Nonprofit Tech for Good

OCTOBER 30, 2021

Discoveries are the “sharpening your ax” mode smart nonprofits invest in before taking a swing at technology challenges, and avoiding them can result in a big miss. Your people can help answer critical questions: Are we solving the right problem? Is a process or culture change also needed for the solution to work? Why is that?

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Nimble AMS

JUNE 29, 2023

Often, the road is wi nding, filled with challenges and opportunities for your organization to grow. Working with an AMS selection consultant helps to simplif y this process , offering numerous benefits. Here are four ways an AMS selection consultant can help your association find the right AMS: 1.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JULY 25, 2017

Recently, a colleague asked me a wonderful question: How did you learn to become a good facilitator and trainer? Evaluate your content, facilitation, and logistical skills against participant evaluations. Conferences are a great opportunity to take workshops and observe the facilitator’s techniques. Spectragram.

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.orgSource

DECEMBER 26, 2022

Complacency doesn’t grow organizations or help members meet professional challenges. Sharon Rice ,orgSource Managing Director of Business Strategy, is one of those insightful people who discovers hidden opportunities and helps leaders outline a path and a process to seize the moment. Sometimes a wake-up call isn’t a bad thing.

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Eric Jacobsen Blog

FEBRUARY 17, 2020

"The challenge for the organizational architect is to systematically create the blueprint for an organization that consciously connects everything to purpose ," explains author Clive Wilson , in his book, Designing the Purposeful Organization. The product of doing this are measurable results and, importantly, a felt sense of success.

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Bloomerang

NOVEMBER 15, 2023

They didn’t shy away from challenges; they offered stakeholders meaningful ways to engage with the swiftly evolving issues of the day. Today, Claire will be the facilitator. Ask if anyone has any questions. The primary roles are idea generators and facilitators. Create a judgment-free zone. Give everybody a turn.

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sgEngage

JANUARY 10, 2024

We make information into data when we explicitly attach it to a question and explicitly or implicitly connect it to an approach for making sense of it. Building knowledge is a social process where we make meaning together. Datamaking can ground processes of joint learning that energize grantee relationships.

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.orgSource

AUGUST 21, 2023

The challenge is part of the fun, right? In the age of AI, “Leadership will be about setting the right questions, rather than just finding the right answers.” Strategists are visionaries, facilitators, and problem-solvers who inspire curiosity. They work together to make the leap from ideas to processes.

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Forum One

MAY 23, 2024

The questions we hear often are about how organizations can identify and adapt designs to meet the evolving needs of their audiences and ensure that the mission resonates deeply. While understanding audience needs is the basis of all good strategy and user experience processes, end users often get lost or deprioritized in the design phase.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

AUGUST 30, 2013

We are so focused on getting things done, checking it off the to do list and the forward momentum that it requires, that we miss an important opportunity to hit the pause button, reflect, and improve process. Unlease Your Organizations Knowledge Sharing Processes – Guest Post by Kelcie Tacchi. Define your Call to Action.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

APRIL 8, 2020

If participants are working through an exercise or set of discussion questions, create a google document with your prompts and include space for taking notes. As the facilitator or meeting host, you can also judge whether you have allowed for enough time by watching the note-taking process in the google document.

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Bloomerang

JUNE 5, 2024

Step 1: Laying the groundwork for effective board recruitment Before diving into the recruitment process, it’s essential to lay a strong foundation by thoroughly preparing your organization. Your challenges? Streamline the application process. Set up interview processes that are as transparent as they are engaging.

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Media Cause

OCTOBER 14, 2023

When timelines are being met, challenges that arise are being navigated with ease and wisdom, and communication flows consistently and clearly between a nonprofit and a marketing agency, thank a project manager. By anticipating challenges and having contingency plans in place, they keep everything on course, even when issues arise.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

SEPTEMBER 6, 2023

We need to steer clear of these practices if we want to prevent employee burnout (and our own burnout) and cultivate wellbeing at work in the process. Use Empathy in 1:1 Check-Ins To build a caring work culture, leaders need to ask empathetic questions during regular check-ins.

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Media Cause

APRIL 15, 2024

Ask Questions About the Tools You Already Use When Media Cause helps a nonprofit audit their MarTech tools, the first thing to do is ask questions that are designed to start a fuller conversation about the technology used to make the work more manageable. Where is that information stored?

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sgEngage

OCTOBER 9, 2023

But is this the right question? The data collected is usually owned by the grantmaker, not questioned, and not shared back with the grantee or any larger community. For many grantmakers, the answer to these questions is our own institutions. Grantmakers want to know if their funding has created the change they have envisioned.

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Eric Jacobsen Blog

JUNE 30, 2016

"The challenge for the organizational architect is to systematically create the blueprint for an organization that consciously connects everything to purpose ," explains author Clive Wilson , in his new book, Designing the Purposeful Organization. The product of doing this are measurable results and, importantly, a felt sense of success.

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sgEngage

OCTOBER 17, 2022

If you choose this route, you’ll need a transparent process for how you select from those who apply. Alternatively, you could forsake a participant application process in favor of shifting power immediately. Meetings with participants, staff or donors, to talk through strategic questions, or grantmaking rules and regulations.

