M+R

JANUARY 8, 2024

Crafting the Playbook If there were a playbook to motivating lawmakers to enact policy change, it would come down to 3 things: learn the context, customize the approach, and coordinate the advocacy. The answers to these questions will be central to building an impactful legislative advocacy campaign.

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Campaign Advocacy Policy Demonstration 80

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

SEPTEMBER 27, 2019

But this is more than a simple report on a highly successful leadership program that takes a systems approach to serving an underserved community, it is the authors playbook of how to design and implement a program, including facilitation recipes for designing meetings. This section includes templates for meeting processes.

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Facilitation Skills System Change 86

.orgSource

FEBRUARY 21, 2023

Mission, vision, and values are a fundamental trio in the association playbook. Meet the Moment Mission Mission, or your reason for being, doesn’t typically change with fads and trends. On the other hand, if innovation presents exciting new opportunities, that is another compelling reason to expand your purpose to meet the moment.

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Voice Associations Culture Environment 221

Blue Fox

AUGUST 4, 2021

Your next board meeting is a week from today. Each monthly meeting is hardly different than the next. If your board members hit the snooze button during meetings, this will reflect in their commitment to fundraising, advocacy efforts, and follow through on assigned tasks. A Not Boring Resource Round-up!

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Help Virtual Metrics Sound 78

Bloomerang

MARCH 30, 2023

From the moment they land on your website to sign up for an opportunity to when they check out of their shift, your volunteer’s experience can directly impact your organization’s ability to meet its goals. Every successful volunteer program prioritizes volunteer engagement in order to meet its goals.

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Volunteer Strategy Organization Metrics 92

sgEngage

MARCH 7, 2023

The close-up eye contact from video meetings can be intense —on your meeting screen, it can feel like everyone is looking directly at you all the time. Find your Zoom number—the amount of time you can spend in video conference meetings before you feel drained—and plan your schedule accordingly. their allotted time off.

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Trend Support Nonprofit Video 64

sgEngage

JANUARY 18, 2024

We spend our days in back-to-back meetings and sit in front of a screen all day. Know Your Meeting Number You’ve probably seen advertisements for the Sleep Number bed. What if you could do the same for the amount and length of meetings you participate in, whether they are virtual, hybrid, or in-person? According to Daron K.

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Work Calendar Life Proposal 93

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MARCH 24, 2020

Meico Whitlock (Mindful Techie) leads the NTEN Board in a meditation meeting opener. This post is #2 in a series I’ll be publishing on virtual meeting facilitation. This post takes a deeper dive into meeting and training icebreakers and check-ins. An engaging meeting or training should always starts with a great opening.

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Virtual Facilitation Exercise Training 130

TechImpact

AUGUST 29, 2013

The Knight Foundation released the Giving Day Playbook this past week (Aug. Beth Kanter, an expert in nonprofit networking, and Bahia Ramos, Director of the Communication Foundations Program for the Knight Foundation, co-authored a blog post, sharing their commentary and tips about the Playbook. Did you meet or exceed your goals?

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Tips Giving Calendar Foundation 133

Eric Jacobsen Blog

AUGUST 10, 2023

My goal was to provide a comprehensive playbook, drawing from real-world examples, to empower professionals at any career stage to build influence, lead effectively and use power responsibly. Over my decades as a consultant to major companies and leaders, I've accumulated lessons and perspectives that I wanted to share.

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Influence Build Lesson Chapter 73

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

APRIL 25, 2017

The Emerging Leaders Playbook was curated with this in mind. Together with social sector leaders from across the country, you’ll take a deeper dive into the content of the Emerging Leaders Playbook and get a first hand look at some practical tools you can use to implement with your team immediately.

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Facilitation Develop Leadership Work 79

Bloomerang

FEBRUARY 27, 2023

The RFP often details the specific post-award requirements (meetings, reporting, training resources), and it is crucial to understand these expectations before entering into a legally binding agreement with the federal government. On top of that, the state or funding agency might have additional requirements. appeared first on Bloomerang.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

SEPTEMBER 4, 2015

I am thrilled to share The Emerging Leaders Playbook. The Playbook offers practical tools grounded in research, and accompanied by systems of support to guide reflection, growth, and organizational best practices. I am honored to have worked with Third Plateau Social Impact Strategies to develop the Playbook.

