Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

OCTOBER 2, 2014

I love teaching (and learning) and it was a pleasure to work with students, nonprofits, and faculty. One thing I realized is that training social workers receive as part of their education is also very relevant for change makers inside of nonprofits, consultants, and trainers. Training Design'

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Eric Jacobsen Blog

OCTOBER 19, 2023

“Great leaders are great students, and the world is their classroom,” says Damon Lembi , author of the new book The Learn-It-all Leader. Lembi is CEO of Learnit, a global leader in corporate training solutions that has upskilled more than 1.8 They are information extractors. million professionals during the past twenty-seven years.

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Volunteer Hub

SEPTEMBER 20, 2023

From a responsive customer support team to ongoing training and software updates, these elements play a crucial role in your success. Personalized Onboarding Onboarding is one of the most important steps in successfully adopting volunteer management software. Here is a breakdown of our sales process at VolunteerHub.

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Association Analytics

MARCH 13, 2024

This blog provides an overview of how to establish your scoring model, establish a team of data champions, and adopt a regular reporting routine so that your association is set up for success. Let’s get started! Why Is Engagement Scoring So Important? Where is the natural endpoint and what stops fit in between?

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EveryAction

OCTOBER 31, 2016

Black Cat Rescue is a no-kill cat rescue organization in Boston that strives to change those odds for black cats, who face unique obstacles when trying to get adopted. Born This Way Foundation. and around the world by combating large-scale cruelties such as puppy mills, animal fighting, factory farming, and the wildlife trade.

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sgEngage

JUNE 3, 2024

The firm is paying for her to travel every 4–to–6 weeks as part of a training program to become a top sales rep. Most of us have adopted this approach for our employees and it’s just as powerful for board members, volunteers, and advocates—of any age. Jillian, 25, lives in the NYC metro area and is a CPA at a large accounting firm.

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Saleforce Nonprofit

SEPTEMBER 16, 2021

Mapping an End-to-End Student Journey with Education Cloud: Hear from Matt Echison, chief information officer and senior vice president at Ivy Tech Community College , about how the Indiana-based community college system created a 360-degree view of their students across each learner’s entire college journey.

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Whole Whale

MAY 16, 2022

Prediction: in 5 years using an AI writing tool that will be trained on your style and tone will become the standard. Train like a champion, diet, exercise, or take performance-enhancing supplements? More sophisticated tools can actually write larger sections of text based on prompts in a way that mimics the style they are trained on.

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Cloud 4 Good

JULY 6, 2021

This tool is a game-changer in elevating the advancement, recruitment and admissions, student success, communication, and other critical business capabilities of your institution. You can use the competency model to determine gaps between your staffing and your staffing needs which will help you develop your training and enablement plan.

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Qgiv

MARCH 30, 2022

Do you need a lot of training, or just the basics? From accountants to college students, from administrators working in construction offices to legal professionals, many are considering new career directions to gain more meaningful work and to serve the greater good in their communities. Would volunteering help?

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JULY 24, 2018

While it is behind the paywall, we looked at some early adopters and how they use ChatBots for fundraising, identified specific challenges, and lay out steps to get started. HR leaders and employees to better understand how companies are adopting AI in the workplace. It is part of a special report on AI for Good.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

OCTOBER 2, 2013

That training was either expensive or a hodge podge of low cost webinars and free video tutorials available on the web. In the 60 minutes piece, it is referred to the flipped classroom or peer instruction a mindset that directs attention away from teachers and puts it squarely on the students and their learning.

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Saleforce Nonprofit

SEPTEMBER 16, 2021

Mapping an End-to-End Student Journey with Education Cloud: Hear from Matt Echison, chief information officer and senior vice president at Ivy Tech Community College , about how the Indiana-based community college system created a 360-degree view of their students across each learner’s entire college journey.

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sgEngage

OCTOBER 20, 2023

These options allow private schools to expand student recruitment and help reduce tuition delinquency by increasing payers’ ownership of their tuition cycle. These communications are handled by trained professionals with the utmost compassion and respect. How a school takes payments also significantly impacts timeliness.

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Neon CRM

JUNE 9, 2023

While many schools are adopting this approach, few educators have the funding for an entire curriculum shift. An organization that wanted to provide value to its members could host a series of webinars around teaching reading as a science, publish whitepapers for its members, and provide resources those educators can use with their students.

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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. So is implementing software a persuasive appeal? You bet it is.

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Volunteer Hub

AUGUST 1, 2021

Our volunteer program plays an important role in providing the MacEwan student body with much-needed resources, services, and programs that would otherwise be unattainable without the support and commitment of volunteers,” said Tosheena Thompson, Volunteer Manager for Students Association of MacEwan University.

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Eric Jacobsen Blog

MAY 11, 2021

Success with early adopters can be misleading and give founders unwarranted confidence to expand. In this way, the show mirrors the case study approach we use to train students at Harvard Business School. False Promises. Speed Traps.

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Get Fully Funded

MARCH 30, 2021

Is your Ideal Volunteer a college student with a lot of enthusiasm for staffing pet adoption events or tutoring middle-schoolers? For high school and college students, where are the nearby schools? If you are seeking college students, schools have places to post volunteer opportunities. Provide orientation and training.

