Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

OCTOBER 8, 2019

In my work as a trainer and facilitator, I make workshops and master classes as interactive as possible, incorporating peer discussion, movement, and creativity. But it isn’t impossible, if you follow best practices for virtual facilitation for meetings. These activities are called icebreakers.

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Bloomerang

OCTOBER 28, 2023

Or try additional experiential events like interactive workshops, virtual reality experiences, or access to behind-the-scenes activities. Engage on digital platforms: Use the technology younger donors favor—like QR codes or Tap to Pay —to facilitate easy capture of contact information and donations.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

AUGUST 17, 2021

The hybrid workplace will have a huge impact on the way we design and facilitate meetings, the primary method of how many organizations get stuff done. Our new normal will most likely be more complex to design and facilitate. Here are some considerations for designing and facilitating pandemic-era hybrid meetings.

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Nonprofit Tech for Good

MAY 8, 2020

When using WhatsApp to engage with various stakeholders, nonprofits have to be mindful of incorporating the various digital storytelling elements discussed above in order to ensure a successful engagement with those stakeholders. WhatsApp is a useful tool with which to apply the elements of good storytelling. 4) Fundraising.

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Saleforce Nonprofit

FEBRUARY 24, 2022

Are there connections we can facilitate? Not only did CDOs embrace these opportunities to learn from speakers and connect with one another, but they have formed an active Slack community to share ideas and resources with each other in real time. Sterrin does a great job organizing speakers and facilitating discussion.”

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sgEngage

SEPTEMBER 13, 2022

For staff, this often involves careful planning and facilitation, and playing a backend organizing role to ensure participants are easily able to engage in the tasks at hand. Inclusive and accessible practices for equitable participation in activities. Fair and just compensation for and appreciation of participant time.

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sgEngage

MAY 30, 2023

In this blog post, we will explore the concept of community leadership in foundations and discuss how they can support their grantees beyond the dollar. Understanding Community Leadership Community leadership involves actively engaging with local stakeholders, identifying shared goals, and working collaboratively towards achieving them.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MARCH 4, 2020

It’s time to up your virtual facilitation and convening skills. Since those days, I have continued to hone my virtual facilitation skills to design and deliver effective virtual meetings and trainings. As nonprofits are impacted by the CoronaVirus and need more virtual meeting skills, I’d like to share what I have learned.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

FEBRUARY 8, 2018

As part of the class , we look at different examples of networked strategies and digital platforms and tools and how they can be used to advance civil society goals. Circles without tables, just chairs helps promote group discussion. I’ve spent a lot of time trying to understand how the feng shui of a classroom impacts learning.

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sgEngage

OCTOBER 9, 2023

On its face, evaluation seems like a neutral activity, designed to help us understand what’s happened, and to change course where needed. Like many other activities in participatory philanthropy, this approach considers the process to be as important as the outcomes. This can range from them being consulted to owning the results.

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Amy Sample Ward

FEBRUARY 1, 2011

Community Managers ensure successful engagement and participation on a new platform by facilitating discussion, modeling behavior, and supporting leadership development. Community Managers provide key facilitation that empowers participation and engenders trust.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

APRIL 1, 2020

I realized after the first week, that I needed to gather every tool from my Happy Healthy Nonprofit toolkit to try to keep calm, focused, and positive. Focus on these three activities: sleep, nutrition and exercise to help strengthen your immune system and feel better. If you are feeling COVID-19 anxiety, you are not alone.

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Achieve

MAY 10, 2021

Post-Campaign Activities. As discussed in. This should be a highly personalized process, so your team should actively tailor your. donor research tools. Host personal meetings to discuss your campaign with prospects one-on-one. The Public Phase. this guide to feasibility studies. If you’ve hosted one or more.

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Candid

JUNE 16, 2022

Takeaways and discussion questions conclude each section, providing a useful tool for facilitating dialogues for reflection and learning. A separate Facilitator’s toolkit is available to support this activity at your foundation. .

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Achieve

AUGUST 20, 2021

The agendas you create for your board meetings will act as the roadmap for your meetings, letting everyone know what will be discussed and how they can best contribute to the conversation. Attaching documents that will be up for discussion or voting allows everyone to review important information ahead of time. budget preparation.

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Tech Soup

JULY 8, 2011

Guardian’s ACTIVATE is an annual conference that aims to bring together leaders in media, government and technology to a ctivatedly. discuss approaches to addressing nagging challenges of the current. This time on June 22 at King’s Place in London, ACTIVATE’s. face and how we could help solve them. On the core.

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Achieve

MARCH 1, 2024

The latter number is predicted to reach almost 505 million by the end of the year, with over 100 million active listeners in the United States alone. As you discuss your nonprofit’s cause and programs, listeners will be more likely to emotionally connect with your organization and get involved. Connect with your audience in a new way.

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Blue Avocado

JANUARY 23, 2024

1 While all of these are useful tools for program development and planning, there is another strategy that provides consistent access to community input while also routinely building a supportive foundation from diverse, innovative ideas: the creation of strong advisory committees. Time Commitment—How often will the committee meet?

