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Dr. James explains why the feeling “People like me make gifts like this” is so powerful in major gifts fundraising

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Adding this phrase, “Did you know that other participants gave £5 and they said that participants such as yourself should give £5?”[27] Nudging tourists to donate for conservation: Experimental evidence on soliciting voluntary contributions for coastal management. Journal of Environmental Management, 237 , 30-43.

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Leadership Development Beyond Projects

Stanford Social Innovation Review

By Elikem Tomety Archer & Jessica Harrington In 2017, as part of her participation in the youth leadership program Global Citizen Year , Dora—an 18-year-old from Huntington Beach, California—spent seven months in Thiadiaye, Senegal. But this often presumes that the participant has power that the community lacks.