ASU Lodestar Center

MAY 19, 2021

These include the lack of funding and difficulty securing adequate funds, funding structures that incentivize counterproductive practices, strained relationships between funders and nonprofits, and shifts in funding models and strategy. The leaders of a foundation must ensure that the foundation’s mission is clearly defined and articulated.

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Get Fully Funded

JUNE 18, 2023

You need to articulately describe the need you’re addressing in a way that moves listeners’ hearts. Whether it’s volunteers , interns, subcontractors, or paid staff, having others around you will help you get more done. When you confidently share about your vision and why it matters, you’ll attract supporters. You must have help.

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Museum 2.0

OCTOBER 8, 2019

Without an internal understanding of humanity, it’s hard to be audience-centered. In the end, our organization for this model better for our visitors and our needs. We didn’t articulate where our norms overlapped and where our goals connected. You have to get through the feels. You have to get at the motivations. What went awry?

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

OCTOBER 6, 2009

And, it is also clear where the fence or password protection belongs when the conversations needs to be internal. Guidelines should be articulated to participants in community guidelines. (Information shared behind this password protected area should not be shared with the mainstream media.). Innovation, creativity, momentum.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

SEPTEMBER 20, 2016

“I have embraced this approach myself and I make it clear to my team that I would rather not get a pre-dawn email , but instead get a more fully articulated idea after they have had time to contemplate it and strategize on how to make it effective.”. Gabriela says that senior leaders at her nonprofit model self-care.

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Connection Cafe

OCTOBER 29, 2018

Technology that provides that progress across all of your areas of focus and internal departments connects you to those findings faster. . Have you taken the time to clearly articulate your desired impact , and the outcomes or indicators you’ll need to monitor to see your progress toward that goal?

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Connection Cafe

JUNE 12, 2017

But the reality is that in many nonprofit organizations, different teams and departments do not have a shared mental model for a culture of philanthropy. It also creates a problem internally where turf wars and a noncollaborative environment lead to frustration, burnout, and staff turnover. Business guru Peter F.

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Museum 2.0

MAY 15, 2012

Legends of the Stall was started by a visitor services staff member, Katie Chrivia, who collaborated with interns and volunteers to develop the content and the design. Whenever an intern takes a prototype out on the floor, I ask her, “What might change about this project based on this test?”

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

APRIL 1, 2015

This process of reflection is embedded in the organization’s working style, not a random moment of inspiration after a program evaluation is completed. Everyone on staff understands that the questions are the best teachers and in an effort to sustain learning articulate questions and seek answers to those questions.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

DECEMBER 23, 2013

It’s uncommon for a nonprofit to spend time developing and articulating their unique value proposition, but this is one area in which organizations should act like companies. Women for Women International is another example of an organization whose founder´s story is very much a part of its brand.

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Whole Whale

AUGUST 7, 2023

Imagine your intern runs up with a first draft of an article for the site, what are the chances it is perfect and requires no edits? Blank slate generative AIs (chatbots that don’t have context on your organization/data) are like over-confident interns. And remember, always check any facts because this intern didn’t.

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Museum 2.0

OCTOBER 29, 2010

This question is a byproduct of the reality that most participatory projects have poorly articulated value. If you don't have a sense of an outcome--whether that be internal research, community conversation, or something else--you can't decide how or whether contributions should be documented or archived.

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Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

OCTOBER 20, 2006

I have to admit that I went into this thinking much more about the more public types of APIs even though the APIs for internal data integration has been a real interest of mine, and a real concern, as well. Zach brought up an interesting point, and I think it is worth highlighting.

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Have Fun - Do Good

AUGUST 29, 2010

Not only were they from all over the country, but they all shared an international, multi-ethnic or cultural base. Otherwise, there are co-ownership models that are interesting today where you can have people from the city that are buying into your farm, and then they have part ownership. Back to the models. What does that mean?

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sgEngage

DECEMBER 12, 2022

However, Danny McCall beautifully articulates the challenge of defining this dyad in his whitepaper, The Durable Relationship : Although “relationship” is a commonly used word, having an actionable comprehension of a relationship’s dimensions and forces isn’t a trivial matter.

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Relationship Data Build Gift 71

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

APRIL 27, 2012

What I loved about this exercise, is that after Stephanie and I modeled taking photographs and sharing on our Facebook Group or Twitter, participants started to also document digitally. We were able to thoroughly document the exercise here. One that I use when people get tired, is to have them stand in a circle and we toss a ball.

