.orgSource

OCTOBER 17, 2023

BoardEffect states that an annual board self-assessment may help the board prevent problems leading to liability issues and that the results of an assessment can highlight topics for future board discussion and consideration. Launch the Conversation Sometimes an outside facilitator can move the group forward more quickly.

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Candid

APRIL 22, 2024

Foundation, we trust those who are closest to the issues affecting their communities. We encourage our smaller grantee partners to start by building strong relationships with their existing funders, who often can help facilitate introductions to other funders in their networks and may know about additional funding opportunities.

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Bloomerang

NOVEMBER 15, 2023

“Every change, every burst of creativity, begins with the identification of a problem or opportunity that somebody finds meaningful. As soon as people become interested in an issue, their creativity is instantly engaged. Today, Claire will be the facilitator. This is the problem we’ve agreed to focus on today.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MAY 15, 2020

Recently I facilitated an online session about how to get better at online meetings for Lightful in the UK where I am a Senior Advisor at Lightful, among other activities, facilitate online master classes for their BRIDGE programme. An online meeting is more effective when you have at least two facilitators. Don’t wing it alone.

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Bloomerang

MAY 22, 2024

We solved this problem with Storyraise , a solution for nonprofits to create digital annual, impact, and donor reports. Humanizing complex issues through compelling narratives not only raises awareness but also motivates individuals to support the cause emotionally and financially.

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.orgSource

DECEMBER 12, 2022

Each of these issues could signal that a more streamlined organizational structure is needed. Collaboration among business units is facilitated and encouraged. Investments in recruitment are not paying long-term dividends. Putting out fires distracts from supporting ongoing initiatives. I’m not suggesting that you level the cake.

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The Modern Nonprofit

FEBRUARY 1, 2022

However, all corporations, whether “for profit” or not, need to solve a problem and create value for others. From the donor’s perspective, their “purchase” of investment in a nonprofit’s work results in the gratification of being a part of the solution to a societal problem. Invest in technology.

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.orgSource

MAY 29, 2023

Organizations of all stripes were quick to issue statements confirming their commitment to diversity, equity, and inclusion. An expert facilitator will introduce the level of introspection needed to encourage empathy and insight. This is not a forum for amateurs. We commit to using these practices for our business and our communities.

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sgEngage

MAY 30, 2023

Civic leadership, on the other hand, involves active engagement and participation of individuals in addressing community issues and promoting the common good. Networking and Collaboration: Foundations can serve as connectors, facilitating collaborations among their grantees and other community organizations.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

FEBRUARY 12, 2019

. Much of my training and facilitation work lately has been centered around the ideas in my recent book, The Happy Healthy Nonprofit. I’ve been facilitating nonprofit workshops and staff retreats focused on creating a culture of wellbeing in the workplace. The conversation surfaced some interesting questions and ideas.

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Bloomerang

SEPTEMBER 12, 2023

What’s the problem? Collaborative reporting: Nonprofits can facilitate partnerships between different news organizations to pool resources, share content, and cover stories more effectively. They can also invest in innovative projects and experiments that explore new revenue models, storytelling techniques, and technology solutions.

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Saleforce Nonprofit

AUGUST 12, 2021

As our understanding of the problem has evolved, the language we use has evolved too. We once thought the problem was simply about a lack of calories, but now we know it’s more about not having enough nutritious food to support body and brain development. It’s a human rights issue. Nutrition insecurity.

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VQ Strategies

NOVEMBER 22, 2022

Rarely have I gone deeper than the obvious impacts on solving problems in the community to explore what making a difference means on an individual level. Some are angry about leaders who seem to ignore (or even facilitate) such issues as abuse of civil liberties. Yet, this sticky note stares at me every day.

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ASU Lodestar Center

NOVEMBER 19, 2020

Collective Impact is a methodology designed to facilitate cross-sector collaborations in order to move the needle on important issues. Collective Impact requires collaborating organizations to: Identify a common goal: Understand a problem and the pathway to solve it together. Communicate openly and timely.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

OCTOBER 22, 2013

Last week, I was lucky enough to participate in a brainstorming meeting at a foundation that was developing a strategy for its digital platforms (web, social, mobile, etc). The process was facilitated byPeter Maher, founder and CEO, of Luma Institute. We had to understand the problem and the challenge we were working on.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MARCH 4, 2020

It’s time to up your virtual facilitation and convening skills. Virtual meetings that are not well designed and facilitated can also mean a loss of productivity. Aside from technical issues, the biggest problem is engagement. Test your technology before the meeting and resolve any technical issues.

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Greater Giving

FEBRUARY 22, 2022

Facilitate this information-gathering process by enhancing your site’s user experience (UX). To facilitate this journey, ensure your site is optimized for telling your organization’s story. The conflict will be the issue your organization seeks to solve, and the solution is your strategy for combatting or solving the problem.

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sgEngage

JULY 20, 2021

As I looked a little deeper into social justice issues that companies try to address with their programs, I found that these initiatives can look vastly different around the globe. 59% of Americans say it is no longer acceptable for companies to be silent on social justice issues.

