sgEngage

JANUARY 3, 2024

This begs the question: What should community college completion look like, and what measures of attainment equate to success in this higher education sector? first appeared on The ENGAGE Blog. An expanded overview of two-year diploma acquisition at three years and beyond increases traditional completion rates, but only minimally.

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Eric Jacobsen Blog

FEBRUARY 1, 2021

“In the next ten to fifteen years, rapid change in a post-pandemic world and emerging technology will revolutionize nearly every job, eliminate some, and create new forms of work that we have yet to imagine,” says Deanna Mulligan , author of the book, Hire Purpose: How Smart Companies Can Close The Skills Gap. The future of work is now!

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OCTOBER 12, 2021

Read the first post on overcoming the fear that your story doesn’t matter. . This blog series is designed to help nonprofit professionals like you make subtle mindset shifts that can make a big difference in your work, as well as increase your job satisfaction. . Looking at the idea that success is selfish. Playing small.

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Eric Jacobsen Blog

FEBRUARY 17, 2024

Kaplan explains that over 100 years ago, we established IQ (Intelligence Quotient) to predict success. While you can't change the past, your unique experiences and stories contain hidden strengths and untapped potential for the future,” explains Kaplan. Know-how : Your knowledge and skills.

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The Modern Nonprofit

MAY 9, 2023

Estimated Reading Time: 6 minutes Leveraging Your Board for Nonprofit Fundraising: 10 Strategies and Tips for Success What if we told you that your nonprofit’s board members hold the keys to a fundraising revolution? That’s where this blog post comes in!

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Cloud 4 Good

SEPTEMBER 22, 2021

At the time, the Salesforce Admin certification had only just been introduced and was beginning to gain momentum, there wasn’t a Trailblazer Community (we had a few “community boards” and Google groups), and it was nearly impossible to find training materials. Why aren’t we training new workers on it?” Salesforce is projecting $26.01

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

OCTOBER 7, 2014

Like all good training sessions, this workshop started off with an opening conversation that allowed us to get to know others in the room and connect to what we already know. Heather facilitated this exercise as a series of share pairs where we discussed each question with a different partner for a few minutes.

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Nonprofit Tech for Good

APRIL 10, 2022

This is the ninth post in a blog and webinar series called 101 Digital Marketing Best Practices for Nonprofits , written and presented by Heather Mansfield. Embrace a writing style known as plain language which is becoming an increasingly important skill for social media managers. Twitter is not for every nonprofit.

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Qgiv

MARCH 30, 2022

She’s known for tackling seemingly impossible fundraising efforts and turning them into success stories. Carolyn’s Nonprofit Blog was inspired by the many people who have reached out to Carolyn since it was launched in 2011 to ask for advice about becoming a grant writer and nonprofit fundraiser. What classes are best?

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Candid

MAY 31, 2023

We have several quick reads that will give your skills a boost—with minimal time and effort: Nonprofit Quick Guides by Joanne Oppelt and Linda Lysakowski. This series features seven quick guides to support your professional success, including How to Find New Donors and Get Them to Give Again and How to Run a Strategic Planning Retreat.

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The Modern Nonprofit

JULY 25, 2023

Not only can volunteers contribute their time and skills, but they can also serve as ambassadors for your cause in their networks. Try organizing workshops or training sessions where volunteers can develop new skills related to your nonprofit’s cause. Together, we’ll make every year a fundraising success story!

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Qgiv

AUGUST 4, 2023

To keep your volunteers as effective as possible, develop a volunteer management process that helps you recruit, train, and steward volunteers for your organization. Having a successful volunteer management strategy will help you increase your volunteer retention rate, which ultimately creates more efficient volunteer staff.

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Qgiv

JULY 12, 2022

This blog post will explain how to do just that! This is especially helpful advice if you’ve got volunteers with skills that would be helpful on a board of trustees. Ask major gift donors to sit on your board and help your nonprofit be more successful. You can share positive stories of what your nonprofit made possible.

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Get Fully Funded

DECEMBER 12, 2022

We have trained our supporters to ignore us. . Success in email requires copywriting skills, which you can learn. Success also requires taking the time to get the message just right. Writing marketing copy is a skill. What stories would you tell? Well, it’s tricky. You know how I got to be a better writer?

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Tech Soup

MARCH 29, 2016

We know that good stories power fundraising and marketing, so join one of our events to discover powerful case studies and connect with digital storytelling experts in your community. Bamenda, Cameroon: How to Create Digital Stories. Cleveland, Ohio: A Well-Told Story Is Powerful. Kampala, Uganda: Story Makers 2016.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

DECEMBER 14, 2011

The project is being managed by IIE and builds on a highly successful program launched in the Middle East five years ago, Women in Technology. The curriculum is based on the ideas in the Networked Nonprofit and includes social media strategy development as well as practical skills training. Flickr Photo by SMEX Beirut.

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TechImpact

DECEMBER 3, 2013

Tech Impact’s ITWorks is a free and demanding 16-week IT training program that is working to permanently change the lives of young adults. Hear from the students themselves, by check out our success stories. The post ITWorks: Changing Lives In 16 Weeks appeared first on Tech Impact Blog - Leaders in Non-Profit Technology.

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Eric Jacobsen Blog

JANUARY 23, 2023

Kaplan explains that over 100 years ago, we established IQ (Intelligence Quotient) to predict success. While you can't change the past, your unique experiences and stories contain hidden strengths and untapped potential for the future,” explains Kaplan. Know-how : Your knowledge and skills.

