iMarketSmart

MARCH 7, 2025

The better we communicate the key elements of relationship-building and storytelling, the more our practice will strengthen and the more we will be valued by those seeking to understand how to establish and sustain best practices. Jim Langley is the president of Langley Innovations.

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Nonprofit Marketing Guide

OCTOBER 24, 2018

He knows how to increase the lifetime value of your donor database. Understand how to use the concept of “Lifetime Value” to inform your fundraising decisions. Adrian Sargeant is Chief Executive of The Philanthropy Centre. All of his work is focused on achieving that by developing the value that donors get from their giving.

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Bloomerang

MARCH 14, 2025

When everyone understands their role in philanthropy and works together toward shared goals, fundraising becomes a collective effort rather than a solitary burden. I define internal team alignment as ensuring everyone understands their role and shared mission in philanthropy.

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Bloomerang

NOVEMBER 8, 2021

The psychological narrative we construct has more influence on our lives because it’s about who we are now and who we are becoming. You must touch people on a psychological level to inspire them to passionately engage and invest with you. Has that experience changed how you view philanthropy or support nonprofits? If so, how? .

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iMarketSmart

DECEMBER 18, 2024

Its not just about raising money; its about creating lasting impact and aligning a donors values with an organizations mission. For donors, legacy giving is deeply personalits a way to align their values with a cause they care about and ensure their contribution has a lasting impact. The reasons are both practical and psychological.

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Bloomerang

JANUARY 20, 2023

I felt valued, and increased my giving incrementally. It’s critical for fundraisers to understand how donors feel – because most of philanthropy is feelings-based. And I imagine your organization has a culture of philanthropy in which everyone comes from a place of love. Both about your philanthropy, and about you.

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iMarketSmart

MAY 13, 2022

Alumni most likely to give to their alma maters, for instance, are those who believe that the lasting value of their education greatly outweighed the cost – no matter how much they paid. Those that believe the cost outweighed the value are highly unlikely to give, no matter how little they paid.

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Bloomerang

JUNE 28, 2021

For years now, there’s been a powerful evolving discussion in the social benefit sector around “ culture of philanthropy ” and why it’s so critically important to fundraising success. Fund in the United States and the Institute for Sustainable Philanthropy in the U.K. . What they value matters.

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Bloomerang

MAY 31, 2024

Where are our cultures of philanthropy? Fund published a three-part series of reports exploring culture of philanthropy. Alas, a culture of philanthropy essential to long-term success in the sector is still largely absent from our institutions. To drive impact, one must truly value that impact.

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Bloomerang

APRIL 12, 2024

That’s what philanthropy is all about The word literally means the feeling of love ( philos ) towards humankind ( anthropos ). When we forget to be philanthropic in our approach to major (or any ) donors, we forget to place a value on our shared humanity. The human tool to unlock philanthropy: empathy. You give, you get.

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iMarketSmart

DECEMBER 8, 2023

Langley Innovations provides a range of services to its clients to help them understand the cultural underpinnings of philanthropy and the psychology of donors and, with that knowledge, to develop the most effective strategies and tactics to build broader and more lasting communities of support.

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Bloomerang

AUGUST 22, 2024

Which is why I so often talk about my philosophy of philanthropy, not fundraising. ” Play up the scarcity factor a bit One of the principles of influence we’ve learned from research in psychology, neuroscience and behavioral economics is people have a fear of missing out ( FOMO ). No one wants to feel cheap.

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iMarketSmart

AUGUST 16, 2024

The seeds of philanthropy were already within them. The more we deepen ourselves, the more we help others do the same and together give more meaning to philanthropy itself. That was beyond my ability. Everyone had made the decision to give at some point on their own. Jim Langley is the president of Langley Innovations.

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iMarketSmart

APRIL 7, 2023

The less I thought about fundraising strategies and tactics, and the more I studied philanthropy, the more successful I and my operations became. I simply observed, looking for what form philanthropy was taking in each prospect I met with and at what stage of self-discovery they were in. I never thought about fundraising technique.

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iMarketSmart

JUNE 12, 2023

It’s an extreme form of philanthropy. Heroic philanthropy A hero displays sacrificial protection.[5] 5] A heroic donation is this: a sacrificial gift that protects the donor’s people or values in a crisis. Heroic philanthropy in a crisis Heroism signals trustworthiness as a friendship insurance partner. It was pointless.

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Clairification

SEPTEMBER 14, 2023

I firmly believe part of the role of a philanthropy facilitator is to foster both individual and community well-being. It certainly is not in service of philanthropy. The post Effective Philanthropy Facilitation RECIPE: Love +Meaning + Empathy + Cooperation +Attention + Interaction appeared first on Clairification. What to do?

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iMarketSmart

JANUARY 5, 2018

“Tax bill could turn philanthropy into a pursuit only for the rich.” Philanthropy is done by the rich. Provide value. Related Posts: >>Donor Psychology: Do you know what really makes your supporters feel good? >>The Tons of writers in major media have been fretting about the new tax law. There is a difference.

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iMarketSmart

SEPTEMBER 7, 2016

And, they will if you give them great experiences, add value to their lives, and provide extraordinary customer service! The post Donor Psychology: Do you know what really makes your supporters feel good? .” And, yet many more will say, “It’s all about the mission.” Tweet this!

