Media Cause

APRIL 15, 2024

This blog is the third in our series on MarTech for nonprofits. If you want a refresher on what MarTech is, check out the first blog here. If you want to know why every nonprofit organization should have a MarTech stack, read the second blog here. Do we have an online platform to collect donations?

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Amy Sample Ward

OCTOBER 4, 2010

It’s very inspiring to be part of a community dedicated to sharing and discussing and am thankful for all of you joining me! Shortened blurbs : The recent blog posts that appear on the home page have been shortened to no longer include the full post, but just an introduction. About the Redesign. What’s new?

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Nimble AMS

JULY 8, 2023

When you properly prepare for your next board meeting, you’ll keep the conversation focused on setting the right direction for your organization. Begin the conversation early. For example, are your employees currently feeling overworked and burdened by manual processes? How is our current member experience?

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sgEngage

JANUARY 17, 2024

The conversational nature of podcasts makes them a digestible way for supporters to learn about your nonprofit. Identifying Your Podcast’s Purpose and Audience While you might discuss different topics or stories in each episode, the overall purpose and tone of your podcast should remain consistent. Interactive.

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Nimble AMS

MARCH 27, 2023

Read our blog for strategies to get st arted. Creating a central place for conversations is a great way to encourage discussion about your meeting agenda and keep the conversation flowing after the latest board meeting. Begin by sorting your board members and leadership teams into subgroups of your online community.

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sgEngage

SEPTEMBER 4, 2023

Blackbaud’s Laura Sonnee and Nichols Condon will lead a discussion with both corporate and nonprofit grantmakers on how they are advancing DEI initiatives and the impact these initiatives have made on their work. The post bbcon 2023: The Must-Attend Grantmaking Sessions for Leaders first appeared on The ENGAGE Blog.

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sgEngage

JANUARY 22, 2024

Our review discussions became more interesting, and the impact of the entire program was strengthened. Those questions can be in an application, in conversations with program officers, or during the deliberation meetings with your board. Or cover it during a conversation instead of the application. Take it out.

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sgEngage

MARCH 19, 2024

In this blog post, we will share some insights and best practices from our recent webinar, Change Up Your Questions: Exploring and Shaping What You Ask Grantees and How You Ask Them , where Marshall Ginn of Capital Philanthropy discussed how to evaluate and improve your application questions. If you want examples, ask for examples.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

APRIL 9, 2008

When I was in Minnesota, one of the questions I got was about blogging and social networking policies. Now, I swear I remember seeing something from Easter Seals or another nonprofit on a listserv that mentioned either social networking policy or blogging policy. So, here's my plea for examples and pointers. Be Responsible.

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ASU Lodestar Center

FEBRUARY 26, 2014

Given his examples, I couldn''t hear Armstrong’s underlying message. In offering the public the example he gave, Armstrong rhetorically asked me to consider the sacred. To even start the discussion I had to place a value on the life of a premature infant. “What a creep! He’s a tyrant!

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Candid

FEBRUARY 15, 2023

For example, there are differences of opinion as to how much BIPOC representation is needed to be considered “in power” (e.g., I hope my previous blog offered a starting point for further discussion and crystallization of your definition of BIPOC-led. is it a BIPOC CEO, a BIPOC majority board, or a predominantly BIPOC staff?).

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Candid

JULY 26, 2023

In this blog, we will revisit the basics of in-person meeting prep and provide suggestions for setting up successful hybrid meetings. Get an idea of what’s needed by asking yourself questions like: Will this meeting have one presenter the whole time, or will it be a larger group discussion?

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Candid

JANUARY 10, 2023

If you find yourself putting a meeting on the books purely to share information rather than to discuss something, gather input, and/or make decisions, send an email instead. Kicking off the conversation. Just remember to set a hard time limit on the kickoff portion of the meeting to avoid having it overtake the entire conversation.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

SEPTEMBER 25, 2012

I was in NYC over the weekend and Monday to attend and speak at the Mashable Social Good Summit , a three-day conference featuring discussions and presentations with global social activists, organizations, and new media experts. Getting from Collective Conversation to Impact. Remember to watch today at 2:45pm!

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MARCH 11, 2009

The other day of I saw the term "Conversation Graph" in a title on a post by Brian Solis. That inspired the above illustration - the social life of a blog post. The Conversation Graph Has Gotten More Complex. From Comments as Group Discussion by Skelliwag. That's where the recently launched BackType Connect comes in.

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Bloomerang

APRIL 26, 2023

Cross-Promote Your Website Content Does your nonprofit organization run a blog? How often do you talk about your blog content on social media? Blogs consist of both opinions and facts on which discussions can be held. You can always share links to your blog articles and ask your audience to express their opinions.

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NTEN

JUNE 22, 2011

Today, I’m live blogging a few sessions from the 2011 Millennial Donor Summit. The Red Cross has been around for 130 years and so much has changed - for example with text-to-give after disasters. For example, if two people had just had kids, regardless of age, they had more similarities than just age.

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sgEngage

NOVEMBER 30, 2022

In fact, storytelling encompasses blog writing, advertising, and stewardship efforts. For example, if your nonprofit raises money for diabetes research, you should discuss what inspired your founder to start the nonprofit and how the field of diabetes research has evolved since then. Reference thought leaders and influencers.

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Bloomerang

JUNE 22, 2023

In this blog, we will explore the signs of a successful nonprofit board by examining the specific areas where board members can contribute their time. Board members should allocate ten hours per year for regular board meetings, where they actively participate in discussions, provide input, and make informed decisions.

