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Do Negativity And Alarm Really Raise More Funds?

Bloomerang

Does negativity and alarm really raise funds?” —John, CEO of a civic education nonprofit Dear John, This is a top-of-mind question for many fundraising professionals. Science says: We’re wired for negative Sadly, our brains are wired to respond to negative messages. Negative events impact our brains more than positive events.

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12 free nonprofit books to help you achieve year-end fundraising success

Candid

Story or Die: How to Use Brain Science to Engage, Persuade, and Change Minds in Business and in Life by Lisa Cron. We invite you to browse our free, public collection of eBooks and audiobooks on nonprofit leadership, fundraising, operations, and many related topics all year round. Happy reading!

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10X: CEO’s Update: Spring 2014

Beneblog: Technology Meets Society

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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Data and the Human Touch

Beneblog: Technology Meets Society

When Kevin was in kindergarten he had an organic brain injury, which forced him to have to relearn everything from walking to using the bathroom. With its rapidly growing collection of over 225,000 (and counting) accessible ebooks, Bookshare is the world’s largest library of its kind.

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Nonprofit Website Best Practices: 10 Ways to Make Your Investment Count

Neon CRM

Build a Website That Can Grow With You Like any good investment, a nonprofit website should be built with longevity in mind. Ebook Website Optimization Action Plan Learn More 2. Think of it like buying a car: If you go with the least expensive option, chances are you’ll be sinking a lot of money into quick fixes and repairs.

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@BBInteractive is Back, and It’s Better Than Ever!

Connection Cafe

We’ve gathered the best digital minds from our success services team, who are geared 100% towards the success of our nonprofit customers, and we’ve asked them to blog, tweet and share their knowledge. He contributed to the previously published web design eBook that you should check out if you haven’t already. BBInteractive is back!

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Lame spam of the day: Raw spam merge text

Robert Weiner

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