John Kenyon

APRIL 11, 2024

Humans must apply an equity lens. Trying to use an unaltered LLM “out of the box” for important equity-related applications raises clear issues around representational harm and perpetuating racial stereotypes. Not acceptable for equity-focused organizations! Complement with human judgment. Don’t treat LLM outputs as gospel.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

OCTOBER 30, 2020

While this particular research was focused on giving and fundraising, we have looking at topic with a broader lens. A few insights about the need to focus on humanizing AI. This is a more macro lens. Our most recent research, Unlocking Generosity with Artificial Intelligence: The Future of Giving. AI and Wellbeing .

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Bloomerang

DECEMBER 4, 2023

To help answer these questions, here are eight easy ways you can demonstrate impact and focus your strategic decision-making: Evaluate how many hours and how many times your volunteers contributed to get a true read on engagement over their lifetime with your organization—or within specific opportunities.

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.orgSource

AUGUST 28, 2023

Companies often make the mistake of trying to sell through the lens of what’s best for them, versus what’s best for their audience. Use data to make objective decisions based on site traffic, evaluations, sales, professional development activity, focus groups and/or other types of outreach. These days favorite playlists change quickly!

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Candid

FEBRUARY 22, 2023

Equitable access begins at home Last year, Candid formed a new Equitable Access department to apply a long-term lens to addressing this question. The team was convened to ensure that more resources–including Candid’s–get into the hands of those who stand to benefit from them most.

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Candid

APRIL 29, 2024

Traditionally, nonprofit governance has been perceived through a hierarchical lens, with board members primarily overseeing and guiding the organization’s direction while staff execute the operational tasks. The duty of loyalty requires board members to prioritize the organization’s mission over individual interests.

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Eric Jacobsen Blog

JANUARY 26, 2024

Focus on people rather than procedures. If senior leaders can free managers to focus primarily on their people, however, the organization will reap the benefits. Pivot from enforcing antiquated, inefficient organizational rules to challenging them. Thank you to the book’s publisher for sending me an advance copy of the book.

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sgEngage

MARCH 18, 2024

These challenges, however, present opportunities for innovation and positive change, including increased collaboration among funders, a focus on community-driven solutions, and a willingness to engage in difficult—and meaningful—conversations about privilege and power.

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Candid

OCTOBER 3, 2023

Lessons learned As nonprofits, we often approach our work through a lens of what’s been successful in the past. We started to consider what changes we could make to speed up the process, cut staff time and costs, and make better use of the content.

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.orgSource

JUNE 5, 2023

See Through a Wider Lens Zonta International is uniquely positioned to accomplish this and other female-friendly goals. As a leading nonprofit, similar to Rotary, Lions, or Kiwanis, it’s a membership organization, but the focus is community service. Leaders who work on a global playing field can help you see in a new perspective.

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Bloomerang

MAY 16, 2023

The focus should be on building relationships with donors, rather than asking for donations. Approaching fundraising through a cultivation lens will help your board feel more relaxed and comfortable engaging in donor care. It’s important to help board members shift their mindset from fundraising to philanthropy.

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Candid

FEBRUARY 8, 2022

Coming later this spring, Candid Learning will publish a new climate justice field guide for funders focused on the why and how of supporting climate in an integrated way, exploring how to use a justice lens with both climate mitigation and adaptation funding strategies, and how to embed it within existing funding priorities.

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sgEngage

AUGUST 13, 2021

In continuing discussions around the importance of diversity, equity, and inclusion in the workplace and CSR programming, our friends at Changing Our World will lead a session focused on “Applying a DE&I Lens to Corporate Grantmaking.”

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Saleforce Nonprofit

FEBRUARY 6, 2023

Ronda Thompson, our Chief Diversity, Equity, Inclusion, and Belonging (DEIB) Officer, says it best: “It’s important to recognize Black History Month because American history is often told through a lens that doesn’t acknowledge the contributions of Black folks.

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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. And, the focus of MEL is generally on evaluating grantee projects or organizations, rather than on the grantmaker and its practices. We all want to know whether our work makes a difference. But is this the right question?

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sgEngage

JULY 12, 2022

3 Areas Grantmakers Should Focus on When Incorporating Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion (DEI) Best Practices. But it is important to view the entire grantee/applicant journey with an equity lens, striving to be inclusive and accessible. 1. Leadership: DEI Starts at the Top. 2. Internal Processes: Grantmakers Must Look Inward.

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Candid

AUGUST 30, 2023

Equity-centered grantmaking A focus on equity-centered grantmaking remains a prominent theme, as many grantmakers continue to reevaluate their funding priorities —particularly through a racial equity lens. Its second objective: providing suggestions for resources to stay up-to-date on trends that may affect your nonprofit.

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Bloomerang

NOVEMBER 24, 2021

Let’s say you’ve taken the important step of hosting a focus group for your nonprofit. A focus group will likely have both written and recorded data. Zoom has become a great place to conduct virtual focus groups. This should appear when Google Lens identifies text. Why did you conduct this focus group in the first place?

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sgEngage

JUNE 21, 2021

Why taking a systems change lens can speed up the journey. Where are those areas that we can focus on that if we really improve them, we can derive multiple benefits in multiple places.”. How organizations that share a common interest can come together. How to tell when progress is actually happening. Pitfalls in measurement.

