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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Classy

APRIL 29, 2021

Our Leadership Council incorporates a diverse array of expertise and cause affiliations with representation from nonprofit organizations, corporations, foundations, academic institutions, and many more. National University. National Community Relations and Development Director & National Spokesperson. Dale Bannon.

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Have Fun - Do Good

SEPTEMBER 30, 2009

The Case Foundation, Causes, and PARADE are joining together to present the 2009 America’s Giving Challenge , a national competition launching on October 7. NEWS Below is a roundup of blog posts and podcast interviews I've published since my last Have Fun Do Good Link Love (where did the month go?): Change.org is hiring bloggers.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MAY 1, 2014

I’m also noticing that many of my colleagues are trying to become healthy, including my friend and homeless advocate, Mark Horvath, who is also raising money for a good cause while getting healthy. The benefits of walking to “clear your brain” or build relationships is not a new leadership technique.

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NonProfit Hub

APRIL 17, 2024

Supporters won’t read your blog just because they have a relationship with your nonprofit—they want to engage with informative, interesting content that actively furthers their understanding of your cause. To understand your audience’s interests, create audience personas. These are fictional representations of different audience segments.

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Amy Sample Ward

MARCH 30, 2011

Growing Virtual Roots – How our online efforts led to amazing offline results – A great case study in community organizing, on and offline, from Accelerate Brain Cancer Cure. "From the nation’s first film festival for nonprofits and cause advocates, is officially accepting entries for the 2011 festival.

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ASU Lodestar Center

NOVEMBER 29, 2011

The story above is about how your brain works. Your brain has a part called the Prefrontal Cortex, or “PFC” (remember “Paula Front-and-Center”?). It directs our attention, is responsible for moral decision-making, allows us to empathize with others, and helps coordinate the thousands of signals rushing around your brain.

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NonProfit Hub

MAY 2, 2019

Nonprofit Hub hosts Cause Camp , a national nonprofit conference, every spring. Other times it’s just fun stuff: parties, cocktail hours, yoga (yeah, we actually do this at Cause Camp). After all, tickets to these events are hundreds, sometimes thousands of dollars—you need to make sure it’s money well spent. Take notes.

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Achieve

SEPTEMBER 2, 2015

Eventually, I realized that if development professionals really want to make a difference in their organization’s ability to raise money, they not only need to think about their donors, they need to understand how the donor brain works. A bucket full of change suggests that lots of other people support the cause and momentum is building.

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Beneblog: Technology Meets Society

FEBRUARY 18, 2019

People with disabilities like blindness, visual impairment, dyslexia, physical limitations and returning vets with brain injuries -- anyone who cannot simply pick up a printed book and read it. You all might have heard something about Robin’s dedication to helping people with disabilities that affect reading.

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Top Nonprofits

APRIL 20, 2022

By following these suggestions during your planning process, you’ll be better prepared to drive awareness and make meaningful change at a local, national, or global level: Set clear campaign goals and identify a timeline. It’s much more difficult to advocate for a cause that takes several hours—or even several minutes—to explain.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MARCH 4, 2016

Going offline for 24 hours or more to reboot your brain can do your spirit, mind, and body a lot good. And it is a lot of fun to do with other people – so that’s why I really like the idea of the “ National Day of Unplugging ” which begins today, March 4th at sundown and last until sundown on Saturday, March 5th.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MARCH 31, 2014

Through projects like the Games and Learning Publishing Council and the National STEM Video Game Challenge ( [link] ), the Cooney Center explores the power of games to advance learning and engage vulnerable students. Another nonprofit furthering research behind games and learning is the Joan Ganz Cooney Center. In Philanthropy.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

DECEMBER 13, 2016

In my new book, The Happy Healthy Nonprofit: Strategies for Impact without Burnout , co-authored with Aliza Sherman, we lay out the symptoms and causes of burnout and the remedies through deliberate self-care. Would you analyze surveys after tossing several shots of Tequilas? How much sleep does your body actually need?

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NTEN

NOVEMBER 26, 2014

But the holiday is also a way to rally your community together in the spirit of giving to share their support for causes they care about. Unselfies," i.e. taking a picture of yourself supporting your cause and sharing it, is another way many people are rallying support for their campaigns.

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Classy

APRIL 27, 2021

It’s important to know what causes burnout, the signs to look for in individual employees, and the responsibility of leaders to set an example. The pandemic caused additional burnout and stress as nonprofits had to pivot with less resources and rising cash flow issues. Peers for Progress National Peer Support Groups.

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Beneblog: Technology Meets Society

NOVEMBER 27, 2013

It was exciting to be an active player in global diplomacy: Bookshare was the most-cited model of what other countries hope to have, both in terms of accessing our 200,000+ books and having their own national version of Bookshare. The Treaty was signed on the spot by over 50 countries.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JUNE 18, 2014

I’m facilitating and presenting on a panel session at the Opera America National Conference taking place in San Francisco this week with Guillaume DeCugis, CEO of Scoop.It We all know that with so much content out there, it is eating our brains and memory , relying more on “google it.” I set a Fi.tt

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NTEN

JUNE 13, 2012

I spoke with him afterwards to pick his brain on how he got involved with such an ambitious global project. My mom suffered from polio and has dealt with her disability her whole life, so my personal history with polio made me even more passionate about the cause. Impressive is an understatement. 211Ontario.ca

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NTEN

JANUARY 6, 2011

Danielle Brigida from the National Wildlife Federation -- one of our amazing panelists for the upcoming presentation at the 2011 Nonprofit Technology Conference , "Let's Go Stalking! Research has shown, however, that the average person's brain can only manage about 150 quality relationships.

