ASU Lodestar Center

JULY 8, 2015

So, as I made my transition – keep in mind that I am still working a nonprofit, just a c4 instead of a c3 – the moment gave me reason to reflect upon the 10 years of experience I had at the Alliance and with colleagues across the country through the National Council of Nonprofits. Our civic role is paramount. I agree with all of that.

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Reflection Arizona Nonprofit Classes 40

Bloomerang

AUGUST 11, 2021

Engaging the consultant search using a JEDI approach requires clarity of intent, a commitment to being uncomfortable, and a great deal of “cultural humility” (self-reflection, personal critique, and acknowledgment of existing biases), especially in white-lead and white-dominated organizations and institutions.

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ASU Lodestar Center

JULY 8, 2011

When asked what aspects of the executive director role leaders find most depleting, Daring to Lead respondents named human resources more often than any other job function. One-third of executives said that they do not spend enough time managing and developing staff.

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Leadership Research Develop Management 92

sgEngage

AUGUST 29, 2022

Articulating this to your team not only sets appropriate expectations, but also allows users to better understand the implementation process and get excited about new functionalities on the horizon. The size of your implementation team will vary by organization, but you should include a diverse set of roles. Understanding the Timeline.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MARCH 15, 2011

In order to do this, you need to give people a brief context and articulate the interaction rules. I like to use a wireless mic and roam the audience and ask questions that help create a bridge between the presenters and the audience.

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Bloomerang

MAY 17, 2021

No one should fall back on “that’s not my job” when it comes to passionately and proactively articulating your vision, mission, and values. Culture tends to reflect who’s in charge. You could organize “Charity Committees” and accomplish the same thing, discussing the role of “caritas” or caring. customer service is a priority).

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Achieve

AUGUST 12, 2021

Given this, articulating your mission can help fuel your peer-to-peer campaigns, which means it’s time for you. In a reflection of that trust, more than three-fourths would stop giving if they weren't told how their contributions help. . In her role, she leads the charge with lead generation, content creation, and brand management.

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Connection Cafe

JULY 2, 2019

But as much as fundraising is a calling, it’s also a career that requires business development, sales, client retention, and articulable value propositions. Demonstrate (and articulate!) Playing the Role of Trusted Advisor. Otherwise, wouldn’t we all go make a lot more money in the corporate sector?

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Adopt Service Fundraising Articulate 29

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

OCTOBER 20, 2011

And we’ve underscored the importance of networks articulating their values and keeping themselves accountable to those shared values. Evaluation can also help foundations get the feedback they need to modulate their role and influence. Communication: The words we use. Casey Foundation in Baltimore, Maryland.

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BoardAssist

MAY 20, 2014

The investment policy statement should reflect the organization’s mission to insure the non-profit has the financial resources to support their programs. If the members of the committee and board cannot tolerate large swings in portfolio values, then the risk of the portfolio should be adjusted to reflect the appropriate risk tolerance.

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Management Policy Government Classes 61

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

APRIL 27, 2012

This blog post includes some reflections on the instructional design, delivery, and insights that I hope will inform the field building discussion taking place over at the Packard OE Program site. Integrate Practical Use of the Tools for Reflection, Network Weaving, Getting Ideas, Follow Up Work. organizational change, and technology.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MARCH 13, 2018

As Osborn wrote in his book, “Creativity is so delicate a flower that praise tends to make it bloom while discouragement often nips it in the bud.” The simple rules of brainstorming are typically articulated at the beginning of a session as ground rules and include the following: NO criticism or debate. Quantity matters.

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Qgiv

OCTOBER 27, 2021

Here are a few tasks you might want to turn over to volunteers or recruit more volunteers for: Day-to-day office work or cleaning Door greeter roles Docent positions Event committee positions Event registration and ticketing Event set-up and clean-up In-kind donations collection Marketing and promotion tasks Fundraising tasks Teaching or tutoring.

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Volunteer Strategy Guide Local 98

Connection Cafe

JUNE 30, 2016

In “Moving Beyond a Culture of Compliance to a Culture of Continuous Improvement,” a resource guide for Head Start Programs, we describe several key indicators, including curiosity, reflection, tolerance of failure and vulnerability, and use of feedback. They use what others might deem failures as an opportunity for learning.

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Connection Cafe

OCTOBER 29, 2018

We thought so, so we put together a short list of items we felt could trigger meaningful conversations just in time for end-of-year reflection and 2019 planning. . Have you taken the time to clearly articulate your desired impact , and the outcomes or indicators you’ll need to monitor to see your progress toward that goal?

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Connection Cafe

MAY 19, 2017

So, you’ve created a new logo and the perfect tagline that better reflect the work you do. It will help define your unique role within the lives of those you serve, your community, and the world. It inspires staff, donors, board members, corporate sponsors, community partners, and perhaps most importantly, those you serve.

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Guidelines Nonprofit Retention Articulate 31

Amy Sample Ward

JANUARY 20, 2011

The results we were able to produce didn’t reflect the full contents of our database. They tended to reflect only the most recently-added actions, not the most relevant. What role do API’s, and the people who build them, play in Linked Open Data?

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

AUGUST 17, 2011

I’ve been reflecting on why some nonprofits do a better job of measurement and learning, while others do not. There not is a reflection process for analyzing success or failure to take into next use or campaign. Most people won’t change their behaviors until they observe the role models in their organization acting.

