Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

SEPTEMBER 8, 2014

So, it is important for the host to hold a call with the facilitation team to clarify expectations for the session outcomes and team authority/decision-making roles. Next, of course, is diving into the design task of identifying goals and framing for the session and specific roles. Defining Roles.

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Candid

APRIL 29, 2024

I facilitated check-in meetings that fostered active engagement among board members, encouraging them to reflect on how their unique strengths could propel Candid toward its vision. In my role at the National Council of Nonprofits , I’ve had the opportunity to observe the day-to-day operations of numerous nonprofits through our network.

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Government Collaboration Nonprofit Evaluation 59

Nonprofit Tech for Good

DECEMBER 23, 2023

Provide enough context in a well-structured manner to ensure they can complete the task you ask of them. Regular Reviews: The world of AI is constantly evolving, and your policies should reflect this. Consider ChatGPT as the most intelligent, knowledgeable, expert assistant you’ve ever had.

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VQ Strategies

OCTOBER 7, 2022

This is precisely why some hospitals retain an auxiliary to run the gift shop, while also maintaining an entirely separate volunteer corps, managed by staff, to fill patient care roles. Lessons from the Field. In recent years, we have conducted surveys and interviews at institutions with longstanding volunteer councils. Mapping the Change.

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Structure Volunteer Model Leadership 98

sgEngage

DECEMBER 18, 2023

We can learn through reflection and come to deeper understandings. Professionals tasked with a knowledge role often organize what feels like chaos—to create structure and focus attention on the most important information. Learning and knowledge are intimately connected but are actually different. Learning, we do naturally.

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Knowledge Philanthropy Change Work 70

Candid

AUGUST 8, 2022

According to the 2020 Smithsonian Magazine article, The Storied History of Giving in America , the practice of philanthropy can reflect and reinforce inequity. Black youth face barriers such as historical exclusion, structural racism in schools and resources in Black communities.

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Voice Philanthropy Atlanta Student 128

Blue Avocado

JANUARY 23, 2024

At their core, advisory committees are groups of individuals who are stakeholders in your nonprofit’s work and who want to play a role in ensuring you achieve maximum impact. Create structure. Structure is crucial to developing and sustaining an effective advisory committee. However, structure does not have to mean rigidity.

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Voice Community Structure Nonprofit 90

sgEngage

OCTOBER 9, 2023

You cannot have empowerment without participation: empowerment is not something we ‘do’ to other people, but is itself a participatory process that engages people in reflection and inquiry to understand the power they have, and to take action for change as they define it.” Compensate them for their contributions generously.

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EveryAction

JULY 3, 2023

Donations are the most important example when it comes to securing support, but your website’s navigation and design play key roles, too. A clearly-defined structure for your website will help to keep everything organized and make it easy to tidy up in the future. Think about why supporters visit your website.

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Connection Cafe

APRIL 17, 2018

Over the years, my experience in a variety of financial leadership roles has led me to the following hypothesis: nonprofit finance is critical to mission success. Given the integral connection between financial and organizational success, I wanted to dig deeper into the nonprofit CFO role. Completing the Circle.

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Roles Culture Nonprofit Stream 35

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MARCH 30, 2012

This blog post is a summary of reflections about the instructional design and how NGOs in these countries are becoming Networked NGOs. Quiet Reflection: Socoot. For example, you can hear the story about how the above Tunisian NGO went from “crawling” to “running” over the course of the program.

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Blue Avocado

MARCH 5, 2024

But if you are on staff during this period, it is important to remember that you play a vital role, and do what you can to avoid burnout as you carry forward. But instead of giving in to paranoia, this is a time to take stock of the situation, giving yourself time for self-reflection. Ask Yourself: Is it Me?

Nonprofit 85

Nonprofit Children Problem Phase 85

Neon CRM

JANUARY 19, 2024

Outline Governance and Prioritize Development Whether your association operates with a board of directors, committees, or specific leadership roles, a well-structured governance plan sets the stage for effective decision-making. Start by outlining your organizational structures. Don’t stop there!

