The Next Web

NOVEMBER 27, 2013

Once I left the agency and started ooomf , I wanted to fix how I approached consumption in my life. The last year has been the most productive of my life and I owe a lot of it to understanding the importance of decreasing how much I consume and coming up with ways to cut clutter. Clutter’s impact on your brain. The result?

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

AUGUST 15, 2009

I invited her to share her thoughts about cause fatigue and scaling as she launches the Twestival Local. Cause fatigue is something I think about daily; particularly going into our second Twestival this September. For me, Twestival is more than just about events in cities raising money for a cause.

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Recode by Vox

MARCH 8, 2025

In 1967, MIT professor Paul Sandorff asked his class to imagine that a real-life asteroid called Icarus, which astronomers had already identified, would hit the Earth in the near-future and it was their job to devise a way to save the world. (In But Project Icarus put the idea of asteroid defense out into the public.

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NonProfit Hub

FEBRUARY 8, 2019

After all, this is their idea, their brain-child, their life. Nonprofit professionals may not be asking for million-dollar investments from the likes of Mark Cuban, but they’re still on a mission to convince the community that their cause is worth something. If you can find that unoccupied niche for your cause, that’s great!

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sgEngage

NOVEMBER 13, 2024

I call it the brain. Q4: You wrote a book called Flip The Script: Change Your Thinking, Change Your Life , which focuses on leading a life of positive thinking. Know that this is a journey, not a race. This is the team that pays attention to the details. We look at tons of data and make it make sense.

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The Next Web

DECEMBER 8, 2013

The reality is, if you’re planning on presenting pretty much anything in your life (which you most likely will), you’ll need to be able to effectively communicate your ideas in front of at least a few people. What happens in our brain. One piece of negative feedback can ruin an eBay seller’s profile and cause them to lose sales.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MAY 1, 2014

I’m also noticing that many of my colleagues are trying to become healthy, including my friend and homeless advocate, Mark Horvath, who is also raising money for a good cause while getting healthy. The benefits of walking to “clear your brain” or build relationships is not a new leadership technique.

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Media Cause

MARCH 18, 2022

Diagnosing Endometriosis is so complex because of chronic underfunding of research, dismissal of the pain it causes, and of course systemic racism and sexism within medicine. Or when a workout causes a condition called post-exertion malaise, where even mild activity can set off pain flares and even change someone’s personality ? .

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Classy

MAY 5, 2021

How passion and devotion for good causes become memory and identity , published by Civil society press. When strong emotions like anger or fear are in play, driven by a story in the media, it’s difficult to predict the volume of donations a charitable cause requires. Are Donations Driven by Empathy or a Psychological Response?

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Bloomerang

JULY 7, 2023

It’s too vague and actually causes performance anxiety. Your generosity can give them a new lease on life. a person, place, animal or cause), not “we” or the name of your organization. The human brain is simply wired to react when it hears this word. Please consider a gift of $XXX (or in the range of $xx to $xxx).

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ASU Lodestar Center

NOVEMBER 29, 2011

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”?). It directs our attention, is responsible for moral decision-making, allows us to empathize with others, and helps coordinate the thousands of signals rushing around your brain.

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Amy Sample Ward

FEBRUARY 23, 2010

" Cause Fatigue #4Change Recap « 4change – Did you miss the recent #4change twitter chat? The February chat focused on cause fatigue, but if you missed it, Zero Strategist has done a great recap of the conversation and highlights. I wrote an article for them on how organizations are using Causes and it's now up.

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Google Research AI blog

FEBRUARY 21, 2023

Using machine learning to unlock mysteries in biology Many of our researchers are fascinated by the extraordinary complexity of biology, from the mysteries of the brain, to the potential of proteins, and to the genome, which encodes the very language of life.

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Bloomerang

JUNE 29, 2021

It’s far easier for our brains to put ourselves in the shoes of ONE person and connect with their story than it is for us to do that with a group of people. . Another aspect of a great story is that it clearly states a problem; this is the problem your donors will help solve by giving to your cause. . You need one person. .

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The Next Web

NOVEMBER 13, 2013

The beautiful thing about surprise is it helps make things more interesting and sticky in your brain. This ‘stickiness’ happens because your laughter triggers the release of the pleasure chemical, dopamine, which causes you to have natural, drug-like, happy feelings and helps you remember what was said. Real life does that.”?—?Ricky

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NonProfit Hub

MAY 15, 2020

Due to the global pandemic, “office life” is now seen as a fond memory, and our daily commute is a total of one minute ? Video calls are a lot more straining on the brain than any face-to-face conversation. That dissonance, which causes people to have conflicting feelings, is exhausting. Give yourself brain breaks.

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Get Fully Funded

JUNE 18, 2023

But it shouldn’t consume your life to the point that you have no life. Your cause needs you, your family and friends need you, and this world needs you. Dictionary.com defines “burnout” as physical or mental collapse caused by overwork or stress. Without YOU, your cause will fade away. What Exactly is Burnout?

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sgEngage

FEBRUARY 18, 2022

I’ve worked from home for more than a decade, but my work and home life never entangled the way they do today. As fundraisers and leaders in the Social Good community, we cannot normalize the disillusionment caused by the circumstances of the past two years. Longer life. Answer – a lot of you). So what can we do about it?

