ASU Lodestar Center

OCTOBER 16, 2020

As nonprofits attempt to tackle some of our communities' most difficult problems; funders, government agencies and the general public are actively calling for accountability, transparency and proof that a program is producing change. What attitudes toward evaluation are present? Illustration by Jocelyn Ruiz. are available?

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Evaluation Program Attitude Instruction 52

Bloomerang

MAY 31, 2024

To empower people to be the change they want to see, one must facilitate philanthropy. The “us” vs. “them” attitudes, roughly lumped under the mantle of “community-centric fundraising,” are unfortunate. Which is why I advocate a practice of “philanthropy, not fundraising.” Love, not money. Why are we fighting with donors? All of them.

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Problem Philanthropy Nonprofit Charity 67

Bloomerang

AUGUST 23, 2021

Mastering personalized, customer-centered philanthropy facilitation, especially mid-level and major donors, to increase donor lifetime value. Organization-wide internalizing and externalizing an attitude of adopting a culture of philanthropy. Mastering relevant content marketing. Mastering an analytic approach to strategy and planning.

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Adopt Culture Philanthropy Strategy 138

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

FEBRUARY 13, 2012

It is an opportunity for a group to reflect on a project, activity, event or task so that they can do it better the next time. One person in the group facilitates and the rest of the groups participates. More people participate so that more of the project or activity can be recalled and more lessons can be learned and shared.

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Review Social Media Action Strategy 97

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JANUARY 27, 2014

For the networked nonprofit workshops I facilitate, I’ve developed a maturity of practice assessment called “ Crawl, Walk, Run, Fly ” which gives me a detailed understanding of where the organization is in its practice. Ideally, audience research should be done before you design your workshop or course.

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Instructional Design Instruction Instructional Training 111

Neon CRM

MAY 12, 2023

Thank Your Members (Again and Again) You should always have a gracious attitude toward your members, but be especially considerate when you’re asking them to renew their membership. To sum it up: Provide contact information for your team should members need to follow up with your renewal letter in person, over the phone, or via email.

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Template Free Guide Application 98

Eric Jacobsen Blog

FEBRUARY 4, 2018

Question: How best should a leader pro-actively prepare for that impact? Question: When a leader helps to facilitate mentoring within his/her organization, what works best? Grubb : If your company is still struggling with how to manage the Millennial generation, it’s time to get serious about your management practices and training!

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Generation Management Mentoring Attitude 40

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

OCTOBER 7, 2011

I’m also a champion for the Blue Key Campaign which is using a Facebook Group to coordinate and communicate around our work supporting the campaign. Last year, Darim Online used a Facebook Group to facilitate a virtual book club for the Networked Nonprofit. What else can you learn about your members through their activity?

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Group Facebook Doc Poll 119

Eric Jacobsen Blog

SEPTEMBER 21, 2017

Question: How best should a leader pro-actively prepare for that impact? Question: When a leader helps to facilitate mentoring within his/her organization, what works best? Grubb : If your company is still struggling with how to manage the Millennial generation, it’s time to get serious about your management practices and training!

Management 40

Management Mentoring Generation Attitude 40

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

NOVEMBER 22, 2011

Note from Beth: I had pleasure of facilitating a panel discussion in October at the recent Grantmakers in the Arts pre-conference on technology and media with Rory MacPherson where I learned about some of the preliminary study result he discovered. Arts organizations are not alone in this. What are they learning from their experiments?

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Arts Social Media Studies National 110

Eric Jacobsen Blog

APRIL 30, 2017

Question: How best should a leader pro-actively prepare for that impact? Question: When a leader helps to facilitate mentoring within his/her organization, what works best? Grubb : If your company is still struggling with how to manage the Millennial generation, it’s time to get serious about your management practices and training!

Management 40

Management Mentoring Generation Attitude 40

ASU Lodestar Center

SEPTEMBER 10, 2019

An attitude of stuffiness, elitism or ‘I know what’s best for your community’ is quickly shut down. Simple outreach activities include providing literature like brochures, materials and giveaway items marketing the program. Organizations use marketing efforts to create collateral that will appeal to target demographics.

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Arizona Method Nonprofit Relationship 40

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

OCTOBER 26, 2010

Last week, I had the pleasure of facilitating a Networked Nonprofit and Social Media workshop at the Independent Sector Annual Conference “ Forging A Stronger Future Together &# in Atlanta. The downside to virtual presenting is that you don’t get to see your friends face-to-face !

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Blackbaud Conference Reflection Atlanta 93

Have Fun - Do Good

AUGUST 21, 2008

Blog Day August 31st A day for bloggers to recommend 5 new blogs to their readers,"preferably blogs that are different from their own culture, point of view and attitude." Cross-posted from NetSquared blogday2008 onewebday blogactionday bloggersunite blog refugees poverty activism Lots of do-good bloggy "Days" coming up! For more info.

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Blogger Action Info Attitude 41

Museum 2.0

MAY 19, 2016

Bonded groups are useful if you want to understand people's existing attitudes and impressions. The best book I've read on the topic is Facilitators Guide to Participatory Decision-Making by Sam Kaner. Include a mix of individual activities (often writing or drawing), partner/small group work, and whole group discussion.

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Build Community Museum Participatory 35

Connection Cafe

JANUARY 15, 2019

Individuals create campaigns to raise funds and awareness for the causes they care about – usually centered around a project, activity, milestone, event, or other inspiration. There has been no shortage of research to help us understand this cohort’s beliefs, attitudes, and behaviors. It’s about being less prescriptive.

