Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

APRIL 24, 2014

Lately, I’ve been obsessed with methods for facilitating innovation for nonprofits. It isn’t a matter of facilitation techniques, but process design. The field of innovation practitioners, whether in corporate labs or working in social good sector, comes with lots of tool kits that offer different ways to help groups think of new (..)

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

APRIL 9, 2013

Last week I was in Chicago to facilitate a session about leadership and social media as part of Knight Digital Media Center’s Digital Strategy for Community Foundations and Nonprofits. ” Always Be Learning. Do a little research and see if your peer executive directors are using social media or mobile as a leadership tool.

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Bloomerang

NOVEMBER 15, 2023

It turns out one of the most important strategies for our time is the ability to effectively generate, exchange, and adopt new ways of doing things. Today, Claire will be the facilitator. The primary roles are idea generators and facilitators. Create a judgment-free zone. Banish assumptions and criticisms. Give everybody a turn.

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Bloomerang

FEBRUARY 23, 2024

This enables organizations to maintain an integrated view of their interactions with each individual, facilitating personalized outreach efforts. The Education Foundation of Lake County realized this when they adopted Bloomerang. They were able to streamline their development processes and monitor donor interactions more efficiently.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

AUGUST 17, 2021

A recent McKinsey survey suggests that 90% of organizations will adopt some version of the hybrid workplace. 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.

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Nonprofit Tech for Good

AUGUST 30, 2020

As event organizers have sought to eliminate as many physical touchpoints as possible amid COVID, mobile scoring has been widely adopted as a replacement to paper scorecards. Sponsorships are often a key piece of fundraising revenue for golf events and technology can facilitate a number of sleek, high-end exposure opportunities.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

FEBRUARY 25, 2007

Andy Roberts, who facilitates the wiki on wiki facilitation, points me to Wikipatterns. He describes it as: This was quite an exciting discovery, a group of people trying to put together a pattern language about wiki adoption. Adoption Lunch Menu. Anti Adoption All Wiki All The Time.

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Twenty Hats

OCTOBER 19, 2020

Lucky you for facilitating an important session at the wrong time. What I’ve discovered over these last many months, though, is that volunteer managers (and anyone, really) can shift the mood of the group by focusing on one area of facilitation: The warm-up. You don’t need to do anything complicated.

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sgEngage

JULY 15, 2023

Donor management allows organization leaders to be transparent with donors and volunteers within their network while simultaneously facilitating an environment for sustainable investment. Ultimately, every donor values and appreciates streamlined and consistent communication, often facilitated through monthly newsletters or periodic reports.

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Candid

MAY 7, 2021

Foundation staff participating in the discussion called out “a need to assess readiness for change—willingness, ability, and facilitative conditions—among individuals, teams and organizations” and a “fluidity required to engage in the continual evolution of process, understanding and adoption.”

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

APRIL 19, 2009

was adopted (or not) in the nonprofit workplace over the past 10-15 years, you'll notice that fear and silo culture are nothing new or unique as barriers to adoption. In a follow up email, she asked what might be different about the adoption issues for social media? In the past, adoption of technologies like Web 1.0

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Media Cause

APRIL 15, 2024

In the example above, the organization recently adopted HubSpot to fill the role of email marketing and CRM but still needed to integrate it fully into its processes. Then, arrows show how information moves from one platform to another, and a lack of arrows means there is no information moving between the platforms.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

APRIL 17, 2009

I also wondered about the historical context of change management and technology tool adoption, asking on Twitter if there case studies about the adoption of the typewriter in the workplace. being a tool for change facilitation - which it is. That lead me to the above noodling. Remington & Sons around 1875.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MAY 22, 2019

I am very grateful to Valerio Melandri who is the director of the festival for inviting me to participate as well as facilitate a maser class on modern wellbeing based on my book. He also touched on what skills and mindsets fundraisers need to adopt, including using Behavioral Economics as discussed in the book Change for Good.

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Bloomerang

JANUARY 10, 2022

Think of yourself, instead, as a “ philanthropy facilitator.” Make it about philanthropy facilitation – easing the way for people to joyfully, lovingly and passionately enact their own values. Don’t think of yourself as a “fundraiser.” That sounds like it’s all about money. And money is one of the top taboo topics in our society.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

OCTOBER 3, 2007

I contributed my two cents about wiki adoption off the top of my head and Rob did a great summary of my advice and also from others -- so I'm posting here for the next time I want to think about wiki adoption. A facilitator may also be useful. Sandboxes can be used for people to introduce themselves and get used to the wiki.

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DNL OmniMedia

AUGUST 1, 2023

AI technology adoption can improve decision-making across the following processes and more: Predictive analytics: As a major reason for AI adoption, predictive analytics can help clinicians leverage care insights and provide effective early patient intervention. Cloud integration is not limited to direct care providers.

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Volunteer Hub

SEPTEMBER 20, 2023

Personalized Onboarding Onboarding is one of the most important steps in successfully adopting volunteer management software. Data Migration and Integration Some organizations encounter challenges when adopting a new volunteer management solution, including migrating their volunteer data to the new platform.

