NTEN

APRIL 2, 2014

Does the following sound good to you? change management Change Management Digital Strategy intensive it Leadership Leadership nonprofit tech academy NTA social media Staffing Strategy IT Staff' We still have a few slots available in our Nonprofit Tech Academy for spring 2014, but the application deadline is fast approaching.

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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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Get Fully Funded

APRIL 23, 2023

There are two parts to thanking donors: Connecting with the donor’s brain by providing a gift receipt and more importantly, touching the donor’s heart by letting them know they are heroes for giving to your organization’s cause. You make the brain connection when you give them the data they need for their records.

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JUNE 18, 2023

Well, let me invite you to take a few important minutes to think about why you need to change this, pronto! You see, if you’re going to successfully lead your nonprofit to fulfill its mission and change lives, you must come first. Sounds serious. Screens can overstimulate your brain and keep you from sleeping. A COLLAPSE.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JANUARY 31, 2018

Admit It, You Are On Your Mobile Phone Too Much: Self-awareness is the first step to changing habits. Worst, there is trouble at the top: brain fog. We wrote about this in depth in the book, The Happy Healthy Nonprofit. Here are a few tips for nonprofits. Start to notice how much time you are on your phone and what you are doing.

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sgEngage

AUGUST 22, 2022

She’s the CFO for a mid-sized cause-and-cure nonprofit organization and it sounded like she runs a tight ship. I’ll bet they are able to identify improvements in your processes and do some testing before rolling the changes out to the rest of the team. But the journey from silo living is worth your time and brain power.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MAY 10, 2013

The bar graph is okay, but when trying to look at change over time, line graphs are a more appropriate chart type. Changing the color [link] can help bring attention where we want it. I’m going to change the line color for advocates to green, my action color, and change the others to a shade of gray. Ah, so much better!

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

DECEMBER 13, 2016

So, where can you start to make a noticeable change in the way you work and life to become more healthy? I have this notification not to be a distraction but as a useful reboot of my brain to refocus my concentration – and I am avoiding potential health problems. Start with getting enough sleep.

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Classy

APRIL 29, 2021

Author of Measuring Social Change: Performance and Accountability in a Complex World , which received The Alliance for Nonprofit Management’s Best Book Award for 2020. Army Traumatic Brain Injury Program, developing the Army’s brain injury prevention and treatment strategies for soldiers . Kimberly Mitchell. Bernard Mauricia.

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NTEN

JUNE 21, 2011

NTEN's Amy Sample Ward shares from her experiences at the Games for Change Festival. I'm at the 2011 Games for Change conference today and live-blogging a few sessions! We are trying to change the visitors' experience at the museum as well as ownership of what is in the museum, break down the walls between the public and the museum.

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Achieve

MAY 4, 2016

Sound familiar? What can you do you to change this dynamic? Because humans are inherently empathetic, when we see suffering, injustice, or an opportunity to make a difference, our brain tells us to do something. But when it comes to needing them to actually take action for your cause, they pretty much disappear.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MARCH 3, 2015

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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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MARCH 13, 2012

It also sounds less costly and complicated than evaluation. Look at this as our yellow brick road (OK, you could also call it our “theory of change”). The staples of Oz – courage, heart, and brains – are a good start. Helping African communities change their children’s lives. Have we decided who ‘we’ is?

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See3

MAY 29, 2018

If the message isn’t getting across, it’s on us to work within the parameters that we can control and change. Recognize that you’re in control of how this message goes out in the world, and if it’s not landing (ha), it’s on you to change it. Our brains are wired for story. That’s on us. It’s our job to communicate effectively.

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Connection Cafe

FEBRUARY 26, 2021

User research” sounds much more cold and robotic than it should. But H&I wanted to change that, and in 2019, as part of the Mighty Big Grant , they partnered with us to address one big question: What message would best move Americans to engage with Humanity & Inclusion? Do you even need user research?

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Beneblog: Technology Meets Society

JULY 16, 2018

Using Software and Data to Change the World We are in an amazing time. We have to use this opening to help advance our goal; using software and data to change the world for the better! Collectively, we are getting ambitious about social change. Social change is not done to communities – it’s a partnership. A database!

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Have Fun - Do Good

MAY 3, 2012

Jocelyn is passionate about helping nonprofits to succeed online so that they can change the world! It sounds “old-school” but I love to go to my local library every Saturday to wander up and down the stacks. My second guest blogger in this run of the Have Fun, Do Good guest post series is the warm and wonderful Jocelyn Harmon.

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NonProfit Hub

AUGUST 12, 2016

One interesting finding is that the human brain actually learns best in relaxed concentration. That may sound like one heck of a buzzword, but it basically means that people retain new information when their body is relaxed but still alert enough to be engaged.

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Museum 2.0

MAY 28, 2020

Some Internet People say some that sparks something in your brain. Author: Ellice Engdahl When Seema asked me to write a post “ taking stock of the industry ,” I started to run through all the things that have been bouncing around my mind since the world changed. Some Internet People strike the flint every time.