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Voice Social Fundraising Influence 22

BoardAssist

MARCH 1, 2016

You’ll see a sea change in their attitude, commitment, enthusiasm and engagement levels. Give your board chair training in meeting facilitation. Her Fired-Up Fundraising Board Workshops have inspired thousands of board members to get actively involved in fundraising. Take them out of the office and get them in the field.

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Tips PowerPoint Classroom Attitude 40

Forj

JULY 8, 2021

These exercises can measure knowledge gained, skills learned, or even attitudes or mindsets changed. They could even complete a ratings-based assessment before and after learning a topic, to test how their opinions, attitudes, or mindsets surrounding the topic changed. Proctoring high-stakes exams.

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eLearning Course Test Knowledge 69

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JANUARY 30, 2010

Our charge was to teach back-to-back simultaneous workshops covering social media strategy for NGOs and social media tools. It made me think of the metaphor of the Dance Floor and the Balcony a phrase and exercise that I learned from a session that Eric Eugene Kim facilitated. .

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Social Media Training Train Media 95

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

SEPTEMBER 25, 2009

There are now 990 actively engaged Fellows— across the five focal countries of Ethiopia, Nigeria, India, Pakistan, and the Philippines—regularly participating in the Leadership Development for Mobilizing Reproductive Health network activities. He is currently facilitating strategic planning for the wikimedia movement.

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Collaboration Learning Exercise Online 93

Connection Cafe

JUNE 12, 2017

The Playbook features a highly practical toolkit that consists of facilitator agendas and worksheets for nonprofit staff to apply the ideas and frameworks. This activity helps you articulate why a culture of philanthropy is important, your values, and the way you work. To be effective, this attitude needs to be reversed.

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Culture Philanthropy Marketing Create 47

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

APRIL 8, 2009

The session was expertly facilitated by the Monitor Team which included David Sawyer, Diana Scearce, and Heather McLeod Grant. We also had a wide range of attitudes about the use of social media - from healthy skepticism to excited practioner. As a result, the questions and insights shared were rich and varied. Outward Facing.

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Design Social Media Network Remix 50

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

FEBRUARY 18, 2008

Here's what she had to say about this role: Fine says that it is important to encourage individual activism and that social media has become the "extra organizational lifeblood" replacing memberships, the lifeblood of the pre-Internet activist world. s a high degree of cooperation among the most active fundraisers.

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Fundraising Cambodia Social Blogher 50

Museum 2.0

JUNE 1, 2010

Here are four surprising things Oldenburg describes about third places—characteristics I think would be quite difficult for cultural institutions to assume: The primary attraction of a third place is the patrons, not the décor, the hosts, or the activities provided by management. People make fun of each other and laugh loudly.

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Place Discussion Culture Museum 41

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

AUGUST 12, 2009

Using social software for purposeful activities tends to create gigantic, wide, always-coursing feedback loops that will not be stopped. Jon Husbands is a Listener, watcher and facilitator. From yesteryear to tomorrow Enter social software. Change agent who's been around many blocks.

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Aggregator Model Leadership Method 82

Wild Apricot

JUNE 27, 2008

s needs, knowledge, and the sorts of practices they face on a daily basis is critical in an effective knowledge transfer and exchange activity.". Find a spokesperson or facilitator who is familiar to your audience; ideally, someone who is perceived as a colleague or fellow member of the community. impacts on decision making).

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Knowledge Effective PDF Evaluation 60

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JUNE 15, 2012

Note from Beth: While I’m facilitating “Networked NGO Workshops” in Delhi for Packard grantees in India, I’ve lined up a few guest posts. Old attitudes die hard, and one such attitude is that games can’t be anything more than light entertainment. Meet the Nominees.

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Game Lesson Change Build 104

Museum 2.0

JANUARY 18, 2008

This week marks one month of live activity for the Tech Virtual Museum Workshop , a collaborative, online platform for exhibit development. For me, it means spending a lot more time facilitating idea generation and communicating with others than being an independent creative agent. Why not apply the same attitude to our own staff?

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Museum Virtual Tech Second Life 20

Bloomerang

JULY 20, 2023

Choose an online fundraising platform Choose the software solutions that will facilitate your online fundraising efforts. Social media challenge In a social media challenge, nonprofits invite supporters to complete a task or activity and document it on their social media to raise awareness and funds.

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Ideas Online Fundraising Tips 80

Museum 2.0

DECEMBER 28, 2007

Their success, I believe, is due to the fact that in most cases, participants are active agents on missions, not just visitors spending a couple hours building a lie detector. When have you seen museum programs take visitors to the next level, pushing their participation, their attitudes, their comfort? By sending people on missions.

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Program People Museum Lecture 20

.orgSource

MAY 9, 2023

A more equitable attitude toward participation allows people who might have been previously ignored during conversations about innovation to step forward,” Liz noted. Before you engage a facilitator, discuss their approach to innovation. Prioritize innovative activities. In this competitive environment, every asset counts. “A

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Culture Associations Consultant Environment 44

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

APRIL 10, 2012

” That got me thinking about my prep process. I spent ten years as a focus group moderator so I think that experience was invaluable to learning how to facilitate wide ranging discussions, learning to listen intensely, and bringing out different points of view. Use Good Facilitation Practices.

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NTC Reflection Poll Script 108