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Your Brain On Good Stories: Why Storytelling Matters For Nonprofits

TechImpact

Your brain loves a good story. There is a distinct chemical reaction that happens in one’s brain when they’re reading a compelling or interesting story. According to this study, the amount of Oxytocin the brain actually produces effectively predicted how willing people were to help others. The formula.

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Is Your Brain Keeping You from Implementing Change? Try These 5 Habits!

DonorPerfect

The problem may just lie in the anatomy of your brain. Read More » The post Is Your Brain Keeping You from Implementing Change? In fact, there is an entire subgenre of leadership literature specifically aimed at helping people learn to implement change. Do you often have great ideas that you fail to bring to fruition?

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People Want To Belong To Your Nonprofit’s Community

Bloomerang

A wise boss once told me: “ A community is defined by caring for its members. One of the things you are responsible for as a development professional is building and nurturing community. Let’s focus, head-on, on the impact you have on the philanthropists who choose to commune with you. Otherwise, it’s just a zip code.”

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Donate Your Brain! Microvolunteering at TechSoup

Tech Soup

TechSoup involves online volunteers as subject matter experts, moderators, and facilitators for our community forum. Our virtual volunteering offerings also include Donate Your Brain , a microvolunteering initiative. In our Donate Your Brain initiative, volunteers choose how and when to participate whenever they want to.

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How to Overcome the Fear That Success Is Selfish in Order to Better Serve Your Nonprofit and Your Community

Bloomerang

By identifying and addressing limiting beliefs that you may face, you can train your brain to approach tasks with more confidence, creativity, and enthusiasm. However, the nonprofit community, like most industries, needs to be more diverse, equitable, accessible, and inclusive in order to have a greater impact.

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[VIDEO] Creative Ways People Contribute to Community

Bloomerang

Lindsay Simonds will decode the top five most impactful ways people contribute to communities. By understanding core motivations, intentions, perspectives reflected in this webinar, you will be able to build a stronger case for support, increase the impact you have, and gain strategies for creating and preserving community.

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TechSoup Launches Micro-Volunteer Initiative, Donate Your Brain

Tech Soup

TechSoup is launching a new micro-volunteering initiative called Donate Your Brain. It allows anyone, anywhere, to help nonprofits and other community organizations with quick answers and suggestions for their Internet, software, and other tech needs.

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