Connection Cafe

OCTOBER 28, 2013

Product Marketing Manager for Arts and Cultural Solutions. Laura’s experience working at and serving on the board of multiple arts organizations around the country shape her insights into the nonprofit community. Our brains process philanthropic motivation and financial motivation separately. It actually does just the opposite.

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Bloomerang

AUGUST 31, 2022

When a good story is shared, scientific research shows our brains connect to storytelling can have on us: Stories are remembered 22x more easily than data, facts, and stats. Storytelling engages our sensory cortex in the brain , allowing the listener to feel, hear, taste, and even smell the story. A gift shared.

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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. For individuals, donor levels can be influential in deciding their gift amount, especially if your donor knows that there will be a published list showing donor names and levels of giving.

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Have Fun - Do Good

JANUARY 7, 2011

For inspiration, check out the book Good Mail Day: A Primer for Making Eye-Popping Postal Art , and its corresponding Good Mail Day Flickr group. Jennifer Lee has a wonderful post up on the Right Brain Business Plan blog about writing a letter to your future self as part of a creative goal setting ritual. Write a letter to yourself.

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Judi Sohn

JULY 6, 2009

I wasn’t very good at the trivia on my own because I sucked at any question that required use of the left side of my brain. I got all the pop culture, lifestyle and art questions. Some of the prizes we won over the next year or so included color televisions, printers, hard drives, $100 Amex gift certificates, and hats/t-shirts.

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Bloomerang

FEBRUARY 1, 2022

I’ve managed campaigns ranging from about $5 million to over a billion dollars in health care, education, arts and culture, and advocacy sectors. And if you think about this pie chart, what I really want to call out is that bequests, which are about 9%, are gifts made by individuals.

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BoardAssist

JULY 22, 2014

Just say you want to pick their brain. Listening is a lost art! Gail’s Fired-Up Fundraising approach, developed over the past 25 years as a non-profit philanthropy expert, has helped organizations raise hundreds of millions in gifts and support. Ask for advice. I’ve talked a lot about Advice Visits here , here and here.

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Connection Cafe

AUGUST 16, 2016

The right ways to inspire your donors to stick around: Talk about the impact their gifts helped you make. Our brains are wired so that we must feel something before we can make a decision. Mrs. Lee loves the performing arts and rarely misses one of our shows. Use communication to cause people to feel something.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JUNE 25, 2012

Moving gets blood to the brain, getting blood brain helps people take in new ideas. We also did fun and creative after lunch energizers. On the first day, in honor of being in India, I played a YouTube video of a well-loved Bollywood number called “ Chaya, Chaya.” So stay tuned.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

NOVEMBER 17, 2015

The most recent one was during the The National Arts Marketing Project Conference. Scarcity captures the mind. The mind orients automatically, powerfully, toward unfulfilled needs. Scarcity is more than just the displeasure of having very little. Recently, I had the opportunity to facilitate two design labs with nonprofit professionals.

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Museum 2.0

AUGUST 14, 2013

One of the greatest gifts of my babymoon is the opportunity to share the Museum 2.0 Beck is the brain behind the risk-taker/space-maker paradigm I''ve shared here in the past. I wholeheartedly believe it has the power to advance science (and art and cultural heritage) through the power of play.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JUNE 5, 2006

I don't really have commercial aims for my blog so it is more a playground and archive for my brain, which I hope will be useful to whoever happens by. I find it helps me to concentrate since I can unburden my brain by tagging something for easy retrieval-later should that topic become pressing.

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Bloomerang

NOVEMBER 20, 2021

They give you the gifts that keep on giving. I think our days and our brains can sometimes feel like this calculation. . So another client of mine, Upstream Arts, they provide programming in the Minneapolis schools, the Milwaukee School District, and I think they’re going to a couple other states now. Steven: Yes.

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Get Fully Funded

SEPTEMBER 21, 2021

It might take a minute to get your brain around that idea, that the donor is more important to you and your organization than their donation. Maybe they love the food bank but don’t care about the arts. Here are some examples: For a soup kitchen: Give the gift of a hot meal, compassion, and support, all for just $6.85.

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Qgiv

OCTOBER 5, 2021

Put a matching gifts drive into action. Check out Brain Tumor Network’s successful peer-to-peer campaign that was created through Qgiv: Social media: Try encouraging your supporters to share their fundraising pages on their personal social media accounts to get more donations. ( Put a matching gifts drive into action.

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Nonprofits Source

MAY 8, 2024

This could be environmental issues, education, or arts. Additionally, you might highlight some reading-themed gift baskets among your auction items that might appeal to parents who want to encourage their children to read more. This is because our brains process them almost instantly. Incorporate compelling visuals.

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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. Content is one of the best ways you can connect with your audience, ask donors for a gift, and share the good news about your organization’s impact.

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NTEN

JANUARY 19, 2011

Thus far, an informal brain trust dedicated to this topic has communicated and collaborated through a private list and closed-door meetings; the NTC in March will mark the first time that we open our conversation to everyone who is interested. There is no upper limit on how many people can search, find, and use that information.

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Bloomerang

NOVEMBER 5, 2021

How have you made me feel for the monetary gifts I’ve made and the non-monetary gifts? Gifting if you know they would like, right, right. Or something you know about them that you maybe you just saw them at an art gallery or something like that. Thank-you cards from our kids, personally delivering a gift.

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Bloomerang

JULY 31, 2021

And with major gifts and sponsorships, that’s also about cultivation, but also building out who is going to do the cultivation? it says a million, but it’s a $2 million gift from MacKenzie Scott. You can really be thinking about using that huge gift to kind of focus on maintenance, and cash reserves, and operating funds.

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Connection Cafe

DECEMBER 22, 2013

Your blog is your gift to them, as well as to yourself. So, here is Nancy Schwartz’s gift to you: Year-End Fundraising Checklist for Nonprofits. Don’t miss out on gifts because your form is a turnoff. Think about how much of that money is wasted on awkward gifts- the junk. Imagine that.

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Bloomerang

MAY 28, 2021

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. Our prefrontal cortex of our brain is where. We’re the arts. I talked about the brain.

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