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. Layer two begins with the implementation process. Internal assessment.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

DECEMBER 8, 2009

In our book, The Networked Nonprofit , we devote an entire chapter to something we called "Learning Loops" which is a combination of tracking and monitoring in real time as a project unfolds, but also incorporates a process of reflection at the end of the project to the next experiment. . Tags: reflection scholar.

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Conservancy Reflection Social Media Learning 100

NonProfit Hub

MAY 29, 2020

Articulate Your Brand Vision. Reflect on your past failures and learnings. A great example of this kind of strategic partnership is between the V Foundation for Cancer Research and Vs. Cancer. . Intelligent networking or communication will not help a nonprofit that’s unclear about its objectives.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JANUARY 3, 2019

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. Chris Brogan’s ritual suggests selecting three words, but I modify it by articulating key themes. Here they are: My Three Rituals. What gave me joy?

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Professional Build Journal Facilitation 114

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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Media Cause

OCTOBER 18, 2021

You didn’t invest in audience research. . To understand this you need to invest time and resources into Audience Research. They often don’t have the funds — or want to invest the limited funds they do have — into enough research. Or more detrimental—not consistently being able to articulate what the bigger picture even is. .

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DipJar

JUNE 20, 2023

Determine the type of event sponsorships needed Reflect on your goals and the specific ways an event sponsor can help you reach them. After creating a list of potential sponsors, be sure to research each of the organizations you’re reaching out to. We’ve broken it down into five steps.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

SEPTEMBER 7, 2012

Some reflections from David here ). He gave a brief reflection with how is strategic consulting to nonprofits practice has changed over the many decades he has been in service to the field. ”It used to be that nonprofits developed five-year plans – we used to refer to as “The Stalin Approach.”

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

APRIL 1, 2015

So, when Mary K Winkler , one of the nonprofit data nerds I follow on Twitter and Senior Research Associate at Urban Institute’s Center on Nonprofits & Philanthropy specializing in performance management told me via Twitter she had just published a new guide on this topic, I had to check it out. The term means learning culture.

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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. Rapid Research. Conclusion.

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Connection Cafe

APRIL 2, 2014

Some organizations come to us with a very clearly articulated brand that has accompanying logos, fonts, colors, photography, copywriting and more. We’ll then develop 2-3 very different mood boards depicting some sample imagery, graphics, fonts and styles that might appear in a visual design that reflects said personality. Methodology.

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DNL OmniMedia

MARCH 31, 2021

Your actions should reflect your nonprofit’s brand. Conduct research to determine your nonprofit’s story. We recommend reflecting on your brand both internally and externally, surveying all of the above stakeholders against the following questions: How is your organization currently perceived?

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Achieve

AUGUST 12, 2021

Given this, articulating your mission can help fuel your peer-to-peer campaigns, which means it’s time for you. When conducting research and looking into prospects’ giving potential, look into factors like who their employer is. Millennial Impact Report. volunteer fundraisers to brush up on your storytelling abilities. .

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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. One annual ritual is to create “To Do/Not To Do/Reflection” notebook where I use modified bullet journaling to track my progress. I had a wonderful break – filled with fun, family, walking, hiking, reading, quiet, and reflection.

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Achieve

MAY 22, 2016

It has now become a fun game for me to hear them articulate what I do. I am a researcher. But really, these are just labels and don’t truly reflect the work I do. Research tells us the attitude towards giving, serving and using one’s talents to help others is a noble and desired idea. I am an author. I am a speaker.

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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. Over the past five years, we’ve stumbled our way into social media.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

AUGUST 30, 2013

We are so focused on getting things done, checking it off the to do list and the forward momentum that it requires, that we miss an important opportunity to hit the pause button, reflect, and improve process. To alleviate any concerns or tension, explicitly articulate to your team that their jobs are not at stake.

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Connection Cafe

JUNE 12, 2017

The nature of today’s nonprofit workplace——face-paced and heavy workloads—makes it difficult to find the reflective time to put together a learning plan and implement it consistently. This activity helps you articulate why a culture of philanthropy is important, your values, and the way you work.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

APRIL 12, 2007

A group dialogue followed allowing people to articulate why they felt one way or other. These stories need to be written down and it sparked a memory of a conversation I had with Zittrain at iLaw in 2005 who pointed me to a researcher at HBS who was looking at Open Source Software Communities.).

