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Inspire Generosity with a Better Online Donation Form

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This theory explains that our brains are designed to think in two ways: System 1, which is instinctual, and System 2, which is rational. As the organization raising private funds for Washington state’s picture-perfect national parks— Mount Rainier, North Cascades, and Olympic—the Fund relies on highly visual communications.

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

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Help donors find and give to your cause online Fifty-five percent of people who interact with a nonprofit on social media take action, and of this group, 59% consider donating money as a result. Story or Die: How to Use Brain Science to Engage, Persuade, and Change Minds in Business and in Life by Lisa Cron.

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Weekly update from PND

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Launched in 2019 as a joint project of the Milken Institute Center for Strategic Philanthropy and the Sergey Brin Family Foundation , ASAP supports collaboration, open science, and early data sharing at scale, with a focus on three areas: PD functional genomics , neuro-immune interactions , and circuitry and brain-body interactions.

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5 Ways Neuroscience Helps Your Nonprofit Understand Donor Behavior

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For instance, fear now influences social interactions. Notre Dame received $1 billion pledged and more than $300 million raised in just a few days. The mesolimbic part of the brain assigns values to the sensory stimuli, helping us classify what we feel. It’s one of the events that will be stamped in our memory forever.

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The Four Cornerstones of Successful Peer-to-Peer Fundraising

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How can you raise more money during your next peer-to-peer campaign? to-peer participants who update their personal fundraising pages raise between 7 and 18 times more than people who don’t! Our brains tell us, “Wow! Fundraisers who send emails to their friends and family raise between 2 and 11 times more than those who don’t.

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[ASK AN EXPERT] What Should A Donor Do When They Don’t Feel Adequately Engaged?

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You, because you’re human, are driven to want to light up the pleasure center of your brain with “feel good” shots of dopamine. I asked her specifically about the question you raised: “What you’re describing is a nonprofit version of the “bait and switch.” That doesn’t make you bad; it makes you human.

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Trainer’s Notebook: Using Posters To Spark Learning

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

Before I get to the topic of using posters to make your workshops or meeting more interactive (and fun), I want to wish you a Happy International Women’s Day! To make the workshop interactive, I spent a brief amount of time presenting the what, why, how, and examples of target audiences. Photo by Equal Rights Advocates.