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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Blue Avocado

JANUARY 23, 2024

Look to the intersectional problems faced by the community you serve and backtrack from there. Create structure. Structure is crucial to developing and sustaining an effective advisory committee. However, structure does not have to mean rigidity. Scope—What is the focus of the committee’s work (see principle #1)?

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Voice Community Structure Nonprofit 90

Greater Giving

FEBRUARY 22, 2022

Remember, the most effective nonprofit websites prioritize donors’ preferences and motivations in their design and structure. 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.

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Websites Donation Images Mobile 97

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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Hunger Podcast Community America 59

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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Design Strategy Digital Technique 128

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

OCTOBER 23, 2014

Peter and Madeleine were the among the pioneers in writing about, designing, facilitating, and evaluating networks in the social impact space. There is minimal structure or roles and as a living organism, the structure changes. Here’s a few ideas, concepts, and insights from the book that resonated.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MARCH 31, 2014

This software includes assessment tools for evaluating students’ ability to problem solve, explain the relationships in complex systems, and comprehend informational texts and diagrams. Games provide tremendous opportunities for learning about real-world issues. SimCityEDU has been piloted by over 100 teachers and 3,000 students.

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Difference Game New York City San Francisco 110

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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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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Get Fully Funded

JUNE 18, 2023

At a minimum, a team with a poor leader is unproductive like this one: With the right leadership, a nonprofit can grow quickly, fulfilling its mission and meeting a community need or eliminating a problem. Usually, if a nonprofit is struggling in any way, there’s a leadership issue at the top. Facilitator.

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Skills Leadership Director Nonprofit 119

Get Fully Funded

OCTOBER 14, 2021

By understanding the role of HR in your nonprofit, you can determine the best way to structure your HR approach to meet your organization’s needs. Plus, your HR department will handle any harassment or misconduct issues within your organization. Let’s dive in!

Nonprofit 52

Nonprofit Retention Profit Professional 52

Forum One

APRIL 27, 2021

With a structure that allows for consistent and unified messaging, a website can create a compelling, immersive experience. Since you’re thinking through how content will be organized and structured across the site, you put yourself in the user’s shoes to see how they will be led through the content. Clear calls-to-action.

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Content Strategy Map Audience 47

Tech Soup

JULY 31, 2017

In a recent blog post , in which our nonprofit, TechSoup, advocated for Net Neutrality, there were several responses that have an interestingly identical structure: (a) Government should stay out of the Internet; (b) There are technical issues involved that TechSoup does not understand; and. (c) Images: Image : mirtmirt / Shutterstock.

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Asia Indonesia Poland Government 54

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

APRIL 19, 2012

What I don’t love is the lack of data they face, lack of support in nailing down specific problems, and that they have to go back to school on Monday. ” — Chris Worman , Restart Romania. On the generational issue—and I’m speaking a baby boomer myself —I think we no longer can consider ourselves to have wisdom because we have experience.

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Generation Romania Technology Measure 100

ASU Lodestar Center

MAY 10, 2016

Collaboration is emerging as a popular vehicle to solve complicated problems that our communities face. So what are the problems? The Problems: Sector institutional logics: Each sector has a logic that affects the willingness of a sector to agree on a project. The Process: The problems listed above are preventable.

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ASU Lodestar Center

MAY 18, 2016

Solving basic social problems requires a level of sustainable investment that donors and government cannot provide alone. Shrinking government budgets and greater competition for ever-fewer dollars are reducing the scale and effectiveness of nonprofits in meeting the nation’s growing challenges and intractable problems.

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Model Fund Social United States 53

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

SEPTEMBER 16, 2015

For the past few months, I’ve been facilitating a Nonprofit Emerging Leaders online peer learning project with Third Plateau Impact Strategies. This assessment will give you a good sense of where you stand now and offers a structured approach to practicing based on your assessment. Flickr Photo by qwrrty. Ask Good Questions.

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Skills Build Technique Language 50

Beneblog: Technology Meets Society

NOVEMBER 3, 2008

A related, but slightly different and less recognized issue, is the fact that people with disabilities such as blindness often have limited access to printed materials, even if they are well-educated. There is enormous potential for finding cross-cultural solutions to issues of disability and print access. Bookshare managers.

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BoardAssist

APRIL 15, 2014

If your board meetings are regarded as an unpleasant obligation, it’s time to bring a fresh perspective: board meetings are an opportunity to exchange ideas, resolve issues and deepen commitment. Look for ways to structure real discussions among board members that will elicit commitment and leadership. 1) Focus the agenda on results.

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Eric Jacobsen Blog

NOVEMBER 5, 2020

Second, you must establish a protocol for maintaining high-structure, high-substance 1:1 dialogues with the individuals on your team. “First, don’t allow yourself to become so overwhelmed and distracted by the uncertainties—what you don’t know—that you lose sight of what you do know, and what you can control.

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Authoring Leadership Environment Team 75

Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

JUNE 19, 2008

But in the nonprofit realm, my perspective on helping nonprofit organizations with technology issues has a lot to do with client empowerment, learning based on what’s needed at the moment, and active collaboration. The questions and problems are generated exactly from the needs of the participants – what do they need to do?

