Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

SEPTEMBER 6, 2023

Joan Garry and I had the joy of collaborating on this article together based on a conversation we had recently. From our previous conversations, we’ve realized that empathy is not just a warm and fuzzy “soft skill,” but an essential leadership skill to ensure that your nonprofit’s work survives and thrives in the future.

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Greater Giving

APRIL 23, 2024

Equipping them with volunteer orientation knowledge ensures they understand the value proposition of volunteers and can champion: Effective Volunteer Recruitment: Board members and committee members can leverage their networks to attract skilled volunteers. Volunteer Retention: Positive volunteer experiences lead to long-term engagement.

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Kindful

AUGUST 28, 2023

Collaboration Review and provide input into software specifications. Collaborate with other developers to ensure (1) we are taking the best approach in a given situation (2) we are doing things in a consistent way (3) we share information. Create technical specifications and technical designs. You’ll use Jira, GitHub, and Slack.

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The Modern Nonprofit

DECEMBER 28, 2021

This involves both choosing who these new leaders will be, as well as preparing them with the best possible leadership skills. In order to ensure that there are no holes in the organization in case someone steps down, create a manual of specialized tasks so that they can be quickly learned by another staff person.

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Saleforce Nonprofit

SEPTEMBER 29, 2021

If you’ve been part of the Salesforce community for a while, you’ve certainly heard of Trailhead — the fun way to learn about all things Salesforce. Road-Tested Tips for Designing a Learning Program. First, some tips for your learning program based on our experience. You may have even earned some badges.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

SEPTEMBER 16, 2015

For the past few months, I’ve been facilitating a Nonprofit Emerging Leaders online peer learning project with Third Plateau Impact Strategies. The skills that we are focusing on are “networked leadership” skills both online and offline and working with self and working with others. Flickr Photo by qwrrty. Ask Good Questions.

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Qgiv

FEBRUARY 17, 2022

Byte Back is a nonprofit computer skills and career training center located in Washington, D.C. Glenn Stein, a community organizer who wound up as “the guy in charge of computers” before founding Byte Back, started the organization in collaboration with his friend Barbara Altman. Programs and Impact. community partners.

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ASU Lodestar Center

APRIL 2, 2020

While conferences were once the only idea in gaining professional development skills, peer-to-peer mentoring is shown to give the highest output of learned skills. Peer-to-peer learning models is a great way for staff to mentor each other and either learn a new skill or strengthen a previous skill.

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VQ Strategies

DECEMBER 30, 2020

While it would be easy to focus on the many difficulties that this year delivered (and we don’t take any of those lightly), for this exercise in reflection, we choose the lens of gratitude – as we learned from our mentor and friend Jill Friedman Fixler who perfected the practice of gratitude [1].

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Eric Jacobsen Blog

JULY 23, 2021

The book (co-authored by Dick Weiss ) chronicles Michael’s story of going from an underdog athlete to a turnaround CEO, and how he took his student-athlete experience and translated those learned lessons to successes in his career. As a basketball player, Michael learned teamwork, courage, adaptability, and much more.

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Media Cause

MARCH 8, 2021

Nearly 200 people applied to our Fellowship this Spring because they’ve been in this situation of wanting to grow, to learn, to gain that critical experience, but not finding anyone who would offer them the opportunity to do it. We need ideas and input and resources and collaboration from everyone, and everywhere.

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Bloomerang

MAY 6, 2022

Grant writing tip: While the task of writing a proposal often falls on the shoulders of a project manager or grant writer, anyone—even an outside consultant—with the proper skills could write the proposal. Areas served: Worldwide (communities where IGT operates). Costco Wholesale. Emeril Lagasse Foundation. Areas served: US. Areas served: US.

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Neon CRM

OCTOBER 19, 2023

Online forums and communities with members-only access can also provide a platform for people to exchange ideas and collaborate. Training and Workshops Your nonprofit can offer training programs and workshops where members enhance their skills and industry knowledge. Think about the ways you can help your nonprofit’s members connect!

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

APRIL 3, 2017

Note: This guest post was published on the Packard Foundation OE Blog reflects what was learned from designing and delivering leadership development for emerging nonprofit leaders. We learned a lot. Effective delivery of content and learning experiences takes both on and offline connection.

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Qgiv

MARCH 8, 2022

Keep reading to be inspired and learn a little more about the women shaping Qgiv! I was just out of school and there was so much I had to learn. I take a special interest in coaching and developing young marketing professionals, focusing on expanding their skillsets and wellbeing, as well as leadership skills.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MAY 8, 2018

Leadership skills are only just about our inner-selves, it is also how we relate to other people and manage those relationships, especially in the workplace. Building basic processes for getting work done, for example collaborative calendar planning. Encourage sharing what is learned at conferences with staff.

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Connection Cafe

DECEMBER 7, 2016

A few weeks ago, we aligned with the YW for a skills-based volunteering project with one of their partners, Independence High School in Manhattan. I look forward to staying connected with them and plan to do whatever I can to help mentor them as they continue their education and pursue their careers.

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ASU Lodestar Center

MAY 14, 2019

The Center for Creative Leadership suggests leaders adopt a 70/20/10 Model for learning and development “which asserts that adults learn approximately 70 percent through on-the-job stretch opportunities, 20 percent through coaching and mentoring, and 10 percent through training programs to grow discreet skills.”.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MARCH 27, 2017

The project, which combined peer learning and mentoring together with an online “ Emerging Leaders Playbook ,” offered a new and entirely virtual approach to leadership development. It isn’t enough to read an article about a leadership skill, it is also important to practice it as part of doing your work.

