Bloomerang

FEBRUARY 17, 2025

Do you remember the childrens book, There Was an Old Lady Who Swallowed a Fly ? Emotion is not just nice to have in fundraisingit actually helps our brains navigate alternatives and make decisions. If youve ever watched Disneys Up , you met Carla grumpy old man whos mean both to animals and children. What could this look like?

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Beneblog: Technology Meets Society

NOVEMBER 26, 2014

Kevin Leong was in kindergarten when he experienced an organic brain injury that forced him to relearn everything from walking to using the bathroom. In particular, electronic books (or e-books) offer the possibility of dramatically improving access for students with disabilities – and for disadvantaged children everywhere.

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Nonprofit Tech for Good

JANUARY 14, 2013

One of the biggest downsides for me personally from being connected to the Social Web 50-70 hours a week is that my brain has a hard time reading for extended periods of time. So much of social media success is about how our brains process and prioritize messages and having a diverse thought process that sparks our imagination and creativity.

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NTEN

JUNE 24, 2013

Making a global impact from right in our own backyard is the Bridge School, which uses assistive technology to educate children with severe speech and physical impairments. In his blog, John Haydon discusses Six Ways to Influence Donors with Brain Science , pulling in findings from studies to help you boost your fundraising results.

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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 orca is alive today because it communicates, eats and socializes with other orcas, just like us. But it’s more than that.

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Fast Company Tech

FEBRUARY 18, 2025

Most kids will recover from the measles if they get it, but infection can lead to dangerous complications like pneumonia, blindness, brain swelling and death. The first shot is recommended for children between 12 and 15 months old and the second between 4 and 6 years old. Is the vaccine safe?

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Bloomerang

JULY 7, 2023

The human brain is simply wired to react when it hears this word. Say “Yes, I want to give because children need me.” Say “Please consider a gift of $500 because children need your help.” It turns out “because” is one of the persuasion principles that help explain the psychology of why people say “yes” without thinking.

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Fast Company Tech

MARCH 18, 2025

Currently, AD is typically diagnosed via cognitive testing alongside expensive PET brain scans or invasive cerebrospinal fluid (CSF) tests, which are costly and painful. But recently, a much less invasive blood test has demonstrated comparable accuracy to these methods. The companys 2024 full-year revenue of $302.3

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The Verge

APRIL 16, 2021

Bloomberg notes this this past February the CPSC received a report that a three-year-old suffered a ”significant brain injury. As a reminder, the Tread+ is not for children under 16 and children, pets, and objects need to be kept away from the Tread+ at all times.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

AUGUST 17, 2017

The latter may be due how children are taught in the Finnish educational system. Taking brain breaks is an important work skill as well. When you take a break from work, whether it is for few minutes as brain break or not working continuously, you are able to boost your resilience.

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Nonprofit Tech for Good

OCTOBER 22, 2009

My brain was completely fried and those around me were getting pretty fed up with the fact that I was never present, only connected… online, all the time. Six months ago I came pretty close to complete social media burnout. Even when I wasn’t at home at my desk, I was on my iPhone updating Facebook, Twitter, MySpace, etc.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MARCH 16, 2012

It’s big, it’s inspiring, and it helps me think more clearly about Global Fund for Children’s work to scout, support and strengthen grassroots groups serving vulnerable children around the globe. This has been our metrics mantra at The Global Fund for Children, but now Andy Goodman of The Goodman Center has validated it.

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Get Fully Funded

AUGUST 20, 2021

Neuroscientists would tell you that the brain processes facts and stories differently. Your brain naturally becomes more skeptical when you hear facts first. Your brain gets absorbed in the story and it drops its guard. That’s why every culture uses storytelling to pass down vital traditions and values.

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The Verge

JULY 9, 2020

No hands, no brain, just a wheeled lightbulb pumping out deadly light: UV robots certainly show how limited health care automation is right now. Image: Phoenix Children’s Hospital. Phoenix Children’s Hospital uses telepresence robots to let special visitors spend time with children on the ward. Robots on the frontline.

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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. . Example: In our city, 1,500 children go to school hungry each year, which means they struggle in school, can face health struggles, etc. You need one person. .

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Bloomerang

SEPTEMBER 22, 2023

Stories trigger emotion That’s because the human brain is wired for stories , not facts. One in four children in our community don’t get enough to eat.” 1 in 4 of which children?” “Is Too many people will put your appeal down, or delete your email, simply because their brain won’t allow them to be drawn in.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MARCH 19, 2011

He showed examples when change comes joyfully, like weddings and having children. He talked about changes in technology and fashion. It has to be with a split of our brain. There are two parts of our brain, the rational and the emotional. The emotional part of our brains is like an elephant.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

DECEMBER 30, 2010

Many years ago before the digital cameras and children, my husband used to spend many hours combining two past times: birding and photography. To much product-driven learning, and I don’t discover new ideas. One is left-brained and the other right-brained. Black-Crowned Night Heron.