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Resource Mentoring Reflection Nonprofit 50

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JANUARY 4, 2017

Emerging Leaders Playbook: With the generous support of the Packard Foundation and in collaboration with Third Plateau Social Impact Strategies, we wrote and published the Emerging Leaders Playbook last year, along with facilitating a peer learning cohort with colleague Stephanie Rudat.

Professional 103

Professional Facilitation Journal San Jose 103

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

AUGUST 7, 2017

.” Another intervention that emerged was a solution to “techno-interference” at meetings where people are not giving full attention to the meeting because they were on their devices. Philanthropy University has created large, green “Digital Detox Boxes” that sit outside their meeting rooms.

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Attention Culture Mind Philanthropy 92

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

AUGUST 22, 2017

During the summer, I’ve been designing workshops based on The Happy Healthy Nonprofit and Emerging Leaders Playbook. A great training always start with a great opening or icebreaker. Here’s a few Icebreaker recipes from my playbook. (1) 1) Meet and Greet: Throw the Ball. 4) Meet and Greet: Word Cloud.

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Training Train Exercise Fun 78

Eric Jacobsen Blog

FEBRUARY 10, 2024

Reciting the company’s mission statement at team meetings. Presented as an actionable playbook and in a very conversational style, Mayberry writes in his book about the confusion and negative misconceptions about culture and explores the five roadblocks to cultural excellence. Having ping-pong tables and other fun games in the office.

Culture 70

Culture Classes Build Lesson 70

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

FEBRUARY 12, 2014

So Knight did two things: We published the Giving Day Playbook , a comprehensive guide on putting together a 24-hour online giving campaign, and we disseminated it widely to help the broader field. To complement the Playbook, we organized a Peer Learning Exchange where participants could gather, share ideas and ask questions.

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Knowledge Goal Share Giving 100

Candid

JUNE 16, 2022

The experience has also shown us that, when pressed, philanthropy can flex its guidelines and meet the moment to address urgent need. . This guide provides a playbook so you don’t have to reinvent strategies that already exist or make the assumption that they’re not relevant to your agenda. These lessons apply especially to climate.

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Guidelines Participatory Case Study Philanthropy 105

Nonprofit Tech for Good

NOVEMBER 14, 2017

Create a “Meet Our Ambassadors” page on your microsite. Knight Foundation: Giving Day Playbook. In the weeks leading up to your giving day campaign, email your ambassadors and ask them to update their social media profiles and email friends and family. If applicable, ask them to create a fundraising page for your giving day campaign.

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Awareness Causes Campaign Giving 206

Eric Jacobsen Blog

SEPTEMBER 19, 2023

Reciting the company’s mission statement at team meetings. Presented as an actionable playbook and in a very conversational style, Mayberry writes in his book about the confusion and negative misconceptions about culture and explores the five roadblocks to cultural excellence. Having ping-pong tables and other fun games in the office.

Culture 88

Culture Build Impact Lesson 88

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

AUGUST 1, 2017

Here are few ideas: Build Into Recurring Meetings: Add a permanent spot on the agenda of regular staff or team meetings for reflection. Just like many meetings begin with introductions or sharing the agenda, make sure your ending includes a few minutes of reflection time.

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Reflection Structure Journal Nonprofit 94

sgEngage

AUGUST 19, 2022

Technology Burnout— The onslaught of using video conference platforms and other virtual tools for everything from work meetings to family holiday celebrations has resulted in overload, burnout, and screen exhaustion. We spend our days in back-to-back meetings and sitting behind a screen all day. This is a form of toxic productivity.

Professional 74

Professional Product Brain Nonprofit 74

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

NOVEMBER 6, 2013

I’m facilitating a peer exchange for the Knight Foundation for a group of grantees that are hosting a Giving Days over the next year using its recently published Giving Day Playbook. Review it together in a meeting and summarize into a series of ”do, improve (say how), don’t do).

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Reflection Practice Results Storytelling 119

VQ Strategies

FEBRUARY 7, 2023

After years of meetings, dialogue, presentations, advocacy, (and yes, maybe even some proverbial hair-pulling in frustration), today was the launch of the Initiative for Strategic Volunteer Engagement and the release of landmark research about how organizational leaders and funders view and prioritize volunteer engagement.

