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New Ideas at TED2014

Beneblog: Technology Meets Society

Improving childhood nutrition. We know in theory what a brain injury means, but seeing Gabby Giffords on stage, struggling to speak as a result of her brain injury, brought its impact home. The human brain is an extremely complex organ, but it should be getting easier to tune up different exercises for different recovery needs.

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Strategic Storytelling For Brand Building: How To Identify And Share Your Nonprofit’s Brand Origin Story

Kindful

Sometimes without even noticing it, our brain is activated in a unique and engaged way when a story is being shared. A good story allows organizations to build those relationships, win hearts, change minds, and prompt action. It’s brain science. Once upon a time…. Notice how subconsciously your attention was just hooked?

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Taking A Break from Blogging this Week: Ocean View Wins

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

Taking a break from online this week to stare at the ocean, visit family, and air out the brain. As someone who spends a lot of time online, breaks like this can be good for the heart, soul, and brain. Someone referred me to this excellent post by Danah Boyd about how to take an email sabbatical.

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Nonprofit Storytelling: The Quick and No-Nonsense Guide

Bloomerang

Storytelling makes it personal and transforms the heart and mind of your target audience by showing them why something is important, instead of just telling them. 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.

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Next-Level Fundraising with Nonprofit Psychology

NonProfit Hub

What comes to mind when you think of “ nonprofit psychology?”). One interesting finding is that the human brain actually learns best in relaxed concentration. When you’re developing marketing materials, keep this principle in mind. If you Google the word “psychologist,” the image that pops up is almost exactly that.

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[VIDEO] How to Overcome Fear, Intimidation and Imposter Syndrome to Raise More Money

Bloomerang

So I think we can be a little bit like fish in water when it comes to our limiting beliefs, right, especially those that we have about ourselves because these can be beliefs we pick up in childhood, for example, beliefs about money are really big ones that we pick up from our families very, very early.

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Take a Baby Step Toward Education Through Storytelling

Tech Soup

Early childhood education is the most important investment we can make in our children’s future. Every touch and tickle provides an opportunity for stimulation and learning that hugely impacts the growth and development of their tiny bodies and brains. Post-Production and Video Promotion , Thursday, January 16, 11 a.m.