Greater Giving

FEBRUARY 22, 2022

Remember, the most effective nonprofit websites prioritize donors’ preferences and motivations in their design and structure. Choose images that show interactions between people, whether it’s your volunteers and constituents or your donors mingling at previous fundraising events. Let’s dive in! Motivational imagery. A fast load speed.

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EveryAction

JULY 3, 2023

Ensuring a smooth user experience is especially critical for complex virtual campaigns like peer-to-peer fundraising, which relies heavily on your website to facilitate a number of different interactions between donors, their networks, and your organization. Integrated functionality is critical for nonprofit virtual engagement.

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AccelEvents

SEPTEMBER 4, 2020

How can you bring people together through meaningful interaction when you cannot get them into the same room? . The good news is that facilitating networking in a virtual setting is quite simple. If you are thinking of hosting a virtual networking event, we have some tips that can help you with the planning and facilitation process.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MARCH 24, 2020

Since those days, I have continued to hone my virtual facilitation skills to design and deliver effective virtual meetings and trainings. This post is #2 in a series I’ll be publishing on virtual meeting facilitation. The first post was an overview of 9 virtual facilitation tips. Or the last photo in their phone.

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Nimble AMS

FEBRUARY 17, 2022

It facilitates more unified reporting. In doing so, the Nimble AMS team can easily adapt the solution to meet nearly every membership structure. Your association interacts with both people and organizations. With Person Accounts, accounts show up just once in search results. Join the love.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

SEPTEMBER 8, 2014

Last week I facilitated the “ Impact Leadership Track ” at the NTEN Leading Change Summit with John Kenyon, Elissa Perry, and Londell Jackson. Here’s what I learned: Facilitation Teams. Often, facilitation teams are brought together by an event host. Photo by Trav Williams. Do you have a preferred method?

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AccelEvents

SEPTEMBER 4, 2020

How can you bring people together through meaningful interaction when you cannot get them into the same room? . The good news is that facilitating networking in a virtual setting is quite simple. If you are thinking of hosting a virtual networking event, we have some tips that can help you with the planning and facilitation process.

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Nimble AMS

AUGUST 28, 2019

Similarly, trade association memberships are primarily made up of organizations, yet most of their interactions are with individuals. Clearly, every association needs to be able to facilitate business with both individuals and organizations. On the surface, meeting the needs of such a structure may seem relatively straightforward.

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Allegiance Group

NOVEMBER 2, 2023

In today’s digital landscape, integrating social media buttons on your nonprofit website signifies a commitment to fostering engagement, driving awareness, and facilitating convenient avenues for supporters to contribute. This cohesive approach enables your supporters to contribute to your cause with just a few clicks.

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Nimble AMS

DECEMBER 3, 2019

At the same time, trade association memberships are primarily made up of organizations, yet most of their interactions are with individuals. Associations need technology that uses a data model that facilitates business with both individuals and organizations.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MARCH 30, 2012

It was also an opportunity for me to co-facilitate with in-country team, meet the NGOs and hear their stories first-hand, and learn a lot about modeling and adapting interactive training techniques for different cultures. 1. Facilitating Tri-Lingual Events: Not Lost in Translation. Group Photo with Certificates.

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Twenty Hats

JANUARY 12, 2021

The best way I thought to keep in touch was to facilitate weekly 45-minute video calls on Zoom. The video calls have a consistent structure to them. The last 15 minutes of the meeting are set aside for me to interact with the volunteers and update them on operational changes or news from other parts of the Smithsonian.

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The Modern Nonprofit

MARCH 26, 2024

This includes an optimized website that’s mobile-friendly and easy to navigate, strategic use of search engine optimization (SEO) to increase visibility during times of high public interest, and an established monthly giving program to facilitate the transition from one-time to recurring donations.

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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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Nimble AMS

APRIL 6, 2020

Similarly, trade association memberships are primarily made up of organizations, yet most of their interactions are with individuals. Associations need technology that facilitates business with both individuals and organizations. In doing so, the Nimble AMS team can easily adapt the solution to meet nearly every membership structure.

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Saleforce Nonprofit

APRIL 12, 2021

We are committed to actively advocating for clear and consistent science-based climate policies that facilitate a just and equitable global transition to a 1.5°C It completes this mission by leveraging Salesforce technology, Internet of Things (IoT), machine learning, and structured finance to create green buildings in America’s urban core.

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Museum 2.0

MAY 3, 2010

Last week, I attended Structure Lab , a half-day workshop on legal and financial structures for ventures for social good. The Structure Lab is set up as a "game" in which you explore cards in various categories (values, assets, financing, etc.) to better articulate what you are really trying to do with your project concept.

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Museum 2.0

OCTOBER 29, 2009

MuseumNext had four main sections: Interactive activities , including an opening workshop with a group of designers associated with an extremely wonderful exhibition called Doing it for the Kids featuring sustainable toy designs. Facilitator bits. That said, the phrase "structured opportunity" is where MuseumNext suffered most.

