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Reflections from Stanford Nonprofit Management Institute: New Skills for a Complex World

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

” This post shares my notes from that session along with a reflection about my session and some resources. In fact, Lucy has been terrific in finding new ways, like Branch , to use the social tools to facilitate a global brain around these ideas. That they have a “Do good where ever attitude.”

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How To Think Like An Instructional Designer for Your Nonprofit Trainings

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

All of my work these days is focused on designing and delivering effective training for nonprofits -primarily on the topics of social media, strategy, networks, and measurement. So, expect to see regular reflections on good instructional design and delivery for any topic, but especially digital technology and social media related.

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One Thing Most Nonprofits Stink at (Donor Retention) and How You Can Change It in 2019

Connection Cafe

First, believe deeply – in your heart and then in your brain – that donors matter. Enjoy them now; then practice a year-round attitude of gratitude. Or you could measure their passion by using the rich interactions that CRM systems have been tracking for years but that most organizations are rarely using.

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[VIDEO] Raising More Money By Asking (And Answering) Better Questions

Bloomerang

” So we have in our brains, the amygdala, the fear center, where you have flight, fright, and freeze as the emotional reactions to things that’s scare you. So fundamentally, I think for major donor conversations what you want to be doing is asking questions, then you reflect back what they’ve said.

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112 Nonprofit Blog Posts, Articles, and Stories from 2013 You Can’t Miss.

Connection Cafe

In Keep Calm and Write It Down: How Reflective Practice Leads To Better Results for Nonprofits , we’re reminded that a key step to improvement is having an accurate retrospective view. Jeff Haguewood of Sidekick Solutions suggests the 5 Basic Fundraising Performance Metrics to Start Measuring Today. Infographics. Tell stories.

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Positivity, Time, and Work

Museum 2.0

Just as porn was famously hard to define, good writing is easy to enjoy and hard to measure. Then, when you look through resumes, your unconscious brain might move you to a certain candidate. They weren’t similar in temperament or attitude. A good label is insanely hard to quantify. Good writers are hard to manufacture.

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