.orgSource

MAY 15, 2023

There was a time when associations didn’t think of their members as customers. To align your mission with your brand and reflect that symmetry through products and services, you need to bring membership and marketing to the Equator. What has changed over time? Use Data as a Connector Integrated planning isn’t a one-time event.

Collaboration 221

Collaboration Marketing Team Integration 221

.orgSource

MAY 29, 2023

This is a challenging time for associations. An expert facilitator will introduce the level of introspection needed to encourage empathy and insight. It’s an exercise that will provide the opportunity to explore lessons learned in training and reflect on how they impact real-life situations. Initiatives that seem more urgent.

Associations 221

Associations Reflection Leadership Training 221

.orgSource

MARCH 6, 2023

The problem might be something you’ve never considered. ENA Culture Statements Staff The Emergency Nurses Association will seek at all times to foster and maintain a culture of excellence, commitment, empowerment, collaboration, inclusivity, and accountability. Could the decline in membership be a reflection of the decline in trust?

Associations 221

Associations Leadership Question Wisconsin 221

.orgSource

SEPTEMBER 25, 2023

Use ChatGPT as a virtual event host to welcome attendees, guide them through the schedule, answer queries, and facilitate networking during virtual conferences. A tech staff, with some time on their hands, could have an out-of-the-box AI interacting with your members fairly quickly. How hard is it to add a bot or two to your team?

Las Vegas 221

Las Vegas Language Interaction Associations 221

NTEN

FEBRUARY 24, 2021

Large data platforms, especially those that make donations of products and services, are putting high-powered software into nonprofits’ hands at a fraction of the cost that would ordinarily reflect on commercial customers. The post The Problem of Nonprofit Data and Equity appeared first on NTEN. This is genuinely a good thing.

Problem 62

Problem Data API Global 62

ASU Lodestar Center

JUNE 8, 2022

This culture can bring about the desired outcomes of staff, volunteers, and members who reflect the community, having a team possessing strong problem-solving skills, and leadership that embraces innovation. Appreciating diversity and creating a team that reflects the community in appearance and thoughts are only the first steps.

Culture 98

Culture Help Phoenix Reflection 98

Candid

MAY 15, 2024

At the Honnold Foundation, we had been working in partnership with grassroots organizations for some time before we learned that there was a term for the kind of grantmaking we do: trust-based philanthropy (TBP). If a metric isn’t reflective of the impact they want to make, then why collect it?

Philanthropy 52

Philanthropy Proposal Application Metrics 52

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. Design for Different Levels of Capacity and Skills: Adapt in Real Time.

Training 98

Training Train Reflection Design 98

Nonprofit Tech for Good

MAY 8, 2020

Among the noteworthy features included the ideal ecosystem are (i) the virtual events channel (reflecting the constraints newly imposed by COVID-19) and (ii) the increasingly feature-rich WhatsApp channel. Digital Storytelling Framework. WhatsApp is a useful tool with which to apply the elements of good storytelling.

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Storytelling Digital Channel Profile 295

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JUNE 22, 2017

Your logical brain temporarily shuts down, and you lose the ability to solve problems, make decisions, and think rationally. Over time these reactions can lead to acute anxiety, depression, irritability, fatigue, and other health problems from heart disease to lowered immune response.” Flickr Photo by Brittney Bush.

Professional 113

Professional Management Journal Reflection 113

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JULY 16, 2019

When I facilitate staff retreats or workshop on wellbeing in the workplace based on the Happy Healthy Nonprofit , we do some reflective exercises, including taking the nonprofit burnout assessment , identifying stress triggers and reactions before creating a self-care plan and addressing cultural norms.

Tips 73

Tips Exercise Brain Facilitation 73

Eric Jacobsen Blog

OCTOBER 9, 2023

Spending most of your time trying to minimize mistakes. Among the many techniques Briceño teaches, the book also offers four tips for helping your team continuously advance their skills, even when it feels like there’s no time to problem solve: Why most managers often misuse praise—and what you should do instead to help your team improve.

