Nonprofit Tech for Good

JANUARY 14, 2013

Most people who work in the nonprofit sector do so out of a commitment to a cause or passion bigger than themselves or their desire for material things. Handwriting is quickly becoming a lost art form. Thus, for 2013, please: 1) Ask for a raise. Your expression of gratitude will be duly noted and likely remembered. 4) Read more books.

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Connection Cafe

SEPTEMBER 12, 2017

Fundraising, at its root, is about connecting with people and inspiring them to care about your cause (as most of you know). Paul will be joined by Nik Honeysett, Guru board member and keynote speaker for bbcon’s Arts and Cultural track! AR has a host of applications for the nonprofit and education sectors. Register today!

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Have Fun - Do Good

SEPTEMBER 30, 2009

4 Steps for Selling Your Art: Interview with Alyson B. The Case Foundation, Causes, and PARADE are joining together to present the 2009 America’s Giving Challenge , a national competition launching on October 7. Change.org is hiring bloggers. Blog Action Day is October 15th. Blog Action Day is October 15th.

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Media Cause

MAY 28, 2021

Click here to view the presentation and learn more about how color theory informs our creative work at Media Cause. Media Cause Art Director Rob Shaw and Senior Designer Ansley Luce recently gave an agency-wide (virtual) talk on Color Theory: Emotion + Bias. Josef Albers said, “Color is the most relative medium in art.”

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Top Nonprofits

JULY 20, 2022

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. If you aren’t an art aficionado, this one’s for you! ” is front and center on the flyer. Tip 4: Use a minimalist design.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MARCH 4, 2016

I was an early adopter of using the Internet in 1992 where I had a virtual job working online for a program of the New York Foundation for the Arts called ArtsWire. A Zentangle is a miniature abstract work of art created with a collection of patterns. There are no mistakes. It is unplanned. Zentangle Pens and Pencils.

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NTEN

DECEMBER 1, 2013

Academy of Hope Adaptive Sports Partners of the North Country American Brain Tumor Association American Cancer Society American Childhood Cancer Organization American Heart Association American Jewish World Service American Liver Foundation American Lung Association American Red Cross AmeriCares Animal Humane Society Apple Tree Arts Arcus Foundation (..)

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sgEngage

SEPTEMBER 28, 2021

Without the visual breaks we need to refocus, our brains grow fatigued.”. Jeremey Bailenson, director of Stanford University’s Virtual Human Interaction Lab has been studying this malady suggests that it is caused by Nonverbal Overload.

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Classy

APRIL 29, 2021

Our Leadership Council incorporates a diverse array of expertise and cause affiliations with representation from nonprofit organizations, corporations, foundations, academic institutions, and many more. 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

APRIL 29, 2010

  I've written about  how nonprofits can use it , including arts organizations like the Brooklyn Museum as chronicled on Shelley Bernstein's blog.    And it seems like the concept of flash mobs for the arts is not limited to FourSquare. Tags: Art Sector Arts & Technology location.

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Have Fun - Do Good

FEBRUARY 25, 2011

"You have to actually spend two hours every day on it, and it was really hard junior year 'cause I had SATs, and all that kind of stuff. It would grow and people would care about the cause." - Aneesha Raghunathan Last fall I got a message through Facebook from Aneesha Raghunathan, the 18-year-old founder of Hope Line Fashions.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MARCH 21, 2017

In the book, we also talk about technology wellness in the nonprofit workplace, but I have been looking forward to an opportunity to go deeper on how teams of people in nonprofits can avoid technology overload caused by collaboration platforms and process. Learn the Art of Saying No Effectively. This blog post shares some thoughts.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MARCH 31, 2014

Its strategic partnership with Electronic Arts has enabled GlassLab to develop SimCityEDU, a game-based classroom tool that uses the beloved SimCity franchise to engage students in real-world challenges. Don’t run to play Mario just yet though — the game has to be specially designed to fill in lapses in brain activity from the start!

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

AUGUST 17, 2010

Kanter will bring together a group of highly visible free agents working on important social change causes and representatives from different nonprofits for a lively discussion with the audience. What should we be building to help artists make and sell art, engage their audiences, and connect to other artists? They want to connect.

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NonProfit Hub

JULY 23, 2014

Personally, I’ve been on the inside, wracking my brain for a creative way to convince a potential donor why he should give to my NPO. And I’ve also been asked many times, both as a decision maker in a company and on a personal level, to give to a worthy cause. I think most of us can say we’ve been on both sides of the ask.

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NonProfit Hub

JULY 23, 2014

Personally, I’ve been on the inside, wracking my brain for a creative way to convince a potential donor why he should give to my NPO. And I’ve also been asked many times, both as a decision maker in a company and on a personal level, to give to a worthy cause. I think most of us can say we’ve been on both sides of the ask.

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BoardAssist

JULY 22, 2014

Just say you want to pick their brain. Listening is a lost art! Probe their interest in your cause. Prospect, what you want to find out, what level of interest you are trying to generate. Ask for advice. I’ve talked a lot about Advice Visits here , here and here. It’s absolutely the best way to get in the door.

