Hands on Fundraising

NOVEMBER 16, 2021

The human brain processes visual information 60,000 times faster than it processes text. The post 6 Branding Strategies to Make Your Nonprofit Stand Out appeared first on Hands-On Fundraising. Therefore, when your audience navigates to your website, the first thing they’ll absorb is your visual identity and brand.

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EveryAction

MAY 11, 2023

Welcome to another installment of Thursday Thoughts, a dedicated space for our friends in nonprofit sector leadership to reflect on reports, statistics, and other trends—because when our community shares knowledge, we can all do more good.  A full-service marketing and creative agency, Media Cause helps nonprofits accelerate their impact.

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Connection Cafe

FEBRUARY 11, 2019

For my entire career, I have worked in the nonprofit sector, and I have a MPA with a focus on nonprofits. Additionally, I have been doing research on the brain for years and am an expert on the brain of teenagers, and on how stress impacts the brain. How the brain impacts our clients.

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TechImpact

APRIL 21, 2014

Here are ten simple ways nonprofit executives, or employees, can get more creative at work. The next time you and your team sits down to brain storm ideas, let them know before you start that “nothing is out of line.” Where do you want your nonprofit to be in 10-15 years? Industry News Leadership leadership nonprofit'

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MARCH 4, 2011

In early January, the American Museum of Natural History announced that it would hold a Brain Tweetup for 75 of its Twitter followers. The event promised an after-hours look at their special exhibition Brain: The Inside Story , a chat with its curators, a behind-the-scenes tour of the museum, and an opportunity to meet other fans of AMNH.

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Tech Soup

SEPTEMBER 19, 2013

Our virtual volunteering offerings also include Donate Your Brain , a microvolunteering initiative. In our Donate Your Brain initiative, volunteers choose how and when to participate whenever they want to. We mapped out the process we would use to promote Donate Your Brain opportunities. Simple, right? Not even hundreds.

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Nonprofit Tech for Good

MARCH 17, 2014

Thanks to a partnership with the Public Interest Registry , Heather Mansfield of Nonprofit Tech for Good was able to report live from the Nonprofit Technology Conference ( #14NTC ) last week in Washington, DC. Joleen Ong, Director of Marketing and Publications Nonprofit Technology Network (NTEN). National Brain Tumor Society.

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Candid

APRIL 13, 2023

In fact, our brains are hardwired to respond to stories. If you are wondering how to create this type of powerful narrative for your nonprofit, consider using the following four tips from expert storyteller, Elizabeth (Liz) Ngonzi, CFRE, founder and CEO of Liz Ngonzi Transforms and The International Social Impact Institute. It’s human.

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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. So is almost every other nonprofit. 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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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

FEBRUARY 14, 2024

Panel at Global Nonprofit Leaders Summit Last month, at the Global Nonprofit Leaders Summit in Seattle hosted by Microsoft, I moderated a roundtable, “Empower Employees with AI Productivity Tools,” with leaders from three nonprofits: Alex Duncan,, British Heart Foundation; Jon Townsend, National Trust; and Joel Ramjohn, Agape Source.

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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? . Donations of any kind are always going to benefit the missions of nonprofits everywhere. Now, we have to ask ourselves—how will donor behavior continue? .

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NTEN

JANUARY 5, 2012

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. 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. It may be worth using the proportion online.

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Nonprofit Tech for Good

FEBRUARY 5, 2021

In practice: 1) The Brain Donor Project. Most people probably have never thought about donating their brains to science. The Brain Donor Project’s end goal is to get you to register your brain for donation after your death—a major ask that is likely to be shocking or even offensive to some people.

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Nonprofit Tech for Good

OCTOBER 19, 2013

Looking at cute images, particularly those of baby animals, has been proven to increase our brain’s concentration levels for a short time afterwards. Via Zoo Atlanta: Polar Bear Cubs (Endangered). Via Ape Action Africa. Via Zoo Atlanta. Via NRDC BioGems. Via World Wildlife Fund.

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Get Fully Funded

JULY 13, 2021

If you feel like you have too much to do and aren’t getting enough done, you need to increase your nonprofit productivity. With the right tools and processes, you will accomplish more in less time, feel less burned out, and have time and energy to strengthen your nonprofit by planning for the future. How many to-do lists? That’s right.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

OCTOBER 7, 2019

It helps center and refocus our brains which is important for learning. Here are the techniques: Meeting Ritual: A Moment of Quiet: Many people who work at nonprofits are often in many meetings, often scheduled back-to-back, everyday. The busier you are during your workday, the more your nervous system needs quiet time.

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Global Giving

MARCH 12, 2021

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. The program provides nonprofits with a team of experts and software that will help organizations leverage their data to drive impact with AI. The World Bank estimates that 1.7 LEARN MORE.

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Bloomerang

APRIL 27, 2021

Once you and your team have worked together to fine-tune your internal nonprofit strategic communication initiatives by constructing a mission statement, vision statement, and identifying your core values, you can now start to strategize your external nonprofit communication efforts. Your Who : Your Audience.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JANUARY 2, 2023

Rituals can also be used by professionals to boost personal productivity because rituals 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 book was well received and was #1 on Amazon’s Nonprofit Books many times.