Associations 52

Associations Practice Strategy Leadership 52

Saleforce Nonprofit

NOVEMBER 22, 2022

The drivers of hunger include conflict, climate collapse, and chronic structural inequality that systematically excludes vulnerable communities from decision-making and benefits some to the detriment of most. Devex and Global Citizen are engaging a broader audience — and Salesforce.org is playing a key role in supporting innovation.

Collaboration 76

Collaboration Challenge Hunger Kenya 76

Deborah Elizabeth Finn

NOVEMBER 25, 2019

Going Upstream: Philanthropy’s Role in Advancing Justice. Justice over greatness: A new year’s reflection. Reflections on a Conference for Well-Intentioned Funders: We can do better. Tools: Reflective structured dialogue. General Operating Support and Relinquishing the Illusion of Control.

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Philanthropy Open Participatory Evaluation 98

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

SEPTEMBER 14, 2012

I believe that social networking can do better by thinking about network structures, understanding roles of people, making organizations more sociable and blending social media. What is the role of nonprofits/NGOs in contributing to more resilient networks that can scale to build a stronger civil society?

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Tunisia Reflection NGO Libya 104

Bloomerang

AUGUST 31, 2022

Step 1: Understand story structure. Effective stories are told in a three-act structure. All well-crafted stories fit a three-act story structure. Since childhood, we have been taught to expect a certain structure for stories to follow. As with the end of the year, the end of life is often a time for reflection.

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Storytelling Guide Structure Audience 114

CauseVox

MAY 9, 2023

As nonprofit professionals, we often wear many hats, having to fill the roles of copywriter, editor, marketer, and more. and learns not only about the content of that data but also how the words and phrases in it have been structured. Content or Outline When asking ChatGPT to generate an outline, it helps to direct the structure.

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Examples email Communication Language 84

Allegiance Group

OCTOBER 16, 2023

Candidates should also be able to speak to goal-setting and the role of data in informing overarching strategies and identifying risks and opportunities. Candidates don’t necessarily have to have a great deal of experience – but understanding the role of data within major gifts is important.

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Gift Interview Question Articulate 52

Forum One

APRIL 13, 2021

To do this effectively, content strategy for digital collections is a necessary piece that is able to streamline the approach of how these institutions shape and expand their roles as modern resources. The items that museums, archives, and libraries collect reflect the human spirit. Highlighting a collection’s best assets.

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Library Museum Content Digital 73

Candid

JULY 11, 2023

Use demographic data as a starting point to learn about organizations, and then do the homework to understand more about how those organizations are reflecting and responding to their communities. Also consider how you can build a sense of mutual accountability with grantee organizations throughout your demographic data collection process.

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Demographics Data Philanthropy Relationship 75

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

AUGUST 27, 2010

For the past 15 years, I have been excited about nonprofit technology training design and delivery and it is what I will continue to focus on as part of my role at Zoetica over the coming years. Some Reflections. I feel that my technology training for nonprofits work is more like a calling for me than simply a job or career.

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Reflection People Network Colorado 103

ASU Lodestar Center

JULY 8, 2011

When asked what aspects of the executive director role leaders find most depleting, Daring to Lead respondents named human resources more often than any other job function. One-third of executives said that they do not spend enough time managing and developing staff.

Leadership 92

Leadership Research Develop Management 92

Candid

NOVEMBER 17, 2021

We reflected. Corporate Delegation and Oversight, Organizational Structure (5 percent). Intern Roles (if any). Self-examination was the zeitgeist of philanthropy in 2021. We adapted. We listened to the "rising voices of the people we serve" as a foundation staffer framed it recently. Miscellaneous (3 percent).

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Grant Analysis Application Contact 111

Bloomerang

FEBRUARY 1, 2023

They do however face unique challenges, which are numerous and varied, reflecting the complex and evolving nature of the nonprofit sector as a whole. Structural barriers to success The nonprofit sector is highly competitive, with organizations often competing for the same limited resources.

