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Non-Traditional Giving Days for Your Next Fundraiser

The Modern Nonprofit

This means that through most of the year, the fundraising beat sounds more like a faint pulse. June = African-American Music Appreciation Month, Alzheimer’s Disease and Brain Awareness Month, LGBT Pride Month, National Caribbean-American Heritage Month, PTSD Awareness Month. But you know that your need for funds is year-round.

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Fundwriter.ai 101 – Can A Robot Write Better Than You?

The Fundraising Authority

Then two hours later, you’re sitting there looking through past writing projects and online templates hoping to find inspiration without a single word written… Sound familiar? January 2016 Anthony visited LACC for the first time where brain cancer was confirmed and he met with Dr. Marootian.

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Introducing the 2021 Classy Awards Leadership Council

Classy

Army Traumatic Brain Injury Program, developing the Army’s brain injury prevention and treatment strategies for soldiers . with his colleagues in 2020 who now also collectively oversee Camp Reach for the Sky, a free camp program for kids affected by cancer that is one of only three Gold-Ribbon children’s oncology camps in California

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Captivology: The Science of Capturing People’s Attention

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

These triggers spark your brain’s attention response by appealing to basic aspects of what makes us human. The triggers are: Automaticity: Uses specific sensory cues like colors, symbols, or sounds to get attention. Framing: Adapt or changes someone’s view of the world so they pay attention to you.

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How to Prevent Burnout at Your Nonprofit, From the Experts

Classy

Lisa is a leader on the MiHIA Thrive ACE’s initiative steering team and has worked with nonprofit organizations such as the American Cancer Society. 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.

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Guest Post by Amanda Rose: Reflections on Cause Fatigue

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

Sure $5,000 sounds like a fantastic fundraising goal, but what if I told you by meeting that target, a local cause would be able to launch an evening food program for the homeless, or make much needed repairs to a home for abandoned girls and boys. I think too many times people are raising money without a specific objective in mind.

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Nonprofit Technology News for March 2014

Tech Soup

The web introduced publicly viewable web pages that include text, images, and sounds. I particularly like the Funny for Good Award on the serious topic of testicular cancer. To go even further out on the technology frontier there is ‘brain computer interface’ or thought controlled computing. The Big Picture.

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