Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MARCH 21, 2017

The potential for being overwhelmed by technology is magnified in the workplace by something called “ Collaborative Overload ” Rob Cross and Adam Grant in a recent Harvard Business Review article. Just because the default setting on your calendar software is for 60 minutes, it doesn’t necessarily mean you need the full hour.

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Connection Cafe

AUGUST 14, 2020

Tracking mileage using a tool called Challenge Hound , which aggregates mileage and exercise time from FitBit, Strava, MapMyFitness, Peloton, Nike+ and others. A robust community calendar for all participants. They have amped up the community aspect of the event, despite attracting a broad audience from many different locations.

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Tech Soup

OCTOBER 12, 2016

It's important to respect that permission you've been granted and also to take advantage of the opportunity. The welcome series isn't an exercise in talking about yourself and what your mission and programs have accomplished. Consider who in your organization might be the best spokespeople for a welcome series.

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Get Fully Funded

MARCH 28, 2022

Your nonprofit’s future will look less daunting if you project your fundraising revenue while you’re planning your year, including mapping out what you plan to do in each program and calendaring all your marketing and fundraising activities. . This is an important exercise for every nonprofit. Grants are competitive.

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Get Fully Funded

JANUARY 2, 2023

Disorganization can cause you to lose donors, miss grant deadlines, and fall short of revenue goals. Time-block your week with an online calendar. And if you share your online calendar with your team, they can see when you’re busy or help you set appointments. The real benefit of using a calendar is block scheduling.

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Get Fully Funded

APRIL 18, 2022

Once you learn how to write grants and create the case statement, program budget, and other documents foundations require, it’s tempting to send grant proposals to every foundation in your area, just so you can make sure you’ve tried every single one. Foundation spam-a-thon. And almost everybody had to force themselves to go.

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Get Fully Funded

JUNE 13, 2022

For example: “acquire 100 new donors this year” or “write 10 grant proposals before March.” Create a grant calendar by January 1 of the top 10 grants we’ll go after this year. Create a grant calendar. Grants: How many grants will we get this year? How much grant income?

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Bloomerang

JANUARY 18, 2023

It’s a hard task, but is a great exercise to try. In order to create a detailed budget and financial plan, you’ll need to take the following steps: Identify your income sources including potential grants, donations, and other funding sources. ’ Try outlining this core mission in twenty-five words.

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Get Fully Funded

MAY 24, 2022

In other words, you need to get your money from many different sources, not just one awesome foundation, one government grant, or one generous donor. If you rely solely on a government grant, what happens when the agency changes its eligibility criteria and you no longer qualify? No private foundation grants. Cue the sad music.

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Bloomerang

MAY 7, 2021

Not chasing those sponsors, not writing another grant. But I know some of you have done this exercise, you know, at your board meeting. . Who do you exercise with? We are going to do one on foundations here from grant research. So individuals, that’s what we’re after. People give to people. May I have that?”

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Get Fully Funded

SEPTEMBER 21, 2021

I remember trying to sell calendars as a public school fundraiser when I was about 8. This exercise doesn’t have to be scientific or precise. I heard about this exercise at a conference and thought “I want to try this.” Create a Fundraising 101 calendar for the year. That was me. It was HARD! Are they men or women?

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

AUGUST 9, 2016

Instructional design is knowing how to organize your content and shape exercises based on brain and learning research. The idea is micro-content and micro-exercises or mini-sessions. The term was coined by Rob Cross, Adam Grant, and Reb Rebele in this HBR article. Organize tasks and Guard Your Calendar. Artist Tiles.

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Bloomerang

APRIL 9, 2021

Although my fiscal year was in October, the calendar year worked and I would do it in January. Now, if you’re doing the Walmart grants and the Target grants and those retail grants, they’re not asking those questions, right? They’re giving you $1,000, $500, maybe $2,000.

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Bloomerang

NOVEMBER 26, 2021

Some people are really focused on grants that they’re not ready for, and they’re just kind of on this grant starvation cycle like, “We’re just hoping that that next one is going to save us.” Like, “If I just get this next grant, we’ll be saved.” ” Anybody been in that?

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

NOVEMBER 5, 2014

One exercise you might want to go through to define success is to gather a diverse group of staff and have them answer the following questions: How do you define success for our organization or program? It also works well with matching incentives, so your goal could be to help leverage a larger donation from an existing donor. Until one day….

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Bloomerang

DECEMBER 10, 2021

And I’m not talking about specific donor, I’m talking about in terms of your work calendar. ” And Lynn Grant, a great fundraiser working with Nature Conservancy in Canada, was going into a corporate office a number of years ago, they were going to ask for a quarter of a million dollars. Now, next slide. .

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Bloomerang

APRIL 16, 2021

And one of the exercises you can use to figure that out is this kind of bullseye graphic, which is in the book but you can easily draw it on a piece of paper. And with that in mind, you can start to turn your plan into a calendar with clear accountabilities and clear actions. This is when we’re going to use them.

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