Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

APRIL 30, 2020

The inability to create a variety of different contexts in our lives including different social roles, relationships, activities and goals. It is a fun activity that gets a few laughs, people moving, and replenishes energy. The easiest way to integrate team building activities is to create a ritual of meeting check-ins or check-outs.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

OCTOBER 8, 2019

In my work as a trainer and facilitator, I make workshops and master classes as interactive as possible, incorporating peer discussion, movement, and creativity. But it isn’t impossible, if you follow best practices for virtual facilitation for meetings. These activities are called icebreakers.

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Candid

AUGUST 22, 2023

An active field of research in the 1960s, machine learning is now deeply embedded in our daily lives—from receiving recommended products while we’re online shopping to Google helping us autocomplete our emails. Facilitating intelligent funding connections (coming soon.) Making searching for funders and grants fast and easy.

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Media Cause

OCTOBER 14, 2023

But, more specifically, project managers juggle various responsibilities and wear a multitude of hats—organizer, leader, motivator, facilitator, liaison, and driver—to ensure success. Projects have many components, such as team members, budget, timeframes, activities, tasks, and more.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

AUGUST 17, 2021

The hybrid workplace will have a huge impact on the way we design and facilitate meetings, the primary method of how many organizations get stuff done. Our new normal will most likely be more complex to design and facilitate. Here are some considerations for designing and facilitating pandemic-era hybrid meetings.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

OCTOBER 7, 2019

We will be doing early morning sessions to engage participants in some mindful moment and movement exercises. I’m going to share different techniques for weaving mindful moment and exercises into your workday. Above all, silence facilitates clear and creative thinking and quiets negative thoughts.

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Classy

MAY 26, 2021

As hosts of the Collaborative , an annual immersive experience designed exclusively for nonprofits, we’re no strangers to facilitating meaningful connections. When you identify someone you’d like to connect with, use LinkedIn or the event’s designated platform (or both) to facilitate the conversation. Leave Room for Serendipity .

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ASU Lodestar Center

NOVEMBER 19, 2020

Collective Impact is a methodology designed to facilitate cross-sector collaborations in order to move the needle on important issues. Participate in mutually reinforcing activities: Harness strengths and mitigate weakness by pursuing complementary activity consistent with an organization’s mission and the common goal shared by all.

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Candid

APRIL 8, 2024

In order to facilitate the integration, we formed employee-led workstream groups, one of which, the Change Management and Culture (CMC) group, was initially tasked with formulating Candid’s values: we’re driven, direct, accessible, curious, and inclusive. It requires us to be willing to learn with an open mind and a receptive heart.

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Pamela Grow

OCTOBER 16, 2023

Easy Unsubscription Process: To enhance user control, Gmail now mandates that large senders facilitate easy unsubscription for recipients. While this is a positive step, nonprofits should be mindful of their email engagement rates to avoid triggering spam alerts.

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EveryAction

JULY 3, 2023

Ensuring a smooth user experience is especially critical for complex virtual campaigns like peer-to-peer fundraising, which relies heavily on your website to facilitate a number of different interactions between donors, their networks, and your organization. Integrated functionality is critical for nonprofit virtual engagement.

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Greater Giving

NOVEMBER 27, 2023

This engaging activity not only adds a layer of excitement to your event but also serves as a potent tool for revenue generation. Bidding Site Setup: Configure your bidding site to facilitate electronic raffle ticket sales. Note: Keep in mind that most states regulate or even may prohibit tickets sales.

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sgEngage

OCTOBER 17, 2022

Always be mindful of the burden you’re placing on applicants. A timeline with activities, time commitments, and deadlines. You or the facilitators can ask participants to identify biases and point out any discrepancies or gaps that emerge as the group moves towards decision making. Support from a mentor, peer, or staff person.

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Saleforce Nonprofit

FEBRUARY 24, 2022

Are there connections we can facilitate? Not only did CDOs embrace these opportunities to learn from speakers and connect with one another, but they have formed an active Slack community to share ideas and resources with each other in real time. “I have enjoyed being with like-minded leaders on a consistent basis.

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The Modern Nonprofit

MAY 1, 2024

Be sure to recruit knowledgeable facilitators. Displaying AAPI visual arts is another engaging activity. Their grassroots activism brings important perspectives. Effective promotion and marketing strategies should focus on engaging people of all backgrounds, not just those who already actively participate in AAPI communities.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

SEPTEMBER 8, 2014

Last week I facilitated the “ Impact Leadership Track ” at the NTEN Leading Change Summit with John Kenyon, Elissa Perry, and Londell Jackson. Here’s what I learned: Facilitation Teams. Often, facilitation teams are brought together by an event host. Photo by Trav Williams. Do you have a preferred method?

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sgEngage

JANUARY 10, 2024

Visualizing Where Meaning Making Can Happen “Mapping” activities are often the starting point of identifying data collection opportunities. We are taught to create an organizational chart or a program activity graphic or a network diagram of organizations needed to address an issue like homelessness or educational equity.

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Network for Good

MAY 17, 2021

The database is very flexible, which allows a nonprofit to use Salesforce.com for tracking donor management and other activities. Integrate with other programs that facilitate donor communication, stewardship, and payment processing. When it comes to organizing your fundraising activities, options are great.

