sgEngage

MARCH 19, 2024

Collaboration: Working collaboratively is the only way to combine ideas and perspectives. Encourage your team to spend time getting creative, learning, or simply brainstorming. The post 8 Steps for Creating a Nonprofit Innovation Culture first appeared on The ENGAGE Blog. Click here. Are you based in Canada? Click here.

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TechImpact

FEBRUARY 7, 2014

Your nonprofit’s structure was laboriously built over years of tinkering, learning, and perfecting. Ultimately, its important to remember that collaboration between funders and other nonprofits is an important step to a successful restructuring according to La Piana , Tides , and Foundation Center.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JANUARY 3, 2024

My New Year’s Reflection Rituals Review the Year: I use a tool called the “ Year Compass, a free downloadable booklet that provides a set of structured reflection questions that help you look back and ahead. Board Service : I continue to serve on the advisory boards of Leadership Learning Community and Wake. That is twenty years!

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MARCH 30, 2012

As such, I’m facilitating many peer groups and always looking at how leverage peer learning. My colleagues at Monitor have taken a deep dive into the question of designing peer learning with impact. They want to hear about your experiences. Unlocking the Potential of Peer Learning – Guest Post by Noah Flower.

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sgEngage

OCTOBER 9, 2023

But, monitoring, evaluation and learning (MEL) frameworks and approaches may not be as objective as they seem. All too frequently, the grantmaker alone is determining, leading, and benefiting from MEL processes with no input or collaboration from the people, organizations or community impacted. Where does the learning go?

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MAY 23, 2013

How do you learn? When you want to acquire a new skill or apply some new knowledge, do you learn by passively sitting and listening to an expert lecture for 90 minutes without a break and 150 PPT slides? It is a more structured body break and incorporates more in-depth debrief on content. Source: Zazzle. Talking VS Listening.

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Eric Jacobsen Blog

FEBRUARY 20, 2024

Specifically, you’ll learn about Horwath’s Strategic Quotient (SQ) , a validated assessment tool which evaluates an individual’s ability to lead and think strategically. Organization Fitness : Ability to create the appropriate business structure, evolve the business model, develop talent while planning for succession, and innovate.

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sgEngage

NOVEMBER 14, 2023

In fact, when surveyed, 97% of nonprofit professionals expressed an interest in learning how to use their data more effectively, and only 5% reported using data in every decision they make. Additionally, they can experience improved care collaboration and enhance overall patient care. Improved staff collaboration.

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Tech Soup

FEBRUARY 17, 2015

Box.org provides organizations with the Box file-sharing, content management, and collaboration service. You can use Box's cloud-based storage and collaboration tools to replace traditional on-premises file servers and traditional file-sharing processes. To learn more, read Box's summary of how nonprofits can use its services.

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Qgiv

JULY 17, 2023

To quote Mahatma Gandhi, “The path is the journey,” and what we learn along the way as we encounter resistance, as we motivate ourselves, and as we engage others, offers great learning that supports personal and professional growth. You need to create gracious space where it is safe to learn in public.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

FEBRUARY 11, 2014

As a trainer and facilitator who works with nonprofit organizations and staffers, you have to be obsessed with learning theory to design and deliver effective instruction, have productive meetings, or embark on your own self-directed learning path. There are also physical theories like brain-based learning and neuroscience.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

SEPTEMBER 27, 2019

Overall, the program led to over 100 collaborations and its impact is ongoing. Teampedia -This collection includes many useful team building activities, icebreakers, teamwork resources, and tools for teams that want to improve their collaborative processes, including meetings.

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Gyrus

SEPTEMBER 20, 2016

Getting the Most out of your Social Learning Program. Statements like, “how do we make our learning program work for us?” ” or “let’s get social with our learning plan.” ” But, how do you get your learning program up to speed? Undoubtedly, you have heard it before.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MARCH 4, 2010

Collaborating Via Artifacts. I learned so much and quickly wanted to share a few insights. As he shared the story, I had some questions about weaving offline/online collaboration within networks. So, it raised some questions in my mind: What is unique about online collaboration that begins online before a face-to-face meeting?

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Candid

NOVEMBER 17, 2021

In this blog post, we'll review the research results, discuss implications, and identify the soul-searching needed to move forward in new alignment with our values. Thanks to the generosity of these funders, we were able to identify 13 groups where duplicative questions are present using several human-guided machine learning techniques.

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Eric Jacobsen Blog

OCTOBER 26, 2023

Gallup is the go-to resource for learning about the attitudes and behaviors of employees and customers. As has been written about repeatedly, t he COVID-19 pandemic caused an awakening that shocked the world — a structural change in how and where people work and live. it’s seven in 10. and global productivity will go up or down.

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sgEngage

JUNE 4, 2023

Operate More Efficiently Gartner projects that 70% of organizations will implement structured automation by 2025. Being bogged down with busy work creates an obstacle to collaboration, making it harder to brainstorm the next big idea for a fundraising event, a campaign, or a partnership. Many nonprofits are way ahead of the game.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

OCTOBER 30, 2020

Organizations need to have structures and policies to support and enhance an individuals work/life balance and enable healthy technology use habits including a right to disconnect from the workplace. See Nethope blog post that provides a summary of how AI is currently be used in the humanitarian sector. .

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Bloomerang

APRIL 1, 2021

Actively look for new learning opportunities. . Actively Look for New Learning Opportunities. If you’re waiting for a learning opportunity to jump out and hit you in the face, you’ll likely be waiting for a long time. The benefits of learning more information specific to the nonprofit sector speak for themselves.

