Kindful

JUNE 8, 2021

Because no one wants board members approving budgets that they don’t fully understand or making decisions to expand staff when they aren’t clear if the budget can withstand additional salaries and benefits or voting on fundraising approaches when they don’t understand cost/benefit analysis. Here’s how you can build that board.

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Build Literacy Nonprofit Exercise 109

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

SEPTEMBER 29, 2014

I don’t always have a lot of participants who are eager to do exercises digitally, but when I do I can work with them to adapt the exercise. There are apps that allow participants to use “ virtual sticky notes ” to do an exercise but these are not well designed for group collaboration.

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Facilitation Arts Pakistan Exercise 139

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

NOVEMBER 6, 2014

As a trainer and subject matter expert, I fight a big battle when designing a workshop. Balancing the amount of content delivery with exercises and right sizing given the available time for the workshop. The format of the concept poster was more open then the close-ended set of exercises and questions on the worksheet.

Active 105

Active Activism Activities Integration 105

ASU Lodestar Center

OCTOBER 20, 2021

In 2018 analysis by Ben Gose , a reported 57% of nonprofits doubted their ability to continue meeting demand, motiving many nonprofit leaders to consider collaboration with other nonprofits and across sector lines in order to increase organizational capacity. Layer one, internal assessment, is an exercise in rigorous self-reflection.

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Collaboration Los Angeles Strategy Indiana 98

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

APRIL 13, 2017

In Hartford, I had challenge of a large number of participants, a “master class” type set up, and but a room and time constraints that limited the amount of full group interactive exercises. I experimented with using the polls as part of the opening exercise in the workshop. I did not have a remote audience. Conference. Stay tuned.

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Interaction Audience Poll Tools 81

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JULY 25, 2017

If time is available, also do a plus/delta exercise with participants as a close out to the session. Measure, evaluate, reflect, and improve. We did a classic brainstorming/SWOT analysis exercise related to our topics. Here are few nonprofit toolkits that can help you adapt this exercise to your nonprofit.

Participatory 76

Participatory Facilitation Technique Asia 76

Gyrus

NOVEMBER 3, 2016

The Importance of Reports. Reasonably, one of the strongest value offerings for a Learning Management System (LMS) is its reporting capabilities. When most people think about reporting in the Learning Industry, they think about ROI justification. The possibilities of this capability are virtually endless.

Learning 61

Learning Organization Statistics Cleveland 61

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

NOVEMBER 12, 2015

Help the participants narrow down topics to discuss or work in small group exercises (replaces sticky dot voting and visualize the vote technique). Help participants vote on concepts or reports as part of a report out to stimulate discussion or reflection (replaces sticky dot voting and visualize the vote technique).

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Poll Technique Group Tools 50

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

OCTOBER 2, 2013

Descriptions of key digital measurement concepts, terminology and analysis techniques. Deep-dives into Google Analytics reports with specific examples for evaluating your digital marketing performance. Micro lessons on video, exercises, coaching, measure progress and put it online for free.

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Analytics Google Digital Free 106

NonProfit Hub

NOVEMBER 19, 2020

Exercise classes. Reports and data analysis tool. It’s a great way to meet your supporters, engage them in something meaningful, and raise a good amount of money. Some common examples include: Walkathons. Talent show. Charity concert. At first glance, you might think these types of events are not feasible during this time.

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Virtual Registration Hosting Alternative 79

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JANUARY 27, 2014

” ADDIE is an instructional design method that stands for Analysis, Design, Development, Implementation, and Evaluation. The energizer can be connected to the content or just a movement exercise or stretch. Training is only valuable if participants apply what they learn. You also need to design good openers and closers !

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Instructional Design Instruction Instructional Training 111

sgEngage

MARCH 17, 2022

According to Exponent Philanthropy’s 2022 Foundation Operations and Management Report , sixty percent of our members collaborate with other funders. This mapping exercise helps funders meet unmet or underfunded needs and populations. .

