Forj

APRIL 7, 2017

OrgCommunity and Web Courseworks are excited to present the closing webinar of the Spring eLearning Thought Leaders series, The Learning Business Maturity Model , featuring Jeff Cobb and Celisa Steele of Tagoras. In 2016, Tagoras unveiled the Learning Business Maturity Model. The Learning Business Maturity Model [Audio podcast].

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Get Fully Funded

JUNE 18, 2023

At a minimum, a team with a poor leader is unproductive like this one: With the right leadership, a nonprofit can grow quickly, fulfilling its mission and meeting a community need or eliminating a problem. You need to articulately describe the need you’re addressing in a way that moves listeners’ hearts.

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The Science Behind Engaging your Supporters

SEPTEMBER 14, 2018

Maybe you’re putting together your email calendar for December, planning out social media content, or even sprucing up your website to improve conversions. If you are looking to strengthen you Public Narrative model, you may want to look to your organization’s community for examples of Story of Self.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

OCTOBER 6, 2009

Most of my recent explorations have been focused around the effective use of social media for external communications. But many networks need a private place or password protected place to have conversations online. It's clear where openness belongs in the context of an external communications strategy that embraces social media.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

SEPTEMBER 20, 2016

“I have embraced this approach myself and I make it clear to my team that I would rather not get a pre-dawn email , but instead get a more fully articulated idea after they have had time to contemplate it and strategize on how to make it effective.”. Gabriela says that senior leaders at her nonprofit model self-care.

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Connection Cafe

OCTOBER 29, 2018

It has been almost three weeks since we concluded bbcon 2018 in Orlando, and we’re still wrapping our head around the terrific content seen and inspiring conversations overheard amongst over 2,000 attendees from across the social, private and public sectors. If you’re just starting this process, consider the creation of a logic model.

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Bloomerang

FEBRUARY 1, 2022

We’ll start with a few key trends in philanthropy that will ground our conversation. So we have three key goals for our conversation this afternoon or morning depending on where you are. So with that, what we wanted to do is start our conversation by understanding your understanding of key trends in philanthropy.

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ASU Lodestar Center

AUGUST 29, 2012

Teach or model a succinct delivery of the cause’s elevator speech. Whether the staff is asked on a plane, in an elevator or on a panel, he or she should be able to articulate in 30 to 60 seconds what their charity does. Not everything translates from for-profit to nonprofit.

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Connection Cafe

MAY 19, 2017

And while the conversation around nonprofit branding is gaining momentum, many nonprofit leaders continue to hold a narrow perspective on what it means to build and leverage a strong, needle-moving brand. The problem with that view, or brand model, is that it’s no longer enough, especially in today’s competitive giving environment.

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Tech Soup

AUGUST 6, 2015

You soldier on and set up Google Analytics, hoping that the data can start a conversation with everyone, despite the initial reluctance. You can increase that number exponentially if you know where previous conversions came from. Looking for new newsletter signups? Case Study: Salvation Army.

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Museum 2.0

OCTOBER 8, 2019

Gallery Talks become conversations instead of lectures (well, for some audiences). In the end, our organization for this model better for our visitors and our needs. Museums often don’t have enough clout to be about to be community-centered or audience centered on their own. Profit decreased but repeat attendance increased.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JANUARY 17, 2008

pdf) starts the conversation and attempt to address a method to quantify influence. This voice, articulated through social media, can be extremely powerful and can force individuals, companies and communities to change the way they behave. This is beginning resonates with online community roles in a way. In Edelman???s

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Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

JUNE 29, 2007

An older woman of color noted that a lot of the problems that open source developers were solving weren’t problems that communities faced. One person had brought up the idea of open source as a model for egalitarian participatory economics, and I made a brief comment that it wasn’t all that egalitarian, really.

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Museum 2.0

SEPTEMBER 7, 2007

The Austin Game Developers Conference is finishing up, and from it comes Gamasutra's intriguing account of the session on Engaging and Empowering Community Influencers. There are some obvious ties to the role of "community" in museums. around gameplay. Read the comments. How do these game companies steer the discussion?

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Museum 2.0

APRIL 11, 2017

This is the sixth in a series of posts on the Santa Cruz Museum of Art & History ( MAH )'s development of Abbott Square , a new creative community plaza in downtown Santa Cruz. But the answers hewed to the priorities articulated through these two exercises. Money is on the table. Values are on the table.