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The Modern Nonprofit

APRIL 13, 2021

There’s reputable neuroscience research showing that people’s brains light up when they hear their own name. So our brains are actually hard-wired to respond to appeals that speak to us directly. Our brains are always looking for shortcuts, and the word because triggers us to comply.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MAY 6, 2005

Thanks to Julie Lueng a pointer to a Time Magazine interview with Katherine Ellison, author of The Mommy Brain: How Motherhood Makes Us Smarter. We've come to see our children taking things away from us, and we've lost the sense of how much they're adding to us, as people, as thinkers. Happy Mother's Day !

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TechCrunch

OCTOBER 1, 2021

Over time , the brain learns to depend upon vision in one eye, while the other gets weaker, eventually, in severe cases, leading to permanent vision loss. . One study conducted in a hospital in Saudi Arabia surveyed 37 families with children who were using eye patches to treat amblyopia.

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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 orca is alive today because it communicates, eats and socializes with other orcas, just like us. 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 orca is alive today because it communicates, eats and socializes with other orcas, just like us. But it’s more than that.

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The Verge

MARCH 18, 2021

While we are aware of only a small handful of incidents involving the Tread+ where children have been hurt, each one is devastating to all of us at Peloton, and our hearts go out to the families involved.”. Foley warned that children and pets should be kept “away from Peloton exercise equipment at all times.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MARCH 23, 2011

Our panel included Free Agents Mark Horvath and Shawn Ahmed, along with reps from Red Cross, Save the Children, and Common Ground Communities. You need to engage the whole brain in learning. That’s the questions I asked myself as I designed my panel for the NTEN’s annual conference, the NTC.

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The Verge

APRIL 18, 2022

It says it contains about 2,800 different examples of slang, which it says “you should find useful in your work or for keeping up with your children and/or grandchildren.” In any case, though, I have found some abbreviations I might want to start using, like IAMA (I am mildly amused) and maybe even LIMB (laughing in my brain).

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Candid

DECEMBER 12, 2022

For example when watching a video, audio and visual channels activate separate parts of the brain , and when these two elements combine, it helps supporters better understand and engage with your mission. . Use an engaging and quick opener to convince viewers to care, for example: “More than 9 million children faced hunger in 2021.

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Get Fully Funded

APRIL 23, 2023

There are two parts to thanking donors: Connecting with the donor’s brain by providing a gift receipt and more importantly, touching the donor’s heart by letting them know they are heroes for giving to your organization’s cause. You make the brain connection when you give them the data they need for their records.

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fast.ai

OCTOBER 11, 2021

The physiological damage that covid causes can include cognitive dysfunction and deficits , brain activity scans similar to those seen in Alzheimer’s patients , GI immune system damage , cornea damage , immune dysfunction , increased risk of kidney outcomes , dysfunction in T cell memory generation , pancreas damage , and ovarian failure.

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Beneblog: Technology Meets Society

NOVEMBER 13, 2006

Perhaps, but when you use your heart, you don't have to check your brain at the door. We now realize that taking social action is in our direct interest and that of our children, whether it addresses human rights or the likely impacts of global warming. Philanthropy? Bleeding hearts?

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MARCH 14, 2012

He spoke about creativity and what psychologists and brain scientists are learning about it. So the CEO of a medical clinic trades ideas about technology with the head of a children’s advocacy organization, and the environmental leader gets to know the inner-city organizer. Seek outsider knowledge.

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Bloomerang

FEBRUARY 21, 2023

People have different values (some want to help children; others animals; others education, the environment, the arts… and so on). And how you should never feel bad about asking someone for a philanthropic gift, because it delivers a shot of dopamine that lights up the pleasure center of their brains. Alas, this feeling is short-lived.

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TechCrunch

JULY 25, 2022

If [doctors] are really worried it could be with an MRI or a brain MRI machine because that’s the ultimate standard, but we don’t live in an MRI machine every day. StethoMe says they use breath to identify air pathway disorders in children and share that data with physicians. That is costly. To date, Ubenwa has raised $2.5

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MARCH 19, 2011

He showed examples when change comes joyfully, like weddings and having children. It has to be with a split of our brain. There are two parts of our brain, the rational and the emotional. The emotional part of our brains is like an elephant. Think back when your children learned to walk. The struggle is important.

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DataRobot

SEPTEMBER 27, 2021

Professor O’Grady explains that “Linguistics is the study of how language works, how it’s acquired, how it’s used, how it changes over time, and how it’s represented in the brain. For children, the key to learning a language is hearing utterances and being able to match them with a corresponding situation.

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NonProfit Hub

SEPTEMBER 24, 2018

According to Pamela Cantor, President and CEO of Turnaround for Children , the process of rebranding “has played an important role in helping Turnaround for Children synthesize our identity as an organization—both how we understand ourselves and communicate this identity to the world.

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Kindful

MAY 1, 2021

Mission: Under the Laughs for the Troops umbrella, you will find many other great programs to help our veterans, increase awareness of post-traumatic stress disorder (PTSD) and traumatic brain injury (TBI), raise funds, and recruit volunteers. Impacting: Mental health. Headquarters in: Riverview, FL. How To Support Laughs for the Troops.

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