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Tech Soup

JULY 5, 2011

inspire practical change from within? sounds dangerously close to marketing speak, it actually touches on our. Scheduling your day will save your brain from the oh-so-common 'what. It sounds counter to wanting to engage on a human. If it Sounds Too Good to be True. What are your favorite. Although this.

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The Fundraising Authority

OCTOBER 28, 2021

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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Forj

MAY 25, 2021

The healthcare field is always evolving, whether due to changes in the requirements for a professional to maintain licensure or innovative new practices that members are eager to incorporate into their daily efforts. One of the many lessons that 2020 taught us is that the way society at large operates can change on a dime.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

AUGUST 15, 2009

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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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MAY 1, 2010

He also talked about changing his brain chemistry. A second discussion panel looked at Awareness and Wisdom in the Age of Technology and included Kaitlin Quistgaard (Yoga Journal), Tami Simon (Sounds True), Gopi Kallayil (Google) and Leah Perlman (Facebook). He did this by teaching himself to be selfish and not respond.

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Achieve

DECEMBER 16, 2014

Sound familiar? You are appealing to the analytical side of my brain and ignoring the side where my compassion and empathy are located. Systemic change is good, but helping real people is better. Your organization is your baby, and you want to believe everyone loves your baby as much as you do. And most important of all….

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Museum 2.0

FEBRUARY 16, 2009

Sounds good? You may already go to a lot of conferences and money is tight this year, but isn't this the kind of experience that might actually thrill you and change your life? Being on the C2 planning team has stretched my brain to consciously think about the processes and conditions for creativity and collaboration.

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Eric Jacobsen Blog

FEBRUARY 2, 2015

Evans : Most of us kick off a change strategy relying on self-discipline and willpower to start practicing different behaviors. An easier and more successful strategy is incorporate optimal defaults into your plan for change. An optimal default is a small tweak to your environment that makes change automatic.

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Bloomerang

JUNE 11, 2021

The leadership changed. The goals changed. So it’s not just what’s your baseline, but it’s also, how do you hope to actually change the world in a grand way? . She was just on Forbes yesterday, it sounds like, and I just heard about it on LinkedIn and I’ll have to give her a call.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

FEBRUARY 7, 2007

pulling together a list of conferences that people who work with nonprofits and technology and social change might be attend or present. This sounds like an Abbott and Castello bit. I've been doing a small research project. To challenge my set ways of doing internet research Web 1.0 Ask not what do I need to know, but who knows this?

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JUNE 27, 2006

I'm live blogging from the Games for Change Conference in NYC. " In the book, he makes an argument for why playing digital games is good for their brains. Susan Seggerman, co-founder of Games for Change, introduced Stephen with a great story. " If each time you played chess, the basic rules were changed.

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Bloomerang

NOVEMBER 26, 2021

So we had to make it easy to learn, easy to implement, or it wouldn’t help change the industry. . So there’s a couple things I know about change. . And as I grew up, I noticed that if we changed up our seats, if my mom drove, or if I sat in the front, chances of an explosive upset went way down. Lots for you too.

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Museum 2.0

APRIL 23, 2007

Okay, they don't eat people's brains. But I have some big concerns about museums studies programs, namely: Standardizing the field limits the potential for radical change. This may sound reasonable; any life choice is a personal decision. Have these jobs changed such that a graduate degree is now a necessary prerequisite?

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Museum 2.0

DECEMBER 30, 2008

I'm cool with you using Twitter to let me know about new blog posts, exhibits, programs, or changes to your hours. It may sound like work to reply to others, but it can be easier than generating your own content. Does it look spammy and dull , or does it look interesting? Tell me something I can't find on your homepage.

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Museum 2.0

MARCH 3, 2008

You don't change things often enough," says the person who conveniently deletes monthly emails with info on new exhibits and programs. This is why teenagers listen to the same song over and over, to tattoo the anger or love or whatever emotion the sound provokes into their ears. Why don't people come back to museums?

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Connection Cafe

DECEMBER 10, 2020

As we prepare to begin a new year, one thing is clear: 2020 changed the way we look at the world. What changes is the how.”? Engaging Canada’s Changing Donor Landscape. If the above sounds familiar, you can read more about Emma’s remedies for these myths in her recent post or watch the full session on-demand. Ronan Ryan,?Chief

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Bloomerang

NOVEMBER 20, 2021

And I’m on the upswing, so if I sound a little groggy, that’s why. I think our days and our brains can sometimes feel like this calculation. . With your support, we are fighting for health for kids, for equity, for change, for all of us. I know that thank you calls sound time intensive. Steven: Yes.

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Have Fun - Do Good

JULY 31, 2009

technology is becoming a buzzword, and is becoming a little bit of a cultural change just overall. But journalism is itself changing so I think it's OK to ask people to come along for that ride. It's all changing so fast." That said, things are definitely changing. That sounds like a horrible way to die.

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