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Eric Jacobsen Blog

FEBRUARY 8, 2021

Second, you must establish a protocol for maintaining high-structure, high-substance 1:1 dialogues with the individuals on your team. “First, don’t allow yourself to become so overwhelmed and distracted by the uncertainties—what you don’t know—that you lose sight of what you do know, and what you can control.

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Eric Jacobsen Blog

DECEMBER 29, 2020

Second, you must establish a protocol for maintaining high-structure, high-substance 1:1 dialogues with the individuals on your team. “First, don’t allow yourself to become so overwhelmed and distracted by the uncertainties—what you don’t know—that you lose sight of what you do know, and what you can control.

Leadership 52

Leadership Authoring Environment Team 52

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. When they do, they’ll design and update the software in a way that helps solve those real-world problems.

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Software Guide Fundraising Platform 88

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JULY 13, 2010

The problem is that many nonprofits approach social media with over blown expectations, don’t realize them, and then throw their hands up and quit. PreSchool California was able to connect initially with journalists covering their issue. They do not frame them as success or failure but as learning.

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Social Media Network Media California 99

Everyaction

DECEMBER 12, 2017

The program provides focused attention on key compliance issues for both private foundations and charitable organizations, plus practical walk-throughs of an IRS audit and an Attorney General Investigation. Fundraising & Grants. 2018 Nonprofit Organizations Institute. 2018 Nonprofit Organizations Institute. Jan 17 - 19. Feb 11 - 14.

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Calendar Conference Las Vegas DC 85

Museum 2.0

NOVEMBER 18, 2014

But there was a problem: it wasn''t a consistent body. Instead, we wanted a collection of leaders, highly networked in different parts of our County, with their fingers on the pulses of significant community issues and activities. People opted into the meetings where they had interest or expertise and ignored those where they didn''t.

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Community Story Museum Map 39

ASU Lodestar Center

FEBRUARY 27, 2017

A critical issue in the nonprofit sector is staff turnover, often referred to as the nonprofit turnover treadmill. This problem is compounded by nonprofits’ lack of investment in manager training, leaving nonprofit organizations unprepared for the inevitable succession of leadership (Koenig, 2016). posted by Eric Spicer Sr.

Leadership 40

Leadership Develop Retention Phoenix 40

Bloomerang

OCTOBER 31, 2023

One common issue is the use of multiple, disconnected tools and systems for managing donor and volunteer relationships, events, communications, and more. Let’s explore the common problems faced by faith-based organizations like yours, and how you can better serve your mission by consolidating all of your needs under a single DMS.

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Classes System Management Donor 101

DNL OmniMedia

FEBRUARY 9, 2022

The most effective nonprofit consulting projects will address immediate problems and provide long-term strategic value that helps you grow. Speak candidly with any prospective consultant partners to develop a clear understanding of their fee structure. Breakout session and workshop facilitation. Why They Stand Out.

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Bloomerang

JANUARY 29, 2024

One common issue is using multiple disconnected tools and systems to manage donor and volunteer relationships, events, communications, and more. Let’s explore the common problems faced by nonprofits like yours and how you can better serve your mission by consolidating all of your needs into a single platform.

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Platform Giving Guide Classes 70

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

AUGUST 12, 2009

Let's look at why and where crowdsourcing can be useful when organizations (private, public or not-for-profit) are facing important new or emerging issues. A crowd made up of diverse people with as many perspectives as there are people can, when faced with a question, problem or idea, generate a coalescing of sense and thence a consensus.

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Aggregator Model Leadership Method 82

Have Fun - Do Good

JUNE 19, 2009

Erickson founded FORGE (Facilitating Opportunities for Refugee Growth and Empowerment) in 2003 when she was a 20 year-old junior studying public policy at Stanford University. We bring communities together to identify their top problems, needs, and priorities, and solve them internally. They can create the change makers.

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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. One of their programs is the Reality Tours, where they bring groups of individuals to regions to look at the social justice issues and other pressing issues, that really color the experience and the culture of a place.

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Green Global Action Network 40

Allegiance Group

DECEMBER 19, 2023

Themed “From Grassroots to Government: Empowering Social Change to Address Wicked Problems,” the conference will cover a range of social issues, including housing and urban development, mental health crises, and civil rights. Get there early for the free 2024 Junior Scholar Workshop, happening June 4-6.

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Conference Las Vegas Fort Worth San Diego 52

Neon CRM

OCTOBER 19, 2023

Other seasonal issues like school breaks, religious holidays, and even things like elections or weather cycles can impact attendance. If you’re selling tickets, you’ll need to plan your pricing structure. But how will you facilitate those gifts? Then, come up with a plan for addressing the major issues.

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Question Fundraising Registration Sponsor 52

EveryAction

APRIL 1, 2016

The 33rd Annual Nonprofit Organizations Institute features leading nationally recognized experts from private foundations, public charities, law, finance and government to discuss the latest tax, legislative and governance issues affecting nonprofit organizations. Structuring Major Gifts Conference. Structuring Major Gifts Conference.

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