Collaboration 92

Collaboration Foundation Local Philanthropy 92

Beneblog: Technology Meets Society

AUGUST 6, 2009

Benetech Analyzes Human Rights Data for the Liberian Truth and Reconciliation Commission A Guest Beneblog post by Kristen Cibelli Our team at the Benetech Human Rights Data Analysis Group (HRDAG) has recently concluded a three-year project with Liberian Truth and Reconciliation Commission to help clarify Liberia's violent history.

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Liberia Statistics Analysis United States 100

Care2

JANUARY 30, 2012

In January of last year I wrote up a quick summary on how some of our clients' end-of-year fundraising campaigns did vs. the prior year, and I thought it’d be nice to repeat the exercise to see how nonprofits fared in 2011. Compared to last year’s report, this is the one downward trend.

Fundraising 67

Fundraising Benchmark Rate Aggregator 67

BoardAssist

APRIL 12, 2016

The process of researching and selecting potential partners is not a difficult exercise but requires adequate sector experience, time, and resources. Conduct a financial analysis of each nonprofit (and of your organization). Prior to her nonprofit experience, Stephanie worked in the financial services sector.

New York 40

New York Collaboration Nonprofit Analysis 40

Amy Sample Ward

SEPTEMBER 20, 2010

While they aren’t the most comprehensive of reports, there is no point in ignoring free metrics! If you do, check out Nutshell Mail for reports on your various social media presences. Here are a few questions that were asked during the session and answered via chat: Was mGive included in the mobile report from M+R?

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Tools Tech Map RSS 162

Tech Soup

NOVEMBER 18, 2015

All data analysis and visualization packages are able to read a CSV file. As with many data sets, SF OpenData maps the data by default, which allows you to quickly view the data if you don't need to do further analysis or layering. This is often the most time-consuming step of data analysis, but often the most crucial.

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Map San Francisco Headline Learning 36

Beneblog: Technology Meets Society

DECEMBER 8, 2011

Route 66 pairs this reading content with teaching tools and learning exercises, effectively empowering any literate person to become an early reading instructor. Now I can report that the two policemen were convicted and sentenced to forty years each for the disappearance of Edgar Fernando García.

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Guatemala Literacy Qatar Open Source 159

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MARCH 14, 2012

1/4 baked, 1/2 baked, 3/4 baked findings were released – including a widely-read and much-commented-on SSIR blog post – before TCC had even finished a draft of their report. Otherwise, the whole exercise can end up being frustrating. All evaluation data was posted on a public wiki.

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Reflection Public Learning Build 92

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MAY 26, 2015

In a face-to-face training, I might do an exercise with sticky notes where I get participants to write down answers to a question or two related to the content on sticky notes. Next, as a group we do a theme analysis. Depending on the number of people in your group, there are different ways to facilitate the report out.

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Facilitation Virtual Arts Participatory 50

Connection Cafe

AUGUST 24, 2020

Historically, the lion’s share of hospitals’ reported community benefit dollars has related to providing patient care services for free or at a reduced charge. Such programs predominantly include addressing homelessness and food insecurity, as well as improving nutrition and exercise.

Community 35

Community Grant Foundation Homeless 35

Connection Cafe

OCTOBER 12, 2017

That’s why this report is so important. Yet even organizations with budgets of $25 million or more, most commonly reporting that a gift of $9,999 is the minimum amount. I believe that MGFBS in combination with this little exercise point out the dilemma and unintended consequences when we don’t understand “What’s a major gift?”.

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Gift Strategy Benchmark Arts 35

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

AUGUST 27, 2010

The morning had two segments, beginning with content and small group exercises on several themes from the Networked Nonprofit including culture change , transparency , and simplicity. Geoff Livingston did a great job at live blogging the first section in the morning. Social Media Game: Scaling Small Group Learning Exercises.

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Reflection People Network Colorado 103

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

FEBRUARY 21, 2009

But it is always a good exercise to make your brain think in a different way. Definition: An analysis that looks at the benefits, costs, and value of a technology project over time. ROI analysis requires documenting, collecting data, and internal discussion and cooperation. A good exercise is to try to convert your intangibles.

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ROI Social Media Slides NTEN 50

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

NOVEMBER 9, 2009

This takes a lot of time because I'm not just browsing, but I'm doing a pattern analysis for best practices that I can incorporate into a presentation about social media principles and nonprofits. I also created a stand up, sit down exercise. I did the reports out for each scenario which worked really well.

