NonProfit Leadership Alliance

OCTOBER 31, 2023

Giving Tuesday , celebrated globally on the first Tuesday after Thanksgiving, embodies the spirit of generosity and altruism. Setting the Stage: Understanding Giving Tuesday A History of Generosity In the wake of consumer-driven holidays like Black Friday and Cyber Monday, Giving Tuesday emerged as a beacon of hope and altruism.

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Candid

JUNE 26, 2024

Summer is a great time to explore Candid’s collection of free eBooks and audiobooks for titles that can help you achieve your goals as a nonprofit professional. This comprehensive guide provides step-by-step instructions, real-life examples, and templates to help you master the art of writing successful grant proposals.

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NonProfit Leadership Alliance

NOVEMBER 13, 2023

This process involves analyzing donor data, choosing the best fundraisers to host, and leveraging strategies that help you easily raise more for your mission. Thanking donors and highlighting their impact will help you build stronger relationships and encourage them to request matching gifts again in the future.

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Getting Attention

DECEMBER 1, 2009

I wasn't surprised to read about yet another high-priced study confirming that altruism is innate in today's New York Times (covering the just-published Why We Cooperate. So it makes sense, evolution-wise, that we're wired to help and give. After all, we read time and time again about the emotional benefits of giving. What's your take?

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Bloomerang

MAY 9, 2025

Emotional copy The more you cultivate awe, gratitude, altruism, and meaning , the more youll boost your fundraising success. Hope this helps you meaningfully include older donors in all your communications ! This will simply be a distraction from your main purpose. Of course, this checklist item applies for donors of any age!

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Nonprofit Marketing Blog

MARCH 29, 2013

But as someone working for a mission you know it’s something else—altruism. Grant focuses on workplace psychology and the effects of altruism in your career. Helping others, it seems, helps ourselves. (As Early in his career, Grant worked with a demoralized call center to show the positive effects of altruism.

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NonProfit Leadership Alliance

NOVEMBER 16, 2023

It’s the crew that knows who is on board, what baggage they brought, their feelings about flying, and how to help people cope with turbulence.  When the Captain comes on the PA system to inform everyone about the flight plan, they often sound like ‘the adults’ in the Peanuts specials. All of them. Make it a big deal.

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Bloomerang

DECEMBER 8, 2023

The Yale researchers who conducted the study, George Newman, and Jeremy Shen, found that the most probable reason for the negative effect on contributions was that the gift activated a feeling of selfishness in donors, which, in turn, reduced altruism and cut the average donation. The lesson is that quality matters more than quantity.

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Bloomerang

AUGUST 9, 2024

They give to help those in need, support community well being, or further a mission they believe in. Their generosity is fueled by altruism and the tangible impact they see from the nonprofits they choose to support. I hope I’ve helped you put those election jitters to rest. So, what’s the lesson here?

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Nonprofit Marketing Guide

DECEMBER 17, 2019

A UVP is created by private-sector marketing experts to help a business fine-tune its sales strategy. The tips below will help your nonprofit create your UVP. This exercise may seem silly, but it is incredibly helpful. People buy these things for more nuanced reasons than pure altruism. Listen for pain points.

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Selfish Giving

JUNE 6, 2018

Should are marketing move people more to "effective altruism" instead of "warm-glow altruism"? Need some help? Teens from lower-income families are Facebook power-users. ??Interesting! Interesting! The case AGAINST having empathy. Video, 3 min.] ???? Men expect something in return for their donation.

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Nonprofit Tech for Good

MARCH 4, 2020

With these methods, your nonprofit can advocate for general philanthropy and altruism. In a few different instances, you can even point donors toward helping the cause that your nonprofit champions. That said, the three apps listed below are all free and help benefit different charities. Ready to get started? RoundUp App.

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Nonprofit Marketing Blog

AUGUST 9, 2012

Social norms are governed by values of community selflessness and altruism. When we are primed to give based on social norms, we donate because we want to make a difference and help others. They also discovered happier people help others more, and they give more. What do I mean by that? A positive mood makes you nicer!

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Bloomerang

NOVEMBER 8, 2023

Philanthropy refers to charitable acts or other good works that help others or society as a whole. Philanthropy can include donating money to a worthy cause or volunteering time, effort, or other forms of altruism. In the U.S., What’s planned for the National Philanthropy Day?

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The NonProfit Times

SEPTEMBER 12, 2024

These altruists offer a challenge for evolutionary accounts of altruistic motivation: that we are motivated to help others if there is a potential for future benefit of our own (reciprocal altruism; Trivers, 1971 ), or to facilitate the continuation of our genes (kin altruism; Dawkins, 1979 ), according to the authors.

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Nonprofit Tech for Good

JULY 1, 2020

She helps brands grow engagement and build relationships with their audience. Invite online supporters to participate in your campaign because it gives them a sense of purpose, responsibility and helps them feel empowered. The pandemic has drastically altered the ways nonprofits interact with their supporters.

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Nonprofit Marketing Blog

JUNE 6, 2011

Altruism cascades up to three degrees of separation. Champions of our cause are important because when they help our cause, they inspire their friends - and friends of friends - to also help others. Celebrate and spotlight the spread of altruism, because it cascades into still more generosity.

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MARCH 15, 2023

Speaking of incomplete information, Time Magazine is running a story describing how some of the biggest names in Effective Altruism knew about the financial shenanigans of their most famous, duplicitous member, Sam Bankman-Fried. You don’t have one ?) That’s about all we can guess is coming from these two recent events. Strange times ahead.

