Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MAY 30, 2018

Note from Beth: Digital storytelling is key to fundraising success, but using a storytelling lens in your organization can have further benefit of busting organizational silos. How and Why Stories Can Bust Nonprofit Silos – Guest Post by Miriam Brosseau and Stephanie Corleto . Stories are for people. Silos are for corn.

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Candid

AUGUST 18, 2022

Written in partnership with Equivolve Consulting, we capture lessons from the BMA Fellowship as a case study of what’s possible when Black social innovators exist in an affirming environment of support and respect. The money pledged is an example of historical cycles of reactionary funding traditionally followed by retrenchment and backlash.

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Cloud 4 Good

OCTOBER 28, 2021

Additionally, apprenticeships are more structured and skill-specific than internships. Success Story: Helping Children Heal With Salesforce. Success Story: Leveraging Salesforce CRM for the University of Vermont Office of Research. occupational learning, and then what you might call employability learning.

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CauseVox

JUNE 15, 2023

Ultimately, this collaborative approach not only drives financial success but also cultivates long-term relationships between the nonprofit and its supporters. Team Fundraising Peer-to-peer fundraisers can also be structured to include teams. This can include a statistic or brief story. Why do you care? Then share why you care.

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Qgiv

FEBRUARY 3, 2022

Their mission is to strengthen the philanthropic community by helping nonprofit organizations thrive in today’s dynamic, competitive environment. Q: What is one of your favorite success stories? Our partnership with The Chicago Community Trust is a great story. Meet one of Qgiv’s newest partners, The Alford Group.

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ASU Lodestar Center

OCTOBER 16, 2020

Does the environment support change, accountability, and communication? What does the decision making and organizational structure look like? Someone with a sense of humor who can see the big-picture to promote a positive environment and ground the experience. But the key to success in ECB is participation.

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Eric Jacobsen Blog

DECEMBER 13, 2021

Fortunately, his book presents solutions to those challenges – especially ones so many of us find ourselves facing during the COVID-19 pandemic work environment. Why is it important to know how to tell your story? The better you are at telling your story, the more competent, committed, and compatible you will come across.

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Eric Jacobsen Blog

NOVEMBER 7, 2021

Fortunately, his book presents solutions to those challenges – especially ones so many of us find ourselves facing during the COVID-19 pandemic work environment. Why is it important to know how to tell your story? The better you are at telling your story, the more competent, committed, and compatible you will come across.

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Kindful

JUNE 8, 2021

Funders will review your organization’s Form 990 to learn about your story. It’s a snapshot of mission, organizational structure, new programs, revenue and expenses by program, overall financial status, and the health of any nonprofit. They establish an environment of transparency and accountability.

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sgEngage

OCTOBER 9, 2023

Consider: Who defines objectives and “success”? We define success, we decide what to measure, we collect the information, we own the data, and we don’t share the learning from the process. RAWA Fund, for instance, has used grantee self-assessment based on narrative, story-telling methodologies, as a basis for evaluation.

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Eric Jacobsen Blog

APRIL 26, 2021

Fortunately, his book presents solutions to those challenges – especially ones so many of us find ourselves facing during the COVID-19 pandemic work environment. Why is it important to know how to tell your story? The better you are at telling your story, the more competent, committed, and compatible you will come across.

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Allegiance Group

NOVEMBER 2, 2023

Make it easy for potential donors to understand the impact their contributions will have and showcase success stories to inspire them. Dive deep into the issues your nonprofit addresses, providing insights, success stories, statistics, and practical solutions.

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Amy Sample Ward

JUNE 22, 2011

Suzy : I know many people think the boomers like structure in the work place, we are concerned with making money – but we were the age of Aquarius! When you take on a job in a nonprofit, you’re normally doing a lot more than you signed for without a lot of structure. Perhaps there is more that connects us than divides us?

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NonProfit Hub

JUNE 12, 2020

The drastically lower new donor retention rate means that focusing your efforts here offers the greatest potential for fundraising success. Armed with this information, you can structure your call: . Incorporate impact stories in future communications. You can see this represented in the image below: . Call your new donors. .

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Nonprofits Source

OCTOBER 6, 2023

Fortunately, there are many formal and informal changes you can implement into your organization’s structure to keep your employees motivated. Since upper leadership doesn’t spend much time interacting with lower-level employees, it’s important to ask them for their feedback about improving the organization’s culture and work environment.

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Connection Cafe

FEBRUARY 10, 2020

Given the often unstable or unanticipated environment social change organizations are operating in, it’s paramount to be clear and dedicated to the end goal, not the various processes or steps to getting there. That can make for a fun, team-based environment, but can also make lead to a lack of accountability and clarity around roles.

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Connection Cafe

APRIL 17, 2018

Over the years, my experience in a variety of financial leadership roles has led me to the following hypothesis: nonprofit finance is critical to mission success. With mission success comes financial success and, ultimately, long-term organizational sustainability. Completing the Circle. The Builder: Leaving a Lasting Legacy.

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ASU Lodestar Center

OCTOBER 16, 2013

It’s a stage full of people, putting years of training and practice on display in a complex and often dazzling dance of sound over time – all in order to tell a story together. As part of one of my NMI classes the instructor brought in the books that she’d turned to time and time again throughout a successful career in the nonprofit sector.

