Have Fun - Do Good

SEPTEMBER 30, 2009

The Case Foundation, Causes, and PARADE are joining together to present the 2009 America’s Giving Challenge , a national competition launching on October 7. NEWS Below is a roundup of blog posts and podcast interviews I've published since my last Have Fun Do Good Link Love (where did the month go?): Blog Action Day is October 15th.

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Qgiv

JULY 3, 2023

As more and more activist organizations began to gain traction, it became clear that the nation needed to adopt more comprehensive civil rights legislation to increase independence and fully integrate people with disabilities into U.S. On March 12, 1990, over 1,000 people marched to the U.S.

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NonProfit Hub

APRIL 17, 2024

For instance, you could create personas based on how individuals interact with your mission, whether as volunteers, donors, or beneficiaries. Interview audience members such as: Volunteers Donors Staff Board members Highlight individuals from all stages of the supporter journey. Add specific details that bring your personas to life.

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ASU Lodestar Center

NOVEMBER 29, 2011

Information Volunteer. The story above is about how your brain works. Your brain has a part called the Prefrontal Cortex, or “PFC” (remember “Paula Front-and-Center”?). There are two ways this happens: the first is through brain damage, and the second is through stress. The Brain Break. Peter Bonanno, M.Ed.

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Beneblog: Technology Meets Society

FEBRUARY 18, 2019

People with disabilities like blindness, visual impairment, dyslexia, physical limitations and returning vets with brain injuries -- anyone who cannot simply pick up a printed book and read it. You all might have heard something about Robin’s dedication to helping people with disabilities that affect reading.

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Whole Whale

SEPTEMBER 20, 2022

Brain Lacy & Associates provide services for nonprofits including augmentation, analysis of data, prospect research, major donor information, and matching gift data. Chase Solutions is a national leader in prospect research and wealth intelligence for nonprofits and philosophy. Brian Lacy & Associates. Website: [link].

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NTEN

NOVEMBER 26, 2014

Lacey Helmig , Youth Volunteer Corps (YVC), is excited to participate for the first time this year. Through their #GivingTuesday campaign , Youth Volunteers and other supporters are encouraged to take unselfies and share them, and the YVC blog has been highlighting supporters and their stories in the weeks leading up to Dec.

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Whole Whale

MAY 20, 2021

Brain Lacy & Associates provide services for nonprofits including augmentation, analysis of data, prospect research, major donor information, and matching gift data. Chase Solutions is a national leader in prospect research and wealth intelligence for nonprofits and philosophy. Brian Lacy & Associates. Website: [link].

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Get Fully Funded

MARCH 6, 2022

But, consider the alternative: continuing to do everything yourself, with sporadic support from Board members and volunteers. Look, even when you have a wonderful team of volunteers, it is hard to grow your organization and realize its full potential without paid staff. Create a work environment where everyone can thrive. 20% a year?

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Saleforce Nonprofit

AUGUST 12, 2021

We once thought the problem was simply about a lack of calories, but now we know it’s more about not having enough nutritious food to support body and brain development. As our understanding of the problem has evolved, the language we use has evolved too. It’s a human rights issue. It’s a basic issue of humanity,” says Thurston.

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NTEN

JANUARY 6, 2011

It's about creating authentic, meaningful relationships that drive actions benefitting your organization: getting more members, volunteers, and donations. Danielle Brigida from the National Wildlife Federation -- one of our amazing panelists for the upcoming presentation at the 2011 Nonprofit Technology Conference , "Let's Go Stalking!

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NTEN

FEBRUARY 10, 2015

Data''s New Clothes Speaker: Greg Schneider, Information Systems Director, National Institute on Money in State Politics. Day 3 Plenary: Ignite with Ideas, Part 2 : You Can Change Your Story Speaker: Debra Askanase, Digital Engagement Strategist, National Brain Tumor Society. Why I Don''t Use Volunteers Speaker: Liza J.

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Connection Cafe

APRIL 18, 2016

and sometime in April or May, during National Volunteer Week , when Independent Sector often issues its updated data on the value of a volunteer hour. What’s even cooler is how the value jumps higher when volunteers give their professional skills in law, finance, marketing, operations, you name it.

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NonProfit Hub

MARCH 20, 2018

And to tell a story that is interesting or compelling to someone else is to know what stories are already in their brains. Being able to emphatically and confidently tell your origin story will make a world of difference when talking to potential donors and volunteers. That’s where we, as nonprofit storytellers, need to begin.

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ASU Lodestar Center

MAY 3, 2016

Boards are the brain trusts of nonprofit organizations, responsible for providing leadership, oversight, expertise, guidance, accountability, vision, fundraising and an invaluable connection to community. percent nationally living below the poverty line) but make up only 7 percent of nonprofit board members. percent of the U.S.

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Beneblog: Technology Meets Society

FEBRUARY 3, 2016

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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NTEN

MARCH 24, 2015

Advice from #15NTC , Tessa Srebro, VolunteerMatch [2015 Nonprofit Technology Conference] Part 1 - How do I configure it? Translated from [2015 ??? ?? ????(NTC) 15NTC Community NTC press'

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

OCTOBER 5, 2009

Last year , I heard Jerry Michalski use the metaphor of the global brain in talk about the future. So, the folks at NMC who build objects on Hakone might be creating a big, huge, global brain that when clicked will open up web links of some of the best crowdsourcing on the future technologies and how they will impact the nonprofit sector.

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Bloomerang

FEBRUARY 1, 2022

And foundations this 19% includes both, you know, national foundations and family foundations. And so the last question we have, what percent of charitable donors are also volunteers? So I was pretty surprised to learn that on the next slide, it’s actually 62% of charitable donors are also recent volunteers.

