CauseVox

JUNE 26, 2023

In this article, we will explore the benefits of incorporating a tribute donation feature to help your supporters donate in honor of someone. Through heartfelt conversations, shared memories, and words of comfort, Sarah realizes that this community provides a safe space to grieve, heal, and honor her grandmother’s legacy.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MAY 15, 2020

Recently I facilitated an online session about how to get better at online meetings for Lightful in the UK where I am a Senior Advisor at Lightful, among other activities, facilitate online master classes for their BRIDGE programme. An online meeting is more effective when you have at least two facilitators. Don’t wing it alone.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

FEBRUARY 12, 2019

. Much of my training and facilitation work lately has been centered around the ideas in my recent book, The Happy Healthy Nonprofit. I’ve been facilitating nonprofit workshops and staff retreats focused on creating a culture of wellbeing in the workplace. The conversation surfaced some interesting questions and ideas.

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Bloomerang

NOVEMBER 15, 2023

.” — Alex Osborn, How to Think Up , 1942 seminal book on concept off brainstorming The process of getting a group to generate and build on others’ ideas depends on how you facilitate openness in the group. Today, Claire will be the facilitator. The primary roles are idea generators and facilitators. Give everybody a turn.

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.orgSource

AUGUST 21, 2023

Our goal was to help association professionals navigate a new technological era or Industry 4.0. But we didn’t anticipate a pandemic that would force every association to become conversant in digital solutions. Strategists are visionaries, facilitators, and problem-solvers who inspire curiosity. Association 4.0

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Media Cause

APRIL 15, 2024

Ask Questions About the Tools You Already Use When Media Cause helps a nonprofit audit their MarTech tools, the first thing to do is ask questions that are designed to start a fuller conversation about the technology used to make the work more manageable. In this way, the MarTech stack also helps shape part of the user’s journey.

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Nonprofit Tech for Good

JULY 1, 2020

She helps brands grow engagement and build relationships with their audience. Invite online supporters to participate in your campaign because it gives them a sense of purpose, responsibility and helps them feel empowered. The pandemic has drastically altered the ways nonprofits interact with their supporters.

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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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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

NOVEMBER 3, 2015

I’ve just returned from an inspiring week in Kiev, Ukraine where I got to facilitate a training for women’s organizations organized by Wake , an amazing start up founded by two respected colleagues Trish Tierney and Heather Ramsey. You have to think of your interpreters as extensions of your facilitation techniques.

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Eric Jacobsen Blog

FEBRUARY 20, 2024

Conducting meetings that take conversations down rabbit holes that cause widespread frustration amongst the members of your group. It identifies the building blocks of a strategic leader and pinpoints areas for improvement to help individuals reach their full potential. There’s no better time than now to read this book.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

AUGUST 13, 2019

As part of my work with nonprofit organizations to help them build a culture of resilience that I wrote about in the Happy Healthy Nonprofit , I have facilitated retreats where staff brainstorm ideas and identify simple ways that they can make working at their organization more enjoyable. Do people genuinely like each other?

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Amy Sample Ward

FEBRUARY 4, 2010

You can read the post and join the conversation over there – it’s also copied below. Despite the generic title, this is a report chock full of examples, best practices and data about the effects of joining the conversation online. Joining the conversation really means conversations.

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Classy

MAY 26, 2021

As hosts of the Collaborative , an annual immersive experience designed exclusively for nonprofits, we’re no strangers to facilitating meaningful connections. We created this list of tips to help you develop a strategy that assuages any fear and sets you up for networking success at physical or virtual conferences. Nail the Follow-Up

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Allegiance Group

APRIL 15, 2024

For example, you might attract 150 new donors and retain 55% of your existing donors within a year. Prioritizing donor stewardship efforts will help you retain more donors so your time, effort, and money spent acquiring donors isn’t wasted. Craft a conversion journey. Nonprofits usually report retention as a percentage.

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sgEngage

MARCH 17, 2022

Some foundation executive directors form peer coaching circles with other Eds to help each other meet specific challenges or embrace new opportunities. This mapping exercise helps funders meet unmet or underfunded needs and populations. . Start with one conversation. 3) Providing Mutual Support .

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The Modern Nonprofit

APRIL 7, 2024

Here are some tips to help fundraisers push past the psychological challenges: Reframe asking as inviting – Focus on including others in a collective effort rather than putting them on the spot. Give first – Lead by example and get the ball rolling with your own contribution.

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VisionLink

FEBRUARY 26, 2019

Among Visionlink’s customers as examples, these organizations range from 2-1-1s and Information and Referral centers, to AAA and ADRC's, to youth employment, disaster relief, refugee and immigrant focused solutions, food pantries, and many others. Let's build systems of systems that leverage what we each do, to help so many more.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

AUGUST 17, 2021

The hybrid workplace will have a huge impact on the way we design and facilitate meetings, the primary method of how many organizations get stuff done. Our new normal will most likely be more complex to design and facilitate. Here are some considerations for designing and facilitating pandemic-era hybrid meetings.