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Amy Sample Ward

JUNE 22, 2011

When you step in the door, you come prepackaged with skills you can share. It was beautiful to see how much confidence they had but we are also still all learning. Wendy : If nothing else, Millennials are collaborative. Suzy : Collaboration is the best skill someone can have. Michael : I think it does go both ways.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MAY 19, 2015

It is a leadership professional development project for emerging leaders in nonprofits in collaboration with Third Plateau funded by the Packard Foundation. This pilot project will test a leadership development training model for emerging leaders in environmental organizations that uses a combination of peer learning, coaching, and mentoring.

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VQ Strategies

OCTOBER 10, 2021

Organizations benefit from extra hands helping to drive mission fulfillment and greater awareness of their work; the families gain skills and valuable time together (not to mention the satisfaction of making a difference and connecting with others); and the community is strengthened through their contributions.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JUNE 19, 2013

I was invited to a briefing session with other media and bloggers to learn more. The book shares many insights about how effective networking, collaboration, influence, negotiation, and leadership skills can to success for “Givers.” ” In short, nice people can finish first in a networked world.

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Care2

FEBRUARY 1, 2013

With 25 sessions to choose from, led by experts in nonprofit and commercial marketing, you’ll take away immediately actionable learnings. You can share what you learn after the conference. Here are just a few of the benefits of attending: You’ll strengthen (and broaden) your knowledge of direct response fundraising.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

OCTOBER 30, 2013

Kathy Reich, Director of Organizational Effectiveness Grantmaking at the David and Lucile Packard Foundation, write up this summary of the session. I am looking forward to the next chapter of work which will continue to focus on networks, but how they can be used by nonprofit for learning that leads to greater impact. Stay tuned.

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Wild Apricot

DECEMBER 21, 2017

Maintenance of Communication and Collaboration Channels. Training & Development (Coaching and Mentoring). Today, sales teams harness the power of big data analytics, artificial intelligence and machine learning to improve performance and future proof profitability. Salesforce Recruitment, Onboarding and Training.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JANUARY 18, 2011

I’ll be sharing insights on my blog as the project unfolds — it is going to be a rich opportunity for learning because it is a capacity building project that leverages a networked approach. Build the capacity of these NGOs and CSOs to use new media effectively through mentoring and coaching. We created a network map.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JULY 10, 2015

This year I’ve been working on a pilot, funded by the Packard Foundation, in collaboration with Third Plateau, on leadership development for emerging leaders.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MAY 15, 2012

My role was to deliver components of the Networked NGO curriculum – sessions on network mapping, challenges assumptions about networked ways of working, as well as training on how to use the online collaboration platform for their together moving forward. Needless to say, I learned a lot! Field Trips and Real World Experience.

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Tech Soup

JULY 6, 2012

Siembieda-Gribben structured the hackathon to maximize learning and shared knowledge. A Tech Advisory Committee of nine Bay Area technologists such as Kollective Mobile CEO Sian Morson mentored the teams. Both the jury and fellow teams were impressed with Team Reactor's ingenuity and planning skills.

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ASU Lodestar Center

JUNE 15, 2011

This organization uses sports, specifically basketball, as a vehicle to help youth get motivated in school and learn life lessons while at the same time producing some seriously great athletes. In my experience, Ive learned how integral life skills can be taught and nurtured by tapping into something kids love: basketball.

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ASU Lodestar Center

JULY 8, 2011

If you're interested in learning more, this topic will be explored in more depth in the upcoming Daring to Lead 2011 brief: Inside the Executive Director Job , which you can find on the Daring to Lead website next month. Guiding, supporting, mentoring, and coaching staff is indeed rewarding. Click here to learn more.

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NTEN

OCTOBER 6, 2010

" Given the natural affinity between the principals of open source development -- peer production, collaboration, transparency -- and the goals and culture of many civic sector organizations, it makes sense for decision makers and tech staff to at least keep up to date on developments in the open source world. " "Doesn't scale."

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NTEN

JUNE 22, 2011

When you step in the door, you come prepackaged with skills you can share. It was beautiful to see how much confidence they had but we are also still all learning. Wendy : If nothing else, Millennials are collaborative. Suzy : Collaboration is the best skill someone can have. Kari: I'm so glad you brought that up.

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ASU Lodestar Center

MAY 31, 2016

At an individual level, leadership development has been proven as an effective strategy to prevent burnout and leads to improvements in soft skills overall performance. On a macro level, leadership development strengthens the nonprofit sector as a whole; it often leads to collaboration and innovation amongst creative leaders.

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NTEN

MARCH 18, 2011

She has since learned to be confident and not be afraid to speak her mind. One woman said, "The tech crew is all men, and it's a skill in and of itself communicating with them." Learning how to communicate authentically is key. Many of us have been blessed by strong female mentors.

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Tech Soup

JUNE 30, 2011

Echoing Gore’s earlier emphasis on collaboration, Newell added, “The social model inside of it is collaborative and not competitive.” ” Science gets a swift kick of fun when you can learn about it by being propelled through the air in a game. Show me something and I will remember.

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