Nimble AMS

MARCH 18, 2022

A state-of-the-art AMS system like Nimble AMS, which is built on Salesforce and offers extensive online training, can help you attract and retain a top-notch workforce. To learn more, read: Four Ways a Modern AMS Helps Association Executive Directors Prepare for the Future. Attract and retain staff. Membership . Accounting .

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Bloomerang

APRIL 15, 2021

It was no great leap for me to move into my role as Director, Stewardship Communications, a job that requires working with major gift officers to ensure the quality and timeliness of their donor correspondence. . While I’d had little direct experience with individual donors, I had many valuable transferable skills to bring to the table.

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Volunteer Hub

JULY 26, 2021

With the expansion came a new welcome center, four permanent galleries, two changing exhibition galleries, a research library and café, a 187-seat state-of-the-art performance theater, and a 175-seat outdoor amphitheater. Even amid the COVID-19 pandemic, we never stopped recruiting, onboarding, and training.

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Tech Soup

MARCH 18, 2013

In a panel hosted by TechSoup, representatives from four arts organizations discussed how they are using social media in new and innovative ways to market the arts. Michael DeLong, senior manager of online community and social media at TechSoup and managing editor at Emerging Arts Professionals , moderated the discussion.

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Pamela Grow

SEPTEMBER 14, 2023

Burk shows you what it takes to hire, train, and retain top people and build healthy fully functioning nonprofits. Donor-Centered Leadership (Amazon link) Train Your Board (and Everyone Else) to Raise Money: A Cookbook of Easy-to-Use Fundraising Exercises by Andrea Kihlstedt and Andy Robinson Whining about our boards.

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Bloomerang

AUGUST 18, 2023

Not only is it incredibly costly to recruit, train, and replace new development officers, but there is an incalculable loss in “trust capital” with your donors. CEOs and Executive Directors need to openly and candidly talk about growth opportunities. Development professionals must be recognized and respected for their expertise.

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Nimble AMS

APRIL 6, 2022

During COVID-19 and in the wake of early teacher retirements, Matt Walker, Director of IT, explained that MSTA’s retention rate was declining. Staff first began designing learning modules for the association’s Board of Directors — they soon plan to implement myTrailhead for training special councils and committees. .

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sgEngage

FEBRUARY 12, 2024

You have to trust that the training data are strong enough to lead to an accurate prediction, that the methodology for building the model is sound, and that the output is communicated in a way that you can act on. Some examples: What should you include in your training data? What Is Trustworthy AI?

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Top Nonprofits

DECEMBER 6, 2021

BrashBerry helps Nonprofits build scalable and sustainable growth for financial stability, a bigger impact and efficiency through actionable website design, marketing strategies and visibility campaigns.Amanda has led an international marketing team with a million dollar budget and trained/coached over 200 entrepreneurs to build strong brands.

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Twenty Hats

JANUARY 12, 2021

Smithsonian Associates (SA) , which annually presents 700+ classes and other educational and entertaining programs, made a hard fast pivot in June 2020, when it began to present all of its lectures and art courses as livestreamed programs on Zoom. She also is a Board Member of Annapolis Summer Garden Theatre, as its Volunteer Director.

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Candid

MAY 28, 2024

I asked Kate Tkacik Sweeney, Candid’s senior director of development, for advice on how to decide which funder to approach and how best to make the ask. Building, maintaining, and strengthening relationships with long-term funders is more of an art than a science.

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Media Cause

JULY 21, 2021

I’ve always had an interest in design and art, but I never thought that it could become part of my career. I worked with Katey, Amy, and Rob Shaw (Art Director) to come up with design goals that I could work towards in order to build a strong foundation. The First Steps. Going All In.

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Candid

APRIL 22, 2021

Julieta Mendez Senior Director of Network Engagement. When we went virtual, I worried so much about being able to keep connected and help the nonprofit staff members who attended our in-person trainings. I’m so proud of how quickly our team worked together to move all our trainings online and designed them to be highly interactive.

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Tech Soup

OCTOBER 3, 2016

Seattle, Washington: King County Executive Director Forum. Saint Paul, Minnesota: Treading Lightly | The Delicate Art of Internal Communications. Thursday, October 6, 2016. Boston, Massachusetts: TNB Roundtable: Managing Nonprofit IT Projects, Tasks, and Teams. Friday, October 7, 2016. Tuesday, October 11, 2016.

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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

SEPTEMBER 25, 2008

I just got back from doing a plenary session at the Arts Summit organized by the Alliance of New York State Arts Organizations. It's gathering of arts leader from throughout New York State. I spoke about social media and future leadership in the arts - and also did a workshop. Many, many memories. See the photos here.

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Tech Soup

MAY 17, 2011

Gateway to the Arts is a Pittsburgh-based organization that exposes young people to the arts through performances, classroom visits by professional artists, and integration of arts into school curriculum, all with a staff of six. In 2008, Gateway to the Arts was in need of a major overhaul. We had a non-logo.

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ASU Lodestar Center

APRIL 1, 2022

A step-by-step plan on how to train your staff and board members today. Training: Provide training on storytelling for impact to all staff and board members within your organization. She is currently the Senior Director of Development of Diabetes Research Connection.

