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Solving Social Media’s ‘Local Paradox’

Stanford Social Innovation Review

Our work studying local social networks, developing local social networking software, and experimenting with local social networks in partnership with local governments, nonprofits, and media has revealed a potential solution: networks that are values-driven, closely moderated, trusted, and local.

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How to Reduce the ‘Cost’ of Philanthropy So Major Donors Give More

iMarketSmart

Giving is motivated by social emotion. Because giving doesn’t come just from motivation. It comes from the intersection of motivation and cost. Motivation must overcome the cost barrier. Giving results from the intersection of motivation and cost. Journal of Public Economics, 148, 32-42. [4] Cronin Jr, J.

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

iMarketSmart

It provides motivation. Examples include, “Would you be willing to consider including us as one of the nonprofit organizations in your will?”[18] We’ll be announcing our board participation at the banquet. The motivation isn’t about death. 52] It tested 24 bequest gift descriptions among nearly 10,000 participants.

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How to build deeper connections with your donors using surveys

iMarketSmart

If a donor wants a publication, newsletter, or event details, that’s easy.[55] Footnotes : [1] This enhanced identity can be either private (meaning) or public (reputation). But it dramatically decreased the morality rating of nonprofit organizations. Nonprofit and Voluntary Sector Quarterly, 44 (5), 869-885. [13]

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Living Beyond the Constructs: A Conversation with Cyndi Suarez and Marcus Walton

NonProfit Quarterly

MW: And so, I want to position that for funders, for people who are leading philanthropic organizations, to be able to think differently and workshop ideas for integration with peers, and grapple constructively with the myriad complexities associated with implementing racially equitable principles and practices. CS: He wants to do that.

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

iMarketSmart

Givers benefit from their enhanced public reputation. Givers get no benefit from their public reputation. One experiment used a public radio station pledge drive.[12] It [proposes] a new mechanism of decision making in charitable giving through an important psychological construct: similarity.”[23] S., & Yang, S.

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Birthing Black: Community Birth Centers as Portals to Gentle Futures

NonProfit Quarterly

The resulting public health response is to “close the gap” and aim to level the rates of Black maternal and infant outcomes to match those of the white population. We are clear that the maternal and infant health crises in this country are not only problems of disparate outcomes but also of inequitable options.

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