Tech Soup

APRIL 20, 2016

In the last six years, Community Boost_r , ReStart Challenges , and Things Camp have used an open community challenge model. These open challenges help activists, nonprofits, journalists, techies, and community members identify, refine, build, and launch technology tools to solve pressing local and regional problems.

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Local Challenge Romania Open 36

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. They inspire people, they solve problems, and they build teams.

Skills 119

Skills Leadership Director Nonprofit 119

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

AUGUST 22, 2011

Should we be using an industrial measurement model in a digitally networked age? It requires stakeholders to articulate underlying assumptions which can be tested and measured, and it also charts an incremental path towards results. Perhaps using a Theory of Change model can help with alignment beyond tactics or financial results.

Social Media 101

Social Media Change Media Social 101

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NOVEMBER 22, 2021

Write down your feelings, especially the ones you have trouble articulating. Writing down a person’s strengths alongside their weaknesses doesn’t erase the problem you need to work with the employee to solve. Being disorganized is a problem that affects the team and the nonprofit. Start by modeling the behavior you want to see.

Personal 119

Personal Practice Journal Fundraising 119

Connection Cafe

MARCH 25, 2016

Ganz’s model is popular in activism and politics, but it also has applications for peer-to-peer fundraising. A personal story is an articulation about the values, beliefs, and events in someone’s life that have lead them to give and now fundraise. These two parts of the story are usually easy for people to articulate.

Story 20

Story Campaign Articulate Storytelling 20

ASU Lodestar Center

AUGUST 29, 2012

It only takes an oversight or a small error to blow up into a problem that could have been avoided with some basic facts. Teach or model a succinct delivery of the cause’s elevator speech. Teach or model a succinct delivery of the cause’s elevator speech. Not everything translates from for-profit to nonprofit.

Mentoring 70

Mentoring Work Phoenix Nonprofit 70

Connection Cafe

MAY 19, 2017

The problem with that view, or brand model, is that it’s no longer enough, especially in today’s competitive giving environment. A successful brand will help you engage generational donors, maintain relevance, shift audience perceptions, and clearly articulate your organization’s purpose. What is a brand?

Guidelines 31

Guidelines Nonprofit Retention Articulate 31

Bloomerang

NOVEMBER 10, 2023

In the needs section of a grant, you need to do three things to score high on a grant proposal: Eliminate flowery language, Include sources and citations, and Include a clear Problem Statement. What I see the most often in this section is that grant writers include a flowery narrative with a lot of information about problems.

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Grant Award Project Proposal 93

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

AUGUST 17, 2011

Not all nonprofits are born with the spreadsheet gene. And it isn’t simply a technical problem that can be solved through training or purchasing analytics software. Non-profits know this is true, but the problem is investing in the resources needed to become a data-driven non-profits.&#.

Culture 115

Culture Data Measure Social Media 115

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JANUARY 27, 2009

Should we be using an industrial measurement model in a digital age? Jason Falls shares in a post about measuring engagement, " The problem with trying to determine ROI for social media is you are trying to put numeric quantities around human interactions and conversations, which are not quantifiable.".

ROI 74

ROI Social Media Media Measure 74

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

AUGUST 15, 2009

This is absolutely true and the reason why we must lead with a value proposition that is transparent, and clearly articulates how impact and long-term sustainability will be achieved. They must ask "Have we provided enough value, and demonstrated enough proof behind our model or concept to ask people to give?".

Causes 89

Causes Build Demonstration Reflection 89

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.

Culture 50

Culture Data Create Reflection 50

Connection Cafe

JUNE 12, 2017

But the reality is that in many nonprofit organizations, different teams and departments do not have a shared mental model for a culture of philanthropy. It also creates a problem internally where turf wars and a noncollaborative environment lead to frustration, burnout, and staff turnover. Business guru Peter F.

Culture 47

Culture Philanthropy Marketing Create 47

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JANUARY 17, 2008

Dave Webb said "I have always had a problem forcing something that is organic by nature into a mechanical straightjacket. This voice, articulated through social media, can be extremely powerful and can force individuals, companies and communities to change the way they behave. There's a lot to digest here.

Social Media 50

Social Media Influence Meme Media 50

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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Open Source Open Software Music 100

Museum 2.0

OCTOBER 29, 2010

This question is a byproduct of the reality that most participatory projects have poorly articulated value. But the best participatory projects don't suffer from this problem, because they solicit visitors' contributions toward a very specific outcome. But overall, this is a model project that starts with an outcome, not an activity.

Participatory 48

Participatory Music Project Video 48

Whole Whale

AUGUST 7, 2023

Iterative prompt refinement forces clearer articulation of intent and goals upfront, enabling more aligned responses. AI Prompting Terms to Know 0-shot learning : When an AI model can perform a task without additional training beyond its original dataset, relying only on capabilities acquired during pre-training.

