EveryAction

JUNE 8, 2023

Welcome to another installment of Thursday Thoughts, a dedicated space for our friends in nonprofit sector leadership to reflect on reports, statistics, and other trends—because when our community shares knowledge, we can all do more good.  Check out our last installment here!

Advocacy 143

Advocacy Local Audience Poll 143

Kindful

AUGUST 9, 2021

The Carnegie Corporation of New York—established in 1911 by Andrew Carnegie to promote the advancement and diffusion of knowledge and understanding—is one of America’s oldest grantmaking foundations. Areas served: Worldwide. Global Fund For Children. Areas served: US (limited worldwide). Kars4Kids Foundation. Areas served: Illinois.

Education 111

Education Grant Fund Resource 111

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

APRIL 27, 2012

100% of participants implement a process and write a social media policy that addresses organizational adoption issues. Her knowledge of the country and the culture made it easier to localize the curriculum. Peer Learning Exchange: Theory of Change. The latter includes a lack of a formal communication strategy or staffing limitations.

Pakistan 111

Pakistan NGO Network Exercise 111

Beneblog: Technology Meets Society

MARCH 18, 2012

Check out recent press coverage of our work, featuring the head of our human rights team, Dr. Patrick Ball, in Foreign Policy magazine and NPR's On The Media. Knowledge of or fluency in other languages is *not* necessary, but in your CV/resume, please note your level of skill (reading/writing/speaking) in any languages other than English.

Analysis 150

Analysis Statistics Chart Language 150

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MARCH 8, 2016

We need more better policies to address gender parity and more programs that build the capacity of nonprofits and the tech skills of women and girls in the development world. These young girls are growing up in the Dharavi neighborhood of Mumbai India, one of the largest slums in the world.

International 50

International Cambodia Technology Ukraine 50

Top Nonprofits

JULY 21, 2021

Implementing policies and prioritizing DEI best practices will help you start seeing a difference in your own organization. All changes should be rooted in knowledge and learning, so that’s the first step. Even after going through training themselves, your leadership probably isn’t qualified to teach the rest of the staff.

Practice 59

Practice Leadership Nonprofit Culture 59

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MAY 14, 2012

You get a variety of opinions, options to weigh, and ways to proceed (policy about funders anyone?) What is your organization’s policy about the source of funding? as well as being able to show who you are by voicing your own opinion. What would you answer to the question posed above?

Linkedin 96

Linkedin Rwanda India Africa 96

Classy

APRIL 29, 2021

The collective knowledge of our Leadership Council makes the Classy Awards a distinction unlike any other. Teach For America. Data and Knowledge Centers. Has expertise in international development, foreign policy, diplomacy, and advocacy . Nonprofit Leaders. Abby Maxman. President and CEO. Oxfam America. Susan Asiyabi.

Award 57

Award Leadership Cleveland Hunger 57

Amy Sample Ward

JUNE 21, 2011

Our competitiveness as a nation allows us to bring in people to the knowledge economy. That’s teaching. Fundamentally that’s what teaching should be. Fundamentally that’s what teaching should be. There used to be a focus on setting high levels for evidence in evidenced based policy making.

Game 132

Game Education Change Classroom 132

Everyaction

DECEMBER 12, 2017

Our institute is designed to advance the skills and knowledge of nonprofit professionals, volunteers, board members, and community leaders. As policy changes unfold at the federal, state and local levels, the communities and issues we care about as corporate social responsibility professionals inevitably face uncertainty. 3/19/2018.

Calendar 85

Calendar Conference Las Vegas DC 85

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JANUARY 19, 2012

(You can get a discount of $20 off the registration by entering the code “Beth” when you sign up ). This year, since content curation , is a social media competency that I’m focusing in my own learning and teaching , I’ll be doing a conversational presentation on the topic.

Social Media 107

Social Media Content Practice New York City 107

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JUNE 25, 2012

100% of participants implement a process and write a social media policy that addresses organizational adoption issues. After we create a shared network based on individual’s knowledge and skills, we move to the organizational network maps.

India 102

India NGO Network Exercise 102

Forum One

AUGUST 17, 2009

Forum One recently supported a groundbreaking, education summit in New Mexico: "Unleashing Knowledge and Innovation for the Next Generation of Learning", convened by the Stupski Foundation , West Wind Education Policy , and the Knowledge Alliance.

