Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

NOVEMBER 7, 2013

Yesterday, I had the pleasure of participating in a convening on “Data Informed Philanthropy” hosted by the Packard Foundation – not only was the content compelling (stay tuned for a post on that), but it was also a fantastic opportunity to observe one of the best facilitators I know, Allen Gunn from Aspiration.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

FEBRUARY 18, 2014

I’m co-facilitating a session on Nonprofit Training Design and Delivery with colleagues John Kenyon, Andrea Berry, and Cindy Leonard at the NTEN Nonprofit Technology Conference on Friday March 14th at 10:30 am! There are two different methods to evaluate your training. to define the four levels of training evaluation.

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Nonprofit Tech for Good

OCTOBER 30, 2021

The reality is that skipping or neglecting the discovery phase is the most common cause of budget and timeline overruns, low adoption and ROI, and misalignment to people and processes. Your people can help answer critical questions: Are we solving the right problem? Is a process or culture change also needed for the solution to work?

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MARCH 5, 2014

At this year’s Nonprofit Technology Conference, I’m thrilled to be doing a panel on nonprofit technology training and it has a bit of a star wars theme, “ Learn You Will.” I read a lot of educational technology, training, and teaching blogs, follow those people on Twitter, curate on Scoop.It, etc to keep up.

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The NonProfit Times

JUNE 3, 2024

In the process, ethical, transparent, and community-focused processes for collection, analysis, sharing and use has become an afterthought at best, and an intentional omission at worst,” report authors continued. Investing in data-focused projects appropriate to granular subsectors.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JANUARY 27, 2014

Join me for a FREE Webinar: Training Tips that Work for Nonprofits on Jan.29th I’ll be sharing my best tips and secrets for designing and delivering training for nonprofit professionals that get results. 29th at 1:00 PM EST/10:00 AM PST. I use a simple structure to design: before, during, and after.

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sgEngage

JANUARY 10, 2024

We make information into data when we explicitly attach it to a question and explicitly or implicitly connect it to an approach for making sense of it. Building knowledge is a social process where we make meaning together. Datamaking can ground processes of joint learning that energize grantee relationships.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MAY 15, 2012

My role was to deliver components of the Networked NGO curriculum – sessions on network mapping, challenges assumptions about networked ways of working, as well as training on how to use the online collaboration platform for their together moving forward. Documentation of the Visioning Process.

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Bloomerang

MARCH 22, 2024

Our Ask An Expert series features real questions answered by Claire Axelrad, J.D., If you do get a new full or even part-time hire approved, and want to use a consultant/coach to help train them, that’s a good use of outside expertise. Develop user-friendly donation landing pages and gift processing.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JANUARY 5, 2021

Here are some rituals that I have consistently used over the past few decades: Review the Past Year: I use a tool called the “ Year Compass, a free downloadable booklet that provides a set of structured reflection questions that help you look back and ahead.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

APRIL 8, 2020

As with face-to-face training, how many participants per breakout room depends on the task they will do together, how much time is needed to complete the task, and time for a full group report out. A simple technique is to put 2 or 3 people in a room and have share name, organization, and an icebreaker question.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

OCTOBER 2, 2014

One thing I realized is that training social workers receive as part of their education is also very relevant for change makers inside of nonprofits, consultants, and trainers. As we all know too well, making a lasting change in behavior is rarely an easy or straightforward process.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MARCH 25, 2014

Earlier this month, I presented on a panel called “ Learn, You Will ” with Cindy Leonard, John Kenyon, and Andrea Berry on the topic of designing effective nonprofit technology training at the Nonprofit Technology Conference hosted by NTEN. 6 Tips for Evaluating Your Training Session.

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sgEngage

OCTOBER 17, 2022

If you choose this route, you’ll need a transparent process for how you select from those who apply. Alternatively, you could forsake a participant application process in favor of shifting power immediately. This might include: On-boarding or training about grantmaking rules and regulations, and philanthropy in general.

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Forum One

MAY 23, 2024

The questions we hear often are about how organizations can identify and adapt designs to meet the evolving needs of their audiences and ensure that the mission resonates deeply. While understanding audience needs is the basis of all good strategy and user experience processes, end users often get lost or deprioritized in the design phase.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JANUARY 2, 2023

Review the Year: I use a tool called the “ Year Compass, a free downloadable booklet that provides a set of structured reflection questions that help you look back and ahead. Remote and Hybrid Facilitation Workshops : During the past few years, interest soared in learning how to facilitate better virtual meetings has soared.

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Bloomerang

MARCH 30, 2023

Train volunteers. Once you’ve strategized each of these steps, you’ll be able to create a volunteer management process that allows you to continually recruit, engage, and retain effective volunteers. Let’s take a closer look at each step of the process. Develop your volunteer schedule. Promote your program to recruit volunteers.

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Candid

FEBRUARY 14, 2024

Perhaps the question we should be asking instead is: How can we use these tools to create efficiencies and enhance our work? In fact, generative AI has been known to be trained on biased information. Amid all the talk about generative AI, fundraisers, especially grantwriters, may be asking themselves: Am I out of a job? 

