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. Step 1: Understand story structure.

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Storytelling Guide Structure Audience 111

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.

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Leadership Fundraising Gift Slides 60

Bloomerang

JUNE 11, 2021

But my first gift was to the World Wildlife Foundation, and I just … I still support them. And the question, tell me more, or I’m so interested, let me hear your path, let me hear your story, that is an offering and a gift that is priceless. Well, it’s leading those board meetings with that same structure.

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People Community Video Podcast 76

Bloomerang

JUNE 25, 2021

How do you structure your database? Well, your database, I’ve said this, your database is like your brain, right? Like your fundraising brain. I look at how is it structured, the big internal structure. So there is a way to structure your database so that it is organized and consistent. But campaigns.

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Database Donor Video Mail 65

Bloomerang

JULY 31, 2021

And with major gifts and sponsorships, that’s also about cultivation, but also building out who is going to do the cultivation? it says a million, but it’s a $2 million gift from MacKenzie Scott. You can really be thinking about using that huge gift to kind of focus on maintenance, and cash reserves, and operating funds.

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Grant Build Video Strategy 114

Bloomerang

JULY 17, 2021

I know we’re all gifted fundraisers in the house for the most part. Flat structures have hidden hierarchy. What do you want to pick my brain about, how do y’all want to dig in a little bit more with me while we have our time together? Okay, y’all. Some of us are like, “Am I though?” Absolutely.

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Management Work Video Slides 89

Bloomerang

MAY 28, 2021

In our brains, in the back of our brain here is our instinct, that fight or flight. ” And so when we pitch ideas, people tend to go into the back of their brain and now they’re kind of poking holes at your idea. Our prefrontal cortex of our brain is where. So there’s perception, behavior, and structure.

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Product Video Donor Structure 68