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Eric Jacobsen Blog

MARCH 27, 2016

"The challenge for the organizational architect is to systematically create the blueprint for an organization that consciously connects everything to purpose ," explains author Clive Wilson , in his new book, Designing the Purposeful Organization. The product of doing this are measurable results and, importantly, a felt sense of success.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JULY 23, 2014

The summit will be an opportunity for deeper peer learning for nonprofit change makers in three theme areas: digital strategy , impact leadership , and the future of technology. I’m excited to be co-facilitating the Impact Leadership track with colleagues John Kenyon, Elissa Perry, and Londell Jackson.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

OCTOBER 22, 2013

Last week, I was lucky enough to participate in a brainstorming meeting at a foundation that was developing a strategy for its digital platforms (web, social, mobile, etc). The process was facilitated byPeter Maher, founder and CEO, of Luma Institute. Understanding: Methods for Analyzing Challenges and Opportunities.

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Forum One

AUGUST 10, 2021

Some common focus areas for investments in government digital transformation might include using and optimizing data and analytics collection, updating IT infrastructures, migrating data and files to a cloud storage, and facilitating change management. Understanding potential risks early on is the best way to mitigate these common challenges.

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Bloomerang

APRIL 21, 2023

Our Ask An Expert series features real questions answered by Claire Axelrad, J.D., My question is how can I go about getting this initiative started? The sponsor accepts the responsibility to process donations and ensure funds are properly spent to achieve the project goals.

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Whole Whale

JANUARY 15, 2021

From their website : “Our process is designed to help leaders and organizations who want to proactively understand and address racism, both in their organization and in the community where the organization is working. The Racial Equity Institute, LLC process is just that: an 18-month to two-year process.”. Website : [link].

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Nimble AMS

APRIL 9, 2020

Your old technology might have worked in the past, but it just isn’t keeping up with your organization’s evolving processes and needs. But here’s the catch: Not everyone at your organization understands the challenges with your existing association management software (AMS). At this point, it’s too early in the process.

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Forum One

OCTOBER 12, 2023

If this resonates with you, join us for this session which confirms the biggest challenges, but also explores some pretty great opportunities and success stories. Explore the role of various platforms and tools in this transition, and understand the potential challenges that may arise. That’s a whole other challenge.

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Tech Soup

NOVEMBER 7, 2011

RSVP now to join us for the next episode of Nonprofits Live on user-generated content and explore the process of creating media opportunities with your community. We will explore the best tools for creating and sharing media, how to structure games and challenges using UGC, and how to prepare for your next endeavor.

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Bloomerang

AUGUST 21, 2023

Funder assessments and donor feasibility studies are critical at this point, especially when advanced prospect research is integrated into the fundraising process. It’s important to answer these questions for yourself and chart your course of action accordingly. Nonprofit CEOs vary in their understanding of the development process.

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Top Nonprofits

AUGUST 3, 2021

Participants can respond to questions and add their thoughts and we can see each other’s faces. Ask a lot of questions beforehand to understand technology comfort. At the end of every planning process, I send out a feedback survey to participants. I am a member of the Technology of Participation network of facilitators.

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Nimble AMS

SEPTEMBER 24, 2021

Talk about their concerns and challenges. For example, host an online discussion group exclusively for chapter leaders where they can ask questions and discuss topics with each other. . Roll-up reports that offer insights into the health of chapters to facilitate more data-driven strategic decisions. Develop relationships.

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Saleforce Nonprofit

APRIL 6, 2022

The stark impossibility of maintaining the status quo, and the limitations of clunky manual processes were harshly brought to light. To optimize donor experience, nonprofits must challenge clunky manual processes that can be replaced with integrated payments and platforms and donor-centric, cross-functional collaboration.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

OCTOBER 7, 2014

The lab was facilitated by Heather Mcleod-Grant and Justin Ferrell , Director of Fellowships at the Stanford d-School. The design challenge was: How do we come up with concrete tools, frameworks and methods for helping people better understand and adopt network systems leadership? The questions: What do you hope to learn today?

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The Modern Nonprofit

AUGUST 22, 2023

Estimated Reading Time: 4 minutes Diversifying Revenue Streams: Launching an Online Store for Your Nonprofit In the world of nonprofit management, funding often poses one of the biggest challenges. While donations and grants are traditional revenue streams, here’s a question to give some serious thought.

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Cloud 4 Good

MAY 26, 2022

Talent for Good provides the nonprofit and education spaces with a Talent as a Service (TaaS) program ready to solve employers’ hiring challenges by providing vetted, trained, specialized Salesforce system administrators on a contract-to-hire basis. And how can employers do so quickly in the face of rapidly increasing competition? .

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Eric Jacobsen Blog

NOVEMBER 1, 2019

"The challenge for the organizational architect is to systematically create the blueprint for an organization that consciously connects everything to purpose ," explains author Clive Wilson , in his book, Designing the Purposeful Organization. The product of doing this are measurable results and, importantly, a felt sense of success.

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AccelEvents

AUGUST 7, 2020

Virtual events are beneficial to event planners in many ways but they also present a unique set of challenges. With virtual attendees tuning in from the comfort of their own homes, they will have a lot of competing distractions making engagement a real challenge to maintain. Keep it Simple and Interesting.

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Saleforce Nonprofit

NOVEMBER 17, 2021

For parents, figuring out what it all means for their kids can be a major challenge. Guided discovery, a facilitated workshop, and design thinking frameworks led the Common Sense team to think differently about how the organization can support parents and educators. GP: How did our work together help you do that? About the Author.

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