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Qgiv

JULY 3, 2023

Disability Pride Month is a great awareness month dedicated to celebrating the accomplishments and the importance of people with disabilities in our communities, promoting the visibility of people with disabilities, and honoring the inherent right to a better quality of life for people with disabilities. Donate to support their mission here.

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sgEngage

AUGUST 19, 2022

So if you’re feeling tired, exhausted, or worn out by recent change and disruption in your life and work, you’re not alone. In fact, stress is a natural part of our life and work. In fact, stress is a natural part of our life and work. A bit of pressure can help keep the brain alert and support you in getting focused.

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The Next Web

DECEMBER 24, 2012

Silicon Allee (a TNW content partner ) caught up with him to pick his brain on what 2013 might hold for us. MJ: As an individual, you are entering a period of life as a startup founder when you are going to spend two or three years working extremely hard if you are going to make it worthwhile. It’s because it’s your life.

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CauseVox

DECEMBER 9, 2024

For example, our brains are hardwired to involuntarily respond to seeing or hearing our own names. Not only is it clever and catchy, but you have the chance to get creative and make it relevant by aligning your email subject lines to your nonprofits cause. Subscribe to orgs with a similar focus to your cause.

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Get Fully Funded

JANUARY 2, 2023

Disorganization can cause you to lose donors, miss grant deadlines, and fall short of revenue goals. And if you don’t really like being on the phone, you can get those pesky calls done and out of the way, freeing up brain power for the rest of the day. Use breaks to give your brain and body a breather. Get up and move around.

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Connection Cafe

FEBRUARY 11, 2019

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. Living in poverty has physical manifestations that start in the brain. Living in poverty can cause chronic, or toxic stress to emerge.

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TechCrunch

OCTOBER 1, 2021

Amblyopia can develop early in life when something causes one eye to struggle to keep up with the other. There might be muscle strength imbalances between eyes, which causes one to lag behind, one eye might be far stronger than the other or one eye might be deprived of clear vision, due to a cataract or other obstacle.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JANUARY 13, 2010

Chocolate activates the pleasure center of the brain, at least according to some research. After a nervous giggle, I shared with them that donating and volunteering does the same thing as chocolate to your brain. I did this, but because I was using Causes, it was not integrated into the platform. I did not eat chocolate.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JANUARY 31, 2018

It is one of a growing number of “ digital diseases ” that can cause painful physical symptoms as well as mental health issues that ultimately make you less productive, depressed, and sick. Turn Off the Damn Screen and Go For A Walk: Sitting in front of a screen for too long can cause eye strain, neck problems, and other pain.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MARCH 31, 2014

Don’t run to play Mario just yet though — the game has to be specially designed to fill in lapses in brain activity from the start! The neuroscientists at the Gazzaley Lab at University of California, San Francisco, have shown that games can improve our cognitive function. In Philanthropy. Around Gender.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JULY 28, 2009

Her post was based off of the Brains of Fire Manifesto, “ 10 Lessons Learned in Igniting Word of Mouth Movements.” And the many, many hyper local and niche causes that touch the lives of their online communities not by the millions, but by the hundreds or thousands everyday. Both posts influenced this speech.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

DECEMBER 4, 2018

It does address a growing issue that will only continue as technology becomes more integrated into daily life. The circadian region of the brain connects directly to special photoreceptors in the eye called ganglion cells. The ganglion cells then send signals directly to the circadian region of the brain.

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Beneblog: Technology Meets Society

FEBRUARY 18, 2019

On February 16th in Los Altos, California, I shared these thoughts on Robin Seaman’s impact on the world with her family and friends at her Celebration of Life. For more on Robin's life, you can read the Publishers Weekly article. That's the Robin we all collectively know personally. The sister, the aunt, the friend, the mentor.

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The Verge

SEPTEMBER 8, 2021

Amazon’s in-house game engine, Lumberyard, can’t normally be used for life-critical or safety-critical circumstances, as stated in the terms of service agreement for Amazon Web Services. In other words, a real zombie apocalypse. Good to know.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

SEPTEMBER 17, 2008

There are many tasks in a nonprofit day-to-day life - like grant writing, hiring someone, or prepping a board meeting where personal productivity matters most - connectedness really doesn't play a factor in getting these tasks off the to do list. Marnie Webb left a comment about this in a nonprofit context.

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Eric Jacobsen Blog

APRIL 22, 2024

Burnout is a state of emotional, physical, and mental exhaustion caused by excessive and prolonged stress. Then the brain, ever on a quest for both equilibrium and efficiency, noted the response’s effectiveness and will turn to it again the next time stress hits. Raise your hand if you have ever experienced burnout during your career?

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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 Joyful means experiencing or causing happiness for yourself or others.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MARCH 21, 2017

In the book, we also talk about technology wellness in the nonprofit workplace, but I have been looking forward to an opportunity to go deeper on how teams of people in nonprofits can avoid technology overload caused by collaboration platforms and process. This blog post shares some thoughts. Adopt Good Practices Around Team Emails.

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Achieve

SEPTEMBER 2, 2015

Eventually, I realized that if development professionals really want to make a difference in their organization’s ability to raise money, they not only need to think about their donors, they need to understand how the donor brain works. A bucket full of change suggests that lots of other people support the cause and momentum is building.

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