Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MAY 8, 2018

Last month, I was honored to present and facilitate an all-day workshop for nonprofit leaders at the Oregon Nonprofit Leadership Conference on how to activate a culture of well being in the nonprofit workplace, based on my book, The Happy Healthy Nonprofit: Strategies for Impact without Burnout. Here’s the list: Function.

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.orgSource

MARCH 6, 2023

The problem might be something you’ve never considered. All of the association’s activities and initiatives are grounded in the ideals that are outlined below. Images of the association’s founders, history, and current activities are displayed throughout the facility, and spaces were created to accommodate a variety of work styles.

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Associations Leadership Question Wisconsin 221

.orgSource

MAY 15, 2023

Analyzing website traffic, social media, product sales, and marketing campaigns together strengthens activities on both sides of the equation. Confront problems quickly and openly using objective information. Recognizing and rewarding mutually supportive activities and behavior. Data is an important connector.

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Collaboration Marketing Team Integration 221

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MAY 15, 2020

Recently I facilitated an online session about how to get better at online meetings for Lightful in the UK where I am a Senior Advisor at Lightful, among other activities, facilitate online master classes for their BRIDGE programme. An online meeting is more effective when you have at least two facilitators.

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.orgSource

MAY 29, 2023

If your association is struggling to launch a strong diversity initiative, these activities will help you get closer to that goal. An expert facilitator will introduce the level of introspection needed to encourage empathy and insight. Articulate the Vision Writing the diversity statement can be a co-creative activity.

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Associations Reflection Leadership Training 221

.orgSource

SEPTEMBER 25, 2023

Use ChatGPT as a virtual event host to welcome attendees, guide them through the schedule, answer queries, and facilitate networking during virtual conferences. Pick one specific problem to solve and start with a very targeted approach. When you’re ready to launch, be prepared to monitor, track, and analyze the chat’s activity.

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Las Vegas Language Interaction Associations 221

Nonprofit Tech for Good

MAY 8, 2020

Clarity refers to the nonprofit’s ability to concisely and effectively integrate the four storytelling framework elements referred to above (problem – solution – impact – ask), preferably in multiple formats such as audio, video, images, and text.

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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. Collective Impact requires collaborating organizations to: Identify a common goal: Understand a problem and the pathway to solve it together. Communicate openly and timely.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

FEBRUARY 14, 2020

The message was clear: Dig into the potential of AI to solve some of the world’s pressing problems. More importantly it was about innovation and partnerships between those who are close to the problems and techies. The panel was facilitated by Di Dang, Google Developer Design Advocate.

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Google Design Impact Participatory 95

Pamela Grow

OCTOBER 16, 2023

Easy Unsubscription Process: To enhance user control, Gmail now mandates that large senders facilitate easy unsubscription for recipients. You may worry about competitors manipulating these thresholds to disrupt your email activities. This change aims to simplify the process for recipients and discourage unwanted emails.

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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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sgEngage

MAY 30, 2023

Understanding Community Leadership Community leadership involves actively engaging with local stakeholders, identifying shared goals, and working collaboratively towards achieving them. Civic leadership, on the other hand, involves active engagement and participation of individuals in addressing community issues and promoting the common good.

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Roles Foundation Leadership Community 78

Eric Jacobsen Blog

FEBRUARY 17, 2020

Wilson's book is packed with case studies and activities that help you put to practice in your organization the learnings from the book. are there opportunities for people to come together at critical times , such as strategic changes, team forming and development, project alignment and problem solving?

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Question Facilitation Case Study Knowledge 52

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

FEBRUARY 12, 2019

. Much of my training and facilitation work lately has been centered around the ideas in my recent book, The Happy Healthy Nonprofit. Much of this has to do with how people appreciate each other as well as building a sense of community, followed by activities and supporting policies in the workplace.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

OCTOBER 22, 2013

Last week, I was lucky enough to participate in a brainstorming meeting at a foundation that was developing a strategy for its digital platforms (web, social, mobile, etc). The process was facilitated byPeter Maher, founder and CEO, of Luma Institute. We had to understand the problem and the challenge we were working on.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MARCH 4, 2020

It’s time to up your virtual facilitation and convening skills. Virtual meetings that are not well designed and facilitated can also mean a loss of productivity. Aside from technical issues, the biggest problem is engagement. Roles may include: Facilitator: Designs and Facilitates Meeting.

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Facilitation Virtual Effective Technique 163

.orgSource

MAY 1, 2023

Identify staffers who can be your IT ambassadors and fill these significant roles: Strategists Strategists are the visionaries, facilitators, and problem-solvers who inspire curiosity throughout the organization. Strategists are visionaries, facilitators, and problem-solvers.

Collaboration 44

Collaboration Digital Build Organization 44

Eric Jacobsen Blog

NOVEMBER 1, 2019

Wilson's book is packed with case studies and activities that help you put to practice in your organization the learnings from the book. are there opportunities for people to come together at critical times , such as strategic changes, team forming and development, project alignment and problem solving?

Facilitation 40

Facilitation Case Study Knowledge Celebrate 40

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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Get Fully Funded

AUGUST 15, 2022

It lets you choose from Stripe or Moolah to facilitate online transactions, monthly gifts, or EFT donations. Kindful is another powerful donor-tracking software that facilitates online giving as a built-in feature. I love that it puts everything in ONE place, all fully integrated. and there’s a peer-to-peer fundraising tool, too.

