Gyrus

AUGUST 17, 2016

Bloggers just like myself are sitting there tormenting their brains in an effort to say things that impact you more than the person before them. To horribly paraphrase the great Douglas Adams, The meaning of life may be 42 but that doesn’t really mean anything to you unless you know how you arrived at that answer.

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Eric Jacobsen Blog

FEBRUARY 2, 2015

Evans teaches readers of her new book, THE RESILIENCY rEVOLUTION: Your Stress Solution For Life 60 Seconds at a Time , how to become resilient to stress. Things like squats, push-ups, tricep dips, lunges, burpees, jumping jacks, shadow boxing and jumping rope (without a rope) get your heart rate up and challenge your muscles.

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Museum 2.0

AUGUST 14, 2013

First up is Beck Tench, a "simplifier, illustrator, story teller, and technologist" working at the Museum of Life & Science in Durham, NC. Beck is the brain behind the risk-taker/space-maker paradigm I''ve shared here in the past. One of the greatest gifts of my babymoon is the opportunity to share the Museum 2.0

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The Fundraising Authority

OCTOBER 28, 2021

because this tool has transformed my life as a nonprofit fundraiser, and I believe it will do the same for you… Have you ever been faced with writing something and wished that you had an assistant to do the work for you? He didn't know he'd be diagnosed with brain cancer just five months later. writing assistant for fundraising?

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

FEBRUARY 9, 2009

I will also be teaching this workshop for nonprofits in a number of other locations in the coming months. He notes that they have a 80% retention rate with members and "you can't do that without listening." Listening should be linked to real life decisions or your social media strategy objectives. (tags: listening socialmedia ).

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Bloomerang

AUGUST 2, 2022

Writing is a skill learned early in life, and most of us disliked writing and grammar classes as much as we disliked eating vegetables. They may have grown up in a grade school that didn’t emphasize writ­ing, or perhaps they were simply left-brained, science and math types. Writing is an art people can do well if they practice.

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Bloomerang

AUGUST 21, 2021

In addition to being super active in her San Francisco nonprofit community, she also does a lot, including teaching a CFRE class. But during the past year and a half, people have really been questioning the meaning of life and their own mortality in unprecedented ways and kind of wondering, “Well, what will my legacy be?”

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Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

JUNE 3, 2012

The Amygdala is a small part of your brain that is the center of emotions. It's part of what is often called the "Reptilian Brain" because it's very primitive, and has been around for a long time. Our heart rate rises, the blood is redirected from less essential areas, like our digestive systems, to the muscles.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JANUARY 13, 2010

I do this with every social media activity as well as whenever I teach. 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 asked the students what else does that?

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Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

JUNE 3, 2012

The Amygdala is a small part of your brain that is the center of emotions. It's part of what is often called the "Reptilian Brain" because it's very primitive, and has been around for a long time. Our heart rate rises, the blood is redirected from less essential areas, like our digestive systems, to the muscles.

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Bloomerang

DECEMBER 10, 2021

Harvey: As most nonprofits have these days is that renewal rates have been declining and that’s been consistent. ” So we have in our brains, the amygdala, the fear center, where you have flight, fright, and freeze as the emotional reactions to things that’s scare you. But essentially. And they upgrade over time.

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Have Fun - Do Good

FEBRUARY 13, 2008

According to the Washington Post article, If It Feels Good to Be Good, It Might Only Be Natural , another study found that when, "volunteers placed the interests of others before their own, the generosity activated a primitive part of the brain that usually lights up in response to food or sex. A Candy-Colored Life. Give blood.

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Bloomerang

JUNE 25, 2021

Well, your database, I’ve said this, your database is like your brain, right? Like your fundraising brain. And you know what the average open rate is? Leeann is saying, “Do you have a successful procedure to teach finance and [inaudible 00:46:13] pledges count?” Why do we need it?

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Connection Cafe

DECEMBER 22, 2013

From #batkid to #GivingTuesday, the Next Generation of American Giving to Content Marketing for Nonprofits , storytelling to social fundraising, retention rates to relationship building, the roundup below covers it all (and everything in between). Oftentimes, registration rates suffer because of the process itself. The 2nd gift.

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