.orgSource

JULY 10, 2023

Does your governance structure help or hinder your progress towards goals? What activities would make your association better prepared to respond to changes in your members’ needs and the business environment? Resist the temptation to model the competition. Critical Questions What is your association’s value proposition?

Advice 170

Advice Course Associations Change 170

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MAY 7, 2010

Last year, Rick Bonney and a team of educators and science researchers at the Center for Advancement of Informal Science Education (CAISE) tackled this question in a project designed to define the structures and benefits of public participation in science research (download the full report as a PDF here.) Wiki users are often collaborators.

Model 98

Model Activities Active Activism 98

Candid

MARCH 6, 2023

Given this level of interest, some nonprofits are applying the phrase to such a broad range of activities it is becoming watered down. These movements typically don’t start with a structured entity, but with inspired individuals who see what needs to change in their communities and decide to act on it.

Hunger 105

Hunger Cancer Kenya Structure 105

Candid

JANUARY 10, 2023

This means they also require plenty of clear communication and collaboration. The nature of capital campaign committee structures. This builds a standard structure into the process from the start. Capital campaigns require input from many stakeholders, both internal and external.

Campaign 98

Campaign Structure Phase Review 98

Bloomerang

JULY 19, 2023

While the demands of each activity may vary, the advancement is a step-by-step process. Your work behind the scenes is to establish a structure—plans, systems and processes—by which the nonprofit may reach its advancement goals. So, if a leadership role interests you, look no further than the approach you bring to the position.

Professional 71

Professional Leadership Develop Proposal 71

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

OCTOBER 30, 2020

Organizations need to have structures and policies to support and enhance an individuals work/life balance and enable healthy technology use habits including a right to disconnect from the workplace. Chronic Homelessness Artificial Intelligence model (CHAI) . Think standing desks, ergonomics, and walking meetings) .

Homeless 163

Homeless Research Global System 163

Neon CRM

JANUARY 19, 2024

Operations & Leadership Programs Nonprofit Membership Models: The What, Why, and How 10 min read Read Now 3. Outline engaging activities and events that align with your mission but also provide opportunities for members to actively participate and contribute their skills. Start by outlining your organizational structures.

Associations 52

Associations Practice Strategy Leadership 52

Wild Apricot

DECEMBER 21, 2017

Sales operations refers to the unit, role, activities and processes within a sales organization that support, enable, and drive front line sales teams to sell better, faster, and more efficiently. Maintenance of Communication and Collaboration Channels. Sales Activities. The Structure of an Agile Sales Operations Unit.

Synchronous 145

Synchronous Structure Metrics Knowledge Base 145

ASU Lodestar Center

JULY 25, 2022

Leaders need to evaluate their leadership approach to ensure the style employed is designed to positively influence and empower their staff, promote success, and build collaboration. Kanter & Sherman remind us that respect, kindness and compassion must be modeled from the top-down in order to become an organizational norm.

Results 98

Results New Jersey Leadership Nonprofit 98

Tech Soup

SEPTEMBER 21, 2011

In the panel Rethinking Strategy: The Intersection of Impact, Brand, and Business Model, three experts defined these terms and illustrated their use for effective nonprofit communications. Think beyond surveys: make qualitative measurement an everyday activity by listening to and engaging staff for feedback. Model Behavior.

Model 55

Model Impact Business Case Study 55

NTEN

JANUARY 25, 2022

2021 was an eventful year at NTEN as we continued to promote, work towards, and model equitable practices internally and externally. This post is part of our continued efforts to share updates about internal and external efforts and outcomes to more directly invite accountability and collaboration in this work. 2021 review highlights.

Community 88

Community NTC Sponsor NTEN 88

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

OCTOBER 23, 2014

There is minimal structure or roles and as a living organism, the structure changes. The members of these networks are intentional about building, strengthening, and maintaining relationships with one another that generates collaborative activities together. Resources: What is the network’s funding model?

Review 106

Review Change Cleveland Generation 106

Beneblog: Technology Meets Society

OCTOBER 15, 2012

Our lower cost model allowed us to invert the power structure. This core value means that we include our partners and user communities in planning our products, collaborate with them as we develop our technology solutions, and therefore provide services that are responsive to the real world needs of real people.

