M+R

FEBRUARY 5, 2021

Different nonprofits define the levels differently, so what qualifies as “mid-level” in one organization may qualify as “major” at another. These two groups are important, but you already know how to find them, so let’s set them aside for a bit and focus on the third group: prospective mid-level donors.

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America Digital Audience Channel 105

Whole Whale

SEPTEMBER 20, 2022

This group is a go-to for many fundraisers looking to learn and improve their skills. Aspire Research Group. Aspire Research Group is a fundraising and research consulting firm that specializes in boutique research, campaigns, and major gifts. The Munshine Group. The Covenant Group. The Phoenix Philanthropy Group.

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Consultant Fundraising Phoenix Atlanta 52

Bloomerang

MAY 24, 2021

And the difference between “iteration” and “innovation.” What did you keep doing, but differently? Different organizations will see different results. Do this via survey, focus group, or one-to-one interviews. How does your business model incorporate today’s constituent perspectives?

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JANUARY 23, 2014

Graduate Students at MIIS Class Doing Group Exercise in Flexible Classroom Space. The ability to “shift” delivery formats – from say an interactive lecture to small group activities helps students pay more attention. Join me for a FREE Webinar: Training Tips that Work for Nonprofits on Jan.29th

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Whole Whale

MAY 20, 2021

This group is a go-to for many fundraisers looking to learn and improve their skills. Aspire Research Group. Aspire Research Group is a fundraising and research consulting firm that specializes in boutique research, campaigns, and major gifts. The Munshine Group. The Covenant Group. The Phoenix Philanthropy Group.

Consultant 52

Consultant Fundraising Phoenix Atlanta 52

Connection Cafe

APRIL 7, 2016

In California the Pew Research Center finds that Latinos have surpassed whites as the largest racial/ethnic group at 39% of the population, the largest percentage of any group in the state. The research affirms that philanthropy is embedded across all groups and genders. percent in 2012 to 14.7 percent in 2060.

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.orgSource

MAY 1, 2023

It involves reinventing work processes, improving channels of communication, and asking your staff to imagine their roles and responsibilities differently. They should be role models who inspire colleagues to see from a different perspective. They sweep away old thinking and stimulate curiosity.

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Collaboration Digital Build Organization 44

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

OCTOBER 2, 2013

It sounds like they have adapted the Khan Academy model. Peer Instruction and the flipped classroom is a research-based, interactive teaching method developed by Eric Mazur at Harvard University in the 1990s. Micro lessons on video, exercises, coaching, measure progress and put it online for free.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

AUGUST 14, 2015

I think the most important point is that we have to think differently about webinars less as a push and more a pull. Try to avoid the content-driven model of an expert presenting for 50 minutes with a rushed Q/Q at the end. Incorporate Different Delivery Options. You should have a mix of approaches in your webinar.

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Non Profit Quarterly

DECEMBER 14, 2021

Pre-COVID, we could have 10,000 volunteers across the entire city and all the different departments,” she said. In the spring and summer of 2021, with funding from AmeriCorps, our research team held focus groups with volunteer administrators about their technology use in the pandemic. But now we are limping along.

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Accessibility Technology Language Oregon 100

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JANUARY 5, 2012

This gave me an excuse to look at different types of peer learning exercises and facilitation techniques. We will use the time to debrief and experiment with a few of these techniques — some of which would have been modeled during the conference. This is important for both online and offline instructional delivery.

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Experiment Learning Create Exercise 116

Museum 2.0

JUNE 24, 2010

Wherever possible, Vi personalized the tour to individuals in the group. At one point, when talking about the Chinese men who had built the railroads in the Western US, she asked each man in the group how tall he is. This brought other voices into the tour, but more importantly, it modeled a potential interaction that we could have.

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Museum Participatory Model Seattle 51

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 later became a member of the GIGI group ( girl geeks of the World Cafe ). The world cafe technique is where participants learn through conversation in small groups.

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Social Media Media Technique Tunisia 93

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

APRIL 1, 2014

We learned and practiced a “ making ” technique called “paper prototype” where we created a model for an idea out of paper. Each four-person team had 20 minutes to design and build a paper prototype for a new type of car radio. Innovation Thinking Is A Balance of Generative, Recombination, and Prioritization. Round Robin.

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Facilitation Method Technique Exercise 132

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

DECEMBER 1, 2010

I then modeled this support on the online community — and we quickly had a village of practitioners supporting one of another. In those days, we used listservs and online discussion software, but platform matter. It was the free and open sharing of knowledge, insights, quick tips, and how-tos.

Social Media 102

Social Media Learning Community Media 102

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

SEPTEMBER 29, 2015

This was followed by a presentations and discussion with four thought leaders who shared their insights and knowledge around four different themes: New Power : Henry Timms, 92nd Street Y. To generate group or collective understanding, I facilitated a cluster or affinity analysis of the different themes.

Design 50

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

NOVEMBER 25, 2007

" Be A Role Model of Generosity. He notes, "So we model the values that we hope our children will emulate, and support charities that our kids can see connections to. Parents and relatives are the best role model for their kids in sharing generosity, that is,generosity is passed on from generation to generation."

Teach 50

Teach Causes Philanthropy Giving 50

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

AUGUST 27, 2010

The morning had two segments, beginning with content and small group exercises on several themes from the Networked Nonprofit including culture change , transparency , and simplicity. Geoff Livingston did a great job at live blogging the first section in the morning. From Conversational Keynote To Conversational Workshop.

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Reflection People Network Colorado 103

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

APRIL 27, 2012

Peer Synergy is also important — and for the next six months we will have two tracks for the peer groups. The program was designed for two participants per organization, a senior level staff and the staff person who implements social media. 3. Create A World Fusion Curriculum.