Guide 52

Guide Model Summary Structure 52

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

APRIL 27, 2012

We are recording the calls so those that face electricity/connectivity problems can download it as a podcast and listen to the recordings later – and view slides/ notes. We were able to thoroughly document the exercise here.

Pakistan 111

Pakistan NGO Network Exercise 111

Museum 2.0

JUNE 22, 2010

When I was reading Clay Shirky's essay, the thoughts running through my head were that Mailman was bad , it had problems , I should think about how to fix it. nothing at all in my training in Interaction Design gave me any insight into how to fix social problems that occur as a result of the software.

Place 29

Place Discussion Internet Mail 29

Bloomerang

JULY 23, 2021

And so when we think of that step one, that goal setting, the goal setting is not the problem. We want to replicate our model across the country. We want to replicate our model across the country. Our goals are really easy to articulate.” But now, here’s the problem. We want to scale.”

Money 107

Money Video Fundraising Gift 107

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

DECEMBER 15, 2006

I don't think she is saying SL is a fad that will go away as other people without her depth of knowledge have articulated. Being another layer over existing technologies, those who are comfortable with the current models can stay behind while the rest of us move up to the next level. Come on, get real already.

Environment 50

Environment Teach Second Life Learning 50

Museum 2.0

NOVEMBER 7, 2010

I'd always joked that my dream job was to design pinball machines--a technical problem wrapped in creativity and pleasure. 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. Share your ideas.

Museum 52

Museum Boston Participatory Job 52

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

OCTOBER 27, 2014

To set the stage for this exploration, Bill Somerville, founder and President of Ventures Foundation shared some ideas from his experience. He spoke about the need for the model of community foundation philanthropy to innovate. Design thinking methods are great way to identify and articulate some of those first step ideas.

Foundation 102

Foundation Design Community Work 102

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. All technology providers have to deal at some level with support.

Teach 100

Teach Support Technology Empowerment 100

Museum 2.0

JANUARY 30, 2007

Gourevitch isn't a great journalist because he tells great stories; it's because he asks us to question those stories and provides a model for doing so. Instead of providing opportunities for visitors to leave comments or register their opinions, give them opportunities to articulate the questions the exhibition brings up.

Issue 20

Issue Design Question Museum 20

Museum 2.0

FEBRUARY 22, 2012

Artist as Problem Solver vs. Artist as Problem Explorer Mark Allen (director of Machine Project) and I have talked about this issue several times, and Mark articulates it beautifully. As he put it (page 14): When people at an institution speak of a problem, it is often to indicate something that interferes with their operation.

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Artist Museum Project Public 39

Eric Jacobsen Blog

APRIL 29, 2010

Thursday, April 29, 2010 Create Core Values Sometimes when you are leading an organization or business and struggling to articulate your core values, it helps to see how others have stated theirs. Think how powerful it can be to include all your employees in problem solving and to use all the approaches!

Create 40

Create Mentoring Kansas City Kansas 40

Eric Jacobsen Blog

OCTOBER 7, 2010

At the same time, leaders continue to struggle with one of their toughest jobs, developing and articulating their overall strategy and priorities, especially during times of change." Think how powerful it can be to include all your employees in problem solving and to use all the approaches! Then, call a meeting to have a discussion.

Arts 40

Arts Effective Learning Mentoring 40

Museum 2.0

OCTOBER 22, 2008

Few were able to articulate a response policy that wasn't based entirely on the volume of the ire raised. cancer, stroke, heart attacks) Animal testing Hate crimes Pedophilia Other countries, not ours, are to blame for this problem. Museum professionals don’t have the tools to make wise decisions about when and why to self-censor.

Museum 20

Museum Professional Teen Map 20

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JULY 12, 2011

She helps us understand exactly what a filter bubble is – and why it is potentially a big problem for activists. The backers also knew at the outset that they wanted to find a new model for voter communication. Articulate learning questions on the front end, identify metrics/data to collect to answer questions.

Experiment 93

Experiment Florida Case Study Adwords 93

DNL OmniMedia

OCTOBER 22, 2020

ICA remedies that problem by placing a real-time campaign progress bar on their Create Amazing website. Every nonprofit site should include the organization’s mission statement somewhere, and Mustard Seed’s Mission and Vision page does a great job of articulating their purpose using short paragraphs and to-the-point language.

Websites 52

Websites Organization Nonprofit Game 52

Museum 2.0

JULY 14, 2008

How do you measure and articulate the value of museums and libraries? This attitude is often self-serving: it’s also a practical problem for those who actually want to create change. The problem is that my current audience is vocal and my future audience is silent. The six topics are: How do you plan for the future?

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Library Museum Reflection Alternative 20