Candid

OCTOBER 19, 2022

Leverage this strength of peer-to-peer campaigns and empower your fundraisers to present your organization and tell their stories. Onboarding is the process of training your peer-to-peer fundraisers to run a successful campaign on your behalf. Set up donation pages. Connect with other fundraisers.

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Candid

FEBRUARY 28, 2023

Personally emailing your annual report to donors or funders and describing how their support was central to your success. Build your social capital Your professional network can be invaluable to your career and organization’s fundraising success. Practicing your public speaking by volunteering to teach a workshop or speak on a panel.

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Saleforce Nonprofit

SEPTEMBER 29, 2021

In early 2018, a band of adventurers who came to be known as the Salesforce.org Trailhead Editorial Board set out to reach customers, partners, and pro bono volunteers with a comprehensive menu of skills-based training. Keep in mind that no matter how you’re delivering training and resources, thoughtful design is key to success.

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sgEngage

MARCH 6, 2024

This is a story about acknowledging how there isn’t one piece of software that can solve all your problems, which is why the extensibility of your systems is so important. Naturally, it will take a lot of time, training, and labor to get it up and running, but once it is all configured, it will solve all your problems. You did it!

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Eric Jacobsen Blog

SEPTEMBER 5, 2016

Because, Thursday, September 8 brings the official release of Paul Smith 's new book, Sell with a Story: How to Capture Attention, Build Trust, and Close the Sale. I'm a big fan of Paul's earlier best-sellers, including Lead with a Story and Parenting with a Story. A skill like any other skills needed for successful selling.

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Cloud 4 Good

SEPTEMBER 22, 2021

At the time, the Salesforce Admin certification had only just been introduced and was beginning to gain momentum, there wasn’t a Trailblazer Community (we had a few “community boards” and Google groups), and it was nearly impossible to find training materials. Why aren’t we training new workers on it?” Salesforce is projecting $26.01

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Kindful

JUNE 8, 2021

Teach them about fundraising. The Governance Committee, responsible for ensuring the board can fulfill its fiduciary responsibilities, should work with the Finance and Fundraising Committees to create an Education and Training Plan with consistent opportunities for board members to learn about finances and fundraising.

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Build Literacy Nonprofit Exercise 109

The Modern Nonprofit

JUNE 13, 2023

As we come together to honor their stories, your nonprofit has a fantastic opportunity to foster unity and support immigrant communities. Organize and Participate in Cultural Events Multicultural Cooking Class : Organize a cooking class where immigrants teach participants how to make traditional dishes from their home countries.

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DipJar

APRIL 14, 2022

The story of that day, the movement it spawned, and its lasting impact are told at the International Civil Rights Center and Museum. It serves — in Tyler’s words, as a “teaching landmark” — but one that goes beyond the initial instance to explore discrimination in many other forms. Martin Luther King, Jr.

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Qgiv

DECEMBER 15, 2022

Your Program Volunteers Your Fundraising Volunteers Get Them Trained Provide Them with Useful Tools. Knowing that your food service operation meets the highest standards for cleanliness, or that you source your foods from local providers as much as possible helps your volunteer tell your story to their friends, family, and work colleagues.

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The Nerdy NonProfit

NOVEMBER 13, 2020

Many nonprofits are interested in using e-learning to train staff members and volunteers. It can reach a larger number of people in a shorter amount of time than in-person training. Staff and volunteers can access the training anytime and anywhere. By Guest Contributor, Amy Morrisey , Artisan E-Learning.

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Effective Learning Strategy Course 162

Candid

NOVEMBER 14, 2023

After over 20 years of fundraising, consulting, and teaching nonprofits across the U.S., I’ve seen first-hand how building in simple and inexpensive donor loyalty strategies makes a huge difference in year-end giving success and your nonprofits’ long-term sustainability.

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Eric Jacobsen Blog

SEPTEMBER 27, 2019

Packed with uplifting personal stories, action steps and writing exercises, you’ll learn how to be accountable for developing your character, integrity, and commitment to reaching your goals. Why writing your success story in reverse is the best approach. This is the timeline for success. It takes decades, not months.

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NonProfit Hub

JANUARY 7, 2019

Nonprofit Hub’s INSPIRE Hubcast series shares powerful and impactful stories of organizations persevering to create the change they want to see in the world. Each episode features a new guest with their own unique story. Jeff graduated from the University of Michigan and earned his MA in Teaching from Dominican University.

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Eric Jacobsen Blog

FEBRUARY 25, 2021

Today, we look back to 2016 : 2016 brought the much anticipated release of Paul Smith 's book, Sell with a Story: How to Capture Attention, Build Trust, and Close the Sale. I'm a big fan of Paul's earlier best-sellers, including Lead with a Story and Parenting with a Story. Storytelling is a skill.

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Eric Jacobsen Blog

OCTOBER 11, 2020

Today, we look back to 2016 : 2016 brought the much anticipated release of Paul Smith 's book, Sell with a Story: How to Capture Attention, Build Trust, and Close the Sale. I'm a big fan of Paul's earlier best-sellers, including Lead with a Story and Parenting with a Story. Storytelling is a skill.

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Story Storytelling Chapter Teach 52

Saleforce Nonprofit

SEPTEMBER 22, 2021

Dreamforce welcomed trailblazers of all sizes in the nonprofit sector, including International Justice Mission , UNICEF Australia , Canadian Cancer Society , Autism Plus , and more to share their stories and speak at the event’s global mainstage and in breakout sessions — all of which are available to watch with a free Salesforce+ account.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MAY 8, 2018

If we lack the skills to avoid collaborative overload, manage difficult conversations, learn from failure, the resulting physical, emotional, and mental strain gets in the way of a nonprofit organization’s success. Do walking meeting one-on-ones and train staff to listen to each other. Leadership training on communications styles.

