2010, Organization, Work and Workshop

5 New Year’s Rituals for Nonprofit Professionals to Build Personal Resilience

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JANUARY 9, 2020

3) Update & Review My Personal Resilience Plan: In my workshops on resilience, I help nonprofits improve their personal resilience through life-work balance and self-care. This year one thing I am doing for myself is exploring fountain pens and working on calligraphy. So stay tuned.

Professional

Professional Personal Croatia Build

Arts Organizations Digital Strategies Master Class and Train the Trainers

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MAY 6, 2013

I’m teaching a master class today in San Francisco for arts organizations for Theatre Bay Area. This is a continuation of my work with TBA over the past 3-4 years. The first year I experimented with a peer design that included face-to-face workshops, action learning projects, and monthly calls back in 2010 called ArtsLab.

Classes

Classes San Francisco Arts Training

Facebook Campaigning in Romania

Amy Sample Ward

NOVEMBER 19, 2010

Earlier this summer, I had the huge privilege to visit Romania and help with the Local Philanthropy Workshop. It was so much fun and it was an amazing experience to work with people like Chris Worman and meet with so many local nonprofit and community changemakers. The Local Philanthropy Workshop: Facebook Campaigning in Romania.

Romania

Romania Facebook Campaign NGO

Introducing a New NTEN Workbook: Getting Started With Data-Driven Decision Making

NTEN

JANUARY 28, 2013

Over the last few years, NTEN has been working with nonprofits to understand how to better wrangle all the data they’re creating and what’s available to them into improved results: more mission impact. In 2010, we organized an online workshop we affectionately titled “Taming the Data Monster.”

NTEN

NTEN Data Metrics Sample

Community Science Workshops and Shared Authorship of Space: Interview with Emilyn Green

Museum 2.0

MARCH 18, 2015

In a Community Science Workshop. A couple months ago, I visited a Community Science Workshop for the first time in Watsonville, CA. I sat down with Emilyn Green, Executive Director of the Community Science Workshop Network , to learn more about their history, design, and engagement strategy. How are Workshop locations selected?

Green

Green Interview Share Community

Using Pinterest To Raise Awareness About Violence Against Women in Nigeria

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JULY 4, 2012

I was going to write something patriotic about social media, but I got an email from Mari Tikkanen with story about her recent experience working with maternal/reproductive health organizations and human rights NGOs in Nigeria for the MacArthur Foundation.

Nigeria

Nigeria Awareness Raise Alternative

Good Food Revolution: Will Allen of Growing Power

Have Fun - Do Good

MAY 29, 2012

There's lots of excitement, but now we have to prove that this works. He is now the CEO of Growing Power , an organization that develops community food systems. He is also a member of the Clinton Global Initiative, and in February 2010, he was invited to the White House to join First Lady Michelle Obama in launching, "Let's Move!"

Kenya

Kenya Wisconsin Childhood Movie

Staff and Volunteer Training Tips

ASU Lodestar Center

FEBRUARY 16, 2012

Providing formal training to staff and volunteers has obvious benefits for an organization, individual staff members and volunteers. For the organization, it is a means of ensuring staff and volunteers are knowledgeable, making them exceptional ambassadors for the organization in and outside of work.

Training

Training Train Volunteer Classroom

NTC Day of Service 2010 As Pizza By The Slice

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MAY 5, 2009

This year we saw a record turnout with more than 100 volunteers assisting about 60 Bay-Area organizations. Over the years, we've reiterated this event - from office visits, types of volunteer tasks, amount of time, workshops, and lots more. She suggested that we set up tables organized by topic. Yes, pizza by the slice !

NTC

NTC Service New York City Chad

How to Conduct a Quick Tech Plan

Tech Soup

DECEMBER 13, 2013

Here’s some resources for doing quick tech planning so you’ll have some money to work with in 2014. Doing a draft technology plan or roadmap that integrates with your organization’s larger strategic plans. What can technology do for your organization now, six months from now, and a year from now?

Tech

Tech Disaster Library Sample

Independent Sector Annual Conference: Forcing a Stronger Future Together

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

OCTOBER 8, 2010

As part of my work as Visiting Scholar at the Packard Foundation, I’ll be heading to the Independent Sector ’s Annual Conference “ Forging a Stronger Future Together ” in Atlanta October 20-22 with over 500 leaders from from across the nonprofit and philanthropic community. Darell Hammond, co-founder and CEO of KaBOOM!

