Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

SEPTEMBER 4, 2015

It offers a comprehensive guide for emerging leaders and their mentors to help them make sense of the changing nature of leadership. It is part of a project funded by the Packard Foundation that also includes an intensive peer learning program for emerging leaders and their mentors. Please suggest ideas for future blog post.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

SEPTEMBER 6, 2023

You need to provide opportunities for their continuous learning on the job and mentoring. Provide Stretch Opportunities for Staff Professional Growth Don’t treat your staff like robots who should be performing the same mechanical tasks over and over again. You want to inspire curiosity beyond formal professional development activities.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MARCH 16, 2015

I love that the training activities go beyond the traditional webinars and workshops, and incorporate mentoring and on the job learning activities. Trained mentors who can support on the job learning. There are also some great practical tips , sample mentor/mentee agreement , and plan. Agreed upon plan. Evaluation.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

AUGUST 30, 2016

These Goodwill services include career counseling, computer training, English as a second language courses, resume or interview preparation, mentoring, transportation, child care and more. Drive awareness of the impact of donations to Goodwill, shopping at Goodwill, and volunteering/mentoring at Goodwill. Who is the audience?

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MAY 17, 2016

Advisers contribute their skills and expertise to provide training and mentoring to help amplify the work of anti-trafficking organizations in Cambodia. I traveled with a team of Advisers to conduct an interactive “Tech2Empower” workshop for leaders of anti-trafficking and women’s rights NGOs.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MAY 19, 2015

This pilot project will test a leadership development training model for emerging leaders in environmental organizations that uses a combination of peer learning, coaching, and mentoring. The curriculum covers important “me” and “we” skills to manage themselves and others.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JANUARY 19, 2011

One of the project tasks is to develop a multilingual online learning community for partners, contributors, sponsors, participants, teams, mentors, social media techies from the region, and trainers to interact and share best practices. (For context, read my earlier post ).

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

NOVEMBER 13, 2017

I wasn’t surprised to receive a copy from Mario Morino, the visionary behind the Leap Ambassadors Community and author of an influential book on the topic, Leap of Reason with a note mentioning that one of the authors, Meehan, is a long-time esteemed colleague and mentor.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

SEPTEMBER 1, 2015

These organizations will have intensive and hands-on tech training and mentoring during the workshop. We need to raise an additional $10,000 through this crowd funding campaign to help bring as many women’s organizations as we can to training in Kiev in October.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MAY 19, 2011

Earlier this week, I met Beatric Ramos who does social media for Alum Rock Counseling, an organization that works with youth on a range of counseling and mentoring programs. I’ve also gotten similar questions, particularly about whether or not it is “safe&# for the organization (and the young people) to post photos on Facebook.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

DECEMBER 21, 2009

Feeding America Boys and Girls Clubs Smile Train CARE, Mothers Matter World Wildlife Fund, Natural Capital Project Mobile Creches Prajwala HEAL Africa African Institute for Mathematical Sciences The Mango Tree National Center for Missing and Exploited Children Harlem Children's Zone Save the Children, Latin America focus Reporters Without Borders Witness (..)

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JUNE 22, 2008

I was a mentor on Ore's Blog Mentoring Project in Africa as Joitske Hulsebosch also writes about. So, when she invited to participate as a mentor in the Networking for Success project at the the Women???s The mentors are assigned a topic and week and write a post. Oreoluwa Somolu is Executive Director of the Women???s

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MARCH 22, 2013

I had my ideal training Fung Shui — roundtables in a room with space to move around, projection, the ability to move the group outside for some of the sessions, and wall space to showcase the products of learning.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JUNE 19, 2013

You probably spend many of your waking hours helping others, connecting people who can benefit from knowing each other, and offering mentoring and advice. Here’s what it told me: This means that in your interactions with others, your core motivation is to contribute as much as you can.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MAY 8, 2018

Mentoring program and cross training. Encourage sharing what is learned at conferences with staff. Professional development plans/funds. Create a leadership library of nonprofit books for staff to check out and read. Allow staff to identify “stretch assignments”. Create a norm about respecting work in progress and need for quiet time.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

APRIL 3, 2017

The project, which combined peer learning and mentoring together with an online “ Emerging Leaders Playbook, ” offered a new and entirely virtual approach to leadership development.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MAY 16, 2012

I shared my story and my experience in doing some online blog mentoring project with young women in Nigeria through my colleague Ore Somolu. I focused on showing them Twitter because there were so many examples of women leaders here in Rwanda and other countries in Africa using it for networking and professional development.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JANUARY 18, 2011

Build the capacity of these NGOs and CSOs to use new media effectively through mentoring and coaching. Develop a Multilingual Online Learning Community for partners, contributors, sponsors, participants, teams, mentors, social media techies from the region, and trainers to interact and share best practices.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

APRIL 26, 2007

I'm an alumnus mentor of Nancy White's Online Facilitation Workshop. I was a student in the workshop almost two years ago and have subsequently served as mentor. Both as a student and as a mentor. I have never learned so much in my whole life and had fun doing it!

