Get Fully Funded

JANUARY 9, 2022

If you can find 10 good grant leads — we can usually find at least 10 hot leads when we do grant research for our clients—then you can fill your grant calendar and keep your grant pipeline full all year long. Create a calendar of Asks. And there is nothing wrong with using a paper desk calendar, if that’s your jam.

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Allegiance Group

NOVEMBER 2, 2023

Research has shown that the human brain retains information more effectively when presented repeatedly. A calendar of events A constantly updated calendar of events is essential for a nonprofit website. By placing the donation button on every page, you reinforce its presence in the minds of your website visitors.

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Bloomerang

NOVEMBER 16, 2021

Create a content calendar. Before you start batching content, create a calendar based on your goals for how often you want to post, when you want to post, and what you want your posts to achieve. When you write all of your content at one time, it helps your brain switch into that gear. Here’s how you can batch your content: .

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Eric Jacobsen Blog

NOVEMBER 6, 2023

Leadership Fitness : Leadership philosophy, personal performance, mental training, and ability to master time and calendar. Both flood the brain with dopamine, provide a brief high, and kill your productivity.

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sgEngage

APRIL 1, 2022

Sharla Donohue , database manager, American Brain Foundation. Use the tech tools that help you organize– rules to move non-urgent emails to a ‘later’ folder, tasks & calendars to manage projects, and set blocks of time for uninterrupted project work. Leave work at work! Make time to simplify things! Optimize Your Time .

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Achieve

JUNE 2, 2021

Calendars have a unique advantage over other mailable deliverables—if your supporters use them, they’ll end up staring at a reminder of your nonprofit every day. Some nonprofits even send annual calendars as a way to remind annual supporters to make their year-end donations. .

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sgEngage

AUGUST 19, 2022

A bit of pressure can help keep the brain alert and support you in getting focused. These breaks allow our brains and bodies to recover from the stress of being constantly connected. In fact, stress is a natural part of our life and work. This is “good” stress or eustress as it’s sometimes referred to by researchers.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JANUARY 10, 2017

My bullet journal also incorporates “looking-ahead” rituals linked to my calendar. Sometimes I use part of that free time to take a little walk around my desk to reboot my brain. I use the technique of Bullet Journals , a hand-written system to manage your to-do lists. I look ahead on a monthly, weekly, and daily basis.

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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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NTEN

DECEMBER 1, 2013

Giving Tuesday is a movement to create a national day of giving to kick off the giving season added to the calendar on the Tuesday following Thanksgiving, Black Friday, and Cyber Monday. The second annual GivingTuesday is on December 3rd and we''ve found 124 NTEN Members that are participating!

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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. Just because the default setting on your calendar software is for 60 minutes, it doesn’t necessarily mean you need the full hour. Sound familiar? Establish Look Ahead Team Rituals .

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Whole Whale

JUNE 22, 2021

We put BOCs on the calendar about once a month and talk about anything new in our lives like things going on with our families, our workout routines, new music we love, an awesome movie we saw, etc. There are a plethora of video tools out there, and after experimenting with a few we’ve found Zoom to be the best for quality connection.

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Have Fun - Do Good

MARCH 16, 2011

August 5: I'll be at BlogHer '11 in San Diego and leading the idea generation portion of The Write Brain – Essential Blog Content Development Workshop. June 1-22: My Juicy Blogging E-course: The Art and Play of Blogging for Artists, Writers, Creative Entrepreneurs and Do-Gooders.

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Connection Cafe

FEBRUARY 12, 2020

One that I like was created by Kristina Halvorson and her team at Brain Traffic , called the Content Strategy Quad: A simple way to look at this is by dividing the top and bottom quadrants. Once you’ve settled on a solid content strategy, you might find you need an editorial content calendar to keep track of it.

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Get Fully Funded

JANUARY 2, 2023

Time-block your week with an online calendar. Using an online calendar like Google Calendar can be great for planning out your time because you can see your day, week, or month at a glance, and access it from either your desktop or mobile device. The real benefit of using a calendar is block scheduling.

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Have Fun - Do Good

JULY 3, 2011

August 5: I'll be at BlogHer '11 in San Diego and co-presenting The Write Brain – Essential Blog Content Development Workshop. Show Notes I have three workshops coming up: July 9: Jumpstart your Blog! workshop at the Writing Salon in Berkeley, CA. You can connect with Kenya through CD Baby, Source Consulting Group , and Facebook.

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AccelEvents

JANUARY 30, 2022

Customize everything —registration, the onboarding process, email confirmations, sessions recommendations, reminders, and calendar invites. . Gamification increases audience engagement by activating the rewards systems in our brains, increasing the odds that attendees will do the things you want them to do (i.e.,

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Have Fun - Do Good

JUNE 1, 2011

August 5: I'll be at BlogHer '11 in San Diego and co-presenting The Write Brain – Essential Blog Content Development Workshop.

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NTEN

APRIL 25, 2014

If needed, I schedule and block this time in my calendar. When I take the time (again, usually putting it on my calendar) to sit down to re-examine strategy and goals, it gives me a better gauge to assess my work: Am I doing the tasks that are moving me towards my goals? Putting off strategic planning or long-term goals.

