Whole Whale

SEPTEMBER 8, 2023

Make the mission or program the hero – Focus messaging on your nonprofit’s values, impact, and service. There are a few key ways a nonprofit’s mission or program can become the “hero” of their fundraising campaigns: Tell emotional stories about the mission’s impact on real people’s lives.

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Allegiance Group

MAY 1, 2024

In the crowded landscape of December giving, it’s all too common for nonprofits to blend in and struggle to stand out in a sea of sameness. When a blended message is put in front of people, they’ll naturally see the connective thread between the different modes of communication. Set up a Monitoring and Evaluation System.

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Campaign Guide Fundraising Storytelling 52

Gyrus

AUGUST 29, 2016

Your learning program has been managing itself for years, or at least that’s what your boss thinks. Learning programs are resource intensive. In order to properly organize a blended learning environment without a learning management system, a great deal of time needs to be dedicated. Let’s face it. Growth of Savings.

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ASU Lodestar Center

APRIL 18, 2017

It is no secret that nonprofits struggle to make ends meet when it comes to costs that cannot be directly attributed to a specific program. Heron Foundation, put it, ‘In the long run, you can’t have strong programs in weak organizations.’” posted by Anna Midkiff Comptroller, Critical Path Institute.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

AUGUST 10, 2009

Crowdsourcing can be done at an organizational level, blended into the way nonprofits create , implement, and evaluate their programs. Some questions I don't know the answers to: What are the best examples of nonprofits using social media to crowdsource advice, program evaluation, ideas, or other uses?

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ASU Lodestar Center

JUNE 8, 2012

Instead, they were often blends that involved different levels of partnership and sharing. For example, a joint programming partnership wants to spin a program off as its own independent organization, or a partnership around joint advocacy wants to create a formal umbrella organization to coordinate and support their collective activities.

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Gyrus

MAY 31, 2016

Advanced software, technology tools, and innovative methods are being used to enhance training program’s quality, participation and engagement as well as to enable corporate training to be a more personalized experience. It is growing to be an effective medium for creating bite-sized and engaging learning modules.

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Gyrus

APRIL 21, 2016

The corporate training world often questions and evaluates the concept of incorporating informal learning. Informal learning is the unofficial, unscheduled, and unplanned way to learn and gain knowledge, whereas formal learning is delivered in a systematic, intentional way with a reporting and evaluation process.

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Forj

MAY 25, 2021

Manually generating reports, exporting them from your LMS, and submitting them to the Accreditation Council for Continuing Medical Education’s Program and Activity Reporting System (PARS) is a complicated, precise administrative burden for your team to tackle. 5 Features to Seek in Your Next Medical Learning Management System.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

SEPTEMBER 4, 2009

These ventures offer solid rates of return as well as environmental and/or social benefits, sometimes called blended value. Foundations also do their own mission related and program related investing. Others examples include loans to schools in India and capital for small manufacturers in Ghana. Some are calling it impact investing.

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Museum 2.0

MARCH 3, 2011

This winter, I once again taught a graduate class in the University of Washington's Museology program. This is less true of Dirty Laundry, which required a blend of friendly invitation to participate and private spaces to contribute secrets.) In 2009 , students built a participatory exhibit from scratch. I feel mixed about this choice.

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NetWits

APRIL 27, 2012

FMSC is doing something that every nonprofit who runs an event fundraising program should do. In this three-minute video, FMSC is able to blend both messaging around their mission and the global hunger crisis with clear, easy to follow steps about how to participate as a fundraiser. . … 5 Question Training Evaluation.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

FEBRUARY 21, 2009

But ROI was not really intended to measure a technology project, program, or tool or any other isolated aspect of an organization. What's Up With Feedburner by Beth Kanter Google Analytics Primer sponsored by NTEN with screencast and wiki created by Beth Kanter Using Postrank To Evaluate the Top Content on my blog by Beth Kanter.

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Museum 2.0

NOVEMBER 10, 2009

During the session, we discussed how the 21st century skills report can serve as an actionable tool both for fundraising/advocacy activities and professional and program development at science centers. The REFLECTS project blends practical institutional demands with deep research.

