Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JANUARY 2, 2022

For over twenty-five years, I do several rituals that help me prepare for the year ahead because they allow me to gain focus and clarity. 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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Twenty Hats

DECEMBER 28, 2021

On the other hand, I feel like the existing posts do a good job of articulating my volunteer engagement philosophy: that quality volunteer engagement cannot occur without motivated, dedicated, and well-trained volunteer managers. All that’s to say that I reflected more than usual on what to convey with this post.

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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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Get Fully Funded

JULY 18, 2022

Sometimes we get one tool – one skill, one talent – and out of habit, we stick with it, never thinking about other tools we might need. It takes an entrepreneurial heart to start a nonprofit, fundraising and marketing skills to grow it, and leadership skills to manage it. And you need to use the right tools.

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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. 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. .” What gave me joy?

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Bloomerang

AUGUST 11, 2021

Engaging the consultant search using a JEDI approach requires clarity of intent, a commitment to being uncomfortable, and a great deal of “cultural humility” (self-reflection, personal critique, and acknowledgment of existing biases), especially in white-lead and white-dominated organizations and institutions.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JANUARY 4, 2017

I had a fantastic break, including a family vacation in Hawaii, walking, hiking, quiet, and reflection. I call it my “ To Do, To Done, Don’t Do, Reflection List.” ” I use it for planning my work flow for the day, week, month, and quarter and to reflect along the way. How about you? I look for patterns.

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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. I’ve used these rituals for over a decade and found them helpful.

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Connection Cafe

JUNE 12, 2017

To do so, they need to be skilled collaborators, adept at bringing diverse perspectives together, and confident in their abilities to collaboratively steward supporters at every touchpoint along the ladder of engagement with other teams, departments, and senior leadership. Get Everyone Aligned Around the Culture of Philanthropy.

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ASU Lodestar Center

JULY 8, 2011

Developing and maintaining such an infrastructure — the articulation of staff competencies aligned to organizational strategies; establishment of supervision processes to hire, manage, develop, and review employees; and the ongoing assessment of overall staff performance in relation to organizational outcomes — can be daunting.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

APRIL 1, 2015

It speaks to establishing culture norms among staff of curiosity, reflection, and trust. It outlines the practices and skills needed to create a learning culture. They have a created a safe space for staff and program participants and other stakeholders to give feedback, reflect, ask questions, and think creatively about solutions.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JANUARY 4, 2016

I had a wonderful break – filled with fun, family, walking, hiking, reading, quiet, and reflection. I also have New Year’s rituals that help me prepare for a new year. One annual ritual is to create “To Do/Not To Do/Reflection” notebook where I use modified bullet journaling to track my progress. Happy New Year !

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

NOVEMBER 6, 2014

That means you have approximately 3 hours and the whole time should not be spent lecturing with a PowerPoint deck! I believe that workshops are an opportunity for nonprofit staffers to have some “thinking time” — to reflect and think about how the content applies to their specific situation. Here are some tips.

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Qgiv

OCTOBER 27, 2021

As you implement the strategies given in this guide, you’ll be able to find and recruit people who want to dedicate their time and talent to helping your organization. Learn how Qgiv can help you and your volunteers make the most of your fundraising efforts! Volunteers help nonprofits connect with the community.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

APRIL 27, 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. organizational change, and technology. Program Design. Peer Learning Exchange: Theory of Change.

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Pakistan NGO Network Exercise 111

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

AUGUST 10, 2011

It is from the recent workshop that NTEN and NPower in Charlotte, NC to help participants understand the power of data to drive decision-making for nonprofits. It’s a topic that NTEN’s executive director, Holly Ross, has covered with this must-read post: “ Four Ways Nonprofits Can Increase Their Impact With Data.”.

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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

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. What was it.

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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. It is helpful to look at making the switch as an evolutionary process. There not is a reflection process for analyzing success or failure to take into next use or campaign. Example of A/B Testing Results.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JANUARY 31, 2013

While we have articulated our main goal and identified our stakeholders, we are still actively exploring what kind of investment we can make and what various benchmarks mean to us and more importantly what we should do with the numbers we collect. “Who Then ask how having a good relationship with them helps contribute to success.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

AUGUST 31, 2009

While a large percentage of our organization can articulate the importance of being on Facebook, very few staff can grasp how these tools will help to achieve our goals: greater awareness and involvement in the broader movement to address hunger. It is obvious that our skills directly translate into establishing an online presence.

