Greater Giving

JUNE 15, 2023

Fundraising Strategies: Working closely with the committee to develop innovative fundraising ideas , sponsorship opportunities, and effective marketing and promotional campaigns. Serving for a limited time period provides continuity and stability while allowing fresh perspectives and ideas to be introduced.

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NonProfit Hub

APRIL 17, 2024

Use this template to facilitate the persona creation process: This template offers space to add demographic and behavioral information about your personas and strategize your intended messaging. For more complex content needs, it’s recommended to work with a professional developer or designer to bring your ideas to life.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MARCH 4, 2020

It’s time to up your virtual facilitation and convening skills. Since those days, I have continued to hone my virtual facilitation skills to design and deliver effective virtual meetings and trainings. As nonprofits are impacted by the CoronaVirus and need more virtual meeting skills, I’d like to share what I have learned.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MAY 7, 2013

During the presentation, we had participants jot down questions on index cards and those were used by the facilitators to lead the discussion. This method was used because the facilitator needed to speak into the mic so I could hear the questions. ” So we had several back up plans.

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AccelEvents

JUNE 15, 2020

Consider real-time text chat as well as audio and video chat. Facilitate Networking. When planning your trade show, be careful to include events and sessions that will actively facilitate networking. It is a good idea to allow for easy communication during the event as well. Text, audio, and video chat options.

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AccelEvents

AUGUST 14, 2020

Using a tool like Accelevents , you can seamlessly manage all ticketing and registration while facilitating participation and networking across physical and virtual sessions. . They can get rid of any inappropriate comments and deliver posted questions to the facilitator. But it also means a virtual events platform.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

SEPTEMBER 10, 2019

Last week I facilitated a workshop in Detroit hosed by Co-Act , a nonprofit collaboration space in Detroit. Their space is designed for local nonprofits to connect, share ideas and develop solutions together. Last week I facilitated a workshop in Detroit hosed by Co-Act, a nonprofit collaboration space in Detroit.

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AccelEvents

AUGUST 15, 2021

A hybrid event is generally hosted by a company, event management team, and supporting staff, like videographer, event organizer, emcee, audio team, and IT support team. . Hybrid Event Ideas. Make sure to add in some unique virtual event ideas for audience engagement in the online format. . Top Hybrid Event Gamification Ideas.

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OneCause

NOVEMBER 28, 2022

We’ve put together a list of our 6 best tips and ideas for setting the stage for your next auction, including. From promoting a sponsor, your brand, signifying a theme, or simply providing suitable visuals and audio for your guests. TV, Cameras, and WiFi: To facilitate a remote auction experience for everyone around the world! .

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

SEPTEMBER 9, 2015

If you are responsible for planning and facilitating virtual meetings, here are some tips that’ll help you make your meetings more productive. Virtual Meetings Require Iron Fist Facilitation. Appoint a facilitator to function as traffic cop, spelling out the rules of engagement and calling on people when it’s their turn.

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AccelEvents

JUNE 23, 2020

Scheduled video, audio, or VR sessions. These booths not only include branding and messaging, but live text, video, and audio chat, product demos, and downloadable materials like product guides and specs. It is also a good idea to consider accommodations for individuals with seeing or hearing impairments.

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Amy Sample Ward

OCTOBER 30, 2009

At the Digital Engagement Event , back on 6th October, David Wilcox and I helped the Community Voices team facilitate two sessions that focused on the three things more important to digital engagement than the technology. Were you there, and have ideas to add to this reflection? It starts with people and stays with people.

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Amy Sample Ward

OCTOBER 30, 2009

At the Digital Engagement Event , back on 6th October, David Wilcox and I helped the Community Voices team facilitate two sessions that focused on the three things more important to digital engagement than the technology. Were you there, and have ideas to add to this reflection? It starts with people and stays with people.

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AccelEvents

JUNE 15, 2020

Consider real-time text chat as well as audio and video chat. Facilitate Networking. When planning your trade show, be careful to include events and sessions that will actively facilitate networking. It is a good idea to allow for easy communication during the event as well. Text, audio, and video chat options.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

OCTOBER 12, 2015

Last week, I facilitated a peer learning session for Emerging Nonprofit Leaders and their mentors about healthy and productive meetings. We covered the best practices of meetings , both face-to-face and virtual meetings. That means everyone – the facilitator, note taker, and even the senior manager.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JANUARY 28, 2007

TechSoup holds regular meetings for nonprofits in Second Life and I have been attending regularly and sometimes facilitate like this I did this past week. So, I've been reflecting about effective facilitation of virtual meetings in Second Life Right now the primary method of group interaction is via unmoderated chat interface.

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Beneblog: Technology Meets Society

JULY 9, 2018

With a press of a virtual button, an ebook can be printed, displayed in large print (on a page or on a display), made into braille (on a page or on an electronic braille display), or read aloud as audio. I love to hark back to Thomas Jefferson’s take on ideas. “He These were the days when people had just one PC at home.

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Neon CRM

NOVEMBER 30, 2023

Videos, interviews, client stories, audio, emails, podcasts, social media posts—there are so many types of storytelling opportunities available to nonprofits of all missions and sizes. Uplift the Story Owners Even when a nonprofit helps facilitate change in someone’s life, their story is still their story.

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Volunteer Hub

OCTOBER 16, 2020

While your traditional events are likely on a pause right now, your nonprofit should still have effective event management tools to facilitate registration and other related processes. Web accessibility is the idea that anything on the web should be able to be used by any person, regardless of their abilities. Event management tools.

