sgEngage

MARCH 17, 2023

Women are drawn to an expanded definition of philanthropy, tapping into all their resources—not just money but also their time, expertise, advocacy, and networks—to support the causes they care about. Here are a few research-informed insights into how women approach generosity and how philanthropy can better engage with them.

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Honduras Philanthropy Iran Michigan 79

ASU Lodestar Center

JULY 26, 2011

That sweatshirt is a reflection of my experiences in a lot of ways, and I think it's a symbol that unites a lot of us in the nonprofit sector, beyond Public Allies. I often found myself asking, "What do you mean I have to create a volunteer program, or put together an advocacy training, or plan a Halloween carnival? Great and hard.

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Reflection Service Arizona Student 82

Blue Avocado

JANUARY 23, 2024

Alternately, you might be thinking about building an advisory committee around advocacy. Oversight—Will the organization’s staff facilitate committee meetings, or will the committee elect a chair/co-chairs? For more on the role of advocacy in nonprofits, check out this article. ︎

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Voice Community Structure Nonprofit 92

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

NOVEMBER 17, 2008

I am here in Romania for a conference hosted by the Soros Foundation as part of their pilot advocacy through blogging program. I leave Romania early in the morning and I'm probably too tired to be writing something called a reflection, but I better do it now or risk loosing it. This afternoon we played the Social Media Game.

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Romania Social Media Game Reflection 50

Care2

MAY 11, 2011

We so often focus on learning from innovative online campaigns that we miss out on opportunities to integrate offline cause communities and grassroots advocacy. Building buzz and press for an advocacy action. Facilitating face-time and team building for your regional staff. Diverse Goals. Raising funds. Building local chapters.

Advocacy 72

Advocacy Community Build Storytelling 72

Saleforce Nonprofit

APRIL 22, 2022

It is not a time to reflect, it is a time to act. At Salesforce.org, we are proud to see how much of our community — whether it’s our employees, our partners, or the nonprofits we support — is jumping in through funding, advocacy, or volunteering. Earth Day reminds each and every one of us of our responsibility to the planet.

Ireland 97

Ireland Challenge Empowerment Local 97

Classy

MAY 3, 2021

Savory’s mission to facilitate the large-scale regeneration of the world’s grasslands is fueled by the generous support of its donors, and recurring giving has become a crucial source of revenue in their goal to influence the management of 1 billion hectares by 2025. Full suite of advocacy materials. Annual meeting with Allan Savory.

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Donor Sudan Cancer Gift 84

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JANUARY 4, 2016

I had a wonderful break – filled with fun, family, walking, hiking, reading, quiet, and reflection. One annual ritual is to create “To Do/Not To Do/Reflection” notebook where I use modified bullet journaling to track my progress. I also designed and facilitated a six month peer learning cohort with colleague Stephanie Rudat.

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Iowa Facilitation Teach San Antonio 50

The Modern Nonprofit

MAY 1, 2024

The events can also effectively raise funds through ticket sales, sponsorships, and donations for organizations that provide services and advocacy to advance AAPIs. The theme should clearly reflect the purpose of honoring and highlighting AAPI cultures. Be sure to recruit knowledgeable facilitators.

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Celebrate Education Fundraising Culture 59

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

SEPTEMBER 29, 2015

Grantees, Experts, and Partners at the end of the Brainerd Foundation’s 21st Century Advocacy Design Lab. Here’s what I learned about the facilitating design thinking processes: What Is A Design Lab? As part of its sunset strategy , the foundation is developing an initiative to support 21st Century Advocacy.

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Design Strategy Facilitation Advocacy 50

DNL OmniMedia

MARCH 13, 2023

In addition to optimizing the software and tools you use to facilitate large amounts of data, keeping data clean is essential to ensuring you can understand and accurately report it. For example, you could filter your donors by which advocacy campaigns they supported in the past by referencing the petitions a donor previously signed.

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Data Management Database Software 52

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

OCTOBER 18, 2011

Engage in advocacy campaigns. I had the opportunity to facilitate 3 world café sessions on this topic this morning at the GEO: Growing Social Impact in a Networked World funder conference. How can networks facilitate that? Deepen agreement on a shared political frame. Marshall and increase resources and capacity.