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Museum 2.0

SEPTEMBER 12, 2012

We tracked down as many people as we could and developed a big spreadsheet so we could evaluate the possibilities. Our community programs staff worked with visitors to make the birds, vote on a final design, and hang the mobile over a series of evening events prior to opening.

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Gyrus

AUGUST 3, 2016

So much so that if you are part of a large organization with international representation, there are even translation tools and modules at your disposal to create a more impactful training and development program. This program indeed works, and now, I can find ways to make it work better.

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Museum 2.0

MAY 8, 2013

It can lead to parallel programming: bike night for hipsters, bee night for hippies, family night for kiddies. One of our core programming goals is to build social capital by forging unexpected connections between diverse collaborators and audience members. This has led to a surprising outcome: we are now de-targeting many programs.

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Gyrus

JULY 26, 2016

As we embark hundreds of years down the road from some of these grand musings and green field possibilities, it is important to look back and evaluate what we as humans have actually accomplished. Content is king, good content can be the make or break foundation of a great Learning and Development program. Microlearning.

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Gyrus

APRIL 3, 2018

In order to establish an effective learning program, there must be a great consideration for the future needs of the day to day business, and the workforce themselves. One cannot simply establish a program and walk away stating that it is as perfect as it will always be and there is nothing more we can do as an organization.

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Gyrus

JULY 19, 2016

Today, we will evaluate microlearning and the potential it carries in reference to bolstering a learning program. In order to address the need for a microlearning, refer to the following: As referenced throughout this post, one must evaluate the learning needs they wish to address with the microlearning.

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Museum 2.0

NOVEMBER 5, 2013

What surprises me is the argument that participatory and community-centered initiatives, offered alongside many other interpretative strategies, program types, and projects, can erode the value of an institution and the experiences it provides. 45% attend during community programs. During community programs, that number jumps to 95%.

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Museum 2.0

APRIL 18, 2012

For this reason, at the MAH we try to explicitly bake social bridging into the way we plan programs and exhibitions. We tailor the programming blend to diverse ages, making sure no activity is just for kids or adults, no matter how much glue or fire is involved. We're just at the beginning of this work.

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Museum 2.0

JUNE 15, 2009

You can explore the project wiki where we coordinated the exhibit, including the project overview , our six-week plan to get it all done, and individual sections for development of concept , content , interaction , graphics , marketing , fabrication , installation , and evaluation. But the exhibit team did something novel.

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The Modern Nonprofit

SEPTEMBER 26, 2023

Is there a program or project that you want to get off the ground and need to raise some funds for? While you want to include the program’s metrics and efficacy, you’ll also want the central piece to relate to a real story from your community. Highlight your programs, volunteers, and impact. This feels amazing.

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Gyrus

JULY 7, 2016

In business, a course could be a single 3-hour instruction with an evaluation at the end. The ability to diversify program hooks could go a long way in reshaping the usefulness of academic systems in the very near future. In the educational LMS realm, there are clearly defined grade levels, which coincide with a full year of usage.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

OCTOBER 19, 2007

I'm slightly out of my comfort zone here because I've only been following this topic closely for a short time, although I have co-authored a guide for nonprofits on technology evaluation and ROI. I'm looking to blend different perspectives and have a workshop session that can speak to nonprofits and grassroots media makers.

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Eric Jacobsen Blog

NOVEMBER 29, 2010

3 Coaching And Mentoring Tips How To Avoid 8 Common Performance Evaluation Pitfa. How To Improve Your Internal Communication Skills This Week's Book Recommendation 3 Things Your Mission Statement Must Have Is Your Crisis Management Program In Place? Good Sample Business Principles Do you have a brand strategy?

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Museum 2.0

JANUARY 6, 2009

I want to share with you an exercise I've been using to tease out the role of the online and onsite components of a blended museum experience. It's a useful exercise if you know you want to combine an exhibit or program with the Web in "some amazing way" but don't have an obvious path to get there. I hope it's helpful to you.

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Museum 2.0

FEBRUARY 20, 2018

Organizations can and should target programs to welcome different kinds of people for different kinds of experiences. We changed hiring practices, programming approach, collaborator recruitment, and signage. There are at least four arguments against it: Serving "everyone" shouldn't be the goal.

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