Bonterra

AUGUST 15, 2022

Capacity building Coordinating social services Corporate social responsibility Digital communications & marketing Employee giving Employee volunteering Fundraising ideas Giving day Grant management & grant making Medical affairs Peer-to-peer fundraising Restart quiz

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JANUARY 5, 2022

In fact, there is a lab at Stanford that studies workplace rituals and a book, “ Rituals at Work ,” devoted to the topic). Writing: I’ve been writing Beth’s blog since 2004 and have been so thrilled with my new design for my blog which was long overdue. Here they are: Rituals.

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Beneblog: Technology Meets Society

JULY 28, 2014

Gerardo helped Benetech dramatically increase our capacity to benefit larger populations by scaling our services, revamping our innovation process, and establishing a thriving network of industry partners and volunteers. Gerardo has publically shared many of his presentations on these and other topics, which are available via SlideShare.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MAY 4, 2017

Capacity building is about improving organizational (or network) effectiveness. Capacity building includes both money (grants), consultants/technical assistance, peer learning/communities of practice, and collaboration. They also facilitated discussion with others funders that invest in capacity building.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

OCTOBER 10, 2013

Betsey Russell captured the highlights of the content in this blog post, “ Boosting Nonprofit Communication Capacity.”. Training Design'

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

NOVEMBER 19, 2010

They recently held a blog carnival and are sharing some reflections. Our website’s blog – which now has over 280 bloggers who publish up to 25 posts per week – has been a powerful tool in our work to create cultural and political change on a range of topics related to family-friendly policies, flexible work and parenting.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MARCH 12, 2012

Stay tuned for a blog post about it. Session topics include: Supporting Effectiveness sessions explore how grantmakers can improve practices to build grantee capacity and better support nonprofit sustainability. The GeoFunders National Conference takes place from March 12-14th.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MAY 22, 2018

Note from Beth: In my recent book, The Happy, Healthy Nonprofit and leading workshops for nonprofits all over the world on this topic, I continue to be passionate about the need to build resilient and sustainable nonprofit leaders and organizations. What we learned—among other things—is that “wellbeing” has become a new capacity.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JANUARY 2, 2022

In fact, there is a lab at Stanford that studies workplace rituals and a book, “ Rituals at Work ,” devoted to the topic). Writing: I’ve been writing Beth’s blog since 2004 and have been so thrilled with my new design for my blog which was long overdue. Here they are: Rituals.

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NonProfit Hub

SEPTEMBER 16, 2021

Whether you’re starting a nonprofit or looking to grow the support or capacity of an existing organization, you’re in the right place. What’s the Risk of Starting a Nonprofit [BLOG]. Check out these resources to help your organization build a solid foundation: . Why Nonprofits Need Them [BLOG]. Kishshana Palmer.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JANUARY 5, 2017

In the nonprofit sector, resiliency is framed as both a leadership skill for nonprofit professionals as well as organizational capacity. Building Your Resilience Skills To Manage Workplace Stress. The techniques that individuals can use to build resilience are a combination of mind shifts (from negative to positive) and mindfulness.

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Qgiv

JULY 17, 2023

This skill can be actively honed and developed in three parts: A model to give feedback on how they are impacted by behaviors, the clarity to ask for the change in behavior they need to see, and the capacity to hear and receive feedback as a gift and not an indictment. Building awareness is only one piece of calling in and calling out.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JANUARY 3, 2019

All in all, I presented or facilitated over 50 keynotes, workshops, and webinars on the topic. Writing and Blogging: I’ve kept a regular publishing schedule for Beth’s Blog, something that I’ve done since 2003! I wrote guest posts for many nonprofit publications and blogs. What about you?

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Amy Sample Ward

NOVEMBER 10, 2011

For about a year, I moderated a monthly online chat focused on community building, community management, on and offline engagement, and the technologies that support those connections. I opened up a blog posts similar to this one where much of the feedback said a monthly chat was all that people had capacity for. Anything else?

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

DECEMBER 31, 2013

Peer Learning Capacity Building Programs: This year I continued my work in designing and facilitating peer learning programs on behalf of several foundations for their grantees. Celebrated my 9th Year of Blogging: I continued to blog or host guest posts regularly every week as I have been doing for the past nine years.

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Top Nonprofits

JANUARY 5, 2022

For nonprofits of all sizes and missions, building relationships with individual donors should be a priority to help ensure financial stability and long-term sustainability, regardless of what is happening in the world. We also have an ever-expanding blog full of valuable information to help your not-for-profit org reach its potential.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

FEBRUARY 27, 2015

Two reports have been released on the topic of capacity building: “ Supporting Grantee Capacity: Strengthening Effectiveness Together ,” from GrantCraft, a service of the Foundation Center and “ Strengthening Nonprofit Capacity ” from GEOfunders. 2: Culture Change.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

APRIL 24, 2012

So, I’m very interested in this topic and will have a lot more to say once I recover from jet lag. I’m very grateful that the OE Team at Packard has shared this guest post about this important topic. Non-profits: what kind of capacity-building support do you think is most needed in the country or region where you work?

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

APRIL 18, 2013

I went to cover one session, “ Building An Information Infrastructure: Unlocking Data for Philanthropy.” What follows are my notes, but if you want to spend more time learning about this topic, I’ve pulled together these additional curated resources: 1) Curated Tweets. Notes from Session. gpf13 #philanthropy.

