The Modern Nonprofit

APRIL 13, 2021

Three small words can make ALL the difference in your fundraising appeals. You can deploy you to make a deeper, more personal connection with your supporters. Using you effectively might mean breaking some of your die-hard writing habits, like never writing in the second person. This powerful word is all about personalization.

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Get Fully Funded

JULY 13, 2021

The definition of insanity is doing the same thing over and over, expecting a different result. Work Smarter with Digital Tools to Increase Your Nonprofit Productivity I used to be an old school pen-and-paper person. I can do it even when my brain feels fried. The first step may be to change the way you work. That’s right.

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Eric Jacobsen Blog

JANUARY 22, 2023

“It’s how you deal with setbacks is what makes the difference.” Rationally examine your personal fears and gain mastery over them. Rationally examine your personal fears and gain mastery over them. Shed the discomfort of uncertainty, which is the only way to open your mind to all possibilities. It’s protective in nature.

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Eric Jacobsen Blog

OCTOBER 9, 2020

“It’s how you deal with setbacks is what makes the difference.” Rationally examine your personal fears and gain mastery over them. Rationally examine your personal fears and gain mastery over them. Shed the discomfort of uncertainty, which is the only way to open your mind to all possibilities. It’s protective in nature.

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Classy

MAY 5, 2021

The mesolimbic part of the brain assigns values to the sensory stimuli, helping us classify what we feel. The rational part of a donor’s brain still mediates the action evoked or prompted by the emotional part through values and learnings. When a donor responds to emotions, the brain releases volatile power chemicals. .

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sgEngage

JANUARY 18, 2024

The following is an excerpt from How to Thrive When Work Doesn’t Love You Back A Practical Guide for Taking Care of Yourself While Changing The World by Meico Marquette Whitlock and a foreword by Beth Kanter 3 Ways to Thrive When Your Work Doesn’t Love You Back You’re committed to making a positive difference in the world. for dinner.

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Achieve

JUNE 2, 2021

While it can’t compete with virtual marketing’s speed and efficiency, direct mail’s personalization, tangibility, and ability to create multiple touchpoints continue to be valuable benefits. Personalization. Another aspect of personalization is segmentation. Personalization. Guides like. Segmentation. is meaningful.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JANUARY 31, 2018

The benefits of taking control of your digital life in and outside the office are immense: greater presence and mindful attention, enhanced productivity and creativity, better relationships, improved sleep and less risk of anxiety. Worst, there is trouble at the top: brain fog. Moving reboots your concentration and replenishes energy.

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OCTOBER 5, 2021

It will trigger questions in the recipient’s mind like “Do I believe this email is urgent and deserving of my immediate attention?” You might want to write three urgent subject lines, three intrigue subject lines, two that combine intrigue and urgency, and two that don’t fall into either category but still pop into your brain.

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Bloomerang

AUGUST 2, 2021

Mastering personalized, customer-centered philanthropy facilitation, especially mid-level and major donors, to increase donor lifetime value. It’s important to showcase how what you do relates to what’s top of mind for folks. If your organization has constituent communications segregated through different departments (e.g.,

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

AUGUST 29, 2017

Meet my colleague, Meico Marquette Whitlock, who is the Founder and CEO of Mindful Techie. I had an opportunity to interview Meico about being a Mindful Techie. You have now moved into the area of “Mindfulness and Technology,” what inspired the move from nonprofit techie into mindfulness?

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MARCH 4, 2016

Over the years, I have experienced the ill effects of staring at screen or sitting in a chair and pounding the keyboard for hours and hours. I’ve learned to take screen less breaks to calibrate my mind and body. Otherwise, what do you do to take a break from technology to revitalize your mind and body? Artist Tiles.

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Eric Jacobsen Blog

MARCH 3, 2021

“It’s how you deal with setbacks is what makes the difference.” Rationally examine your personal fears and gain mastery over them. Rationally examine your personal fears and gain mastery over them. Shed the discomfort of uncertainty, which is the only way to open your mind to all possibilities. It’s protective in nature.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

FEBRUARY 24, 2012

You know a conference is going to be a different experience when you walk into the conference area and there is harpist playing beautiful meditative music that melts away as the chimes and bells ring to signal the beginning of the conference. I decided to have a different experience than live tweeting and even taking notes on my laptop.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

OCTOBER 23, 2012

The presentation looks at how younger generations are always connected and are multi-taskers who count on the Internet as their external brain and approach problems in a different way from older generations. It raises the question (unanswered) whether this is a good or bad thing. Being strategically future-minded.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

APRIL 4, 2017

As nonprofits become networked and different departments work across silos, we need to interact with more people than ever. Research also shows that taking time for silence restores the nervous system, helps sustain energy, and conditions our minds to be more adaptive. Another reason is connectivity. It can also improve your memory.

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Bloomerang

OCTOBER 5, 2022

Throughout countless different phases and stages of life as a human being, we know that things will always be changing. Or, perhaps you are aware of a new/different process or product that you believe will move your organization forward, even if the way things are isn’t horrible. So, how can we strategically navigate change?

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Neon CRM

NOVEMBER 30, 2023

Build a Website That Can Grow With You Like any good investment, a nonprofit website should be built with longevity in mind. Increase Engagement with Website Personalization There are a lot of elements that a very basic website provider won’t offer you, and one of the big ones is the ability to personalize your user’s experiences.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MARCH 21, 2017

When does technology boost personal productivity for nonprofit professionals and when does it get in the way? As nonprofits become networked and different departments work across silos, we need to connect with more people than ever. While there are many positive aspects to increased collaboration, there is also downside.

