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5 Design Techniques That Will Increase the Lifespan of Your Nonprofit’s Website

Nonprofit Tech for Good

While these techniques can’t change the past, here are some design ideas to help your organization adjust and optimize your website in the future. Know your audience’s goals and mindset. Knowing who visits your site might not seem like a design technique at first glance. In practice: 1) The Brain Donor Project.

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Active Training: To Get Nonprofit Audiences Engaged, Keep Them Moving

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

Keeping nonprofit audiences engaged during training can improve your outcomes. There are many creative ways to engage participants at a training - both face-to-face and online. One technique is to incorporate movement – from mini-stretch breaks, to self-assessment exercises to switches in the delivery model.

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Trainer’s Notebook: Group Polling Techniques and Tools and Incorporating Movement

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

You have to ask, how is polling the audience and seeing the aggregate results helping people learn? Help the participants narrow down topics to discuss or work in small group exercises (replaces sticky dot voting and visualize the vote technique). I feel strongly that to keep audiences engaged, they have to be moving.

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12 free nonprofit books to help you achieve year-end fundraising success

Candid

Read this book to gain confidence by learning tools, sample dialogues, and techniques to ask anyone, for any amount, for any purpose. Move beyond how to reach your audience on social media and learn why being connected online with your supporters matters. The hardest part of fundraising is making the ask. The Annual Campaign by Erik J.

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Neuromarketing Explained

NonProfit Hub

Neuromarketing is based on insights from psychology and neuroscience, helping organizations get to know their audience and to learn the best motivational approaches to encourage giving. Thanks to neuromarketing, organizations can promote their brands based on the way their target audiencesbrains work. This is not a bad thing.

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Why Movement Is the Killer Learning App for Nonprofits

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

There are also physical theories like brain-based learning and neuroscience. I came across a brain scan by Dr. Chuck Hillman from University of Illinois Neurocognitive Kinesiology Laboratory. The sitting brain is really disengaged. You can also apply brain theory to designing and facilitating meetings at work.

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How Nonprofit Professionals Can Manage Workplace Stress Triggers

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

Anne Grady, in a recent HBR blog post , describes the harm that repeated stress triggers can create in the workplace: “When you are triggered, the emotional part of your brain takes over. Your logical brain temporarily shuts down, and you lose the ability to solve problems, make decisions, and think rationally.