Nonprofits Source

JULY 6, 2023

Technology can facilitate the data collection process, theoretically providing nonprofits with all the information they need to answer these questions about their supporters. Measure affinity in real-time. AI tools are able to take an omnichannel approach to donor analysis. Time donation requests.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

NOVEMBER 18, 2014

Last week, I facilitated a mini-innovation lab on measuring impact for grantees of the Google Nonprofit program at the Impact Hub. The process took participants through an assessment of the problems facing them, collective brainstorming, and prototyping. My Nonprofit Needs A Data Nerd!

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Data Help Measure Analysis 107

Saleforce Nonprofit

OCTOBER 24, 2022

We all know that hunger is a complex and growing problem. In that time, she has collaborated with several major food banks, using Salesforce to solve both fundraising and operational challenges. His areas of expertise include policy analysis and development, group facilitation, benefits enrollment, and workforce development.

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Hunger Impact Puerto Rico Arkansas 93

Saleforce Nonprofit

MAY 25, 2022

Through a range of projects that combine science and technology, such as monitoring air and water quality and local wildlife, students develop a wealth of skills applicable to their futures—from learning to own and take responsibility for an entire project to discovering the impact of data analysis and sharing at local and global levels. “In

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Student San Francisco Technology Charlotte 52

Bloomerang

AUGUST 16, 2021

Mastering personalized, customer-centered philanthropy facilitation, especially mid-level and major donors, to increase donor lifetime value. One of the biggest problems nonprofits face is improving their low donor retention rate. The same is true for ongoing vs. first-time donors. Mastering online user experience and messaging.

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Analytics Strategy Fundraising Benchmark 126

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

NOVEMBER 19, 2013

Explores the ecosystem of data for social problem solving and the role philanthropy can play. Argues for engaging in adaptive strategy given the data rich and rapidly changing environment for solving complex social problems. I got to facilitate a deep dive with a dozen folks and here are the takeaways from the discussion.

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Get Fully Funded

OCTOBER 14, 2021

This approach emphasizes offering employees a holistic set of benefits that include direct compensation as well as indirect benefits such as healthcare, paid time off, retirement plans, work-life balance, and a rewarding internal culture. In this analysis, consider which type of HR support your organization would benefit from the most.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

AUGUST 29, 2013

They can help people with different knowledge, skills, and points of view to tackle a shared problem, see old things in new ways, or challenge the status quo. In 2012, leaders at the Rockefeller Foundation posed that question to our team at Monitor Institute, kicking off a year and a half of research and analysis. What’s the point? (Do

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Arts Design Collaboration Analysis 95

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MAY 8, 2016

For the past few years, I’ve been facilitating a peer learning group with a small cohort of grantees , all community foundations, hosting Giving Days in their communities using the Giving Day Playbook. Community Foundations were thrown into crisis mode as the amount of time the server was down went from minutes into hours.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

OCTOBER 31, 2011

Do you need an easy way to track tweets from an event in real time? For example, here’s the spreadsheet from the workshop I facilitated that was hosted by Compasspoint. For example, here’s the spreadsheet from the workshop I facilitated that was hosted by Compasspoint. Timely and Buffer do the same thing.

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Twitter Tools Learning Measure 110

Allegiance Group

APRIL 15, 2024

It starts with a detailed analysis of your donor base, including average gift size, retention rates, and cost per acquired donor. Prioritizing donor stewardship efforts will help you retain more donors so your time, effort, and money spent acquiring donors isn’t wasted. the timing of their donation)? Craft a conversion journey.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

SEPTEMBER 29, 2015

What if a funder got real-time input from its grantees and other partners to develop its investment strategy? Here’s what I learned about the facilitating design thinking processes: What Is A Design Lab? Understanding: Landscape and Opportunity Analysis. Why Use One? The context setting kicked off the lab’s first half-day.

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DNL OmniMedia

FEBRUARY 1, 2023

From bringing in revenue to connecting with constituents, the right technology can save your team time and help you facilitate a better donor experience. While there are many technology consultants available, take the time to evaluate what they specialize in and the services they provide. Troubleshoot technical problems.

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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. Many times, it means both the “doer” and the “decision maker.”. It is also important to target the right level of authority. I might audit their Facebook best practices and other social media channels.

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Allegiance Group

MAY 18, 2023

Developing a digital donor acquisition strategy takes a similar approach as direct mail, starting with a detailed analysis of your donor base, including average gift, retention rates, average gift, and if you have done previous online fundraising campaigns, cost per acquired donor. Build brand awareness with YouTube advertising.

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Whole Whale

SEPTEMBER 8, 2023

Surveys, interviews, and data analysis can reveal the equivalent of that Rolls-Royce insight – the key emotional triggers, values, and desires of your existing and potential supporters. Use statistics to vividly demonstrate the scale of the problem being addressed. Use time-limited offers to create urgency.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JANUARY 9, 2012

The report captures a conundrum in measuring social change movements or networked approaches. Outcomes for “ wicked problems ” can be easily counted – policies passed, housing the homeless, educating children. Research and policy analysis. Community organizing. Civic engagement. Leadership development.

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Bloomerang

AUGUST 30, 2023

We’ll explore: Types of fundraising software to consider 7 essential fundraising software features to look for 5 steps to buy fundraising software 5 questions to ask when buying fundraising software It’s worth taking the time to research potential solutions, discuss options with your team, and deliberate before coming to a final decision.

