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[VIDEO] Creative Ways People Contribute to Community

Bloomerang

By understanding core motivations, intentions, perspectives reflected in this webinar, you will be able to build a stronger case for support, increase the impact you have, and gain strategies for creating and preserving community. We’ve got almost 100% participation and it looks like it’s a tie. So what does it look like?

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How to develop a ‘character’ in your fundraising stories in 3 steps — according to Dr. Russell James

iMarketSmart

In one experiment, people could donate to help children in a famine. For some people, donations helped five pictured children. For other people, donations helped only one of the five children. For some people, the drugs would save eight children. The requests included the children’s names, ages, and pictures.

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[VIDEO] How to Talk about Legacy Giving Without Seeming Creepy

Bloomerang

So let’s begin with what motivated me to do today’s session. And it helps to understand a bit about psychology and how psychology informs behavior. So there’s a field of experimental psychology called “Terror Management Theory,” and it focuses on how people react when you remind them of death.

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Science of Giving 10: Do we decide whom to help based on our own mood?

Nonprofit Marketing Blog

I’m returning today to my series on the psychology of giving. This is the tenth post on the fascinating book, The Science of Giving , which covers a range of seminal studies about giving psychology. Donations were higher when participants were primed to think of their feelings. Here’s what they found: 1.

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Understanding Why People Give (hint: it’s not what you think!)

Get Fully Funded

Understanding the psychology behind giving can help you understand the donor’s motivation, which will help you plan your next campaign, your next fundraising event, or your next face-to-face ask. Maybe your donors have walked a mile in the same shoes as your program participants. 8 Psychological Reasons Why People Give 1.