Candid

APRIL 22, 2024

It is that example of rising to the occasion and people coming together that has helped shape my ardent belief in our collective power and what guides us at the Ms. Foundation. Foundation, we trust those who are closest to the issues affecting their communities. There is intentionality in all that the Ms.

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Association Analytics

MAY 20, 2024

A prime example is a credit card transaction company’s “Fees Begone” program, which helps associations alleviate members’ pain points around credit card fees while generating revenue through royalty sharing. These conversations provide a solid foundation to help as you begin pricing discussions.

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Candid

FEBRUARY 14, 2024

For example, you will generate quite a different set of responses if you ask for information on “education” rather than “STEM education.” Exposure to diverse cultural perspectives promotes tolerance and broadens their outlook, contributing to a well-rounded and resilient foundation for personal and intellectual growth.

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Bloomerang

JANUARY 19, 2024

For example, 66% of gifts to Fidelity Charitable in 2021 were non-cash donations. For example, if you’re talking with someone who tells you they want to make a pledge, that’s an opening to discuss ways they can give that will offer them personal and financial benefits. of those gifts were given anonymously. This is BIG.

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EveryAction

JULY 3, 2023

Make full use of your blog content. Ensuring a smooth user experience is especially critical for complex virtual campaigns like peer-to-peer fundraising, which relies heavily on your website to facilitate a number of different interactions between donors, their networks, and your organization. Make full use of your blog content.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

NOVEMBER 13, 2010

As part of my work as Visiting Scholar at the David and Lucile Packard Foundation this year, I’ve been experimenting with a lot of models for workshop delivery and curriculum for social media. This workshop, graciously hosted by the Community Foundation of Monterey County with support from the Packard Foundation, was a two-part session.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

SEPTEMBER 17, 2013

Expect more blog posts and thoughts about how to design and facilitate these types of projects in the future – for starters I’ll be moderating and presenting on a breakout session at the Communications Network Conference in October with colleagues Farra Trompeter, Eva Penar, and Michael Hoffman).

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Hosting Foundation Question Giving 94

Candid

JANUARY 11, 2024

Our aim is to provide the most robust and current data possible to facilitate the social sector’s work on the vast problems we face as a society. For example, these sources provide details on pledges made during a fast-moving crisis or staff changes at an organization. We do this in three ways: Enhance 990s. Add contributed data.

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sgEngage

JANUARY 26, 2024

For example, an animal welfare organization might run an awareness campaign to bring attention to pet overpopulation in the community, which is leading to more abandoned pets in the shelters. Highlight them in your newsletter, social media, and on your website’s blog so you can help boost their visibility and reputation.

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Awareness Campaign Business Collaboration 76

Candid

MAY 15, 2024

At the Honnold Foundation, we had been working in partnership with grassroots organizations for some time before we learned that there was a term for the kind of grantmaking we do: trust-based philanthropy (TBP). Ultimately, TBP is about facilitating community self-determination, helping partners envision and create the future that they want.

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sgEngage

OCTOBER 17, 2022

After you’ve considered your foundation’s readiness and decided this approach makes sense, here are some practical, actionable ideas for developing participatory grantmaking in your funding institution. Check out the blog post, “ Grantmaking: What’s Participation Got to Do With It? ”. Choosing Your Participatory Grantmaking Champion.

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Bloomerang

NOVEMBER 8, 2023

Philanthropy is an effort an individual or organization undertakes based on an altruistic desire to improve human welfare, and wealthy individuals sometimes establish private foundations to facilitate their philanthropic efforts. Bloomerang has celebrated fundraisers on our blog. Check here for the latest information.

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Bloomerang

JUNE 22, 2023

In this blog, we will explore the signs of a successful nonprofit board by examining the specific areas where board members can contribute their time. Board members should dedicate 18 hours to convince foundations, government officials, legislators, business leaders, and community influencers that their organization is a wise investment.

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Candid

AUGUST 22, 2023

Generative AI products, such as ChatGPT, are examples of a branch of AI called machine learning, which is concerned with learning from data to surface trends and predictions. In this blog, I will first explain how Candid currently harnesses the power of AI technologies in our data and tools.

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Eric Jacobsen Blog

FEBRUARY 20, 2024

Communication Fitness : How to facilitate conversations, conduct effective collaboration, bring value to customers, and lead productive meetings. With practical tools and dozens of real-world examples, Strategic shows you how to be more than tactical―and how to be truly strategic. There’s no better time than now to read this book.

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Greater Giving

AUGUST 21, 2023

To facilitate this process, your consultant will lead interviews with your stakeholders, including your board, to gather their unbiased feedback. Your strategic plan should include projects that will push forward your priorities, the board members that will help facilitate each task, key performance indicators and a timeline for completion.

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Facilitation Consultant Relationship Roles 52

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

SEPTEMBER 12, 2012

At this year’s Council on Foundations conference in New Orleans, I had the honor of doing a mini-workshop for CEOs of Community Foundations as part of a half-day pre-conference session organized by the Knight Digital Media Center called “Digital Strategies for Community Foundations.”

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Cloud 4 Good

AUGUST 25, 2022

NOTE: This blog was originally posted on Forbes. No longer just inherent to explicitly tech-based conglomerates, tech fuels everything from banks and financial services to food-delivery services and traditional retail as it facilitates the rapid migration online to meet the needs of a world spending more time at home than ever before.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

AUGUST 20, 2009

There are many adhoc Twitter hashtags where nonprofits, foundations, social entrepeneurs, and others are sharing resources or having conversations. Some occur on a regular basis I don't think there is a formal directory of nonprofit hashtags, but there are few terrific blog posts that have good lists. This takes some facilitation.

