Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

SEPTEMBER 6, 2023

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. Empathy is contagious and influences and shapes a work culture of caring.

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Saleforce Nonprofit

AUGUST 17, 2021

Slack officially joined the Salesforce family, combining the #1 CRM and the trailblazing digital platform for the ultimate work-from-anywhere world. Another example is Melbourne-based RMIT University. Slack automatically organizes students into smaller course-group channels with industry mentors to help ensure their success.

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Media Cause

JANUARY 26, 2024

This TikTok of staff naming sea otter facts and Reel on training a baby fish are great examples. This is why, for example, Duolingo found such great success on TikTok. For example, this TikTok captioned, “When everyone sees a butterfly at grief camp,” with a bunch of campers running, and the caption, “Mom, is that you?”

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ASU Lodestar Center

OCTOBER 19, 2022

Prioritizing these professionals’ development, wellness and growth increases job satisfaction; as a result, they stay with the organization and do their best work. When work-life is out of balance, burnout commonly arises; 90% of emerging leaders cited burnout as a reason they would leave the sector. Add remote work flexibility.

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sgEngage

OCTOBER 17, 2022

This person will take the lead in convening internal stakeholders, making plans, testing the waters internally, setting parameters, and liaising with foundation leadership. You’ll need leaders to support—or at least not block—this work. Or you may work with a representative body of the community to put forward nominees.

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Media Cause

OCTOBER 3, 2022

This work over the next five years gave me a variety of experience (web design, team management, graphic design), Jill-of-all-trades style, alongside the growth of a social media account with over 60k+ followers across platforms. Like a frog in a boiling pot, I hadn’t realized how unhealthy my previous work experiences were until then.

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ASU Lodestar Center

DECEMBER 15, 2021

Assigning volunteers to work in groups is a great way to deepen relationships, and provide mentoring and mission-focused collaboration. Examples of leadership need to be the given so the desired actions and behaviors are followed by the team. Treat volunteers and the roles asked of them with respect and importance.

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Eric Jacobsen Blog

FEBRUARY 13, 2023

Burn The Boats teases apart the excuses we make to ourselves that hinder total commitment and illuminates the internal and external forces that impede risk taking. That works for mundane undertakings, but birthing exceptionalism is a lonely endeavor. I mentor people all the time and this is the number one assumption I challenge.

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Greater Giving

AUGUST 21, 2023

To effectively advance your cause and push your fundraising goals forward, your nonprofit needs a strong internal infrastructure and team. For example, you can empower your board to help in the following ways: Introduce your nonprofit to prospective major donors. Set up a mentoring program between veteran and novice board members.

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Eric Jacobsen Blog

JANUARY 31, 2021

Humanocracy expertly lays out a detailed blueprint for creating organizations that are inspiring and ingenious, and provides you research-based examples, practical guidance and, most important, action steps to take immediately. Pair new employees with experienced mentors. The authors explain that: Human beings are resilient.

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Deborah Elizabeth Finn

OCTOBER 14, 2016

Although I love the splendid domes of MIT , we can simply admire them, and hope that eventually some of the people who work and study under those domes will become part of the consortium. Examples include Bunker Hill Community College and Tech Foundry. That’s TNB Labs. Nonprofit Management (graduate degree).

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Eric Jacobsen Blog

NOVEMBER 24, 2020

Humanocracy expertly lays out a detailed blueprint for creating organizations that are inspiring and ingenious, and provides you research-based examples, practical guidance and, most important, action steps to take immediately. Pair new employees with experienced mentors. The authors explain that: Human beings are resilient.

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NonProfit Hub

SEPTEMBER 2, 2021

In an interview for a previous ED position, I was asked to provide an example of how I demonstrated “extreme frugality.” Or, maybe an intern or two? Doing more with less should not equate to doing more work with less impact. Switch gears and learn about another area that can help your work. This is not an uncommon story.

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Eric Jacobsen Blog

AUGUST 4, 2020

Humanocracy expertly lays out a detailed blueprint for creating organizations that are inspiring and ingenious, and provides you research-based examples, practical guidance and, most important, action steps to take immediately. Pair new employees with experienced mentors. The authors explain that: Human beings are resilient.

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Association TV

JULY 29, 2022

But today, many people think of a great workplace as not even one specific place at all, with many employers opting for a permanent remote work setup after a trial proved prosperous during the pandemic. Are folks busy enjoying their work, or working to look busy? Work-life balance.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MAY 8, 2018

Level 5: Fulfillment Factor – Do people feel like they are inspired and working towards a higher purpose? As part of the set-up to the exercise, I share some examples from the Happy Healthy Nonprofit: Strategies for Impact without Burnout. Then, I have participants work in small groups, using a structured brainstorming process.

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Nonprofit Tech for Good

JULY 14, 2014

It’s very common for nonprofits to assume that volunteers and interns can effectively manage their mobile and social media presence simply because they are young and came of age during the rise of social networking. Experience. Photo and Video Editing Ability. Multitasking. It’s rare that any web-based activity lasts longer than 30 minutes.

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Beneblog: Technology Meets Society

FEBRUARY 4, 2013

At the close of 2012, we are five years into our work in education and are serving over 230,000 students. For example, if you haven’t looked since December 31, you are SO 2012. Click here for more info on this work, including tool demos. Bookshare International Yup, Bookshare now has Arabic books. What if you’re a U.S.