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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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Beneblog: Technology Meets Society

FEBRUARY 3, 2016

As the founder of the largest library for people who are blind or who have other significant disabilities that prevent them from reading printed texts (such as dyslexia or brain injuries), I think this is a terrible idea. That would pretty much defeat the purpose of having a library.

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Connection Cafe

SEPTEMBER 12, 2017

Most of us learned about augmented reality about a year ago when the Pokémon Go craze swept the nation for the summer. Fundraising, at its root, is about connecting with people and inspiring them to care about your cause (as most of you know). So, what is augmented reality? People went crazy collecting Pokémon. Seriously loco.

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NonProfit Hub

JULY 23, 2014

Personally, I’ve been on the inside, wracking my brain for a creative way to convince a potential donor why he should give to my NPO. And I’ve also been asked many times, both as a decision maker in a company and on a personal level, to give to a worthy cause. I think most of us can say we’ve been on both sides of the ask.

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NonProfit Hub

JULY 23, 2014

Personally, I’ve been on the inside, wracking my brain for a creative way to convince a potential donor why he should give to my NPO. And I’ve also been asked many times, both as a decision maker in a company and on a personal level, to give to a worthy cause. I think most of us can say we’ve been on both sides of the ask.

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Nonprofit Tech for Good

AUGUST 30, 2018

While it’s a broad field of study, its application can be narrowed to focus on a particular group of people, separated by age, nationality, gender, or race. With this in mind, try and show that other people are supporting and/or donating to your cause. 5 Tips for Using Behavioral Science. for Online Fundraising.

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Care2

NOVEMBER 20, 2008

Here are the results for the 2008 Innovator Awards: Advocacy campaign or program Honorable Mention: National Parks Conservation Association Winner: Freepress for their StopBigMedia.com campaign Over 200,000 comments sent to the FCC and Senate and overturned and FCC ruling to block monopolies in media companies. Komen for the Cure race.

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sgEngage

FEBRUARY 18, 2022

What’s more, according to the National Center for Health Statistics Household Pulse Survey nearly 30% of adults over the age of 18 (31.7% As fundraisers and leaders in the Social Good community, we cannot normalize the disillusionment caused by the circumstances of the past two years. In a 2021 study from McKinsey & Co.

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Bloomerang

JUNE 11, 2021

But I would say that what’s most important is that we’re actually rallying around a cause, a mission, a shared common ground. . So here’s what the rest of the nation says. . What is it like if we expand that to the whole nation or the whole globe? We’re going to talk about that in detail today.

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Bloomerang

AUGUST 2, 2022

A single compelling press release might land you a national television interview that leads to 100 new donors and $100,000 in funding. They may have grown up in a grade school that didn’t emphasize writ­ing, or perhaps they were simply left-brained, science and math types.

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OneCause

JANUARY 31, 2024

If you’ve got event fundraising on the brain, you’ve come to the right post. Promoting your cause or gaining publicity. Does your cause have a specific demographic? Keep holidays in mind as well as national or local events, from award shows to sports games. Stewarding existing donors.

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Museum 2.0

FEBRUARY 26, 2009

The new building of Naturalis, the Dutch National Natural History Museum, opened in 1998. The staff concentrated on museum operation and just did not have time, energy or brain space to seriously explore the challenges of a new permanent exhibition. The museum has a total floor space of 25,000 m2, and receives 250,000 visits per year.

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Bloomerang

DECEMBER 10, 2021

Initially said, “I have no interest in this cause.” People want to know why they should be the person contributing to the cause. So you have to give to the cause that you’re soliciting for. . Fraser was sitting in a restaurant with another potential major donor to this cause. ” Hung up. .

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NonProfit Hub

NOVEMBER 1, 2017

We’ll do our best to avoid the choppy waters of hyper-sensitive hot button politics, but we wanted to make a statement about the tragedies that have been consistently plaguing our nation and the world. But better even than mending a wound or surgically repairing a broken bone is preventing the cause of the injury in the first place.

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NonProfit Hub

NOVEMBER 1, 2017

We’ll do our best to avoid the choppy waters of hyper-sensitive hot button politics, but we wanted to make a statement about the tragedies that have been consistently plaguing our nation and the world. But better even than mending a wound or surgically repairing a broken bone is preventing the cause of the injury in the first place.

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Bloomerang

AUGUST 21, 2021

” And just possibly they may wish part of their legacy to be supporting the causes that they cared about during their lifetime, which may be your cause. It lights up the pleasure centers of their brains, it gives them what is called a warm-glow feeling. And this is something that legacy giving can offer. So what is this?

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Get Fully Funded

SEPTEMBER 14, 2023

Captivating blog content is a prime opportunity to engage supporters and get them more invested in your cause. Your nonprofit blog can be much more than just a newsreel—your blog can spread awareness about your cause, find new donors , and strengthen relationships with current supporters. Think again! Let’s dive in!

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