VQ Strategies

NOVEMBER 22, 2022

Now, at some point every day, I catch sight of this little green square of paper that shares such a profound message. Some are angry about leaders who seem to ignore (or even facilitate) such issues as abuse of civil liberties. When training nonprofit leaders, I often share that volunteers want to make a difference.

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Nonprofits Source

DECEMBER 12, 2022

If you’re an environmental organization, you could create a colour palette with blue and green to speak to your commitment to the environment. . This will facilitate users’ reading experience and create a feeling of continuity so all of your web pages feel like they belong to your nonprofit. . Typography. Colour contrast.

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Qgiv

JUNE 1, 2023

The first PrideFest was held in 2020, and since then, the celebration continues to be held every year on the town green. It is a celebration of the LGBTQIA+ community in Madison and also exists to support artists within the community. Support PrideFest by becoming a sponsor or donating for a pride sign.

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NetWits

NOVEMBER 1, 2011

In fundraising, we say that the most powerful form of ask is a peer ask, and what is social media if not a perfect medium to facilitate that? Heyman is now a public speaker that provides strategy, messaging, and fundraising consulting for nonprofits and green economy organizations. There are no experts, yet.

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Have Fun - Do Good

JANUARY 25, 2007

Have you ever thought about starting a green cafe? When the WorldChanging SF bloggers had their first face-to-face meeting there, I asked Chris if he would do an e-interview with me about how he started the cafe, what makes it green and how other people can start their own green cafes. green cafe business Oakland

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Museum 2.0

MARCH 18, 2015

I sat down with Emilyn Green, Executive Director of the Community Science Workshop Network , to learn more about their history, design, and engagement strategy. Part of this is practical: you can''t facilitate making and tinkering for 30 kids if you have to hand them everything they need. I knew I could learn a lot from it.

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Amy Sample Ward

MARCH 16, 2009

John McElhenney - Clear Green Technologies. Sustainability depends on knowledge; social media facilitate knowledge production, processing and distribution. Started with mega trends of social media and green living. Green or Sustainability? Presenters: Emily Gertz - Change.org. Jon Lebkowsky - Social Web Strategies.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JULY 18, 2014

Again, using design-thinking facilitating methods, the process started with a presentation from the executive director on the strategy for the year and measurement. Through a facilitated design thinking process , small groups of participants created a draft of the Giving Tuesday movement level and partner level metrics.

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Neon CRM

MAY 9, 2023

Fundraising Software: Fundraising software facilitates donations, fundraising events, and other online fundraising activities. Little Green Light Little Green Light is designed for nonprofits that are already comfortable using CRMs. Limited templates: Users complain of limited customization options in templates.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

AUGUST 24, 2007

Read more about it from Green Miles blog and a summary of reactions from other nonprofits here. " Geeks for Good and Green Geekery Ruby Sinreich facilitated a session at BarCampRDU on how geeks can use their powers for the forces of good and has a wiki with resources.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

OCTOBER 28, 2013

Last week was a busy week, after keynoting the Nonprofit Solutions Conference in Kansas City , I facilitated a one-day workshop for the Center for Nonprofits on developing and measuring a sustainable integrated social media strategy. Participants from a nonprofit work on their network map during the workshop.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

SEPTEMBER 29, 2015

I was thrilled to work with the Brainerd Foundation staff to help design and facilitate a design lab using techniques based on Luma Institute methods earlier this month. Here’s what I learned about the facilitating design thinking processes: What Is A Design Lab? Why Use One?

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Have Fun - Do Good

AUGUST 12, 2011

Photo by Green LA Girl ) 2. Teaching The Essential Blog Content Development Workshop I loved co-facilitating the Essential Blog Content Development Workshop with Elizabeth Soutter of Da Momma: Motherhood is Not for Wimps , and Julie Weckerlein of Julie and Martin. Hanging out with Siel/Green LA Girl. Siel of Green LA Girl.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

SEPTEMBER 12, 2012

The project is a hyperlocal source of information about living green–powered by network of environmental activists, nonprofits, and grassroots organizations. It celebrates the natural beauty of the area while educating the community about a green life style. Cara talked about the network formation phase of the project.

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Classy

APRIL 16, 2021

Volkswagen, GM, Amazon, and the USPS pledged a commitment to green vehicles. A $10 billion Great American Outdoors Act passed in July 2020. The UK will ban new gasoline or diesel car sales by 2030, and California plans to follow . The six largest banks in the U.S. cut funding for drilling in the Arctic Wildlife Refuge.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JULY 19, 2008

Britt Bravo facilitated a meet up session yesterday for bloghers who write about social change and nonprofits. Photo by Britt Bravo. She compiled a list of all in attendance and I'm sharing it here. why not add a few new blogs into your reader?

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Have Fun - Do Good

DECEMBER 28, 2006

From her Berkeley-based office, Melinda Kramer facilitates an international network of women leaders. Melinda Kramer: Women's Global Green Action Network is an international organization that is linking and empowering women working in environmental sustainability around the world.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MAY 20, 2013

” The green ugly doll has accompanied me around the world and has been in the hands of many people who work for NGOs and social change. Sunrise on Sacred Maori Land outside of Auckland, NZ. ” I also give everyone a chance to say a few words at the end of the training and pass the “ugly doll.”

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JULY 28, 2009

There have the been the well discussed successes like DonorsChoose and Lil Green Patch. Our job as organizational communicators lies in trying to facilitate a larger conversation by providing the means for people to share, perhaps initiate conversations, and highlight the great work and thoughts of others. Never forget that, either.

