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How to Read the Minds of Your Donors

NonProfit Hub

The ability to read minds. What if I told you that you can enter the minds of your donors without even meeting them? Yes: your marketing efforts and the impact you have on your community are important, but your donors give because they feel they’ve been called to do so. It’s sort of the ultimate power, isn’t it?

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People Want To Belong To Your Nonprofit’s Community

Bloomerang

Let’s Define Your Community Since your mission is to facilitate philanthropy in order to move your mission forward, let’s talk about your philanthropic community – the donors, volunteers, advocates and ambassadors who fuel your work, making your impact the greatest it can be. Why do people choose to give their hard-earned money to your cause?

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Nonprofit explainer videos: 4 tips to inspire supporters

Candid

So, you get to work and land on one text-heavy website and another website with a prominent video that describes a nonprofit’s work, mission, and impact. But keep in mind that there are also free and low-fee tools that you can use to produce an explainer video on your own and at a lower cost. . That’s one in every eight kids.”

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The Psychology of Giving: Important Words to Use in Your Appeals

The Modern Nonprofit

There’s reputable neuroscience research showing that people’s brains light up when they hear their own name. So our brains are actually hard-wired to respond to appeals that speak to us directly. Re-write these parts to emphasize the impact that your donors have instead. Take a look at your appeal letter.

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Rediscovering Your Creative Spark During the Pandemic

Media Cause

One in particular that piqued my interest was Mindful Design , a new framework that supports the intentions of people using our products and services instead of pushing our own agendas—making purposeful design decisions that actually help people. On a macro level, Design Thinking is more left brain, more logical, more linear.

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7 “Must Do’s” When Thanking Donors To Win Their Heart and Set Up Future Gifts

Get Fully Funded

There are two parts to thanking donors: Connecting with the donor’s brain by providing a gift receipt and more importantly, touching the donor’s heart by letting them know they are heroes for giving to your organization’s cause. You make the brain connection when you give them the data they need for their records.

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Break Your Mobile Phone Addiction: There’s An App for That and More

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

Technology products have trapped our attention and the down side, according to Center for Humane Technology is that it is impacting our social relationships, mental health, children, and ultimately chipping away at civil society. They’ve outlined their strategy on their web site.

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