Pakistan 111

Pakistan NGO Network Exercise 111

Museum 2.0

OCTOBER 3, 2012

She was a free agent for a long time, until the beginning of 2012, when she joined the teaching staff of Khan Academy. These instructors aren't teaching you the equivalent of a high school course in math or art history. Every day we read about ways that teaching, learning and accreditation are being unbundled.

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Learning Free Museum Online 55

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

DECEMBER 15, 2006

The difference between the two are about as stark as between Night Elves and Taurens (a little WOW humor). Being another layer over existing technologies, those who are comfortable with the current models can stay behind while the rest of us move up to the next level. To me the big difference lies in the integration of social.

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Environment Teach Second Life Learning 50

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

SEPTEMBER 16, 2010

Three Models. No matter where I’m speaking or teaching workshops, the same questions come up … How much time does it take to do social media effectively? Danielle set up a “ Social Media Builders &# group of interns who are knowledgable about the art work and comfortable using social media.

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Social Media Work Media Social 95

Amy Sample Ward

JUNE 21, 2011

They can’t build the schools and they can’t train the teachers fast enough to replicate our model. That’s teaching. Fundamentally that’s what teaching should be. I’m now in the process of trying to build requirements that let many different people apply to participate.

Game 132

Game Education Change Classroom 132

Amy Sample Ward

JUNE 6, 2011

We have community groups, schools, local leaders and people at every age, interest, and skill level. All those people and groups have just as many different goals, small and large. And it is completely okay, required even, that all those goals are different to some degree. Your organization has goals, too. Cause-First.

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Build Community Technology Action 220

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JANUARY 27, 2014

I was introduced to lesson planning from veteran teachers and have written “lesson plans” or now that I’m an adjunct professor a syllabus for everything I teach. The learning model is called “SAVI ” : Moving and doing (Somatic). You may feel at first this is an “extra” step or unnecessary.

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Instructional Design Instruction Instructional Training 111

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

OCTOBER 20, 2009

This includes leadership, social innovation, communications, branding, graphic facilitation, financial and funding models. In comparison, this was a shorter time amount of time, different instructional styles across faculty, and the overall frame was social innovation. Graphic Facilitation Rocks. Peter Durand, Flickr Photo.

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Program Reflection Instruction Instructional 78

ASU Lodestar Center

DECEMBER 15, 2011

Adolescence is a critical time when youth develop their own personal identities (their own concepts of who they are and what makes them unique) and social identities (based on what groups they belong to and their interactions with others). 5] When a person feels good about one’s self and one’s ethnic group (i.e.,

Roles 84

Roles Research Develop North America 84

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

APRIL 23, 2013

I’ve been teaching workshops, training other trainers, and developing curriculum on “networked nonprofits,” literally around the world, and one of the first topics we address is understanding your network. This comes from my first book, ” The Networked Nonprofit ,” co-authored with Alison Fine.

Measure 105

Measure Social Media Media Map 105

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JULY 27, 2015

It was great to have a co-trainer who knew the subject matter, fluent in English, and who understood group facilitation skills and training approaches. This was very helpful because traditional translation does not help you read the group or adjust on the spot. We came up with some really practical and useful models.

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Reflection Network Mexico South America 50

Tech Soup

JUNE 27, 2017

As a global organization, Habitat has developed a model. In addition, it offers prayer groups and Bible study. That works for some, but at Corazon Ministries, we realize that every person has a different need, challenge, or starting place. It feels like the model that is laid forth in my Christian faith.

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San Antonio Wisconsin St. Louis Indiana 50

Media Cause

SEPTEMBER 29, 2021

The group was excited, humble, and diverse, but 10 minutes into the talk I found myself getting more and more frustrated and confused (It probably did not help that I just finished reading an article called When black people are in pain, white people just join book clubs ). That’s what I used to think along with many of my design role models.

Design 52

Design System Structure Ratio 52

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

FEBRUARY 26, 2013

As part of my work at the Packard Foundation this year, I’m facilitating a peer learning group where grantees are designing and implementing measurement action learning projects based on the 7 steps of measurement framework over six month period. There are tools like Hubspot that allow you pull in data from different sources.

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Results Metrics Measure Associations 97

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JANUARY 8, 2014

You might also consider setting up a Facebook Group just for alumni and encourage them to share this information. This example from Teach for America is a photograph of handwritten thank you note from a student to an TFA alumni thanking them for making a difference. Here’s an example from the Jewish Education Project.

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Practice Tips Social Meme 107

Museum 2.0

NOVEMBER 26, 2019

As someone texted me recently, Art History grad school didn't teach us anything about working with others in museums. Dan Brennan (@danieltbrennan) November 11, 2019 Some suggestions were about gaining empathy and looking for solutions by seeing work differently, like Micah Walter who suggested: Swap desks with one of your team.

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Museum Work Chad Culture 67

Forj

JULY 8, 2021

Either way, we’d guess it looked quite different from the eLearning assessment types we’re going to discuss today. What are the different types of online assessment? What are the different types of online assessment? Group Collaboration with Feedback. What did the last assessment that you took look like?

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eLearning Course Test Knowledge 69

Museum 2.0

AUGUST 14, 2013

And my museum, and this new model, as a space for them to do so. We generated nearly 10k data points and hundreds of text-based confessionals that he''s already successfully used to model cooperative behavior and is considering publishing on it. Experimonth had the potential to generate new scientific knowledge.

Museum 51

Museum Roles Game Participatory 51

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JANUARY 25, 2013

This post generating a lot of thoughtful discussion about nonprofits approach the editorial planning process as well as sharing of different editorial calendar templates. Ever since I’ve been recommending it and teaching it to nonprofits after being inspired by Holly Minch’s model in 2011. (I My answer: Yes!

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Content Measure Organization Strategy 101