sgEngage

OCTOBER 17, 2022

You’ve read about participatory grantmaking—and maybe even heard about other organizations using this model to distribute control of their funding strategy and grants decisions to the communities they serve. Perhaps you’ll start by reading about other models , watching webinars, or developing ideas. Is this you?

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

AUGUST 14, 2015

I’ve had the honor of facilitating an online peer learning exchange of Knight Grantees that are hosting Giving Days, applying and iterating on the Giving Day Playbook since 2013. Yesterday, I facilitated the first webinar in a series hosted by the Knight Foundation on taking the practice of Giving Days to the next level.

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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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Candid

JANUARY 10, 2023

If people enjoy participating in meetings and find them to be productive, they may want to become even more invested in and give generously to your capital campaign. Kicking off the conversation. 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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Eric Jacobsen Blog

NOVEMBER 6, 2023

Conducting meetings that take conversations down rabbit holes that cause widespread frustration amongst the members of your group. Organization Fitness : Ability to create the appropriate business structure, evolve the business model, develop talent while planning for succession, and innovate. A company is only as good as its people.

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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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The Modern Nonprofit

APRIL 7, 2024

Common Fundraiser Pain Points Asking for money can be an uncomfortable experience for many people involved in peer-to-peer fundraising campaigns. There are also psychological factors at play that hold people back from being effective fundraisers. Have open conversations and provide psychological support.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

AUGUST 27, 2010

The second part of the morning was designed around the Principles of Social Media Strategy and used a new version of the Social Media Game intended for a large group of people. From Conversational Keynote To Conversational Workshop. A conversational approach is not an expert or a group of experts talking the whole time.

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Amy Sample Ward

FEBRUARY 1, 2011

The team of people currently working on the proposal for this new platform, asked me to help share some context about the role of Community Managers that could be included in the proposal narrative for funders who may be unfamiliar with community building best practices. And, as a displaced Oregonian myself (I will make it home one day!),

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Connection Cafe

MARCH 12, 2018

The answer needs to be more thorough than “people who appreciate our mission” or “wealthy people.” To explain why, let’s consider the two most frequently used tools: wealth screening and custom modeling. And that’s why modeling has a place in the discussion—to predict affinity.

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Beneblog: Technology Meets Society

JULY 5, 2013

I’ve been actively advocating for an international copyright exception model that would greatly benefit people with disabilities, as anyone who has read my blog over the years can attest! After all, Benetech’s Bookshare initiative is the largest online library serving people with print disabilities in the world.

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Morocco United States Copyright Library 127

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

AUGUST 28, 2013

I wrote a quick reflection on some of the techniques used to facilitate the meeting. Consequently, traditional frameworks and tools focused on organizational branding, production models, capacity-building, and competitive strategy don’t work as well in this new paradigm.

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Get Fully Funded

JUNE 18, 2023

They inspire people, they solve problems, and they build teams. Facilitator. Some people start a nonprofit or take a Director’s job and find themselves in a leadership position by default. When a leader is a charming, charismatic speaker, people tend to flock to them like moths to a flame. Building relationships.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MAY 8, 2018

Last month, I was honored to present and facilitate an all-day workshop for nonprofit leaders at the Oregon Nonprofit Leadership Conference on how to activate a culture of well being in the nonprofit workplace, based on my book, The Happy Healthy Nonprofit: Strategies for Impact without Burnout. Improve internal information systems.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JUNE 29, 2016

Note from Beth: At this year’s Nonprofit Technology Conference, I was lucky to co-design and facilitate a session on technology training with colleagues John Kenyon, Cindy Leonard and Jeanne Allen. Cindy and Jeanne wrote this great reflection of what we learned and how we facilitated this very interactive session.

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Classy

APRIL 20, 2021

A: It’s not often you find a company where great people and technology serve thousands of nonprofits who make the world a better place every day, but I’ve been lucky to be a part of the Classy journey for a while now. . Q: You’ve been a huge part of helping to build Classy over the past seven years.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

OCTOBER 9, 2018

We are tracking the conversation and resources about AI and Nonprofits and social good. Facilitated by Lucy Bernholz, the panelists discussed how data mining, policy algorithms, and predictive risk models affect poor and working-class people in America. Here’s this month’s roundup. More on the new law here.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JUNE 20, 2017

Last week I facilitated a workshop on the Happy Healthy Nonprofit: Linking Nonprofit High Performance to Wellbeing in Santa Cruz hosted by the Community Foundation of Santa Cruz County. In Santa Cruz, when the word “Perfectionism” bubbled up to the top, it lead to an wonderful conversation about “satisficing.”

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MARCH 3, 2011

I’m the lead for Zoetica where my role is to deliver training, advise on the curriculum and coaching methods, model transparency, and serve as meta network weaver. Day 4 of the Train the Trainers E-Mediat was designed and facilitated by the capable SMEXbeirut Team – including Jessica Dheere , Mohamad Najem , and Naeema Zarif.

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ASU Lodestar Center

MARCH 9, 2022

For those involved with nonprofit resource development, there has been an obvious redirection of financial gifting to Black, Indigenous, and People of Color (BIPOC) - especially BIPOC-run and BIPOC-serving agencies. This is a step toward equity, but what nonprofit agencies are already well-equipped with the necessary resources?