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Museum 2.0

SEPTEMBER 11, 2013

I can see a lot of potential for how this could help us develop better stuff. Discussions about what type and level of risk is acceptable and when risk is acceptable (early in the development process, contained to a defined time period or clearly articulated experiment) are useful here. The leadership environment is key. Or the tables?

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

DECEMBER 23, 2013

If you are interested in online fundraising but don’t have the resources to build a custom platform for donations like charity: water, there are applications that help nonprofits get started with online fundraising quickly, including Salsa and Network for Good. Image from Flickr by Xurble.

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Bloomerang

FEBRUARY 1, 2022

So today, we are going to talk about a few key strategies to help you educate, engage, and empower your board members to amplify your fundraising activity. So we have three questions that will help anchor our conversation. And then unpacking some case studies that can articulate some of these strategies in action.

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sgEngage

MARCH 12, 2023

Your mission statement should articulate your organization’s purpose, values, and goals. It should be concise and specific, and it should reflect the needs and priorities of your community. This feedback can help you to improve your operations and better serve the community. No two organizations are alike.

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Museum 2.0

SEPTEMBER 23, 2015

There is no other museum conference going on somewhere else in the world today where professionals are sharing proud case studies and helpful tips on how to exclude people. How to Fight I want to share four concepts that have been helpful to me in thinking about how we actively fight for inclusion in our work. Articulate it clearly.

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Museum 2.0

DECEMBER 14, 2009

What new projects might allow you to better reflect those aspirations? It’s not helpful to just measure outputs (number of visitor comments, length of stay) if those don’t translate to something that staff understand as useful outcomes. Sixth, you need other people to help you. When you meet someone who can help you, ask her.

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Bloomerang

JANUARY 18, 2023

This will help you stay focused on your goals and avoid getting sidetracked by other priorities. Try to articulate your organization’s long-term goals and aspirations in high definition. Try to articulate your organization’s long-term goals and aspirations in high definition. Be as specific as possible.

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Museum 2.0

NOVEMBER 7, 2010

In my first six months, I got to help research and install a temporary exhibition, manage youth and adult programs, start a podcasting program, and learn how to run department budgets. Lay out your goals so they understand where you're heading and hopefully can help you get there. I hope this is helpful for someone.

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Forj

AUGUST 12, 2021

In that scenario, you’d want to bring in an eLearning expert to help with the project. On the other hand, if you’re looking to author a fairly straightforward course and seeking a simpler course authoring tool to help in the effort, that scenario may warrant investing in a new solution. 10+ Top Tools.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

FEBRUARY 18, 2010

You can find my materials and slides on the workshop wiki - CSR and NGO workshops, but always like to do a reflective wrap up post. It always helps me improve practice. Finally, when you are delivering the training, you need improvisation skills. No wonder I am still tired! Teaching in an international context. NGOS in India.

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India NGO Social Media Reflection 96

Have Fun - Do Good

JULY 3, 2006

We developed negotiation training to develop the capacity of the women to be able to ask for better working conditions, better wages, which is something that the women said they that had no understanding of, no access to those levels of skills. It was the first experience that I had with social movement organizing. That's one.

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Bloomerang

JULY 23, 2021

And so since then, a decade later, I’ve helped hundreds of nonprofits. But she’s like this fear buster to help you set your goal and just kind of like, “Great, it’s fear, embrace it. Our goals are really easy to articulate.” And I saw the need to come alongside other. Let’s push toward it.”

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Museum 2.0

JUNE 6, 2008

The resulting (real) exhibits are high-quality experiences that reflect a level of creativity that could not have resulted from our scant in-house exhibit development staff. All of the exhibits in this small gallery have tentacles out to people all over the world who helped conceive them. We inspired a community and got real results.

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Bloomerang

APRIL 16, 2021

She has been the founder since 1994 helping nonprofits with branding, websites. A lot of the work we do at Big Duck is about helping organizations articulate their voice. But it is such a useful thing to do because it gives you a framework for all the things you’re doing and helps you stay really focused.

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Bloomerang

JULY 17, 2021

My house that I loved so much that I’m sure that I overpaid and was a fundraiser at Big Brothers Big Sisters at that time and really had to learn to navigate some really choppy waters around what it meant to help folks understand investing in their community in trying times, investing in young people, investing in our staff.

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Museum 2.0

SEPTEMBER 4, 2013

Most large American museums are reflections of white culture. So Diane asked them, "What if I hire your kids and pay them to learn science, teach it to other people, and gain professional skills?" The YES program helps teens not only learn science but learn how to articulate their interests and pursue new passions.

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