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

Candid

We’ve curated a nonprofit reading list to help your organization make the most out of this charitable time of year. These nonprofit books provide sample messaging and practical guidance to help you write appeals that resonate with your donors and compel them to support your organization. So is almost every other nonprofit.

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5 Ways Neuroscience Helps Your Nonprofit Understand Donor Behavior

Classy

During similar global crises, humanity responded with generosity, donating money or time to help others. We all wanted to cry, show our pain, and offer a way to help. . Imagine a dollar transforming itself into justice or help, instantly and magically. For instance, fear now influences social interactions.

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#13NTC Session: Mindful or Mindfull Social Media?

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

This blog post serves as a resource page for a session on mindfulness with Rob Cottingham and Jana Byington-Smith. To provide best practices for taming the digital jungle that assaults our brains everyday at work. Mindfulness' Social media and working online doesn’t have to be overwhelming; you can take back control.

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Developing The Creative Skills That Will Help You Become A Great Nonprofit Storyteller

Bloomerang

The key here is to communicate that your donors and supporters have a critical role to play in helping address that struggle—and that by supporting your mission, the struggle can be resolved. How can you help the audience change their perceptions about topics they think they already know everything about? . Use descriptive language. .

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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. Brain scans show people’s brains light up in the emotional areas when they see the mean. Network for Good.

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Four Tips To Boost Your Personal Resilience While Doing Nonprofit Work

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

We will be doing early morning sessions to engage participants in some mindful moment and movement exercises. I’m going to share different techniques for weaving mindful moment and exercises into your workday. It helps center and refocus our brains which is important for learning.

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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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