Bloomerang

FEBRUARY 26, 2024

Do you think you’re absorbing this information in a manner that helps you to grow? For many it’s simply reading and writing, which is the way most of our schools are structured. Even if you know, or think you know, your preferred learning method, often a combination of these modalities can be helpful. We experimented!

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Learning Change Strategy Journal 90

DipJar

JUNE 20, 2023

Nonprofit membership programs can help your organization raise money, build your network, and give members a louder voice in your organization or community. Your organization advances its goals while members receive exclusive benefits in thanks for their help—everyone wins! How do I determine the best structure for my program?

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Get Fully Funded

JUNE 18, 2023

They can help the organization set and achieve goals. It can attract a lot of support, with donors and volunteers lining up to help. They inspire people, they solve problems, and they build teams. There’s no room for others to help out and often, Board members and key volunteers get frustrated and leave, feeling unneeded.

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Saleforce Nonprofit

JUNE 10, 2022

The techniques help to grease the wheels of any organizational change. When making a technology change, change management is a process of applying a structured approach to transition from the old system to the new system. With technology changes especially, people may start to worry that the new technology will threaten their jobs.

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Change Management Change Management Technique 52

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JANUARY 9, 2020

For over twenty years, I do several rituals that help me prepare for the year ahead because they allow me to gain focus and clarity. 1) Review the Year: I use tool called the “ Year Compass, a free downloadable booklet that provides a set of structured reflection questions that help you look back and ahead.

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Bloomerang

JANUARY 22, 2024

Can you clearly articulate the issue you’re hoping to solve? Consider whether your community has a wide range of potential giving sources willing to help out, including individual donors , corporate sponsors, foundations, and government agencies. Is it one distinct problem or multiple issues? Look into: Your primary audience.

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Bloomerang

APRIL 26, 2021

People continued to give more generously than before – often referred to as a “ bump ” – and the predicted “slump” never really arrived. . No matter what happens in the economy or world, be it war, recession or natural disaster, people who can help DO. But people are generous, and generally want to help. .

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Trend Strategy Giving Fundraising 136

Bloomerang

JULY 10, 2023

Here are ten practical steps to help you navigate the process: 1. Anecdotally, you can ask people who know the donor to share information about them. You don’t have to become an estate attorney, but you should try to understand how the various legacy investments are structured.

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Eric Jacobsen Blog

DECEMBER 13, 2021

Ng’s interviews included asking these questions: What are the most common mistakes people make at work? Ng : It’s critical to know how to tell your story—and to position yourself as someone who (1) has done a similar job before, (2) will help the company achieve its goals, and, therefore, (3) are low-risk. Think like an owner.

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Eric Jacobsen Blog

NOVEMBER 7, 2021

Ng’s interviews included asking these questions: What are the most common mistakes people make at work? Ng : It’s critical to know how to tell your story—and to position yourself as someone who (1) has done a similar job before, (2) will help the company achieve its goals, and, therefore, (3) are low-risk. Think like an owner.

Job 52

Job Interview Articulate Problem 52

Eric Jacobsen Blog

APRIL 26, 2021

Ng’s interviews included asking these questions: What are the most common mistakes people make at work? Ng : It’s critical to know how to tell your story—and to position yourself as someone who (1) has done a similar job before, (2) will help the company achieve its goals, and, therefore, (3) are low-risk. Think like an owner.

Job 52

Job Interview Articulate Problem 52

Museum 2.0

MAY 3, 2010

Last week, I attended Structure Lab , a half-day workshop on legal and financial structures for ventures for social good. Like many people in the arts, I'm interested in new models that help people combine mission-driven work with an entrepreneurial spirit.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JUNE 2, 2010

The principal task of preparing organizational leaders is to provide them with the language and tools they need to be able to discern and describe network activity, the insights they need to understand network structure, and an appreciation for the vital yet often subtle tasks of managing a network’s context.

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Network Work Structure Leadership 106

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JANUARY 3, 2019

For over twenty years, I do several rituals that help me prepare for the year ahead because they help me to gain focus and clarity. Last year, I added another tool called the “ Year Compass, a free downloadable booklet that provides a set of structured reflection questions that help you look back and ahead.

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Professional Build Journal Facilitation 114

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JANUARY 5, 2018

During the first week of January , I use the quiet time for three New Year’s rituals that help me prepare for the year ahead and identify professional growth areas. I’ve used these rituals for over a decade and found them helpful. These help guide my professional learning and improvement and maintaining good habits.

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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. Quantity matters. see above).

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Tech Soup

OCTOBER 8, 2012

Emotion will pull viewers into your story and help them remember your message. If you are looking to capture people on camera think "G.O.A.L." " Identify people who are genuine, outgoing, articulate, and lively/likeable. Give structure to your story. Principles of Storytelling. Aim for the heart.

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Robert Weiner

APRIL 28, 2009

Pricing structures. As partners, as a collective, without creating toxic/un-needed structure? Be able to articulate what you help orgs do and accomplish, not necessarily the technical products/skills? Sometimes a niche helps you define clearly. Different price structures are ok for different projects.

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Museum 2.0

MARCH 28, 2012

After several months of planning massively collaborative programs (a typical monthly event might involve 50 partners), we've realized that the people who are best at helping us come up with ideas are not necessarily the people who are best to help us execute them. We made people write things down constantly.

