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50+ Year End Fundraiser Email Subject Lines

CauseVox

For example, our brains are hardwired to involuntarily respond to seeing or hearing our own names. You may think you sound excited but it comes off like youre screaming at someone. Since it sounds a bit disingenuous, its best to remove or replace them with more accessible language. it wont translate very well to your reader.

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The Neuroscience of Purpose: Recharging in the Nonprofit World

ASU Lodestar Center

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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Introducing the 2021 Classy Awards Leadership Council

Classy

Army Traumatic Brain Injury Program, developing the Army’s brain injury prevention and treatment strategies for soldiers . The work of the organization was recently recognized with the Nobel Peace Prize for its efforts to combat hunger and bettering conditions for peace by preventing the use of hunger as a weapon of war .

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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. The triggers are: Automaticity: Uses specific sensory cues like colors, symbols, or sounds to get attention. Framing: Adapt or changes someone’s view of the world so they pay attention to you.

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Steven Johnson Key Note at Serious Games Conference

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

" In the book, he makes an argument for why playing digital games is good for their brains. Games you can control character's hunger, comfort, hypgeine, bladder levels. Couldn't do it in a sound bite, game, or blog post. The key note was delivered by Steven Johnson, author of "Everything Bad for You is Good."

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[VIDEO] Raise More Money And Improve Donors Relationships Through Personal Branding

Bloomerang

Because it’s not just about the issue, because let’s say you’re helping with hunger relief, well, there might be 10 organizations in your community helping with hunger relief. And I know that sounds expensive. Like how would we position ourselves against another hunger-relief organization?

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Tracing the Thoughts of a Large Language Model

The AI Alignment Forum

There are limits to what you can learn just by talking to an AI modelafter all, humans (even neuroscientists) don't know all the details of how our own brains work. Claude, on occasion, will give a plausible-sounding argument designed to agree with the user rather than to follow logical steps. So we look inside.