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Trainer’s Notebook: Facilitating Brainstorming Sessions for Nonprofit Work

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

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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Nonprofit Web Design Process Part 1: Stakeholder Discovery

Connection Cafe

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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A Community-Driven Approach to Program Design

Museum 2.0

Here are the slides so you can see what we shared. At the Santa Cruz Museum of Art & History (MAH), we've started experimenting with a "community first" approach to program development. C3 invites people to cross-pollinate and share ideas--the most promising of which we will follow up on to plan new programs.

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Philanthropic Leadership: Engaging Board Members As Fundraising Ambassadors

Bloomerang

Just want to let you all know that we are recording this session, and we’ll be sending out the slides as well as the recording later on this afternoon. So I know you got some slides to pull up but the floor is yours. So on the next slide, you can see we partner with more than 500 nonprofits annually worldwide.

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How Can Nonprofits Switch to a Data-Driven Culture?

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

identifying the new ways of working you want to see or articulating a new set of beliefs and values associated with them. Changing a nonprofit culture isn’t as simple as. Most people won’t change their behaviors until they observe the role models in their organization acting. Think big, but take baby steps.

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[VIDEO] How To Lead And Manage In Our New Nonprofit Work Reality

Bloomerang

You should already have the slides, but in case I missed you, we’ll send all that good stuff later on today. So I’m going to stop sharing and I’ll let you pull up your slides here. If you have the slides already, I’m going to ask you to try to not read along because you can only either listen or read, not both.

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[VIDEO] Building Your Nonprofit’s Engagement Engine

Bloomerang

So, if you have to leave early or get interrupted or just want to watch it again, share it with a friend, don’t worry, we’ll get that to you, we’ll get you the slides. You should already have the slides but, just in case I missed you earlier, we will send all that out again this afternoon. So register anyway.

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