Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JANUARY 2, 2023

(In fact, there is a lab at Stanford that studies workplace rituals and a book, “ Rituals at Work ,” devoted to the topic) For over twenty-five years, I have implemented a number of rituals that help me prepare for the year ahead. Chris Brogan’s technique is to select three words, but I modify it by articulating key themes.

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Top Nonprofits

APRIL 20, 2022

As a best practice, use a constituent relationship manager (CRM) such as those included in EveryAction’s guide to picking a nonprofit CRM to help organize and monitor your campaign’s success. Clear goals and a detailed timeline will give the necessary direction and structure to your advocacy campaign. Increase supporter accessibility.

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The Storytelling Non-profit

JANUARY 12, 2022

Telling great stories helps your non-profit get its message out into the world, connect with new audiences and motivate people to take action like making a donation. Let’s start with some definitions of what a story is to help us understand what our end goal is in telling a story. What is a Story? creating empathy).

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JANUARY 5, 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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Professional Facilitation Reflection Journal 111

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 94

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. Sustainability – Proactively managing change through one project helps set the stage for future projects.

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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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Professional Facilitation Reflection Journal 96

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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Professional Personal Croatia Build 140

ASU Lodestar Center

MAY 19, 2021

Foundation leaders need to understand how grantmaking practices affect nonprofit organizations and structure grantmaking practices in ways that best support nonprofit organizations. Grantmaking practices help foundations be good stewards of resources and ensure the foundation stays focused on its mission.

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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. Good leadership helps everyone understand what the impact goal is, makes sure they have what they need to do their job, provides encouragement, and monitors progress as the team moves forward.

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Bloomerang

JULY 10, 2023

Here are ten practical steps to help you navigate the process: 1. You don’t have to become an estate attorney, but you should try to understand how the various legacy investments are structured. This committee can help guide the process, develop strategies, and provide support during discussions with potential donors.

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Eric Jacobsen Blog

DECEMBER 13, 2021

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. Companies aren’t hiring you out of the goodness of their hearts; they are hiring you to help them achieve their goals.

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Eric Jacobsen Blog

NOVEMBER 7, 2021

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. Companies aren’t hiring you out of the goodness of their hearts; they are hiring you to help them achieve their goals.

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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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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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Eric Jacobsen Blog

APRIL 26, 2021

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. Companies aren’t hiring you out of the goodness of their hearts; they are hiring you to help them achieve their goals.

Job 52

Job Interview Articulate Problem 52

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

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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Bloomerang

APRIL 26, 2021

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. . Big hearts will respond to big-hearted, authentic, clearly-articulated, specific and resonant appeals. Your job is to help them do so. Philanthropically.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

SEPTEMBER 7, 2012

David La Piana has been a long-time consultant to scores of nonprofits as well as with the OE program, helping nonprofits develop strategic plans. Structure: How will they estimate, describe and test the operational structure? So, articulated success metrics for a networked strategy is also important. Competitors?

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Review Business Nonprofit Measure 106

Top Nonprofits

JULY 20, 2022

In this section, we’ll cover tips for structuring information about your fundraiser on your flyer so that your viewers are satisfied. The positioning and size of the text immediately draw the viewer’s focus to the call to action, planting the seed in their brain for taking action and helping your cause.

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Examples Tips Fundraising Images 105

Connection Cafe

MAY 15, 2014

I recently published the last post in my series about the nonprofit web design process and thought it would be helpful to have a final summary for the entire series. Stakeholder Discovery : How we structure stakeholder meetings, what topics we discuss and some tips for leading discovery conversations. User Research.

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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. These help guide my professional learning and improvement and maintaining good habits.

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Professional Finland Journal Reflection 0

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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Consultant Structure NTEN Skills 100

Tech Soup

OCTOBER 8, 2012

Emotion will pull viewers into your story and help them remember your message. " Identify people who are genuine, outgoing, articulate, and lively/likeable. Help your subjects be their best natural selves by filming them in their natural environments and treating interviews like conversations. Give structure to your story.

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Connection Cafe

OCTOBER 25, 2017

The chance to do work with an impassioned, articulate, and engaged CEO behind whom they can rally. If all the above makes it clear that everything revolves around vision, it should make sense that identifying and articulating your vision should be the first thing on your to-do list. Boards are not one-size-fits-all. Matchmaking.

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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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Connection Cafe

APRIL 26, 2012

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.

Fundraising 50

Fundraising Articulate Template Facilitation 50

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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Leadership Research Develop Management 92

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. In the end, we came back together to share our most promising ideas.

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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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Facilitation Work Chart Technique 106

DNL OmniMedia

DECEMBER 15, 2020

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. So, regardless of the specific call-to-action, you include, it needs to be clearly articulated and eye-catching.

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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. In many ways, the five “non-essentials” were even more helpful than the must-haves, because I knew I could deal them away as needed. That’s all we knew going into negotiations. Who would manage construction?

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Technique Museum Exercise Structure 29

Museum 2.0

MARCH 27, 2013

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. He's explicit about different project structures and their implications, listing five levels of participation and three of non-participation.

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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. Now, if your nonprofit designs something in-house, purpose #3 is null and void.

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Design Process Web Summary 34

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. identifying the new ways of working you want to see or articulating a new set of beliefs and values associated with them. Or a practice that swings the other away where there is an excessive investment in collecting gobbly gook data to appease a funder.

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Culture Data Measure Social Media 115

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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