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Get Fully Funded

JANUARY 9, 2022

How much will it cost for you to accomplish what you have in mind? What if that person or organization does not come through this year? If the person you are talking to seems interested, ask if they think any of their friends would be interested. Use the tools you need, just don’t try to keep everything stored in your brain.

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Eric Jacobsen Blog

MAY 25, 2020

“It’s how you deal with setbacks is what makes the difference.” Rationally examine your personal fears and gain mastery over them. Rationally examine your personal fears and gain mastery over them. Shed the discomfort of uncertainty, which is the only way to open your mind to all possibilities. It’s protective in nature.

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Bloomerang

AUGUST 31, 2022

Nonprofit storytelling refers to a specific way of communication that organizations use to personalize their mission. Storytelling makes it personal and transforms the heart and mind of your target audience by showing them why something is important, instead of just telling them. See the difference?

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AccelEvents

JANUARY 30, 2022

A virtual, in-person, and hybrid event can all be used in generating leads. For example, an in-person event may have less data if the participants only provide information to the event at the time of registration. . Opt-in for collecting data on just the person purchasing the tickets, each attendee, and each add-on. .

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OneCause

OCTOBER 31, 2023

To help you foster these connections, we’ve compiled a list of our best tips for strengthening your donor communications: Segment your lists to improve personalization. Segment your lists to improve personalization. Then, craft different messages to send to each group. Ensure your messages are clear.

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Achieve

SEPTEMBER 2, 2015

Eventually, I realized that if development professionals really want to make a difference in their organization’s ability to raise money, they not only need to think about their donors, they need to understand how the donor brain works. Our brain, meanwhile, is telling us that it feels good to. help others.

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NonProfit Hub

FEBRUARY 8, 2019

After all, this is their idea, their brain-child, their life. It’s a question on the minds of thousands of small businesses, startup tech companies and—yes—nonprofits. Maybe you’re funded differently, or you allocate that funding differently, or you have a different idealistic approach to your work.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MARCH 19, 2019

We each tackled a different aspect of resilience. Rituals are also used by professionals to boost personal productivity because rituals capitalize on our brains’ ability to direct our behavior on autopilot, allowing us to reach our goals even when we are distracted or preoccupied with other things. Rituals To Build Mindfulness.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

DECEMBER 30, 2010

It gave me space to give social media use some mindful attention. The product-driven learning is mindful, mostly linear, and focused. Personally, I need both kinds of learning and the challenge is balancing it. I identify the key SME experts and immerse myself in their thinking.

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Beneblog: Technology Meets Society

JUNE 23, 2014

That’s what’s been on my mind lately. I have disruptive approaches to social innovation in mind, with an increasingly connected society where the cost of prototyping and deploying new products is extremely low, and where innovation is no longer the sole purview of well-funded for-profit corporations. 10X: ten times the impact.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MARCH 13, 2018

” The nickname “brainstorm sessions” because participants were using their brains to storm a problem. Brainstorming is very useful for staff meetings to generate ideas for different programs or campaigns. The first time you do it, you ask each person to respond to the idea with the word no, then say their idea.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

APRIL 8, 2015

Bringing your brain to what you are doing. To demonstrate the framework, he had do a warm up exercise with everyone closing our eyes and asking us to describe different parts of the room we were in: what colors are the chairs, what kinds of light fixtures, how many windows, etc. Some words and phrases that came up: Responding.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MAY 1, 2010

Soren is the author of the book, " Wisdom 2.0 " and writes about mindfulness and technology use for Huffington Post and on Mashable. Soren is the author of the book, " Wisdom 2.0 " and writes about mindfulness and technology use for Huffington Post and on Mashable. He also talked about changing his brain chemistry.

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Bloomerang

NOVEMBER 5, 2021

We are here to talk about personal branding, specifically how to make yourself memorable. We got five excellent tactics for you that’ll help you raise more money, and improve your donor relationships through personal branding. So personal branding, I love this topic. We want to make a difference. I’m Steven.

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Candid

APRIL 27, 2021

The same principle lies at the heart of a mind map. Mind maps help us stay organized in the world of content shock, informational chaos, and short attention span. Psychologists revealed the power of this instrument for the human brain a long time ago. They say mind mapping makes people more creative and retentive.

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NonProfit Hub

MARCH 20, 2018

And to tell a story that is interesting or compelling to someone else is to know what stories are already in their brains. Being able to emphatically and confidently tell your origin story will make a world of difference when talking to potential donors and volunteers. That’s where we, as nonprofit storytellers, need to begin.

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NonProfit Hub

MAY 20, 2015

Logically, this person would not make a great treasurer for your organization. when he lost his wife to a brain tumor. He quickly changed gears and founded the Kelly Heinz-Grundner Brain Tumor Foundation and now serves as the president and CEO of the Delaware Alliance for Nonprofit Advancement (DANA).

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JANUARY 27, 2014

I also keep in mind dips in the circadian rhythms for humans that have impact on their ability to pay attention and learn – and I design different types of activities accordingly. When participants move, oxygen to the brain increases, thereby enhancing both learning and memory. Talking and hearing (Auditory).

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