BoardAssist

JULY 15, 2014

Do you feel you know the right questions to ask about your nonprofit’s strategy? This week, in her guest post for BoardAssist, she has provided six great strategy questions every board member should consider. How to Ask the Right Questions About Nonprofit Strategy. Here are some questions you might ask.

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Question Strategy New Jersey Government 84

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MARCH 15, 2011

Over the past month, I have been thinking about a couple of different ideas and how to incorporate them into training design to facilitate learning. My questions are: 1. How can we use graphic facilitation or graphic note taking in real time to deepen understanding of the topic being discussed?

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Facilitation Channel Social Media Global 98

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JANUARY 3, 2019

Last year, I added another tool called the “ Year Compass, a free downloadable booklet that provides a set of structured reflection questions that help you look back and ahead. Chris Brogan’s ritual suggests selecting three words, but I modify it by articulating key themes.

Professional 114

Professional Build Journal Facilitation 114

Candid

APRIL 11, 2023

To identify prospective companies that may stand to benefit from sponsoring your fundraising event, ask yourself the following questions: What companies are in our local community that align with our nonprofit’s values and fundraising event audience? Be sure to articulate your goals of your fundraising event’s sponsorship.

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Sponsor Fundraising Companies Demonstration 98

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JANUARY 5, 2018

This year I used a new tool recommended by colleague Alexandra Samuel, the “ Year Compass, a free downloadable booklet that provides a set of structured reflection questions. Chris Brogan’s ritual suggests selecting three words, but I modify it by articulating key themes. Year in Review.

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Professional Finland Journal Reflection 0

Bloomerang

MAY 17, 2021

You are the philanthropy facilitator. . You — and the entire social benefit sector — need organizational-development-grounded philanthropic facilitators. No one should fall back on “that’s not my job” when it comes to passionately and proactively articulating your vision, mission, and values. It’s in your job description.

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Culture Philanthropy Facilitation Job 123

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

APRIL 3, 2018

Connectivity helps facilitate highly distributed groups of people to work on a campaign, project, or share ideas that spread with unprecedented velocity and reach. These are key questions of our times. The books answers many questions that are useful to nonprofits in their quest to spread and harness social good.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

NOVEMBER 6, 2014

Here I used a classic, simple technique of asking people to share burning questions in small groups and generated a list of the themes/questions with the full group. I’m always relieved when the questions match the content, but you also have to point out where you will go deep and what may not be addressed.

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Activities Active Activism Integration 105

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. Investing in digital-first fundraising and marketing communications.

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Analytics Strategy Fundraising Benchmark 122

NTEN

JUNE 13, 2014

In addition to the conversations with participants in three separate tracks, #14LCS includes a stellar lineup of keynote speakers who will spark new conversations and nudge existing conversations to introduce new questions. To get a jump-start on conversations for LCS, we asked Matt a few questions, shared below.

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Measure Impact Chicago Metrics 96

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

AUGUST 30, 2013

To alleviate any concerns or tension, explicitly articulate to your team that their jobs are not at stake. Instead, make sure you are offering personalized outlets to stimulate both feedback and questions. Either way,begin reading through the data with your initial research questions in mind. Conduct an Organizational Audit.

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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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Philanthropy Effective Chapter Measure 96

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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Culture Work Nonprofit Policy 50

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? Flickr Photo by Marin Labar.

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Guidelines Articulate Social Media Conversation 80

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

APRIL 26, 2012

Too often, eager to fill a vacant seat or secure a well-known name, we fail to clearly articulate expectations of service to prospective board members, or downplay the expectations of service. “Board manuals can be a key resource in facilitating the work of a board member. Board Manual.

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Fundraising Articulate Template Facilitation 50

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

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. We spent a fair amount of time framing and reframing the problem and ended up with a question that focused on data collection. The hot button issue was capacity, skills, and lack of resources.

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Data Help Measure Analysis 107

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. Leave time for questions at the end of the session. Ask your board to get involved.

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Volunteer Strategy Guide Local 98

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. The are several answers to this question.

