Bloomerang

AUGUST 11, 2021

In this article, we’ll provide some guidance to those who are ready to move beyond the board statement or public equity pledge to actively and intentionally implement Justice, Equity, Diversity, and Inclusion (JEDI) practices and strategies into their consultant search process. . Investigate the budget. .

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DipJar

JUNE 20, 2023

Open lines of communication with your membership go a long way toward developing a better—and more customized— member experience ! Before starting a new membership drive, make sure your organization has these key retention strategies down: Member experience. How are communications throughout the membership experience?

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Get Fully Funded

JULY 18, 2022

It should be easy to understand and you need to be able to articulate it clearly. Look at your website with a newbie’s eye and see what your experience would be if you knew nothing about the organization. Does my website reflect my nonprofit’s Brand Standards Guidelines? Detailed activity calendar.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JANUARY 5, 2018

I call it my “ To Do, To Done, Don’t Do, Reflection List.” ” I use it for planning and goal setting as well as to reflect along the way. Chris Brogan’s ritual suggests selecting three words, but I modify it by articulating key themes. I also use it as a year in review tool.

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NonProfit Hub

MAY 29, 2020

Articulate Your Brand Vision. Reflect on your past failures and learnings. Besides, incentivizing your top donors will help to have more successful fundraising activities. Emily Johnson is a marketing consultant with 10 years of experience in the execution of marketing strategies. Influential Partner Organizations.

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Achieve

AUGUST 12, 2021

Given this, articulating your mission can help fuel your peer-to-peer campaigns, which means it’s time for you. are active on social media due to their strong desire to connect and socialize with others. Offer a streamlined donation experience. Another essential part of a streamlined donation experience is mobile accessibility.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

OCTOBER 20, 2011

I will work through all of them over the next week or so but the list that will keep growing is the one of insights and new ideas I gained from hearing fellow participants share their knowledge, experiences, and tools. I was very fortunate to be a part of the early Network of Network Funders community of practice.

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Connection Cafe

JUNE 12, 2017

Supporters have a disjointed experience with an organization they care about because of organizational silos. The nature of today’s nonprofit workplace——face-paced and heavy workloads—makes it difficult to find the reflective time to put together a learning plan and implement it consistently.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

AUGUST 15, 2009

Note From Beth: A few weeks ago, I wrote a reflection on an article in CNET called " Crowded Roads Ahead for Charity 2.0 " based on an interview with Toby Daniels of Think Social and Scott Harrison of charity:water. Movement building is all about relationship building techniques as Beth mentioned in her reflection.

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Causes Build Demonstration Reflection 89

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JUNE 25, 2012

This blog post includes some reflections on the instructional design, delivery, and insights that I hope will inform the field building discussion taking place over at the Packard OE Program site. We are working very closely with V.S. Chandrashekar, India Country Advisor and his talented team members, Ms. Anupam Shukla and Ms.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

AUGUST 17, 2011

I’ve been reflecting on why some nonprofits do a better job of measurement and learning, while others do not. There not is a reflection process for analyzing success or failure to take into next use or campaign. Example of A/B Testing Results. What is the difference? It comes down to organizational culture.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

AUGUST 31, 2009

We got into a discussion in the comments and she agreed to share some of her experience addressing this issue within her nonprofit organization. After this incident, we started to reflect on how our organization can move beyond its greatest fear of losing control and embrace social media? Our nonprofit is not unique.

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Museum 2.0

MAY 15, 2012

There's no oversight or permission required because the activity is self-evidently in keeping with our goals and strategy. If she is not willing or able to articulate a potential change, it’s not a prototype—it’s just a model of a foregone conclusion. Some experiments fail. We seek and value the feedback of others.

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Qgiv

OCTOBER 27, 2021

Your volunteers should be able to clearly articulate what your organization stands for and what makes it worth volunteering for. After all, even if they no longer volunteer with your organization, there was a time when they were actively engaging with your work. Reaching out to local churches. Tap into schools.

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Bloomerang

FEBRUARY 1, 2022

Elizabeth Abel will explore the role of the board in elevating fundraising activity and discuss effective strategies to recruit, engage, and deploy diverse board members as fundraising ambassadors. Second is to develop some action-oriented strategies to recruit and retain and engage diverse board members in fundraising activity broadly.

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Museum 2.0

SEPTEMBER 11, 2013

This week''s guest post is written by Julie Bowen, VP of Experience and Engagement at the Canadian Museum of Nature in Ottawa. In the debrief to the experience I asked people what they thought they might take back to their institutions from the workshop. The comment that brought me up short was “This was great.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JANUARY 26, 2007

Politics, and Activism If you can't be in DC this weekend to remind Congress that you voted against this war , Ruby Sinreich suggests that you head to the Progressive Island on Second Life for the Avatars Against the War sponsored by RootsCampSl.org Hillary Clinton is using Drupal. " Web 2.0, 20 practices. Live Blogging Conferences.

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Museum 2.0

JUNE 22, 2010

In fact, it often seems that the social tools we use are actively hostile to the type of community-building activities that help support a third place. However, the social experience of a mailing list over those three decades has hardly changed at all. " This is not an accident.

