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6 Surefire Tips for Asking for Donations Over the Phone

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Making donation appeals over the phone is an interesting middle ground between asking for donations in person and making appeals through more anonymous methods like email or on your website. This makes asking for donations over the phone somewhat tricky. Make a genuine appeal during your phone call. Let’s get started!

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How To Avoid Becoming Addicted To Your Mobile Phone

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

Rosen’s research has found that the average person checks their phone every 15 minutes or less and that approximately 50% of the time there isn’t a notification beckoning them to do so. According to Rosen, we check our phones to reduce anxiety. How are you avoiding getting addicted to your mobile phone? This is a Ludic Loop!

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Break Your Mobile Phone Addiction: There’s An App for That and More

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

Having trouble getting that mobile phone out of your hands and checking it when you need to focus on work? There’s an app that can help you break your mobile phone addiction and it makes it fun. The app is called Forest that turns putting down your phone into a game. Here’s how it works.

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3 Emerging Fundraising Trends for Nonprofits

Nonprofit Tech for Good

For many people, issues that are out of sight are also out of mind. Stars would ask for donations and answer phone calls, and people would ring in to donate over the phone. Productivity Theory , a blog by Kayla Matthews , is dedicated to helping you accomplish your definition of success. McLoughlin currently has 23.6

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Simple Ways To Reduce Virtual Fatigue for Nonprofit Leaders

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

If that wasn’t enough, the stretches have entertaining names and movements, including the chicken neck and self Vulcan mind meld. He asked them to leave his phones behind and take a ten-minute walk around the block. Before they left, they had to tilt their cameras down so he could see their phones that were left behind.

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Mindfulness, Unplugging and Social Media Envy

Have Fun - Do Good

Last weekend, from sundown, March 4th to sundown, March 5th, I turned off my cell phone, laptop, and TV as part of the National Day of Unplugging. My number one mindfulness tip is to be aware of social media envy. their blog is soooo beautiful). spruce up your own blog's design, use more photos in your posts).

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The Benefits of Using Data to Bring Mindfulness to Your Work

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

Never in a million years did I ever think I would use data and mindfulness in the same sentence. For the past two months, I’ve been wearing a rock in a bra, a device called Spire. But why should we even care about healthy technology and bring a focus to mindfulness and fitness into the workplace?

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