Whole Whale

JANUARY 15, 2021

From their website : “We want to see more social change in this country. From their website : “Nova is a black-owned, women-owned company devoted to transforming organizational cultures. We facilitate workshops and trainings, coach and develop teams and leaders, and consult and support systems-level change.”.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

SEPTEMBER 6, 2023

Empathy is contagious and influences and shapes a work culture of caring. Model and Celebrate Well-being Practices Creating a robust work culture that incorporates well-being is fundamental. Use Empathy in 1:1 Check-Ins To build a caring work culture, leaders need to ask empathetic questions during regular check-ins.

Leadership 118

Leadership Organization Culture Skills 118

Bloomerang

FEBRUARY 21, 2023

Let’s Define Your Community Since your mission is to facilitate philanthropy in order to move your mission forward, let’s talk about your philanthropic community – the donors, volunteers, advocates and ambassadors who fuel your work, making your impact the greatest it can be. If you stop there, you’ll short change the donor.

People 114

People Community Facilitation Philanthropy 114

Amy Sample Ward

JUNE 21, 2011

I’m at the 2011 Games for Change conference today and live-blogging a few sessions! We are trying to change the visitors’ experience at the museum as well as ownership of what is in the museum, break down the walls between the public and the museum. Ruth Cohen – American Museum of natural History.

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Game Culture Museum Change 140

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JANUARY 5, 2021

My New Year’s rituals help me let go of things in my professional work that can open the door to positive change and growth. These rituals also help me set-up systems for consistent reflection and positive habit change throughout the new year. I also facilitated numerous design workshops and resilience staff retreats virtually.

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Journal Reflection Facilitation Technique 148

ASU Lodestar Center

JULY 13, 2022

The combined disruptions of these phenomena are affecting business structures, organizational cultures, and processes. Facades of professionalism and efforts at contrived camaraderie in the name of culture building will be viewed as disingenuous. The process also helps build an organization that can adapt to changes in leadership.

Leadership 98

Leadership Impact San Diego Structure 98

sgEngage

JUNE 4, 2024

It can involve moving data or software from one system to another, or from one operating environment to another. In the social sector, our values and organizational cultures matter. A system or technology migration is the process of upgrading and updating technology systems to improve efficiency and effectiveness.

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Impact Technology Articulate Grant 76

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

FEBRUARY 10, 2015

Yet, many nonprofits are loosing productivity and less creative because they are trapped in a culture of sitting. It’s time to change that up – here’s why and some tips for making that shift in your nonprofit. A Walking Culture at Work. The reason? Walking meetings aren’t right for all situations.

Culture 50

Culture Change Germany Studies 50

sgEngage

SEPTEMBER 13, 2022

For staff, this often involves careful planning and facilitation, and playing a backend organizing role to ensure participants are easily able to engage in the tasks at hand. We know participation is not easy to embrace, because this approach is ultimately about changing culture to embrace iteration and continuous learning.

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Connection Cafe

JUNE 12, 2017

Today’s nonprofit marketers must be experts in learning how to shift their organizational culture towards a culture of philanthropy. This gets to the heart of the best practices that are needed to create a culture of philanthropy within anonprofit organization. Shifting the organization’s culture is a process, and it takes time.

Culture 47

Culture Philanthropy Marketing Create 47

ASU Lodestar Center

OCTOBER 16, 2020

As nonprofits attempt to tackle some of our communities' most difficult problems; funders, government agencies and the general public are actively calling for accountability, transparency and proof that a program is producing change. Does the environment support change, accountability, and communication?

Evaluation 52

Evaluation Program Attitude Instruction 52

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

AUGUST 17, 2021

The hybrid workplace will have a huge impact on the way we design and facilitate meetings, the primary method of how many organizations get stuff done. Our new normal will most likely be more complex to design and facilitate. Here are some considerations for designing and facilitating pandemic-era hybrid meetings.

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Facilitation Tips Camera Nonprofit 180

The Modern Nonprofit

FEBRUARY 1, 2022

But this value can also be in the form of programs and services that benefit hungry children, put a stop to the mistreatment of animals, or preserve the environment, as addressed by the work of nonprofit organizations. This entails having a high-quality company culture , benefits, and decent salaries for employees.

