NonProfit Hub

AUGUST 13, 2015

Begging for your attention in its boldface type. An unread email. Usually, you’ll decide in a few seconds whether it’s worthy of opening or being cast away in the endless email trash heap. In those few seconds, a flurry of thoughts flash inside your brain: Who is the sender? It sits there. What is the subject?

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MARCH 21, 2017

A quick glance at your calendar shows that you spent hours in meetings, answering emails, or working on shared documents but you can’t remember why. Adopt Good Practices Around Team Emails. Have a formal policy about sending after hours emails. Communicate Clearly in Emails. Is your team emailing after hours?

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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. How Can I Download the Calendar ? What’s in Neon One’s 2024 Nonprofit Calendar? The Neon One 2024 nonprofit calendar highlights U.S.,

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

FEBRUARY 3, 2015

Maura Thomas , a speaker and trainer on productivity for nonprofits and author of Personal Productivity Secrets , explains personal productivity is not time management, a 20th century idea that has outlived its usefulness in a world of email and social networks. It is all about managing your attention. Here’s a summary.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

AUGUST 29, 2017

Can you share some tips about for dealing with the stress that results from using technology, like email. I noticed that when I emailed you, you had an interesting bounce message. If you don’t have clear priorities, your attention is more likely to be hijacked by your email or some other distraction.

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Get Fully Funded

JANUARY 2, 2023

Things like conversations with coworkers that last longer than they need to, writing the same email over and over instead of using a template, and meetings that don’t start or end on time can steal time from your day that you can never get back. Time-block your week with an online calendar.

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Get Fully Funded

MAY 8, 2023

Having both of these elements saves on the number of emails you need to respond to, phone calls to answer, or voicemails to return. Notify you via email when someone has completed a volunteer application so you’ll never miss out on someone being interested. Schedule Keep a work calendar and update it so it’s always current.

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Get Fully Funded

FEBRUARY 7, 2022

Taking a break from work gives your brain the chance to reset and recharge, and this is essential to avoiding burnout and staying productive all year long. But mark the rest of your days on your calendar at the beginning of the year, just like you mark your campaigns and events. Return emails. That’s right! Here in the U.S.,

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Qgiv

OCTOBER 5, 2021

The final months of the calendar year bring out the best in all of us. Plan a special email welcome series for new donors. Don’t let confirmation emails go to waste. Early preparation will also allow you to prepare your core campaign tools, such as: Your donation form Social media calendars Email series.

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Bloomerang

NOVEMBER 20, 2021

I will email that to everybody later on today. . I thought about it for about three nanoseconds and I said, “It’s got to be Lori Jacobwith,” and she was so awesome to return my email and say yes. . I think our days and our brains can sometimes feel like this calculation. . So use that chat box.

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Achieve

FEBRUARY 11, 2022

specifically recommends finding a CRM solution that can automatically fill out message templates with personal information for both emails and traditional mail. Your nonprofit likely keeps a full event calendar, and sending out a personalized invitation to your recurring donors can be an extra nudge towards encouraging them to attend.

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Bloomerang

OCTOBER 2, 2021

You may find, “Wow, we’ve got three tools that could send email.” Maybe we want to, you know, tighten it down and just use one email tool. Everybody needs an email tool. Adult brains don’t learn new things that easily. Take an inventory of everything you’re using. Everybody needs a database.

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Bloomerang

JUNE 25, 2021

Well, your database, I’ve said this, your database is like your brain, right? Like your fundraising brain. And appeals can be very specific things like your fall appeal, your calendar year-end appeal. Now, 50% of people pay more attention to direct mail than to any other marketing channel. Why do we need it?

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Get Fully Funded

SEPTEMBER 21, 2021

I remember trying to sell calendars as a public school fundraiser when I was about 8. 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. Then pay attention to which stories people respond to. Create a Fundraising 101 calendar for the year.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

SEPTEMBER 15, 2014

How long can you pay attention when working online before your mind wanders? According to the Statistic Brain site list of attention span stats , in 2000 we had a 12 second attention span compared with an 8 second attention in 2013. What’s making our human brains like those of gold fish?

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Bloomerang

AUGUST 21, 2021

It lights up the pleasure centers of their brains, it gives them what is called a warm-glow feeling. You want to make a note of this in your file, on your calendar, some kind of system that you have. You can put these little kinds of phrases on your outer envelopes, your email signatures, business cards, letterhead.

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Bloomerang

NOVEMBER 26, 2021

So just be on the lookout for an email from me with all those goodies. . But three months is a little too long for that human brain to imagine. You can really imagine eight weeks well in your human brain. . And I will figure out what your prize is by the time you’ve emailed me. Yay, Leslie is our winner.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

AUGUST 9, 2016

Instructional design is knowing how to organize your content and shape exercises based on brain and learning research. One key idea in the infographic is the fractured nature of the modern attention span. So, how can you design those face-to-face experiences so they are more micro? Organize tasks and Guard Your Calendar.

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Bloomerang

DECEMBER 10, 2021

Just be on the lookout for an email from me before the end of the day. . And I’m not talking about specific donor, I’m talking about in terms of your work calendar. I don’t know, if anybody got any emails on Giving Tuesday, I got a couple 100 million. Are you an email person? Are you active on social?

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

FEBRUARY 10, 2016

Working online can contribute to the state of overwhelmed and distracted – so having attention skills is also a leadership competency. To put this context, a gold fish has an attention span of 9 seconds! Attention span is the amount of concentrated time on a task without becoming distracted. Take a guess.

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Have Fun - Do Good

JULY 27, 2011

Both an installation artist and photographer, Naomi was the founder and director of The Cradle Project , a large scale installation calling attention and raising funds for the 48 million children orphaned in Sub-Saharan Africa. If you have suggestions for people I should interview, please email me at britt AT brittbravo DOT com.

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