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Constructively Confronting Your Fears: A Strategy for Nonprofit Success

Bloomerang

A great deal of business psychology is centered on better understanding and ultimately conquering these fears, both professionally and personally. . This is especially useful for the nonprofit sector, where it’s more than just shareholders’ returns on the line. They displayed a useful mindset to confronting their fears constructively.

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The Dragonfly Effect

The Agitator

Writing in the Stanford Social Innovation Review , marketing and psychology veterans Jennifer Aaker and Andy Smith offer the ‘Dragonfly Effect’ as a construct for nonprofits to think about and formulate social media campaigns … “To us, the Dragonfly Effect shows how synchronized ideas can be used to create rapid transformations (..)

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Presenting A Passionate Fundraising Case

The Agitator

Writing strategy is carefully constructed along the lines of human decision-making psychology and neurology. Tags: Don't Miss these Posts Pushing the Creative Envelope You Deserve a Raise communications copywriting creativity direct mail direct marketing fundraising major donors nonprofit management planned giving.

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How to Make the Ask of a Gift in a Will Less Scary

iMarketSmart

2] More than that, the reality of our own death is a serious psychological problem. She can construct legacy “products” or giving opportunities that deliver this lasting impact. The process helps the donor construct a personally meaningful victory. Psychology of death (3rd ed.). Psychological Review, 106 (4), 835-845. [4]

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How to build deeper connections with your donors using surveys

iMarketSmart

Psychology studies show the same thing. When positive ends tarnish the means: The morality of nonprofit more than of for-profit organizations is tainted by the use of compliance techniques. Journal of Experimental Social Psychology , 76, 67-75.] Psychological Science, 26 (2), 231-236. [6] More was better. 5] Zaval, L.,

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How major gifts fundraisers should introduce themselves to donors

iMarketSmart

Dirty work and the challenge of constructing a positive identity. Academy of Management Review, 24 (3), 413-434, p. Managing occupational identity threats and job turnover: How former and current fundraisers manage moments of stigmatized identities. Nonprofit Management and Leadership, 29 (3), 383-399.