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Gyrus

SEPTEMBER 20, 2016

It is important to establish a clear direction as to what you want these new structures to accomplish. If you are hoping to encourage the use of a specific platform, focus solely on that platform and perform the necessary steps to ensure the success of that social entity over time. Social learning is a many ways street.

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Global Giving

DECEMBER 19, 2018

emails) in May and several high profile stories about major companies struggling with data breaches, 2018 was a big year for conversations about what privacy really looks like in the modern data landscape. Users will insist on increased ownership and oversight of their data.

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Neon CRM

SEPTEMBER 1, 2023

Organizational Overview: Background information on the nonprofit’s history, structure, and key personnel. Leaders can use data to demonstrate the impact and effectiveness of existing programs, showcasing success stories, participant feedback, and measurable outcomes. Surveys can be a great tool for this.

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Neon CRM

NOVEMBER 16, 2023

This input can help you measure the success and impact of your programming more objectively. Step 3: Analyze Your Nonprofit’s Work The most important questions you should answer in your mission statement are who you serve, how your programs are structured, and your impact on your cause. Who Do You Serve?

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Top Nonprofits

JULY 21, 2021

Ultimately, you want to be sure you’re taking action that will structurally change the organization, an action that can only be taken from the top down. When you determine new strategic plans like these, be sure to also identify a measurable metric to assess your success level regarding your DEI initiatives.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JULY 28, 2009

We’ve seen successes like Barack Obama’s incredible rise to the Presidency. There have the been the well discussed successes like DonorsChoose and Lil Green Patch. There have the been the well discussed successes like DonorsChoose and Lil Green Patch. We are asked to do it in controlled environments.

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Robert Weiner

APRIL 28, 2009

Pricing structures. As partners, as a collective, without creating toxic/un-needed structure? Struggling with letting go of hard-care contracts into a more agile environment. Discussion: Ideas about telling the story about “what do I do as a consultant?&#. Different price structures are ok for different projects.

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Museum 2.0

MARCH 13, 2013

so I was intrigued when I heard about a recent success from Jeffrey Inscho, Web and Digital Media Manager at Carnegie Museum of Art in Pittsburgh. In this guest post, Jeffrey shares the story behind their big hit with a visitor co-created exhibition. I think participants realize that we're relying on them to make this work.

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Forum One

APRIL 30, 2010

The model consists of a four-step cycle: Learn: The act of reviewing the external environment in which the organization exists. Focus: Determine "the few things that matter the most to the firm's success and make choices about where the firm will compete, what it will offer its customers and how it will win."

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NTEN

JUNE 22, 2011

Suzy : I know many people think the boomers like structure in the work place, we are concerned with making money - but we were the age of Aquarius! When you take on a job in a nonprofit, you're normally doing a lot more than you signed for without a lot of structure. Perhaps there is more that connects us than divides us?

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.orgSource

NOVEMBER 28, 2023

They represent gray areas which may not be true today, but their tomorrow is an unwritten story. Human intelligence is driven by the need to adapt to changing circumstances in our environment. ANNs are inspired by the structure and function of the human brain. Here is my disclaimer. Most of these concepts are up for grabs.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

APRIL 10, 2009

I learn so much from those who have share their stories and advice. Sam shared a story that illustrates the barriers that many nonprofit organizations face in adopting social media and harnessing its power leading to successful outcomes. He allowed me to share his story if I stripped out all the identifying details.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JULY 14, 2009

Outlined in the brief article below is a new way of using the Web and web services to gather peoples’ stories – anecdotes, video clips, podcasts, blog posts and all sorts of other snippets – and help not-for-profit organizations move into action planning based on the “raw material” of what people are saying and talking about.

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Connection Cafe

APRIL 28, 2011

Some organizations can’t unburden themselves from what they’ve always done in their IT structure, and more likely in the nonprofit world, it is your IT vendor that is entrenched in the old business model of scarcity and expensive resourcing. This is the productivity story we believe is at the heart of the transformation.

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sgEngage

APRIL 14, 2022

Are you willing to leave the important job of internal controls to a “catch me if you can” environment? Like the children’s story The Three Little Pigs , that framework may be made of straw, sticks, or bricks depending on the importance of internal controls in the culture of the organization. . Component 1: Control Environment .

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sgEngage

DECEMBER 12, 2022

Additionally, important relationships take place in endlessly varying larger situations and within widely differing operating environments. What’s Your Origin Story? Much like the structure of a story, setting or place for origination is critical in how both sides establish the relationship.

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NTEN

MAY 9, 2011

This process produces data broadly defined, whether numeric, textual, or audio-visual, structured or unstructured. This is well-addressed in a 2010 Economist cover story "Data, data everywhere." See, for example, Lucy Bernholz's "What Kind of Data are we Talking About?"

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MAY 7, 2010

Last year, Rick Bonney and a team of educators and science researchers at the Center for Advancement of Informal Science Education (CAISE) tackled this question in a project designed to define the structures and benefits of public participation in science research (download the full report as a PDF here.)

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CauseVox

DECEMBER 18, 2023

That is why crafting compelling narratives that help the donor see their place in the story are so powerful. That is why selecting the right fundraising strategies and crafting a comprehensive plan for the year is imperative for your success. Mixing both story and statistics will help you create a powerful proposal.

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