Conference

Conference Social Media Atlanta Award

#1MilliForJadudi: A Crowdfunding Campaign in Kenya to help Cancer Patient

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

OCTOBER 21, 2015

In 2010, I had an opportunity to do a Networked Nonprofit workshop in Kenya. After the workshop, I hung out with participants providing some coaching. She is working on a providing training for organizations and activists in Kenya to learn how to launch successful campaigns. We did a little coaching.

Kenya

Kenya Cancer Campaign Help

Takeaways from the American Express Leadership Academy Alumni Summit

ASU Lodestar Center

APRIL 28, 2016

I am a proud 2010 graduate of The American Express Leadership Academy at the ASU Lodestar Center. I was selected as one of 50 network delegates from around the globe to convene in New York on April 4 and 5 to participate in a variety of workshops and panel discussions designed to enhance alumni relationships and vital leadership skills.

Leadership

Leadership Phoenix Mexico Classes

4 Keys to Successful Fundraising in 2012

Get Fully Funded

DECEMBER 26, 2011

The organizations that are flourishing (and yes, some are doing great!) I have several clients who have had their best years ever in 2010 and 2011. ’ They’ll have a written plan of how they’ll communicate with their donors and prospects, and they’ll treat their donors as partners in their work, not as ATMs.

Fundraising

Fundraising Training Train Money

Research Friday: Battling Domestic Violence with Data

ASU Lodestar Center

OCTOBER 14, 2011

With support from the Blue Shield of California Foundation , NFF recently released Navigating a New Course , a report on the challenges these organizations are facing. Lessons learned from our work with agencies in the field. The report was primarily informed by two sources: Financial data showing trends from the field.

Research

Research Data California Government

Reflection and Evaluation

Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

MARCH 10, 2008

But I have really come to believe that the way that we work with people is as important as the “final&# outcome. In the last few months, I was involved in helping three organizations choose vendors for varied technology projects, and in the course of that time, I talked with almost a dozen technology vendors of one type or another.

Evaluation

Evaluation Reflection Open Source Journal

10NTC: What do you want to talk about?

Amy Sample Ward

OCTOBER 5, 2009

NTEN’s Nonprofit Technology Conference held each Spring is always THE place to be for nonprofit techies: whether you work in a nonprofit organization or with one, are totally technical or fell into your techie job, like social media or like wiring an office. But, what do you want to talk about?

NTC

NTC Atlanta Proposal Conference

4 Keys to Successful Fundraising in 2012

Get Fully Funded

DECEMBER 26, 2011

The organizations that are flourishing (and yes, some are doing great!) I have several clients who have had their best years ever in 2010 and 2011. ’ They’ll have a written plan of how they’ll communicate with their donors and prospects, and they’ll treat their donors as partners in their work, not as ATMs.

Fundraising

Fundraising Training Train Money

My Three Words for 2011: Seek, Sense, and Share

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JANUARY 3, 2011

In 2010, my three words were Networked, Generosity, and Full of Life. networks, training and capacity building approaches, and culture change. Most of all, sensing requires discipline, a routine, systems, and being organized. What role will social media and connectedness play in your quest to improve your professional work?

Share

Share Reflection Social Media Model

Have Online Social Networks Become Boring?

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MAY 31, 2012

” I often used the video at social media workshops back then to generate discussion about how our world is changing. ” Does this signal that working in networks been become normal in the nonprofit sector? ” Have networks become a more accepted way of working?

Social Network

Social Network Network Social Online

Nonprofits Live: Great Presentations on August 26

Tech Soup

AUGUST 14, 2011

Whether offering a workshop, giving a keynote speech in your community, or persuading funders in a new campaign, nonprofit leaders require strong presentation skills — from designing amazing slides and visuals to listening to your audience as you share your ideas. Are you looking for secrets to giving great presentations?

Oracle

Oracle North Carolina Second Life San Francisco

If You're Part of the Cream, You're Gonna Get Licked

NTEN

JUNE 16, 2010

Lucky for us, our great pals Maddy and Lindy at Social Fish organized a Buzz 2010 breakfast with , who wrote , and who just released her latest book, Open Leadership. Everyone can be a leader in their organizations, and everyone can bring openness - through social media - to their work. They get licked.