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Tools Online Giving Tips 75

Blue Avocado

JANUARY 23, 2024

Having one (or more) active and highly functioning advisory committees fosters resilience, creativity, and even resource development for your organization. Look to the intersectional problems faced by the community you serve and backtrack from there. Provide your advisory committee with clearly defined projects and activities.

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Voice Community Structure Nonprofit 90

AccelEvents

AUGUST 14, 2020

Using a tool like Accelevents , you can seamlessly manage all ticketing and registration while facilitating participation and networking across physical and virtual sessions. . In order to keep the virtual audience engaged and provide them with the same value physical attendees are receiving, you need to actively plan for it. .

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Tech Soup

JULY 8, 2011

Guardian’s ACTIVATE is an annual conference that aims to bring together leaders in media, government and technology to a ctivatedly. This time on June 22 at King’s Place in London, ACTIVATE’s. most fundamental problems that people in less favourable environments. face and how we could help solve them.

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Activities Active Activism Review 47

Greater Giving

FEBRUARY 22, 2022

Facilitate this information-gathering process by enhancing your site’s user experience (UX). To facilitate this journey, ensure your site is optimized for telling your organization’s story. The conflict will be the issue your organization seeks to solve, and the solution is your strategy for combatting or solving the problem.

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Websites Donation Images Mobile 97

AccelEvents

AUGUST 28, 2020

With an online audience, event organizers must work harder to foster meaningful connections between attendees and actively provide networking possibilities. . Event gamification elements, like a virtual scavenger hunt, can go a long way to facilitating networking at your virtual event. . Virtual Scavenger Hunt. Virtual Cocktail Hour.

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Virtual Network Ideas Conference 98

Museum 2.0

OCTOBER 29, 2009

MuseumNext had four main sections: Interactive activities , including an opening workshop with a group of designers associated with an extremely wonderful exhibition called Doing it for the Kids featuring sustainable toy designs. Facilitator bits. Vary the activities. They sound obvious, but several took me years to figure out.

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Saleforce Nonprofit

JUNE 24, 2021

Bryan Stevenson (BS): It’s important that we have a new consciousness about the problems created by our history. The activism we saw in 2020 was a powerful way of expressing our need to do better in this country, and across the globe. Getting proximate to the problem was where the real transformation was.

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Eric Jacobsen Blog

JULY 31, 2017

Wilson's book is packed with case studies and activities that help you put to practice in your organization the learnings from the book. are there opportunities for people to come together at critical times , such as strategic changes, team forming and development, project alignment and problem solving?

Create 40

Create Organization Facilitation Case Study 40

Bloomerang

AUGUST 2, 2021

Mastering personalized, customer-centered philanthropy facilitation, especially mid-level and major donors, to increase donor lifetime value. To give you an example of how to do this, a recent client was having problems telling the story of the marine conservation program they were building. Mastering relevant content marketing.

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Content Marketing Strategy Fundraising 128

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JANUARY 23, 2014

The ability to “shift” delivery formats – from say an interactive lecture to small group activities helps students pay more attention. When I design instruction, I want to make sure that learning activities use four different kinds of activities that help the brain learn rapidly.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

OCTOBER 23, 2014

Peter and Madeleine were the among the pioneers in writing about, designing, facilitating, and evaluating networks in the social impact space. The members of these networks are intentional about building, strengthening, and maintaining relationships with one another that generates collaborative activities together.

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Review Change Cleveland Generation 106

Saleforce Nonprofit

OCTOBER 24, 2022

We all know that hunger is a complex and growing problem. With many incredible ideas on the table, they committed to moving forward with two community-driven approaches to combat hunger: A Hunger Action Plan to activate our Salesforce ecosystem around long-term systemic changes to fight hunger. Why Food Insecurity in the U.S.?

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Hunger Impact Puerto Rico Arkansas 93

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MAY 1, 2014

I have incorporated mini-breaks to walk in the middle of the day help me think and digest when I am writing or thinking through a problem for a client. Also, if I’m on calls I do them while walking around. I have gotten good at taking notes while I walk.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JULY 18, 2017

The workshop includes a facilitated process based on the “ World Cafe ” method where participants work in small groups to discuss the challenges in the workplace and how to address them. Fires are urgent but unimportant activities that are not a part of your organization’s plan, but require a resource investment.

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Culture Nonprofit Chart Flickr 98

Connection Cafe

APRIL 28, 2020

We’ve rounded up a list of specific examples of virtual opportunities, organized by nonprofit issue area, that solve real problems and are easy to execute. This new environment is an opportunity to rethink solutions to strategic problems and create innovative virtual events that inspire supporters to do more.

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Nonprofits Source

JULY 6, 2023

Technology can facilitate the data collection process, theoretically providing nonprofits with all the information they need to answer these questions about their supporters. Nonprofits that build long-term working relationships with one consultant can rely on them whenever they have a technical problem or need to implement a new system.

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Technology Marketing Change Nonprofit 52

ASU Lodestar Center

OCTOBER 16, 2020

As nonprofits attempt to tackle some of our communities' most difficult problems; funders, government agencies and the general public are actively calling for accountability, transparency and proof that a program is producing change. The root problem here is poor evaluation capacity. Illustration by Jocelyn Ruiz.

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