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New Ideas at TED2014

Beneblog: Technology Meets Society

Cooking a meal shouldn’t be fatal: clean-burning stoves, as well as clean fuels and energy all help combat this problem. Improving childhood nutrition. Since I’m a software guy, I asked about what software could do to help with these two real-world problems. It made a big impression on me and many in the audience.

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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. It’s brain science. As early as childhood, we’re taught to seek out stories to learn from through books, movies, music, shows, etc. Once upon a time…. That’s the power that story holds. The Confrontation.

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Millennials will benefit and suffer due to their hyperconnected lives | Pew Research Center's Internet & American Life Project

AFP Blog

Millennials will benefit and suffer due to their hyperconnected lives | Pew Research Center's Internet & American Life Project : Overview Teens and young adults brought up from childhood with a continuous connection to each other and to information will be nimble, quick-acting multitaskers who count on the Internet as their external brain and who (..)

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Next-Level Fundraising with Nonprofit Psychology

NonProfit Hub

As a nonprofit, you spend at least some of your time as a teacher, educating people about a problem and what your organization does to solve it. One interesting finding is that the human brain actually learns best in relaxed concentration. Check them out and see what works for you.

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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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[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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[VIDEO] Why You Should Ditch The Way You’ve Been Doing Strategic Planning

Bloomerang

We have to take risks and experiment in order to innovate because we’re solving some of the world’s most complex unsolved problems. But three months is a little too long for that human brain to imagine. You can really imagine eight weeks well in your human brain. . Often, they turn into problems.

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