, evoking empathy and compassion. Feeding America’s storytelling strategy humanizes the issue of hunger, putting faces and personal experiences to statistics and data.

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Why Empathy is the Key to Outstanding Leadership in Nonprofit Organizations

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

By Beth Kanter & Joan Garry Leading with empathy is one of the most effective ways to avoid burnout at your nonprofit. From our previous conversations, we’ve realized that empathy is not just a warm and fuzzy “soft skill,” but an essential leadership skill to ensure that your nonprofit’s work survives and thrives in the future.

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The Core Elements of Empathy, Power, and Vulnerability in Grantmaking

sgEngage

There are three core elements that immediately come to mind when I think of trust: empathy, power, and vulnerability. Empathy I have had the honor of being both a grant researcher/writer/steward and a re-grantor. For those social impact professionals who haven’t lived both lives, the empathy divide is real and must be overcome.

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Four steps to incorporating empathy into your leadership practices

Charity Village

The theme for Mental Health Week 2022 was empathy. We all need to build our empathy skills, and we’d all feel more seen, understood and connected if there was more empathy in the world. The post Four steps to incorporating empathy into your leadership practices appeared first on CharityVillage. What a great theme!

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90% of Canadian employees believe empathy is crucial to wellbeing

Charity Village

EY released the Empathy in Business Survey results which found that 38% of Canadian employees perceive that their personal needs and well-being are not being prioritized at work. The post 90% of Canadian employees believe empathy is crucial to wellbeing appeared first on CharityVillage. To review the full survey results, click here.

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How Grantmakers Can Improve Collaboration Through Empathy and Experimentation

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The key, I’ve found, is approaching collaboration with empathy and testing your assumptions. By infusing our social impact work with empathy and experimentation, grantmakers can create a stronger shared value in our collaborative work. Creating a Connection Through Empathy. We have an empathy deficit as a nation.