Get Fully Funded

NOVEMBER 22, 2021

If you feel mired in stress and anxiety, you might have a tough time with this exercise. Gratitude is a muscle that needs exercise. Use this exercise daily to keep your head in the right place. Write down your feelings, especially the ones you have trouble articulating. Just write down three things you are grateful for.

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Personal Practice Journal Fundraising 119

The Storytelling Non-profit

APRIL 5, 2022

Inevitably, there is an articulation of values through most stories. But sometimes it can be a good exercise to write a story through the filter of a certain value. What should donors care about this difference? . The Values Story. Values are what drive people to give to certain causes.

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Profit Story Fundraising Beginner 104

ASU Lodestar Center

OCTOBER 20, 2021

Layer one, internal assessment, is an exercise in rigorous self-reflection. The degree to which a nonprofit can articulate the strength of its reach, resources, reputation, and capabilities is an important key in securing productive collaborative relationships.

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Collaboration Los Angeles Strategy Indiana 98

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

APRIL 1, 2014

The workshop had 16 participants, mostly people who run innovation and research labs from corporations. Since we were spending two days together, working on collaborative exercises, a good opening where we could introduce ourselves and make connections was important. Train the Trainer: Must Incorporate Exercises that Use Simulations.

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Facilitation Method Technique Exercise 132

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

NOVEMBER 6, 2014

As a trainer and subject matter expert, I fight a big battle when designing a workshop. Balancing the amount of content delivery with exercises and right sizing given the available time for the workshop. The format of the concept poster was more open then the close-ended set of exercises and questions on the worksheet.

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Activities Active Activism Integration 105

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MARCH 13, 2018

As Osborn wrote in his book, “Creativity is so delicate a flower that praise tends to make it bloom while discouragement often nips it in the bud.” The simple rules of brainstorming are typically articulated at the beginning of a session as ground rules and include the following: NO criticism or debate. Brainstorming Warm Up Exercise.

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Facilitation Work Chart Technique 106

Get Fully Funded

JUNE 18, 2023

You need to articulately describe the need you’re addressing in a way that moves listeners’ hearts. We all know we need to eat right, exercise, and get enough rest. I find that exercise not only helps my physical strength, but my mental strength, too. So why don’t we do it? I think because we take it for granted.

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Skills Leadership Director Nonprofit 119

BoardAssist

JANUARY 30, 2018

But, just like any good marathon runner prepares for the race, there are exercises you can do now to have your board do very well in this effort. Can and do board members articulate this focus to others, particularly potential donors? Can board and staff clearly articulate what will be different as a result of the campaign?

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Campaign Fundraising Articulate Indianapolis 40

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

APRIL 3, 2018

It encompass mindset and ways of working which can be used to exercise new power despite whatever platform or tool is available to us. It goes like this: The Crowd Leader: Combines new power leadership model with a commitment to, and articulation of, new power values. Each profile is illustrated with an in-depth case study.

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Participatory Leadership Model Skills 116

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

APRIL 27, 2012

3. This mixture was embedded in every aspect from the instructional design – from icebreakers to reflection exercises to presentation content, examples, and frameworks. There is also an self-assessment exercise. It is also important clarify these expectations with participants. We did this on Day 1.

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Pakistan NGO Network Exercise 111

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

DECEMBER 16, 2015

It reminds of the choices you have make when you decide to make a lifestyle change in terms of diet and exercise. When you sign up, you name a “design partner” who serves as your accountability process as you navigate the process. We all get sucked into being too busy.

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Interview Exercise Life Children 50

Tech Soup

OCTOBER 23, 2014

This weekend our listening exercise was observing the citywide Neighborhood Emergency Response Team (NERT) drill in San Francisco. We hold events, we convene, and we leave our office to understand better how people operate and function. Listening to Organizations' Needs.

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Community San Francisco Tools Broadcast 60

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JUNE 25, 2012

The exercise usually takes 90-120 minutes in the afternoon, but participants were so engaged they didn’t want to stop for tea. ” On Day 2, we take a deep dive into understanding how to develop an integrated social media strategy, beginning with an exercise that helps participants really define what success means.

