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OCTOBER 5, 2021

The final months of the calendar year bring out the best in all of us. In this article, we’ll walk through 21 end-of-year giving best practices to help your nonprofit end the fundraising year with a bang: Start planning your campaign early. As you review these best practices, remember to keep your donors’ needs top of mind.

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MAY 8, 2023

When you have the right systems in place to support your nonprofit, and you personally practice effective work habits , you’re setting yourself up for a shorter learning curve and a smoother path later on. Schedule Keep a work calendar and update it so it’s always current. Start now, using an accounting software.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

OCTOBER 5, 2009

This is a rant and warning against shiny object syndrome and a remember that technology does not drive practice. That technology, in and of itself, can solve the ills of the world. Last year , I heard Jerry Michalski use the metaphor of the global brain in talk about the future. It was funny at the time).

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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. Winding down can be hard when you’re out of practice.

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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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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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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

OCTOBER 2, 2021

Any time we make a change, current state, if we look at that blue line current state, and then we look at the red dotty line above it, if you switch technology, if you change a process or a business practice, we think the payoff is immediate, right? Adult brains don’t learn new things that easily. Life is going to be grand.

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Bloomerang

NOVEMBER 26, 2021

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. . It is as hard and as easy as putting the meetings on your calendar and showing up for them. . These are just so-called best practices or customs. . Yay, Leslie is our winner.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

FEBRUARY 10, 2016

Adding social media and a powerful personal brand can be powerful networked leadership skill, but there is the huge challenge of making it a habit, putting it into daily practice. Working online can contribute to the state of overwhelmed and distracted – so having attention skills is also a leadership competency. Take a guess.

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Bloomerang

DECEMBER 10, 2021

And I’m not talking about specific donor, I’m talking about in terms of your work calendar. ” So we have in our brains, the amygdala, the fear center, where you have flight, fright, and freeze as the emotional reactions to things that’s scare you. Are you interacting with donors daily, weekly, monthly, never?

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