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Museum 2.0

NOVEMBER 7, 2010

Part 2: It's How Aggressive You Are My first year in museums, I tried to get as much broad experience as possible. Six months in, the Museum committed to creating a highly interactive, separate ticket "you be the spy" experience (now open and named Operation Spy). The blog started with a conference experience.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

FEBRUARY 21, 2009

Clearly articulated benefits statement that looks at tangible and intangible. This process consists of three activities. Learning is using experiments with metrics and the right questions at the right point to understand what works, what doesn’t. It may require internal culture change – proactive listening and experiments.

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Bloomerang

JULY 23, 2021

Our goals are really easy to articulate.” And the problem was this team really didn’t have a lot of experience with mid and major-level guests, didn’t have experience leading donors to their best gift because that’s totally different skill set. So we want to double the families.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

OCTOBER 27, 2014

The intent was to provide a deep dive for program officers to reflect on the way they currently work, identify what needs to change to create more impact, and come up with some prototypes. After landing on a single question, I facilitated a collective brainstorm activity that generated many ideas to address the question.

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Museum 2.0

DECEMBER 14, 2009

What new projects might allow you to better reflect those aspirations? I’m particularly enamored of this simple diagnostic used at the Museum of Life and Science in North Carolina to articulate the types of institutional goals they are trying to achieve with forays into participation. When you meet someone who can help you, ask her.

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Beneblog: Technology Meets Society

AUGUST 13, 2012

Our team articulately expressed direct, succinct truths that required no editing. Those activities must be on the path to accomplishing something big. Conclusion I hope this update has given you some insight into the key parts of the Benetech culture and an understanding of how these values are articulated in everything we do.

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Museum 2.0

JUNE 6, 2008

Now that the dust has cleared and the kids are banging on the exhibits (and showing us what we have to change next), I have the time to step back and share some of the lessons learned from this experience. On many levels, The Tech Virtual experiment was a success. It also focused the experience.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

SEPTEMBER 7, 2010

This post reflections on the training design as well as my content notes. I’ll look forward to read any reflections from Alan on how this worked. Networked Nonprofits have articulated SMART objectives and a target audience for their Facebook page. Beth’s Social Media Lab – Facebook Experiments.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JANUARY 13, 2010

The key to success in social media is to leave room for reflection at the end of a project. Reflection gives you a chance to understand what worked and what didn't. I do this with every social media activity as well as whenever I teach. Chocolate activates the pleasure center of the brain, at least according to some research.

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Classes Learning Fundraising Reflection 95

Have Fun - Do Good

JULY 3, 2006

A lot of women reflected back to us that they felt oftentimes like the families would treat them as if they were a part of the family, so that then their work was in some ways made invisible. It was the first experience that I had with social movement organizing. Initially, she was getting paid eight dollars an hour.

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Museum 2.0

FEBRUARY 22, 2012

The honest reflections from staff members beyond curatorial and education departments--including registrars, security staff, and PR--are unparalleled. Artist as Problem Solver vs. Artist as Problem Explorer Mark Allen (director of Machine Project) and I have talked about this issue several times, and Mark articulates it beautifully.

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Bloomerang

JULY 17, 2021

And so one of the things that has been such a big lesson, and an aha, and also a gift is when I started putting people first and then getting to the goal once I understood how to get my folks motivated, activated, interested, and owning the work that they did, like the sky opened up. It’s virtual. So I have a question for y’all.

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Museum 2.0

JULY 9, 2007

It reflects the GMSP’s—and Jen’s—commitment to creating a set of programs by and for its audience: teen girls. Museums don’t have the lock on hands-on informal education experiences. These girls got so much out of the experience about women—about why careers in science are for them. Some people are voyeuristic, some are active.

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Bloomerang

DECEMBER 10, 2021

And we’ve all got it, it is very active. So fundamentally, I think for major donor conversations what you want to be doing is asking questions, then you reflect back what they’ve said. So you’re reflecting back what they said, and then you essentially deflect it. . Are you active on social?

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Museum 2.0

OCTOBER 16, 2013

When I reflected on our museum, I realized we have some inconsistencies in how we calculate attendance. For us, annual attendance includes programmatic activities onsite and off. Even if you consider some of these counting strategies to be egregious, the basic question is still relevant: who counts? as part of a meeting)?

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Bloomerang

APRIL 16, 2021

A lot of the work we do at Big Duck is about helping organizations articulate their voice. It needs to be clear because, if your organization is not clear what your vision and mission is all about, it’s going to be very hard to figure out what communications activities are going to spark the advancement of that mission.

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The Modern Nonprofit

SEPTEMBER 26, 2023

Inspiration: The African Wildlife Foundation does a great job of articulating urgency in both its appeal language and its CTA. Make your call-to-action (CTA) clear and distinct, and have your action button reflect that. Do prepare for a mid-campaign slump with a period where donations will be matched to activate donors.

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DNL OmniMedia

OCTOBER 22, 2020

Thanks to custom development and integration with Salesforce , the site instantly reflects every gift ICA receives! Every nonprofit site should include the organization’s mission statement somewhere, and Mustard Seed’s Mission and Vision page does a great job of articulating their purpose using short paragraphs and to-the-point language.

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