Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JANUARY 27, 2014

Join me for a FREE Webinar: Training Tips that Work for Nonprofits on Jan.29th I’ll be sharing my best tips and secrets for designing and delivering training for nonprofit professionals that get results. 29th at 1:00 PM EST/10:00 AM PST. I use a simple structure to design: before, during, and after.

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Cloud 4 Good

JULY 6, 2021

When you’re putting together a plan on how to get the most out of your school’s Salesforce use, focus on ensuring that you have the right people on the team, based on their skills, that can take accountability for their essential responsibilities and then enable them to be successful. What Skills Does Your Support Staff Have?

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Nonprofit Tech for Good

MAY 31, 2020

If you haven’t done so already, update your procedures to collect contact methods and donor information that will facilitate virtual fundraising. When you’re busy working towards fulfilling your nonprofit’s mission, it can be easy to forgo the time needed to invest in “auxiliary” tasks that build your skills and fuel your mission.

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ASU Lodestar Center

NOVEMBER 19, 2020

Collective Impact is a methodology designed to facilitate cross-sector collaborations in order to move the needle on important issues. The gospel is a verbal message of salvation demonstrated through acts of God’s love. Coordinate efforts through a backbone support organization: Facilitate, convene, coordinate, mobilize.

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VQ Strategies

NOVEMBER 22, 2022

When training nonprofit leaders, I often share that volunteers want to make a difference. Some are angry about leaders who seem to ignore (or even facilitate) such issues as abuse of civil liberties. Understanding their internal drivers and the skills they bring to a project may inspire additional ways that they can serve.

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Candid

APRIL 11, 2023

Corporate sponsorship is a mutually beneficial relationship wherein a company offers direct financial support, in-kind donations , or skilled volunteer services to support a nonprofit in meeting its fundraising event goals. These connections may be able to help facilitate a warm introduction with key contacts at potential companies.

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Bloomerang

NOVEMBER 8, 2023

Philanthropy is an effort an individual or organization undertakes based on an altruistic desire to improve human welfare, and wealthy individuals sometimes establish private foundations to facilitate their philanthropic efforts. In the U.S., Questions about the day can be sent to AFP here. Bloomerang has celebrated fundraisers on our blog.

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Bloomerang

MAY 6, 2022

Their priorities range from facilitating book donation drives to supporting arts education to funding playground construction and family literacy programs. . Educational Assistance and Training Programs. The Lisa Libraries. First Book. Digitunity. Webb Family Foundation. The Victor C. Clark Youth Incentive Program. Heim Foundation.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

SEPTEMBER 13, 2012

But I also got the opportunity to learn and hear Rob Reich, associate professor of political science, Stanford University, and faculty co-director, Stanford Center on Philanthropy and Civil Society (Stanford PACS) and Lucy Bernholz, visiting scholar, Stanford PACS present their research in a talk called “New Skills for the New Social Economy.”

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sgEngage

MARCH 17, 2022

Exponent Philanthropy members are demonstrating ways to partner light to amplify their impact. . Similarly, many collaborate to engage experts to provide education and training for foundation board and staff. In one community in Indiana, three foundations teamed up to design a training program for local nonprofit leaders and staff.

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.orgSource

MAY 1, 2023

I try to be very clear that no one is exempt from learning and mastering new skills.” Identify staffers who can be your IT ambassadors and fill these significant roles: Strategists Strategists are the visionaries, facilitators, and problem-solvers who inspire curiosity throughout the organization. It’s a choice.”

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Bloomerang

NOVEMBER 15, 2023

Today’s volunteers are not a monolithic group; they come from diverse backgrounds—with varying motivations, skills, and availability. Demonstrate impact Equally important is crafting a clear path for impact, where volunteers can see the results of their labor. Personalization plays a critical role in retention.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JULY 27, 2015

I just returned from doing two days of facilitating a Networked Nonprofit training in Mexico City with Oxfam Mexico and participants from offices throughout Latin America, South America, and Caribbean. Together, we co-facilitated this exercise in two languages and Maria did a great job at bi-lingual capture of the notes.

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Classy

MAY 3, 2021

Any supporter who chooses to make a recurring donation to your nonprofit—whether it’s once a month, once a quarter, or once a year —is demonstrating their ongoing commitment to your mission in a way that should be recognized. . Training plans . Download the Ultimate Guide to Recurring Giving. Haymakers for Hope: Haymakers Harriers.

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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. I have the honor of co-training with some of the best folks doing work in this part of the world. (Here’s the posts from Day 1 and Day 2 ). Fluency in social media skills.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

APRIL 7, 2015

Yesterday, I had the honor of being a guest facilitator at a transformative leadership retreat with colleagues Heather McLeod Grant, Chris Block, Lance Fors, and David Havens. What I love most about taking a “we approach” to training is that I get to participate and learn. It made a dull sound.

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Tech Soup

MAY 17, 2010

Kami Griffiths, my co-worker and training facilitator par excellence organized a Meetup last Friday at the San Francisco LightHouse for the Blind , which I was fortunate enough to attend. The presenters, Patty Quinonez and Shen Kuan were both power users of assistive technology themselves and experts at training others.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

APRIL 8, 2015

This post follows yesterday’s post about networked leadership skills. I had the honor of being a guest facilitator at a transformative leadership retreat with colleagues Heather McLeod Grant, Chris Block, Lance Fors, and David Havens – I got to teach but more importantly got to learn from amazing people.

