Tech Soup

FEBRUARY 25, 2013

Working with nonprofits for over 25 years has made it very clear (to me at least) that the "right brain" is dominant in most nonprofit organizations. Corporate Donations. Individual Donations. This exercise will promote team building and allow stake holders to walk a mile in another's shoes. Foundations.

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Nonprofit Tech for Good

OCTOBER 22, 2009

My brain was completely fried and those around me were getting pretty fed up with the fact that I was never present, only connected… online, all the time. Breathe, exercise, and treat yourself. Making periodic small donations to nonprofits and causes you care about helps too. Don’t work through lunch. People watch.

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Get Fully Funded

JANUARY 2, 2023

And if you don’t really like being on the phone, you can get those pesky calls done and out of the way, freeing up brain power for the rest of the day. But there ARE huge, daunting projects and articles I need to write that I feel stumped about, and other very challenging activities that require a lot of creativity and brain power.

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Pamela Grow

DECEMBER 14, 2023

With the all-important year-end giving season here, nonprofit professionals like you are busy developing the right messaging that will drive donations. Let’s complete an exercise to help you get your creativity flowing. Consider donating to support our mission. We need your help to save more stray dogs in the community.

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sgEngage

FEBRUARY 18, 2022

Exercise and meditation aremy game changers. Who has the energy to exercise when feeling tired and worn down? in an effort to remember to drink water.). Make time for movement and mindfulness. These likely fall into the safety needs category of “health” in the second tier of Maslow’s hierarchy. Keep it simple.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

FEBRUARY 21, 2009

But it is always a good exercise to make your brain think in a different way. Results translated into dollar value (donations or time saved). A good exercise is to try to convert your intangibles. If subjected myself to an tracking my time exercise in the beginning, I wouldn't be blogging today. Defined Audience.

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Bloomerang

JUNE 11, 2021

So as folks are submitting their comments and questions, I’m going to turn to Kathleen, excuse me, who asked, “Could you touch on developing a relationship with a volunteer or donor as a person versus a relationship with them just about their volunteerism and donations?” Absolutely. Tell me your story. ” Right?

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Get Fully Funded

SEPTEMBER 21, 2021

Well, fundraising is about giving people the opportunity to capture that good feeling by donating money to a cause they believe in. Many people are HAPPY to give if they understand how their donation will make a difference and if you properly inspire them to give. This exercise doesn’t have to be scientific or precise.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JANUARY 13, 2010

That was the reason for the eating chocolate exercise I did in PoST class on Monday. The exercise is intended to help you slow down, be in the moment, and shift you into a reflective mindset or at least feel what it is like. The exercise is simple - take five minutes to eat a hershey's kiss and notice everything about the experience.

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Bloomerang

DECEMBER 10, 2021

we do tests where we send dozens of donations to nonprofits to see how we’re treated as donors. . ” So we have in our brains, the amygdala, the fear center, where you have flight, fright, and freeze as the emotional reactions to things that’s scare you. Then I make a second donation in a very short window, period.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MAY 15, 2009

My practitioner brain went right into the weeds, or rather Twitter and I posted this question: I used the hashtag #answerbeth and lots of retreats and some responses: . "I First, we use a customized build of Salesforce, which the Salesforce Foundation has donated to us. We use google docs, chat, spreadsheets etc.

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Bloomerang

NOVEMBER 26, 2021

I might have two execution goals related to this one outcome, it might be change my diet and exercise daily. . But three months is a little too long for that human brain to imagine. You can really imagine eight weeks well in your human brain. . Do they need to know who is donating which amounts?

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Bloomerang

JULY 31, 2021

You’re just kind of seeing the opportunities that are available now that might not have been before because maybe you got increased donations, maybe you received a few grants. But it is a great planning tool and exercise. And just my brain just explodes five minutes into any talk of hers. I love this logic model.

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Bloomerang

NOVEMBER 5, 2021

So more than 80% of all this money that’s donated to charities comes from people, comes from people. Well, they want to know number one, has my donation made a difference? But that’s why you have the worksheet to give you a little exercise to do on page one question number four is going to help build your brand.

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Bloomerang

JANUARY 18, 2022

Generosity is wired into our brains. 2006 study by Jorge Moll, Jordan Grafman and colleagues at the National Institutes of Health : After MRI brain scanning of volunteers as they were asked to think about a scenario involving either donating a sum of money to charity or keeping it for themselves, researchers found giving won out.

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Connection Cafe

AUGUST 9, 2010

To me, this isn’t just a mental exercise. If people who are more socially-linked are truly faster to catch an infection, perhaps the most socially-linked leaders would be fastest to identify & respond to destructive impulses in our now more collective brain. The line to donate blood. The candlelight services.

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Bloomerang

MAY 28, 2021

In our brains, in the back of our brain here is our instinct, that fight or flight. ” And so when we pitch ideas, people tend to go into the back of their brain and now they’re kind of poking holes at your idea. Our prefrontal cortex of our brain is where. In your life you say, “I want to exercise.”

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