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Museum 2.0

OCTOBER 29, 2010

This question is a byproduct of the reality that most participatory projects have poorly articulated value. If you don't have a sense of an outcome--whether that be internal research, community conversation, or something else--you can't decide how or whether contributions should be documented or archived.

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Museum 2.0

JUNE 6, 2008

On June 4, we opened The Tech Virtual Test Zone , a new 2000 sq ft gallery at The Tech Museum of Innovation featuring exhibits on the theme of art, film, and music that were originally developed in Second Life by a community of creative amateurs. We inspired a community and got real results. Give away the fun (and easy) part.

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Have Fun - Do Good

AUGUST 29, 2010

Our conversation began with my asking Temra, "How are women changing the way we eat?" They are either from other countries, or they are embedded in communities of color or of other places, or they've traveled and worked extensively with communities. What's the path that brought you to writing this book? What brought you here?

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

OCTOBER 27, 2014

Last week I was lucky enough to facilitate a mini-innovation lab for 60 community foundation program officers at the first meeting of ProNet during the Council on Foundations conference in Cleveland, Ohio that celebrated 100 years of community philanthropy. Shark Bank. Retreat on the Street.

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Museum 2.0

AUGUST 29, 2012

I'm focusing on the community response to the prospect of the millage and the way the public debate reflects broader conversations about the public value of the arts. But the arguments trotted out represent how far we have to go in articulating the public value of arts institutions (and helping our supporters speak the same language).

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Museum 2.0

JUNE 22, 2010

You can join the conversation in the blog comments, or on the Museum 2.0 Despite the 50 year legacy of online community building and an obvious yearning for people to connect in a meaningful way via the Internet, surprisingly few "great good places" exist. Facebook discussion board here. This is not an accident.

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sgEngage

DECEMBER 12, 2022

However, Danny McCall beautifully articulates the challenge of defining this dyad in his whitepaper, The Durable Relationship : Although “relationship” is a commonly used word, having an actionable comprehension of a relationship’s dimensions and forces isn’t a trivial matter. Deep, rich relationships have an origin story.

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Bloomerang

JULY 23, 2021

We have a goal to change this in our community. We want to replicate our model across the country. Our goals are really easy to articulate.” So I want you to think about how would I pause and really shift into this true and overall financing model that actually sets your whole team, sets your whole board?

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Money Video Fundraising Gift 108

Museum 2.0

NOVEMBER 7, 2010

At the big one, I worked on a small project with teens to design science exhibits for community centers in their own neighborhoods. I also learned that the best money in museums for someone who's starting out is in art modeling. I survived the first half of 2003 financially on art modeling and poetry gigs.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

APRIL 27, 2012

4. Design To Build A Community of Practice. What I loved about this exercise, is that after Stephanie and I modeled taking photographs and sharing on our Facebook Group or Twitter, participants started to also document digitally. We were able to thoroughly document the exercise here.

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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. It’s not going to happen though unless you begin the conversation. And there are two ways that people respond to conversations about their own mortality, they either approach it or they avoid it.

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Museum 2.0

OCTOBER 16, 2013

It does not include facility rentals, nor people who might see us at a community event but not directly engage. Why do we count participants in an art activity for families at a community center but not members of the Rotary Club to whom I give a presentation about the museum? What''s missing from this picture? as part of a meeting)?

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Bloomerang

JULY 17, 2021

My house that I loved so much that I’m sure that I overpaid and was a fundraiser at Big Brothers Big Sisters at that time and really had to learn to navigate some really choppy waters around what it meant to help folks understand investing in their community in trying times, investing in young people, investing in our staff. Absolutely.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JANUARY 13, 2010

And, the low goal was one of the reasons that community rallied with the self-organized surprise party. You Can't Measure Love or Creativity, But These Are Essential Online Community or Network Signs of Life. Self-expression is such a powerful thing to see and having people articulate it for your cause is the holy grail.

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Classes Learning Fundraising Reflection 95

Bloomerang

APRIL 16, 2021

And that’s what I’m going to do today, I’m going to try to cover a lot of ground but leave some time at the end for Q&A and conversation and all of that. A lot of the work we do at Big Duck is about helping organizations articulate their voice. So thank you for bearing with me so far on this conversation.

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Museum 2.0

JULY 14, 2008

How do you measure and articulate the value of museums and libraries? One of the most promising models for doing so (and a potential way to structure the NAS report) is scenario-based planning. How do you measure and articulate the value of museums and libraries? The six topics are: How do you plan for the future?

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