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4 Lessons from Psychology to Turn Your Members into Donors

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In an effort to increase that percentage, the researchers then asked the Swiss people the same question, but this time offered 5000 francs (about $2175) per person per year as compensation to dump the waste in their community. Our brains process philanthropic motivation and financial motivation separately.

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If we’d had Twitter on 9/11

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International phone lines were jammed & I couldn’t reach my husband where he was working in France, to let him know I’d flown to LA, and I’d made it. I’d have taken a picture and figured out TwitPic. Bandwidth was a problem then, too. I sent him an email because we didn’t have texting yet.

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