NetWits

SEPTEMBER 20, 2011

With that in mind, we thought we’d offer up a few strategies proven to WOW event participants. Plan a year-round email campaign that will reach out and touch event participants in the off season to ensure that your cause and the event that they loved … is top of mind for next year. I know you understand the situation well.

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Saleforce Nonprofit

JULY 28, 2021

Planning Ahead and Outlining Goals Facilitates Long-Term Success. The second key tip that customers have reported is the importance of investing in resources — whether that’s staff, training, time, or consultants. It’s also important to keep in mind that patience is necessary. It’s not just your consultants.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MARCH 12, 2018

Last month I was lucky enough to run into Maia Duerr who participated in Wake’s Tech2EmpowerUSA at a workshop I was facilitating on the Happy Healthy Nonprofit. ” Given our mutual interests, we had a lot to share about mindfulness and well being. The book focuses on six principles: Become intimate with your core intention.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

NOVEMBER 5, 2012

The primary function of a Content Management System—making it easy for non-technical staff to update content—helps facilitate constituent interaction by helping your nonprofit better attract and engage visitors to its website. Download it for free at [LINK: [link] ] to learn more.

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Nonprofit Tech for Good

JULY 16, 2023

If you uncover misalignment and/or a lack of clarity, consider holding a facilitated Leadership Alignment Intensive process , designed to get your team rowing in the same direction. How do we do it? Why do we do it? What are we today? What do we want to be? Where do we agree/disagree?

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MAY 10, 2011

Maybe it takes the form of consultants using the findings to examine their own practice and improve it. Co-Create: At this higher level, the conversations lead to co-creation. Maybe it takes the form of collaboratively interupting the results of the evaluation.

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Blue Fox

OCTOBER 1, 2021

So often, nonprofit fundraising efforts are facilitated and driven by staff members. Blue Fox services range from standard bookkeeping and payroll services, to coaching and consulting, to comprehensive virtual CFO services. What about your board members… are they fired up for fundraising season? What’s wrong with that?

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

DECEMBER 10, 2013

Note from Beth: Last week, I had the pleasure of facilitating two workshops on becoming a Networked Nonprofit: Effective Social Strategy for nonprofits in Santa Barbara hosted by the Fund for Santa Barbara. Kudos to the sharp minds of the LightBox Collaborative for creating such an intuitive and useful tool! Photo by Gary Clark.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

OCTOBER 19, 2009

Last week, as part of my work at the Packard Foundation as visiting scholar I had the opportunity to participate in a face-to-face convening of the "Network of Network Funders," facilitated by the Monitor Institute. One might be drawing the map of the network's connections and facilitating a discussion about what the network looks like.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

DECEMBER 5, 2016

The Playbook also discusses the skillsets that a nonprofit needs to use data successfully, both for staff and for hiring consultants or working with skilled volunteers. There is also a section that discusses additional methods such using open data sets and program evaluation that may require hiring a consultant. Meaning Making.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

SEPTEMBER 30, 2014

Over the past year, I have been working with the Knight Foundation to facilitate a peer learning group with their community foundation partners to learn and spread best practices in planning and implementing Giving Days. Click to see the full infographic. But are they financially sustainable for the organizations that run them?

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Top Nonprofits

JULY 1, 2022

With that in mind, here are three tips to help you choose the right CMS for your nonprofit website: Define your website needs. Work with a website consultant. Work with a website consultant. Choosing a web design consultant is a lot like choosing the best CMS for your website. Compare top platforms.

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Bloomerang

JUNE 27, 2024

Harmony and understanding Sympathy and trust abounding No more falsehoods or derisions Golden living dreams of visions Mystic crystal revelation And the minds true liberation” — Lyrics from Aquarius, Hair the musical You – all of us – need to put a new system in place to help. If this could happen, we’d make a quantum leap in awareness.

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Saleforce Nonprofit

FEBRUARY 24, 2022

Are there connections we can facilitate? “I have enjoyed being with like-minded leaders on a consistent basis. Sterrin does a great job organizing speakers and facilitating discussion.” In addition, she founded her own consulting practice in 2010. . Is there expertise we can share?

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Bloomerang

JULY 21, 2021

Keep in mind that each state has different requirements; you must check with the Secretary of State for your state’s specific requirements. Retain or consult with a bookkeeper to create accounting records and financial reports. . Retain or consult with an accountant for annual audit and government filings, including the form 990.

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Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

NOVEMBER 30, 2007

It is actually pretty mind-boggling. There are issues that relate to encoding, fonts, and character sets, machine translation, interfaces to facilitate human translation, issues of workflow, volunteer and project management, and a whole host of other issues.

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NTEN

JUNE 13, 2014

In addition, Matt co-founded and served as Director of Technology for 2MC, a Chicago-based internet consulting firm. First off, in terms of metrics, you need to be very clear in your own mind as to what the exact intended end use of that data will be. I think there are two key points to keep in mind here.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MAY 5, 2017

Note from Beth: Several years ago, I was got trained in design thinking facilitation methods using Luma and have incorporated these techniques into my consulting and training practice. In the business world they look for the Blue Ocean, the uncontested space where there is a ton of money to be made.