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Twitter Foundation Effective San Diego 95

Bloomerang

FEBRUARY 28, 2023

You can also ask if the family would like to share information about their loved one via social media posts, emails, or blog post updates from your nonprofit. For example, take a look at how the Michael J. For example, the St. Facilitate peer-to-peer fundraising.

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Donation Management Tips Gift 110

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

APRIL 8, 2014

Note from Beth: I’m working with the Knight Foundation to facilitate a peer learning exchange that will help their community foundation partners learn and spread best practices in planning and implementing Giving Days. From GiveMN Case Study - Click for Case Study. This learning approach has two ways to capture knowledge.

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Campaign Tips Wichita Giving 96

sgEngage

OCTOBER 24, 2023

For example, Warner Bros celebrates the international day of giving by providing each employee with a charitable donation stipend they can use to support a nonprofit of their choosing. Plus, it can be as easy as leaving a collection box at a corporate office or store and facilitating pick-up after the drive has run its course.

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Impact Giving Strategy Gift 100

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JANUARY 5, 2018

There are lot of productivity journals out there, for example, “ Best Self ” and I have reviewed those for inspiration for different checklists, formats, and questions to ask regularly. I also facilitated a number of nonprofit staff workshops building on the curriculum. Year in Review.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MAY 31, 2013

I’ve been facilitating a peer learning group with Packard Foundation grantees during the past year with a goal of improving measurement practice for social media and based on my book, “ Measuring the Networked Nonprofit.” On a call last month, participants shared examples of their measurement tools and spreadsheets.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

NOVEMBER 19, 2013

Here’s a small list of articles and blog posts that help frame this topic, including how the term “Data-Informed” was using in my recent book, “ Measuring the Networked Nonprofit.” Also, check out Lucy’s Digital Civil Society wiki for examples of open data used for the social good. Not Data Driven.”

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MAY 22, 2014

Earlier this month, I facilitated a workshop for leaders of community foundations in New Jersey for the Knight Digital Media Center on the topic of practical network leadership skills. The workshop covers several topics including: Understanding the networked mindset.

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Leadership Personal Network New Jersey 107

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MAY 22, 2019

I am very grateful to Valerio Melandri who is the director of the festival for inviting me to participate as well as facilitate a maser class on modern wellbeing based on my book. He shared a lot of inspiring examples happening right now of how nonprofits have adapted and had big wins leveraging digital. Lots to think about here.

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Digital Technology Fundraising Adopt 114

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

APRIL 24, 2013

” When Alison Carlman , unmarketing manager for Global Giving, shared her social media measurement spreadsheet during a peer learning session I’m facilitating for Packard Foundation grantees based on “ Measuring the Networked Nonprofit ,” I couldn’t help but think, “Now That’s A Spreadsheet!”

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Qgiv

MARCH 21, 2022

As a result, fundraising continues to be of utmost importance for hospital foundations and other organizations providing programs or services to support patients. Hospitals can fundraise in a variety of a ways for their own foundations or other causes that support their patients. Hospital Foundation Fundraising Ideas.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JANUARY 4, 2016

For example, just a few weeks ago I decided to kick a bad habit to curb: sleeping with my mobile phone which was disrupting my sleep. I also designed and facilitated a six month peer learning cohort with colleague Stephanie Rudat. I produced four “ Advanced Practices Webinars ” for the Knight Foundation for Giving Days hosts.

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Iowa Facilitation Teach San Antonio 50

ASU Lodestar Center

NOVEMBER 13, 2017

She shared research and examples of high impact philanthropy from her 10 years of work. Following, Dr. Robert Ashcraft, ASU Lodestar Center's Executive Director, facilitated a conversation with Kat, Partner Jacky Alling from the Arizona Community Foundation and me, where we discussed the high impact philanthropy ecosystem in Arizona.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

AUGUST 28, 2013

I wrote a quick reflection on some of the techniques used to facilitate the meeting. Two oft-cited examples are the Strive network in Cincinnati, and the ReAmp network in the Midwest. just strategy, or just process facilitation, or just fundraising). Including some posts that have appeared on this blog.)

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

NOVEMBER 6, 2013

I’m facilitating a peer exchange for the Knight Foundation for a group of grantees that are hosting a Giving Days over the next year using its recently published Giving Day Playbook. Share your examples in the comments below. All of these work well with small groups and inside of organizations.

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Reflection Practice Results Storytelling 119

sgEngage

OCTOBER 9, 2023

We offer some practical tips, some examples of funders doing this work, and some resources. As Ceri Hutton wrote for the Baring Foundation, “PGM [participatory grantmaking] funds denote a different paradigm of funding and monitoring and evaluation need to be ‘re-evaluated’ in the light of this.” But is this the right question?

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Participatory Evaluation Empowerment Grant 89

Eric Jacobsen Blog

NOVEMBER 6, 2023

Communication Fitness : How to facilitate conversations, conduct effective collaboration, bring value to customers, and lead productive meetings. With practical tools and dozens of real-world examples, Strategic shows you how to be more than tactical―and how to be truly strategic. There’s no better time than now to read this book.

Leadership 58

Leadership Evaluation Brain Business 58

Cloud 4 Good

JULY 6, 2021

In part one of our new blog series, Support and Maintenance of Your University’s Salesforce Org , we will explore long-term maintenance and success strategies, starting with best practices for staffing your Salesforce instance. You May Also Enjoy: Blog: Recapping the 8th Annual Education Summit. Apex, Lightning Web Components). .

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

NOVEMBER 17, 2008

I am here in Romania for a conference hosted by the Soros Foundation as part of their pilot advocacy through blogging program. I just finished a presentation and later this afternoon will facilitate a workshop on strategy which will include the Romanian version of the Social Media Game. A blog is more than a personal journal.

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