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7 Totally Surprising Brain Tricks to Sell Your Cause

NTEN

Appeal to the massive subconscious mind to help sell your cause. Yet we spend a lot of time trying to persuade people by focusing on the 5% rational brain with statistics, rational arguments and feature lists. The more than 100 million members of various Causes on Facebook is a testament to the possibilities. Network for Good.

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Donate Your Brain! Microvolunteering at TechSoup

Tech Soup

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. We mapped out the process we would use to promote Donate Your Brain opportunities. Simple, right? Not even hundreds.

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

NTEN

Organization: Brain Tumour Foundation of Canada. We aim to reach the the 55,000 Canadians affected by a brain tumour with a variety of tools and technology such as our website and social media communities play a large part in this reach. We’ll share what they told us in this series of blog posts. Website: [link].

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10 New Year’s Resolutions for Nonprofit Social Media Managers

Nonprofit Tech for Good

Ask for your raise first, and then ask for a budget for graphic design work (avatar, Twitter background, YouTube Channel background, Facebook banners, etc.), premium services (WordPress themes, Flickr Pro, Facebook custom Tab generators, etc.), Facebook, Twitter, YouTube, etc. The era of winging it in social media is over.

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5 Ways Neuroscience Helps Your Nonprofit Understand Donor Behavior

Classy

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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Nonprofit Content Creation: Back-To-The Basics of the Writing Process

Bloomerang

Whenever you are writing your stories, whether it be for a newsletter, for a speech, for an appeal letter, or for a Facebook post, considering going through the following 5 steps. . The brain dump. Just write whatever comes to mind. Pre-writing. . Drafting. . This is the part where you start with your first rough draft.

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Trendy TikTok Tactics for Teams

M+R

You open TikTok to recharge your brain and treat yourself to some bite-sized videos. While nonprofits have far more followers on Facebook and Twitter, TikTok continues to grow in popularity across the country. Read Time: 4 minutes It’s lunchtime.

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