Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

APRIL 23, 2013

How do you measure your network to learn how to improve outcomes? I’ll be participating in the session, as part of the context setting by giving an overview of themes in my book, “ Measuring the Networked Nonprofit ,” co-author with measurement guru KD Paine. Victoria Dougherty (@VJDConsulting) April 18, 2013.

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Bloomerang

AUGUST 16, 2021

Mastering personalized, customer-centered philanthropy facilitation, especially mid-level and major donors, to increase donor lifetime value. Internalizing and externalizing an organization-wide culture of philanthropy. But you’ve got to be patient, and you’ve got to have goals against which you can measure your results.

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sgEngage

OCTOBER 9, 2023

Among grantmakers, there tends to be a lot of focus on impact and outcomes, as well as metrics to measure impact. Here, we explore for whom change is desired and who is defining and measuring that change. Who decides what is measured? Think about the donor role as facilitator and the community as owner of the results.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

OCTOBER 19, 2011

Indeed, that was my theme for the day given that I facilitated a couple of morning conversations on that topic and then in the afternoon heard Ify Mora from the Barr Foundation ( [link] ) talk about how they use social network mapping to capture the relationships that have been built through their innovative Fellows Program.

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The Modern Nonprofit

OCTOBER 31, 2023

However, lurking in the shadows, cyber ghouls greedily try to reap where they haven’t sown by rerouting funds meant for philanthropy or tricking donors into making donations to phantom causes. By compromising the organizations’ security defenses, hackers could re-route the funds meant for philanthropy to their accounts.

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The Modern Nonprofit

FEBRUARY 1, 2022

You also need to invest in quality technology to facilitate your communications, analyze your data and impact, and raise the funds and support necessary for your work. According to Dan Pallotta, author of Uncharitable: How Restraints on Nonprofits Undermine Their Potential , “philanthropy is the market for love”. Invest in technology.

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Bloomerang

APRIL 26, 2021

The data is available, and we know dire predictions of the death of philanthropy early in the pandemic have been disproved. has hovered around 2% of GDP ever since it began being measured post W.W.II. And projections from the Lilly Family School of Philanthropy at IUPUI in Indianapolis show it’s likely to happen again.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

NOVEMBER 18, 2014

Last week, I facilitated a mini-innovation lab on measuring impact for grantees of the Google Nonprofit program at the Impact Hub. We started off with an affinity clustering of the strengths, challenges, and opportunities for improving their organization’s practice of measuring impact and communicating about it.

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Bloomerang

JULY 21, 2021

Develop outcomes-monitoring plans to measure performance. . Not understanding philanthropy or the fundraising process . Philanthropy, not fundraising, will shift you and your board from feeling negative to feeling positive. She has facilitated numerous workshops with hundreds of nonprofit professionals.

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Connection Cafe

JANUARY 24, 2017

2016 was a record-setting year for philanthropy, with Americans donating more than $373 billion and communities across the globe setting new standards for #GivingTuesday. The Philanthropy Outlook from the Indiana University Lilly Family School of Philanthropy projects a 3.6 Even better news? percent in 2018. percent in 2018.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

NOVEMBER 19, 2013

” Lucy Bernholz, “ Data-first Philanthropy.” Here’s a small list of articles and blog posts that help frame this topic, including how the term “Data-Informed” was using in my recent book, “ Measuring the Networked Nonprofit.” ” Lucy Bernholz, “ Data-first Philanthropy.”

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Achieve

MARCH 10, 2021

This research includes the behaviors of 150,000 millennials and reflects on how this group has influenced philanthropy, and most pertinently, what they expect of the organizations they give to. . When it comes to your donor’s information, taking stringent security measures is crucial. millennial interaction with nonprofits.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

NOVEMBER 29, 2012

Yesterday, KD Paine and I delivered an NTEN Webinar on measurement based on the ideas in our new book ” Measuring the Networked Nonprofit: Using Data to Change the World.” ” I often hear nonprofits say, “We don’t have those skills within our organization so we don’t do measurement.”

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ASU Lodestar Center

FEBRUARY 10, 2021

The Chronicle of Philanthropy states, “The nonprofit sector has not yet figured out how to navigate these thousands of new tools. Nonprofits should be highly encouraged to facilitate the use of new platforms of service delivery to increase their impact.”. But it should, because they’re incredibly powerful.

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Saleforce Nonprofit

JULY 28, 2021

Planning Ahead and Outlining Goals Facilitates Long-Term Success. She is on the Measurement and Evaluation Team and is a rising Senior at Columbia University, studying Political Science and Psychology. . To get the most out of Salesforce, your organization will need to know how to use it to its full potential. About the Author.

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Deborah Elizabeth Finn

JANUARY 28, 2018

World class facilitation and guidance was provided by Essential Partners, with the revered Dave Joseph serving as facilitator-in-chief. Asking nonprofits to define their goals, their desired outcomes, and their quantitative measures of success – rather than telling them what these should be.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

APRIL 4, 2011

Over the past 18 months, I’ve been participating in The Network of Networked Funders , a community of practice for grantmakers facilitated by the Monitor Institute. In late 2011, Funder’s Guide to Networks will synthesize the knowledge and publish a print publication for the broader field of philanthropy.

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Connection Cafe

JANUARY 6, 2017

When it comes to the social sector, philanthropy, giving back, helping others, improving our communities and our planet—however it’s defined—we are seeing clear and positive trends. Measurement, Storytelling and Breaking Silos. The importance of measurement will continue to grow in 2017. billion, corporate giving reached $18.45

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Bloomerang

AUGUST 21, 2023

Monitor progress: Continuously track the performance of your fundraising efforts and measure them against insights detailed in the report. Have you tried bringing in a communications facilitator to deepen the conversation? The facilitator may be able to better convey the need and achieve the desired results.