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Achieve

JUNE 21, 2015

They’re facilitating Q&A sessions and panels, including the media panel with Matt Higginson from Medium and Sarah Harris from Incite. is a weekly video series produced by PBS Digital Studios, hosted by curator Sarah Urist Green and author/vlogger John Green. IN-PERSON LEARNING LABS. The Art Assignment.

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Have Fun - Do Good

JULY 2, 2008

I'll be facilitating a Birds of a Feather session for Green, Social Change & NPO/NGO bloggers on Friday, July 18th from 10:30-11:45 AM. blogher women blog nonprofit green social change If you've been waiting to sign up, don't delay.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

NOVEMBER 9, 2009

Last week, I had the opportunity facilitate a " Social Media Strategy Map " workshop for over 100 Bay Area nonprofits. Every time I present or facilitate a workshop, I review the web sites and social media ant trails (social media properties) of participants. . Robot Voice Disguiser for Large Group Facilitation.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

NOVEMBER 24, 2014

We had a “prize patrol” of volunteers serving up coffee and breakfast snacks, and handing out GiveMN giving cards and Metro Transit Go-To passes to commuters wearing green. Metro Transit also offered a free ride home to anyone who visited GiveMN.org throughout Give to the Max Day.

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Have Fun - Do Good

JANUARY 7, 2011

They have all kinds: cards that go in your printer, cards you can paint on with watercolors, photo frame cards, and "green" cards made of hemp, bamboo and recycled fiber. Make your own cards! I love Strathmore's collection of blank cards. Be a do-good pen pal.

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NTEN

OCTOBER 25, 2011

In fundraising, we say that the most powerful form of ask is a peer ask, and what is social media if not a perfect medium to facilitate that? Heyman is now a public speaker that provides strategy, messaging, and fundraising consulting for nonprofits and green economy organizations.

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NonProfit Hub

SEPTEMBER 29, 2015

With his bright green hair, crystal blue skin and environmentally-focused attitude, Captain Planet was the ultimate do-gooder. The San Francisco Foundation and MAP Minnesota each published great, in-depth and comprehensive guides to facilitating a merger. A neutral third-party facilitator is essential to the process.

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Tech Soup

DECEMBER 6, 2011

The policy is designed to increase industrial capacity in electronics recycling, refurbishment, and remanufacturing to increase the number of US-based green jobs and the safe handling of discarded electronics. It is the United States' first comprehensive policy that addresses the proper handling of used or discarded electronics devices.

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Eric Jacobsen Blog

NOVEMBER 4, 2014

Drawing on such examples as Amazon , Zappos , Timberland , and Green Mountain Coffee , Ardi explores what it takes to build a Beta company – one that is positioned for success. Fluid communication is facilitated and encouraged. “Beta companies are communities, not armies,” she writes.

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Have Fun - Do Good

APRIL 17, 2009

While re-reading Echoing Green's book, Be Bold: Create a Career with Impact , I've been thinking about one of its main ideas--that people have moments of obligation. One of my moments of obligation came during the Green Festival in San Francisco in the fall of 2002. Echoing Green Fellows' descriptions of their moments of obligation.

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Have Fun - Do Good

JUNE 24, 2009

Cheryl Dorsey, the President of Echoing Green , a nonprofit that provides seed funding and support to social entrepreneurs, talked about how providing capital for social innovation can: Provide incentive for individual and collective engagement around social problems. Create a competitive marketplace that showcases a variety of ideas.

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Eric Jacobsen Blog

JULY 22, 2014

Drawing on such examples as Amazon , Zappos , Timberland , and Green Mountain Coffee , Ardi explores what it takes to build a Beta company – one that is positioned for success. Fluid communication is facilitated and encouraged. “Beta companies are communities, not armies,” she writes.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

APRIL 17, 2009

Green-print thinking. being a tool for change facilitation - which it is. But I had to realize that introducing social media as a tool for better collaboration, either across an organization or with outside stakeholders needs to be facilitated. . * Blue-print thinking. Red-print thinking. People change if they learn.

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Classy

JULY 14, 2021

The Collaborative used virtual networking happy hours, gamification and contests, and attendee-to-attendee live chat to facilitate this. An emcee can also help your nonprofit facilitate smoother transitions with the technology, as that person can remind your audience about important features for engaging during the sessions.

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Tech Soup

MARCH 5, 2014

When librarian Dianne Connery came to the library a few years ago, she found a classic small town library situated in a converted post office building with the requisite institutional green paint job. It is now more of a community center that offers training and facilitates events. It also had bookshelves packed with books no one read.

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NonProfit Hub

JUNE 17, 2015

They’re facilitating Q&A sessions and panels, including the media panel with Matt Higginson from Medium and Sarah Harris from Incite. The Art Assignment is a weekly video series produced by PBS Digital Studios, hosted by curator Sarah Urist Green and author/vlogger John Green. In-Person Learning Labs.

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Chicago Museum Arts Influence 28

Eric Jacobsen Blog

JANUARY 21, 2014

Drawing on such examples as Amazon , Zappos , Timberland , and Green Mountain Coffee , Ardi explores what it takes to build a Beta company – one that is positioned for success. Fluid communication is facilitated and encouraged. “Beta companies are communities, not armies,” she writes.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

AUGUST 4, 2009

The objective of the The Innovation Exchange is to facilitate rapid and widespread adoption of environmental innovation in business. For more context, see Networks and Philanthropy Exploration and the most recent release of the Working Wikily paper from Monitor Institute.

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