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AccelEvents

JUNE 23, 2020

Scheduled video, audio, or VR sessions. These booths not only include branding and messaging, but live text, video, and audio chat, product demos, and downloadable materials like product guides and specs. It is also a good idea to consider accommodations for individuals with seeing or hearing impairments.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MARCH 3, 2011

Day 4 of the Train the Trainers E-Mediat was designed and facilitated by the capable SMEXbeirut Team – including Jessica Dheere , Mohamad Najem , and Naeema Zarif. The debriefing prompted a wide range of insights, particularly how to facilitate a training when you have individuals with a wide range of knowledge and skills.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

SEPTEMBER 19, 2017

Workplace flexibility creates a need for better skills in facilitating virtual meetings and hybrid meetings where some participants are in the room and others participate are using audio-only or video conferencing platform. That’s why I’ve added a new workshop on running and facilitating effective virtual meetings.

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Have Fun - Do Good

AUGUST 12, 2011

Below are some of the ideas, events and people that have stayed with me this week: 1. Teaching The Essential Blog Content Development Workshop I loved co-facilitating the Essential Blog Content Development Workshop with Elizabeth Soutter of Da Momma: Motherhood is Not for Wimps , and Julie Weckerlein of Julie and Martin.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MARCH 10, 2010

Last year, I facilitated a version of the Social Media Game for Packard Grantees as part of a convening on Network Effectiveness in Washington, DC. Each team pitched their idea to the full EDF staff. Teams took ownership of their ideas and were revved up to show them off. Lots of great ideas. Plans to re-run the game.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MAY 3, 2010

Twitter : A space where we can engage with the community, share ideas, ask for help, get feedback, listen to complaints, participate and mobilize people to help us with our vision of ‘a book in every child’s hand’. Blog : A resource which talks about publishing, reading, literacy, kidlit, learning, non-profits, events and more.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

DECEMBER 21, 2006

. - teams of kids have attended seminars (in Second Life) from UNICEF on world issues, and the kids are building exhibits with their ideas for solutions. I listened to the audio feed of him talking to the kids, answering their questions. Hat tip to Alan Levine/CogdogBlog for the transcription and facilitating the audio.

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Have Fun - Do Good

OCTOBER 10, 2009

Facilitate commenting Allow commenting. Interviews (written, audio, video). Requests for feedback and ideas. Ask readers to share opinions, resources, and content (blog posts, photos, audio, video). Post weekly roundups of blog posts about your issue. Post about a range topics (i.e. Staff and supporters' opinions.

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Forum One

APRIL 28, 2010

In my presentation, I looked at ways organizations need to change the way they do business and generate content in order to facilitate a storytelling culture, namely: Ensure organizational backing from senior management. Have everyone buy into the idea that storytelling matters!

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AccelEvents

JUNE 12, 2020

A virtual conference, in many ways, is similar to a physical conference, but that does not mean the two should be planned or facilitated in the same way. Facilitate Networking. The good news is that facilitating networking at your virtual event is not that difficult. Facilitate Engagement.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

OCTOBER 31, 2006

My first online community builder/facilitator job was with Arts Wire, an online network for artists, that used a unix-based, text-based online discussion software. I facilitated online forums, provided technical support the 500 members, and training. Onlne Facilitator. online facilitator? Electronic Bulletin Board Sysop.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

OCTOBER 17, 2005

Technorati tags can help you attract more readers for your blog and also facilitate contributing to the collective community wisdom surrounding a particular tag. Surfing a tag stream (another word for a collection of content found in one screen using a tag) can also help you discover other people, s, and ideas.

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Connection Cafe

AUGUST 5, 2020

Highlighting a current or upcoming campaign is a great idea. Some easy ways to improve your web accessibility are to provide text/audio alternatives to all images and staying away from any flashing graphics. With CTAs, you can help to facilitate that user’s initial giving journey.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JANUARY 27, 2010

I was delighted to see that some of my colleagues were excited to try some of these ideas in their trainings and Kivi Leroux Miller suggested that we do a session at NTC this year called "Online Trainings That Don't Suck," so watch out. Can you add audio with slideshare? ( Social Instructional Design. Yes check here ).

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Museum 2.0

APRIL 2, 2014

Song Reader didn''t come as a CD, or an LP, or a bunch of digital audio files. As Beck puts it: I think there’s something human in sheet music, something that doesn’t depend on technology to facilitate it—it’s a way of opening music up to what someone else is able to bring to it. There are twenty songs in Song Reader.

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AccelEvents

JUNE 12, 2020

A virtual conference, in many ways, is similar to a physical conference, but that does not mean the two should be planned or facilitated in the same way. Facilitate Networking. The good news is that facilitating networking at your virtual event is not that difficult. Facilitate Engagement.

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Tech Soup

AUGUST 3, 2011

As a rehab teacher, it seems to be what I teach most of the time these days, since there are so many apps that facilitate independent living." I say "us" because people with disabilities are part of the general population as readers, writers, consumers, lovers of food, blogs, wacky products, music, audio, etc.

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The Modern Nonprofit

AUGUST 30, 2023

We’re sharing ideas and resources on event fundraising. This can feel daunting, so we’ve gathered some creative ideas and real-world examples to help get your juices flowing. SIPA VIRTUAL GALA Virtual Gala Tips & Ideas: Share special dinner and drink pairing recipes before the event that guests can prepare and enjoy at home.

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