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Connection Cafe

MAY 10, 2016

(NSD) aimed to improve the voting experience and increase civic engagement using public art. Working with the Knight Foundation, Mural Arts, Committee of Seventy and other key nonprofit partners, HMC created a completely new way to look at, and impact, voter turnout and experience here in Philadelphia.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

NOVEMBER 21, 2014

This year’s Give Miami Day saw increased efforts on social media across funding categories, but the standout for Miami Foundation Communications Director Matthew Beatty came from Miami’s local arts and culture organizations. Bahia Ramos, Knight Foundation’s director of community foundations, agreed.

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DipJar

AUGUST 9, 2022

Not a librarian by training, she started her career in public relations before moving into nonprofits. The library’s physical art gallery was converted to a digital one that continued to present the work of area artists. She showed and explained the DipJar to Elizabeth Doucett, the library’s director.

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Qgiv

DECEMBER 15, 2022

Your Program Volunteers Your Fundraising Volunteers Get Them Trained Provide Them with Useful Tools. Train Them On the Job. Next, you’ll want to train them on the specifics of the task you expect them to do. Get Them Trained. We’ll hold board members for the last post in this series. Your Program Volunteers.

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Qgiv

AUGUST 10, 2022

Matt’s past work includes fundraising for the University of the Arts, Ursinus College, University of Cincinnati and the Boy Scouts of America. In addition, you may find it helpful to use the Nonprofit.Courses’ guide to nonprofit board training as a resource to further improve your onboarding work. Mary’s University of Minnesota.

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CauseVox

APRIL 12, 2022

For the past 25 years, Carousel Ranch has made it their mission to improve the lives of children and young adults through equestrian therapy and vocational training. Beginning with one client and one horse in a backyard, this organization has grown to a 10+ acre state-of-the-art therapy facility in Santa Clarita.

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sgEngage

MARCH 21, 2023

And yet, there is often a layer between that data and the practicality of reaching people with food insecurity, or reducing recidivism, or providing educational art programs. You do research and you know the statistics, best practices, and pitfalls of organizations that have fought similar battles.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JUNE 14, 2010

So, I designed a training curriculum that embraces thoughtful do-it-yourself social media experiments and a process for learning from them. On Friday, I facilitated the final face-to-face workshop for the Social Media Lab for 25 arts organizations inspired by Thomas Edison’s approach. Joe Goode Twitter Presentation. Conclusion.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

OCTOBER 5, 2006

In two weeks, several hundred arts leaders from around the country will gather on the campus of Carnegie Mellon University to discuss the role of technology in the arts field at the Technology in the Arts Conference. Tell me a little bit about how you got into arts management? Was that your progression? Actually, I???m

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

APRIL 24, 2011

In 1992, I discovered the Internet, Well, and was hired by the New York Foundation of the Arts to be the Network Weaver for a network for artists, Arts Wire. In 1992, I discovered the Internet, Well, and was hired by the New York Foundation of the Arts to be the Network Weaver for a network for artists, Arts Wire.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

NOVEMBER 2, 2016

Over the past six months, I have been developing and piloting workshops on self-care and we-care as part of the leadership development training I do. Last June, I facilitated a leadership workshop at the Americans for the Arts Conference where I tested some of the assessments and checklist tools in our book.

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Museum 2.0

NOVEMBER 16, 2015

OdysseyWorks is a collective that makes immersive art experiences for one person at a time. OdysseyWorks' projects get to the heart of the fiercest debates in the arts today. Is it elitist to present art that may be dislocating or foreign? You have to generalize. But what if you only had an audience of one?

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Bonterra

AUGUST 15, 2022

Everything we talk about and do together has a shared sense of mission and purpose that I haven’t found anywhere else. First Name Last Name Email Address Phone Number Organization Name Organization Size Select. 10 or fewer employees 11-50 employees 51-100 employees 101-500 employees 501-1000 employees 1001+ employees Organization Type Select.

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Connection Cafe

FEBRUARY 25, 2014

Last week Ginny Fitzgerald, the Director of Visitor Services and Membership at Chicago History Museum, joined us to host a webinar about how she prepares her team for peak attendance times. That means staff working the counter should be fully trained and comfortable before June 1 st. Membership Arts & Cultural fundraising ideas'

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NTEN

APRIL 5, 2013

Most organizations incorporate messaging training as part of the new hire process and encourage employees to “represent” when they are out and about at professional networking events. What if the executive director tweeted about the upcoming gala? If the administrative assistant live-tweeted inspiring takeaways from a training?

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ASU Lodestar Center

JULY 2, 2019

A 2015 Stanford study on boards of directors in nonprofit organizations found that “over two thirds (69 percent) of nonprofit directors say their organization has faced one or more serious governance related problems in the past 10 years.” Developing a training program for new board members? Creating a new committee?

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MARCH 24, 2015

Leveraging the networks and personal brands of your staff as champions can help your organization’s communications strategy have more impact. With a few guidelines and a little training, employees can use social channels effectively in service of your organization’s mission AND their own learning. Lotte Leicht , EU Director.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

APRIL 4, 2010

He is Deputy Director for the Contemporary Jewish Museum , and an expert in using social media in a museum setting. He welcomed me to the Bay Area and asked if I would be interested in doing some trainings for the local arts community. One thing led to another and I designed a social media lab for arts organizations.

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sgEngage

APRIL 28, 2022

Provide good training. They’ll work harder and smarter if they’re involved from conception through fruition, as compared to a volunteer who is assigned a task or project. – Russel Heskin, executive director, special projects at Western University of Health Sciences . Get to Know Your Volunteers .

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