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Mental Health Awareness Month: 10 Nonprofits Advocating For Change

Kindful

Mission: Under the Laughs for the Troops umbrella, you will find many other great programs to help our veterans, increase awareness of post-traumatic stress disorder (PTSD) and traumatic brain injury (TBI), raise funds, and recruit volunteers. Impacting: Mental health. Headquarters in: Riverview, FL. Impacting: Mental health.

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Don’t Bring Your Phone in the Shower

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

He spoke about creativity and what psychologists and brain scientists are learning about it. I wont’t try to summarize the entire talk here, but the most important takeaways for me as a funded were: 1. We have joked internally that Durfee’s tagline should be: Funding Failure Since 1960. Seek outsider knowledge.

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Fundraising 101: Understand the Basics of Fundraising so You Can Fund Your Dream

Get Fully Funded

It might take a minute to get your brain around that idea, that the donor is more important to you and your organization than their donation. Do they have children? If your ideal donors care about the environment, focus on nature-oriented festivals. If they are families with children, seek out events with activities for kids.

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5 Tips And Tactics To Become A Master Nonprofit Wordsmith

Bloomerang

A single compelling press release might land you a national television interview that leads to 100 new donors and $100,000 in funding. They may have grown up in a grade school that didn’t emphasize writ­ing, or perhaps they were simply left-brained, science and math types. The nonprofit world swims in an ocean of written documents.

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Philanthropic Leadership: Engaging Board Members As Fundraising Ambassadors

Bloomerang

And then again, inviting people to attend events that are in your network, your professional, personal, religious, children’s networks, invite friends, invite prospects. It’s how my brain works. And so really, our focus was on the annual fund. Very linear thinker over here. So peer-to-peer solicitations.

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Converting Emotional Donors to Monthly Donors

Connection Cafe

Yes, I will feed hungry children, yes, I will cure a terrible disease, yes, I will save animals, the environment – yes, I will save the planet! That donation they sent you gave their brains a shot of happiness chemicals. Ah, the new donor. A relationship rife with possibility.

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Nonprofit Technology News for March 2014

Tech Soup

I just had a chance to chat with Dr. Tom Musili who runs that incredible NGO to find out what all they’re doing to bring the knowledge economy to school children and electronics recycling to Africa. To go even further out on the technology frontier there is ‘brain computer interface’ or thought controlled computing.

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