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Candid

DECEMBER 12, 2022

Let’s say you’ve been tasked with researching potential nonprofits to partner with on an upcoming funding initiative by doing some online research, using Google, Candid’s nonprofit profiles , or the like. What are nonprofit explainer videos? Picture yourself in a donor’s shoes. Get to know your audience.

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NonProfit Hub

MAY 15, 2020

Video calls are a lot more straining on the brain than any face-to-face conversation. Give yourself brain breaks. In between meetings, you could chat with coworkers casually, and your brain would have a break during your commute. The post Overcoming Screen Fatigue: A Nonprofit Hub Guide appeared first on Nonprofit Hub.

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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. There are also physical theories like brain-based learning and neuroscience.

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Nonprofit Tech for Good

FEBRUARY 13, 2012

It’s a lot for the brain to process. There are some early adopter nonprofits that are inspiring the Pinterest community through their pins and re-pins. That said, I am pinning and re-pinning nonprofits at pinterest.com/nonprofitorgs and have added Pinterest to my YouTube and Flickr Webinar for nonprofits – just a FYI.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JANUARY 5, 2022

Rituals can also be used by professionals to boost personal productivity because rituals 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 book was well received and was #1 on Amazon’s Nonprofit Books many times.

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Tech Soup

JULY 8, 2011

TechSoup is launching a new micro-volunteering initiative called Donate Your Brain. It allows anyone, anywhere, to help nonprofits and other community organizations with quick answers and suggestions for their Internet, software, and other tech needs.

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Pamela Grow

OCTOBER 14, 2023

Usually from platforms marketing to nonprofits. Sometimes from nonprofit professionals who don’t have a clue. If you’re a smart nonprofit fundraising professional I can pretty much guarantee it’s not a thing with YOUR donors. When we contribute to charity or extend a helping hand, our brains respond with a burst of positivity.

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Get Fully Funded

JUNE 18, 2023

Fundraising burnout is real and it’s killing too many small nonprofits. You see, if you’re going to successfully lead your nonprofit to fulfill its mission and change lives, you must come first. I KNOW you usually come last, after your nonprofit work, your family, your volunteers/staff, your friends, and your neighbors.

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NonProfit Hub

APRIL 17, 2024

An effective nonprofit blog is an indispensable marketing tool. This guide will explore best practices for creating a blogging and content strategy that drives audience engagement, encourages donations, and makes readers feel like part of your nonprofit’s community. To understand your audience’s interests, create audience personas.

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Nonprofit Tech for Good

JULY 18, 2011

Social media is not only changing how we communicate online, but it’s also changing how our brains process information. That said, nonprofits would be wise to consider the effect of the Social Web when launching or re-designing their websites. Here are 11 excellent examples from the nonprofit sector: 1.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MAY 30, 2017

Given the harsh working environment for nonprofits , it is a perfect recipe for a whole bunch of burnt out nonprofit fundraising professionals and others. Every nonprofit fundraiser has to put up with some annoyances, but if you’re feeling like you’re at your wit’s end at the start of the day, you might be burning out.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JANUARY 5, 2021

Rituals leverage our brains’ ability to run on autopilot, allowing us to reach our goals even when we are distracted by other things, such as potentially contracting a deadly disease. Many successful nonprofit professionals use rituals, either for personal productivity or team productivity.

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The Modern Nonprofit

MARCH 8, 2022

There’s a certain yearly cadence to nonprofit fundraising. Apart from raising emergency funds, many nonprofits rely on #GivingTuesday and end-of-year giving to generate the bulk of their individual donations. It might be the day you incorporated as a nonprofit or the date of an important milestone in your history.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JANUARY 2, 2022

Rituals can also be used by professionals to boost personal productivity because rituals 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 book was well received and was #1 on Amazon’s Nonprofit Books many times.

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Bloomerang

JANUARY 16, 2024

As we embark on a fresh chapter, I’m excited to share some valuable insights for those of you who have recently stepped into new roles within the nonprofit fundraising sector. Watch video content Give your brain a break from the textual overload by watching video content produced by your organization. Happy New Year!

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JULY 16, 2019

When I facilitate staff retreats or workshop on wellbeing in the workplace based on the Happy Healthy Nonprofit , we do some reflective exercises, including taking the nonprofit burnout assessment , identifying stress triggers and reactions before creating a self-care plan and addressing cultural norms. … Read More.

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sgEngage

AUGUST 19, 2022

And even as we make strides toward returning to “normal,” there are many unanswered questions about what the future of work will look like for nonprofit professionals. A bit of pressure can help keep the brain alert and support you in getting focused. But here’s what we do know: there is no going “back to normal.”

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Nonprofit Tech for Good

JANUARY 14, 2013

In the next few weeks I’ll be making recommendations of which tools and trends in technology nonprofits should prioritize in 2013, but for this year’s post on New Year’s resolutions I wanted to get back to basics. It is clearly not a fad, and yet the vast majority of nonprofits have zero budgets for social media.

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