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Accessibility Challenge Leadership Tips 108

sgEngage

MAY 25, 2023

The Funder’s Role in Risk Funders—by which I mean donors, foundations, impact investors, and government agencies that grant financial support—disincentivize risk in a few ways. In this excerpt from No More Status Quo , Heather digs into the problematic assumptions of long-held “best practices” in the grantmaking space.

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Problem Skills Proposal Grant 78

Saleforce Nonprofit

NOVEMBER 22, 2021

Our latest 4th edition of the Nonprofit Trends Report reflects a set of organizations struggling with this imbalance while navigating a rapidly-changing future. Of the surveyed nonprofit employees, roles included responsibility for programs, fundraising, grants management, technology, HR/office, or marketing.

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Trend Report United Kingdom Australia 111

Forum One

DECEMBER 15, 2021

We understand now that everyone has a role to play. Well-written, well-structured content is one of the best things an organization can do to improve accessibility. Making the commitment to accessibility explicit reflects our goals of ensuring accessibility considerations are embedded in every step of the work we do.

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Accessibility Goal Virginia Audience 71

Saleforce Nonprofit

AUGUST 20, 2021

The same historical and cultural structures that have held back diversity, equity, and inclusion (DEI) in so many aspects of our lives are also mirrored in much of the nonprofit sector. Workstream priorities should reflect this knowledge. By: Yolanda F. Johnson, Founder of WOC, Women of Color in Fundraising and Philanthropy.

Strategy 82

Strategy Fundraising Philanthropy Nonprofit 82

Bloomerang

AUGUST 21, 2023

Current budget numbers reflect your existing program commitments, not your aspirational ones. 6 internal factors The internal factors concern the organizational structure of your nonprofit: capacity, board support and engagement, strategy and planning, leadership issues, communication issues, and budget and finance.

Action 75

Action Report Practice Fundraising 75

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MAY 7, 2008

The workshop design looks at how to considering the role and activity of the technology stewards in authentic situations as well as exploring the uses of social technologies to stay in touch as well as for sustained inquiry. The participants will write up some more formal reflections towards the end of this week.

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Reflection Nptech Tag Community 50

Blue Fox

NOVEMBER 21, 2019

Take a look at each of your staff member’s compensation and overall staffing structure. Does it make more sense to pay them occasional overtime pay or transition them into a role that fits exempt status? It’s time to evaluate your people resources. The new year is knocking on our door. So, we get it.

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Law Minnesota Nonprofit Industry 96

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

APRIL 30, 2012

What I like best about the book is that the narrative is accompanying by terrific reflection questions and worksheets so you can easily adapt all the wisdom shared in the book. It is also packed with resource lists and stories. To me, this creates the perfect book to help guide your practice of building and working within a network.

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Network Skills NTC Roles 109

Get Fully Funded

FEBRUARY 1, 2022

A Board treasurer is often the hardest role to fill, so focus on this position first. Your local United Way or similar organization may have a bank of qualified people seeking Board roles, saving you some time and work to find the right person. Your logo, tagline, key messages, and website will reflect your brand.

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CauseVox

JUNE 16, 2023

You know, a place that reflects who you are, where lifelong memories will be made, and where your bond as brothers and sisters will grow even stronger. These levels provide a clear structure for donors to understand how their contributions make a difference and encourage them to give at a level that feels meaningful to them.

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Pledge Fundraising Chapter Classes 74

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MARCH 30, 2012

What role(s) might a funder play in initiating and implementing a peer learning group? We at Monitor Institute have been digging into questions such as these as part of a broader reflection on the networks-focused work of the organizational effectiveness team at the David & Lucile Packard Foundation.

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Learning San Francisco Structure Knowledge Management 97

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MARCH 27, 2017

The nature of today’s nonprofit workplace – fast paced and heavy workloads – makes it nearly impossible to find the reflective time to put together a learning plan and implement it. For decades, even centuries, our view of leadership has been defined by top-down, hierarchical structures.

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