Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JANUARY 9, 2020

Chris Brogan’s technique is select three words, but I modify it by articulating key themes. I’ve continued to do conference keynotes, workshops and facilitate staff retreats about activating a culture of wellbeing. All in all, I presented or facilitated over 50 keynotes, workshops, and webinars on the topic.

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Professional Personal Croatia Build 140

Bloomerang

MAY 31, 2024

The first, UnderDeveloped: A National Study of Challenges Facing Nonprofit Fundraising , concluded: “Organizations need to make fundamental changes in the way they lead and resource fund development in order to build the capacity, the systems, and the culture to support fundraising success. Why aren’t we investing in greater impact?

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Problem Philanthropy Nonprofit Charity 80

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JANUARY 3, 2019

Chris Brogan’s ritual suggests selecting three words, but I modify it by articulating key themes. I’ve continued to do conference keynotes, workshops and facilitate staff retreats about activating a culture of wellbeing. All in all, I presented or facilitated over 50 keynotes, workshops, and webinars on the topic.

Professional 114

Professional Build Journal Facilitation 114

Bloomerang

MAY 17, 2021

You are the philanthropy facilitator. . Fund development is, first, organizational development…. It’s a big job, serving as a development officer. Bigger than far too many development officers (or their bosses and boards) think. Ask them what they’ve done in previous jobs to help develop this culture.

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Culture Philanthropy Facilitation Job 125

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JANUARY 4, 2017

Chris Brogan’s ritual suggests selecting three words, but I modify it by articulating key themes. I don’t set goals, but use the themes to guide the type of work I will take on, what I want to write about on my blog as well as my professional reading and professional development.

Professional 103

Professional Facilitation Journal San Jose 103

ASU Lodestar Center

JUNE 12, 2019

A strong brand is important because it facilitates opportunities, resources and results. Matthew Schwartz, the founder and executive director of Constructive, stated that an effective brand helps organizations earn trust, increase loyalty, develop new opportunities and strengthen organizational leadership. Branding must be a priority.

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Effective Help Americorp Nonprofit 75

Candid

APRIL 11, 2023

These connections may be able to help facilitate a warm introduction with key contacts at potential companies. Set expectations and develop a formal agreement When corporate sponsors agree to support your fundraising event, the next step is developing your formal agreement.

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Sponsor Fundraising Companies Demonstration 94

DipJar

JUNE 20, 2023

Open lines of communication with your membership go a long way toward developing a better—and more customized— member experience ! An event showing appreciation to your members can be a great opportunity to showcase your organization’s initiatives and develop donor loyalty. Develop new methods of donor outreach? Member portals.

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FAQ Program Guide Arkansas 52

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 also facilitated a number of nonprofit staff workshops building on the curriculum. 2) Identify “My Three Themes”: I do a combination of Peter Bregman’s theme for the year , and Chris Brogan’s “ My Three Words.”

Professional 0

Professional Finland Journal Reflection 0

ASU Lodestar Center

JUNE 12, 2019

A strong brand is important because it facilitates opportunities, resources and results. Matthew Schwartz, the founder and executive director of Constructive, stated that an effective brand helps organizations earn trust, increase loyalty, develop new opportunities and strengthen organizational leadership. Branding must be a priority.

Effective 40

Effective Help Americorp Nonprofit 40

Bloomerang

APRIL 26, 2021

Big hearts will respond to big-hearted, authentic, clearly-articulated, specific and resonant appeals. You must allocate human resources to strategically plan and implement development strategies. Development staff, and even development board committees, are shoved to a corner and ordered to “go raise money.”

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Trend Strategy Giving Fundraising 137

Bloomerang

AUGUST 16, 2021

Mastering personalized, customer-centered philanthropy facilitation, especially mid-level and major donors, to increase donor lifetime value. Once you have those numbers, clearly articulate your goals and identify what you need to meet your goals. Development is a data game. Mastering online user experience and messaging.

Analytics 126

Analytics Strategy Fundraising Benchmark 126

NonProfit Hub

FEBRUARY 12, 2018

Developing a donor-centric gift acknowledgment policy is key to ensuring that our donors feel appreciated and our board members are excited about fundraising—a win-win for any organization! Your organization is the facilitator of the relationship between the donor and the recipient. We thank our donors and move on to the next task.

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Attitude Create Gift Childhood 64

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JANUARY 4, 2016

I also designed and facilitated a six month peer learning cohort with colleague Stephanie Rudat. Innovation Lab Facilitation : For the past few years, I’ve trained in and designed and facilitated innovation labs using the Luma Institute Methods. Facilitation, Curriculum Development and Train the Trainers.

Iowa 50

Iowa Facilitation Teach San Antonio 50

BoardAssist

JULY 15, 2014

Is your organization able to clearly and succinctly articulate its future direction and does it have a well-developed rationale for this development? With over 25 years experience in the nonprofit sector Molly Penn is a recognized expert in strategic planning, organizational and board development, and executive coaching.

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Question Strategy New Jersey Government 84

Get Fully Funded

JUNE 18, 2023

Facilitator. You need to articulately describe the need you’re addressing in a way that moves listeners’ hearts. The upside is that they know how everything in their organization works and can provide backup for most, if not all, staff positions. Some leaders are inclusive, letting their team have input into decisions.

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Skills Leadership Director Nonprofit 119

NTEN

JUNE 13, 2014

Matt is a research and information technology executive with key competencies in measurement and analytics, business process engineering and optimization, product development, and organizational management. And check out the full lineup of #14LCS speakers and facilitators !