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Beneblog: Technology Meets Society

JUNE 23, 2014

This is one reason why our Human Rights Field Team is supporting LGBTI rights groups from the Caribbean to the African regions with targeted Martus and capacity building trainings. We want to see that students with disabilities have equal opportunities in Science, Technology, Engineering, and Mathematics (STEM) fields.

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Tech Soup

JUNE 29, 2014

It might sound like I’m describing a typical college student's house, but I’m actually talking about one of the many workspaces in Zappos’ enormous headquarters in Las Vegas. Here’s what I think libraries and nonprofits can adopt into their own organizational culture: A Mentorship Program. Ping pong tables.

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Tech Soup

JULY 16, 2013

According to the report, 99% of public libraries offer access to technology, and 90% report offering some sort of digital literacy skills training. The good news is that digital literacy is becoming part of lesson plans for K-12 students in public schools. Additionally, some students don't have digital access at home.

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ASU Lodestar Center

JUNE 22, 2012

continuing weekly series, each Friday we invite a nonprofit scholar, student, or professional to. So … when the Sarbanes-Oxley Act (SOX) was adopted by Congress in 2002, there just wasn’t much history to help nonprofits understand its impact – on them. Basic financial training for board members. As part of a.

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Connection Cafe

APRIL 2, 2019

How do you engage with former students beyond asking them for money? Alumni engagement is particularly important right now as advancement offices accommodate the effects student debt has on alumni philanthropic capacity. Everyone is talking about alumni engagement. For many institutions, the topic raises more questions than answers.

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Tech Soup

JUNE 29, 2014

It might sound like I’m describing a typical college student's house, but I’m actually describing one of the many workspaces in Zappos’ enormous headquarters in Las Vegas. Here’s what I think libraries and nonprofits can adopt into their own organizational culture: A Mentorship Program. Ping pong tables.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JULY 4, 2011

On Friday, I tripped down the rabbit hole of Google + field test with many other social media early adopters and nonprofit technology (#nptech folks) who were kicking the tires. Google + is Google’s new social sharing platform. This is a big issue for teachers who don’t want to friend their students for obvious reasons.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MARCH 19, 2012

He founded Shabakat Al Ordon , the first networked nonprofit that I discovered in the Middle East and that provides youth ICT training 300 communities in Jordan. Azzam whose team had won 3rd place in the Microsoft’s Imagine Cup , a three-year, $3 million competitive grant program for student technology and social entrepreneurs.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JUNE 19, 2015

And there is Jack Andraka , a high school student who got obsessed with finding a cure for cancer and created a test that can detect pancreatic cancer. Isadora Faber, 14-year-old Brazilian student who launched an online Classroom Diary on Facebook to discuss problems in her school, such as broken desks and bathrooms without toilet seats.

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Connection Cafe

OCTOBER 25, 2013

Hey, this is our yearly fundraiser, won’t you gives us money to help current students have a great experience at our university? Valencia College Foundation fine-tuned their ask down to a fund that would provide scholarships to first generation students. Fundraiser Training & Support. Team Captains Help Spread the Word.

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Get Fully Funded

FEBRUARY 23, 2021

Most people you work with, from students to volunteers to Board members, will already know how to use them. Online training courses abound, and your bookkeeper or board treasurer will likely be familiar with Quickbooks. Google products are widely used in the nonprofit and for-profit sectors. But there are many other options.

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NonProfit Hub

OCTOBER 16, 2015

Beth has over 30 years working in the nonprofit sector in technology, training, capacity building, evaluation, fundraising and marketing. She has trained thousands of nonprofits around the world. What can we learn from nonprofits who have been early adopters reaching out to and engaging Gen Z donors? Gen Z by the Numbers.

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ASU Lodestar Center

MAY 25, 2012

As part of a continuing weekly series, each Friday we invite a nonprofit scholar, student, or professional to highlight current research reports or studies and discuss how they can inform and improve day-to-day nonprofit practice. was recently adopted in Massachusetts. Patsy Kraeger, Ph.D. Welcome to Research Friday !

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Gyrus

SEPTEMBER 30, 2016

Systems are capable of not only organizing Instructor-Led Training (ILT), but they now house E-Learnings, Gamification, Mobile Learnings, and alternative learning objects. In this moment of time, we as an industry are shifting focus, from ways to effectively deliver the highest quality training, towards a new vantage altogether.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

DECEMBER 27, 2007

My husband and I adopted two beautiful children, Harry and Sara, from Cambodia. If you are a regular reader of this blog, you may remember that my family and I sponsor a college student, Leng Sopharath, with the help of many of you. These students are so dedicated that some meet on their own to study on weekends. Sign up here.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

AUGUST 4, 2009

The objective of the The Innovation Exchange is to facilitate rapid and widespread adoption of environmental innovation in business. Where together with their partner, Net Impact , EDF embeds trained MBA students who identify energy efficiency improvements that can cut costs and reduce emissions.

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Get Fully Funded

JANUARY 17, 2022

A child advocacy organization might aim to double the number of volunteers trained to protect children in the court system. If your Board adopted a budget for the fiscal year, your fundraising goal is the same as the total expenditures, plus at least 5 percent for cash reserves. When you strive, you thrive.

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NTEN

NOVEMBER 3, 2011

As an educator (and a social media neophyte), I was dismayed that – despite the scant five students in class – the instructor never asked us to introduce ourselves and discuss why we were there. Even though I've been working in nonprofit technology for more than 12 years, I'm a consistent late adopter and a reliable skeptic.

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