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Candid

MAY 15, 2024

How we refined our approach to trust-based philanthropy Research over the last 10 years has shown that funders often cause as many problems as they solve; “ funder-created obstacles ” are the most commonly identified barrier to nonprofits achieving their intended impacts.

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Qgiv

SEPTEMBER 5, 2023

By this point, suicide was a global health issue, and the United Nations and World Health Organization had worked to establish guidelines for suicide prevention strategies. Suicide is a serious public health problem. However, the U.S. had yet to establish their own guidelines. Donate to support their mission here.

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Connection Cafe

APRIL 28, 2020

We’ve rounded up a list of specific examples of virtual opportunities, organized by nonprofit issue area, that solve real problems and are easy to execute. This new environment is an opportunity to rethink solutions to strategic problems and create innovative virtual events that inspire supporters to do more. Urgent issues.

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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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Saleforce Nonprofit

OCTOBER 24, 2022

Impact Labs convenes community experts, or fellows, across sectors to co-create new technology solutions to support specific issue areas. We all know that hunger is a complex and growing problem. His areas of expertise include policy analysis and development, group facilitation, benefits enrollment, and workforce development.

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Saleforce Nonprofit

JUNE 24, 2021

Bryan Stevenson (BS): It’s important that we have a new consciousness about the problems created by our history. Getting proximate to the problem was where the real transformation was. We have projects where we facilitate educational conversation around the legacy of this history through movies. You should seek a mission.

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Top Nonprofits

JULY 1, 2022

If you already have a fully-developed website and you’re considering whether to switch CMS platforms, you must verify that a new platform will actually be the best way to solve the issues you’re facing. Also, ensure that your web design partner’s working style matches your team’s to facilitate a smooth, effective collaboration.

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Twenty Hats

AUGUST 18, 2020

After discussing the topic, the conversation would segue into a conversation around the particular issues that group members were facing. You cannot grow as a leader, though, without also tackling issues like moving beyond your comfort zone, managing change, or dealing with uncertainty.

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TechImpact

OCTOBER 16, 2014

Facilitate one-on-one relationships first. Workout issues between meetings. Settling any disputes, or putting any problems to rest outside of meeting time ensures your regularly scheduled manager’s meeting is time spent pushing your organization further, and is not being used to bridge mending hour.

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Saleforce Nonprofit

JANUARY 20, 2022

As a result, educators have an important opportunity to harness and facilitate this passion by connecting students to the global citizen science community. In recent years, the global youth climate action movement has risen up to demand that world leaders listen to science and mandate climate and environmental education.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

SEPTEMBER 9, 2015

While virtual meetings have their challenges—from the temptation to multi-task to being derailed by technical issues, you can still accomplish things at a good meeting that you can’t when you’re sitting by yourself at your computer. Virtual Meetings Require Iron Fist Facilitation. That alleviates most of the problems.

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TechImpact

APRIL 24, 2014

By separating these two layers, researchers and inventors of the this innovative technology claim it simplifies networking, and will make simplify large scale networking issues in the long run. What happens when there’s a problem with someone’s hardware? Software-defined data centers. Internet of Things.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JANUARY 28, 2007

TechSoup holds regular meetings for nonprofits in Second Life and I have been attending regularly and sometimes facilitate like this I did this past week. So, I've been reflecting about effective facilitation of virtual meetings in Second Life Right now the primary method of group interaction is via unmoderated chat interface.

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Nonprofits Source

JULY 6, 2023

Technology can facilitate the data collection process, theoretically providing nonprofits with all the information they need to answer these questions about their supporters. When duplicate data is detected, the program alerts users and asks how they would prefer to resolve the issue—merging files, removing one, or keeping both.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

AUGUST 28, 2013

I wrote a quick reflection on some of the techniques used to facilitate the meeting. Most often these new experiments have grown out of frustration with the fact that, despite several decades of rapid growth in philanthropy and nonprofits, many of the same social and environmental problems persist, or are getting worse.

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AccelEvents

JUNE 15, 2020

Facilitate Networking. When planning your trade show, be careful to include events and sessions that will actively facilitate networking. Put together a team that will be available to help attendees and exhibitors should they run into technical issues. That opportunity does not need to be lost at a virtual trade show.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MAY 8, 2018

Last month, I was honored to present and facilitate an all-day workshop for nonprofit leaders at the Oregon Nonprofit Leadership Conference on how to activate a culture of well being in the nonprofit workplace, based on my book, The Happy Healthy Nonprofit: Strategies for Impact without Burnout. Mission statement and values on the wall.

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Beneblog: Technology Meets Society

JANUARY 24, 2011

The Think Different Summit was 15-20 smart people, led by an experienced facilitator, trying to imagine the future of the learning disability rights movement. I’m sure part of the issue is that society strongly encourages people with LD to stay in the closet about their disability.

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The Storytelling Non-profit

NOVEMBER 29, 2021

In this story, you are highlighting a problem that your organization solves, what it matters that you keep solving it, and how donors can help set you up for success in the new year. It can be an inspiring story that gets donors excited about the possibilities and bought into your non-profit’s leadership on an issue area.

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