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Nonprofit Tech for Good

MAY 8, 2020

When using WhatsApp to engage with various stakeholders, nonprofits have to be mindful of incorporating the various digital storytelling elements discussed above in order to ensure a successful engagement with those stakeholders. Also by Elizabeth Ngonzi: How NGOs Worldwide Can Use Digital Storytelling to Access, Attract and Activate U.S.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MARCH 19, 2019

Last week I presented a session at the Nonprofit Technology Conference called “ Activating A Culture of Resilience for Sustainable Impact ,” with fellow NTEN board members, Ananda Leeke & Meico Whitlock as well as Carrie Rice. I presented and facilitated a small group activity on rituals.

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Get Fully Funded

MARCH 16, 2023

By giving supporters a way to connect with other like-minded supporters and your nonprofit’s staff, you can facilitate community and deep relationships at these events. Activity-based events. Risky, dangerous activities are what typically come to mind when you think about signing waivers. What is an online waiver?

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Bloomerang

APRIL 11, 2023

There are many moving parts involved in the volunteer management process, and volunteer management software brings these activities under one roof. Your volunteer management system can facilitate more streamlined volunteer engagement and communication. Let’s dive in! What you need today may not be enough tomorrow.

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Forum One

AUGUST 16, 2023

When it comes to your reporting strategy, it’s important to keep in mind who your key stakeholders are, and how can you package your data and results in a way that speaks to them directly. Then you can begin looking at your data with a direction and purpose in mind. Goal setting matters a lot here.

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The Modern Nonprofit

MARCH 5, 2024

You have an amazing array of tools at your disposal to amplify your cause, streamline supporter activities, and shine a spotlight on your advocacy efforts. Personal stories and heartfelt messages can do what numbers alone cannot – they can touch hearts and change minds.

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Cloud 4 Good

JUNE 24, 2021

For the in-person events, health and safety are at the top of my mind. While we are still unsure what the world will look like in September, I’m encouraged to see some of the first stages of reopening happening in the United States, and even more so to see Salesforce working to keep safety at the forefront of their Dreamforce activities.

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Saleforce Nonprofit

NOVEMBER 17, 2021

Our team led Common Sense through a series of activities designed to uncover opportunities to elevate their user experience. Guided discovery, a facilitated workshop, and design thinking frameworks led the Common Sense team to think differently about how the organization can support parents and educators.

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Allegiance Group

NOVEMBER 2, 2023

If your organization maintains an active presence on social media platforms , include social media links on your website. By placing the donation button on every page, you reinforce its presence in the minds of your website visitors. This cohesive approach enables your supporters to contribute to your cause with just a few clicks.

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DNL OmniMedia

JANUARY 17, 2024

In this guide, we’ll review five game-changing strategies you can use to activate your marketing potential and bring in more supporters, let’s begin! Understand your audience When planning your marketing strategy, it’s helpful to start with the end in mind—who are you trying to reach?

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Candid

JANUARY 10, 2023

Other key considerations for successfully planning out your capital campaign committee meetings to consider: Determining whether your meeting will include prospective donors , and thinking ahead about how you’ll actively engage them.

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sgEngage

JANUARY 26, 2024

To ensure your campaign’s success and reach diverse audiences , tap into the reach and brand visibility of like-minded businesses through a corporate partnership. For instance, you may have a board member who works at a reputable local company and is willing to facilitate an introduction to the business’s chief philanthropy officer.

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Network for Good

MAY 17, 2021

The database is very flexible, which allows a nonprofit to use Salesforce.com for tracking donor management and other activities. Integrate with other programs that facilitate donor communication, stewardship, and payment processing. When it comes to organizing your fundraising activities, options are great.

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Nonprofits Source

JUNE 5, 2023

Social media platforms (like Facebook) facilitate connection, allowing your nonprofit to spin an extensive web of support all across the globe. Facebook, however, remains the world’s most-used social platform, with 2.958 billion active users each month. Share updates about your nonprofit’s work, impact, and upcoming activities.

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Bloomerang

JUNE 21, 2021

And it’s the best way I know to convey to non-development staff how important their role is in facilitating philanthropy. Your job is to facilitate philanthropy , and you know donors require honesty, transparency, and relevance before they give. Likewise, whatever is top of mind with your supporters should be top of mind for you.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JANUARY 5, 2018

When you have worked in a field a long time (for me it has been over 3 decades), you have to keep an open mind about remembering and reflecting on what you have heard before — looking at as if it was new. I also facilitated a number of nonprofit staff workshops building on the curriculum.

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Nimble AMS

AUGUST 28, 2019

However, delivering that experience requires the support of member management software, built specifically with a connected member experience in mind. As the leader in CRM, Salesforce serves as the foundation for a modern AMS that puts the member at the heart of an association’s activities.

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Nimble AMS

DECEMBER 3, 2019

Associations need technology that uses a data model that facilitates business with both individuals and organizations. Using the power of Person Accounts for a connected member experience As the leader in CRM, Salesforce serves as the foundation for a modern AMS that puts the member at the heart of an association’s activities.

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Bloomerang

AUGUST 23, 2021

Mastering personalized, customer-centered philanthropy facilitation, especially mid-level and major donors, to increase donor lifetime value. This aligns with one definition of philanthropy : “Goodwill to fellow members of the human race; especially: active effort to promote human welfare.”. Mastering relevant content marketing.

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