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[Breaking News] An Extraordinary Funding Opportunity For Nonprofits To Preserve Local Journalism

Bloomerang

Nonprofits focused on the preservation of local journalism are being called to step up, and many of the country’s largest private foundations have announced $500 million in funding over five years to support them, an extraordinary initiative called Press Forward. Press Forward seeks to stop and reverse that trend.

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3 New Year’s Rituals for Nonprofits That Can Boost Professional Success

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

Emerging Leaders Playbook: With the generous support of the Packard Foundation and in collaboration with Third Plateau Social Impact Strategies, we wrote and published the Emerging Leaders Playbook last year, along with facilitating a peer learning cohort with colleague Stephanie Rudat.

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Webinar Recap: Foundations and Online Collaboration

Forum One

You can follow the one-hour archived session (or the slides on Slideshare ) to get a nice slice of perspective from Amy Gipson of the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation and Melissa Schoen of the California Healthcare Foundation. The two communities have interesting similarities and some striking differences.

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Building Capacity for Social Change 2.0

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

I wrote a quick reflection on some of the techniques used to facilitate the meeting. Heather agreed to write up this report to share some of the content. just strategy, or just process facilitation, or just fundraising). What is the role of facilitators, consultants and intermediaries in these networks?

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Social Media Lab: How To Become A Networked Nonprofit

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

As Visiting Scholar in Nonprofits and Social Media at the David and Lucile Packard Foundation, I am coaching grantee organizations and leading workshops and peer trainings on how to become a Networked Nonprofit. Representatives from Preschool California Share Their Experiment Insights. Participant-Generated Instructional Content.

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Active Training: To Get Nonprofit Audiences Engaged, Keep Them Moving

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

Later in the morning, I facilitated a large group discussion hour-long discussion right before lunch with Greg and Laura Efurd from ZeroDivide. Listening to the conversation and watching the audience for signs of energy drop, I inserted some movement into the discussion related to the topic by asking them to do the ” failure bow.”

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Taking Baby Steps to Social Media Maturity with Your Peers

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

Note from Beth: This past year has been a deep exploration into how nonprofits can use measurement and reflection to improve their practices as a networked nonprofit and social media. As part of my work at the Packard Foundation, I designed and facilitated several peer learning groups and exchanges.