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Network Social Facilitation Roles 92

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JULY 24, 2012

Strategic integration into children’s health advocacy. Support national partner Facebook chats, blog carnivals, and other networked advocacy activities. One of the successes was how most participants are learning to balance the strategic with the spontaneous of social media as described in this blog post. Written social media policy.

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Network Build Learning Strategy 97

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JUNE 13, 2011

The story is shared via an intermediary – journalists, bloggers, or influencers: Metrics reflecting the sharing of the message with the target audience. The document includes examples from different industries, including nonprofit organizations and for advocacy campaigns.

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Measure Social Media Media Metrics 115

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

NOVEMBER 19, 2013

The convening used participatory methods to identify topics for small group conversations related to the theme and was expertly facilitated by Allen Gunn from Aspiration. ( I wrote a reflection last week about the facilitation techniques here ). We discussed some of the social media monitoring tools.

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Social Media Channel Data Media 100

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JANUARY 25, 2011

Daniel facilitated a network mapping activity with NNF’s 10 education advocacy staff from regional offices and headquarters. For example, all clusters associated with formal education or advocacy. Some reflection questions to generate insights. The next step was to look for patterns as a group. Observations.

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Network Map Exercise Nonprofit 124

Bloomerang

AUGUST 28, 2023

This CRM is accompanied by fundraising, advocacy, and marketing solutions. In addition to comprehensive donor profiles and data-tracking technology, they offer other built-in solutions that help organizations with marketing, advocacy, fundraising, and more. CharityEngine offers all-in-one nonprofit software.

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Profile Software Nonprofit Donor 96

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

APRIL 30, 2015

” I facilitated an interactive featured session on why and how leaders should be engaged on social as well as other insiders (employees, board, and volunteers). Building Employee Advocacy on Social : This free e-book by Neil Schaffer offers excellent tips for implementing an employee champion program on social channels.

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Social Policy Arkansas Social Media 50

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

SEPTEMBER 13, 2009

I tweeted the link to the original and one colleague, Michelle Murrain, wrote a reflection called " Evaluation and Being A Learning Organization.". The latter reflects an approach we refer to as “real-time” evaluation. Over the past four years we have been shifting from evaluation for proof or accountability (“Did the program work?”)

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Evaluation Learning Foundation Reflection 86

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JANUARY 9, 2012

There are, however, other equally important aspects that are often missed in the numbers alone, including the fundamental changes that a leader, organization, or community experiences through their involvement in organizing and advocacy.”

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Metrics Fund Build Social 114

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JULY 28, 2011

Spectragram is a facilitation technique I learned from Allen Gunner at Aspiration. Reflections. Spectragram. You have people line up in the room based on whether they agree or disagree with a statement. Being a “Guide on the Side&# versus “Sage on the Stage&# produces richer, more engaging peer learning.

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Case Study Social Media Studies Integration 98

Nimble AMS

OCTOBER 16, 2023

When a member completes volunteer hours, all work is reflected in their account. For example, you can use the feature to track an advocacy day letter-writing campaign (job) or an advocacy day event on Monday or Tuesday (shift). Our solution can streamline the management of volunteer jobs and shifts.

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Badge Registration Search Integration 149

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

NOVEMBER 16, 2011

We have designed and been delivering “ Friending the Finish Line ” with the goals of having organizations create an integrated social media strategy into their overall communications plan and as a way to accelerate the progress of their children’s health care advocacy work and create a peer networked learning community.

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Social Media Training Train Network 97

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JANUARY 1, 2009

There are many things in my life and work that I need to streamline, and an important skill to facilitate this is learn how to say no. Free Agent Social Fundraising: I am very interested in seeing how people can take action on their own, outside of an organizational context, because of the connectedness that social media has facilitated.

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Goal ROI Wiki Metrics 50

Everyaction

DECEMBER 12, 2017

Join other data experts, academics, practitioners, and social sector leaders for two days of skillfully-led sessions on topics ranging from aligning practice with policy to creating a culture of data, and how Silicon Valley is facilitating data practices in civil society. Research / @SSIReview. The Corps Network National Conference.

