Get Fully Funded

FEBRUARY 23, 2021

You may feel like you are doing everything yourself, but at some point you will be collaborating with others on documents, and you will need Docs and Sheets. You can collaborate with your Board and other team members using Google Docs and Google Sheets and then store the final product in Drive. Ask before signing up!

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Amy Sample Ward

DECEMBER 15, 2010

However, these two alternative structures of human organization can interact in a variety of ways, both mutually beneficial and destructive. And it's fun! These are but two recent examples of how decentralized digital networks can have dramatic effects on centralized hierarchies.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

SEPTEMBER 8, 2016

It was great to watch her in action facilitating the creative, interactive, and fun program. The culminating project was for teams of campers to design and create a “ zine ,” on change making topics. Before the workshops, they facilitated a brainstorming and collaborative voting process to identify topics and teams.

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Tech Soup

SEPTEMBER 15, 2011

collaboration and communication and resource organization. The creators hope that the result is not only simpler, but more “ fun to use.” collaboration capabilities to the constituent management software. collaboration. collaborative whiteboards. Let’s look at some of the free and low-cost.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

FEBRUARY 8, 2013

The curriculum covered a lot of territory on social media and online collaborations, but every day after we came back from a delicious Indian meal, the after-lunch slump would set in. And to make it more fun, I awarded prizes. So as participants came back from lunch, I had them do Bollywood dance moves.

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Forum One

AUGUST 17, 2009

During the event we took full advantage of the Summit's virtual presence to post session notes, encourage ongoing collaboration and discussion with discussion boards, blog entries, and live chat, and to feature conference media such as podcasts, video montages, and photos. Tags: Collaboration Communication Strategy Technology.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JULY 7, 2009

And I think it’s good that we’re building such a fun, vibrant community…but not good enough. How can we develop audiences, cultivate care and empathy, and find alternate funding that doesn’t require public popularity so that important stories get told? What ecosystems facilitate serendipitous discovery and collaboration?

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

APRIL 8, 2015

Okay, I admit the improvisation work is a lot of fun, but there is a lot of learning embedded in the reflection and debriefs. I’ve done variations of this exercise as applied to emergence and collaboration in networks, most notably with Eugene Kim who lead a session at the Packard Foundation. (See Of course, we messed up.

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Museum 2.0

MARCH 24, 2020

Also, to all the people in that thread having some fun, that is another form of bravery. We've morphed ourselves into an alternate history. Some fun and games: Sharpen your pencils!?? To document the beginning of this new chapter, professionals from across the sector have begun collaborating on a cross-institutional study.

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Tech Soup

JUNE 30, 2011

Echoing Gore’s earlier emphasis on collaboration, Newell added, “The social model inside of it is collaborative and not competitive.” ” Science gets a swift kick of fun when you can learn about it by being propelled through the air in a game.

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Neon CRM

OCTOBER 13, 2023

Karaoke Karaoke is more than a fun bar night activity—it can be a nonprofit event with multiple revenue streams. Comedy Nights Comedy nights are a good way to bring some lighthearted fun to your organization. Yard Sales A yard sale is a fun way to get to know your supporters while also raising funds for a cause.

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Museum 2.0

OCTOBER 3, 2012

Her nerdy, entertaining videos about math evoke the power of free choice learning while poking gentle fun at the drudgery of how math is often taught in school. We often talk about museums as leaders in providing substantive, essential alternatives to formal schooling. We are reminded of how much fun learning can be.

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Have Fun - Do Good

MAY 27, 2009

Unfortunately, things don't always go according to plan, especially if you are starting something new, and you need to be able to come up with alternative solutions and course corrections, or you'll become frustrated and burned out very quickly. Collaboration. They map out every step that will take them to realize their vision.

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Neon CRM

SEPTEMBER 21, 2023

Charity Races like marathons, 5Ks, fun runs, or walkathons invite participants to register with your nonprofit and collect donations from their community, making every step count for your cause. Themed Costume Party A Themed Costume Party is an opportunity for supporters to dress up according to a chosen theme and enjoy a fun night out.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JANUARY 27, 2014

Sometimes you don’t have the ability to do a survey before, especially if it is an online webinar or a conference session. There are alternative ways to do research. It takes several iterations of your survey to develop one that works, but you really gain a good understanding of the level of your audience.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MARCH 4, 2020

As Hasan Osman points out in his Pyramid of Communication as you move to virtual modes of collaboration and communication, group cohesion and intimacy decreases.This makes it hard for people to fully engage with each other. But, you can also have some fun with virtual icebreakers that build trust and engagement.

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Museum 2.0

MARCH 9, 2007

She is an expert in alternate reality gaming (ARGs), the first woman to keynote at the Game Developers Conference, and she’s thrown down the gauntlet for a game designer to win a Nobel Prize in the sciences by 2032. Jane McGonigal wants to make it happen. She believes that people’s interest in gaming and in 2.0-style

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Have Fun - Do Good

APRIL 4, 2008

Last week I had the pleasure of facilitating a career counseling session for a group of Stanford students who were spending their "alternative spring break" meeting with social entrepreneurs in the Bay Area. Generation Y spring break alternative social entrepreneurship Any places where they got stuck were "black holes."

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

AUGUST 17, 2009

And like last year's ROI Poetry Slam , our session will be interactive, thought-provoking, and dare I say, fun! While they're scrambling to figure out "new media" alternate entities spring up around them that exist only online. In addition, there's be lots of learning shared freely. Is one better than the other?

