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Finding The Best Board Retreat Facilitator – 9 Things To Look For

Kindful

Have you ever sat through a board retreat and spent more time watching the clock, daydreaming, and checking texts than listening to the facilitator? Did your last facilitator stand behind a lectern and drone on like a record playing in slow motion? Facilitate and engage with confidence. Ask the right questions.

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How to Facilitate the Discovery Step of the Donor-Centered Approach

Bloomerang

It is important to plan a strategy for each meeting interaction. The focus is getting to know the donor through a series of discovery questions that you’ll ask with the donor’s permission, of course. With the right set of donor discovery questions, you will be able to determine the donor’s needs. One-Word Questions ?—?or

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Are Marketing and Membership at Opposite Poles? Take the Journey to Collaboration

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They are charged with posing and answering significant questions like these: Why was our organization founded? Formalize the interaction between these two groups by providing specific times for them to exchange information and channels for reporting the outcomes of those conversations. “The board plays the central role of visionary.

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Reflections on a Decade of Designing and Facilitating Interactive Webinars

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

I’ve had the honor of facilitating an online peer learning exchange of Knight Grantees that are hosting Giving Days, applying and iterating on the Giving Day Playbook since 2013. Yesterday, I facilitated the first webinar in a series hosted by the Knight Foundation on taking the practice of Giving Days to the next level.

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Are Marketing and Membership at Opposite Poles? Take the Journey to Collaboration

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They are charged with posing and answering significant questions like these: Why was our organization founded? Formalize the interaction between these two groups by providing specific times for them to exchange information and channels for reporting the outcomes of those conversations. “The board plays the central role of visionary.

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Get More Out of AI, Start Chatting

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Create a personalized chatbot to interact with members, answer questions, and offer customized recommendations. Use ChatGPT as a virtual event host to welcome attendees, guide them through the schedule, answer queries, and facilitate networking during virtual conferences. How hard is it to add a bot or two to your team?

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Facilitating with Sticky Notes

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

I enjoy meetings when there has been a lot given to the design and you have expert facilitators in the room because I not only learn about the content, but also learn some new facilitation techniques. If offers frameworks, tips, and checklists for thinking through the content, interaction design, and logistics.