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NTEN

SEPTEMBER 11, 2014

We wanted to create a fun and collaborative environment to pitch an idea, help them think strategically, and find like-minded individuals to work through their ideas together.”. “We wanted to give nonprofits a chance to propel their world changing ideas, especially as they are often overlooked in the tech community,” said Emily. “We

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NTEN

MARCH 18, 2010

Rob Jordan, Idealist Consulting. Idealist Consulting specializes in moving and supporting organizations that are interested in "getting into the cloud" and with over 180 clients we have a good idea of what it takes to get there. traditional offline software) into the cloud (a.k.a. online software) without too much hassle.

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NTEN

OCTOBER 25, 2011

Compelling: Never mind the what ; the key is sharing the so what with your audience. In fundraising, we say that the most powerful form of ask is a peer ask, and what is social media if not a perfect medium to facilitate that? The answer is simple, yet confounding: C+C+C = C. Follow Darian on Twitter at www.twitter.com/@dheyman.

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NTEN

MARCH 18, 2010

Rob Jordan, Idealist Consulting. Idealist Consulting specializes in moving and supporting organizations that are interested in "getting into the cloud" and with over 180 clients we have a good idea of what it takes to get there. traditional offline software) into the cloud (a.k.a. online software) without too much hassle.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

OCTOBER 28, 2014

Build networks by facilitating collaboration between like-minded organizations, working at the “intersections” of various issues, and sharing infrastructure through “backbone” organizations. She says the Pioneers program helped provide her with important support during a critical organizational inflection point.

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Network Build Social Lesson 107

Candid

JANUARY 10, 2023

Confirm that everyone is on the same page by restating the meeting’s purpose, expected outcomes, agenda items, and the roles that individuals will play (such as facilitator or note-taker). Just remember to set a hard time limit on the kickoff portion of the meeting to avoid having it overtake the entire conversation.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

DECEMBER 7, 2015

Last week, we had a board retreat to dive into identifying core results as part of results-based accountability work , facilitated by an excellent outside consultant. There are serious health risks to a sedentary work style, but it also impacts our minds as well. The facilitator told us a specific time to be back.

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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. Yuck, right?

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Cloud 4 Good

JULY 6, 2021

This strategy gives them the peace of mind that they can access the help they need efficiently while also ensuring that IT staff are not responsible for everything from triaging enhancement requests to fixing declarative and technical bugs. What Kind of Support Staff Do You Need? What general skills are required to support your CRM?

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Greater Giving

AUGUST 21, 2023

By keeping your mission on the top of their minds, you can utilize board members’ skills, enthusiasm and influence to improve your nonprofit as a whole. An experienced consultant will walk your organization through the following key steps: Assess the history of your organization, your nonprofit’s current state and your vision for the future.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MARCH 2, 2015

A few months ago, I facilitated a mini-innovation lab on measuring impact for grantees of the Google Nonprofit program at the Impact Hub. Her company helps mission-led businesses succeed, and also connect socially minded investors with “impact investing” opportunities, where they can generate both financial returns and social impact.

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The NonProfit Times

AUGUST 13, 2024

Fundraisers can also facilitate communal learning, such as pitches to giving circles or events for groups of like-minded prospects. ** Lack of trust in nonprofits and others. Fundraisers can overcome this by orienting marketing collateral around new elements toward an educational, rather than a fundraising, perspective.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

FEBRUARY 3, 2015

Attention creates action, produces quality and facilitates productivity. John Kenyon , a nonprofit technology consultant, writes about the need for us to shift from thinking about productivity as quantity of getting things done, but to the quality of getting things done. Personal Productivity in Practice. Mindfulness'

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Saleforce Nonprofit

OCTOBER 24, 2022

I am excited to participate in the Impact Lab to leverage the brilliance of the gathered minds, the passion of the organizations, and the support of Salesforce to create an innovative way to make certain no child is in danger of being hungry.”. Principal Consultant, Heller Consulting. Rachel Machen. “ Jennifer Thall.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

AUGUST 3, 2009

What's it like behind the firewall facilitating everyone in the organization to embrace social media? When Danielle speaks about social networking it’s clear the passion and desire to communicate her love of nature and wildlife with vast amounts of like minded people comes shining through. I got curious.

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sgEngage

JANUARY 10, 2024

The team included the director, board chair, administrative marketing and communication staff and a community engagement consultant. Now add a layer in your mind showing the people represented in those circles and lines. I wanted to move beyond what was interesting information toward understanding what would be most important to know.

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Media Cause

NOVEMBER 3, 2023

To ensure effective project communication, keep in mind these best practices for groups communicating in these virtual channels. Discover why communication tools are important to include for effective project management Google Products Shared Google Sheets and Docs work well to facilitate asynchronous work and communication at a low cost.

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Have Fun - Do Good

JULY 29, 2008

As some of you know, I've been doing career consulting workshops and one-on-one sessions since 1998 when I trained with Carol Lloyd to teach her Life Worth Living workshops. Now I work with people on-one-one, and facilitate workshops, like the one I did for Stanford's Social Entrepreneurship in the Bay Area Spring Break.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

NOVEMBER 4, 2006

There was a quite a flap on the list and according to Allan it came from vendors and consultants who suggested that vendors and consultants were upset because "seems vendors think that we???re Some consultants. Some consultants used to be nonprofit staff, some nonprofit staff used to be consultants.

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