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Clairification

MARCH 11, 2024

This is the finding from a report done by the Centre for Charitable Giving and Philanthropy at the University of Kent: “ How Donor Choose Charities.” Yet the methods used to encourage donations tend to assume that philanthropy depends on objective assessments of need rather than on donors’ enthusiasms. The heart, not the head.

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Stanford Social Innovation Review

JULY 24, 2023

By Tia Martinez In seeking to improve the health outcomes of people in underserved communities, philanthropy’s results have, in general, been disappointing: Socioeconomic and racial injustices run so deep in these communities that strong barriers to change extend well beyond the health care system.

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NonProfit Quarterly

AUGUST 10, 2023

This led the Hive Fund to create the Healing Justice and Holistic Security grantmaking program—aimed at providing BIPOC women leaders and their communities with tools and practices needed to heal and combat threats to digital, physical, and psychological safety.

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iMarketSmart

APRIL 18, 2022

A compelling challenge forces a decision, In response to a threat or opportunity for the donor’s people or values, and. With the promise of a victory for the donor’s people or values. Basic and Applied Social Psychology, 38 (1), 30-32. [9] Journal of Neuroscience, Psychology, and Economics, 2(1), 59. [11] 11] Arkes, H.

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Stanford Social Innovation Review

JUNE 24, 2024

Yet this value has not been shared equally by all stakeholders. VC firms (and private equity in general) aim to maximize the monetizable value of their investments, often at the expense of affected stakeholders who aren’t legal parties to the deal. It doesn’t need to be this way. It doesn’t need to be this way.

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iMarketSmart

MAY 17, 2024

” To some degree, for sure, but what money can buy won’t come close to what it can’t in creating life-changing donor experiences and inspiring genuine, breath-taking philanthropy. Jim Langley is the president of Langley Innovations.

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iMarketSmart

APRIL 4, 2022

I needed to learn their story, their values. Current Directions in Psychological Science, 17 (3), 208-212. [6] The psychological consequences of money. Current Directions in Psychological Science, 17 (3), 208–212. [9] The Journal of Social Psychology, 129 (1), 85-91. [13] I learned very quickly that didn’t work.

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Bloomerang

AUGUST 21, 2021

And I’ve taken photos and I really like the concept of using them in this presentation just to kind of prompt us to think about the values that people have because that’s really what legacy giving is all about. And they need to know that your vision extends to enacting your mission and your values into the future.

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iMarketSmart

MAY 3, 2024

Does not the marriage proposal, no matter how charming or disarming, pale in comparison to the process that precedes it, the process that allows both parties to explore the potential of shared values and interests, and then conclude their future is brighter together than apart?

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iMarketSmart

MAY 26, 2023

Donors are looking for a better philanthropic value proposition. Traditional fundraising works best at places that have delivered value and built community but the organizational self-centeredness on which it is based misses many partnership-building opportunities. They want to know how their dollars will be turned into differences.

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iMarketSmart

APRIL 28, 2023

Langley Innovations provides a range of services to its clients to help them understand the cultural underpinnings of philanthropy and the psychology of donors and, with that knowledge, to develop the most effective strategies and tactics to build broader and more lasting communities of support.

Fundraising 52

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iMarketSmart

AUGUST 18, 2023

Langley Innovations provides a range of services to its clients to help them understand the cultural underpinnings of philanthropy and the psychology of donors and, with that knowledge, to develop the most effective strategies and tactics to build broader and more lasting communities of support.

Psychology 52

Psychology Philanthropy Culture Values 52

iMarketSmart

JUNE 9, 2023

Langley Innovations provides a range of services to its clients to help them understand the cultural underpinnings of philanthropy and the psychology of donors and, with that knowledge, to develop the most effective strategies and tactics to build broader and more lasting communities of support.

Psychology 52

Psychology Philanthropy Culture Values 52

iMarketSmart

AUGUST 30, 2024

Langley Innovations provides a range of services to its clients to help them understand the cultural underpinnings of philanthropy and the psychology of donors, and with that knowledge, to develop the most effective strategies and tactics to build broader and more lasting communities of support.

Psychology 52

Psychology Philanthropy Culture Values 52

iMarketSmart

JUNE 30, 2023

Donors, as we are coming to understand more fully, engage in philanthropy to discover themselves. They demonstrate through their personal caring that donors are not just ATMs but valued in their own right. They seek meaning and community. They understand that even the wealthiest of donors are very human inside.

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The NonProfit Times

AUGUST 13, 2024

Page 35 in Overcoming Psychological Barriers to Giving , a new report from National Center For Family Philanthropy, offers fundraisers key strategies for helping donors move past mental obstacles to making donations. @Photo through Deposit Photos Can one page in a study make a difference on its own?

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iMarketSmart

FEBRUARY 6, 2023

6] Providing value This phrasing emphasizes value. These value words include, “Ideas” “Gift opportunities” “Investment opportunities” “Conversation,” and “Proposal.” It can provide real value. Using “value” words for the proposal isn’t just a trick. Finally, a delay can increase perceived value.

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iMarketSmart

MAY 24, 2024

Finding the phrases, images, and demonstrations that resonate most deeply with donors’ experiences and values. True professionalism (and why performance metrics must acknowledge teamwork). When you think about it, very sophisticated matchmaking is miraculous – but I better not get into that.

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iMarketSmart

MAY 12, 2023

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