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Saleforce Nonprofit

JULY 28, 2021

It can streamline tracking and reporting processes, enhance communication with donors and constituents, and consolidate necessary information. We asked them many questions, and honed in on what it took for them to be successful. Planning Ahead and Outlining Goals Facilitates Long-Term Success.

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sgEngage

APRIL 23, 2021

All too often, I see folks rush in and merge those duplicates – only to realize six months later that their business processes are creating a lot of the mess. Here’s what I’d recommend: I’d like you to schedule a meeting with everyone who uses the database and facilitate a few fact-finding sessions.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

SEPTEMBER 6, 2023

We need to steer clear of these practices if we want to prevent employee burnout (and our own burnout) and cultivate wellbeing at work in the process. Use Empathy in 1:1 Check-Ins To build a caring work culture, leaders need to ask empathetic questions during regular check-ins.

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Cloud 4 Good

MAY 26, 2022

Talent for Good provides the nonprofit and education spaces with a Talent as a Service (TaaS) program ready to solve employers’ hiring challenges by providing vetted, trained, specialized Salesforce system administrators on a contract-to-hire basis. Talent as a Service (TaaS).

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Top Nonprofits

JULY 1, 2022

Either way, you should start the CMS research process by defining your website needs. You’ll be able to leverage these features to create a user-friendly nonprofit website that facilitates online donations and other transactions, keeps donor information secure, and increases brand awareness. Module and plugin upgrades.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

FEBRUARY 8, 2018

WEF encouraged people to create a selfie video for 20 seconds asking a question that a world leader would answer. As part of our class, students composed a question and recorded a video related to their area of study and sent it off to Davos. So far, two of my students have had their questions answered.

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Greater Giving

AUGUST 21, 2023

Aly Sterling Philanthropy explains that nonprofit strategic planning is the process of aligning your organization’s goals with your values to provide a dynamic performance map for the future. To facilitate this process, your consultant will lead interviews with your stakeholders, including your board, to gather their unbiased feedback.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MARCH 15, 2011

Over the past month, I have been thinking about a couple of different ideas and how to incorporate them into training design to facilitate learning. My questions are: 1. How can we use graphic facilitation or graphic note taking in real time to deepen understanding of the topic being discussed? The Back Channel.

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Candid

JUNE 1, 2022

Nonprofit payment processing: A quick overview . But the tool that is of paramount importance is a payment processor, a backend tool that safely and securely facilitates online payments and donations between donors and nonprofits. Likewise, the card processing fees that banks charge to your nonprofit aren’t always apparent upfront. .

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JUNE 28, 2018

Last week at the IFC-Asia , I co-designed and facilitated a 90 minute workshop with Marco Kuntze titled “ The Digital NGO: The Journey from Paper to Screen.” ” Jo Wolfe, Aseem Thakur, Gillian Tan, Cherisse Beh, Katie Bengaard, and Toral Cowieson joined our session as small group facilitators.

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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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Candid

JANUARY 10, 2023

Every meeting hosted as part of your capital campaign will look different depending on where you are at in the process, which specific committee is meeting, and what they’re aiming to accomplish. This builds a standard structure into the process from the start. 4 elements of a successful capital campaign meeting.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JUNE 27, 2018

I co-lead a workshop on digital transformation, co-facilitated a master class on digital fundraising campaigns, co-hosted a learning breakfast for scholarship participants, co-designed a Big Room session on Technology for Good, and in between attended some amazing sessions. The Process Steps in Detail. What is your process?

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ASU Lodestar Center

MAY 10, 2016

So much, in fact, that organizations are boarding the train without a map, a travel bag, and even a destination. Worse yet, they have not considered the repercussions of boarding the collaboration train. This can cause friction in the formation of process and plan. The Process: The problems listed above are preventable.

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AccelEvents

AUGUST 14, 2020

Before you can fully dive into the event planning process, you need to know what it is you hope to achieve and determine how you will measure success or failure. . Once you have these questions answered, you can begin to look for venues, plan out content, choose a virtual event platform, and develop the event agenda. .

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Bloomerang

AUGUST 30, 2023

We’ll explore: Types of fundraising software to consider 7 essential fundraising software features to look for 5 steps to buy fundraising software 5 questions to ask when buying fundraising software It’s worth taking the time to research potential solutions, discuss options with your team, and deliberate before coming to a final decision.

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Bloomerang

APRIL 11, 2023

There are many moving parts involved in the volunteer management process, and volunteer management software brings these activities under one roof. A successful volunteer management process ensures that volunteers are informed, engaged, and motivated, which in turn increases long-term volunteer retention.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

AUGUST 11, 2009

Photo by Rennet Stowe That's the question that Stephen Downes raises after reading " Get Ready To Participate: Crowds and Governance" published on Henry Jenkins blog and written by Daren C. The suggestion is that the wisdom of the crowd can somehow be orchestrated, or led, or managed like a trained seal. Next Stop Design Process.

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Whole Whale

JANUARY 15, 2021

From their website : “Our process is designed to help leaders and organizations who want to proactively understand and address racism, both in their organization and in the community where the organization is working. The Racial Equity Institute, LLC process is just that: an 18-month to two-year process.”. Website : [link].

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