article thumbnail

Alaska: And The Earth Shook Under My Feet

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

At the end, she asked the room to reflect quietly and write down “What conversation are willing to commit to bring back to your organization?&# The room was silent for five minutes – no talking. Then off to an evening session at PRSA-Alaska Chapter at the Providence Center Cancer Center to talk about the Networked Nonprofit.

Alaska 96
article thumbnail

Funding And Grant Resources For Nonprofits Serving The LGBTQ+ Community

Bloomerang

Pride Month is a great time to celebrate and reflect on the work activists and nonprofit organizations are doing to support the LGBTQ+ community. Areas served: Alaska, Idaho, Montana, Oregon, Washington. With that in mind, I wanted to share a list of funding and grant resources available for nonprofits serving that community.

Grant 121
professionals

Sign Up for our Newsletter

This site is protected by reCAPTCHA and the Google Privacy Policy and Terms of Service apply.

article thumbnail

Storytelling for Grant Writers: 10 Tactical & Stylistic Tips

Achieve

While you should avoid “positivity whitewashing” your community’s problems in a way that obscures your organization’s need for resources, your proposal should reflect an urgent, forward-looking position rather than get stalled out in problems. There are nuanced distinctions between strength- and deficit-based writing.

article thumbnail

Announcing My Next Book: The Happy, Healthy Nonprofit

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

Not long after, I was leading a workshop in Alaska at a nonprofit conference, and we had another chance to connect. Ways to encourage individual and group reflection and learning. We talked about the need for being more mindful of our technology. Effective team work habits and communication. Productive and effective meetings.

Alaska 50
article thumbnail

What Improvisation Can Teach Social Change Leaders

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

Okay, I admit the improvisation work is a lot of fun, but there is a lot of learning embedded in the reflection and debriefs. This reminded me of Margaret Wheatley, who was the keynote speaker at a conference in Alaska where I was doing a workshop a few years ago. Not great as many of reflected. Of course, we messed up.

Teach 50
article thumbnail

We’re listening: Updates to the race and ethnicity options on the Candid profile

Candid

For example, since 1997 federal standards have called for the collection of data on Native Hawaiian/Pacific Islander identity separate from Asian identity, and included “Alaska Native” in the category for American Indians. The government’s recent proposal for updating the 1997 standards – open for public comment until April 12, 2023!

Profile 98
article thumbnail

A History of How Modern ESG Came to Be

sgEngage

Additionally, this decade saw several environmental disasters at the hands of companies including a massive oil spill in Prudhoe Bay, Alaska. Read more about the history of Earth Day here. . . This disaster in particular lead to the founding of the Coalition of Environmentally Responsible Companies, also known as CERES.

History 61