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Nonprofits Source

SEPTEMBER 25, 2023

Plus, 71% of employees say it’s important to them to work at a company that contributes to nonprofits, demonstrating that corporate giving programs can help businesses retain their employees. As part of their Path to Pro program, The Home Depot has pledged to invest $50 million to train skilled tradespeople.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JUNE 25, 2012

This year a lot of my work as Visiting Scholar at the David and Lucile Packard Foundation is working with grantees outside of the US. I’ve just returned from leading a training for Population and Reproductive Health grantees from India. We are working very closely with V.S. Anupam Shukla and Ms. Program Design.

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Gyrus

JUNE 23, 2016

What skill sets are required? In this search for information, it is vital to focus on the objectives you want to achieve by the e-learning courses or training. Ask your instructors and facilitators their honest feedback about your current training strategy. Determine your objectives in advance. Any guesses? Get feedback.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

SEPTEMBER 12, 2012

It persuaded Aetna to cover all his outstanding medical bills – demonstrating the power of Free Agents in a connected world. It takes training, not only on how to use the tools, but to cover concern areas like privacy. Within 24 hours, Poop_Strong’s tweets had done more than six straight months online fundraising.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

APRIL 1, 2015

It outlines the practices and skills needed to create a learning culture. Senior leaders model the skill that Edgar H. weekly, biweekly,monthly, or quarterly) check-ins to evaluate what is working and what is not.The organization provides training and professional development for staff to learn how to use measurement tools.

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ASU Lodestar Center

FEBRUARY 27, 2017

This problem is compounded by nonprofits’ lack of investment in manager training, leaving nonprofit organizations unprepared for the inevitable succession of leadership (Koenig, 2016). When nonprofits fail to invest in their staff, one demonstrable negative impact is high voluntary turnover.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MARCH 30, 2010

As part of my work as Visiting Scholar at the David and Lucile Packard Foundation this year, I have been leading some peer trainings with grantees. Last week, we launched the first session of the " Social Media Lab ," a social media peer group training with a small group of grantees from the Children, Families, Communities Program.

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Gyrus

APRIL 5, 2018

What skill-sets are required? In this search for information, it is vital to focus on the objectives you want to achieve by the e-learning courses or training. Ask your instructors and facilitators their honest feedback about your current training strategy. Determine your objectives in advance. Any guesses? Get feedback.

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Cloud 4 Good

AUGUST 3, 2021

Cloud for Good is seeking a director of Last Mile Training (LMT) to develop and deliver Salesforce training programs for several different roles. . Fluency in current Salesforce training programs (e.g., Location: Virtual: Home-based office in US or Canada; some travel required for marketing, in-person training sessions.

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ASU Lodestar Center

MAY 18, 2016

While businesses have traditionally focused narrowly on generating profits for shareholders, many nonprofits (despite their skills and dedication to their missions) have lacked adequate marketing skills (Billitteri, 2007), often resulting in financial hardship. Reposted from The Morrison Institute for Public Policy.

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VisionLink

MAY 17, 2013

One of the most difficult yet most important evidence to review is that which demonstrates that the provider has continually updated not only their feature set, but the core architecture of their software over time. Second, can the firm demonstrate that they can meet unexpected levels of peak demand? Excellent Training & Support?

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

SEPTEMBER 27, 2016

Note from Beth: As a trainer and someone who teachers other trainers, I’ve been obsessed with improving my facilitation skills and written a lot about it on this blog. I’m always up for a conversation with other facilitators about shop talk and getting tips for improving my practice. And keep reading and studying!

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Connection Cafe

JULY 23, 2013

Set the expectation with stakeholders that undocumented requirements won’t be considered to facilitate a thorough analysis of the actual business process and outcomes to be supported. Evaluate your team: Do you have the right skills sets and capacity in house? Or even if they are.). Consider Rolling Your Own.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

FEBRUARY 3, 2009

This lead me to ask what exactly were those new nonprofit leadership skills? Marcia suggested that the skills are similiar to those of a symphony orchestra conductor. David felt this was less of an issue of learning new leadership skills, but simply a distraction. Seems like facilitative leadership is key.

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Neon CRM

SEPTEMBER 27, 2023

At its core, change management is about facilitating a smooth voyage through the waters of change, emphasizing the importance of clear communication, stakeholder involvement, and strategic planning. This guiding coalition should comprise people with diverse skills, backgrounds, and perspectives.

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Eric Jacobsen Blog

JULY 19, 2023

I decided it was time to officially leave my corporate roles to start a new training company Leadership-in-a-Box ®. I like to say that we're the "ridiculously practical" leadership training company. half-day or full-day) with an emphasis on same-day skill application. For us, this means 60-minute workshops (vs.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JANUARY 15, 2007

Training and accreditation are central -- a chance for today and the future to influence that and contribute to it. Demonstrates good practice of delivery of ICT. Marc Osten, facilitator. middle -assumes services are the same -larger organizations ready to pay, smaller ones no -funders don't recognize maintenance, training, etc.

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Bloomerang

FEBRUARY 1, 2022

They bring a diverse set of experiences, skills, talents, perspectives. Because we want to make sure that if we’re going to invest in you, your board and your closest circle of advocates has already demonstrated their support. Our board members can facilitate personal introductions to our professional leadership.

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Bloomerang

APRIL 12, 2024

As demonstrated by the fact that, at a point where she was still in danger in the story, I thought I had to cut the call short to join a staff meeting. To arrive at a place where you’re able to do this takes commitment, courage, active curiosity, and lots of practice using energetic listening skills. I felt so much sympathy!

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