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Calendar Conference Las Vegas DC 85

Bloomerang

FEBRUARY 1, 2022

I’ve managed campaigns ranging from about $5 million to over a billion dollars in health care, education, arts and culture, and advocacy sectors. So first is how we can reflect on the importance of diversity to our board’s work, specifically fundraising. How many people attended this event for the advocacy?

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Leadership Fundraising Gift Slides 64

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

AUGUST 3, 2008

Zandria did a fabulous job of facilitating the session. Johanna Bates , a gen y and nonprofit techie, who works with a health care advocacy nonprofit, has recently take up blogging. Her writing is reflective and brilliant. So, having this opportunity listen was very valuable.

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Blogger Change Social Philanthropy 50

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

DECEMBER 2, 2011

.” And, I did, in the form of curating tweets on these sessions: Driving Social Innovation. Reach and Impact: Where to Aim and Where to Start. Impact Investing. Driving Community Solutions: Impact and Scale. It resonated a lot with the themes in my book, and no surprise that DoSomething.org is one of the featured case studies.

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Reflection Social Measure Case Study 97

Bloomerang

MAY 21, 2021

It may be that, for some organizations, a really large strategic planning process would include hiring an outside facilitator, doing a. Hiring an outside facilitator, spending six to nine months, and, you know, reviewing all of your programs. Well, does it reflect our mission? oh, thank you for that.

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Video Nonprofit San Francisco Question 127

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

FEBRUARY 18, 2010

I also had the opportunity to facilitate a large group session about whether CEOs should use social media or not and attended a tweet up with David Meerman Scott. You can find my materials and slides on the workshop wiki - CSR and NGO workshops, but always like to do a reflective wrap up post. No wonder I am still tired!

India 96

India NGO Social Media Reflection 96

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

AUGUST 9, 2011

As part of my work as Visiting Scholar at the David and Lucile Packard Foundation, I’m facilitating several peer exchanges on the topics of measurement, social media, and networked nonprofits. Momsrising works with dozens of advocacy groups to extend their network without pulling themselves off task.

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Results Facebook Metrics Measure 115

Forum One

JANUARY 26, 2024

Regularly update your content to reflect the latest industry trends and changes. Additionally, a well-structured sitemap can reveal essential metadata, such as the last modification date of a page, facilitating timely updates in search engine databases. Back up your content with credible sources, citations, and references.

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International Strategy Search Structure 90

Bloomerang

SEPTEMBER 24, 2021

The things that I tell you will not stick unless you are able to reflect upon your own experience and go, “Ah, yes, I think this is what Julie is talking about. ” That reflection is really important. . Or maybe you’re really looking for larger scale, a change, right, systems-level policy advocacy change.

Community 85

Community Video Slides Survey 85

Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

APRIL 8, 2007

I’ve emerged from this week’s frenzy of buzzwords like “blogging,&# “open API,&# “e-advocacy,&# “municipal wireless&# and “social networking&# not surprised at how much things have changed, really, but how much they have stayed exactly the same. .&# This was in the solidly web 1.0

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Summary Consultant NTC Technology 100

Have Fun - Do Good

DECEMBER 28, 2006

From her Berkeley-based office, Melinda Kramer facilitates an international network of women leaders. So our first exchange that we did with Global Exchange was called "Transformative Advocacy in Bolivia." It was really tremendous.

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Green Global Action Network 40

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

SEPTEMBER 1, 2006

She shares her reflections on what she heard and visions for the field on the N-TEN blog. Jo Lee of Citizenspeak was a guest writer for the N-TEN blog and reported about the Advocacy Dev III gathering in the Bay Area earlier in the month and some of the issues raised. My full review is coming soon.)

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Blogher Blogger Disaster Conference 50

EveryAction

APRIL 13, 2023

Welcome to another installment of Thursday Thoughts, a dedicated space for our friends in nonprofit sector leadership to reflect on reports, statistics, and other trends—because when our community shares knowledge, we can all do more good.  Marium Navid is a campaigner and strategist at fundraising, advocacy, and marketing firm M+R.

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Volunteer Experiment Build Nonprofit 177