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Answer these 6 questions to frame your fundraising plan structure

Get Fully Funded

There are lots of details to think through and lots of questions to answer. To get started, answer these six questions. I was watching a Marvel movie recently, and a wise elder told a young archer “you have to have a target to know where to shoot your arrow.”. Be prepared to spend some time on this if it’s your first plan.

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Strategic Storytelling For Brand Building: How To Identify And Share Your Nonprofit’s Brand Origin Story

Kindful

Sometimes without even noticing it, our brain is activated in a unique and engaged way when a story is being shared. It’s brain science. As early as childhood, we’re taught to seek out stories to learn from through books, movies, music, shows, etc. Moment” and answer any questions that were raised throughout the story.

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Active Training: To Get Nonprofit Audiences Engaged, Keep Them Moving

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

I planned for this by incorporating an after-lunch energizer that used movement to get people’s brains going. I asked colleagues from India what was the most famous Bollywood moment was, and they mentioned the well-loved movie, “Chaiyya Chaiyya.” Energizers are activities designed to awaken a sleeping audience or activate a jaded one.

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9 Tips for Working Remotely

Whole Whale

This doesn’t mean you need to be talking to your coworkers all day long, but knowing that everyone has a common tool to brainstorm, ask questions, and post notes is crucial. This will do wonders for your mind and will get your brain out of relaxing mode and into work mode (even if your desk is within arm’s reach of your bed).

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3 New Year’s Rituals for Nonprofit Professionals to Build Resilience

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

And while illness isn’t the most energizing start of a new year, I kept replaying the words from the ballon song in the new Mary Poppins movie, “ there is no place to go but up.” ” Rituals are intentional small, tangible acts done routinely and carry meaning. What gave me joy? What should I let go of?

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Looking back at the Skoll World Forum

Beneblog: Technology Meets Society

It's worth recapping some of the events that stuck in my brain. Al Gore has been working with Jeff Skoll for years, and their partnership has led to the movie an Inconvenient Truth and now the Alliance for Climate Protection. It's amazing how time flies so quickly these days. I blinked and the Skoll Forum was already in the past.

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Memories of the early days of online services

Judi Sohn

I wasn’t very good at the trivia on my own because I sucked at any question that required use of the left side of my brain. He got all the geography, science and math questions. I got all the pop culture, lifestyle and art questions. The top scorers of each game would get points.

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