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Trainer’s Notebook: Facilitating Brainstorming Sessions for Nonprofit Work

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

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. All ideas are as valid as each other.

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Methods for Facilitating Innovation in Nonprofits

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

Last month I had the pleasure of taking the Luma Institute Train the Trainers workshop where I got a chance to immerse in practicing facilitation techniques based on human centered design principles. The workshop instructor Peter Maher is founder and CEO, of Luma Institute , and a Jedi Master. ” What is Human Centered Design?

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9 Nonprofit Leadership Skills Every Founder & Director Must Master

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Growing a nonprofit takes more than just passion: you also need creativity, persistence, and a handful of nonprofit leadership skills to guide your organization through the growth years and fulfill your mission. Without leadership, a small nonprofit may never reach its full potential. Facilitator.

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Help! My Nonprofit Needs A Data Nerd

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Last week, I facilitated a mini-innovation lab on measuring impact for grantees of the Google Nonprofit program at the Impact Hub. My Nonprofit Needs A Data Nerd! The concept included enlisting a telco partner who would provide the phones and data cards. The hot button issue was capacity, skills, and lack of resources.

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Top 2021 Fundraising Strategies: Mastering an Analytical Approach to Strategy and Planning

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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. If you’re a brand new nonprofit, it’s going to take you a while to get up to speed.

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How Do We Balance Measuring Outcomes with Measuring to Learn and Improve? (#SM_RE)

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

For that to happen one has to look at a maturity of practice and where to take small steps towards improvement. I developed one for networked nonprofits and social media called “ Crawl, Walk, Run, Fly ” Click to See Larger Version. Click to See Larger Version. There is also the issue of social media measurement tools.

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Philanthropic Leadership: Engaging Board Members As Fundraising Ambassadors

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That’s awesome, really involved in their nonprofit leadership program, which is really cool. And I’m a Senior Vice President at CCS Fundraising, which is a global fundraising consulting firm that works with nonprofit organizations. As nonprofits, we have the missions of our organizations. Really thrilled to be here.