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NonProfit Hub

AUGUST 23, 2018

How Measures of Market Structure Shape Nonprofit Fiscal Health,” a group of scholars set out to answer the question of whether or not there are too many nonprofits in the U.S.—or, The study attributes this to differences in resource structures across nonprofit fields. In a new study titled “ A Field Too Crowded?

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Bloomerang

AUGUST 21, 2023

6 internal factors The internal factors concern the organizational structure of your nonprofit: capacity, board support and engagement, strategy and planning, leadership issues, communication issues, and budget and finance. Have you tried bringing in a communications facilitator to deepen the conversation?

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Forum One

MARCH 4, 2021

Instead, the main goal needed to be communicating critical information, facilitating information sharing, and supporting audiences (e.g., Your internal audiences can be your champions because they interact with your organization more than anyone else. Focus on a sincere response and genuine interactions.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JANUARY 27, 2014

I use a simple structure to design: before, during, and after. For the networked nonprofit workshops I facilitate, I’ve developed a maturity of practice assessment called “ Crawl, Walk, Run, Fly ” which gives me a detailed understanding of where the organization is in its practice.

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Connection Cafe

AUGUST 3, 2020

It helps to tell the story of their experience with your brand for any kind of interaction – from first donation, to an upgrade to a larger gift, to a conversion from activist to supporter, etc. Third Step: Facilitate an in-person or virtual mapping session.

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Tech Soup

NOVEMBER 7, 2011

Nonprofits Live is TechSoup's interactive talk show with live Q&A conversation and tips to improve your nonprofit technology projects. We will explore the best tools for creating and sharing media, how to structure games and challenges using UGC, and how to prepare for your next endeavor. Pacific time!

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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. The secret is in the structure and design of the small group exercises.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MARCH 31, 2014

Several nonprofits have successfully interacted with, and more importantly, seen impact from, these engaged new audiences. One infamous example is Foldit , a protein-folding puzzle game that crowdsources potential real-world protein structures and solutions. Players, who collectively average about 30 years old in the U.S.,

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Neon CRM

JUNE 16, 2023

Nonprofit database segmentation allows you to structure your data to support reporting, personalization, and overall engagement. It can be used to facilitate critical tasks that keep people invested in your mission. Here are some different ways you can group your donors to improve your interactions with them.

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ASU Lodestar Center

JULY 6, 2012

The ways in which social networks are designed for interaction among the members of an organization can create a network of support to improve teamwork, as well as create the highest level of information flow to stimulate ideas. First of all, a structure must be put into place for mentorship.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MARCH 15, 2013

This post summarizes the sessions I facilitated or participated in related to “ Measuring the Networked Nonprofit ,” which included a book signing, panel discussion in the Beacon Lounge , and a workshop with co-author KD Paine. This is the last post in a series of post about my experience at SXSW.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

APRIL 30, 2012

June offers some frameworks for creating a network culture that supports innovation, how to identify innovation assets, how to tune-up the network for innovation, how to train and coach people in the skills and processes required for innovation, and structures that support innovation.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

FEBRUARY 17, 2011

.&# On the other hand, we could all go back to our respective homes and work towards that in a chaotic, uncoordinated, and distributed way. What emerged as the idea that TechSoup Global, using a networked mindset could facilitate this to happen. Being/Doing Structure: The first day offered more structure.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

APRIL 15, 2014

Most importantly, it is about building a professional network of peole in your industry or professional area (external experts and others) and interacting with them to keep up to date. She explained that “learning or teaching the old” is about training, knowledge transfer, and structured, directed learning.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

AUGUST 19, 2015

I was in San Antonio this week to facilitate an interactive master class for 300 nonprofits that was hosted by the San Antonio Nonprofit Council that hosts The Big Give, a very successful local giving day. So having a few brainstorming facilitation techniques to use with your team, is useful. Format Templates and Cheat Sheets.

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Bloomerang

AUGUST 30, 2023

Types of fundraising software to consider When you think about fundraising software, you probably first think of online donation platforms that allow nonprofits to facilitate online gifts. For example, Bloomerang’s platform provides an engagement meter based on past donor interactions, such as volunteer experiences or marketing engagement.

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Connection Cafe

FEBRUARY 3, 2014

Your sitemap is a visual representation of the structure of your website. While it may make it easier for an organization to structure the website according to their org structure, this can be frustrating for users. Note: This is the eighth in a series of posts about the Nonprofit Web Design Process. Deliverables. Card Sorts.

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Neon CRM

MAY 9, 2023

Here are a few different types of donor management software that nonprofits use to handle their relationships: CRM: A constituent relationship management system is a comprehensive tool for tracking donor data and interactions. It’s a tool that holds all of your information about your donors and their interactions with your organization.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

NOVEMBER 16, 2015

Our session used the following structure. They have sustained a healthy percentage of giving over what was “normal” prior to the challenge – so that what they consider to be a success. They have had to change the way to engage and interact with new donors.

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