Bloomerang

NOVEMBER 16, 2022

When your mission is effecting positive change it’s sometimes easy to overlook that at its heart a nonprofit is still a business model, with all the same ways of failing. Study good grant writing techniques and apply what you learn to as many as you can. Communicate with other nonprofit leaders about the challenges they faced.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

AUGUST 28, 2013

Note From Beth: A few weeks ago, I was lucky enough to participate in a meeting with other capacity builders who work with networks. I wrote a quick reflection on some of the techniques used to facilitate the meeting. What models of “collective impact” or multi-stakeholder collaborations have emerged; is there a typology?

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

OCTOBER 30, 2009

One of the tools for better understanding networks are visual diagnostics and mapping techniques. Every non-profit works with “systems” – internal ones relating to how work gets done, issue systems relating to the topic that the NGO is working to address, and mental model systems about strategy.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JANUARY 6, 2014

I will start with an overview of the ” Crawl, Walk, Run, and Fly: Maturity of Practice Model ” for networked nonprofits. In the book, we share a couple of case studies and examples of engagement models. Networked Nonprofit and Social Media Maturity of Practice. In the for-profit world, it is called the sales funnel.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

SEPTEMBER 29, 2015

I was thrilled to work with the Brainerd Foundation staff to help design and facilitate a design lab using techniques based on Luma Institute methods earlier this month. The process for the one and half day lab used techniques that fall into these categories: Looking and Observing: Unpacking the Context for 21 st Century Advocacy.

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Eric Jacobsen Blog

JANUARY 1, 2018

Paul's Sell with a Story book includes : Model stories Skill-building exercises Enlightening examples from Microsoft, Costco, Xerox, Abercombie & Fitch, Hewlett Packard, and other top companies. Paul : Lead with a Story was the most challenging from a time and effort standpoint. If you have not read it, please do.

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Bloomerang

JUNE 11, 2021

Weave in stories that are connected to the podcast and I’m going to share some model language for you. . So here’s a model for how you can establish common ground. . Anything from a new approach, to a technique, to information, insights, you’re offering your emotional intelligence.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

AUGUST 27, 2010

I’ve using the technique to deliver conversational keynotes at conferences. Nor is it a 40 minute expert presentation or a series of expert presentations on a panel followed by Q/A. That is the “Sage on the Stage&# model. (The Colorado Trust blog has notes here.). Some Reflections.

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Eric Jacobsen Blog

OCTOBER 10, 2016

Paul's new book includes : Model stories Skill-building exercises Enlightening examples from Microsoft, Costco, Xerox, Abercombie & Fitch, Hewlett Packard, and other top companies. Paul Smith Question : Which of the three books ( Lead with a Story , Parenting with a Story , Sell with a Story ) was the most challenging to write and why?

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Eric Jacobsen Blog

SEPTEMBER 5, 2016

Paul's new book includes : Model stories Skill-building exercises Enlightening examples from Microsoft, Costco, Xerox, Abercombie & Fitch, Hewlett Packard, and other top companies. Paul Smith Question : Which of the three books ( Lead with a Story , Parenting with a Story , Sell with a Story ) was the most challenging to write and why?

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JANUARY 29, 2015

” Professional networking gone wrong includes a mismanagement of structure, relationships, and behavior. But what really matters is structure: Core connections must bridge smaller, more-diverse kinds of groups and cross hierarchical, organizational, functional, and geographic lines. The article offers these four steps: 1.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

AUGUST 12, 2009

A crowd’s aggregated collective response to a question or challenge creates a perspective or a position. Their mental models began with these fundamental assumptions during their education and their first jobs. Their mental models began with these fundamental assumptions during their education and their first jobs.

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Museum 2.0

DECEMBER 17, 2019

Susan Spero (@Susan_Spero) December 6, 2019 Many brought up the challenges with museum studies programs, with Rich Ligner responding directly to Susan's tweet above. Lynne Calamia (@LynneCalamia) December 6, 2019 For my part, another challenge with museum studies programs is that there is a great deal of of variety in programs.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

SEPTEMBER 13, 2012

They shared a slide (see above) about new models we’ll see that combine both – especially the “not invented yet.” Does everyone in your nonprofit participate in social networks including the board? What are the benefits and challenges? They want to combine both.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JANUARY 28, 2009

That happens when leaders model and encourage it. Having a structured way to collect and analyze qualitative insights can not only help with designing a social media engagement policy, but also harvest insights. Laura's challenge is to get the right metrics to the right people on staff at the right time to reap insights.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

AUGUST 17, 2011

The challenge has to do with organizational beliefs and work styles. Whether it be a widely held belief that measurement practice is not worth investing resources. They use data visualization techniques to report the data analysis but also to reflect on best practices culled from the data. differently as DoSomething.Org has done.

