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. Presentation slides.

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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. Indeed, the sector’s current approach to “capacity building” needs an overhaul.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MARCH 15, 2012

The Capacity-Building Frontier(s) – guest post by Barbara Kibbe. My daughter was 4 when we began the conversation about funders’ role in building the effectiveness of their grantees!) So, which capacities should we be building? I have watched this community grow and change for 16 years. (My Well, it depends.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

OCTOBER 10, 2013

We asked participants to do a “think and write” and jot down one idea that resonated before facilitating a grand synthesis of what we learned about designing more impactful capacity building programs for grantees. You can read my guest post over the Communications Network Blog that summarizes these insights. Training Design'

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

DECEMBER 13, 2012

Note from Beth: I’ve wrote about the importance of building resilience in networks given the complex and connected environment we live in today. So, when Pat Brandes from the Barr Foundation sent me this thought piece on building resilience of networks, it resonated on many different levels.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JULY 29, 2013

Note from Beth: I first learned about this project last year, when Shiree Teng, the project leader, interviewed me as part of some research on capacity building consultants that lead to the design of ImpactRising. The project partners include Shiree Teng, Groupaya, and Compasspoint. Paying it forward: ImpactRising.org.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MARCH 18, 2012

New recipes for capacity building for nonprofits and foundations – guest post by Annie Hernandez. I had the opportunity to facilitate a table conversation about capacity building in transition. understanding the ecosystem that organizations operate in); Support collective capacity building; Shifts of organizational learning; and.

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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. This post summarizes gems from both reports. 2: Culture Change. .”

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JULY 24, 2012

The peer learning exchange offers one-on-one coaching for 16 state organizations that work on children’s health care insurance, monthly peer webinars, and a face-to-face workshop. This technical assistance design is a balance of expert support with peer learning and an intentional strategy for building the network’s capacity.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

OCTOBER 19, 2011

One of the themes raised up as the GEO/Monitor Institute conference came to an end was the importance of trust and relationship building in networks. Guest Post by John Esterle.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JANUARY 18, 2011

Last week, I participated in three very intense days of project, curriculum, and online community planning for a new project, E-Mediat , a multi-stakeholder capacity building project for NGOS and Social Media in the Middle East. Build the capacity of these NGOs and CSOs to use new media effectively through mentoring and coaching.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

DECEMBER 14, 2011

The project is being managed by IIE and builds on a highly successful program launched in the Middle East five years ago, Women in Technology. Flickr Photo by SMEX Beirut. I started work on the E-Mediat project over a year ago.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

FEBRUARY 28, 2011

Beirut Diary: I’m in Beirut for the week as part of The E-Mediat project , a capacity building project that leverages a networked approach. In the morning, we did a team building exercise to better understand the network core, the in-country teams from Yemen, Morocco, Lebanon, Tunisia, and Jordan. Photo by @sdarine.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

NOVEMBER 16, 2011

When you are building ties between nodes in a network or connections between peers, you need to build in networking time.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

SEPTEMBER 16, 2015

In this article, 10 Steps to Effective Listening , by educator Dianne Schilling provides the basic building blocks to effective listening. ” This builds trust and establishes your objectivity. It lets the speaker hear what they just said and can build trust. 2: Be present, practice mindful listening to the other person.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MARCH 14, 2012

This is a terrific write up of the session I presented on “ Learning in Public “ Bridge Building or Trust Busting – a Warts-and-All Reflection on “Learning in Public”? But the experience may feel navel gazing, even elitist, and the result trust-eroding, not bridge building between funders and grantees.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JULY 31, 2009

Today, we had an amazing conversation and interview with Cecile Richards and Tom Subak to learn more about Planned Parenthood 's Social Media Strategy and their movement building techniques. So, how specifically do they build relationships on social networks? Tags: movement building. Today, we had an amazing conversation.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JANUARY 29, 2015

When you intentionally build your professional network in the right way, you create a circle of individuals who are all rooting for your success and happy to help you. Diversify: Build your network out with the right kind of people: energizers who will help you achieve your goals. Do you have a strong core?