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Amy Sample Ward

JANUARY 20, 2011

I had a lot of fun yesterday giving a webinar for the Nonprofit Webinar series ; it was a whole hour discussing community engagement! In my experience, the more diverse group you can get together to have this conversation and work through this planning together, the more complete a picture you can draw of your community.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

OCTOBER 16, 2011

Attendees will explore concrete examples and tools that grantmakers can use to tap the power of networks and increase peer-to-peer learning among grantmakers who are experimenting with networks. Here’s a number of ways that you join the conversation about philanthropy and networks. Steve Downs, Robert Wood Johnson Foundation.

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Amy Sample Ward

OCTOBER 15, 2009

Today is Blog Action Day and this year’s theme is Climate Change. What’s Blog Action Day? Blog Action Day is an annual event held every October 15 that unites the world’s bloggers in posting about the same issue on the same day with the aim of sparking discussion around an issue of global importance.

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TechImpact

AUGUST 4, 2014

That’s been refined, edited twice, and is discussing a timely subject. It’s not the time when you submitted the tweet, blog post, or Facebook share. Your goal with a hashtag is to create a dialogue, and if your hashtag is too long to start a meaningful conversation, you’re hamstringing yourself to start. So what gives?

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Nonprofits Source

NOVEMBER 27, 2023

For example, you might create an “About Us” or “Our Products” landing page to discuss your company’s brand and the benefits of buying a product or service from you over a competitor. Maintain a regular posting schedule, such as creating new blog content once a week or three times a month.

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Candid

MARCH 1, 2023

We then kicked off a conversation with early Demographics via Candid partners Satonya Fair of PEAK Grantmaking , Grant Elliot of Foundant Technologies , Dawn Stone of Center for Nonprofit Management , and Michael Wright of Charles Stewart Mott Foundation to discuss their first-hand experiences collaborating with Candid on this initiative.

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Eric Jacobsen Blog

NOVEMBER 4, 2023

Those who lead with heart consistently have discussions with their teams about their unexpressed needs, fears, desires, gifts, and sense of purpose , explain the authors of the timely and compelling book, Leading With Heart. They have the courage to have conversations often considered taboo or too difficult.”

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JANUARY 28, 2009

A few days ago, I asked for some stories " What is the value of listening through social media channels for your organization? " I wanted to see examples from nonprofit organizations engaged in listening and conversation and the value it has to their missions, programs, or marketing efforts. And you shared them! Observations.

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TechImpact

JULY 17, 2014

In part 1 of this blog series , we discussed how essential posting and maintaining quality content on your nonprofit’s website is to generating traffic. In a previous blog post, we discuss in-depth strategies for optimizing your content for search engines. Commenting on other blogs. Search Engine Optimized Content.

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sgEngage

FEBRUARY 9, 2023

Check out the blog post, Making a Case for Calculating Your Nonprofit’s Indirect Costs. For example, some direct costs associated with an afterschool program at a local community center include food for snacks, supplies for arts and crafts, sports equipment for outdoor activities, and the costs of the staff members providing the programs.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

APRIL 25, 2014

The participants are the content – and the design of getting participants into small group discussions where we can discuss topics related to our work that we are passionate about and want to explore and learn. These discussions are not lectures or traditional panels and are participant driven. The notes are here.

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sgEngage

JUNE 28, 2023

As a follow-up to the Women in Philanthropy Institute’s 2023 Symposium, hosted by the Indiana University Lilly Foundation School of Philanthropy, we gathered four dynamic grantmakers to discuss how they are doing the work to amplify female voices, especially women, girls, and femmes of color, in philanthropy. Will something go wrong?

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

OCTOBER 20, 2005

Steve and others, just when I thought there was a lull in our conversation about blog communities and blog cross conversations, I noticed this thread on the Digital Divide List (btw, the digital divide network is another example of a community blog). What a fabulous discussion with Steve, care to join us?

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Amy Sample Ward

MAY 6, 2013

My latest contribution to the Stanford Social Innovation Review opinion blog is up! . You can read the post and join the conversation on the SSIR blog or below. —–. For example, maybe you notice that you check your email and then go to Facebook. Try this: Stop working for just five minutes. What do you do?

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sgEngage

DECEMBER 18, 2023

Example: “Datamaking” as engagement I recently worked with an arts and culture intermediary nonprofit that focused on capacity development, network building, and connecting local nonprofits to state agencies and grants. We discussed what we wanted to be “up to” together in our inquiry.

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Bloomerang

NOVEMBER 15, 2023

We’ll finish with 10 minutes to evaluate the brainstorming session, get clarity on points of agreement and disagreement, and discuss next steps. The facilitator can call on people individually or, when multiple voices chime in simultaneously, create a structured queue, saying for example, “Let’s hear from Amy, then Cynthia, and then Brad.”

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Bloomerang

MAY 17, 2021

Shape the Conversation . Once you have a good handle on the subject matter, consider how you might want to shape a conversation on the topic with your key stakeholders. When leading a development team and/or participating as a member of executive management , consider how you might engage everyone in a conversation on the topic.

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Eric Jacobsen Blog

JUNE 29, 2022

Those who lead with heart consistently have discussions with their teams about their unexpressed needs, fears, desires, gifts, and sense of purpose , explain the authors of the timely and compelling new book, Leading With Heart. They have the courage to have conversations often considered taboo or too difficult.”

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