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Qgiv

JUNE 12, 2023

When done poorly, they can become sources of confusion for both internal and external audiences. This list is ideally sorted into areas and is primarily an Internal list that your audience does not see. This is primarily internal, but it may also appear in your statements. Internal and external. Internal and external.

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Bloomerang

FEBRUARY 1, 2022

And then unpacking some case studies that can articulate some of these strategies in action. Is that when fundraising expectations are clearly articulated during recruitment 52% of CEOs report that their boards are actively engaged in an organization’s fundraising efforts. And I would say this is a pretty replicable model, right?

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Museum 2.0

NOVEMBER 7, 2010

I also learned that the best money in museums for someone who's starting out is in art modeling. I survived the first half of 2003 financially on art modeling and poetry gigs. In 2004, Anna was the Director of Exhibitions and Programs at the International Spy Museum. Bosses are like boyfriends; they're not mind readers.

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Bloomerang

JULY 23, 2021

We want to replicate our model across the country. Our goals are really easy to articulate.” So I want you to think about how would I pause and really shift into this true and overall financing model that actually sets your whole team, sets your whole board? We want to scale 25% every year for the next year.

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Money Video Fundraising Gift 107

Forj

AUGUST 12, 2021

When it comes to authoring original eLearning courses for your association’s members, there are generally two paths forward: Purchase course authoring software and tackle the project internally. Articulate 360. Articulate 360 is a suite of eLearning authoring apps to align with your various authoring tasks.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

OCTOBER 27, 2014

To set the stage for this exploration, Bill Somerville, founder and President of Ventures Foundation shared some ideas from his experience. He spoke about the need for the model of community foundation philanthropy to innovate. Design thinking methods are great way to identify and articulate some of those first step ideas.

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Museum 2.0

JUNE 6, 2008

While requiring people to build their virtual designs required more work (and expertise) from them, it also allowed them to clearly articulate their designs and to engage on a more professional, specific level about the exhibits. Some museum professionals asked me, "couldn't the participants have just described their exhibit in text?"

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JANUARY 29, 2014

The art part is how you articulate your organization’s measure of success and formulate strategies to realize that success. The science part of the equation starts with a solid methodology and tools. It’s also having a clean, complete, and accurate data and the discipline to make sense of the data and use what you learn to improve results.

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Museum 2.0

OCTOBER 16, 2013

Internal to an individual museum, relative attendance--changes over time or program--can yield useful information. For attendance to be correlated with impact, you have to find a way to articulate a theory of change that connects attendance to your mission (inspiration, learning, civic participation, etc.). visitors business models'

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Museum 2.0

FEBRUARY 22, 2012

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. You can tell they are wondering why you are here but they don’t necessarily want to articulate it, so you just get this weird vibe.

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Eric Jacobsen Blog

APRIL 29, 2010

Thursday, April 29, 2010 Create Core Values Sometimes when you are leading an organization or business and struggling to articulate your core values, it helps to see how others have stated theirs. . -- Eric Jacobson -- formerly a Senior Vice President at Penton Media in Overland Park, Kansas (Kansas City, MO).

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Eric Jacobsen Blog

OCTOBER 7, 2010

At the same time, leaders continue to struggle with one of their toughest jobs, developing and articulating their overall strategy and priorities, especially during times of change." Good Sample Business Principles Do you have a brand strategy? GEN X Employees -- Like having their professionalism and growing knowledge valued.

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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. So having a culture where people collaborate and play well together is really, really important for communications because, if you’re not communicating well internally, it’s going to be really, really hard to communicate well externally.

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Care2

APRIL 16, 2008

Also, while I always believed Software as a Service (SaaS) is the ideal way to deliver software, especially to nonprofits, I have been surprised by how quickly and broadly the on-demand model has been accepted. Your mother is French, and youve had a lot of international exposure.

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Care2

MARCH 4, 2008

Also, while I always believed Software as a Service (SaaS) is the ideal way to deliver software, especially to nonprofits, I have been surprised by how quickly and broadly the on-demand model has been accepted. Your mother is French, and youve had a lot of international exposure.

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Social Media Advocacy Interview Online 28

Museum 2.0

OCTOBER 22, 2008

Few were able to articulate a response policy that wasn't based entirely on the volume of the ire raised. Museum professionals don’t have the tools to make wise decisions about when and why to self-censor. Many people mentioned the intelligent design/evolution debate, raising examples of angry homeschoolers and religious groups.

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DNL OmniMedia

OCTOBER 22, 2020

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. Tree House Humane’s site is an excellent model for other animal welfare and services organizations. Mission page.

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