Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JULY 27, 2015

I always like to start with an icebreaker that allows participants to reflect and identify burning questions. Together, we co-facilitated this exercise in two languages and Maria did a great job at bi-lingual capture of the notes. This was part of an exercise to think through how a personal brand can support an organizational brand.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

OCTOBER 24, 2011

My review of this excellent book is coming in the next weeks). For the second half of the morning, I shared “Eight Habits of Highly Effective Networked Nonprofits” with some exercises that help people see that by taking small steps, they can achieve success. Learns from experience and data.

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Tech Soup

OCTOBER 12, 2016

The welcome series isn't an exercise in talking about yourself and what your mission and programs have accomplished. There's no reason to hold off on integrating new email subscribers into your regular communications calendar for e-appeals and e-newsletter. Asking for Financial Support Is Optional in a Welcome Series.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MARCH 21, 2017

The session is designed to answer three questions: Why does collaborative technology overload lead to loss of nonprofit workplace productivity and what are the best practices to avoid it? A quick glance at your calendar shows that you spent hours in meetings, answering emails, or working on shared documents but you can’t remember why.

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Bloomerang

DECEMBER 10, 2021

The key to successful fundraising is asking smarter questions. We’re here to talk about “Raising More Money By Asking and Answering Better Questions.” There’s also a Q&A box specifically, your questions might be a little more visible there if you use that one. We’ll take questions at the end.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

NOVEMBER 16, 2011

I realized that from participants reflections and questions that they’re already curating content – especially as policy analysts, but may not be integrating and sharing through social media channels. ” The exercise used the layer cake metaphor and some planning questions. and storify.

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Candid

JULY 5, 2023

Now that virtual meetings dominate calendars, the last thing most employees want to do is spend unstructured time staring at Zoom boxes. In this exercise, team norms are agreed upon and serve as operating principles that guide remote team members’ interactions. Writing reviews didn’t seem fair when so many things were in flux.

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Get Fully Funded

FEBRUARY 6, 2023

We all know we need a strategic plan, yet so many people don’t have one, probably because they’re afraid of this: Your Board and staff sequestered in a room, led by a consultant, doing exercises on flip charts with sticky notes and dots, exercises that never lead to a clear, finished product you can understand or use.

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Bloomerang

JULY 31, 2021

So if you have to leave early or just want to review the content, don’t worry, we’ll get all that good stuff in your hands. So don’t be shy, ask questions. There’s a question box. We’d love to answer your questions. . And I’m going to leave time for questions, as Steven said.

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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. Ask the same questions for each bucket.

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Bloomerang

MAY 7, 2021

Chad will review the best practices in fundraising prospect identification and provide practical tips for how small nonprofits can maximize their network. But most importantly, please feel free to chat in any questions or comments that you have along the way. And I kind of like this question, who should be a bigger donor?

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Get Fully Funded

JUNE 13, 2022

Let’s take a moment to review what that acronym stands for before we move on to the juicy stuff. Answer the ‘who’, ‘what’, ‘where’, and ‘why’ questions to make your goal specific. Create a grant calendar by January 1 of the top 10 grants we’ll go after this year. Create a grant calendar. See the difference?

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Bloomerang

APRIL 9, 2021

But most importantly, feel free to chat in your questions and comments along the way. You will get exactly the same amount of content and your questions answered in the time that you have allotted for this training. ” And when you’re interviewing those candidates, of course, you’re going to ask some questions.

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Top Nonprofits

FEBRUARY 9, 2021

Whichever applies to you, let’s briefly review the benefits and disadvantages of going digital to ease your concerns and fully prepare you for what lies ahead. Empower your board leadership to exercise effective governance and maintain more control over meetings. The Benefits. Improved nonprofit governance. Take comprehensive minutes.

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Bloomerang

NOVEMBER 26, 2021

But most importantly, we love for these sessions to be interactive, so use that chat box, use the question box, you can use either of those, we would love to hear from you. But you’re also welcome to just pop a question into the chat anytime. I want to make sure you get your questions answered along the way. ” .

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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? If the answer to all those questions starts with a dollar sign, then you have your measurable metric. And everyday until….

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Bloomerang

APRIL 16, 2021

We’ll save some time for questions but, most importantly, we would love to hear from you. But do reach out because we’ll have some time for your questions at the end. 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.

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