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Museum 2.0

MARCH 8, 2011

Nikki created "The Ministry of Rules" --a shadow organization that existed for one week during half-term break, staffed by visitors who served as "Inspectors" investigating, exploring, and poking fun at the rules that make museums and galleries go. I spoke with Nikki this week to learn more about the Ministry and their fun and games.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

SEPTEMBER 3, 2009

And like last year's ROI Poetry Slam , our session will be interactive, thought-provoking, and dare I say, fun! While they're scrambling to figure out "new media" alternate entities spring up around them that exist only online. In addition, there's be lots of learning shared freely. Is one better than the other?

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Museum 2.0

JUNE 3, 2009

I just returned from the Creativity and Collaboration retreat (C2) , a NAME/AAM program that I've been helping develop for about a year and a half. We had fun. But if you are interested in helping develop camp-like alternatives to traditional conferences, a "camp" track, let me know. It was incredible. We got inspired.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

SEPTEMBER 19, 2017

Virtual meetings are not well implemented can mean a loss of productivity or create collaborative overload. As Hasan Osman points out in his Pyramid of Communication as you move to virtual modes of collaboration and communication, group cohesion and intimacy decreases.This makes it hard for people to fully engage with each other.

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NTEN

AUGUST 21, 2009

And like last year's ROI Poetry Slam , our session will be interactive, thought-provoking, and dare I say, fun! While they're scrambling to figure out "new media" alternate entities spring up around them that exist only online. In addition, there's be lots of learning shared freely. Submitted by Dave Cohn.

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Museum 2.0

JANUARY 18, 2008

This week marks one month of live activity for the Tech Virtual Museum Workshop , a collaborative, online platform for exhibit development. But museum folks, no matter how much we want to collaborate, don't move quickly. I went into this project skeptical about the use of Second Life as a collaborative design platform.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

OCTOBER 28, 2010

Encourage supporters to leverage their social networks for alternative giving. Alternative giving is a fun way to turn awesome supporters into awesome fundraisers! Enhance team collaboration by scheduling and assigning tweets and monitoring.

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ASU Lodestar Center

MARCH 30, 2011

Tan , Public Allies Arizona Program Manager ASU Lodestar Center As Ive done every March for the past four years, I participated as a Team Leader in United Ways Alternative Spring Break (ASB) in the metro Washington D.C. From the students perspective, there are many compelling reasons for coming to Alternative Spring Break.

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Tech Soup

MARCH 11, 2014

I’d like to see email, file sharing, accounting, and other standard collaboration tools in the cloud and well supported. These organizations will have legacy systems that do not have a good cloud-based alternative – typically a mission critical database. Just for Fun. TechSoup: What do you like to do for fun?

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Tech Soup

JUNE 28, 2012

Plus, auctions are fun and exciting! Alternatively, Acteva offers a service to make finding quality packages very easy. It'll be fun, and it's likely to. Auctions have a lot of potential to make an event more profitable. There are 200,000 to 300,000. fundraising auctions hosted annually, yielding about $14.6 dedication.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MARCH 27, 2013

Echoing Justice is an action research project of the Echo Justice Communications Collaborative—a multi-year initiative to incubate, innovate, and implement movement building communications strategies that strengthen racial justice alliances and their impact. Some more alternatives and discussion from nonprofit folks here. Retweet Lab.

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Bloomerang

NOVEMBER 13, 2021

But we’re going to have some fun over the next hour or so, for sure. And that might involve collaboration, saying, “We acknowledge that there are others in the community that do this better or more effectively. I personally love using bookmark-type magnet postcard-type, I guess, handouts or alternative needs lists.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

AUGUST 24, 2009

It can be fun. Moreover deadlines give you and your collaborators in fundraising (the donors) something to rally against. That’s where partners and collaborations can be huge. Even with the best of intentions other organizations, especially media organizations (even alternative ones), are viewed as with suspicion.

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Tech Soup

MARCH 17, 2014

On the evolution of TechSoup, I like John Markoff’s New York Times piece “When Tech Innovation Has a Social Mission” and the more personal New York Times memoir A Serious Side of Fun. From 1971 to 1974 he was the founding editor of the excellent New Times alternative newspaper in Phoenix, where I first found out about him.

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Have Fun - Do Good

FEBRUARY 24, 2009

What does it mean to be a leader working for social change, as a community organizer, where the emphasis is on collaboration, to build upon the natural skills and talents already present within the community and to share power? You can listen to the show online on Echoing Green , or subscribe via iTunes. Episode 7 1.

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Museum 2.0

JANUARY 11, 2011

But overall, I found his approach effective and strongly preferable to the common alternative--an anthology of case studies devoid of connections or overriding conclusions. These managers, directors, and leaders spend their time encouraging internal collaboration rather than furthering their own pet projects. So what did I learn?

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Nonprofit Tech for Good

SEPTEMBER 6, 2022

Loomly is an online social media calendar that allows multiple users to collaborate from one master calendar. Boardable enables boards and committees to easily schedule, meet, and collaborate virtually or in person. Dropbox is a cloud storage service that is frequently used for file sharing and collaboration. See also Asana.

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Nonprofit Tech for Good

JUNE 29, 2021

Loomly is an online social media calendar that allows multiple users to collaborate from one master calendar. Dropbox is a cloud storage service (sometimes referred to as an online backup service) that is frequently used for file sharing and collaboration. Loomly :: loomly.com. ManyChat :: manychat.com. Dulingo :: duolingo.com.

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