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Gyrus

OCTOBER 6, 2016

Organizing the Calendar. I tend to write my processes out on a piece of paper or occasionally log important or reoccurring tasks in a Google Calendar entry. Our brains, while capable of accomplishing a lot of tasks at the same time, are not too great with knowledge retention in scenarios where multi-tasking is taking place.

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NTEN

FEBRUARY 24, 2014

Check out the full conference agenda and add events to your calendar. Make sure to bring your brain power to compete in Geek Bingo, a helicopter obstacle course, karaoke, and dodgeball! This is your go-to dashboard for all the latest conference details with easy access from your laptop, tablet, or mobile phone. Let the games begin!

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The Fundraising Authority

OCTOBER 28, 2021

January 2016 Anthony visited LACC for the first time where brain cancer was confirmed and he met with Dr. Marootian. He didn't know he'd be diagnosed with brain cancer just five months later. Together, they drove to Los Angeles Cancer Center, where their brain cancer was confirmed. Butler, our Radiologist. And it paid off.

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NonProfit Hub

AUGUST 13, 2015

In those few seconds, a flurry of thoughts flash inside your brain: Who is the sender? As a nonprofit marketer, you are on the other side of this great brain fire. Meanwhile, emails with the word calendar had the worst performance rates at just a 33 percent open rate. What is the subject?

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NonProfit Hub

AUGUST 13, 2015

In those few seconds, a flurry of thoughts flash inside your brain: Who is the sender? As a nonprofit marketer, you are on the other side of this great brain fire. Meanwhile, emails with the word calendar had the worst performance rates at just a 33 percent open rate. What is the subject?

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Get Fully Funded

MAY 8, 2023

Schedule Keep a work calendar and update it so it’s always current. We like Google Calendar since you can see it on your computer or phone, and once you start building your team, you can share calendars. Start filling your calendar by scheduling any important meetings or calls. Below are a few ways you can do all of that.

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Forum One

OCTOBER 6, 2010

Here is Miller's specific advice for the overwhelmed nonprofit: Plan out your editorial calendar: It's like planning out your menus for the week or month. Use tools like Google Calendar to assign work and plan publishing in whatever time frame is realistic for you -- week, month, or quarter.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

AUGUST 29, 2017

In other words, when I look at my calendar, do I actually have enough hours in a week to accomplish the priorities I’ve identified or am I’m trying to do too much at one time? Science is showing us that the brain can really only do one thing at a time. Second, I assess how I’m investing my time.

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Classy

APRIL 27, 2021

The most common signs of employee burnout we’ve seen are: Brain fog that causes forgetfulness of something a person has done before or randomly forgetting to complete tasks. You could say, “That project sounds great, but my calendar is full and I don’t have the ability to commit to that right now.”

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

FEBRUARY 3, 2015

He recommends reading The Shallows: What the Internet is Doing to Our Brains by Nicholas Carr to better understand the impact of chronic information overload, followed by his best advice about being purposeful with your attention online. Jacobwith, Firestarters, shared some really great tips about using your online calendar and Evernote.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

OCTOBER 5, 2009

Last year , I heard Jerry Michalski use the metaphor of the global brain in talk about the future. So, the folks at NMC who build objects on Hakone might be creating a big, huge, global brain that when clicked will open up web links of some of the best crowdsourcing on the future technologies and how they will impact the nonprofit sector.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JULY 1, 2006

If you're curious, skeptical, or trying to wrap your brain around the possibilities of nonprofits in Second Life, put July 18th 6:00 PM PST on your calendar. We are actively looking for designers that would be williing to create virtual property on our behalf and market it to the SL community. Details will be available soon!

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Connection Cafe

JULY 10, 2014

While it’s not as complicated as brain surgery, there is a healthy dose of “rocket science” involved in creating a written content strategy, but nothing that should stop any good nonprofit marketer or communications professional from soldiering ahead. editorial calendars. content curation. content marketing automation.

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Bloomerang

JUNE 4, 2021

Thanks, Mother Nature, and thanks, brains, right? So negativity bias can tend to feed into fear, which is another perfectly normal function of your brain. It’s simply your brain doing its job. Fear is hardwired into our brain, and everyone feels it whether they like to admit it or not. Wish me luck, everybody.

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Connection Cafe

APRIL 19, 2019

First, believe deeply – in your heart and then in your brain – that donors matter. Creating a communications calendar with a minimum of 12 touches per year. .’ This takes more time initially, but it produces the levels of support and advocacy we really want for our organization!” Third, behave accordingly!

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Connection Cafe

AUGUST 1, 2019

Instead of racking your brain trying to come up with another engaging iteration of the same email, AI can help write it for you, and you’ll only need to spend a couple brief minutes checking it over. AI has also has the capacity to simplify other donor communications for you. Just imagine having a virtual assistant or sidekick!

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Bloomerang

FEBRUARY 1, 2022

And when you are kicking off your fiscal year or your calendar year, set those expectations high so people know what they can do to be helpful. It’s how my brain works. We’ll craft talking points and you know, do you have an event calendar or prospect list? Here’s our event calendar.

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Connection Cafe

JULY 10, 2014

While it’s not as complicated as brain surgery, there is a healthy dose of “rocket science” involved in creating a written content strategy, but nothing that should stop any good nonprofit marketer or communications professional from soldiering ahead. editorial calendars. content curation. content marketing automation.

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