Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JANUARY 2, 2022

Chris Brogan’s technique is select three words, but I modify it by articulating key themes. I also facilitated several peer learning groups, including Teaching Tuesdays for trainers with John Kenyon for the Parents Center staff, and a peer learning group on workplace wellbeing for the Resilience Initiative.

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The Science Behind Engaging your Supporters

SEPTEMBER 26, 2018

Teach them that fundraising isn’t about asking for money; it’s about giving people the opportunity to give back and improve their communities. First things first, you should be able to articulate to your board what role you’d like to see them have in your development plan. Build on Your Momentum.

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sgEngage

APRIL 6, 2022

It can help you recruit participants , motivate your fundraisers, and build long-term relationships with supporters. . Building a great overall email strategy for your peer-to-peer fundraising. Articulate your goals. . How can you use audience information to build more targeted communications? Build a team .

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Tech Soup

OCTOBER 8, 2012

Jones and Lasica spoke on the topic of using storytelling for community building. Doing this builds the trust required for your subject to open up. " Identify people who are genuine, outgoing, articulate, and lively/likeable. Bonus tip) Teach a lesson. Let your characters lead.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JANUARY 5, 2018

Chris Brogan’s ritual suggests selecting three words, but I modify it by articulating key themes. I continued an active schedule of teaching workshops on self-care for nonprofit professionals and creating a culture of well being in the nonprofit workplace as well as numerous keynote presentations.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JANUARY 4, 2017

2) Identify “My Three Themes”: I do a combination of Peter Bregman’s theme for the year , and Chris Brogan’s “ My Three Words.” Chris Brogan’s ritual suggests selecting three words, but I modify it by articulating key themes. I look for patterns.

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Bloomerang

APRIL 26, 2021

Big hearts will respond to big-hearted, authentic, clearly-articulated, specific and resonant appeals. Or as my mentor and teacher Hank Rosso said years ago: “ Fundraising is the gentle art of teaching the joy of giving.”. Or a new donor responded with bigheartedness to an emergency appeal. . Nonprofit Giving Trends on the Horizon.

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Bloomerang

MAY 17, 2021

What can the fundraiser do to help build and instill this culture? Here are some good places to begin: Building a Culture of Philanthropy in Your Organization , Simone Joyaux, Nonprofit Quarterly. No one should fall back on “that’s not my job” when it comes to passionately and proactively articulating your vision, mission, and values.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JANUARY 4, 2016

I was honored to lead a featured season at the United Way Leadership Conference on Networked Leadership and teach many workshops networked leadership skills. Adjunct Professor and Guest Teacher: This past year I enjoyed my second year of teaching a graduate course at Middlebury College/Monterrey Institute for International Education.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

APRIL 1, 2014

We introduced ourselves by drawing a picture on a sticky note and using the speech bubble sticky to articulate a challenge in our practice. What was eye-opening for me is that while we were designing and building our paper prototype, all of us thought it was pretty clear how to use it.

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Facilitation Method Technique Exercise 132

Bloomerang

JANUARY 22, 2024

This guide will teach you what you need to know to get your new organization up and running. Can you clearly articulate the issue you’re hoping to solve? Vision statement: Our vision is to build a future in which people live in harmony with nature. Is it one distinct problem or multiple issues?

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Connection Cafe

OCTOBER 16, 2013

What donors can teach us about making more money. She has an uncanny ability to articulate what donors want and backs that up with solid and compelling research. Penelope has just released her third book, Donor-Centered Leadership , on how to build and sustain a high performance fundraising team.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JUNE 10, 2013

But did you know if you put giving back and helping others at the center of your networking and relationship building, you are likely to have more impactful and stronger relationships, among other benefits? It’s so great to see all these kids focused on education and with well-articulated goals for where they want to be someday.

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Beneblog: Technology Meets Society

APRIL 20, 2007

Yours truly clearly ticked off our articulate and thought provoking keynote speaker, Carl Schramm, the head of the Kauffman Foundation. A really exciting venture is the creation of a REIT (Real Estate Investment Trust) to address the need of charter schools for viable buildings for their schools. Late breaking news from the Gathering.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

APRIL 27, 2012

Yasmeen Qazi who is the Pakistan Country Advisor and her very talented team members, Dr. Iftikhar Soomro and Seema Zameer — all of whom understand capacity building programs. 4. Design To Build A Community of Practice. organizational change, and technology. Program Design. Program Design.

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Pakistan NGO Network Exercise 111

sgEngage

NOVEMBER 14, 2022

to teach our computers to do our work for us. You need to be able to clearly articulate the need for automation and new low-code/no-code platforms, identify the expenses involved, and define the returns you and your organization can expect to see. 4 Steps to Building Your Business Case. And the best part? And the list goes on ….

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Eric Jacobsen Blog

OCTOBER 7, 2014

This week, Wood, answered questions about his book, the lessons he teaches, and the remarkable work of Team Rubicon. But if you have established a strong organizational culture and have clearly articulated the vision and strategies of the organization then there''s nothing to fear.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

DECEMBER 15, 2006

I don't think she is saying SL is a fad that will go away as other people without her depth of knowledge have articulated. And, I am also reminded of the learning that happens by creating and building together in Second Life - the virtual morocoo project for example. i am going to see, and to see if the experience can scale.