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Social Media Game Media Social 87

NTEN

JANUARY 27, 2010

"Citizen journalists" throughout the country collaborated to collect information about this violence; they received incident reports from thousands of citizens via web and mobile phone, collated the data, and displayed it on a Google Maps mashup. In 2008, post-election violence erupted in Kenya.

Tools 73

Tools Map Disaster Oregon 73

The Modern Nonprofit

FEBRUARY 15, 2022

Estimated Reading Time: 6 minutes When doing a cost analysis between two solutions, it’s tempting to compare based on sticker price alone. At the end of this guided exercise, you’ll be able to articulate investment impact statements like: BY INVESTING $9,845 IN NEW TECHNOLOGY, OUR ORG WILL SAVE $79,155 OVER THE NEXT 5 YEARS.

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Project Tech Guide Phase 98

NTEN

JANUARY 27, 2010

"Citizen journalists" throughout the country collaborated to collect information about this violence; they received incident reports from thousands of citizens via web and mobile phone, collated the data, and displayed it on a Google Maps mashup. In 2008, post-election violence erupted in Kenya.

Tools 59

Tools Map Disaster Oregon 59

Connection Cafe

JULY 23, 2013

Custom reports or other information delivery mechanisms. Often not, but the exercise of trying to do so is often worth the effort. Set the expectation with stakeholders that undocumented requirements won’t be considered to facilitate a thorough analysis of the actual business process and outcomes to be supported.

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Build API Evaluation Exercise 32

Bloomerang

JANUARY 18, 2023

It’s a hard task, but is a great exercise to try. Detailed analysis of the needs your mission seeks to help. Analysis of your environment. This SWOT analysis will help you identify the key challenges and opportunities facing your organization, and will serve as the foundation for your business plan.

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Effective Business Create Tips 91

Qgiv

MAY 31, 2022

Using a SWOT analysis exercise, the board can articulate the organization’s strengths, weaknesses, opportunities, and threats together. It’s important they do this exercise together because the activity helps build consensus around these topics through group discussion.

Articulate 52

Articulate Exercise Nonprofit Picture 52

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MAY 13, 2006

A quick analysis of the types (create a visual with mindmanager - concentric circles? Not having to start from scratch on a presentation, report, or resouce referral. Also, CPSquared action learning exercise on using tagging -- round up here. or something like this ?). Emily's post ). Community/Network Level. A tag community.

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Tag Collaboration Project Bookmarking 50

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

DECEMBER 9, 2007

The workshop was an all day workshop , with an opening presentation followed by small group exercise. The report out was amazing. After each group reported out, I asked some high level questions and gave some observations. The other brilliant idea was to use twitter and have kids report "What are you eating?"

Reflection 50

Reflection Slides Metrics PowerPoint 50

Eric Jacobsen Blog

JANUARY 24, 2022

Immediately upon reading the first two chapters of the book and completing the exercises that are part of Chapter Two a reader will have a much better sense of his or her skills and competencies, and that of course contributes to the overall sense of certainty which is really the definition of competence. How much time?

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Build Mind Influence Chapter 75

Saleforce Nonprofit

NOVEMBER 18, 2021

To help affiliates work together more easily, common data models ensure everyone is reporting data back to the central office in the same way, and tools like Tableau CRM allow for data visualisation and insights. Reporting on Impact. Women Win supports women and girls in exercising their rights through sport. About the Author.

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Program Impact Africa Ireland 52

Museum 2.0

NOVEMBER 2, 2008

blog in 2006 as a personal learning exercise about "the ways that museums do and can evolve from 1.0 For me, blogging is a wonderful way to add reflection and analysis to my design practice, and I'm flattered that you want to come along with me on that reflection. I started the Museum 2.0 static content delivery machines) to 2.0

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Museum Voice Minnesota Participatory 20

Bloomerang

MAY 7, 2021

Many databases will actually look at this or there’s some Excel downloadable templates that can do this analysis. But for most of them using QuickBooks or something like that, this is an easy stock report. But I know some of you have done this exercise, you know, at your board meeting. . Who do you exercise with?

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