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

AUGUST 19, 2013

Note from Beth: Mitch Arnowitz and I recently participated in an online discussion at Venture Philanthropy Partners/Leap of Reason about creating a community of practice for continuous improvement and high performance in the nonprofit sector. The discussion thread reminded me of an AdMarketing conversation we had a long time ago.

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Nonprofits Source

OCTOBER 30, 2023

Use these tips to create a fulfilling volunteer experience and retain your remote volunteers’ support year-round: Provide thorough training Use the right tools Show volunteer appreciation By keeping your remote volunteers motivated, you can leverage their unique skills and interests to fuel change in your community. Let’s begin.

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AccelEvents

NOVEMBER 5, 2020

From event ticketing to marketing, an event planning software allows an event organizer to see all of their tools in one cohesive place. Facilitate attendee engagement. Facilitate globalized networking. With the right event platform, there is no need to hire an entire event management team to facilitate all of this. .

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AccelEvents

JUNE 4, 2020

Set up virtual meeting rooms, for example, so the audience can continue discussions after a session is done. Links to Twitter, Facebook, and Instagram, can help you increase brand awareness and facilitate networking before and during your virtual event. An active social media presence will set the tone for the event overall.

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Bloomerang

MAY 31, 2022

Ensure you have access to these useful tools: CRM. With a matching gift tool, you can follow up with match-eligible donors to remind them to apply for a match. And, you can even embed a matching gift search tool into your online donation form so donors can research their eligibility and apply for a match on the spot.

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Amy Sample Ward

SEPTEMBER 14, 2010

We’ll address emerging best practices and discuss the associated opportunities and challenges of community-driven strategies. This session will include a presentation, discussion and small group scenarios. This session will focus on strategies and tactics to amplify the impact of mission-based programs through community-driven efforts.

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Bloomerang

JANUARY 29, 2024

If your nonprofit offers memberships to engage supporters more deeply in your organization’s activities, you need robust software to keep your program organized. Use segmentation tools to identify connections between members, such as those who work in the same field or live in the same area.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

OCTOBER 9, 2018

Allison Fine and I have been actively researching and writing about AI for Social Good and Nonprofits with an eye towards our next book. Facilitated by Lucy Bernholz, the panelists discussed how data mining, policy algorithms, and predictive risk models affect poor and working-class people in America. More on the new law here.

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Top Nonprofits

OCTOBER 18, 2021

When people are actively involved in your campaign, more of them will give to your campaign and they will give more generously. Pick the people you are going to discuss in advance and come to the meeting with some simple background information about the person that you can share with the group. participate actively in the discussion.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

NOVEMBER 19, 2013

The convening used participatory methods to identify topics for small group conversations related to the theme and was expertly facilitated by Allen Gunn from Aspiration. ( I wrote a reflection last week about the facilitation techniques here ). We discussed some of the social media monitoring tools.

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AccelEvents

NOVEMBER 5, 2020

From event ticketing to marketing, an event planning software allows an event organizer to see all of their tools in one cohesive place. Facilitate attendee engagement. Facilitate globalized networking. With the right event platform, there is no need to hire an entire event management team to facilitate all of this. .

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Achieve

AUGUST 18, 2020

While engagement events like discussions, parties, and announcements can be easily adapted to live-streamed settings and can generate donations, more strategically incorporating fundraising into your virtual events has probably proved to be more challenging. Do you have the tools you’ll need to host the auction and facilitate bids?

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sgEngage

JULY 20, 2021

Porter Novelli’s latest research on business and social justice shows that consumers, employees and other stakeholders want companies to acknowledge their role in systemic injustices and actively change the system. Panel Discussion: CSR at the Intersection of D&I and Civic Action. But making progress always happens step-by-step.

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NonProfit Hub

JANUARY 24, 2020

Use your association management tools to maintain this balance for your members by: Creating a dedicated association website. As your association gets larger, active online member engagement ensures that your membership stays unified. An online space facilitates member engagement and improves the overall experience.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JANUARY 28, 2007

TechSoup holds regular meetings for nonprofits in Second Life and I have been attending regularly and sometimes facilitate like this I did this past week. So, I've been reflecting about effective facilitation of virtual meetings in Second Life Right now the primary method of group interaction is via unmoderated chat interface.

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Forum One

AUGUST 15, 2010

The second part explores challenges in facilitating collaboration. The third post is an encouragement to know your community , and the fourth discusses the importance of timing in launching a community and running its programs. Figure out which two or three activities best meet your community's goals, and focus your energies on them.

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Forj

MAY 25, 2021

But, before we dive into the five features that you should seek in your next CME LMS, let’s discuss why you’re seeking a new solution to begin with. Your association needs to report to PARS for all accreditation activities. The goal of this piece is to ensure that the next CME LMS you invest in supports your organization effectively.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

OCTOBER 23, 2014

Peter and Madeleine were the among the pioneers in writing about, designing, facilitating, and evaluating networks in the social impact space. The members of these networks are intentional about building, strengthening, and maintaining relationships with one another that generates collaborative activities together.

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AccelEvents

JUNE 4, 2020

Set up virtual meeting rooms, for example, so the audience can continue discussions after a session is done. Links to Twitter, Facebook, and Instagram, can help you increase brand awareness and facilitate networking before and during your virtual event. An active social media presence will set the tone for the event overall.

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