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India NGO Network Exercise 102

Museum 2.0

APRIL 11, 2017

So we did two exercises—with board and staff, separately—to develop our priorities. I suspect these exercises might be useful in any complicated project. But they were not the ones people talked about the most in the months leading up to this exercise. It is in that spirit that I share them with you.

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Technique Museum Exercise Structure 29

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

DECEMBER 31, 2015

Organizations must support staffs’ self-care efforts through clearly articulate values, policies, and programs. We are looking for nonprofits that have a work place culture that nurtures the health, happiness, and well-being of staff. It goes beyond physical health or a wellness program that focuses on diet, exercise or sleep.

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Culture Nonprofit Articulate Attitude 50

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

NOVEMBER 17, 2010

With almost 100 people in the room, I started the session asking folks to shout out the first two words that came to mind when they thought about social media. As expected, I heard two themes – words that describe the power and benefits of social media and those that articulate very real concerns.

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Social Media Government Reflection Media 95

Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

JULY 10, 2008

Home About Me Subscribe Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology Thoughtful and sometimes snarky perspectives on nonprofit technology My Theory of Practice July 10, 2008 I finally had the reason to begin to more completely articulate my theory of practice. My theory of practice is different than my consulting philosophy. Glad you like it.

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Practice Open Source Consultant Articulate 100

Museum 2.0

MARCH 28, 2012

We also had interns recording during the honeycomb exercise. At the Santa Cruz Museum of Art & History (MAH), we've started experimenting with a "community first" approach to program development. C3 invites people to cross-pollinate and share ideas--the most promising of which we will follow up on to plan new programs.

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Program Community Design Museum 49

Museum 2.0

JANUARY 18, 2012

If a four-year-old can articulate the design message of an exhibit and respond to it accordingly, surely an adult can as well. I was initially totally skeptical that people would actually engage in what sounds like a potentially uncomfortably personal or complicated exercise. This interactive was developed by intern Lucinda Shawcross.

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Interaction Design Museum Participatory 47

Qgiv

MAY 31, 2022

During the retreat, the board and other key leaders work together to articulate a shared vision for the future of the organization. Next, the board will articulate what the organization needs to look like three years from now if their shared vision for the future will eventually be achieved. Clear Path Forward.

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Articulate Exercise Nonprofit Picture 52

Qgiv

AUGUST 27, 2021

It’s helpful to be present at the venue and to go through a visualization exercise with key staff or volunteers. This exercise is a great way to develop your checklist. Do your best to articulate the “why” and “how” to any concerned individuals. Let’s pretend you’ve got your venue selected. Ready to visualize? Here we go!

Personal 52

Personal Sponsor Virtual Volunteer 52

Connection Cafe

JUNE 12, 2017

This activity helps you articulate why a culture of philanthropy is important, your values, and the way you work. These can be as simple as posters stating your team’s core values that you created as part of the earlier exercise or photographs on the walls of clients or donors.

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Culture Philanthropy Marketing Create 47

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

FEBRUARY 21, 2009

But it is always a good exercise to make your brain think in a different way. Clearly articulated benefits statement that looks at tangible and intangible. A good exercise is to try to convert your intangibles. If subjected myself to an tracking my time exercise in the beginning, I wouldn't be blogging today. Intangibles.

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ROI Social Media Slides NTEN 50

Museum 2.0

AUGUST 29, 2012

But the arguments trotted out represent how far we have to go in articulating the public value of arts institutions (and helping our supporters speak the same language). It's like a giant, free, no-holds-barred focus group that represents a true range of arts users and non-users. But the institution should jump on that.

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Detroit Arts Public Support 49

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

OCTOBER 27, 2014

This exercise allows participants to share their experience and views on the issues, but once the map was created it gives everyone a landscape view of the issues and challenges. From the facilitator’s point of view, there are a couple of ways to facilitate this exercise.