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JUNE 6, 2011

Purposefulness: This is a demand that businesses do more than build wealth – that the bottom line adds purpose and meaning to life. Mainwaring suggests a “purposefulness&# index. Engagement: This is about having brands be in dialogue with consumers.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

AUGUST 15, 2009

In addition to social networking infrastructure and channels, we're looking to build networked tribes of supporters and advocates all around the world. Movement building is all about relationship building techniques as Beth mentioned in her reflection. Tags: movement building.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

AUGUST 1, 2009

In particular, the building of platforms that allow for (1) storytelling and communication, and (2) effecting and demonstrating impact, allow for continuous commitment to the movement. Media and narrative play significant roles in creating and building these platforms. Tags: movement building.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

AUGUST 20, 2015

One category of apps that is useful to building Emotional Intelligence Skills are Mood Trackers , journals that let you chart your emotions and thoughts and test different self-management techniques. Since many are very comfortable with technology, we have also explored different apps and technology to support their leadership work.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JULY 29, 2009

And, we were lucky enough to have her paired with Pat Mitchell at the Paley Center for Media recently for a conversation titled “Building a Movement in an Interconnected World.”. Building a Movement in an Interconnected World: A Conversation with Jacqueline Novogratz (Part 1). Who else should we be highlighting here at ThinkSocial?

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

SEPTEMBER 17, 2012

LinkedIn announced Board Connect , resources that helps nonprofits transform themselves into networked nonprofits by finding and recruiting board members using a networked approach.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

AUGUST 1, 2009

Frank Barry offered to do compile a list of movement building resources and nonprofit examples and I've added a posts/resources from the last few years. Building Movement Project. Planned Parenthood Movement Building: Leadership, Engagement, Stories, and Platform for Self-Organizing by Beth Kanter. Social Movement (Wiki).

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JANUARY 17, 2011

Source: Public Domain, National Archives. Today is the 25th anniversary of the Martin Luther King, Jr. Holiday , to celebrate his work and legacy. One of the most powerful and lasting ideas was his belief in strengthening communities and empowering individuals.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JANUARY 9, 2023

Creator tools can redesign fundraiser and nonprofit staff jobs and reengineer workflows to enable people to focus on the parts of work that humans are particularly well-suited for, such as relationship building, intuitive decision making, empathy, creativity and problem solving. We call this the dividend of time in our book.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

NOVEMBER 30, 2007

Meanwhile, here's what I've learned about building your network: quality over quantity. To reap the benefits a using a social networking, you need to build your network, although as some experts say it is a matter of quality, not quantity. A strategic way to build your network is to use a "Friend of a Friend" approach.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MARCH 23, 2012

Guest post by Elisa Batista, MomsRising.org. As a social media specialist at MomsRising.org and a Latina who has published a blog for seven years, has two Facebook pages, a Twitter account, a LinkedIn page and now a newly opened Pinterest account, easily the biggest misconception I have encountered is that Latinos are not online.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

FEBRUARY 17, 2008

The question is about building a community around your blog. I also came across this piece from Dosh Dosh about a content strategy for building a niche. What are your best tips and advice for building an audience for your blog? Tony was kind enough to help promote the America's Giving Challenge to his community on MySpace.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

NOVEMBER 11, 2006

When Marshall Kirkpatrick reviewed it for TechCrunch three weeks ago, he described the service as follows: It lets users associate themselves with their favorite blogs, build a profile page about themselves and send internal messages. pictures at the bottom of this post and you can see what an individual???s s page looks like.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

SEPTEMBER 6, 2023

Build Real Connections At Work Now here’s a fact: Real connections and friendships at work matter because they can help us get stuff done! Use Empathy in 1:1 Check-Ins To build a caring work culture, leaders need to ask empathetic questions during regular check-ins.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JANUARY 23, 2009

Social Media Building Blocks View more presentations or upload your own. tags: nonprofit nptech ). Earlier this week the Storytelling & Social Media series from NTEN and TechSoup Global launched with Amy Sample Ward , who is the community builder at Netsquared , as the first speaker.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

APRIL 30, 2020

The easiest way to integrate team building activities is to create a ritual of meeting check-ins or check-outs. Here is a blog post that includes many ideas for check-ins, relationship building activities for teams that can used in meetings. Dedicated Team Building Games. Want more ideas?

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

OCTOBER 11, 2005

Some finds: Finding "the life between buildings": An approach for defining a weblog community by Lilia Efimova Stephanie Hendrick, and Anjo Anjewierden. Lessons in Community Building: An Inquiry into the role of weblogs in online community building. Let Community Members Help With Social Design from Commoncraft.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

DECEMBER 3, 2008

Photo in Flickr by Creative Commons I've been advocate for Creative Commons for a couple years and even the kids too ! I usually make a cash donation and will continue to do this year - but I'm definitely going to give the Schwag as a gift. What special geek in my life wouldn't want a Creative Commons jump drive while supporting their work?

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

NOVEMBER 2, 2007

Can anyone recommend good reading on best practices for organizational uses of Facebook (not just for fundraising but also list for building and mobilizing)? I think the key is to go beyond "friend collecting" and to leveraging social capital through building relationships one-to-one. It happens one person at a time.

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