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Program Community Design Museum 49

Connection Cafe

APRIL 25, 2017

This helps provide a platform for foundations and nonprofits to partner more closely on achieving intended outcomes together. These foundations and nonprofits are collaborating on a deeper level, structuring initiatives based on a common language of giving with an articulation of an action plan for achieving intended impacts.

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Foundation Data Measure Dallas 37

ASU Lodestar Center

JULY 8, 2011

How can managing people be satisfying and rewarding while simultaneously frustrating and depleting? Not only will performance management processes help to mitigate problems when they occur, they also provide leaders with tools and a framework to do more of the things they enjoy — developing and supporting staff.

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Leadership Research Develop Management 92

Connection Cafe

APRIL 26, 2012

In reality, these people may have no real connection to your cause. Too often, eager to fill a vacant seat or secure a well-known name, we fail to clearly articulate expectations of service to prospective board members, or downplay the expectations of service. Board Manual.

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Museum 2.0

MARCH 27, 2013

There's a constant dialogue in participatory work about how to make peoples' contributions meaningful. I've written about different structures for participatory processes (especially in museums), and recently, I've been interested in how we can apply these structures to the design of public space. Non-Participation 6.

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DNL OmniMedia

DECEMBER 15, 2020

Over 50% of people who receive an email about a crowdfunding campaign end up donating to the campaign. An articulated reason for why you’re holding the event. Your event email campaigns will likely be structured as a drip series ( learn more below ), with the goal of securing new participants in your event. Gratitude Campaigns.

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email Guide Marketing Online 52

Bloomerang

FEBRUARY 1, 2022

Which by the way, if you work at CCS, this is pretty serious people if you know that agency. So I’m going to pipe down because people don’t want to hear from me, they want to hear from you. And when people ask why I do the work that I do, I like to share my own mission. She works over at CCS.

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Leadership Fundraising Gift Slides 60

Museum 2.0

APRIL 11, 2017

How much would John pay for rent and how should we structure it? So we structured the rent in a “base with kicker” format. But they were not the ones people talked about the most in the months leading up to this exercise. But the answers hewed to the priorities articulated through these two exercises.

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Technique Museum Exercise Structure 29

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

AUGUST 17, 2011

It is helpful to look at making the switch as an evolutionary process. Testing and Coordinating: At this stage, the organization is regularly collecting data but in a bunch of different spreadsheets and collected by different people or departments. What is needed for nonprofit organizations to make this shift?

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Culture Data Measure Social Media 115

Connection Cafe

JULY 9, 2013

It’s still of utmost value though to get all of your stakeholders in a room to articulate what you’re trying to do and to build consensus across the team. Meeting Structure. I always let the client inform how we structure the Stakeholder Discovery. How do most people find out about your current web site? Methodology.

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Design Process Web Summary 34

Get Fully Funded

MAY 1, 2023

Maybe they don’t know what a nonprofit business plan can do to help them. Why You Need a Nonprofit Business Plan No matter where your nonprofit is in its growth or what you’re trying to accomplish, a plan will help you reach your goals faster than if you are trying to operate without one. Who can help you achieve your goals?

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Business Nonprofit Summary Homeless 124

Qgiv

OCTOBER 26, 2021

If your nonprofit is striving to build a brand with impact, this post shares 8 nonprofit branding strategies to help you foster trust, increase your brand visibility, and draw more supporters to your cause. Articulate Your Brand Characteristics. Establish a Unique Brand Identity. There are 1.5 All font choices should be easy to read.

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Tech Soup

JULY 14, 2016

This approach is called the 4 Strategic Foundations of Effective Websites™ and has helped many clients achieve these results. It also establishes a shared vision that helps keep clients, content creators, designers, programmers, and other contributors all pulling in the same direction. Who's in our brand community?

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Michael Stein's Non-profit Technology Blog

APRIL 1, 2007

Members join primarily to offer financial support to the organization, although a well designed program will offer benefits or premiums that help to draw people in. Museums and cultural organization tend to be organizations of this sort; many advocacy and political groups also structure themselves in this way.

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Management Articulate Journal Museum 40

Connection Cafe

SEPTEMBER 18, 2019

People who sprint too early in a marathon rarely succeed. To combat that guilt, the authors of this article from PsychCentral—” How to Stop Feeling Guilty about Practicing Self-Care ”—suggest reminding yourself that practicing self-care helps you to help others more effectively. Perhaps something there would be helpful.).

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Museum Culture Professional Training 21

Neon CRM

SEPTEMBER 25, 2023

When talking about memberships, there are three important topics to discuss: membership structures, membership benefits, and membership dues. Membership Structures Associations can be structured in a number of different ways. Organizational Memberships: This structure is also quite common. That’s where we can help!

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Associations Guide Structure Industry 52

sgEngage

DECEMBER 12, 2022

And if you did cheat a bit by leveraging a quick online search, you might have noticed online content focuses on relationship within the context of two people who are dating, married, or related in some way. Much like the structure of a story, setting or place for origination is critical in how both sides establish the relationship.

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Relationship Data Build Gift 69

Museum 2.0

SEPTEMBER 2, 2008

What's the biggest mistake people make when involving non-professionals in exhibition design? They want articulated goals and expectations. There was no initial design, no graphics, and no idea of where the teen' work would fit into an overall structure. Give people something to work for. The obvious, basic one.

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Have Fun - Do Good

AUGUST 29, 2010

While the last ag censuses showed an increase in the number of small farms, and most of those farms are owned by people that are younger, which is great, we still need many, many more producers of food products in order to relocalize and regionalize our food systems in the U.S. It would be a lot of people. It stops at a certain point.

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