Donate to charity promotes mental health

Psychology today, body minding blog advises people to improve their mental health by giving money to charity: Worried about money? Give some away.

Quoting several studies that show some of the positive effects of the charity have principles:

-  It can create a sense of social belonging.
-  It gives you a feeling of making a difference.
- It can reduce the stress response of the body to make you produce less cortisol, a stress     hormone.

There is much more than that too. Donors are ahead economically, socially, physically, spiritually – in every way possible – when they give.

Remember: When you ask donors for money, not trying to make them poorer. You are offering them a path to a better life – including better mental health.

When you realize how good you can open the donors by asking them, you will do a better job with it.

The fundrising is not about social media, online video, etc. Neither about any technology, medium or technique. It’s about donors. If you want to raise funds from donors, you have to study, respect and build everything you do around them.

We  now need  professionals in fundraising who:

- Be aware that fundraising is about donors, not us.
- Be aware that fundraising is both a science-based art and number one heart motor.
- Understand that fundraising is a noble activity and change the world, not just a necessary evil or sidekick to the real thing.

Think of the fundraising can be done much better.