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Spring Clean Your Work Life: Tips from Your Fellow Social Good Pros

sgEngage

Foster Mindfulness. Blackbaud Champions recommend a spring cleaning for your mind, too! Our office has a weekly mindfulness session. Sharla Donohue , database manager, American Brain Foundation. Pam Holden, business analyst at University of South Florida Research Foundation. Leave work at work!

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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. Our brains are always looking for shortcuts, and the word because triggers us to comply. The results? The Right Context.

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Using Technology for Mission: Ontario 211 and NTEN Hear From the Brain Tumour Foundation of Canada

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Organization: Brain Tumour Foundation of Canada. How would you compare your organization with other nonprofits, in general, when it comes to using technology effectively (from databases to social media) to achieve your mission? If you’d like to share your stories, click here.]. Website: [link]. How old is the organization?

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Nonprofit explainer videos: 4 tips to inspire supporters

Candid

For example when watching a video, audio and visual channels activate separate parts of the brain , and when these two elements combine, it helps supporters better understand and engage with your mission. . These short films, which take viewers on a journey into the specifics of your work in 90 seconds or less, have many benefits.

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Get Organized and Increase Your Nonprofit Productivity

Get Fully Funded

But it is a good task to schedule after blocking off time to work on a complex grant or other task that requires a lot of brain power. I can do it even when my brain feels fried. Try managing your hardest work days by plotting out what you will do when in a way that keeps your brain going for the long haul. Look for shortcuts.

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Configuring QuickBooks for Use in a Nonprofit: Planning and Implementation

Tech Soup

Begin with the end in mind" when implementing a new accounting system. Begin with the end in mind" is based on the principle that all things are created twice. Working with nonprofits for over 25 years has made it very clear (to me at least) that the "right brain" is dominant in most organizations.

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Wearable Computing: Sussing Out the Frontiers of Nonprofit Technology

Tech Soup

The data flows into a database with an interface useful to doctors. He is lead evangelist at database company, Embarcadero Technologies. He is an expert in the cognitive neuroscience field of ‘brain computer interface’ or thought controlled computing. It’s basically typing with the mind.