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Candid

APRIL 25, 2023

As equity emerges as the lynchpin of decades of investment for generations of impact, Environmental Grantmakers Association (EGA) is clear on its role to facilitate the shift from discussion to tangible action and offers deep data to affect the course of racial equity as a relevant lens for environmental philanthropy.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MAY 30, 2018

Note from Beth: Digital storytelling is key to fundraising success, but using a storytelling lens in your organization can have further benefit of busting organizational silos. They create a sense of belonging (within the silo), trust (again, within the silo), and provide focus. Flickr Photo by Rex Hammock. They’re easy to manage.

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Forum One

NOVEMBER 21, 2022

That internal focus has been intentional and deliberate. We need to take a DEIA lens to every aspect of the work we produce at every stage of a project. We are designers and researchers, communications professionals and developers. At the organization level we’re focused on our team. At the discipline level, we’re focused on the work.

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Kindful

JANUARY 4, 2022

In this blog post, I’m going to focus on something I think all fundraisers should know about in order to be more effective at their jobs: the donor cultivation cycle. In this step, you’re going to focus on cultivating your potential donors. First, what is the donor cultivation cycle? . Cultivation.

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Candid

MAY 26, 2022

Instead, we invite funders to increase their giving and to consider their existing grant programs with a COVID-19 lens. It is important to note that we do not see COVID-19-related giving as moving money away from other pressing issues. However, it is equally as important for domestic funding. Fund as locally and grassroots as possible.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

OCTOBER 9, 2013

It takes a bit of mindset change as you have to focus on your work environment more carefully with a visual eye and suddenly see Facebook, Instagram, or Twitter posts you have never seen before. Smartphones, while they are so much better than ever, still have limitations. And it is those limitations that help you focus on your subject.

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Camera Photography Content Strategy 101

Bloomerang

JUNE 17, 2022

They focus their partnerships on women-led organizations that prioritize the leadership of young women and girls, Indigenous women, Afro-descendant women, LGBTIQ people, and people with disabilities. Leeway Foundation. Community Foundation for Southeast Michigan. However, grant funding must specifically serve the bi+ community.

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Candid

APRIL 19, 2021

He provided participants with a historical and national lens of programming designed to help boys and men of color thrive. The program kicked off with Shawn Dove, former CEO, Campaign for Black Male Achievement, overviewing the field of Black male achievement.

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VQ Strategies

DECEMBER 30, 2020

While it would be easy to focus on the many difficulties that this year delivered (and we don’t take any of those lightly), for this exercise in reflection, we choose the lens of gratitude – as we learned from our mentor and friend Jill Friedman Fixler who perfected the practice of gratitude [1].

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Bloomerang

SEPTEMBER 21, 2021

Choose some of your best photos and select a title and core theme that will help you review the year from one specific lens of focus. Here are a few things to consider when creating your report. . Create a cover. Each report should be distilled into a few core highlights of that particular year. . Share your mission. .

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sgEngage

NOVEMBER 22, 2022

This is unusual only through the nonprofit sector fundraising lens. The vast majority of donors on GivingTuesday are taking other generous actions, in addition to directly donating money. In fact, this more diverse behavior is much more in keeping with how most people give all year.

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Candid

MAY 4, 2022

Many European funders have seen their ability to focus on a longer-term perspective to target systemic change as a strength, as opposed to operating in a crisis mode. But in the face of the epidemic, European philanthropy, which does not typically work in humanitarian emergencies, had to step in due to these extraordinary circumstances. .

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Eric Jacobsen Blog

JULY 17, 2023

Focus on people rather than procedures. If senior leaders can free managers to focus primarily on their people, however, the organization will reap the benefits. Pivot from enforcing antiquated, inefficient organizational rules to challenging them. Thank you to the book’s publisher for sending me an advance copy of the book.

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sgEngage

AUGUST 25, 2021

It’s true that community benefit leaders tend to have different backgrounds and view the world through a unique lens. Yet, I choose to focus on the many similarities between development officers and community benefit managers: You’re both in the BHAG business.

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NTEN

OCTOBER 14, 2014

Why your nonprofit needs to focus on the right data, and how to know what that it. This impact needs to be measured through the lens of the company’s overarching goals and performance. Andrew Blackmore. Director of Marketing & Analytics. What are the challenges associated with digital maturity measurement?

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VisionLink

SEPTEMBER 12, 2011

While I am much more comfortable on the other side of the camera lens, pleased to include this link to Fox News. The interview focuses on the role of technology, social media, and Apps relating to disaster response and community services.

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Classy

MAY 18, 2021

However, in reality, the vast majority of employees are very responsible and will rise to the occasion, and we worked with our leaders to consider the opportunity through this lens. . Optimized Our Tech Stack. We re-evaluated the tools we were using in order to get coverage in new locations. The systems we immediately doubled down on were: .

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sgEngage

OCTOBER 19, 2021

Ask them to read the stories through the lens of a loyal , new , or prospective supporter. Share with your committee the impactful stories you’ve collected over the year. Ask them for feedback on ways to improve how the stories are told. What feelings do the stories generate? What takeaway actions do the stories generate?

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