Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JUNE 28, 2018

Opening Exercise. The session kicked off with a Spectragram exercise involving the full group. I learned this technique from Allen Gunn from Aspiration over ten years ago at 2007 Penguin Day. Others have also documented and used the technique or taught others how to do it. Learning More.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

APRIL 1, 2014

The workshop had 16 participants, mostly people who run innovation and research labs from corporations. Since we were spending two days together, working on collaborative exercises, a good opening where we could introduce ourselves and make connections was important. Train the Trainer: Must Incorporate Exercises that Use Simulations.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JULY 25, 2017

If time is available, also do a plus/delta exercise with participants as a close out to the session. Measure, evaluate, reflect, and improve. Others have also documented and used the technique or taught others how to do it. We did a classic brainstorming/SWOT analysis exercise related to our topics.

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NTEN

NOVEMBER 1, 2010

So, I thought I'd take the time to document my recommended processes here! But more than that, this exercise helps identify where you should concentrate efforts, where to distribute messages, and where you have the best chance of successfully engaging the community to support your work. A note about DIY. Community Map.

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Neon CRM

DECEMBER 14, 2023

One of the most important lessons a nonprofit practitioner can learn in their career is that budgets are moral documents. What does that mean? It means that where your organization puts its time, energy, and resources is a direct expression of the things it values.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JULY 19, 2016

The photograph above documents a creative stretch break from a recent Leadership Training I designed and co-facilitated at the Americans for the Arts Conference. Incorporating movement isn’t just about stretch breaks, think about ways that participants can do discussions and small group exercises while moving or walking around.

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Achieve

JUNE 8, 2023

You’ll also develop guiding documents and resources like your case for support and preliminary gift range chart. This exercise not only tests your campaign plans but is also a valuable opportunity to engage important external stakeholders early. Always conduct a feasibility study.

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NTEN

MARCH 30, 2011

Dropbox also tracks versions of documents across the team. Because it integrates tightly with your own desktop files, updates to documents are just there, almost immediately, whenever you need them. Gliffy has smart-looking templates for flow charts, database diagrams, system, business processes, and so on. Powerpoint?

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MAY 29, 2009

Draw your network After the presentation on Network Basics (materials here ), there were two exercises. Network maps are "talking documents" or prompts for reflection and strategizing. View more Microsoft Word documents from David Armano. These use tools like crayons and paper and process exercises. . The tools.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

FEBRUARY 21, 2009

But it is always a good exercise to make your brain think in a different way. It is a flow chart that calculates business performance taking into account not only whether the company had a profit, but whether that profit was good enough relative to the assets it took to generate it. Document on the fly. (tags: nonprofits roi ).

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Get Fully Funded

FEBRUARY 6, 2023

We all know we need a strategic plan, yet so many people don’t have one, probably because they’re afraid of this: Your Board and staff sequestered in a room, led by a consultant, doing exercises on flip charts with sticky notes and dots, exercises that never lead to a clear, finished product you can understand or use.

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Amy Sample Ward

MARCH 22, 2011

Whether it seems important in the moment or not, it’s really valuable to make a list or chart or picture, whatever you want, of all the information you have about your community. View more documents from Amy Sample Ward. View more documents from Amy Sample Ward. View more documents from Amy Sample Ward.

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NTEN

JANUARY 27, 2010

Maps are a tool for visualizing data about place, much like charts are tools for visualizing numeric and financial data. The image below is a screenshot from a disaster preparedness exercise in Portland, Oregon. monitor election results in Mexico and India. monitor supply levels at pharmacies throughout Africa.

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Tools Map Disaster Oregon 73

NTEN

JANUARY 27, 2010

Maps are a tool for visualizing data about place, much like charts are tools for visualizing numeric and financial data. The image below is a screenshot from a disaster preparedness exercise in Portland, Oregon. monitor election results in Mexico and India. monitor supply levels at pharmacies throughout Africa.

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Tools Map Disaster Oregon 59

Connection Cafe

DECEMBER 9, 2015

Assessing the success of your 2015 marketing strategy and planning for 2016 can be an exercise in dreaming, in seeing new possibilities, and repurposing those same ol’ buckets of cash for creative, new materials. When we say “infographic,” we mean a visual image (like a chart or a diagram) that is used to represent information or data.

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Bloomerang

NOVEMBER 26, 2021

They are not documents, there is no fancy graphic design, they are mind maps. I might have two execution goals related to this one outcome, it might be change my diet and exercise daily. . We actually, it has two parts, an impact strategy and a continuous action plan. And they are connected. . Your mission is your North Star goal.

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