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Eric Jacobsen Blog

MARCH 26, 2021

Sense & Respond teaches you how to use a structured feedback loop to: Create two-way conversations. Create collaboration. Create a learning culture. Tell your personal story in a way that builds credibility and forges relationships. Focus on the outcomes. Embrace continuous processes.

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Eric Jacobsen Blog

JUNE 8, 2020

Sense & Respond teaches you how to use a structured feedback loop to: Create two-way conversations. Create collaboration. Create a learning culture. Tell your personal story in a way that builds credibility and forges relationships. Focus on the outcomes. Embrace continuous processes.

Leadership 52

Leadership Management Teach Storytelling 52

Qgiv

APRIL 22, 2024

Learn more about how nonprofit marketing can benefit your organization: What is nonprofit marketing? Inbound marketing often help you draw people in through content such as: blogs, videos, social media, SEO, and other organic marketing channels. Watch this webinar to learn how your nonprofit marketing can increase donations.

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Bloomerang

FEBRUARY 1, 2023

This blog aims to examine these challenges and offer all nonprofits leaders methods to increase diversity and BIPOC participation in their organizations. Structural barriers to success The nonprofit sector is highly competitive, with organizations often competing for the same limited resources.

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Eric Jacobsen Blog

NOVEMBER 6, 2023

Specifically, you’ll learn about Horwath’s Strategic Quotient (SQ) , a validated assessment tool which evaluates an individual’s ability to lead and think strategically. Organization Fitness : Ability to create the appropriate business structure, evolve the business model, develop talent while planning for succession, and innovate.

Leadership 58

Leadership Evaluation Brain Business 58

Forum One

AUGUST 15, 2010

This is the final post in our series on online collaboration for grantmakers. In part one, we look at determining the value of creating a collaboration community. The second part explores challenges in facilitating collaboration. The world of collaboration platforms is a bit of a jungle. Be wary of big, complex visions.

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Bloomerang

NOVEMBER 15, 2023

Strategies for effective and collaborative idea generation How can you ensure that your ideas not only get heard, but also gain traction within a brainstorming group? It needs to be captured in a group memory, readily available for all to see—something I learned years ago from Michael Doyle, author of How to Make Meetings Work.

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NTEN

JUNE 22, 2011

Today, I’m live blogging a few sessions from the 2011 Millennial Donor Summit. Suzy : I know many people think the boomers like structure in the work place, we are concerned with making money - but we were the age of Aquarius! It was beautiful to see how much confidence they had but we are also still all learning.

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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. For decades, even centuries, our view of leadership has been defined by top-down, hierarchical structures. Today, this view is fundamentally changing.

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Whole Whale

MAY 16, 2022

These types of tools are mostly built on top of GPT3 (General Pre-Trained Transformer) which is a machine learning platform that enables developers to train and deploy models that perform a variety of natural language processing tasks. They can also help you generate ideas and structure your thoughts. Peppertype.ai. A Final Thought.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

AUGUST 28, 2013

These new collaborative initiatives pull together various players (often government, private sector and nonprofits) within an ecosystem, defined by issue and/or place, to coordinate and align their action to drive greater impact. But whether you call it “networked” ways of working, “collaboration 2.0” Call this “social change 2.0”.

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Media Cause

AUGUST 9, 2021

This blog was co-written by Associate Director, Ida Perrson, and SVP of Brand + Strategy, Amy Small. This recent article from AIGA, “ Small Budgets, Tight Deadlines, Important Work: Lessons all designers can learn from working with nonprofits ,” was one of those instances. What would the structure be like? What about content?

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Have Fun - Do Good

MAY 16, 2008

To be eligible to apply, the collaboration must: "Involve two or more nonprofit organizations that each would otherwise provide the same or similar programs or services and compete for clients, financial resources and staff. As the Everyday Giving Blog points out, the authors of Forces for Good , Leslie R.

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Eric Jacobsen Blog

NOVEMBER 11, 2021

The 10 journeys are engaging, relatable and profiled through these personas: The Maker : Prototypes everything, learns by doing. The Leader : Rejects traditional structures, seeks inspirational role models, tests leadership ideas. The Collaborator : Embraces teamwork, synchronizes efforts, shares tasks and goals.

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CauseVox

APRIL 13, 2022

The Structure of a Peer to Peer Fundraising Campaign. To learn more about the basics of peer to peer fundraising, check out our Peer to Peer Fundraising Primer. Learn more about how CauseVox can help you run a winning peer to peer fundraiser. Check out this free guide to learn how to create your own fundraising toolkit !

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

OCTOBER 23, 2014

There is minimal structure or roles and as a living organism, the structure changes. The members of these networks are intentional about building, strengthening, and maintaining relationships with one another that generates collaborative activities together. A network is more adaptive than an organization.

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Eric Jacobsen Blog

MARCH 25, 2021

The 10 journeys are engaging, relatable and profiled through these personas: The Maker : Prototypes everything, learns by doing. The Leader : Rejects traditional structures, seeks inspirational role models, tests leadership ideas. The Collaborator : Embraces teamwork, synchronizes efforts, shares tasks and goals.

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sgEngage

JANUARY 13, 2023

But the key to success was learning to maximize these tools. Break Down Culture Siloes for Effective Collaboration Major changes in technology and processes often call for major shifts in organizational culture as well. However, connecting finance to the program and development teams enables highly effective collaboration.

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