Org

Org Chart DC Social Media

The Ultimate Nonprofit SharePoint App: The Case Management Database of Children's Network of Solano County

Tech Soup

DECEMBER 20, 2011

Getting a case management databases in use by several people and across different offices and even across different organizations is a particularly thorny problem. Our new SharePoint web-based version how many organizations we can serve. What does the database do and how do people in the organizations you serve use it?

Sharepoint

Sharepoint Children Database Network

Research Friday: Looking Back - 2011 makes a strong case for capital

ASU Lodestar Center

DECEMBER 1, 2011

At Nonprofit Finance Fund (NFF), we use financial data every day in our work with nonprofits and their funders. One source of data informing this work is our annual State of the Sector Survey. They told us about their organizations’ financial outcomes from 2010 and speculated on what 2011 would bring.

Research

Research Survey Model Chart

Influence | Forum One: Internet Strategy, Social Media, User Experience and Web Site Development

Forum One

MAY 27, 2009

Skip to Navigation Careers News Client login About Us Services Our Work Blogs Events Contact Us Home › Blogs › Influence Social Networking and #AIDS2010 Suzanne Rainey in Influence 15 Jul 2010 There’s a flurry of action this week as we await the start of the XVIII International AIDS Conference (#AIDS2010) in Vienna, Austria, next week.

5 New Year’s Rituals for Nonprofit Professionals to Build Personal Resilience

Arts Organizations Digital Strategies Master Class and Train the Trainers

Trending Sources

Facebook Campaigning in Romania

Introducing a New NTEN Workbook: Getting Started With Data-Driven Decision Making

Community Science Workshops and Shared Authorship of Space: Interview with Emilyn Green

Using Pinterest To Raise Awareness About Violence Against Women in Nigeria

Good Food Revolution: Will Allen of Growing Power

Staff and Volunteer Training Tips

NTC Day of Service 2010 As Pizza By The Slice

How to Conduct a Quick Tech Plan

Independent Sector Annual Conference: Forcing a Stronger Future Together

#1MilliForJadudi: A Crowdfunding Campaign in Kenya to help Cancer Patient

Takeaways from the American Express Leadership Academy Alumni Summit

4 Keys to Successful Fundraising in 2012

Research Friday: Battling Domestic Violence with Data

Reflection and Evaluation

10NTC: What do you want to talk about?

4 Keys to Successful Fundraising in 2012

My Three Words for 2011: Seek, Sense, and Share

Have Online Social Networks Become Boring?

Nonprofits Live: Great Presentations on August 26

If You're Part of the Cream, You're Gonna Get Licked

The Ultimate Nonprofit SharePoint App: The Case Management Database of Children's Network of Solano County

Research Friday: Looking Back - 2011 makes a strong case for capital

Influence | Forum One: Internet Strategy, Social Media, User Experience and Web Site Development

Empowering Young Children through Philanthropy

Quick Hit: My Work with the Santa Cruz Museum of Art & History

Influence | Forum One: Internet Strategy, Social Media, User Experience and Web Site Development

Influence | Forum One: Internet Strategy, Social Media, User Experience and Web Site Development

Influence | Forum One: Internet Strategy, Social Media, User Experience and Web Site Development

Influence | Forum One: Internet Strategy, Social Media, User Experience and Web Site Development

Influence | Forum One: Internet Strategy, Social Media, User Experience and Web Site Development

Influence | Forum One: Internet Strategy, Social Media, User Experience and Web Site Development

Influence | Forum One: Internet Strategy, Social Media, User Experience and Web Site Development

Influence | Forum One: Internet Strategy, Social Media, User Experience and Web Site Development

Influence | Forum One: Internet Strategy, Social Media, User Experience and Web Site Development

Influence | Forum One: Internet Strategy, Social Media, User Experience and Web Site Development

Influence | Forum One: Internet Strategy, Social Media, User Experience and Web Site Development

Supporting Have Fun Do Good with TranquiliT and the Right Brain Business Plan

Influence | Forum One: Internet Strategy, Social Media, User Experience and Web Site Development

Influence | Forum One: Internet Strategy, Social Media, User Experience and Web Site Development

Influence | Forum One: Internet Strategy, Social Media, User Experience and Web Site Development

Influence | Forum One: Internet Strategy, Social Media, User Experience and Web Site Development

Influence | Forum One: Internet Strategy, Social Media, User Experience and Web Site Development

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