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Measure Impact Chicago Metrics 96

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

NOVEMBER 6, 2014

Develop a first draft of a crowd funding strategy for their organization. This where design thinking methods and innovation lab facilitation techniques can be helpful. The learning objectives for the workshop were two fold: Participants understand best practices and how to apply.

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Activities Active Activism Integration 105

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

DECEMBER 9, 2011

Foundation Center President Bradford Smith started off with a very clear articulation about why transparency is important. And I worry that we’re overemphasizing transparency about trivial matters and under-emphasizing transparency that really facilitates greater effectiveness. Required for foundations, the right thing to do.

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Philanthropy Effective Chapter Measure 96

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

APRIL 17, 2013

I’m very excited for this learning experience because over the two years my work as Visiting Scholar at the David and Lucile Packard Foundation has focused on going deep on facilitating peer learning for grantees on measuring outcomes for their networks with social media while balancing and upholding the principles of being networked.

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Measure Learning Metrics Social Media 103

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

APRIL 27, 2012

It marked the start of a six month peer learning exchange where I, along with colleague Stephanie Rudat will work remotely with grantees as they implement an action learning project to put techniques into practice and facilitate organizational change from the inside out. organizational change, and technology. We did this on Day 1.

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Pakistan NGO Network Exercise 111

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

AUGUST 30, 2013

In this blog post, I will describe the process Wyman used to study how our organization historically captured, stored, used, and shared data, information, and knowledge and how developing a systemic Knowledge Management enterprise will increase our efficiency and performance. Create a Staff Engagement Strategy.

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Knowledge Process Share Organization 100

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. It was articulated as: “We don’t have the skills to analyze, slice and dice, and make sense of our data, so it is hard to do it well.” I hear this too often from nonprofits.

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Data Help Measure Analysis 107

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

APRIL 1, 2015

This process of reflection is embedded in the organization’s working style, not a random moment of inspiration after a program evaluation is completed. Everyone on staff understands that the questions are the best teachers and in an effort to sustain learning articulate questions and seek answers to those questions.

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Culture Data Create Reflection 50

Connection Cafe

AUGUST 7, 2018

The 2017 CECP Giving in Numbers reports that more than 50% of companies have developed skills-based volunteer programs to support community and business goals. CTL embarked on a website development project with our partners at Fidelity to build a more user-friendly platform. CSR trends point to the rise of skills-based volunteerism.

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Skills Volunteer Work Organization 24

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JULY 31, 2008

One of the participants was an organization named GroundSpark which has a project called "Respect for All," that facilitates the development of inclusive, bias-free schools and communities by providing media resources, support and training to youth, educators and service providers.

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Comment Difference Spam Ning 50

Qgiv

OCTOBER 27, 2021

You could even ask volunteers to facilitate a warm introduction for you instead of just giving you a list of names. Your volunteers should be able to clearly articulate what your organization stands for and what makes it worth volunteering for. A coffee meet-up is perfect for this type of introduction.

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Volunteer Strategy Guide Local 98

Bloomerang

FEBRUARY 1, 2022

Second is to develop some action-oriented strategies to recruit and retain and engage diverse board members in fundraising activity broadly. And then unpacking some case studies that can articulate some of these strategies in action. Compared to when fundraising expectations are not clearly articulated during board recruitment.

Leadership 64

Leadership Fundraising Gift Slides 64

Connection Cafe

JUNE 12, 2017

Nonprofit marketing teams want opportunities to improve their cross-departmental collaboration skills and competencies, but it also takes a new organizational mindset to nurture their development. This activity helps you articulate why a culture of philanthropy is important, your values, and the way you work.

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Culture Philanthropy Marketing Create 47

Museum 2.0

SEPTEMBER 11, 2013

I can see a lot of potential for how this could help us develop better stuff. Discussions about what type and level of risk is acceptable and when risk is acceptable (early in the development process, contained to a defined time period or clearly articulated experiment) are useful here. The leadership environment is key.

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Place Museum Environment Problem 52

Qgiv

MAY 31, 2022

Whether I’m participating as a board member or facilitating a retreat for others, I’m lit up with anticipation as I get ready to attend a retreat. During the retreat, the board and other key leaders work together to articulate a shared vision for the future of the organization. Board retreats create an electric kind of energy for me.

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Articulate Exercise Nonprofit Picture 52

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. But it wasn't all rosy, and we weren't perfect.

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Virtual Tech Lesson Develop 21

Museum 2.0

MARCH 27, 2013

Here in Santa Cruz, my museum has embarked on a major project to redevelop the plaza outside our doors into a vibrant, cultural hub for downtown, and we are trying to make the development process as open and useful as possible. One of the key constituencies for this plaza are families.

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Design Participatory Children Museum 49

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. I attended a session about OS Online Communities facilitated by the Joomla! The questions that emerged from this group were not different from those that are asked when we talk about online facilitation and online communities.

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Generation Open Source Reflection Facilitation 50

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JUNE 25, 2012

It marked the start of a six month peer learning exchange where I, along with colleague Stephanie Rudat will work remotely with grantees as they implement an action learning project to put techniques into practice and facilitate organizational change from the inside out. We are working very closely with V.S. Anupam Shukla and Ms.

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India NGO Network Exercise 102

Connection Cafe

MARCH 17, 2015

When we say things like this, what we’re really saying is, “I personally don’t believe in this mission enough” or “We don’t do a good enough job articulating how important this cause is.” P2P Take-away: Develop a thoughtful incentive program that helps perpetuate your fundraisers’ beliefs that they care about your cause.

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Attitude Conference Social Media Registration 20

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. Following this exercise, I facilitated an affinity map of the themes on the wall.

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Foundation Design Community Work 102