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

OCTOBER 30, 2013

It was a time for us in the nonprofit sector to reflect on what Beth means to us—to appreciate what we’ve learned with her as our teacher, mentor and friend. Maybe you saw it (#thebetheffect was trending on Twitter).

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JANUARY 27, 2017

She says, “I never thought I could be coaching and mentoring people. By investing in Prabhaker’s leadership skills, Haiyya has helped her reach both personal goals and achieve for the organisation. It felt amazing to identify with that exhilaration of, ‘yes, I can do it!’”.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

AUGUST 11, 2017

If you don’t have a supervisor, or have one you struggle with, find a mentor by consulting with someone who has more fundraising experience than you and is therefore more likely to have helpful tips. Hopefully, your supervisor has lived through similar experiences and can offer advice and validation to help you.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JULY 10, 2015

This peer learning program that also includes young leaders and their mentors – is built around strengthening Emotional Intelligence both online and offline. One of the areas we include is self-management and mindfulness – such important skills for leaders and a mindset that can be embodied in an organization’s culture.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

SEPTEMBER 16, 2015

The skills that we are focusing on are “networked leadership” skills both online and offline and working with self and working with others.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JULY 28, 2011

Leadership and Social Media: Reverse Mentoring, Empowering Millennials, and CEO Tweets. More detailed suggestions for A/B testing with images here. If you want a terrific example of how an executive director can use Twitter, check out Michael’s Twitter stream for a well-curated stream of food policy information.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

DECEMBER 18, 2017

Our role was to coach, support, mentor where necessary – but never to lead. When we focused our attention on supporting organizations and networks we built an approach that emphasized their ownership and leadership of the process.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

AUGUST 31, 2006

This blog is was Juanita Brown's first foray into blogging and I feel proud to have been one of her mentors! Mentoring Worldwide - This blog is for Lucy Hooberman's mentoring worldwide project. A Fine Blog - Allison Fine's blog. Allison book, Momentum : Igniting Social Change in the Connected Age is a must read. I love Lucy!

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

SEPTEMBER 26, 2012

Mary Mwende told us about her journey from Mombasa, Kenya, to being one of ten girls chosen for the Global Give Back Circle , a mentoring and empowerment program. From here she was selected to take a Microsoft ICT course, where she learned about the power of technology for connecting people around the world.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

AUGUST 13, 2007

mentoring from the computer consultant??? t mentor, he did it all, and is actually the person who has brought in Foss at AFL, not me. to themselves that I am only responsible for implementing our FOSS strategy within AFL, not, like, in the world (you may laugh, but???) Also the ???mentoring

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JULY 29, 2013

Dan was the sole anonymous donor for the program, which brushed off my indignity and furnished me with a new laptop, a mentor, and monthly checks for books, food and travel. When I graduated, I was shocked to find out that Dan had forgiven all my school loans.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MAY 2, 2012

Parents and other adult mentors are looking for guidance and appreciate opportunities to discuss their questions, frustrations, and hopes when it comes to their kids’ digital lives. Make it a whole-community priority. Can your community be a hub for this kind of dialog?

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

OCTOBER 12, 2015

Last week, I facilitated a peer learning session for Emerging Nonprofit Leaders and their mentors about healthy and productive meetings. We covered the best practices of meetings , both face-to-face and virtual meetings.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

AUGUST 7, 2008

Inspired by TechStars and YCombinator , the Garage creates a ( drupal platform) community where current and potential applications for funding can enter their ideas, share comments and peer review, and request mentor support to improve their application before they submit it.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JUNE 15, 2009

It turned out that I was sitting next to Eve Penny Cowan who is the founder of Future Leaders Institute that guides and mentors youth to employ social entrepreneurship to solve the world’s most pressing needs and Dan Jacobs who is the founder of EveryWun is a platform where individuals can leverage business donations to causes.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MARCH 1, 2006

Britt Bravo and I have the pleasure of being the blogging mentors this week on the Young Caucasus Women Project. The young women were given the same assignment and part of our tasks as Mentors was read and comment on their work. " Here are our posts: Britt Bravo: Art for Social Change Beth Kanter: Are You An Artist too?

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JUNE 26, 2013

Even at age 90, he was wanted to learn new computer tricks and was open to “reverse” mentoring from his grandson, Harry. I told them that my Dad was almost 90 and if he can use the Internet, they can too! During his last month, I entertained him by showing him how to ask Siri silly questions.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

FEBRUARY 17, 2012

His digital background is great, and he’s really become like a mentor to me.”. Find someone who will go to bat for you. Lewis explained that one of the Humane Society’s board members used to work at AOL. Metrics should match the mission and goals. Your metrics depend on your ultimate goal.

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