Whole Whale

SEPTEMBER 20, 2022

Fundraising is a HUGE field and there are many great oranizations that help improve the quality of the sector like the Association of Fundraising Professionals (AFP). Donorly provides a powerful team of fundraising professionals with experience across sectors to get results. Website: [link]. Brian Lacy & Associates.

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NonProfit Hub

FEBRUARY 8, 2019

After all, this is their idea, their brain-child, their life. Nonprofit professionals may not be asking for million-dollar investments from the likes of Mark Cuban, but they’re still on a mission to convince the community that their cause is worth something. Or, at the least, how can they convince them that it’s potentially lucrative?

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NonProfit Hub

APRIL 17, 2024

For more complex content needs, it’s recommended to work with a professional developer or designer to bring your ideas to life. Images in particular are much more attention-grabbing than text alone—they’re much more likely to be remembered, and the human brain can process them incredibly quickly (in only about 13 milliseconds ).

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

DECEMBER 31, 2013

They 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. Teach: This is my passion, my calling, and my professional work. Rituals and routines have many benefits for your personal effectiveness. Year in Review.

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Whole Whale

MAY 20, 2021

Fundraising is a HUGE field and there are many great oranizations that help improve the quality of the sector like the Association of Fundraising Professionals (AFP). Donorly provides a powerful team of fundraising professionals with experience across sectors to get results. Website: [link]. Brian Lacy & Associates.

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Bloomerang

JULY 31, 2021

Whether you are new to grants, and re-evaluating how your organization seeks out grant funding, Rachel Werner will go through what you need to know to become more grant ready. We’re here to talk about how to build a better grant strategy in this post-COVID, to the extent that we are post-COVID world. Rachel: Mm-hmm.

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CauseVox

APRIL 29, 2021

For example, if your total operating budget is $250,500 and you have $25,000 in government grants, $20,000 in foundation grants, and another $50,000 in pledges already committed, you must raise an additional $155,500 through other fundraisers. After all, fundraising professionals don’t simply rely on direct mail anymore.

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Have Fun - Do Good

MARCH 16, 2011

They provide homeless teens with professional skills training and therapeutic experiences. She is also a Penn student and a current Top 15 National Finalist for the Washington Campus Compact's Students in Service Awards , as well as the winner of a DoSomething Grant.

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Get Fully Funded

MARCH 6, 2022

Solid books and numbers make everything easier, especially when you’re ready to go after grants. It might be hard to look at these figures and to wrap your brain around how much money you need to raise to employ the staff you need. Choose Board members who have hiring experience so you can get their professional expertise.

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The Fundraising Authority

OCTOBER 28, 2021

Fundwriter is a writing assistant for nonprofit professionals. Grant Writers and Contractors – If you are a full-time writer, then Fundwriter will be a huge timesaver for you. You can let Fundwriter do the heavy-lifting of writing emails, punching up grant proposals, and more. It was 8:30 pm when she remembered Fundwriter.

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Museum 2.0

APRIL 9, 2014

Grant proposals. For many arts/museum professionals, writing text in 100-word chunks is a daily activity. Then I started using it for chunks of grant proposals. Now I find Hemingway infiltrating my brain when writing almost anything--including this blog post. Exhibit labels. Promotional text. Word counts matter there too.

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Classy

APRIL 29, 2021

43 years of experience as a development professional, nonprofit leader, and LGBTQ+ community activist . Army Traumatic Brain Injury Program, developing the Army’s brain injury prevention and treatment strategies for soldiers . Has direct experience establishing charitable entities in the U.S., Arlene Fortunato. Robert Opp.

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NTEN

APRIL 8, 2014

The NTEN Editorial Committee is a group of committed professionals that meet monthly to discuss content and strategy for the NTEN: Change Journal , our quarterly digital publication for nonprofit leaders. Debra Askanase, Director of Outreach, National Brain Tumor Society. Annie Lynsen, Marketing Director, Small Act.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

FEBRUARY 3, 2015

He recommends reading The Shallows: What the Internet is Doing to Our Brains by Nicholas Carr to better understand the impact of chronic information overload, followed by his best advice about being purposeful with your attention online. Personal Productivity in Practice. Another excellent variation of the Pomoro Technique.

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Get Fully Funded

DECEMBER 31, 2009

Being in Moscow in October and participating in a brain storming session for a Russian professional fundraising organization. Teaching a reluctant client how to write grants; helping him with his first grant; and hearing him 6 months later talk like a seasoned grantwriting pro!

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JANUARY 2, 2015

They 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. I keynoted at the Grant Manager’s Network Conference and was on a panel with Alex Samuel and Jeremiah Owyang at SXSW. Year in Review. My Three Words.

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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? The potential for being overwhelmed by technology is magnified in the workplace by something called “ Collaborative Overload ” Rob Cross and Adam Grant in a recent Harvard Business Review article. Create Device Free Zones.

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Forj

MAY 25, 2021

Program summaries, such as the advertising and exhibit income, registration fees, government grants, and private monetary donations received. This has left you juggling multiple systems, without a clear path forward into additional professional development opportunities. An attestation statement. Evolving Medical Practices.

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Museum 2.0

MAY 28, 2020

Some Internet People say some that sparks something in your brain. There were many, covering the personal and the professional (which, as this community knows well, is also personal), but I kept looking for some elusive grand unified theory to tie them all together. Some Internet People strike the flint every time.