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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. Coordinate efforts through a backbone support organization: Facilitate, convene, coordinate, mobilize. Moreover, the Church is diverse: racially, geographically, vocationally, socio-economically.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JULY 23, 2014

The summit will be an opportunity for deeper peer learning for nonprofit change makers in three theme areas: digital strategy , impact leadership , and the future of technology. I’m excited to be co-facilitating the Impact Leadership track with colleagues John Kenyon, Elissa Perry, and Londell Jackson.

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Candid

APRIL 25, 2023

As equity emerges as the lynchpin of decades of investment for generations of impact, Environmental Grantmakers Association (EGA) is clear on its role to facilitate the shift from discussion to tangible action and offers deep data to affect the course of racial equity as a relevant lens for environmental philanthropy.

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Candid

AUGUST 22, 2023

Facilitating intelligent funding connections (coming soon.) As advocates of responsible and effective adoption of new technology for the greater good , we are excited to develop advanced tools for people to access even more actionable information from a vast social sector.

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Forum One

DECEMBER 11, 2010

User adoption is a tricky beast. Naturally, clients tend to focus on the technical aspects that surround adoption: picking a solution that meets the list of user needs they have identified. But what about the people/social factors that influence adoption? Even better. Please share your own in the comments section.

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Bloomerang

NOVEMBER 8, 2023

Philanthropy is an effort an individual or organization undertakes based on an altruistic desire to improve human welfare, and wealthy individuals sometimes establish private foundations to facilitate their philanthropic efforts. In the U.S., It has become a global movement to recognize and promote philanthropy.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

APRIL 1, 2020

Our family with adopted senior rescue dog, “Tigger.” There are lots of useful resources created by nonprofits to help facilitate kindness and mutual aid. One thing our family did was adopt a senior dog from Muttville, a local animal rescue. ” Greetings from shelter in place California!

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Nimble AMS

FEBRUARY 17, 2022

It facilitates more unified reporting. The goal: to empower associations of all kinds to adopt innovative solutions and meet future needs. With Person Accounts, accounts show up just once in search results. Nimble AMS is built on the Salesforce platform and embraces the Person Accounts data model. Join the love.

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TechImpact

SEPTEMBER 13, 2013

While each organization varies in size, locales, and causes, technology can help facilitate workflow. Adopting an all-in-one cloud service solution can enable mobile access to work materials, team conversations, and shared calendars from a tablet, smartphone, or laptop.

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Candid

JUNE 16, 2022

Invest in, support, and learn from intermediary organizations, many of which can help you adopt participatory approaches to grantmaking. . Takeaways and discussion questions conclude each section, providing a useful tool for facilitating dialogues for reflection and learning. Supporting peer organizing and collective funder action.

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Saleforce Nonprofit

APRIL 22, 2022

Through their own reforestation, regeneration, and restoration projects around the world as well as the empowerment of others with the same goal, Plant-for-the-Planet aims to facilitate bringing back 1 trillion trees, helping us keep global warming below 2°C.

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Greater Giving

FEBRUARY 22, 2022

Facilitate this information-gathering process by enhancing your site’s user experience (UX). Check out the Homeward Pet Adoption Center for an example of a well-designed, streamlined donation form: The form provides an opportunity to contribute a recurring gift as well as several suggested donation amounts right off the bat.

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ASU Lodestar Center

JUNE 29, 2021

Working with a professional will help facilitate discussions, allow everyone to participate in the dialogue, and shape a process to create a plan of action. Remember, working with a consultant or a facilitator will require resources, which may be limited. This will help shape your conversations, strategies, and goals.

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Network for Good

MAY 17, 2021

The Salesforce.com Foundation offers 10 user licenses for free to nonprofits, which can make it an attractive option for organizations with limited budgets that are interested in adopting a software to streamline their fundraising. Integrate with other programs that facilitate donor communication, stewardship, and payment processing.

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Nonprofits Source

NOVEMBER 17, 2023

To make the process easier, partner with a product fundraiser provider who facilitates product ordering and distribution. For example, an animal shelter may state that its mission is to “provide happy homes for animals in need” and that money raised from a dog biscuit fundraiser will offset adoption costs so more pets can find loving owners.

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Cloud 4 Good

AUGUST 25, 2022

No longer just inherent to explicitly tech-based conglomerates, tech fuels everything from banks and financial services to food-delivery services and traditional retail as it facilitates the rapid migration online to meet the needs of a world spending more time at home than ever before.

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NonProfit Hub

APRIL 17, 2024

Use this template to facilitate the persona creation process: This template offers space to add demographic and behavioral information about your personas and strategize your intended messaging. Facilitate a stronger relationship by sharing compelling personal stories related to your nonprofit.

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Bloomerang

MARCH 4, 2024

Ease of use: A game changer Ease of use significantly affects the adoption and effectiveness of a CRM. The CRM you want should not only simplify report generation but also support automatic scheduling and feedback mechanisms, fostering a community among users and facilitating continuous improvement. “I

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MAY 17, 2016

I am serving as the Master Trainer and facilitator for the event. If you know my work, you know I have a strong connection to Cambodia because I adopted two beautiful children from the country who are now teenagers.

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