.orgSource

FEBRUARY 27, 2024

We’ve incorporated the structure that many groups say they want. Yes, they have a fiduciary responsibility, but so many board members have no experience running an association. “It’s Leaders and decision-makers should reflect those changes. To keep pace, boards must draw from a deep bench of both opinion and experience.

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Digital Build North Carolina Attitude 221

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

SEPTEMBER 8, 2014

And while anything you do the first time will not be perfect and in many cases stressful, in the end it was a good experience. As someone who has been in the nonprofit field 35 years, I can sum up my experience as: ”Remember, it’s what you learn after you know it all that counts.” Overnight Reflection.

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EveryAction

JULY 3, 2023

Prioritize a streamlined user experience (UX) for donors. Use this key moment of increased traffic to grow your support base by accurately recording all of your new contacts, and let your integrated web tools help you offer supporters a more seamless user experience that encourages further engagement.

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.orgSource

SEPTEMBER 25, 2023

Maybe you’ve already experimented using generative AI to create content such as outlines, agendas, or even articles. This is also the right place to experiment with an MVP , or minimum viable product. As you gain experience and collect user feedback, you can expand the bot’s options and reach. Check Bing out.

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.orgSource

MAY 15, 2023

If these two drivers of engagement are a world apart, it will be challenging to deliver the seamless experience customers expect from their favorite brands. To align your mission with your brand and reflect that symmetry through products and services, you need to bring membership and marketing to the Equator.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

APRIL 8, 2020

We are only about one month into the world’s largest work from home experiment. Sometimes you want to do some “social engineering” and put people together with similar experience or characteristics. One of my favorites is called Troika Consulting from Liberating Structures. The first rotation is a quiet reflection alone.

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Exercise Reflection Structure Google 177

Blue Avocado

JANUARY 23, 2024

As a nonprofit leader, you likely want to do your best to ensure that the voices and experiences of the communities you serve are represented in your work. Perhaps you want a committee comprised solely of people with lived experience related to your nonprofit’s mission—i.e. Create structure.

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sgEngage

MARCH 19, 2024

It’s also about making sure that your questions reflect the current state of your community and the sector, and that they respect the diversity and expertise of your applicants. Does this question reflect the mission of my organization? Make sure that your question is consistent with your values and your vision.

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Candid

AUGUST 8, 2022

Organizations hosted “listening” sessions, in which the Black community shared their experiences with leaders in the sector, mostly non-Black people of color and white people. According to the 2020 Smithsonian Magazine article, The Storied History of Giving in America , the practice of philanthropy can reflect and reinforce inequity.

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Voice Philanthropy Atlanta Student 128

Bloomerang

OCTOBER 30, 2023

Reflect and analyze Review your results from GivingTuesday , including the total amount raised, donor demographics, and the success of your different approaches and social media channels. Ask them to share their stories and experiences with your organization and invite others to contribute. Here’s how you can beat the odds.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

OCTOBER 28, 2013

It’s more about giving participants a jump on applying it and guiding them so they can put it into practice as quickly as possible after the workshop. If you are designing and delivering training on any topic, here’s some things to think about to ensure that your participants have a transformative learning experience.

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Training Train Reflection Design 98

sgEngage

DECEMBER 18, 2023

We can learn through direct experience. We can learn through reflection and come to deeper understandings. Professionals tasked with a knowledge role often organize what feels like chaos—to create structure and focus attention on the most important information. Learning, we do naturally. Fast forward to today….

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Knowledge Philanthropy Change Work 68

Nimble AMS

AUGUST 19, 2022

As you examine your organization, reflect upon these questions and consider the following factors of an innovative association: . The Marine Corps Association & Foundation (MCA&F) adopted Nimble AMS to improve its member experience. Do your mission and values align with your current strategic goals? Be a trailblazer.

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.orgSource

MARCH 14, 2023

Their experiences involved unprecedented social and industry challenges that nothing could have prepared them to meet. Our members were privileged to hear their reflections on a unique time in their organizations’ history and how the pandemic’s impact reshaped their future. Here’s an example from my experience.

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Achieve

MARCH 6, 2023

You’ve got something to fall back on in case of bidding confusion, and you’ll be more prepared to give your guests a smooth experience. When you’re ready to start planning your next auction , use these tips to set rules that will improve everyone’s experience and help maximize your fundraising potential. What would you want to know?

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.orgSource

MARCH 6, 2023

We structured this conference based on feedback from.orgCommunity’s fall Solutions Day participants. Experiences like the following make Millennials and GenX, groups that associations are seeking to engage, consider even long-standing organizations with a dose of suspicion. Trust and Culture Trust and culture are deeply intertwined.

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Associations Leadership Question Wisconsin 221

DipJar

JUNE 20, 2023

Open lines of communication with your membership go a long way toward developing a better—and more customized— member experience ! How do I determine the best structure for my program? Here are some factors to consider when structuring your membership program: Your organization’s goals. Attract new members or donors?

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FAQ Program Guide Arkansas 52

NTEN

JANUARY 25, 2022

While our complete evaluation is quite long, we’ve summarized reflections and commitments for 2022 from every area of our commitments in practice. We hired two new staff in 2021 and engaged the new staff and their managers in reflection about the onboarding and hiring process. Staff, board, and volunteers. 2021 review highlights.

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Nonprofit Tech for Good

AUGUST 9, 2021

For example, this post features an opinion piece by ABC News on the structural reasons for the housing crisis in the United States written by their CEO: It’s worth noting that posting curated content not written by a staff member is also a best practice on LinkedIn. 4) Experiment with LinkedIn Ads (maybe). LinkedIn Profiles.