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JANUARY 26, 2007

we should add some questions to our NpTech Tag research about how people are aggregating and republishing content tagged with the NpTech Tag. Last week I summarized Allison Fine's articulate rant about the Gates Foundation. Unplugged Research an action research project which will explore the question: How do telecentres make 'web 2.0'

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Bloomerang

JANUARY 18, 2023

Try to articulate your organization’s long-term goals and aspirations in high definition. Step 2: Conduct Research. Market research is an important step in the planning process. If you’re just starting, then market research could be: Research the competition. Analysis of your environment. Get social.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

FEBRUARY 21, 2009

Clearly articulated benefits statement that looks at tangible and intangible. Pause for reflection time before next reiteration: How to improve results? Market Research. Sometimes with additional data collection or secondary research you can. Field research (Listening). Secondary research reports.

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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.

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Get Fully Funded

APRIL 2, 2023

Further research revealed that the organization does economic development work while training people in the community in entrepreneurship. Often people involved in an organization have different answers to these questions, and a long mission statement reflects a desire to include everyone’s perspective. Why do we exist?

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Qgiv

OCTOBER 26, 2021

Researchers have established that there’s science behind brand recognition. Their research explains why individuals develop loyalty towards, or distrust of, different brands. Articulate Your Brand Characteristics. This makes strong nonprofit design essential for enabling your organization to stand out from the rest.

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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. Articulate what you can do for your organization, not what you can do generally. Bosses are like boyfriends; they're not mind readers.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JANUARY 13, 2010

The key to success in social media is to leave room for reflection at the end of a project. Reflection gives you a chance to understand what worked and what didn't. 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. So is creativity.

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Classes Learning Fundraising Reflection 95

Forj

AUGUST 12, 2021

If you do choose to invest in dedicated course authoring software, pay careful consideration while researching solutions to ensure you choose a tool that will benefit your association for your current and future projects. 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

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. Here are three techniques I use: Connect with and research audience via social media. No wonder I am still tired! It always helps me improve practice. Teaching in an international context. NGOS in India.

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India NGO Social Media Reflection 96

Museum 2.0

JULY 9, 2007

Former museum start-up queen, Jen is taking a small organization whose goal is to promote girls’ involvement in math and science through research and programming to new, innovative, exciting places. It reflects the GMSP’s—and Jen’s—commitment to creating a set of programs by and for its audience: teen girls. It was not a tough sell.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JUNE 15, 2011

Idealware looked into this question about nonprofits and Facebook as well as other questions in its recent research study, Using Facebook to Meet Your Mission: Results of a Survey , available for free download with registration and discussed at free webinar on June 16 at 1 PM PST. Less is more. .

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Measure Organization Metrics Analytics 96

Bloomerang

JULY 23, 2021

Our goals are really easy to articulate.” So if your fundraising team is going to secure investment level donations, if you’re going to pick up all that money that’s sitting on the table right now, you have to be able to share and articulate the true need in investment level conversations.

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Money Video Fundraising Gift 107

Bloomerang

DECEMBER 10, 2021

So fundamentally, I think for major donor conversations what you want to be doing is asking questions, then you reflect back what they’ve said. So you’re reflecting back what they said, and then you essentially deflect it. . You reflect what they said, so you understand and people feel heard. Great book by.

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Museum 2.0

FEBRUARY 22, 2012

The honest reflections from staff members beyond curatorial and education departments--including registrars, security staff, and PR--are unparalleled. 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.

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Bloomerang

APRIL 16, 2021

And when I started researching this book, one of my goals was to do that, was to come up with a definition that the nonprofit sector might embrace and use to answer the question, “What is communications in a nonprofit? A lot of the work we do at Big Duck is about helping organizations articulate their voice.

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Museum 2.0

OCTOBER 16, 2013

When I reflected on our museum, I realized we have some inconsistencies in how we calculate attendance. 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.). What''s missing from this picture?

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St. Louis Impact Museum Denver 55

DNL OmniMedia

OCTOBER 22, 2020

Lupus Research Alliance. Thanks to custom development and integration with Salesforce , the site instantly reflects every gift ICA receives! Top Nonprofit Website: Lupus Research Alliance. The Lupus Research Alliance is the world’s leading private funder of lupus research. North Shore Animal League. Ontario SPCA.

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