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Software Guide Fundraising Platform 92

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. Nonprofits could handle this internally however many executives are faced with constraints on their time as they carry out their day to day responsibilities.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

APRIL 18, 2013

What follows are my notes, but if you want to spend more time learning about this topic, I’ve pulled together these additional curated resources: 1) Curated Tweets. 3) Social Network Analysis of the #GPF13 tag during the discussion created by Marc Smith. gpf13 #philanthropy. Gwen Walden (@WaldenPhil) April 15, 2013.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JANUARY 5, 2012

Content delivery is less important then the skill to making sense of it and that needs to be what “classroom time” is about. The instructor’s role should be to facilitate this understanding for their students, not dump content on them. And the resulting graph is the analysis of 1200 students.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

NOVEMBER 17, 2015

Perhaps because some people feel guilty about practicing self-care or there are unspoken rules that if you take time for yourself you are not serious about work. It means changing the way we think about self-care in the first place. Recently, I had the opportunity to facilitate two design labs with nonprofit professionals.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

FEBRUARY 8, 2011

Last week, I facilitated an interactive keynote in Seattle at 2011 Tech for Good Leadership Summit sponsored by Microsoft Community Affairs , in partnership with NPower Seattle. By all accounts , the event held the space for peer learning. Give Them A Couple of Practical Tips or Insights To Solve Their Problems.

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Knowledge Seattle Social Media Measure 97

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

NOVEMBER 9, 2009

Last week, I had the opportunity facilitate a " Social Media Strategy Map " workshop for over 100 Bay Area nonprofits. Every time I present or facilitate a workshop, I review the web sites and social media ant trails (social media properties) of participants. . Robot Voice Disguiser for Large Group Facilitation.

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Social Media Game Media Social 87

BoardAssist

APRIL 15, 2014

If your board meetings are regarded as an unpleasant obligation, it’s time to bring a fresh perspective: board meetings are an opportunity to exchange ideas, resolve issues and deepen commitment. 3) Focus on problems, challenges, or broad issues. He says, “This allows ample time for in-depth analysis of that topic.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

APRIL 1, 2015

Not only do organizations need data collection systems, but also systems for observation, learning, reflection, and action or as the report describes “ systems that help us identify and solve problems proactively instead of always reacting.” results (both positive and negative) within and outside the organization.

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Culture Data Create Reflection 50

Get Fully Funded

FEBRUARY 6, 2023

Nonprofit strategic planning often gets a bad rap, but time spent mapping out your organization’s future can save you from spinning your wheels, being busy but not effective. And who has time to take all the theory and translate it into an action plan? What a waste of time! Is that something you could work toward over time?

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

AUGUST 17, 2010

Jonny will provide live graphic facilitation of the highly interactive and fun panel. In addition to the graphic facilitation, there will be other interactive learning elements. There are over 200,000 professional artists in the US — and a bunch of them have problems the techies could help solve.

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Connection Cafe

APRIL 23, 2013

Be that as it may, the annual nonprofit board retreat is a critical time to come together as a board and re-focus, revive, re-energize, and relax knowing that they are doing the very best thing for their community. analysis, fundraising program discussions and a lot of complaining about why we can’t get anything done.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JANUARY 16, 2009

Jay Dedman pointed to an analysis Feedburner by Chris Baskind. I track two hard data points: RSS subscriber growth over time as well as the feed delivery stats (email versus reader). You should be looking at monthly trends over time. What do you do to facilitate it? Visitors are people who visit your blog. If no, why?

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Metrics Social Media Strategy RSS 81

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MAY 5, 2017

Note from Beth: Several years ago, I was got trained in design thinking facilitation methods using Luma and have incorporated these techniques into my consulting and training practice. Different Ways Nonprofits Are Using Design Thinking to Solve Problems and Achieve Impact. Mike Radke agreed to share this post about the work.

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Qgiv

JUNE 1, 2021

Analysis shows that giving is shifting online. The problem? All you need to do is partner with a shoe drive fundraiser facilitator. Encourage them to give up that habit for a certain time (could be a month or even longer, like the entirety of Lent). Accept tithes online. After all, not all your congregants carry cash !

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Giving Fundraising Pledge Classes 98

Bloomerang

OCTOBER 31, 2023

Let’s explore the common problems faced by faith-based organizations like yours, and how you can better serve your mission by consolidating all of your needs under a single DMS. The problem: Managing a patchwork of disconnected tools You may be juggling an array of tools and systems to manage your daily operations.

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Classes System Management Donor 105

Bloomerang

JANUARY 29, 2024

Let’s explore the common problems faced by nonprofits like yours and how you can better serve your mission by consolidating all of your needs into a single platform. The problem: managing a patchwork of disconnected tools You may be juggling an array of tools and systems to manage your daily operations.

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Platform Giving Guide Classes 74

DNL OmniMedia

FEBRUARY 9, 2022

The most effective nonprofit consulting projects will address immediate problems and provide long-term strategic value that helps you grow. Clearly outlining these answers now will save time down the line and keep your team focused on the task at hand. Why should I hire a nonprofit consulting firm? Discuss the project with your board.

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Consultant Nonprofit Strategy Philanthropy 52

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JUNE 13, 2007

" There was an acknowledgment from a panelist about the tensions between the need to look at results and the need for experimentation and pressures of timing. How to find the right funding mechanism to facilitate collaborative teams? This is a time pressure question! MacArthur Foundation. We need metrics!

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

AUGUST 4, 2008

Although it is a slow time of year and the busy fundraising season is still several months away, there's been lots of activity in the social fundraising judging by these roundups of links from Peter Deitz and Tom Watson (not to mention all the items tagged in the nptech tag stream ). More coverage in the blogosphere and beyond here.

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