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Connection Cafe

JULY 11, 2017

Employ what you already know about fundraising and then match it to the crowdfunding model. As a seasoned fundraising organization, you’re bringing your techniques and skills to a new platform. Challenging yourself is a good idea, but make sure your goal manageable. But there’s a graveyard of failed campaigns.

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Have Fun - Do Good

AUGUST 29, 2010

Otherwise, there are co-ownership models that are interesting today where you can have people from the city that are buying into your farm, and then they have part ownership. Two, social equity is becoming very important to me, the whole class structure about how some people have access to the food, and some people don't.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MARCH 9, 2007

The tagging community that lies beneath the npdigg structure has taggers, consumers, aggregators, and meta aggregators. the integrated philanthropy model in honor of National Corporate Philanthropy Day. Techies often lapse into jargon (me included) and we're always challenging ourselves to speak english. Also announced 2.0

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EveryAction

APRIL 1, 2016

Structuring Major Gifts Conference. Structuring Major Gifts Conference. Discover how these and other factors are irrevocably changing the ways donors structure their largest gifts of a lifetime. All of this real-world experience is grounded in rigorous research and is taught by successful marketers who face your same challenges.

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CauseVox

MAY 11, 2023

Using statistics and modeling techniques, predictive analytics helps predict future outcomes. Pricing : Amazon Rekognition offers a free tier with limited usage and a pay-as-you-go pricing model that may be more accessible for nonprofits with a limited budget. Here are some AI-powered tools to get you started.

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Museum 2.0

APRIL 1, 2009

Greed, because creative greediness motivates us to hunt down and steal the best design techniques the world has to offer, and generosity, because giving those great ideas and applications away is the only way to change the larger cultural landscape. I focused on two attributes that I think we should all be cultivating: greed and generosity.

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Get Fully Funded

JUNE 13, 2022

SMART Fundraising Goals SMART goals give you a structure to follow in setting your goals. SMART is a widely used goal-setting model that can help you clarify your ideas, focus your efforts, use your time and resources wisely, and fulfill your mission. Setting SMART goals for fundraising just makes sense. Donors love matching gifts!).

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Museum 2.0

OCTOBER 21, 2007

Now, as is 2006, visitors are still taking things apart, making shoes out of junk, and tackling real world challenges (and each other). Some staff are wearying of the messiness, noise, and lack of structure in their new face. Both of these examples illuminate a basic challenge in co-created experiences or exhibitions— growth.

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Have Fun - Do Good

MARCH 2, 2007

The way that World of Good has really gone about this is, we have done it in a two-part model. So the pricing models are all based on commodity pricing. So the pricing models are all based on commodity pricing. In handmade items, you don't have that same kind of model; you don't buy and sell a bushel of embroidered skirts.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

NOVEMBER 5, 2014

The next day, I facilitated a workshop on Best Practices for Crowd Funding that blended traditional instruction with innovation lab facilitation techniques. When nonprofits marry tried-and-true fundraising techniques with social media and online networks, they are able to tap into the power of crowd funding. And everyday until….

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

DECEMBER 16, 2010

There are four different models of crowdsourcing activities: wisdom, creation, voting, and funding. There’s isn’t one best way to do it – and many organizations use a combination of these models to meet their objectives. For the funders side, we looked at the America’s Giving Challenge from the Case Foundation.

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Museum 2.0

JANUARY 11, 2011

Light argues that while in business, any new idea that generates revenue can be an innovation, a new idea or technique is only valuable for a non-profit organization if it contributes to that organization's ability to deliver on its public mission. Others are "how" innovators--using unusual techniques to accomplish traditional goals.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

AUGUST 24, 2016

For the leadership development, there were four guiding questions that we explored throughout our journey – and now as I’m back I will continue to reflect and take action based on these: What does it mean to be a leader in the face of complex challenges. The structure was: Overview: 3 minutes to share the problem.

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Museum 2.0

OCTOBER 22, 2008

Experimental trails on humans Historical antecedents to modern day “hot button” topics Lecture series Population growth (down arrow) What technology is developed reflects the political structure of a society and its values An exhibit of a plastinated cow or pig as part of a larger Children’s museum exhibition on agriculture.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JULY 3, 2012

Therefore it is very useful to show a logical path of results or describe in a logic model. That’s because boards or senior management (or funders) don’t always understand these are part of a strategy that leads to the strategic results. Sometimes these early results are presented out of context and easily dismissed.

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