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7 Totally Surprising Brain Tricks to Sell Your Cause

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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. A University of North Carolina study found people were more helpful at the top rather than bottom of stairs and escalators.

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NTEN Celebrates National Volunteer Week: Honoring NTEN Committee Members

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Debra Askanase, Director of Outreach, National Brain Tumor Society. Paula Jones, Director of Technology, North Carolina Center for Nonprofits. John Cluverius, Teaching Assistant/Graduate Student, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. Ash Shepherd, Strategy & Process, Minds on Design Lab.

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How to Be a Wizard at Tech Training Design and Delivery

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

As I am planning for workshops in the fall in Cleveland and North Carolina (with Jeanne Allen), looking back always help you create a good lesson plan and incorporate improvements. Adults tend to interpret information received in a training based on existing knowledge in their brains and then integrate it with previous experiences.

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6 Ways to Get The Most Out of a Major Donor Visit

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Just say you want to pick their brain. They tell you where her mind is taking her. Gail launched her fundraising career at Duke University and then directed the fundraising program at the Kenan-Flagler School of Business, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. Ask for advice. They tell you what her objections are.

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Happy New Year: What’s Your Theme for the Year?

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

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. In the US, I keynoted and gave workshops at nonprofit conferences in Pittsburgh , North Carolina , Buffalo , and Omaha. Year in Review.

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Nonprofit Technology News for March 2014

Tech Soup

It is 2025 according to a new report by the nonprofit Pew Research Center and Elon University in North Carolina. To go even further out on the technology frontier there is ‘brain computer interface’ or thought controlled computing. News flash. We have another date for the end of the global digital divide!

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