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Bloomerang

JUNE 11, 2021

So most of you are hoping to get strategies about how to strengthen your volunteer donor and staff relationships and sense of community. . So between space of spirituality or religion or charitable and volunteer opportunities. So here’s what the rest of the nation says. . Steven, let’s wrap it up. All right.

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Care2

NOVEMBER 20, 2008

57) Mobile (15) Nonprofit Benchmark Studies (15) Nonprofit Events (36) nptech (8) Online Advertising (5) Online Advocacy (47) Online Fundraising (97) Online Marketing (59) Online Organizing (32) SEO (3) Social Networking (109) Technology (31) Trends (51) Video (27) Volunteering (2) Web 2.0 (60) Komen for the Cure race.

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Bloomerang

AUGUST 2, 2022

A single compelling press release might land you a national television interview that leads to 100 new donors and $100,000 in funding. A motivating flyer could inspire dozens of people to volunteer for your new program, and a per­suasive letter to a senator might inspire new legislation.

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Get Fully Funded

FEBRUARY 7, 2022

Taking a break from work gives your brain the chance to reset and recharge, and this is essential to avoiding burnout and staying productive all year long. Start with the nationally-recognized holidays. Let your colleagues, volunteers, and Board members know the dates you will be gone and who should be contacted in case of emergency.

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Bloomerang

AUGUST 4, 2022

You can do this through face-to-face meetings, telephone calls, volunteer opportunities, seeking feedback, and other communications like social media and events such as roundtables, mixers, and house parties (*not* just fundraising events). From Julia Campbell , Speaker, Author, Nonprofit Consultant, creator of the podcast Nonprofit Nation.

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sgEngage

FEBRUARY 18, 2022

What’s more, according to the National Center for Health Statistics Household Pulse Survey nearly 30% of adults over the age of 18 (31.7% The people that make up your team, volunteers, fundraisers, or donors could be suffering or recovering from burnout. In a 2021 study from McKinsey & Co. of females and 23.8%

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OneCause

JANUARY 31, 2024

If you’ve got event fundraising on the brain, you’ve come to the right post. Have a strong volunteer base? The executive director manages the big picture ideas and assigns roles and responsibilities to other staff and volunteers. Volunteer management. Database full of text-givers? Where do your donors live?

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Candid

JANUARY 13, 2023

It can be as simple as something like “we partner with people working at the community level” or “we have staff/volunteers/partners who are in [x location] doing…”. The preferred term might be Latino, Latinx, or Latine, or maybe a nationality or ethnicity. Instead of the euphemism, let’s start saying what we mean. Brainstorm.

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Bloomerang

AUGUST 21, 2021

It lights up the pleasure centers of their brains, it gives them what is called a warm-glow feeling. They might see the opportunity to have their values live on, especially if they’re committed donors or volunteers, they identify with you. And one thing that, you know, you might want to mail to is loyal volunteers.

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Get Fully Funded

SEPTEMBER 14, 2023

Compelling images The human brain can process images as quickly as 13 milliseconds. Photos of people are particularly compelling, so gather pictures of volunteers, beneficiaries, and community members. Let’s dive in! Visual content is easier to interpret and remember than long chunks of text.

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NonProfit Hub

NOVEMBER 1, 2017

We’ll do our best to avoid the choppy waters of hyper-sensitive hot button politics, but we wanted to make a statement about the tragedies that have been consistently plaguing our nation and the world. National Alliance on Mental Illness. Before that, there were countless shootings, bombings, and arbitrary violence from coast to coast.

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NonProfit Hub

NOVEMBER 1, 2017

We’ll do our best to avoid the choppy waters of hyper-sensitive hot button politics, but we wanted to make a statement about the tragedies that have been consistently plaguing our nation and the world. National Alliance on Mental Illness. Before that, there were countless shootings, bombings, and arbitrary violence from coast to coast.

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Bloomerang

JUNE 25, 2021

Well, your database, I’ve said this, your database is like your brain, right? Like your fundraising brain. So some things you can do is NCOA, National Change of Address on your database. I don’t know what it is statistically nationally. You may want to know things like their volunteer interest, their history.

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Bloomerang

DECEMBER 10, 2021

Jimmie Alford, one of the great fundraisers in America, told me a story a few years ago, which was about this volunteer who had to raise money for mental health in a community. ” And the volunteer said, “Oh, I’m not asking for money, I just want to get your advice. Who else in the community should we talk to? .

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Have Fun - Do Good

FEBRUARY 13, 2008

Similarly, volunteers were 42% more likely to be very happy than non-volunteers. Altruism, the experiment suggested, was not a superior moral faculty that suppresses basic selfish urges but rather was basic to the brain, hard-wired and pleasurable." Volunteer for the Health of It , Etobicoke, Ontario: Volunteer Ontario.)

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Bloomerang

NOVEMBER 5, 2021

And having your own stories, like really great stories about the volunteering that you’re doing, or the experience you’re having with your beneficiaries and being able to tell those stories. And you know, if they volunteer a lot, and, you know, we’ve gotten some great shots of them. And I had a like Anthony.

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.orgSource

SEPTEMBER 10, 2023

Volunteers are no exception to that rule. There is a welcome post-pandemic trend to make demographic diversity a top priority and to think of the board as a brain trust that represents the members’ boldest ideas and vision. Without that expansive attitude, even a board that looks like the United Nations can feel like a private club.

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Bloomerang

JANUARY 18, 2022

Generosity is wired into our brains. 2006 study by Jorge Moll, Jordan Grafman and colleagues at the National Institutes of Health : After MRI brain scanning of volunteers as they were asked to think about a scenario involving either donating a sum of money to charity or keeping it for themselves, researchers found giving won out.

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