.orgSource

APRIL 17, 2023

The 4Cs or critical thinking, creativity, collaboration, and communication complement technology and will serve any organization well in competitive markets. Don’t waste valuable brain power. Open-minded humanists, interested in a broad spectrum of topics and issues. quadrillion floating-point operations per second.

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Candid

SEPTEMBER 27, 2023

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.

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NTEN

OCTOBER 5, 2011

Organization: Brain Tumour Foundation of Canada. How old is the organization? How would you compare your organization with other nonprofits, in general, when it comes to using technology effectively (from databases to social media) to achieve your mission? We’ll share what they told us in this series of blog posts.

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Global Giving

MARCH 12, 2021

Have you exchanged data with like-minded organizations to grow your impact? Whether data is on your nonprofit’s radar as a tool for good or not, you will be inspired by the stories of these three organizations. Here’s what the collaboration helped these organizations achieve: 1. To improve equity in your programs?

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Classy

MAY 5, 2021

Can emotions go beyond igniting one-off donations and mobilizing people to participate in rallies to creating long-term supporters for nonprofit organizations? . Nicole Picaud, the senior fundraiser for Notre Dame, lamented that the organization received more than three times the amount of money they initially set out after.

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sgEngage

APRIL 1, 2022

Foster Mindfulness. Blackbaud Champions recommend a spring cleaning for your mind, too! Our office has a weekly mindfulness session. Sharla Donohue , database manager, American Brain Foundation. Pam Holden, business analyst at University of South Florida Research Foundation. Leave work at work! Optimize Your Time .

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Bloomerang

FEBRUARY 21, 2023

It’s the Value You Offer The opportunity to make the world a better place is the promise all social benefit organizations offer to deliver. Your next job is to uncover folks who share the values your organization enacts. Organizations working in the social benefit sector are steeped in all these things people are looking for.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MAY 30, 2017

When you’re overworked and over stressed, it affects your concentration—your mind wanders, you forget things easily, you can’t focus. Self-care solution: Add more movement into your workday—stand up and walk around to clear your mind. Instead, incorporate a brain-replenishing walk into your lunch hour.

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Kindful

MAY 26, 2021

Sometimes without even noticing it, our brain is activated in a unique and engaged way when a story is being shared. of storytelling will help you drastically increase your organization’s revenue and impact. .” A good story allows organizations to build those relationships, win hearts, change minds, and prompt action.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

FEBRUARY 11, 2014

As a trainer and facilitator who works with nonprofit organizations and staffers, you have to be obsessed with learning theory to design and deliver effective instruction, have productive meetings, or embark on your own self-directed learning path. Internal: These theories take into account our minds and bodies.

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Beneblog: Technology Meets Society

MARCH 28, 2014

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. The human brain is an extremely complex organ, but it should be getting easier to tune up different exercises for different recovery needs.

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M+R

AUGUST 23, 2023

You open TikTok to recharge your brain and treat yourself to some bite-sized videos. How nonprofit organizations choose to utilize trends can bring awareness to their organization, aid in calls to action, and even fundraising (we’ll save that for another day). Read Time: 4 minutes It’s lunchtime.

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Bloomerang

DECEMBER 11, 2021

Dear Charity Clairity, I’m wondering if you have a data point readily available in your brilliant brain? Natural disasters lead to an outpouring of philanthropic support for human services organizations. Political turmoil leads to an outpouring of support for values-based organizations impacted by that turmoil. And so forth.

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AccelEvents

JULY 22, 2021

We love putting like-minded individuals together in a brainstorming space! So how do event organizers generate this boiled-down interconnectivity? But what happens when a more niche session topic is ready for discussion amongst an even smaller group of interested attendees? That is the primary vibe of our breakout room option.

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Connection Cafe

SEPTEMBER 8, 2010

Author: One of my favorite science/interests stories in the news recently was a report published in late July by Science Magazine about how researchers have found that the brain of speakers and listeners become synchronized as they talk. The study called this "neural coupling" and claimed that the process is key to effective communication.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

APRIL 20, 2017

Recently, 60 Minutes did a piece on Brain Hacking or intentionally designing apps so you feel the need to to check in constantly. Rosen’s research can not yet determine what the impact is on our brains and lives as it too soon. The diagram below illustrates a Ludic Loop in checking your email. This is a Ludic Loop!

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NetWits

JULY 14, 2011

This is a follow-up post to yesterday’s “ 10 Ways Your Nonprofit Can Use Twitter ,&# in which we talked about some of the many ways nonprofit can use social media networks, such as Twitter , as a communications vehicle to support their organization’s larger goals. 1 – Chris Tuttle. 9 – Kerri Karvetski.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

OCTOBER 11, 2016

Last week, I was in London teaching social media strategy workshops for London NGOs organized by Social Media Misfits and keynoted Institute of Fundraising’s Future of Fundraising Conference. As many nonprofit professionals know too well, a hard-working but “tired” brain needs a few moments to “recharge.”