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Bloomerang

MAY 31, 2022

Businesses are looking for more opportunities to expand their corporate philanthropy programs to bolster their own reputation while giving back to the community. Nonprofits benefit from a variety of corporate philanthropy programs, from event sponsorships to in-kind donations to corporate matching gifts. Make giving easy. Your website.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

FEBRUARY 8, 2013

Next week, I headed to Seattle for a couple of days of events around my book, “ Measuring the Networked Nonprofit ,” co-authored with KD Paine. Storify here ). I kicked off the morning session with a discussion on measuring impact with colleagues from VolunteerMatch – Greg Baldwin and Jay Backstrand.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

SEPTEMBER 13, 2012

But I also got the opportunity to learn and hear Rob Reich, associate professor of political science, Stanford University, and faculty co-director, Stanford Center on Philanthropy and Civil Society (Stanford PACS) and Lucy Bernholz, visiting scholar, Stanford PACS present their research in a talk called “New Skills for the New Social Economy.”

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Amy Sample Ward

FEBRUARY 1, 2011

Last year, I had the unique privilege to help facilitate The Local Philanthropy Workshop with the TechSoup Romania team. Here’s a how-to guide for Community Planning & Measurement. The social media/technology landscape in Romania is very interesting – with a diverse set of issues, struggles and opportunities.

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Neon CRM

NOVEMBER 30, 2023

Saviorism: This term is often referred to as the “savior complex” and is unfortunately common in philanthropy and volunteer work. Create goals that are specific and measurable to ensure that the stories you tell are purposeful (“specific” and “measurable” just so happen to be the first two letters in the S.M.A.R.T.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

APRIL 2, 2014

Keynote : Measuring the Networked Nonprofit: Be Networked, Use Measurement, and Learn from Your Data – I shared some high level ideas from my book and discussion about the three big themes. Wouldn’t those be better first steps toward facilitating effective group learning? Organizational Amnesia.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

SEPTEMBER 17, 2013

18, and a Google Hangout with the Chronicle of Philanthropy at 1 p.m. How can we set an accurate, measurable goal for a Giving Day if it is our first one? The Giving Day Playbook offers some specific examples and advice for setting measurable goals for your Giving Day. ET Thursday Sept.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

APRIL 1, 2015

So, when Mary K Winkler , one of the nonprofit data nerds I follow on Twitter and Senior Research Associate at Urban Institute’s Center on Nonprofits & Philanthropy specializing in performance management told me via Twitter she had just published a new guide on this topic, I had to check it out. There are periodic (e.g., delivered).

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Nonprofits Source

OCTOBER 4, 2023

Robust CSR software helps alleviate the struggles of managing your company’s philanthropic initiatives and measuring impact, so you can focus on driving employee participation and making bigger waves with your efforts. They track employee participation and measure the impact of these programs.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JUNE 1, 2010

Take for example deploying 200 sensors throughout the Brazilian rainforest to measure and visualize the effects of climate change. "Our philanthropy has to ignite action. Tags: Content Networks Philanthropy. Chatting with David Connor , we both had the same reaction – who knew? We need leverage points."

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NTEN

AUGUST 12, 2011

To facilitate nonprofit blogging, she recently laid out an awesome strategy for getting started. The Chronicle of Philanthropy summarized the debate nicely and features advice from Beth Kanter. Among them: Measure your ROE (Return on Engagement) to learn the true value of social media. Have more news to share? Check it out !

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Deborah Elizabeth Finn

JUNE 9, 2018

Facilitating candid dialogue and successful collaborations between grantmakers and grantees. Aiding philanthropic and nonprofit organizations in seamlessly matching resources with needs. Establishing best practices in the strategic use of information and communication technologies among mission-based organizations.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MARCH 16, 2012

The wonderful thing about this conference is hearing from the greatest thought leaders in the business of philanthropy, social media, capacity-building, and non-profit effectiveness. One-plussing” can facilitate the process of taking a good idea and improving upon it. Synapses Ablaze at GEO 2012 – guest post by Victoria Dunning.

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Tech Soup

FEBRUARY 22, 2016

The founding partners intend to grow the collaborative BRIDGE project so that it can strengthen other philanthropic collaborations and create a more structured, transparent, and measurable philanthropic market.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MARCH 30, 2012

His work at Monitor Institute has addressed topics including social innovation, social media, and the changing context for philanthropy. Editing this blog, he produces content about the opportunities for using new technologies and networked strategies that emphasize openness, collaboration, and leverage to achieve greater social impact.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

DECEMBER 19, 2013

Our own experiences—in philanthropy, consulting, and academia—lead us to applaud the network “crescendo” and join the chorus. Third, we lack agreed-upon criteria for measuring relationships and their quality, perhaps because of our historical and cultural inattention to and undervaluation of relationships.

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Everyaction

DECEMBER 12, 2017

Philanthropy Southwest / Austin, TX / $125. Join other data experts, academics, practitioners, and social sector leaders for two days of skillfully-led sessions on topics ranging from aligning practice with policy to creating a culture of data, and how Silicon Valley is facilitating data practices in civil society. Jan 17 - 19.

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Nonprofits Source

OCTOBER 6, 2023

If your organization takes on corporate philanthropy as an engagement practice, you can change real people’s lives. Without an objective in mind or ways to measure progress, employees can feel less driven. Facilitating these relationships is key to making your business feel more like a community. Talent attraction.

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