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How to Source Great Year-end Stories

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Because the letter didn’t include an inspiring story that touched donor’s hearts. Why You Need a Great Story. Humans are hardwired to respond to stories. Neuroscientists would tell you that the brain processes facts and stories differently. Your brain naturally becomes more skeptical when you hear facts first.

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Mental Health Awareness Month: 10 Nonprofits Advocating For Change

Kindful

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. Mission: Robbie’s Hope is an uprising of teens to help other teens.

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Empowering young women in philanthropy to create lasting change

Candid

We must engage our children during their formative yearsideally starting in elementary school, while their worldview and brains are being developedand before resources get passed down. In a generation very well-documented to be suffering with anxiety, Half the Story is at the leading edge of the digital well-being movement for teens.

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Why Kickstarter and crowdfunding can’t replace traditional investors

The Next Web

Still, Kickstarter success stories seem to be everywhere. The late, great teen detective television drama Veronica Mars broke all manner of Kickstarter records on its way to funding a theatrical edition. What actually happened, however, was a much sadder story. Investors provide guidance.

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8 Social Media Ideas to Inspire Donors on GivingTuesday

Neon CRM

When humans hear a story, the chemicals cortisol, dopamine, and oxytocin are released in our brains—the chemicals that form memories, keep us engaged, and deepen our relationships. We recommend running a story-centric campaign that leads up to GivingTuesday. Here’s a great example: “Did you know that 1 in 4 teens in the U.S.

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Games and Cultural Spaces: Live Blog Notes from Games for Change

Amy Sample Ward

Trying to engaged the teen-to-twenty-something who normally may not use the research library. The result was an 800 page book of narratives, pictures, stories, and much more that will now be part of the library’s collection. Within our exhibitions, we have a focus on creating very dynamic, interactive opportunities.

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The Participatory Nonprofit?

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

The reality is that our brains only have the capacity to manage a limited number of relationships ??? According to recent study from Pew Internet and American Life project, more than one-half of teens have created media content and roughly one-third have shared ocntent. the ability to follow the flow of stories and information.