Library 164

Library Student eBook Accessibility 164

ASU Lodestar Center

DECEMBER 12, 2012

The nonprofit business model is increasingly vulnerable to the volatility of the nonprofit marketplace and broad social, political, economic, and technological trends. Notwithstanding countless initiatives and grants to address this dilemma, the business model problem remains.

Social 85

Social Model Government Philanthropy 85

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JUNE 2, 2010

The principal task of preparing organizational leaders is to provide them with the language and tools they need to be able to discern and describe network activity, the insights they need to understand network structure, and an appreciation for the vital yet often subtle tasks of managing a network’s context.

Network 106

Network Work Structure Leadership 106

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

APRIL 15, 2014

If you are not already familiar with their work, you will learn a lot about online collaboration, knowledge management, informal learning, and networks by following them. ” She has a wonderful Twitter stream called “ Learning Flow ” that is a continuous learning stream of short activities (15-20 minutes) a day.

Learning 98

Learning Work Knowledge Management Knowledge 98

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MAY 23, 2012

NetSmart is Howard Rheingold’s latest book. It synthesizes his 30 years of experience if being a model digital citizen and what he has learned from asking other this simple question: How to use social media intelligently and mindfully? They include: attention, crap detection, collaboration, networks, and participation.

Online 128

Online Social Media Attention Chapter 128

Whole Whale

MARCH 22, 2022

Belief in community-run/owned decentralized structures. These structures allow people to collaborate in a trustless environment without the need of traditional bureaucracy or centralized authority. The preferred structure that many projects move toward in crypto is DAOs, which deliberately pushes power to the community.

Donor 52

Donor Difference Ukraine Podcast 52

Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

JUNE 19, 2008

From their website: Some of the features that distinguish Hampshire from more traditional liberal arts colleges include student-designed academic concentrations; an active, collaborative, inquiry-based pedagogy; an interdisciplinary curriculum; and a narrative evaluation system. Sounds a lot like Edupunk, doesn’t it?

Nptech 100

Nptech Unconference Open Source Model 100

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

FEBRUARY 11, 2014

1. Body Breaks: Incorporate some sort of movement or body activity every ten minutes. It is a more structured body break and incorporates more in-depth debrief on content. Here are some techniques you can incorporate into your training and staff meetings that will help with learning and retention.

Learning Theory 138

Learning Theory Learning Brain Exercise 138

Tech Soup

SEPTEMBER 21, 2014

Understanding corporate motivations behind corporate philanthropy will help you structure a mutually successful partnership. ” There are a number of innovative ways that companies and nonprofits can collaborate to expand their partnerships for mutual benefit.

Philanthropy 68

Philanthropy New York Nonprofit Indiana 68

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JANUARY 27, 2014

I use a simple structure to design: before, during, and after. The design is a description of how you will use the time slots – goals, content, instructional activities, materials, technology, documentation, and evaluation. The learning model is called “SAVI ” : Moving and doing (Somatic). Talking and hearing (Auditory).

Instructional Design 111

Instructional Design Instruction Instructional Training 111

ASU Lodestar Center

JUNE 28, 2013

Anyone who joins the Board now has clearly defined roles and willingly makes a personal donation in addition to actively fundraising.". Fundamentally overhauling a business model can be risky and expensive. Systems-level collaboration. In the basic PFS model, private. Comparatively, the preventative services.

Government 85

Government Research New York Homeless 85

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

APRIL 21, 2009

It covers different models for purpose, structure, style, value creation, design, leadership, and change management. But what about for internal coordination/collaboration? . There are online collaboration tools with social features - many of which can be used for internal coordination/collaboration.

Social Media 50

Social Media Network Media Social 50

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

APRIL 14, 2009

Ivan Boothe pointed me over to a blog post by Lina with an intriguing tweet " Transmedia activism with a co-creation network." She offers some examples of this approach from the activism field. The diagram below is Robin Good's Collaborative Map of Online Collaboration Tools. very insightful.