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Connection Cafe

JUNE 24, 2013

One of my favorite assignments, though, is what we call “Train the Trainer” (T3), where I will work with a group of folks who will later put on a different hat and train their colleagues on new software. Not just for training. Do you have any success (or not-so successful) stories of implementing new software?

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JULY 26, 2017

One of them was Vincent Law who is doing interesting work with teaching young children about giving and philanthropy. So while we admire the wonders and success of others in philanthropy, we could have a look at our own culture and we might find a longer and more impactful history of philanthropy in our own society.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

OCTOBER 7, 2014

Like all good training sessions, this workshop started off with an opening conversation that allowed us to get to know others in the room and connect to what we already know. Heather facilitated this exercise as a series of share pairs where we discussed each question with a different partner for a few minutes.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JANUARY 27, 2017

Orange hats” are assistant crew leaders who teach “green hats” how to do trail building and maintenance correctly. More than a hundred hand-selected volunteers are highly trained in interview techniques, media relations and public speaking to become Greenpeace spokespeople. They offer direction, supervision and make outings fun.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MARCH 2, 2011

Mary Joyce leads a session on digital activism using the Story of Electronics. I’m the lead for Zoetica where my role is to deliver training, advise on the curriculum and coaching methods, model transparency, and serve as meta network weaver. To reflect on how these modules might be used in their own trainings.

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Global Giving

APRIL 25, 2020

To do this, we use a process called machine learning that allows us to “teach” computers how to tackle these tasks. Stories like these sound almost like magic, but they represent a lot of hard work! Machine learning models that make predictions to answer their questions usually need labeled training data.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JANUARY 5, 2012

On New Year’s Day, I heard a story on NPR about some research on instructional techniques used by many college professors – the lecture and how it is less effective in an age information abundance. It’s more fun to teach this way and more fun to learn this. Content Delivery Is Not Learning. Begin Connections.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JANUARY 4, 2016

Innovation Lab Facilitation : For the past few years, I’ve trained in and designed and facilitated innovation labs using the Luma Institute Methods. I was honored to lead a featured season at the United Way Leadership Conference on Networked Leadership and teach many workshops networked leadership skills.

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Eric Jacobsen Blog

JANUARY 1, 2018

2016 brought the much anticipated release of Paul Smith 's book, Sell with a Story: How to Capture Attention, Build Trust, and Close the Sale. I'm a big fan of Paul's earlier best-sellers, including Lead with a Story and Parenting with a Story. A great story builds credibility and properly positions you in the eye of the buyer."

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NonProfit Hub

AUGUST 15, 2018

He’s had massive success helping major organizations like Habitat for Humanity and Komen Greater NYC with their fundraising. In her 35 years in the field, she’s acquired 350k followers on Twitter, written over ten books and trained nonprofits on every continent. It’s time to point more appreciation their way,” she says on her website.

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Bloomerang

JULY 5, 2021

Train all staff to be enthusiastic communicators. Ready to adopt a more human donor loyalty philosophy and wrap it into a written strategic plan that holds people accountable for seeing it through and measuring success? Establish clear success metrics. They don’t care if the touch comes from marketing, fundraising, or programs.

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Qgiv

OCTOBER 27, 2021

Retention is everything your organization does to keep the volunteers you recruit, like providing proper training and management , aligning volunteer assignments with individual volunteers’ interests, or working hard to create personal relationships with your volunteers. Use current volunteers as a resource. However, some people do.

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BoardAssist

AUGUST 25, 2015

So why are some board members more successful at that than others? Guest blogger Gail Perry believes that any board member can be that critical agent of change with the right training and support, especially with respect to opening doors for his or her board. It has to be their OWN PERSONAL STORY of why they care. Here’s How!

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Eric Jacobsen Blog

AUGUST 2, 2019

T his book, S even Disciplines Of A Leader , published in 2015, teaches leaders how to help their employees, team, and organization achieve maximum effectiveness. Authored by Jeff Wolf with Ken Shelton , it’s a high-readable book, packed with stories and takeaway exercises. Do I believe my work is meaningful? Is what I do important?

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Attitude Chart Leadership Exercise 40

Cloud 4 Good

APRIL 14, 2022

Across two days full of interactive sessions, workshops, and hands-on training, I had the chance to meet members of my Chicago Ohana Salesforce group and connect with new people with similar passions, challenges, and solutions to share. It was also the first in-person event I’ve had a chance to attend in two years.

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NonProfit Hub

SEPTEMBER 2, 2021

This is not an uncommon story. Often, when a leader has founded an organization or experienced great success while leading it, they feel they’ve somehow “arrived” in terms of nonprofit sector superiority. Eventually, ruminating on your own success and ideas will get boring…for you and for those you are already familiar.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JANUARY 3, 2012

Each chapter starts with a personal story that illustrates a concept related to managing unproductive distractions. I want to sustain that focus throughout the year and apply to what I do — from content curation to blogging to facilitating trainings and developing curriculum. Be more of a focusing lens versus a fire hydrant.

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Museum 2.0

NOVEMBER 9, 2020

If that is not your family story, think about that. My successes were on the backs of many. It is why academia requires only academically trained artists succeed. You’ll need to be truthful with yourself about our failings as a field, and how our training has bound us as much as empowered us.

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Bloomerang

MARCH 29, 2023

Get a free Demo Volunteerism has a long and storied history, in both the United States and the world as a whole. These opportunities teach students valuable skills while allowing them to contribute their time and energy to help worthy causes. Teaching volunteers valuable life skills. Offer tangible benefits.

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