Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

APRIL 3, 2018

It is open, participatory, and peer-driven. Connectivity helps facilitate highly distributed groups of people to work on a campaign, project, or share ideas that spread with unprecedented velocity and reach. It is closed, inaccessible, and leader-driven. It downloads and it captures. New power is made by many.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

NOVEMBER 6, 2014

This where design thinking methods and innovation lab facilitation techniques can be helpful. The format of the concept poster was more open then the close-ended set of exercises and questions on the worksheet. I thought the most helpful synthesis task would be a “design rationale.”

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

OCTOBER 6, 2009

I just finished the first day of a training on Network Effectiveness for Packard Grantees facilitated by the good folks at Monitor Institute. I wanted to capture some reflections around my burning question: How do you think about using social media effectively along the continuum of open/closed networks?

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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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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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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.

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Pakistan NGO Network Exercise 111

Connection Cafe

AUGUST 7, 2018

Nonprofits can come to the table as authorities on their organization but with an openness to learn from their volunteer subject matter experts, while corporate partners benefit from the depth of the nonprofit’s community experience and issue knowledge. How do you make this happen in practice?

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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. You moderate comments or leave it open.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

AUGUST 31, 2009

where he discussed the crossroads of movements and campaigns and the need for an open culture. While a large percentage of our organization can articulate the importance of being on Facebook, very few staff can grasp how these tools will help to achieve our goals: greater awareness and involvement in the broader movement to address hunger.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JANUARY 17, 2008

And before even getting to the meat of the metrics, conceptual models, and ideas, the introduction provides a powerful case for using social media that is well articulated: For the first time in history, technology has reached a point where everyone has a voice. The big question - as applied to nonprofits.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

APRIL 12, 2007

Open Source Feminism - Click to Play. Penguin Day is a day-long workshop for nonprofit organizations to explore the range of issues and options inovlved in using Free and Open Source Software. A group dialogue followed allowing people to articulate why they felt one way or other. Penguin Days. UPDATE: His name is Johan Janssens.

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Generation Open Source Reflection Facilitation 50

Museum 2.0

SEPTEMBER 11, 2013

The leadership environment Leaders (whether on a team, in a department or institution-wide) have to be open to taking risks, trying new things, evaluating and learning from failures. The idea environment Processes can get in the way of or can facilitate creativity. The leadership environment is key.

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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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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

OCTOBER 18, 2011

Paul Connolly, who has been a guest blogger on this blog before , covered the session on Open Source Strategic Planning. Next, consultants helped facilitate an asynchronous process involving a wide set of stakeholders using an online wiki to write and edit sections of the plan. Guest post by Paul Connolly. ” Paul Connolly.

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Open Source Open Case Study Wikipedia 92

Connection Cafe

MARCH 17, 2015

During the opening session Jeff Shuck, CEO of Plenty, went “Behind the Numbers” of the Peer to Peer Thirty. 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.” ” Overnight success?

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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

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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Bloomerang

FEBRUARY 1, 2022

And then unpacking some case studies that can articulate some of these strategies in action. Is that when fundraising expectations are clearly articulated during recruitment 52% of CEOs report that their boards are actively engaged in an organization’s fundraising efforts. They can help with follow-up.

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Leadership Fundraising Gift Slides 60

Bloomerang

JANUARY 29, 2024

By clearly articulating your membership tiers and benefits across multiple marketing channels, you can connect with potential new members who would be a good fit for your program. View an engagement timeline with all member interactions, from emails they’ve opened to events they’ve attended. Timeline highlights. Custom fields.

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The Modern Nonprofit

FEBRUARY 15, 2022

At the end of this guided exercise, you’ll be able to articulate investment impact statements like: BY INVESTING $9,845 IN NEW TECHNOLOGY, OUR ORG WILL SAVE $79,155 OVER THE NEXT 5 YEARS. Uncover any surprises or friction points early on, and bring them up to the support team of your new vendor to get help in facilitating new processes.

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Project Tech Guide Phase 98

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. Who helped facilitate the introduction to the individual?

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Relationship Data Build Gift 70

Get Fully Funded

APRIL 2, 2023

Here is how I would state the mission for greater clarity: We train people in entrepreneurship and provide access to capital to open small businesses. Consider hiring a consultant to facilitate the process. Just state what you do! What Makes a Strong Mission Statement A strong nonprofit mission statement is: Short.

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Hunger Nonprofit Examples Process 105

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. You leave the opening dazed, relieved, and happy to see people enjoying the pieces.

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Virtual Tech Lesson Develop 21

Museum 2.0

SEPTEMBER 4, 2013

In the summer, they spend 8 weeks working full-time at the Taylor Center learning and facilitating public programs. The YES program helps teens not only learn science but learn how to articulate their interests and pursue new passions. Most of the walls are clear, so the space feels open, welcoming, and safely overseen.

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Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

APRIL 24, 2007

As I move out of doing implementation, and into more evaluation, planning and facilitation of technology change within organizations, I wanted to spend some time articulating what I have tried my best to practice when I’ve been in a place of providing technology support. It opens additional doors. 2 cheryl 04.26.07

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Have Fun - Do Good

DECEMBER 28, 2006

From her Berkeley-based office, Melinda Kramer facilitates an international network of women leaders. One of the things that I've found in working with women and hearing how women articulate environmental and social justice challenges is the holistic aspect of the conversation, that these issues are related and that there is no separation.

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Museum 2.0

JULY 28, 2010

In the summer, they spend 8 weeks working full-time at the Taylor Center learning and facilitating public programs. The YES program helps teens not only learn science but learn how to articulate their interests and pursue new passions. Most of the walls are clear, so the space feels open, welcoming, and safely overseen.

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St. Louis Audience Teen Museum 53

Bloomerang

AUGUST 21, 2021

” So you can open your eyes. And then you also need to be able to articulate that, without fundraising or without a steady income from which to draw upon, you could cease to exist. And, as a philanthropy facilitator, you have an opportunity, I would say, a responsibility to help. That’s how it works.

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Museum 2.0

OCTOBER 16, 2013

If someone comes to an exhibition opening for the free food, do they count? For attendance to be correlated with impact, you have to find a way to articulate a theory of change that connects attendance to your mission (inspiration, learning, civic participation, etc.). as part of a meeting)?

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St. Louis Impact Museum Denver 55

Bloomerang

JULY 17, 2021

And also for Old Navy, when the flagship store opened in New York City, I got one of the first jobs at the cash register. maybe not training, comradery time, you know, some facilitated group time together where y’all get back your rhythm. Ooh, supermarket attendant, Ivene. I love that. I didn’t do that job.

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Management Work Video Slides 89