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Bloomerang

APRIL 16, 2021

We are here to talk about how to build your nonprofit’s engagement engine. Advomatic builds and supports websites for nonprofits and also works with a lot of great organizations, some of whom are in the room. A lot of the work we do at Big Duck is about helping organizations articulate their voice.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

DECEMBER 16, 2015

The principles of Essentialism teaches us to know the difference and use our resources wisely. You figure things out and you get back on track and back to focus. You get to identify a life goal and 90 day goals – and build tiny habits every day to get there. Greg describes it as “Living a happy life.”

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Qgiv

OCTOBER 27, 2021

Here are a few tasks you might want to turn over to volunteers or recruit more volunteers for: Day-to-day office work or cleaning Door greeter roles Docent positions Event committee positions Event registration and ticketing Event set-up and clean-up In-kind donations collection Marketing and promotion tasks Fundraising tasks Teaching or tutoring.

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Connection Cafe

AUGUST 26, 2016

In addition to attractive employee perks, building transformative employee volunteer and giving programs and embedding them within the organizational culture is key to promoting happy employees who stay with their companies. That said, according to Gallup’s U.S. You need more than perks. What is still missing? Inspiration.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JUNE 25, 2012

This blog post includes some reflections on the instructional design, delivery, and insights that I hope will inform the field building discussion taking place over at the Packard OE Program site. This is the holy grail of a peer learning group – one that builds it knowledge and share it and is not reliant on the “expert.”

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NonProfit Hub

SEPTEMBER 4, 2015

We try to teach students to catch the fire through finding their passion to make a difference and sharing warm fuzzies (which take on the physical shape of a cotton ball with googly eyes as seen above in super-sized form) by making other people feel good and valuable. These two concepts are main tenets to what are taught at our services.

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Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

APRIL 24, 2007

Home About Me Subscribe Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology Thoughtful and sometimes snarky perspectives on nonprofit technology Technology Support as Teaching April 24, 2007 I’ve been thinking a lot about technology support lately. Really a lot. All technology providers have to deal at some level with support.

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Connection Cafe

MARCH 14, 2009

Recruiting older/more traditional people in the organization who don't get the worth and show them how viral and powerful these tools and channels can be to have them understand and evangelize with you (show how quickly things spread, how much more you can be doing with recruiting, teaching supporters in these spaces on top of other channels).

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ASU Lodestar Center

APRIL 22, 2019

And yet, according to that April 2019 HBR study, Educating the Next Generation of Leaders , “the most difficult skills to teach, measure, or even articulate are leading, communicating, relating, and energizing groups,” all of which require collaborative learning environments, individual coaching and personalized learning plans.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

APRIL 12, 2007

A group dialogue followed allowing people to articulate why they felt one way or other. Since OS communities generally begin with a small group of developers or a scratch your own itch approach and some developers tend to be egomanics - how do you build community within this culture? What is the gensis of an open source community?

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Bloomerang

JULY 23, 2021

Again, it’s so simple, but I was like, “Oh, that’s actually the methodology I teach in fundraising.” ” So let me build on these three things and show you what I mean. Our goals are really easy to articulate.” ” That only happens when we’ve taken the time to build the relationship.

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Museum 2.0

JULY 9, 2007

Jen and I sat down to talk about building for teens, working the web, and the role of innovation in museums. We didn’t want to build MySpace. The thing that struck me, building Exploris, I started going into Lowe’s and Home Depot, and darn it if they aren’t doing educational programs! But we’re a non-profit.

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Bloomerang

JULY 17, 2021

I mean, she’s a CFRE and she even teaches a CFRE class. And so we offer this as an opportunity for you to build community, for you to build your career and your personal development skills and develop financial fortitude so that you can actually thrive in the work that you have been called to do.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JANUARY 13, 2010

I do this with every social media activity as well as whenever I teach. This post harvests what I learned and what I still don't know about the birthday campaign strategy and measurement as well as guest teaching a graduate school class. Reflection gives you a chance to understand what worked and what didn't. My 53rd birthday wish.

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Classes Learning Fundraising Reflection 95

Bloomerang

DECEMBER 10, 2021

Harvey McKinnon and Andy Robinson will discuss how to build stronger donor relationships and how you can use this strategy to improve every kind of fundraising. What we want to emphasize today that most of the work is relationship building. Why you became a fundraiser is also a way to build trust. And next slide. .

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Money Question Raise Video 106

Bloomerang

AUGUST 21, 2021

In addition to being super active in her San Francisco nonprofit community, she also does a lot, including teaching a CFRE class. And really, I would say, building a stream of legacies or an endowment from which you can draw income is not a luxury. But it’s a little bit like building a culture of philanthropy. I mean talk.

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Museum 2.0

SEPTEMBER 4, 2013

So Diane asked them, "What if I hire your kids and pay them to learn science, teach it to other people, and gain professional skills?" If you can teach science, how can you be stupid? The YES program helps teens not only learn science but learn how to articulate their interests and pursue new passions.

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Have Fun - Do Good

JULY 3, 2006

The summer before my last year in college, I participated in a summer program in Philadelphia that was designed to teach young people organizing skills around poverty and homelessness issues. I think it is important for us to build off that hope and build off the experiences of folks who have gone before us.

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Eric Jacobsen Blog

APRIL 29, 2010

Thursday, April 29, 2010 Create Core Values Sometimes when you are leading an organization or business and struggling to articulate your core values, it helps to see how others have stated theirs. Coaching is the difference between giving orders and teaching people how to get things done. They're definitely simple. Very simple.

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