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JANUARY 5, 2012

The instructor’s role should be to facilitate this understanding for their students, not dump content on them. If your true goal is inspire people to learn, then you need to incorporate techniques so people can process the information every ten minutes. Illustration by Beth Kanter. That’s the theory at least.

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NTEN

NOVEMBER 20, 2014

The session was facilitated by Susan Feeney, Partner at GMMB , and explored the range of new media models and venture journalism experiments. “As The story is the starting point to create the conversations,” Chan added. He later suggested, “Create an interactive experience [with data]; data can change the conversation.”

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MAY 10, 2011

The TCC Group is facilitating a “learn in public&# process by sharing early research findings related to 1300 capacity building grants. There has been an interesting discussion on the wiki and blogs about strategy for public learning. Co-Create: At this higher level, the conversations lead to co-creation.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

FEBRUARY 17, 2011

But it wasn’t just the ideas, it was also the people and making connections to colleagues I’ve known for more than a decade and connections to new people. Modeling the Network Mindset. This mean that roughly there would be 100 or so people in section. For each session, a moderator introduced the topics.

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Top Nonprofits

OCTOBER 18, 2021

When people are actively involved in your campaign, more of them will give to your campaign and they will give more generously. And ad hoc committees with meaningful assignments are great ways to get people involved. Alternately, you may worry that many of the people on that committee don’t have lots of connections to wealthy people.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

SEPTEMBER 29, 2015

I was thrilled to work with the Brainerd Foundation staff to help design and facilitate a design lab using techniques based on Luma Institute methods earlier this month. Here’s what I learned about the facilitating design thinking processes: What Is A Design Lab? Why Use One? How do we leverage the “rain” of culture change?3.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

OCTOBER 24, 2011

Next, participants did a self-assessment, using the maturity of practice model ( Crawl, Walk, Run, Fly ). And, of course, it helps to have free stuff to give away to motivate people to share their stories. Monitors, listens, and researches the people in their network. Gets feedback and start conversations about their work.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

OCTOBER 16, 2007

David Wilcox has an excellent post about generating conversation on blogs or for that matter other social media tools. The other reason is that I'm prepping for a couple of conference sessions on Social Media Metrics and one of the areas to consider is "conversation index" - more on that later. Source: Skelliewag.

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Amy Sample Ward

MAY 19, 2009

This past Saturday at the SHINE09 unconferance , David Wilcox , Andy Gibson , Drew Mackie and I facilitated a version of what was called the Social Collaboration Game. If you were there , I would love to hear your thoughts as well; and if you weren’t , well, read David’s post about how it all works and join the conversation!

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JUNE 28, 2016

Earlier this month I was in Boston for the annual convention for Americans for the Arts where I facilitated a leadership development pre-conference workshop, “Impact without Burnout: Resilient Arts Leaders from the Inside/Out.” Analytical Style people control their emotions but tend to ask questions rather than give orders.

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Reflection Arts Exercise Facilitation 64

Museum 2.0

JUNE 24, 2010

The guide, Vi Mar, was an incredible facilitator. This immediately led to cross conversation. Instead she drew people personally into the stories again and again, asking us to compare our own and our ancestors' experiences to those she described. But participatory facilitation can be taught. I avoid them.

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sgEngage

JULY 20, 2021

Our objective is to create a company that includes the kind of robust diversity that facilitates the best productivity, problem solving, and innovation coming from people bringing a variety of perspectives to bear on our challenges and opportunities. If we want an inclusive company, leaders to have to lead inclusive teams.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

FEBRUARY 8, 2013

People pay attention more, they learn something, they retain it better, and there is a better chance of them applying what they learned. Listening to the conversation and watching the audience for signs of energy drop, I inserted some movement into the discussion related to the topic by asking them to do the ” failure bow.”

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

SEPTEMBER 20, 2016

When I shared this article on my Facebook Page , it resonated with a lot of people. Gabriela says that senior leaders at her nonprofit model self-care. The topic of my forthcoming book, The Happy Healthy Nonprofit: Impact without Burnout ). They host “Lunch and Learns,” bringing in outside experts.

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Saleforce Nonprofit

JUNE 24, 2021

Enslaved people were so disrespected that those who enslaved them didn’t even tell them that they were free for months after the South had surrendered. So, especially for young people reading this, how do you find your calling so young and how did you channel your feelings around injustice into this calling?

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Interview United States History Law 120

Beneblog: Technology Meets Society

JANUARY 17, 2014

Today, January 17, the 30th anniversary of the Betamax decision, we’re proud to mark Benetech’s participation in Copyright Week —a week of action that aims to engage communities in the ongoing conversation about changes to copyright law and celebrate six principles for a balanced copyright system. But, it’s not the only one!

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Copyright Law Accessibility Library 196

Amy Sample Ward

NOVEMBER 26, 2009

Use the tag #MPS09 to follow conversations and highlights from others at the event. people are judged by how much they give, not how much they have. Once people start getting paid for things at different parts of the cycle or so on, the gift economy falls apart. business model that supports the gifts. Absolutely.

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