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Foundation Design Community Work 102

Care2

MARCH 3, 2009

For example, if an organization has rules regarding making public statements, including who can communicate, what that process might entail, what is allowed based on C3/C4 tax status, then, those controls should be exercised in any content published to the Internet. Good article, Allyson.

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Social Media Local Advocacy Media 31

The Modern Nonprofit

FEBRUARY 15, 2022

At the end of this guided exercise, you’ll be able to articulate investment impact statements like: BY INVESTING $9,845 IN NEW TECHNOLOGY, OUR ORG WILL SAVE $79,155 OVER THE NEXT 5 YEARS. BY INVESTING $9,845 IN NEW TECHNOLOGY, OUR ORG WILL SERVE $3,032,759 MORE CLIENTS OVER THE NEXT 5 YEARS.

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Project Tech Guide Phase 98

Museum 2.0

JANUARY 6, 2009

I want to share with you an exercise I've been using to tease out the role of the online and onsite components of a blended museum experience. It's a useful exercise if you know you want to combine an exhibit or program with the Web in "some amazing way" but don't have an obvious path to get there. Step 5: Make it pretty.

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Exercise Design Online Museum 20

Bloomerang

JANUARY 18, 2023

It’s a hard task, but is a great exercise to try. Try to articulate your organization’s long-term goals and aspirations in high definition. Be as specific as possible. This will help you stay focused on your goals and avoid getting sidetracked by other priorities.

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Effective Business Create Tips 91

Museum 2.0

MAY 3, 2010

to better articulate what you are really trying to do with your project concept. I learned new vocabulary and questions to ask myself and others, but the exercise itself felt a bit frustrating and haphazard. The Structure Lab is set up as a "game" in which you explore cards in various categories (values, assets, financing, etc.)

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Structure Model Social Profit 31

Qgiv

JUNE 12, 2023

Writing nonprofit mission and vision statements can be an exciting (and often anxiety-causing) exercise! Nonprofit executives are charged with keeping a 30,000-foot view of the organization, and in that sense, they seem best-positioned to articulate what your organization is about.

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Nonprofit International Team Process 52

Get Fully Funded

APRIL 2, 2023

A vision statement articulates where you are headed, your future, the target in the distance that you are aiming for in everything that you do. It’s easy to get the two confused, but once you understand the difference and go through the process of writing a mission statement, the vision statement should be easy to create.

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Hunger Nonprofit Examples Process 105

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JANUARY 13, 2010

That was the reason for the eating chocolate exercise I did in PoST class on Monday. The exercise is intended to help you slow down, be in the moment, and shift you into a reflective mindset or at least feel what it is like. The exercise is simple - take five minutes to eat a hershey's kiss and notice everything about the experience.

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Classes Learning Fundraising Reflection 95

Connection Cafe

AUGUST 23, 2013

Having a leadership team aligned across an organization articulating the purpose, value, and rationale for a project goes a long way towards getting stakeholders and end-users pulling the proverbial rope in the same direction. Executive Vision and Involvement.

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Project Articulate Nonprofit Adopt 37

Have Fun - Do Good

JULY 3, 2006

I just feel really fortunate to be able to be here at POWER, as one organization that creates a space for working class people of color to come together, to find their voice, and then actually to begin exercising that voice in the public domain. Britt Bravo: Have you always done this kind of work?

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Podcast San Francisco South Africa Homeless 40

Bloomerang

JULY 17, 2021

Oh, no business increased, coaching increased, the amount of change management exercises I had to take organizations through increased. Whew, listen, we all have had a time of it and what I saw over and over again, and so I’m no different from you. I thought that I was going to power down a little bit. And what I found was that many of.

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Management Work Video Slides 89

Bloomerang

DECEMBER 10, 2021

Where I’ll say to somebody, “You know, you’ve been so articulate about why you care about the work, would you write a testimonial?” But there are people, you’re going to meet donors who are enthusiastic, and articulate, and ask you good questions, and tell good stories themselves. Next slide. .

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Money Question Raise Video 106