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Media Cause

MARCH 4, 2022

One in particular that piqued my interest was Mindful Design , a new framework that supports the intentions of people using our products and services instead of pushing our own agendas—making purposeful design decisions that actually help people. On a macro level, Design Thinking is more left brain, more logical, more linear.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MARCH 13, 2012

Because the truth is, it’s a lot easier to declare that one wants to have a “learning organization” than to actually do it. But I sense in conversations here at the conference that participants are clearer in their minds about the practice of evaluation than they are about the practice of learning.

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Get Fully Funded

APRIL 23, 2023

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. Yes, daily!

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The Modern Nonprofit

APRIL 13, 2021

There’s reputable neuroscience research showing that people’s brains light up when they hear their own name. So our brains are actually hard-wired to respond to appeals that speak to us directly. Our brains are always looking for shortcuts, and the word because triggers us to comply.

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Bloomerang

AUGUST 2, 2021

Internalizing and externalizing an organization-wide culture of philanthropy. It’s important to showcase how what you do relates to what’s top of mind for folks. Here are some ideas for useful content that connects your mission to what may be top of mind for your supporters right now: Human services.

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Candid

DECEMBER 12, 2022

So when it comes to inspiring your donors to support your cause, you might consider creating a nonprofit explainer video for your organization. But keep in mind that there are also free and low-fee tools that you can use to produce an explainer video on your own and at a lower cost. . What are nonprofit explainer videos?

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

AUGUST 29, 2017

Meet my colleague, Meico Marquette Whitlock, who is the Founder and CEO of Mindful Techie. I had an opportunity to interview Meico about being a Mindful Techie. I came across a posting for an internship at TechBridge , an organization based in Atlanta that provides affordable technology solutions to non-profits and applied.

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Bloomerang

OCTOBER 12, 2021

By identifying and addressing limiting beliefs that you may face, you can train your brain to approach tasks with more confidence, creativity, and enthusiasm. Keeping your story to yourself is doing someone else—likely the people you’re trying to serve—as well as your nonprofit organization a disservice. .

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

FEBRUARY 24, 2012

” I don’t have an answer, but I think it has to do with modeling conscious information and consumption and being mindful about how you connect with people, cultivate relationships, and share information. In our panel discussion, Laura was asked about being mindful in our philanthropy and giving.

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sgEngage

JANUARY 18, 2024

I was doing the work of an entire department while trying to build a team and steer a clear course for my organization. It’s also the responsibility of the organizations we serve. Rest is a necessary and important productivity tool—and an important part of doing the inner AND outer work of being a mindful changemaker.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

APRIL 4, 2017

Tame Your In-Box: If you are sending or reading after hours emails because your inbox is out of control, try using programs like Sanebox to keep your email organized if it is totally out of control. A work culture that includes answering emails at all hours doesn’t make your organization more productive.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JUNE 18, 2014

The session will share a wide range of free and low cost tools for implementing an organization’s content strategy as well as group and personal productivity. ” These apps can transform our mobile phones, tablets, and computers from agents of distraction into agents of mindfulness. Mindfulness' Share it below!

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JANUARY 5, 2011

Distractions can be internal and come from our brains , our thoughts. But for many, those tasks are not necessarily the whole job even if your organization culture is streamlined and simple. Also, in practice, many people may not have that much control over their work day, especially those working in a nonprofit organizations.

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Connection Cafe

DECEMBER 13, 2013

Not only does valuable and unique content increase the visibility of your organization and its mission, but (if done right) it encourages engagement among your supporters and echoes in a familiar voice the emotional core of your organization’s purpose. Here are three tips to help your organization create more donor-driven content: 1.

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Cloud 4 Good

APRIL 14, 2022

Although DevOps is a relatively niche sect of the Salesforce ecosystem, over 200 attendees, diversely represented across declarative admins, coders, BAs, and consultants, comprised the event from all manner of organization sizes and industries. Compared to traditional software development, Salesforce DevOps is still in its infancy.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

APRIL 30, 2013

Will Coley , comes to the topic understanding how activists and activist organizations are using the techniques as part of their content and engagement strategies. That the curator selects, describes, filters, organizes, and present resources. Content curation takes focus and discipline — being “brains on.”

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Classy

MAY 3, 2021

Keeping their community engaged during COVID-19 was a big concern for the organization, so they wanted to offer a unique perk that aligned with their mission, felt authentic, and offered a value their supporters couldn’t get anywhere else. Offer incentives that align with your mission and feel authentic to your organization. .

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Qgiv

JULY 3, 2023

A disability is any condition of the mind or body that makes it more difficult for someone to partake in certain activities and may impair their ability to participate easily in normal daily pursuits. Since the 1800s, organizations by and for people with disabilities have existed, but they exploded in popularity in the 1900s.

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OneCause

OCTOBER 31, 2023

But how can you make sure that you’re communicating with your donors in a way that expresses your nonprofit’s appreciation for their support as well as your organization’s plans for the future? The key to strong donor relationships is creating a conversation between your organization and your donors. Ensure your messages are clear.

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