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Connection Cafe

NOVEMBER 29, 2018

For as long as nonprofits have been around it has always been vital for these organizations to convey the messages of their causes and missions, to tell their stories. A picture is worth about 60,000 words, because studies have shown that the human brain processes images about 60,000 times faster than it does plain text.

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Connection Cafe

AUGUST 16, 2016

Those word choices don’t inspire or cause people to want to give you their money or their time. Use communication to cause people to feel something. Use communication to cause people to feel something. Our brains are wired so that we must feel something before we can make a decision.

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Have Fun - Do Good

JANUARY 30, 2009

She is the author of The Right-Brain Business Plan e-Book and the creator of the Unfolding Your Life Vision Kit. She was also featured in the book, The Girl's Guide to Kicking Your Career Into Gear and her art visioning work is showcased in The Vision Board: The Secret to an Extraordinary Life. How does it work?

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NTEN

AUGUST 16, 2011

If your game is going to invite players to take direct action, a great way to further your cause is making it easier for that work to be shared. Frontiers may have better success if it were made specifically for those in migration policy work or the arts community. Ludwig is a game aimed at educators and students alike. JURY FEEDBACK.

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Nonprofit Tech for Good

SEPTEMBER 13, 2011

Being an effective social media manager is both an art and a skill. Has a passion for the cause and for social media. A good social media manager has passion for his cause(s) and enjoys participating in social media. Whether we like it or not, the news cycle is now 24/7, and as a journalist for your cause, you need to be, too.

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Bloomerang

AUGUST 2, 2022

The art of writing letters, and writing in general, has fallen by the way­side. Case Study: The lost art of writing. They may have grown up in a grade school that didn’t emphasize writ­ing, or perhaps they were simply left-brained, science and math types. Writing is an art people can do well if they practice.

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Care2

NOVEMBER 20, 2008

And it was fun to finally meet you in person at this years Summit and spend some time picking your brain on nonprofit social media on video : ) Ill make sure and send the footage your way soon. November 20, 2008 | Jordan Viator Copyright © 2008, Care2.com All rights reserved.

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Nonprofits Source

MAY 8, 2024

Knowing why your donors support your cause can help you connect better. Identify what your donors are passionate about outside of their support for your cause. This could be environmental issues, education, or arts. This is because our brains process them almost instantly. Reasons for giving.

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Qgiv

OCTOBER 5, 2021

Relevant: Keep your cause at the forefront of your goal-setting. To conduct prospect research you’ll want to look for donors who have both interest (affinity) in your cause and the ability (capacity) to give. Attainable: Don’t set yourself up for failure by reaching for the impossible.

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Neon CRM

DECEMBER 14, 2023

That’s why you have to plan ahead: A robust content plan will save you time—and brain space—and help you produce great nonprofit content while also tackling the rest of your mile-long to-do list. And if you’re a staff member in charge of producing content for your nonprofit, you know how time-consuming content creation can be.

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Get Fully Funded

SEPTEMBER 21, 2021

Well, fundraising is about giving people the opportunity to capture that good feeling by donating money to a cause they believe in. When you build a big donor base of people who love your cause, you will ALWAYS have financial support because these folks WANT to see you win! And of those who DO give, they have their favorite causes.

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Bloomerang

NOVEMBER 20, 2021

I think our days and our brains can sometimes feel like this calculation. . But, and here’s the key, cause me to feel something when you do that. So Free Arts Minnesota, I gave them $100 gift. So creatively causing your organization to have a system for your thanking. I’ve made a ton of mistakes.

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Get Fully Funded

JULY 14, 2022

Let’s take a closer look at how you can choose visuals that do just that by supporting your mission and helping to grow awareness of your cause. They can also create icons and a library of art that you can use for other areas of your website. The human brain can process visual information 60,000 times faster than written information.

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Bloomerang

JULY 31, 2021

And I always like to point this out because I think mental health is extremely important, especially as the fact that you’re dealing with populations who might be they’re doing one of the most vulnerable parts of their lives, or maybe there’s a cause that is really, really necessary to focus on and requires all your mental energy.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

FEBRUARY 1, 2017

Self-care is both an art and a science, one worth getting intimate with, especially if you are one who’s prone to pushing hard towards what you want out of life. It is used to disrupt stuck energy caused by negative emotions. There are two ways to approach self-care: Preventative and Episodic. 3: Emotional Freedom Technique.

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Bloomerang

NOVEMBER 5, 2021

Or something you know about them that you maybe you just saw them at an art gallery or something like that. Where maybe they’re not, you know, super preferential to a specific cause or anything like that, or maybe the opposite. And these little things, someone brought this up too which I thought was like surprise them.

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Connection Cafe

DECEMBER 22, 2013

Take a look for ideas on how your nonprofit could empower supporters and advocates to fuel creative buzz around your cause. It’s about reminding them why they care and giving them an opportunity to join your cause. Speak to the part of the brain that controls action-taking. Tell stories. Evoke emotion. Ready for this?

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Bloomerang

MAY 28, 2021

Some of you may have actually seen her at Cause Camp, which was last week, right? In our brains, in the back of our brain here is our instinct, that fight or flight. ” And so when we pitch ideas, people tend to go into the back of their brain and now they’re kind of poking holes at your idea. Maryanne: Yeah.

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