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NonProfit Hub

APRIL 17, 2024

For example, you can answer these questions: What communication platforms do these individuals use? For example, let’s say you create a persona for your younger supporters. For example, let’s say you create a persona for your younger supporters. Add specific details that bring your personas to life.

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Whole Whale

SEPTEMBER 26, 2023

Microsoft Clarity offers a compelling solution by providing real-time analytics that facilitate data-driven decision-making. Heatmaps provide a visual representation of user clicks and scrolls, helping you identify areas that attract the most attention. Additional Resources Should I use Microsoft Clarity and Google Analytics?

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Forum One

APRIL 11, 2023

For example, it can result in improvements to a grant application process, which returns much stronger applications that ultimately create a bigger impact for your organization. This is just one example of how the Chicago Public Library incorporates service design into its work. Improve the user experience. Save time and money.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MARCH 15, 2011

Over the past month, I have been thinking about a couple of different ideas and how to incorporate them into training design to facilitate learning. My questions are: 1. How can we use graphic facilitation or graphic note taking in real time to deepen understanding of the topic being discussed? I feel it stifles learning.

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Forum One

MAY 23, 2022

Cody : Often it feels like my most important role is to facilitate conversations between different team members, and to provide context and translation when the conversation is between the tech team and other roles. Give us an example of what you’ve been working on lately?

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Bloomerang

MAY 17, 2021

You are the philanthropy facilitator. . You — and the entire social benefit sector — need organizational-development-grounded philanthropic facilitators. Which means you must help others overcome the “ money taboo.” What can the fundraiser do to help build and instill this culture? Shape the Conversation .

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Greater Giving

FEBRUARY 22, 2022

To keep donors engaged and maintain a steady funding stream year-round, nonprofits are increasingly turning to their websites to help drive ongoing fundraising pursuits. A conversion-optimized donation page. A/B testing involves creating two different versions of a webpage and assessing which drives more engagement and conversions.

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ASU Lodestar Center

JUNE 29, 2021

These five actions will get your nonprofit started, or help to transition into DEI work. This will help shape your conversations, strategies, and goals. Working with a professional will help facilitate discussions, allow everyone to participate in the dialogue, and shape a process to create a plan of action.

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The Storytelling Non-profit

JUNE 5, 2022

For this reason, I want to share with you my best fundraising writing advice and give you some easy but very useful steps to help you write your best fundraising letter and to keep you motivated and inspired. Write as if you’re having a conversation 5. Capture your natural conversation tone by recording yourself 6.

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Bloomerang

JUNE 22, 2023

Investing ten hours in talking about the organization with family, friends, associates, and various groups helps raise awareness and broaden the network of potential supporters. Regular communication channels should be established to facilitate the flow of information between board members and staff.

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Nonprofits Source

NOVEMBER 7, 2023

For example, you might start a staff book club and use Christian books as a valuable resource for establishing essential team ethics. For example, you can subtly make your beliefs known by adding a Bible verse reference to your email signature. However, you can still do your part to practice transparency when communicating with others.

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Nonprofit Tech for Good

MAY 8, 2020

WhatsApp represents one such medium that presents nonprofits with an outstanding opportunity to engage with stakeholders through texts, attachments, and multiple forms of conversations delivered to their mobile phones and now to their desktops. Below are four examples: 1) Virtual Team Management.

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AccelEvents

SEPTEMBER 4, 2020

The good news is that facilitating networking in a virtual setting is quite simple. If you are thinking of hosting a virtual networking event, we have some tips that can help you with the planning and facilitation process. All that is required is a focus on networking in the planning stages. . Plan the Particulars.

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Eric Jacobsen Blog

NOVEMBER 6, 2023

Conducting meetings that take conversations down rabbit holes that cause widespread frustration amongst the members of your group. It identifies the building blocks of a strategic leader and pinpoints areas for improvement to help individuals reach their full potential. There’s no better time than now to read this book.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

NOVEMBER 18, 2014

Last week, I facilitated a mini-innovation lab on measuring impact for grantees of the Google Nonprofit program at the Impact Hub. My Nonprofit Needs A Data Nerd!

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Bloomerang

JUNE 28, 2023

Use larger print (14-point font at a minimum): Larger print helps aging eyes. Regular communication can help maintain their engagement and trust in your organization. Help them understand the impact their legacy can have on your organization’s mission. Older donors often appreciate storytelling and nostalgia.

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Top Nonprofits

AUGUST 3, 2021

But, as my example indicates, things do not always work as expected. Not surprisingly, their perception was that the conversation had been poorly facilitated and had no structure! I am a member of the Technology of Participation network of facilitators. So I started using collaborative Google documents.

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sgEngage

OCTOBER 24, 2023

To maximize the full potential of this period, organizations must explore innovative strategies to drive engagement, increase conversions, and amplify their overall impact. This guide will delve into actionable strategies to help organizations like yours elevate their fundraising with employee giving.

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Cloud 4 Good

MARCH 29, 2022

The overall goal of this next phase was to facilitate more efficient marketing efforts to prospective teachers, donors, and constituents as they were introduced and educated on the TFA brand. Now, Interaction Studio helps us to personalize journeys for everyone, relative to their unique situation and where they are coming from,” said Willis.

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