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VQ Strategies

SEPTEMBER 24, 2020

The most common topic of discussion in meetings lately and the theme of many sessions during this unusual fall conference season is the need to advocate for volunteer engagement as a strategy to help sustain organizations during these challenging times. More on that in our next blog. So, stay tuned.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

OCTOBER 18, 2011

In her article Unstill Waters: The Fluid Role of Networks in Social Movements , Robin Katcher describes the several of the roles that networks can play in social movements : Building linkages and connection with a broader movement. Marshall and increase resources and capacity. P.S. This is officially my second blog post ever.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MARCH 25, 2014

Earlier this month, I presented on a panel called “ Learn, You Will ” with Cindy Leonard, John Kenyon, and Andrea Berry on the topic of designing effective nonprofit technology training at the Nonprofit Technology Conference hosted by NTEN. You can find all resources materials here. Does #14ntc give an award for best slides?

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Nonprofit Tech for Good

DECEMBER 12, 2011

I was hoping to blog at least once or twice while I am away, but it’s turning out not to be possible. Ultimately their goal is help nonprofits become better equipped at fulfilling their mission by building their technological capacity. That’s how fast social media can move and evolve! No complaints, of course.

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Asia Social Media Training Train 146

ASU Lodestar Center

JUNE 8, 2011

ASU Home ASU A-Z Index My ASU Colleges & Schools Directory Map About Blog Academics Organizational Assistance Emerging Leaders Professional Development Philanthropy Research News & Events You are here: Home → Blog Pages Blog Home Write for us! Mark Hagers analysis of current research on this topic. Bush, Ph.D.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MARCH 30, 2012

Field-wide capacity is never going to be built one organization at a time. It’s a form of network building. The group needs to quickly build trust, so that participants are comfortable learning alongside one another and seek out their peers for direct input. This blog post was originally published on the Working Wikily blog.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MAY 18, 2012

During the conference, “a small army of guest bloggers [and] grantmakers, who [attended GEO] posted their reflections on the session and LIP in general on my blog. These are here: Bridge Building or Trust Busting: A Warts-and-All Reflection on “Learning in Public”? Learning in Public Challenges and Actions. What made it great?

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Tech Soup

AUGUST 5, 2014

TechSoup storytelling campaigns have been educating nonprofits and building storytelling capacity for four years. With webinars on topics ranging from how to capture your footage, how to edit your story or use your smart phone, these resources promise to educate and increase your ability to tell stories that stand out and get noticed.

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Beneblog: Technology Meets Society

JANUARY 7, 2013

They also provide outreach and user support, which helps us keep our costs low as well as build local capacity to meet accessibility needs. My next two blog posts will be on this topic. My second blog post in this series will describe how we are growing our Spanish-language program.

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India Literacy United Kingdom United States 225

Bloomerang

NOVEMBER 7, 2017

It is a form of organizing and power building, not merely a strategy for financing the organization’s work. Building a reputation takes time. Consider this: Board development is a topic for another blog. Become a conversation worthy topic. However, at one time the large organization was small too.

Nonprofit 78

Nonprofit Articulate Knowledge Disaster 78

Amy Sample Ward

MARCH 1, 2012

My latest post on the Stanford Social Innovation Review blog is now up. You can read it and join the conversation on the SSIR blog , or read the copy below. I am very glad to see that the Greater Washington event incorporates training into the planning process to boost the capacity of all participating organizations.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MAY 31, 2013

The spreadsheet above is from the Community Foundation of Santa Cruz County for an action learning project that focused on measuring the results of the recently launched blog. What I always love about peer learning approaches is that we slow down, take it in small steps, and begin to build good practices. Measurement'

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M+R

FEBRUARY 5, 2021

We want to move people up and into the mid-level program more efficiently and effectively, retain them, and build the prospect pool for the major giving program. . These are the folks in your file—and not yet in your file—who are likely to have the capacity and interest to give significantly more but haven’t ever done so.

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ASU Lodestar Center

MARCH 25, 2011

ASU Home ASU A-Z Index My ASU Colleges & Schools Directory Map About Blog Academics Organizational Assistance Emerging Leaders Professional Development Philanthropy Research News & Events You are here: Home → Blog Pages Blog Home Write for us! But can we talk candidly about our options to support that growth financially?

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MAY 9, 2014

I don’t have to tell anyone who reads Beth’s blog about the value of storytelling. We saw a larger number of reports and publications out there on the topic, but most felt stale and too isolated to the nonprofit sector. However, few of us working in the social impact space could admit to utilizing storytelling to its fullest potential.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JANUARY 25, 2013

The comments in the thread were terrific and generated a blog post: [link]. Additionally, they start initial brainstorms and start generating idea – should it be a promotion, just a blog post, an email, etc. The meeting runs over upcoming: events, seasonal tie-ins, program launches or milestones, etc.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MAY 12, 2011

It all comes down to intention, capacity, and audience as Jacob Harold observed. A couple of nuggets that Paul Connolly shared about the design of capacity grants based on his deep expertise in this area. He talked about “transformative&# versus “transactional&# capacity building approaches.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

DECEMBER 7, 2012

But, everyone can raise their data literacy, especially visualization. So, as I curate resources on this topic, I was excited to discover Rahul Bhargava – a data nerd who writes the Data Therapy Blog for the MIT Center for Civic Media. One strategy is to find a data nerd for hire or to volunteer with your organization.

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