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The Volunteer Hub

JULY 15, 2022

Strategically matching volunteers with assignments that allow them to excel can increase retention, improve engagement, and help your organization achieve its mission. Effectively utilizing your volunteer workforce can increase retention, improve engagement, and help your organization reach its mission.

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Getting Attention

JULY 16, 2015

Hope: Brains work on stories, and humorous stories activate altruism and hopefulness. If you’ve seen any of these films from Participant Media — The Cove, Contagion, The Help, Food Inc. If you want to make an impact, you have to change how people think. If you shout awful news to people, they will give up.

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iMarketSmart

APRIL 24, 2023

4] Giving doesn’t help the donor. But it can help the donor’s genes. Giving is genetically helpful when, My Cost < (Their Benefit X Our Similarity). If a donor identifies with the factor, emphasizing it will help. Sharing similarities can help. It can help specific people. Natural origins In 1964, W.

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Nonprofit Marketing Blog

MAY 18, 2011

It’s the people you help, talking about the difference you make. Further proof is out in a new study from James Andreoni and Justin Rao called “ The Power of Asking: How Communication Affects Selfishness, Empathy and Altruism.&#. Is not you talking about your organization. The asking matters.

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The Agitator

FEBRUARY 19, 2013

Just to keep the pot boiling here’s a follow-up on my Premiums, Crack Cocaine and Nonprofit Suicide post that spawned some helpful comments. In essence, the prospect of receiving a gift activated a feeling of selfishness which, in turn, reduced altruism and consequently cut the average donation.

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The Agitator

AUGUST 16, 2009

Zach Bonner set out to help homeless kids in his area of Florida. More and more there is public recognition for youth fundraising and volunteerism, including valuable scholarships, leading some cynics to question the altruism involved. No doubt there are some kids who "do charity" to round out their college credentials.

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iMarketSmart

JANUARY 27, 2016

Charity – Helping people in need. Charitable people – Help others in need. Philanthropists – Make charitable gifts that result in the creation of economic and social opportunity for individuals which, in turn, helps create a better society for everyone. They are attracting philanthropists to help guide them.

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Clairification

SEPTEMBER 14, 2023

You must both: (1) focus inward , as you can’t help others unless you first help yourself, and (2) focus on the way you connect with others. What you say , What you do , and, most important, How you make others feel. What to do?

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NOVEMBER 20, 2023

Effective altruism, on the other hand, is all three - ideology, identity, and philanthropic approach. In the upcoming Blueprint24 (due out on December 15 - will be free and downloadable here ) - I look at the role of Effective Altruism in the burgeoning universe of AI organizations. But I digress. A self-professed identity.

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iMarketSmart

FEBRUARY 25, 2015

So, find ways to make your supporters feel like they are part of your mission and making an impact and you will help them release dopamine and oxytocin. In other words, help each supporter feel like he or she is the hero in their own life story. Altruism is selflessness. Allow them to feel that they are being altruistic.

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iMarketSmart

MAY 17, 2024

Langley Innovations provides a range of services to its clients to help them understand the cultural underpinnings of philanthropy and the psychology of donors and, with that knowledge, to develop the most effective strategies and tactics to build broader and more lasting communities of support.

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NonProfit Quarterly

MARCH 29, 2023

Engaging with the leadership of pro-Black organizations like BEAM can help ensure that any shift in workplace culture centers the voices of those who are often marginalized by the policies and practices these businesses are aiming to disrupt.

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iMarketSmart

FEBRUARY 22, 2016

The researcher notes that gifts, in particular, “reduce feelings of altruism ” causing your expression of gratitude to backfire in your face. Can you help add to my list? . For instance, a gift of a mug with your logo might be rejected at first. The standard acknowledgement letter (of course). A letter from you.

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Nonprofit Tech for Good

FEBRUARY 16, 2013

Part of the reason is a commitment to altruism, but I also use (for lack of a better word) these 31 nonprofits to study how nonprofits are progressing in online fundraising, social media and mobile communications. Each year I select 31 Favorite Nonprofits to which I donate 10% of my webinar income.

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NonProfit Hub

NOVEMBER 9, 2016

For many people, the holiday season is also a time of charity and of helping others less fortunate. Just as retail has its big days leading up to the holidays (Black Friday, Cyber Monday, Super Saturday), altruism has #GivingTuesday on November 29, and we want to help you find #GivingTuesday success. Set Objectives .

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NonProfit Hub

JULY 27, 2021

Additionally, the change would help clarify the purpose and intention of what Brand Camp was meant to be and how it could help nonprofits. The goal was to increase the number of attendees and help grow the conference. Ultimately, it will drive better attendance.”. Was Cause Camp Really Cursed?

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NonProfit Hub

NOVEMBER 30, 2015

Whatever your potential volunteers are interested in, help them identify those causes and choose the ones whose passions align with your organization’s cause. If your organization’s cause is all about education, seek those who value knowledge and altruism. Values, on the other hand, tend to grow and develop rather than change.

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NonProfit Hub

JANUARY 14, 2014

Your nonprofit exists to help the world. You want every possible dollar you get to help fulfill your mission. Believe us, it’s not altruism. Starting your nonprofit blog means beginning a journey that will help you enormously long term, but it takes a ton of work to begin and maintain initially, even for the first few months.

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NonProfit Hub

DECEMBER 10, 2014

Use this information to proactively help your donors reach out to others. 2013) Reluctant Altruism and Peer Pressure in Charitable Giving. “Studies of Facebook and Twitter users suggest a large percentage of these individuals are already highly committed to their causes and seeking more contact with the associated organizations.

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