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Member Round Up: Brain science in fundraising, website tips, and Do Good Data 2013!

NTEN

Making a global impact from right in our own backyard is the Bridge School, which uses assistive technology to educate children with severe speech and physical impairments. In his blog, John Haydon discusses Six Ways to Influence Donors with Brain Science , pulling in findings from studies to help you boost your fundraising results.

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5 Tips And Tactics To Become A Master Nonprofit Wordsmith

Bloomerang

Good writing, and I mean good writing, should be a top priority at your nonprofit because good writing is a tool of tremendous power, influence, and leverage. Each of these communication vehicles influences its readers in some way. Case Study: The lost art of writing. It’s all very humbling. Why is good writing important?

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[VIDEO] Creative Ways People Contribute to Community

Bloomerang

So it’s about a study. . So my perspective today is as somebody who’s been studying philanthropy for my career, but also as a passion. So a little bit about what community is and, you know, folks all around the world have been studying community since the beginning of humankind, right? Now I am in my podcast zone.

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Philanthropic Leadership: Engaging Board Members As Fundraising Ambassadors

Bloomerang

And then unpacking some case studies that can articulate some of these strategies in action. And then again, inviting people to attend events that are in your network, your professional, personal, religious, children’s networks, invite friends, invite prospects. So I’m going to walk through two case studies.

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[VIDEO] How To Lead And Manage In Our New Nonprofit Work Reality

Bloomerang

Y’all don’t know this about Steve, but he has backed every harebrained scheme I’ve ever had since day one and continues to encourage me as a professional and thereby encouraging all of the communities that I influence as professionals in our sector to just show up and be ourselves and do the darn thing and do the best work we can.

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[VIDEO] How to Talk about Legacy Giving Without Seeming Creepy

Bloomerang

It lights up the pleasure centers of their brains, it gives them what is called a warm-glow feeling. So the one on the right is from the National Society of Prevention of Cruelty to Children, and that’s from the UK. And this is something that legacy giving can offer. And it addresses the question of, “Why do I need a will?”

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Why You Should Never Feel Bad About Asking Someone To Give

Bloomerang

Generosity is wired into our brains. 1989 study by behavioral economist James Andreoni : The concept of “warm-glow giving” – also called “impure altruism” because the giver gets something back — is introduced. And all sorts of giving yields this beneficial result. Giving Makes People Feel Happy.

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