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sgEngage

OCTOBER 9, 2023

You cannot have empowerment without participation: empowerment is not something we ‘do’ to other people, but is itself a participatory process that engages people in reflection and inquiry to understand the power they have, and to take action for change as they define it.”

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Participatory Evaluation Empowerment Grant 85

Allegiance Group

OCTOBER 16, 2023

What experience do you have in major donor fundraising? What was your worst fundraising experience, and what did it teach you? Candidates don’t necessarily have to have a great deal of experience – but understanding the role of data within major gifts is important. What was your proudest moment in this line of work?

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Gift Interview Question Articulate 52

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

AUGUST 27, 2010

Some Reflections. Balancing Learning Through Content Delivery and Sharing Experience. I applied the lessons learned from that to the challenge was scaling this for 300 people from different organizations in a way that helped experience a strategy brainstorm and help them make choices about the tool/tactical sessions later in the day.

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Connection Cafe

JUNE 25, 2019

In the Blackbaud Institute’s newest publication, The Connected Office , we’re addressing these factors and taking a deep dive into how each departmental team can support a cohesive constituent experience. If this has you reflecting on your experience, remember that there are tangible tips you can use to connect your organization.

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Experiment Organization eBook Blackbaud 28

ASU Lodestar Center

OCTOBER 6, 2021

Implementing these five strategies into your current nonprofit organizations DEI initiatives will ensure that your organization is critically thinking about and including the community you serve into all layers of your organizational structure.

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Bloomerang

AUGUST 31, 2022

Step 1: Understand story structure. Effective stories are told in a three-act structure. All well-crafted stories fit a three-act story structure. Since childhood, we have been taught to expect a certain structure for stories to follow. As with the end of the year, the end of life is often a time for reflection.

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Storytelling Guide Structure Audience 110

EveryAction

JUNE 8, 2023

Welcome to another installment of Thursday Thoughts, a dedicated space for our friends in nonprofit sector leadership to reflect on reports, statistics, and other trends—because when our community shares knowledge, we can all do more good.  Check out our last installment here! Learn more at RubensteinImpactGroup.com !

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Advocacy Local Audience Poll 143

Blue Avocado

MARCH 5, 2024

As a founder, you may experience this as a lack of competence, dedication, or understanding, and justify the churn as a matter of finding the right people for the job. But instead of giving in to paranoia, this is a time to take stock of the situation, giving yourself time for self-reflection. Ask Yourself: Is it Me?

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Forum One

APRIL 13, 2021

The items that museums, archives, and libraries collect reflect the human spirit. These objects also have the power to bring to light a variety of stories and experiences. Content strategy reframes a collection by creating an overarching structure that defines how its content is organized, positioned, and made relevant.

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Library Museum Content Digital 73

Candid

NOVEMBER 17, 2021

We reflected. Corporate Delegation and Oversight, Organizational Structure (5 percent). Qualitative Staff Characteristics (project-related experience, shared backgrounds, executive biographies, etc.). Self-examination was the zeitgeist of philanthropy in 2021. We adapted. Miscellaneous (3 percent). Applicant Contact Information.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

SEPTEMBER 14, 2012

I believe that social networking can do better by thinking about network structures, understanding roles of people, making organizations more sociable and blending social media. Digital media’s potential for building harmonious civil society is considerable.”

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Tunisia Reflection NGO Libya 104

Byte Technology

FEBRUARY 16, 2016

Target, she notes, is getting better about striving for ideally stocked stores “in addition to the other experience ‘frills” that are so important to brand definition,” and it’s all based on customer feedback. Being rash and moving too quickly will be evident to your customers and reflect poorly on your organization. Think ahead.

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Digital Industry Org Model 100

Bloomerang

AUGUST 21, 2023

In fact, they vary greatly depending on your location, the skills of your volunteers, and your past training and experience at fundraising. Current budget numbers reflect your existing program commitments, not your aspirational ones. During the early days of the pandemic, donors were patient with remote experiences that fell flat.

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Action Report Practice Fundraising 73

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

SEPTEMBER 30, 2007

Christian Kreutz has written up his reflections on the recent Web2.0fordev conference. Everybody is still experimenting ???this He also make a few other points worth noting: I had the feeling everybody shared an enthusiasm for the potential that development can have, but I also only saw a few clear structured projects.

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Reflection Bookmarking Aggregator Lesson 56

CauseVox

JUNE 16, 2023

You know, a place that reflects who you are, where lifelong memories will be made, and where your bond as brothers and sisters will grow even stronger. These levels provide a clear structure for donors to understand how their contributions make a difference and encourage them to give at a level that feels meaningful to them.

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Pledge Fundraising Chapter Classes 74

Deborah Elizabeth Finn

JANUARY 28, 2018

What you see here are a few notes that reflect my individual experience. As far as I can ascertain, this series was the first in which grant makers and nonprofit grant recipients came together in equal numbers and met as peers for reflective structured dialogue.

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Evaluation Grant Data Boston 52

sgEngage

MAY 25, 2023

Most really good proposals and reports often better reflect an organization’s capacity to hire a great grant writer or marketing expert than their ability to do great work. With such care and precision, how many times do their experiments go as expected the very first time? Almost never, right? Please help now.”

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Problem Skills Proposal Grant 75

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JULY 23, 2014

If you want to a chance to win, leave a comment on this post sharing something that you’d like to learn about Impact Leadership or some wisdom from your experience about practicing impact leadership! I’m giving away a free registration to NTEN’s Leading Social Change Summit. I’ll pick a winner by July 3oth.

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