Bloomerang
NOVEMBER 28, 2023
Pattern recognition: A storytelling superpower Our brains are wired to recognize patterns. This story consists of five chapters. Chapter One: Welcome It’s important to set the right tone from the moment people arrive. This chapter is about illustrating your work’s impact vividly and informatively.
Bloomerang
AUGUST 31, 2022
When a good story is shared, scientific research shows our brains connect to storytelling can have on us: Stories are remembered 22x more easily than data, facts, and stats. Storytelling engages our sensory cortex in the brain , allowing the listener to feel, hear, taste, and even smell the story. A gift shared.
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Connection Cafe
JULY 12, 2012
The latest chapter in my Millennial research reading spree came in the form of the third annual Millennial Impact Report. Here’s a few of the stats from the 2012 report and my take on how they’ll impact your online strategy: Millennials reported that their biggest pet peeve is not knowing how a gift will make a difference.
Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media
JUNE 25, 2012
We devote an entire chapter to it and the workshop exercise is based on this chapter. It Isn’t Enough To Tell People About Best Practices: Hands-On, Brains-On. ” After a lunch on Day 2, we shared an American classic dance, the Chicken Dance. I improvised and had participants pass around a flower.
Bloomerang
FEBRUARY 1, 2022
And she also serves on her home chapter of AFP which we always we appreciate. And if you think about this pie chart, what I really want to call out is that bequests, which are about 9%, are gifts made by individuals. That’s awesome, really involved in their nonprofit leadership program, which is really cool.
Bloomerang
JUNE 4, 2021
Emma Lewzey will identify the specific shifts you must make to raise more 5- and 6-figure gifts–without letting fear, intimidation, or imposter syndrome get in your way. And if you’re like a lot of fundraisers, you probably have some desires that you’re experiencing when it comes to major gift fundraising. There we go.
Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media
NOVEMBER 17, 2015
I’ve been thinking a lot about scarcity and abundance mindsets lately because the first chapter of the Happy, Healthy Nonprofit: Impact without Burnout book I’m writing with Aliza Sherman asks this question: “Why do people who work for nonprofits not practice self-care and burnout? .” Scarcity captures the mind.
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