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People Want To Belong To Your Nonprofit’s Community

Bloomerang

Endeavor to repay your donors by lifting them up and connecting them to the broader picture. And how you should never feel bad about asking someone for a philanthropic gift, because it delivers a shot of dopamine that lights up the pleasure center of their brains. Where else might this predisposition to give come from?

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Why should I learn about nonprofit accounting?

ASU Lodestar Center

It's a good thing if you have a knowledgeable accountant on the payroll who knows the ins and outs of nonprofit financial tracking. Your remaining staff members may need at least a small knowledge of the basics to link to the new person you hire. My brain is not designed for numbers. I don’t need to learn that stuff.

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14+ Excellent Nonprofit Annual Reports

Whole Whale

The nonprofit lets the impact stand on its own on certain pages – no pictures, very little language, and lots of white space. NPR emphasizes how its “Muslims in America: A New Generation” series explores the multifaceted experiences of muslims living in a post-9/11 America, while its Hidden Brain episode “Why Now?”

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Stay Ahead of AI’s Magic

.orgSource

Wikipedia offers this one : Intelligence has been defined as the capacity for abstraction, logic, understanding, self-awareness, learning, emotional knowledge, reasoning, planning, creativity, critical thinking, and problem-solving. Humans see the big picture. Knowledge needed to develop and launch AI-powered products.

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How To Think Like An Instructional Designer for Your Nonprofit Trainings

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

This is where you identify the learning goals, audience needs, existing knowledge, and other background by doing audience research. Ideally, audience research should be done before you design your workshop or course. Observing and picturing (Visual). The learning model is called “SAVI ” : Moving and doing (Somatic).

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Games and Cultural Spaces: Live Blog Notes from Games for Change

Amy Sample Ward

The result was an 800 page book of narratives, pictures, stories, and much more that will now be part of the library’s collection. The Brain exhibition, for example, has a table where people can work together to put together the pieces of the brain neuron by neuron. That’s the doorway into the 21st center.

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Boosting Your Association's Revenue with Attractive Microcopy

Association TV

Maybe, but our brains are trained to go with what we know. These placeholders paint a clear picture for your user and when they’re done right, encourage users to check out content relevant to them that they might not have expected you to provide. If you want to place your “contact us” email address on a page, make it make sense!