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Eric Jacobsen Blog

OCTOBER 1, 2023

It can also be used for those who coach, mentor, counsel and advise early career women, with insights and exercises for those you are supporting. For example, from a race perspective, in most settings, this is white women. The work-around? Invest in data, not assumption and in turn, minimize overwhelm.

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sgEngage

APRIL 14, 2022

And if your big promise to donors or funding agencies feels a little shady, you will not be trusted to grow your mission and do the good works you are looking to fund. . How are trust and internal controls intertwined? The Case for Internal Controls for Nonprofits . Here’s an example: . Why is that? How about it?

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Beneblog: Technology Meets Society

JUNE 13, 2016

For example, I extracted many insights about the international development field reading books like Easterly’s Tyranny of Experts or Maren’s Road to Hell. In the pilot phase, you frequently have the best (human) conditions: the best partners and the best program staff making something work.

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ASU Lodestar Center

APRIL 26, 2013

4 The American Red Cross is a great example of trust building across donor and client lines. One example of a nonprofit organization rebranding in order to create a more positive impact on the community they serve is the Arizona based nonprofit formally known as Phoenix Youth At Risk. Research done by Venable et al.

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Association TV

JULY 29, 2022

But today, many people think of a great workplace as not even one specific place at all, with many employers opting for a permanent remote work setup after a trial proved prosperous during the pandemic. Are folks busy enjoying their work, or working to look busy? After all, if it’s not broke, why fix it?

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NonProfit Hub

SEPTEMBER 2, 2021

In an interview for a previous ED position, I was asked to provide an example of how I demonstrated “extreme frugality.” Or, maybe an intern or two? Doing more with less should not equate to doing more work with less impact. Switch gears and learn about another area that can help your work. This is not an uncommon story.

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Get Fully Funded

SEPTEMBER 11, 2023

The ultimate goal of grant research is to find funders who are highly likely to fund your work. But if they fund nonprofits in your city, for example, it could be a match! For our international friends, check out the GrantStation International Insider. Use the 3-Way Fit Test. How do you do that?

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Museum 2.0

DECEMBER 4, 2013

Is your museum running on interns? Free intern labor wasn''t ever right, but it has become glaringly unethical in the current post-Lehman-crash era. If you''re reading this at work, you''re probably reading it within ten feet of an unpaid intern. There''s a sense of "it worked for me."

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

APRIL 30, 2015

The conference theme was “Working Together in the Era of the Individual.” Nonprofit Examples. Here’s a few examples: 1. You can find a few more examples from the list of resources compiled by Farra Trompeter from Big Duck. Here’s an example of some survey questions you should ask.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MAY 15, 2012

I was honored to be a trainer as part of the launch of the ACE Leaders Project, a program developed by the Institute of International Education Sub-Saharan Regional Office and supported by the Packard Foundation. For the past ten days, I’ve been in Rwanda, Africa. Documentation of the Visioning Process. Fish Bowl Exericse.

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NTEN

OCTOBER 18, 2011

Time to mentor emerging storytellers. Your most important work will come after you've pitched the idea and gained approval; each day, you'll need to be the conduit between those who want to contribute their voices to the blog and those who want to use those voices for other organizational content, such as marketing pieces and social media.

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Wild Apricot

DECEMBER 21, 2017

Training & Development (Coaching and Mentoring). For example, sales ops may emerge to assist the sales leader in handling: Administrative tasks. Time Spent Selling Is the actual time sellers spend selling as compared to other tasks such as internal meetings, training, and administrative work. Sales Activities.

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Have Fun - Do Good

JUNE 29, 2010

He is also the co-founder of the International Folk Art Market. Before moving to Santa Fe, he was the Director of Aid to Artisans , an international artisan enterprise development NGO. That can mean, for example, language; it can mean architecture; it can mean food; it can mean artisan work, or artistic work.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

FEBRUARY 17, 2012

Note from Beth: This past year has been a deep exploration into how nonprofits can use measurement and reflection to improve their practices as a networked nonprofit and using social media. As part of my work at the Packard Foundation, I designed and facilitated several peer learning groups and exchanges.

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CauseVox

OCTOBER 11, 2021

This guide will help you to outline and develop a year-end fundraising campaign that works for your organization and your donors, specifically curated to your needs in 2021. Other Examples: An Annual Giving Campaign, like National Center for Youth Law did $10k for a new Alzheimer’s research project Raise $25,000 to fill a new school library.

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Tech Soup

JANUARY 10, 2012

shift of importance to working with people instead of working with "bits and gear." " Our initial move to a management position is often made with little to no training, mentoring, or support. Start by setting an example and let them experience being important. through at work. Tag, you’re it.

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NTEN

JULY 28, 2010

Even better, nonprofits are giving back to the web analytics community because our experienced analysts work directly with “student learners” so that they can gain valuable “hands on” interaction with web data. . Some examples of these successes include: . What I love about the Analysis Exchange is the learning is reciprocal.

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Tech Soup

DECEMBER 3, 2012

If your organization manages different types of constituents and they overlap (for example, volunteers who are also board members, donors, or mentors), and you have trouble keeping track of the various roles, then that's another good sign it may be time to consider developing a unified online database. Constituent Overlap.

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Tech Soup

OCTOBER 18, 2011

There is nothing better than to remember important details about the people we work and play with. As my mentor Ed Kless has stated "today's problems were yesterday's solution." The hard part is to transform the details of your organizations internal processes into bits and pieces that everyone else can comprehend.

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