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Captivology: The Science of Capturing People’s Attention

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

These triggers spark your brain’s attention response by appealing to basic aspects of what makes us human. For empathy, Parr uses the example of the BatKid story from Make-A-Wish Foundation in San Francisco. The triggers are: Automaticity: Uses specific sensory cues like colors, symbols, or sounds to get attention.

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Introducing the 2021 Classy Awards Leadership Council

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Army Traumatic Brain Injury Program, developing the Army’s brain injury prevention and treatment strategies for soldiers . with his colleagues in 2020 who now also collectively oversee Camp Reach for the Sky, a free camp program for kids affected by cancer that is one of only three Gold-Ribbon children’s oncology camps in California

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Nonprofit Technology News for March 2014

Tech Soup

I particularly like the Funny for Good Award on the serious topic of testicular cancer. I got a chance to attend one of the cutting edge conferences we have out here in San Francisco to get a sense of how nonprofit technology fits in to the leading edge of innovation. Wearable Computing and the Frontiers of NPTech.

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112 Nonprofit Blog Posts, Articles, and Stories from 2013 You Can’t Miss.

Connection Cafe

When Batkid saved San Francisco, the whole country watched. Speak to the part of the brain that controls action-taking. For Camp Kesem, $10,000 happens- money that will send children affected by a parent’s cancer to a free, life-changing summer camp. Marc Pitman suggests 3 Things to Make Your Ask Easier.

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