Learning 93

Learning Free Reflection Model 93

EveryAction

JULY 3, 2023

That means now is the perfect time to take stock of where your organization stands, especially as we head into the always-busy year-end giving season. Integrations allow data to flow freely from one platform to another, making it easier to generate the performance insights you need to make strategic improvements over time.

Virtual 190

Virtual Site Support Fundraising 190

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.

Impact 98

Impact Raleigh Arizona Collaboration 98

Museum 2.0

OCTOBER 29, 2009

Facilitator bits. While Jim and I explained clearly to Wild Idea proposers what they needed to do to submit their project for consideration before MuseumNext, we didn't give them enough support in actually facilitating their group brainstorming at the event. You did great. They sound obvious, but several took me years to figure out.

Facilitation 32

Facilitation Reflection Museum Participatory 32

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MARCH 30, 2010

Here's some reflections: Thoughtful, Intentional Experiments Thoughtful experimentation is setting up a low-risk experiment with metrics to figure out what is and isn't working is a social media best practice. There is one problem with this design: Many of us find experimenting difficult. This is the gift of time.

Social Media 91

Social Media Reflection Media Social 91

Bloomerang

MAY 17, 2021

You’re part of the problem. In fact, you may BE the problem. You are the philanthropy facilitator. . You — and the entire social benefit sector — need organizational-development-grounded philanthropic facilitators. Culture tends to reflect who’s in charge. Why is that? It’s in your job description. Why is that?

Culture 125

Culture Philanthropy Facilitation Job 125

Blue Avocado

JANUARY 23, 2024

Look to the intersectional problems faced by the community you serve and backtrack from there. At the same time, having agreements and guides in place will help ensure committee members know what is expected of them and how to successfully work together. Time Commitment—How often will the committee meet?

Voice 90

Voice Community Structure Nonprofit 90

Twenty Hats

AUGUST 18, 2020

If I were to name the biggest common takeaway for either group, it would be this: in both Circles, the members had the time and space to explore the mindset skills that lead to professional growth. My Circles required a financial investment to reflect my time as planner and facilitator.

Professional 61

Professional Skills Leadership Facilitation 61

ASU Lodestar Center

JANUARY 29, 2014

This was a teachable environment relying on flexibility, trust and the professional qualities needed during changing times. With groups in an organization there will be times that not everybody agrees and people sometimes get offended, which was one of the biggest things I learned.

Leadership 49

Leadership Reflection Arizona Student 49

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

OCTOBER 7, 2014

The lab was facilitated by Heather Mcleod-Grant and Justin Ferrell , Director of Fellowships at the Stanford d-School. This allowed us to experience the whole design process – design a new wallet – and reflect on it. Once upon a time x happened. The questions: What do you hope to learn today? That is not design thinking.

Design 105

Design Course Leadership Network 105

OneCause

NOVEMBER 28, 2022

If you’re selling antiques, your decor should reflect that and be in the classical style. The second start of this brainstorming process is thinking about your target audience , which for the most part, will reflect on your theme. TV, Cameras, and WiFi: To facilitate a remote auction experience for everyone around the world! .

Tips 52

Tips Design Audience Sponsor 52

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

APRIL 2, 2014

According to that study there are two important pieces to relationship-based memory that can be captured: Social capital: Time spent interacting on work tasks establishes a sense of reciprocity and trust among colleagues. We should be looking at the problem the other way around — figuring out how best to get knowledge into our heads.

Conference 110

Conference Grant Network Learning 110

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

NOVEMBER 17, 2008

I leave Romania early in the morning and I'm probably too tired to be writing something called a reflection, but I better do it now or risk loosing it. I was nervous because I've never been to Romania, so I didn't have a lot of time or a frame of reference to tweak and customize. I messed up a few times. I hate that.