Hosting 52

Hosting Online Wiki New Mexico 52

Bloomerang

DECEMBER 19, 2023

Often, they had to pay a consultant to help them set up their database and teach them how to use it. One of those organizations is the German American Heritage Center (GAHC), a nonprofit dedicated to preserving German heritage and sharing knowledge about the German immigrant experience.

Software 90

Software Free Tools Adobe 90

Double the Donation

OCTOBER 25, 2021

We suggest that you: Identify any knowledge gaps and situations where additional training is needed. We always encourage callers to excel while teaching methods to overcome negative comments. Encourage your callers to set nightly or weekly donation goals to instill a sense of accomplishment when they reach and exceed their objectives.

Guide 98

Guide Script Tips Gift 98

NTEN

JUNE 21, 2011

Our competitiveness as a nation allows us to bring in people to the knowledge economy. That's teaching. Fundamentally that's what teaching should be. Fundamentally that's what teaching should be. There used to be a focus on setting high levels for evidence in evidenced based policy making. So how do you do that?

Game 60

Game Education Change Classroom 60

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

NOVEMBER 3, 2006

executive summary here ) ContinuousProgress: Better Advocacy Through Evaluation is an online guide to more effective foreign policy advocacy and evaluation. tools to capture and share knowledge from nonprofit gatherings. It includes case studies, tools, and how-tos. Yet another great example of using Web2.0 Full report here )

Nptech 50

Nptech Tag South Dakota Second Life 50

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

NOVEMBER 7, 2008

Search Institute is an independent nonprofit organization whose mission is to provide leadership, knowledge, and resources to promote healthy children, youth, and communities. In the policy section, I included the issue of cyberbullying and privacy issues. The discussion was fantastic. She shared some really useful resources.

Social Media 56

Social Media Intergenerational Difference Remix 56

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

AUGUST 27, 2010

The second part of the morning included a brief presentation about the principles of social media strategy based on what I’ve been teaching for the past 5 years. Sit down with my executive director to discuss a process for a social media policy. Social Media Game: Scaling Small Group Learning Exercises.

Reflection 103

Reflection People Network Colorado 103

Michael Stein's Non-profit Technology Blog

JUNE 3, 2007

Information Systems training needs to focus more on organizational policy and business practices than on technology. It's easy to teach someone how to issue an invoice. Without this kind of knowledge, your users will have a long slow climb to productivity on the new system. But who is the customer? When are invoices issued?

Training 40

Training Train System Software 40

ASU Lodestar Center

MAY 4, 2011

Disclaimer Wednesday, May 4, 2011 Can You Teach a Watchdog New Tricks? The training of donors to rely on financial ratios picked up steam when seed capital, the easy availability of IRS Form 990, the power of the internet, and enough-knowledge-to-be-dangerous coalesced to form Charity Navigator in 2001. posted by Mark Hager, Ph.D.

Teach 90

Teach Ratio Student Classes 90

Have Fun - Do Good

SEPTEMBER 16, 2009

Next week I'll be teaching a session about blogging during a nonprofit social media webinar, We Are Media, presented by NTEN. Why not share their knowledge on your blog? I've consolidated down to 8 Ways Nonprofits Can Use Blogs, and added new examples.

Green 42

Green San Francisco Tennessee Nonprofit 42

Connection Cafe

FEBRUARY 10, 2010

By providing services, nonprofits learn what works on the ground, and can use that knowledge to frame more effective policy positions and associated advocacy campaigns. The really important thing is the synergy between both types of activity.

Advocacy 28

Advocacy Homeless Convio Empowerment 28

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JUNE 28, 2005

The agenda didn't have a detailed description, so I thought this might be a case study along the lines of how to influence a UA policy similiar to this one about Trinidad. The initial cyberstrategy was to capitalize on the inmates' interest in music by using music as a means of teaching digital skills. He starts with the child within.

Jamaica 50

Jamaica National Develop Wikipedia 50

Cloud 4 Good

AUGUST 3, 2021

Instructional design, curriculum development, and teaching experience is a plus . Strong Salesforce configuration knowledge. Deep knowledge of Salesforce training available in market (e.g., Knowledge of instructional design best practices such as evidence based online delivery models (e.g., Salesforce certified.

