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Motivate Your Donors To Give More Without Pressure

Bloomerang

If you can assure donors that a major benefactor or foundation has already covered administrative costs, you remove a major mental barrier to giving. When they see that a high-net-worth individual or well-known foundation has stepped up with a substantial gift, they begin to believe in the worthiness of your cause.

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The Psychology Behind Corporate Giveaways: Why Do They Work?

Nonprofit Marketing Insights by GlobalOwls

The Psychology Behind Corporate Giveaways: Why Do They Work? Here’s a look at the key psychology principles that make promotional products an effective marketing and branding strategy. Beyond being mere free items, corporate giveaways also harness the psychological principle of reciprocity.

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Zero-Problem Philanthropy

Stanford Social Innovation Review

Current philanthropic work—as a leader of a prominent US-based foundation remarked at a recent Stanford PACS conference—leaves people exhausted. is oriented towards the future: building and maintaining health around a vision of “Zero Disease” as the foundation for a fulfilling life. Perhaps we should consider increasing our efforts.

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Honoring and Supporting Women of Color Leaders

Stanford Social Innovation Review

In particular, women of color leaders have expressed that the current climate—marked by the COVID-19 pandemic, racial reckoning, and organizational challenges—has taken an immeasurable toll on their psychological, physical, and emotional well-being. Launched by the W.

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Building Boundaries in Love for Equity and Justice: An AI Manifesto

NonProfit Quarterly

These developersengineers, data scientists, and tech leaderscan fall victim to the pressure to be the first and fastest, driven by profit motives and competitive market forces. 15 Continuous surveillance also has a profound psychological impact, fostering an atmosphere of fear and hyper-vigilance that undermines mental health and wellbeing.16

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Taking Steps Toward Disability Inclusion in China

Stanford Social Innovation Review

percent of the population, China has enacted more than 60 laws and regulations aimed at safeguarding the rights of individuals with disabilities, encompassing those with visual, auditory, linguistic, physical, intellectual, psychological, and multiple disabilities. With 85 million people with disabilities, or 6.5

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The Four Pillars of Peer-to-Peer Fundraising

Get Fully Funded

Fundraising is all about understanding human psychology. The better you understand what motivates the human brain, the more effectively you can inspire and mobilize people to unite around a cause. But, in order to execute effectively, you have to understand how to motivate your base to become ambassadors.