Romania 50

Romania Social Media Game Reflection 50

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MAY 17, 2011

I set up opportunities for people to apply what they just heard through reflective questions. This approach means the instructor takes a “guide on the side&# approach versus “expert on the stage.&# And, of course, it takes more preparation time than slapping together a powerpoint.

Design 107

Design Effective Experiment Learning 107

Saleforce Nonprofit

JUNE 24, 2021

Bryan Stevenson (BS): It’s important that we have a new consciousness about the problems created by our history. Juneteenth is both an occasion for celebration and a moment for reflection. Getting proximate to the problem was where the real transformation was. In many ways, Juneteenth was a tragedy.

Interview 120

Interview United States History Law 120

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JANUARY 5, 2012

Content delivery is less important then the skill to making sense of it and that needs to be what “classroom time” is about. The instructor’s role should be to facilitate this understanding for their students, not dump content on them. She recently took a deep dive into reflective practice and techniques.

Experiment 116

Experiment Learning Create Exercise 116

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JANUARY 27, 2014

So, expect to see regular reflections on good instructional design and delivery for any topic, but especially digital technology and social media related. Many times, it means both the “doer” and the “decision maker.”. It is also important to target the right level of authority.

Instructional Design 111

Instructional Design Instruction Instructional Training 111

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

AUGUST 28, 2013

Note From Beth: A few weeks ago, I was lucky enough to participate in a meeting with other capacity builders who work with networks. I wrote a quick reflection on some of the techniques used to facilitate the meeting. just strategy, or just process facilitation, or just fundraising). How do these networks evolve over time?

Build 112

Build Change Social Facilitation 112

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JANUARY 23, 2014

So, expect to see regular reflections on good instructional design and delivery for any topic, but especially technology related. Therefore, I’ve spent a lot of time trying to understand how the feng shui of a classroom impacts learning. Circles without tables, just chairs helps promote group discussion.

Training 123

Training Train Design Classroom 123

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.

Synchronous 50

Synchronous Facilitation Practice Second Life 50

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

APRIL 27, 2012

It marked the start of a six month peer learning exchange where I, along with colleague Stephanie Rudat will work remotely with grantees as they implement an action learning project to put techniques into practice and facilitate organizational change from the inside out. organizational change, and technology. Program Design.

Pakistan 111

Pakistan NGO Network Exercise 111

Bloomerang

JUNE 1, 2022

This is a popular time for charitable giving because supporters are motivated by the holiday spirit and because it’s the last opportunity for donors in the U.S. This is a popular time for charitable giving because supporters are motivated by the holiday spirit and because it’s the last opportunity for donors in the U.S.

Guide 110

Guide Giving Nonprofit Metrics 110

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

APRIL 7, 2015

Yesterday, I had the honor of being a guest facilitator at a transformative leadership retreat with colleagues Heather McLeod Grant, Chris Block, Lance Fors, and David Havens. We started with mindfulness from Chris Block, improvisation from David Havens , and Heather and I co-facilitated a session on networks.

Mind 50

Mind Work Exercise Nashville 50

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

AUGUST 29, 2013

They can help people with different knowledge, skills, and points of view to tackle a shared problem, see old things in new ways, or challenge the status quo. Is it the right time?). Convenings have long been acknowledged as an important tool in driving change. What’s the point? (Do Do you have a clear purpose?).

Arts 95

Arts Design Collaboration Analysis 95

Have Fun - Do Good

MARCH 22, 2010

Other times it is circuitous, your parents gave you things instead of attention, so you are passionate about reducing consumerism. Many of the world's problems happen because of a sense of otherness based on things like class, race, politics, gender, sexual orientation, religious beliefs, etc. Your wound is your gift.

Gift 58

Gift Reflection Exercise Awareness 58

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

SEPTEMBER 8, 2016

Nina Simon, the executive director of the museum, is an expert in participatory design and fantastic facilitator. It was great to watch her in action facilitating the creative, interactive, and fun program. This is a Band-Aid, not addressing the main problem.” Being Intentional About Your To Do List.

Causes 50

Causes Change Museum Social 50