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Bloomerang

FEBRUARY 1, 2022

And then we’ll have some time for question and answers to make sure that we can do our best to address some of the things that you and your teams and your boards are facing today. So we have three questions that will help anchor our conversation. And just to make it easy, we’ll ask you to type your questions in the chat.

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Leadership Fundraising Gift Slides 60

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. It also raises the question, "Is influence what should be measured?"

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Museum 2.0

SEPTEMBER 11, 2013

Based on a lot of experimentation (and a lot of failures), a whole lot of conversations and some amazing questions from people, here are some things that seem to contribute to getting creativity introduced and to having it stick. The idea environment Processes can get in the way of or can facilitate creativity. Or the tables?

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Place Museum Environment Problem 52

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. Might I dare suggest that future spectrograms include a question about gender balance in OS? I attended a session about OS Online Communities facilitated by the Joomla! Or, has this issue already been discussed in this context?

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Generation Open Source Reflection Facilitation 50

Connection Cafe

JUNE 12, 2017

The Playbook features a highly practical toolkit that consists of facilitator agendas and worksheets for nonprofit staff to apply the ideas and frameworks. 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

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. This leads to questions on return on investment (ROI)—are you paying for a system that’s too large for your nonprofit’s more limited membership needs?

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Software Tools Associations API 78

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

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MARCH 6, 2007

I met a lot of fantastic videobloggers as well as learned a lot through the discussion on production values facilitated by David Tames. s often a question of what is appropriate vs. what is inappropriate for a given message. Click here to play video. The Boston Media Makers meeting on Sunday was inspiring. do our own thing????

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Boston Learning Media Audio 50

sgEngage

DECEMBER 12, 2022

Before we discuss how to use data to build stronger relationships for your nonprofit, let’s start with a philosophical question: What is a relationship? This feels like a simple question but take a few minutes on your own (no cheating—don’t peek ahead) to try and define what it means. Okay, welcome back. Was it through an event?

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Relationship Data Build Gift 70

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

Museum 2.0

MAY 3, 2010

to better articulate what you are really trying to do with your project concept. I learned new vocabulary and questions to ask myself and others, but the exercise itself felt a bit frustrating and haphazard. The Structure Lab is set up as a "game" in which you explore cards in various categories (values, assets, financing, etc.)

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Structure Model Social Profit 31

Get Fully Funded

APRIL 2, 2023

Often people involved in an organization have different answers to these questions, and a long mission statement reflects a desire to include everyone’s perspective. Consider hiring a consultant to facilitate the process. Get started with these questions: Who will we serve? What problem are we here to solve? Why do we exist?

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Hunger Nonprofit Examples Process 105

Bloomerang

AUGUST 21, 2021

It might be a little tight because we’ve got a lot of good stuff to share with you, but ask questions anyway because we might be able to get to your question offline as well. But if there’s a lot of questions we don’t get to, I will write up some FAQs and send them to you afterwards, so don’t be shy.

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Video Giving Gift Donor 129

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

OCTOBER 18, 2011

After lunch, conference participants got to to choose two presenters to spend an hour with in a small group to ask questions and deepened the learning. 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. ” Paul Connolly.

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Open Source Open Case Study Wikipedia 92

Bloomerang

JULY 17, 2021

And so at any point, if you have a question, a comment, you want to just co-sign, give me a plus one, please keep your chat up so that we can keep talking and I’ll be looking at it while I’m going through my slides. So I have a question for y’all. And so the question then comes into play, is it really time to go back?

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Management Work Video Slides 88

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MARCH 19, 2013

It means that you need to engage with a purpose or articulated goal. The questions are below: Which Social Media source leads to the most conversions? It can help you answer the following questions: Which Facebook post led to the most conversions? Which Social Media source sends the highest quality visitors? The how to is here.

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Measure Social Media Media Social 117

Museum 2.0

OCTOBER 16, 2013

Even if you consider some of these counting strategies to be egregious, the basic question is still relevant: who counts? Probe too deeply and the question gets absurd. The more important question is not WHO counts but WHAT counts. That''s a huge question. What is meaningful in the context of achieving our mission?

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