Have Fun - Do Good

MARCH 4, 2011

This picture is from the "Chalk Art Phase" last summer in which we would write loving messages on chalk - Lilly is the artist, I'm the lookout and embellisher. Then we snuck downtown about 9:30 pm (our town goes to bed at 8) and plastered them everywhere - from the side of the bank to the backdoor of the bakery to neighbor's windshields.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JANUARY 27, 2014

Whatever the structure for your learning activities, they should use four different kinds of activities that help the brain learn rapidly and identify your discussion questions. When participants move, oxygen to the brain increases, thereby enhancing both learning and memory. Talking and hearing (Auditory). I do this all the time.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JUNE 30, 2009

At this phase in the evolution of hip-hop, artists were still explaining to listeners WHY they were picking up a microphone - meaning, they were trying to tell us about themselves.about their organization, and what they were trying to accomplish. KRS1 was the brains behind Boogie Down Productions, and he was a master storyteller.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

AUGUST 1, 2009

An excerpt from Brains On Fire helps drive home why movements are becoming more and more important in today’s highly connected world: Movements go on as long as kindred spirits are involved. The 5 Phases of a Movement by Brian Reich of Thinking About Media. It’s not just about creating campaigns, it’s about creating movements.

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CauseVox

APRIL 29, 2021

While you might be in a planning phase for your annual fundraising goals and plans, don’t forget that you could also create one of these for every campaign you run – it’s a great tool for many uses. To help get you started with this template, and your fundraising plan, we’ve put together some tips and strategies below.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JUNE 25, 2012

Moving gets blood to the brain, getting blood brain helps people take in new ideas. We also did fun and creative after lunch energizers. On the first day, in honor of being in India, I played a YouTube video of a well-loved Bollywood number called “ Chaya, Chaya.”

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Association TV

JANUARY 25, 2022

Our brains share a lot of similarities, except for the center that controls compassion, empathy, perception, motor control, self-awareness, and interpersonal experience — that’s way more developed in orcas. The latter being the real factor in SeaWorld later redesigning then phasing out their orca shows. But it’s more than that.

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Association TV

JANUARY 25, 2022

Our brains share a lot of similarities, except for the center that controls compassion, empathy, perception, motor control, self-awareness, and interpersonal experience — that’s way more developed in orcas. The latter being the real factor in SeaWorld later redesigning then phasing out their orca shows. But it’s more than that.

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Association TV

JANUARY 25, 2022

Our brains share a lot of similarities, except for the center that controls compassion, empathy, perception, motor control, self-awareness, and interpersonal experience — that’s way more developed in orcas. The latter being the real factor in SeaWorld later redesigning then phasing out their orca shows. But it’s more than that.

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Get Fully Funded

MAY 8, 2023

MANY founders have started a nonprofit and successfully navigated their way through the startup phase, growing their organization successfully. This one is wayyyy more important than it seems because your brain and body don’t function well if they aren’t rested. But take heart! And you can, too! Make sure you get enough sleep.

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Nonprofit Tech for Good

SEPTEMBER 13, 2011

Her brain is constantly at work dreaming up new campaigns, and rather than shying away from being different and taking risks, she embraces it. Not only that, but online communities also tend to grow the fastest during the early adoption phase. Creativity is what makes exceptional social media campaigns stand out from the rest.

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Museum 2.0

APRIL 13, 2007

The circuit in our brain that makes stories appealing to us is empathy. From the earliest phases of development for Operation Spy, we always assumed that people want to play spy--not spymaster. Like going to a theater and showing a blank screen. Whereas in games it’s more agency, the fact that I’m causing what’s going on on the screen.

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Bloomerang

NOVEMBER 26, 2021

I would have like Phase 1, or a Phase 2, or a Phase 3, or just say instead of saying increase donor base, I would say increase donor base by 50% or by 200%, or the number of people you want to increase it by. . But three months is a little too long for that human brain to imagine. So I would say, you know.

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Bloomerang

JANUARY 14, 2022

So I understand why you think this because all of the old-school fundraising gurus talk about this crazy long relationship-building phase. So another way I think about this is like it’s opening up so many tabs in our brain. My brain just doesn’t work that way.” So I didn’t say this at the very beginning.

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Bloomerang

JANUARY 30, 2022

So I understand why you think this because all of the old-school fundraising gurus talk about this crazy long relationship-building phase. So another way I think about this is like it’s opening up so many tabs in our brain. My brain just doesn’t work that way.” And I don’t know how many tabs you have open on your computer.

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Bloomerang

FEBRUARY 1, 2022

So we’re going to kind of pivot to the final phase of our conversation today, around some of our case studies. It’s how my brain works. And so one of the ways that we recommend kind of balancing this is by leveraging your board members to help partner with you for your stewardship activity. Very linear thinker over here.

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Have Fun - Do Good

JULY 31, 2009

For folks who are listening who are budding social entrepreneurs and who have a project, or an idea, and they're in the start-up phase, which you're still kind of in, what are your tips? These are all tips that I picked up from other people. One, find your own itch and scratch it. It is a public service.

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Bloomerang

JULY 31, 2021

And I want you to think about this because in each of these different phases, there’s different components required. And just my brain just explodes five minutes into any talk of hers. And I want you to think about how much time you can devote, how many resources you’re able to allocate. So check that out.

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Bloomerang

JULY 17, 2021

What do you want to pick my brain about, how do y’all want to dig in a little bit more with me while we have our time together? So it is Q&A time. So what do y’all want to know? Oh, Steven, they can’t talk, huh? It’s just in the chat. I’ve been watching this for weeks.

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Have Fun - Do Good

JANUARY 6, 2007

For the first time in human history, we have the ability to create what some people have called, "global brain," where each of us is one cell in a global consciousness. In nature, your greatest biodiversity tends to happen where two biomes meet, where the forest biome and the meadow biome come together. That is the opportunity we have.

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