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Research Volunteer Fund Advocacy 40

sgEngage

MAY 31, 2023

Often the sales funnel is part of the visualization: Awareness Evaluation or Consideration Engagement or Decision Action or Donation Advocacy or Loyalty Michael Johnston, co-founder and president of HJC New Media , encourages nonprofit organizations to take a page from the mapping playbooks of for-profit enterprises.

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Donor Registration Map United Kingdom 73

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JANUARY 5, 2018

Emerging Leaders Playbook: With the generous support of the Packard Foundation and in collaboration with Third Plateau Social Impact Strategies, we launched the Playbook Web Site that offers grab and go leadership development and culture change activities for nonprofit and emerging leaders.

Professional 0

Professional Finland Journal Reflection 0

Greater Giving

APRIL 27, 2022

There was no playbook for planning a fundraising event during a pandemic. Once upon a time, much of the nonprofit industry leaned on annual in-person benefit events to meet budget requirements. Now two years in, nonprofits need to be prepared for anything.

Fundraising 52

Fundraising Houston Virtual Stream 52

Whole Whale

JUNE 22, 2021

Meet your new best friend, the video call. We conduct these via video for those who are remote, along with a daily staff meeting held every morning for each team member to recap what they did the day before and what their priorities are for the day ahead. Weekly check-ins and monthly BOCs (Beverage of Choice). Visit Campus.

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Work Tips Music Adwords 98

sgEngage

FEBRUARY 17, 2023

It’s a good idea to follow strategic best practices , but be true to your own vision, mission, and values rather than copying a competitor’s playbook. Renew your membership Meet our cancer warriors Become a donor When you write your call to action, remember that strong action verbs can be effective, but so can nouns.

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email Communication Effective Fundraising 75

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JANUARY 3, 2019

I also expanded my practice to designing and facilitating internal meetings for nonprofits and foundations on a variety of topics, including activating a culture of wellbeing and innovation labs. This past year was my 5th year (and last) as an adjunct professor at Middlebury College.

Professional 114

Professional Build Journal Facilitation 114

Eric Jacobsen Blog

MAY 6, 2023

Reciting the company’s mission statement at team meetings. Presented as an actionable playbook and in a very conversational style, Mayberry writes in his book about the confusion and negative misconceptions about culture and explores the five roadblocks to cultural excellence. Having ping-pong tables and other fun games in the office.

Culture 52

Culture Build Impact Lesson 52

sgEngage

FEBRUARY 18, 2023

It’s a good idea to follow strategic best practices , but be true to your own vision, mission, and values rather than copying a competitor’s playbook. Renew your membership Meet our cancer warriors Become a donor When you write your call to action, remember that strong action verbs can be effective, but so can nouns.

email 68

email Communication Effective Fundraising 68

Eric Jacobsen Blog

JANUARY 31, 2023

Reciting the company’s mission statement at team meetings. Presented as an actionable playbook and in a very conversational style, Mayberry writes in his book about the confusion and negative misconceptions about culture and explores the five roadblocks to cultural excellence. Having ping-pong tables and other fun games in the office.

Culture 52

Culture Classes Build Lesson 52

CauseVox

NOVEMBER 19, 2021

During the Year-End Fundraising Fair session, “The Year-End Fundraising Playbook” Nathan Hill from NextAfter advises you to prioritize your end of year appeal by following a simple step-by-step process. Develop A Comprehensive Email Strategy For Your Year-End Campaign! Effective communication in the last week of the year is essential!

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Resource Fundraising Template Mail 89

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MARCH 13, 2018

Does your work at a nonprofit include facilitating meetings or trainings? Don’t censor any ideas, keep the meeting flow going. Brainstorming is very useful for staff meetings to generate ideas for different programs or campaigns. Book the next meeting. Set ground rules for this meeting as well. WORD STORM.

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Facilitation Work Chart Technique 106

Bloomerang

JUNE 14, 2021

We’re now past survival mode and in what digital prophet Brian Solis calls the novel economy : a place where the old playbooks are no longer useful. . In order to meet customers where they are, donors included, brands must go digital—and fast. How will you meet constituent expectations and make it ridiculously easy for donors to give?

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Digital Strategy Nonprofit Phase 118