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Whole Whale

MARCH 22, 2023

For example, you can start your prompt with “Write a heartfelt story for an 8-yr old about…” or “Provide a never-heard-before solution for boomers about…” Add personality : Don’t be afraid to give the AI an attitude or tone. Build large training guides on a given topic.

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Get Fully Funded

OCTOBER 7, 2021

Effectively run campaigns, even if they have limited political success, can solidify your connections to long-term and recurring supporters. You can give your campaign its best chance at success by keeping up with advocacy best practices and figuring out how to strategically apply them to your own efforts. Direct mail.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MAY 8, 2018

Leadership skills are only just about our inner-selves, it is also how we relate to other people and manage those relationships, especially in the workplace. Do walking meeting one-on-ones and train staff to listen to each other. Leadership training on communications styles. Mentoring program and cross training.

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Qgiv

DECEMBER 15, 2022

In the first blog post of this series, we discussed the basics that need to occur to onboard any volunteer at any level. Your Program Volunteers Your Fundraising Volunteers Get Them Trained Provide Them with Useful Tools. Train Them On the Job. Get Them Trained. We’ll hold board members for the last post in this series.

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Tech Soup

SEPTEMBER 5, 2016

Then check out our new online learning courses, starting with Tech Training for Nonprofits and Libraries. We hold free weekly webinars on topics like GrantStation and how to develop a tech training plan. Kitchener, Ontario: Smooth Succession Planning for Technology Staff. Bamenda, Cameroon: How to Create Digital Stories.

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Qgiv

OCTOBER 27, 2021

These volunteers should have the time, skills, and interests to help you provide programming and services to your beneficiaries. This will influence how many volunteers you’ll need to recruit and train. This is a great way to find volunteers with skills that can benefit your organization in a variety of ways.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

SEPTEMBER 3, 2012

They just marked their 150th first-person story on their blog , so in the 150 hours leading up to Labor Day, @GoodwillIntl is tweeting out one of these success story per hour under the hashtag #150job to spotlight someone who has found work, education or volunteer opportunities with support from Goodwill.

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Eric Jacobsen Blog

FEBRUARY 25, 2021

Today, we look back to 2016 : 2016 brought the much anticipated release of Paul Smith 's book, Sell with a Story: How to Capture Attention, Build Trust, and Close the Sale. I'm a big fan of Paul's earlier best-sellers, including Lead with a Story and Parenting with a Story. Storytelling is a skill.

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Eric Jacobsen Blog

OCTOBER 11, 2020

Today, we look back to 2016 : 2016 brought the much anticipated release of Paul Smith 's book, Sell with a Story: How to Capture Attention, Build Trust, and Close the Sale. I'm a big fan of Paul's earlier best-sellers, including Lead with a Story and Parenting with a Story. Storytelling is a skill.

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Greater Giving

JUNE 24, 2021

This is the story of the hybrid fundraiser. 5 Tips for a Successful Hybrid Event. To create a successful hybrid event, you’ll want to plan both events separately, with some program details shared to present them as one cohesive event to guests. A hybrid event offers more ways to involve everyone invested in its success.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JANUARY 27, 2017

Becoming certified as an orange hat is recognition of commitment and skill–it’s a real accomplishment. More than a hundred hand-selected volunteers are highly trained in interview techniques, media relations and public speaking to become Greenpeace spokespeople. They offer direction, supervision and make outings fun.

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Cloud 4 Good

APRIL 14, 2022

Across two days full of interactive sessions, workshops, and hands-on training, I had the chance to meet members of my Chicago Ohana Salesforce group and connect with new people with similar passions, challenges, and solutions to share. For an additional recap of DevOps Dreamin’ 2022, visit Gearset’s post-event wrap-up blog.

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Beneblog: Technology Meets Society

NOVEMBER 25, 2013

This blog originally appeared on the Huffington Post In December 1981 soldiers of the Salvadoran Army’s Atlacatl Battalion entered the village of El Mozote, where they murdered hundreds of men, women and children. I was aghast that it could take a dozen years for the world to believe the massacre had happened.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JANUARY 5, 2012

On New Year’s Day, I heard a story on NPR about some research on instructional techniques used by many college professors – the lecture and how it is less effective in an age information abundance. Allan Gunn from Aspiration and his legendary facilitation skills and knowledge. Content Delivery Is Not Learning.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MARCH 1, 2012

I unpacked the latter with a series of spectragrams asking folks to share their opinions about whether or not social fundraising as a fad or whether or not dollars raised was the only metric for success. Let your stakeholders share their story and passion about your organization – from the heart and humor work.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MARCH 21, 2012

.” The conference marked the end of an 18-month capacity building program that trained more than 220 NGOs in Jordan, Lebanon, Morocco and Tunisia on how to use social media effectively to advance civil society. 83% of participants are applying their social media skills to engage local and global communities.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MARCH 1, 2011

I’m the lead for Zoetica where my role is to deliver training, advise on the curriculum and coaching methods, model transparency, and serve as meta network weaver. I have the honor of co-training with some of the best folks doing work in this part of the world.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

APRIL 30, 2012

The Network Weaver Handbook is designed to give you skills and resources you need to build effective and innovative networks. It is also packed with resource lists and stories. My friend and colleague, June Holley , has written a much anticipated book, The Network Weaver Handbook. Order it here.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JULY 24, 2012

Just like message consistency, storytelling, and interviewing skills, proficiency with social media like Facebook and Twitter increases their capacity to make change happen for children in their state. Support national partner Facebook chats, blog carnivals, and other networked advocacy activities. Solicit and share stories.

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