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Culture Data Measure Social Media 115

Museum 2.0

MAY 15, 2012

If she is not willing or able to articulate a potential change, it’s not a prototype—it’s just a model of a foregone conclusion. How does experimentation play a role (or not) in the culture of your organization? Or alternatively, what kind of culture are you trying to build, and what indicators reflect that?

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Culture Build Museum Articulate 53

Museum 2.0

MARCH 27, 2013

Young people feel competent and confident enough in their role as community members to understand the need for collaboration and that in asking adults for their input, the project may be strengthened. A key aspect of this rung is the degree to which children are engaged in critical reflection. Here's a synopsis: Participation 1.

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Connection Cafe

JUNE 12, 2017

The nature of today’s nonprofit workplace——face-paced and heavy workloads—makes it difficult to find the reflective time to put together a learning plan and implement it consistently. 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

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JANUARY 17, 2008

On Twitter, Kami Huyse pointed over to her reflections on this paper which lead me again to the paper itself. 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.

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Bloomerang

FEBRUARY 1, 2022

Elizabeth Abel will explore the role of the board in elevating fundraising activity and discuss effective strategies to recruit, engage, and deploy diverse board members as fundraising ambassadors. First is to understand the role of the board specifically in elevating an organization’s fundraising program. Elizabeth: Yes.

Leadership 60

Leadership Fundraising Gift Slides 60

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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Detroit Arts Public Support 49

Connection Cafe

MARCH 17, 2015

Like hard work and patience, investment in DIY will play a key role in determining how many of these programs land in the Peer to Peer Thirty over the next five years. My hope is that nonprofits will pour the necessary planning, staffing and resources into these new peer to peer campaigns. Why are we so afraid of “bothering” our supporters?

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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. These posts have sparked some thoughtful reflections, from a folks on the Second Life Educator's List and I'm going to quote and summarize a few: The Second Life Doubter's Club. D) is to going. whenever i???

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Environment Teach Second Life Learning 50

Bloomerang

JANUARY 18, 2023

Try to articulate your organization’s long-term goals and aspirations in high definition. It’s also important to have diverse perspectives and backgrounds represented on the board to ensure that the nonprofit’s work is reflective of the community it serves.

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Effective Business Create Tips 92

Get Fully Funded

APRIL 2, 2023

Good Nonprofit Mission Statement One of my favorite mission statements came from a nature center that had expanded its role in the community. 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. Why do we exist?

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Hunger Nonprofit Examples Process 105

Bloomerang

JULY 17, 2021

When I started in the sector right after grad school, I realized that there weren’t a lot of folks who I thought looked like me who were in leadership roles. And I ascended into an executive role pretty early in about three and a half, four years into my career and I spent almost all of my career in the C-suite.

Management 90

Management Work Video Slides 90

Forj

AUGUST 12, 2021

Some stand-out features of Absorb Create include: Collaboration tools including team workspaces and the ability to differentiate permissions across team roles. Customize user roles to work collaboratively on projects while managing access to assets. Articulate 360. A content library of ready-to-use templates.

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eLearning Authoring Course Platform 36

Museum 2.0

NOVEMBER 7, 2010

I promised to commit to stay through the opening if she'd let me take on this role, and I suggested that she could keep me at my (low) salary instead of hiring an expensive project coordinator. Articulate what you can do for your organization, not what you can do generally. Bosses are like boyfriends; they're not mind readers.

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Museum Boston Participatory Job 52

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

SEPTEMBER 7, 2010

This post reflections on the training design as well as my content notes. I’ll look forward to read any reflections from Alan on how this worked. Networked Nonprofits have articulated SMART objectives and a target audience for their Facebook page. Social Learning In Webinars.

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Facebook Network Museum Nonprofit 111

Bloomerang

JULY 23, 2021

Our goals are really easy to articulate.” So if your fundraising team is going to secure investment level donations, if you’re going to pick up all that money that’s sitting on the table right now, you have to be able to share and articulate the true need in investment level conversations. What’s the role there?

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Money Video Fundraising Gift 107

Museum 2.0

FEBRUARY 22, 2012

Artists and administrators grapple with the shifting roles of institutions as hosts and incubators for creative work. The honest reflections from staff members beyond curatorial and education departments--including registrars, security staff, and PR--are unparalleled. The book is fascinating on multiple levels.

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Artist Museum Project Public 39

Museum 2.0

JULY 9, 2007

It reflects the GMSP’s—and Jen’s—commitment to creating a set of programs by and for its audience: teen girls. Jen and I sat down to talk about building for teens, working the web, and the role of innovation in museums. Braincake isn’t some fakey attempt to pander to teens. It’s got style, a strong brand, and growing content.

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Have Fun - Do Good

JULY 3, 2006

Steve Williams: One of the interesting things that we have seen historically is that women's labor, and particularly women of color, have played a central role of supporting the economy. Britt Bravo: Tell me a little more about the campaign for domestic workers.

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Have Fun - Do Good

DECEMBER 28, 2006

So many of these women are local leaders, and Women's Global Green Action Network is attempting to provide a space for women to step into roles of being global advocates, and to really have a more prevalent platform for the messages and the work that they are doing. We do it in a number of ways. It was really tremendous. We know this.

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