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Museum 2.0

OCTOBER 17, 2012

Venue as content platform instead of content provider: the museum becomes a stage on which professionals and amateurs can curate, interpret, and remix artifacts and information. The grant is for a three-year educational program whose curriculum has to be locked in from the start. based on Tim O'Reilly's four key elements of Web 2.0:

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Have Fun - Do Good

OCTOBER 30, 2009

In the first edition of this partnership, I interviewed Erin O'Connor Jones , the Director of Candidate Services and Managing Associate at Nonprofit Professionals Advisory Group. LINK LOVE Bay Area folks, join me November 15th for Jennifer Lee's Right-Brain Business Plan Workshop in Oakland. Early registration deadline is Nov.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MARCH 19, 2009

If you were to pay for the full cost of a ticket to attend a symphony concert, you'd be paying several hundred dollars given that it is impossible to make a ticket affordable without some subsidy (donations or government grants). Or that the orchestras get smaller, or that the players aren’t full-time professionals.

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NonProfit Hub

JULY 23, 2014

Personally, I’ve been on the inside, wracking my brain for a creative way to convince a potential donor why he should give to my NPO. One other strategic way to use donor levels is to create donor clubs—like Major Donors, Monthly Givers, Young Professionals, Affinity Groups, Legacy (bequest). In fact, that might be more effective.

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Get Fully Funded

JANUARY 2, 2023

Disorganization can cause you to lose donors, miss grant deadlines, and fall short of revenue goals. 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. Use breaks to give your brain and body a breather. Get up and move around.

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Connection Cafe

MAY 13, 2011

There was no way around it, though she later found there is NO actual requirement for donors to be anything in particular at all (it wasn’t a professional association). And if you want that old ED’s brain back, ask yourself if you are a hungry zombie?). Evil red asterisk. And coincidentally, so did the foundations.

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NonProfit Hub

JULY 23, 2014

Personally, I’ve been on the inside, wracking my brain for a creative way to convince a potential donor why he should give to my NPO. One other strategic way to use donor levels is to create donor clubs—like Major Donors, Monthly Givers, Young Professionals, Affinity Groups, Legacy (bequest). In fact, that might be more effective.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

AUGUST 18, 2008

Also (in the beginning) I enjoyed preparing proposals and grants for our foundation partners ??? Time to write AND the inconvenience of waking up in the middle of the night (almost EVERY night) with fully formed posts in my brain. Blogging has had a profound effect on me both professionally and personally. Professionally, it???s

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Bloomerang

AUGUST 2, 2022

There are annual reports, grant applications, website pages, blogs, appeal letters, policy docu­ments, procedure manuals, thank you notes, press releases, program reports, research papers, legal documents, advertising copy, board orientation documents, promotional material, and much more. It can cre­ate lasting, negative impressions.

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Get Fully Funded

MAY 8, 2023

If you intend to apply for grants, you’ll need them for either planning the grant or as part of the grant application itself. Think in terms of local politicians, business professionals, media contacts, and other influential community members who can either connect you with resources or with others who can help you.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JANUARY 26, 2007

Social Web and Altruism Nick Booth, high fibre podcasting blog, points us to some fascinating brain research that has discovered the part of the brain responsible for altruism and he links it to why nonprofits should be using the social web to advance their missions. BlogWikiWeb is the "wikitation" from the Web2.0

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Get Fully Funded

FEBRUARY 7, 2022

Taking a break from work gives your brain the chance to reset and recharge, and this is essential to avoiding burnout and staying productive all year long. My friend who worked in insurance as her first professional job was taught to leave her desk every day as if it were her last day at work. That’s right! You just have to prepare.

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Bloomerang

JUNE 11, 2021

Adam Grant, his book is right next to me. . Adam Grant talks about in his book, think, what is it? Or how does our mission interplay with your day-to-day work as a human, as a professional, as a member of society? . Use the same language, just like when you’re applying for a grant. Share that. You reiterate it.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

NOVEMBER 17, 2008

Wiki: Collective brain of humanity. Difference between amatuer and professional videographer. . Through the Internet, they learned about the Rising Voices Grant. The key is the interconnectivity of users - and what can happen when you get connected with people with similar goals. He talked about the growth of wikipedia.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

AUGUST 9, 2016

Bersin by Deloitte’s infographic “ Meet the Modern Learner ” is an excellent summary of the challenges facing trainers who need to design and deliver professional development for nonprofit professionals. Instructional design is knowing how to organize your content and shape exercises based on brain and learning research.

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Museum 2.0

AUGUST 8, 2010

Our volunteers are the heart and soul and brains and heavy lifters (figuratively and-- when you have boxes of books involved-- literally) of our organization. Our volunteers use our 90-person public discussion group for sharing job listings, networking events, and other professional development resources in addition to CUL-related topics.

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Bloomerang

NOVEMBER 26, 2021

Some people are really focused on grants that they’re not ready for, and they’re just kind of on this grant starvation cycle like, “We’re just hoping that that next one is going to save us.” Like, “If I just get this next grant, we’ll be saved.” ” Anybody been in that?

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Bloomerang

JANUARY 14, 2022

So I did what a lot of nonprofit professionals do and I gave up, which actually meant that I switched organizations thinking that it was going to be different somewhere else. So another way I think about this is like it’s opening up so many tabs in our brain. My brain just doesn’t work that way.”

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