Storytelling 63

Storytelling Network Collaboration Classroom 63

Connection Cafe

APRIL 17, 2018

The Builder constructs a: Sustainable financial structure that meets mission needs, goals, and aspirations over time. Sustainable and dynamic business model that finds the necessary revenues and efficiently and effectively manages expenditures over the fiscal years. The Strategic Decision-Maker: Paving the Way for Mission Success.

Roles 35

Roles Culture Nonprofit Stream 35

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

AUGUST 1, 2009

Creating a sustainable engagement platform within your existing structure takes time, creativity and dedication. But there's a difference in how you influence previously disengaged participants vs. active participants. So there is great worth in storytelling to raise awareness and promote activism. People tend to tune out.

Culture 84

Culture Build Change Media 84

Judi Sohn

SEPTEMBER 5, 2011

The class was structured with lessons, followed by 20 minutes or so to complete an exercise. Now, I’ve been told that approximately 40% of active Salesforce nonprofits are using the Nonprofit Starter Pack (NPSP). Each direction is very different, using a different data model (see below for lots more on that) and approach.

Model 238

Model Data Classes Nonprofit 238

Bloomerang

JUNE 11, 2021

And I’ll give you about 30 seconds or so to activate. I know people are transitioning from meetings and … so please activate the survey. So that’s how you sort of lay that foundation, you start activating it, and then you progress. So with all that extra time to spare, I got activated, right? Here we go.

People 76

People Community Video Podcast 76

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

SEPTEMBER 29, 2015

How might we create a funding model that nourishes flexibility and innovation? The foundation would provoke new thinking by defining big ideas, contemplating what a new/old hybrid power model might look like, and evaluating whether nonprofit boards of directors are useful or just in the way. New Technology for New Power Movements.

Design 50

Design Strategy Facilitation Advocacy 50

Museum 2.0

SEPTEMBER 22, 2009

In this report, the authors describe three specific models for public participation: contribution, collaboration, and co-creation. In the collaborative model, visitors are invited to serve as active partners in the creation of an institutional project which is originated and ultimately controlled by the institution.

Public 36

Public Research Participatory Report 36

Connection Cafe

AUGUST 15, 2016

If you give us a logic model or a theory of change format, we work hard to not only embrace your words but to put them in the right rows and columns. Over many years, my colleagues and I at The Rensselaerville Institute have learned that proposals based on process, structure, and beliefs are needlessly long. Collaboration is essential.

Language 20

Language Foundation Proposal Nonprofit 20

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JULY 14, 2009

As our Industrial Institutions fail to cope and to help people, we are seeing a new model for coping where people are connecting to each other to find networked and personal solutions to problems. . This new model is the antithesis of the model that it may replace. Clear signs of what this new model are all over the place.

Story 79

Story Action Model Adopt 79

Bloomerang

FEBRUARY 1, 2022

Elizabeth Abel will explore the role of the board in elevating fundraising activity and discuss effective strategies to recruit, engage, and deploy diverse board members as fundraising ambassadors. Second is to develop some action-oriented strategies to recruit and retain and engage diverse board members in fundraising activity broadly.

Leadership 60

Leadership Fundraising Gift Slides 60

Museum 2.0

APRIL 23, 2009

So many of the activities available in interactive museums--exploding toothpaste, liquid nitrogen ice cream, collage-making, robot wars--are just as interesting, educational, and fun for adults as they are for kids. Most hackerspaces have very transparent legal structures and operate on a consensus model.

Museum 24

Museum North Carolina San Francisco Structure 24

Nonprofit Tech for Good

DECEMBER 14, 2022

You can collaborate with other nonprofits in your region or in your issue area to investigate whether you can all offer benefits for each other. How can you grow your email list to activate and build your organization’s power? Sometimes an organization can look to its own programs and mission-related activities for perks.

Donor 345

Donor Sponsor Accessibility Music 345

EveryAction

APRIL 1, 2016

Structuring Major Gifts Conference. Structuring Major Gifts Conference. Discover how these and other factors are irrevocably changing the ways donors structure their largest gifts of a lifetime. Less a conference than a facilitated retreat, the 2016 gathering will encourage the active and full engagement of all participants.

Calendar 177

Calendar Conference San Diego DC 177