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Thursday Thoughts: attracting passionate nonprofit advocates

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Board members, donors, coalitions partners, and folks who have signed a national list but have not taken a local action are all good places to find some of your best volunteers. Their diversity in experiences, skillsets, passions, and viewpoints ensures that good missions get the brains and heart they deserve.

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New Ideas at TED2014

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Of course, we’d have to focus on local language content. While English might be very useful in Nairobi, Swahili would be the language needed in rural Kenya. We know in theory what a brain injury means, but seeing Gabby Giffords on stage, struggling to speak as a result of her brain injury, brought its impact home.

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7 “Must Do’s” When Thanking Donors To Win Their Heart and Set Up Future Gifts

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There are two parts to thanking donors: Connecting with the donor’s brain by providing a gift receipt and more importantly, touching the donor’s heart by letting them know they are heroes for giving to your organization’s cause. You make the brain connection when you give them the data they need for their records. Write with meaning.

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Bookshare International’s Viji Dilip Profiled in Magazine

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She was told that a brain tumor was pressing on her optic nerve and may cause her to become blind. In underdeveloped countries, the biggest problem we face is that copyright issues have not been addressed by government in the local area," Viji told the magazine. "We In countries outside the U.S.,

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Commercial Availability: The Poison Pill for Marrakesh Treaty Implementation

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As the founder of the largest library for people who are blind or who have other significant disabilities that prevent them from reading printed texts (such as dyslexia or brain injuries), I think this is a terrible idea. We now have volunteers throughout India adding local language titles such as Tamil into Bookshare.

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Tata Consultancy Services in Mumbai

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The program focuses on mainly teaching a core vocabulary of sight words in the the desired language, so that adults are able read the local newspaper. TCS has built this curriculum in a handful of Indian languages, and I'm looking forward to receiving a CD with several of these so that I can try my hand at this!

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Answer these 6 questions to frame your fundraising plan structure

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Set up a table at community events, your local farmer’s market, and festivals. Use the tools you need, just don’t try to keep everything stored in your brain. Automate your online donation system so the donor gets an automatic acknowledgement , one that includes warm appreciation language and details about how their gift will be used.

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