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Trainer’s Notebook: Facilitating Brainstorming Sessions for Nonprofit Work

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Does your work at a nonprofit include facilitating meetings or trainings? Looking for new techniques to add to your facilitator’s toolbox? The most critical thing that distinguishes brainstorming from other types of facilitated group activity is the absence negative feedback. Basic Approaches. Before the Session.

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The Nonprofit’s Guide for Alternatives to GoFundMe

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That’s why peer-to-peer fundraising might just be the crowdfunding alternative your organization is looking for! Many people view crowdfunding and peer-to-peer fundraising as being very similar fundraising methods. As an alternative, peer-to-peer fundraising is a great option for nonprofits. Best Peer-to-Peer Alternative.

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Nonprofit Innovation Toolkits: Methods To Invent, Adopt, and Adapt Ideas to Deliver Better Results

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

Imagine scenarios of use, and provoke and inspire alternatives. Kimbell’s toolkit includes the 7 best practices for design thinking: 1. Tell stories and make maps. Work at human scales and connect across networks of people and things. Look at both the detail and the big picture. Make things to explore, test and learn.

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[ASK AN EXPERT] If Donors Giving From Donor-Advised Funds Want Anonymity, How Do You Cultivate Them?

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A DAF is one such method; there are all sorts of other opportunities as well (you might simply direct them to your “Ways to Give” page). Partner with marketing to promote giving through alternative vehicles, always letting donors know you’d also appreciate them informing you directly of their gift. That’s where you come in.

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Participatory Grantmaking: I’m in! Now what?

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Alternatively, you could forsake a participant application process in favor of shifting power immediately. Methods of participation that are easy, meaningful, and joyful. You or the facilitators can ask participants to identify biases and point out any discrepancies or gaps that emerge as the group moves towards decision making.

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10 reasons Nimble AMS clients love Person Accounts

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In alternative data models, however, the same person can show up twice, meaning that both the account and contact would appear in search results. It facilitates more unified reporting. Centering all individuals in one method streamlines the process. It supports quick and easy search results. It provides consistency.

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Your Guide to Credit Card Processing for Nonprofits

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While previous generations might have preferred to give via check, cash, or even over the phone, those older analogue giving methods are on their way out, especially as even well-established donors switch to supporting their favorite causes online. Offering these methods is important for catering to younger donors.

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