Canada 85

Canada Training Train Director 85

Nonprofit Tech for Good

DECEMBER 14, 2022

Knowledge: Subject matter expertise, research, polling, case studies. History: Simply being around a long time has some cachet and may mean you have access to historical wisdom, knowledge, and records. Can you adapt the training for donors as a group teaching session? Does anyone carve, knit, sew or create t-shirts… or fun food?

Donor 327

Donor Sponsor Accessibility Music 327

Non Profit Quarterly

AUGUST 25, 2022

Empowr creates a school-to-career pipeline for students of color by offering a learning platform that teaches software development to Black high school students. Wendy was part of a federal lawsuit that ASAP filed on behalf of members in an attempt to stop Trump’s anti-immigration policies from going into effect.

Tech 98

Tech Digital Build Tools 98

Care2

MARCH 4, 2009

Ive seen too many websites where - in order to save money - the company has attempted to teach themselves content writing, SEO, or simply posted PLR articles, not realizing theyre actually hurting their organization. Thx for enriching my knowledge. All Care2 terms of service and privacy policies apply. All rights reserved.

Social Media 38

Social Media Content Practice Web 38

Have Fun - Do Good

JUNE 20, 2006

Urban Sprouts teaches youth to grow, harvest, prepare, and eat vegetables from the school garden in order to help them to become more engaged in school, eat better, exercise more, and connect with the environment and each other. And some of them had gardened before. So there's a pretty good amount in the Bay Area.

Interview 40

Interview San Francisco Classroom Classes 40

Have Fun - Do Good

MARCH 11, 2009

He is currently a Fellow in the Food and Society Policy Fellows Program, which is a national project of the W.K. To my knowledge, there aren't any vegan soul food cookbooks published by a major publisher. My parents were working, and they had a lot of agrarian knowledge. Kellogg Foundation. Grub Project.

Authoring 43

Authoring New York City Delicious Green 43

Nonprofit Tech for Good

MARCH 2, 2014

Crafting a mobile and social media policy. I’ve also had the good fortune to meet Heather as she regularly travels across the continents to teach NGOs about how to effectively use mobile and social media. Using Facebook, Twitter, Google+, LinkedIn, YouTube, Instagram, Pinterest, and Tumblr. Avoiding mobile and social media burnout.

Mobile 232

Mobile Guide Amazon Fundraising 232

Cloud 4 Good

SEPTEMBER 16, 2021

As an initiative of Tufts University’s Friedman School of Nutrition Science and Policy, New Entry works locally, regionally, and nationwide to strengthen food systems by supporting new farmers. They were so knowledgeable about Salesforce and grasped our customized nonprofit set-up very quickly. Cloud for Good was fantastic.

Community 72

Community Cancer Giving Grant 72

M+R

JANUARY 26, 2023

To make ends meet, artists would sometimes team up as a studio — helping each other come up with ideas, chipping in when someone was in danger of missing a deadline, teaching each other tips and tricks. Report back from colleagues Your organization is full of people with inside info — field staff, development officers, policy experts.

email 110

email Work Sound Hurricane 110

Have Fun - Do Good

MAY 31, 2010

In other words, we can think about investing in agricultural development, agricultural knowledge, and agricultural education where we are working with community based groups in developing countries to help support those groups' teaching farmers how to adopt some of the most sophisticated organic methods, and agri-ecological methods.

Authoring 40

Authoring System Fun Interview 40

The Modern Nonprofit

AUGUST 17, 2021

To equip you with knowledge and actionable advice, Ekin Sisli, Director of Systems Engineering at Flipcause, is sharing what all nonprofits need to know about cybersecurity. Make cybersecurity company policy. Teach your staff to stay safe online. Don’t forget to terminate permissions once staff leave!

Turkey 98

Turkey Phone Nonprofit Public 98

Care2

SEPTEMBER 14, 2007

In systems where expert users have significant knowledge or control in comparison to newcomers, I guess it shouldn’t come as too much of a surprise that these amateur experts might want to get some money out of it by becoming consultants. All Care2 terms of service and privacy policies apply. All rights reserved.

Consultant 31

Consultant Myspace Social Media Advocacy 31

Care2

NOVEMBER 16, 2006

In systems where expert users have significant knowledge or control in comparison to newcomers, I guess it shouldn’t come as too much of a surprise that these amateur experts might want to get some money out of it by becoming consultants. All Care2 terms of service and privacy policies apply. All rights reserved.

Consultant 31

Consultant Social Media Myspace Advocacy 31