Business 105

Business ROI Nonprofit Profit 105

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

APRIL 6, 2017

In the Happy Healthy Nonprofit: Strategies for Impact without Burnout , my co-author Aliza Sherman and I share a framework to think more broadly about creating a culture of wellbeing in the workplace. It includes our relationship with our physical environment and in the workplace that refers to the nonprofit’s physical office space.

Open 107

Open Work Global Collaboration 107

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JUNE 1, 2010

Their strategy focuses on technology and partnerships that can accelerate systemic on the ground social change and economic issues. Take for example deploying 200 sensors throughout the Brazilian rainforest to measure and visualize the effects of climate change. This enables us to have impact, scale and sustainability.

Network 103

Network Change Technology Social 103

Saleforce Nonprofit

APRIL 12, 2021

“We are committed to actively advocating for clear and consistent science-based climate policies that facilitate a just and equitable global transition to a 1.5°C Together, we must accelerate change to deliver progress at the scale the world needs.”. Liz is passionate about using clear communication to influence positive social change.

Organization 98

Organization Massachusetts Org Africa 98

sgEngage

MARCH 17, 2022

When these foundations work together, even briefly, they can leverage these assets to amplify each other’s efforts and meet priority needs that fit their community’s particular culture and environment. . Through deft facilitation, a funder coalition can achieve powerful unity without requiring perfect agreement. .

Collaboration 95

Collaboration Foundation Local Philanthropy 95

Greater Giving

JUNE 15, 2023

Factors include the complexity of the event, committee size, and the organization’s culture. Foster Collaboration: Encourage open communication, idea-sharing, and collaboration among committee members, promoting a positive and productive working environment. Typically, chairs serve for one to three years.

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Roles Evaluation Collaboration Audio 40

sgEngage

JULY 20, 2021

Porter Novelli’s latest research on business and social justice shows that consumers, employees and other stakeholders want companies to acknowledge their role in systemic injustices and actively change the system. Ignoring polarizing social justice issues can even increase unconscious biases that could wreak havoc on your culture.”

Government 97

Government Social Blackbaud Companies 97

NTEN

JUNE 21, 2011

NTEN's Amy Sample Ward shares from her experiences at the Games for Change Festival. I'm at the 2011 Games for Change conference today and live-blogging a few sessions! We are trying to change the visitors' experience at the museum as well as ownership of what is in the museum, break down the walls between the public and the museum.

Game 52

Game Culture Change Museum 52

Bloomerang

AUGUST 2, 2021

Mastering personalized, customer-centered philanthropy facilitation, especially mid-level and major donors, to increase donor lifetime value. Internalizing and externalizing an organization-wide culture of philanthropy. Arts and culture. 8 Ways College Students Can Save the Environment Every Day. Environmental.

Content 130

Content Marketing Strategy Fundraising 130

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

SEPTEMBER 8, 2009

Several months ago, my colleague Rachel Happe from the Community Roundtable invited me to facilitate a discussion with members about the issues that swirl around organizational adoption of social media. In healthcare, terms are used like blamefree environment, failure analysis, and responsible reporting.

Social Media 99

Social Media Culture Create Media 99

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

APRIL 10, 2009

Sam's story illustrates the pressing need for culture change within nonprofits or as colleague, Allison Fine , puts it "organizational silos prevent people from empowering their edge." . How do we change this and pave the way for effective social media use? What is the process and pace of making this change?

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Social Media Culture Effective Media 75

Nonprofits Source

OCTOBER 6, 2023

Fortunately, there are many formal and informal changes you can implement into your organization’s structure to keep your employees motivated. Organizational culture. If your organization takes on corporate philanthropy as an engagement practice, you can change real people’s lives. Leadership style. Lack of leadership support.

Ideas 52

Ideas Practice Leadership Roles 52

Eric Jacobsen Blog

NOVEMBER 5, 2020

“The most important thing a leader can do during periods of significant change and times of uncertainty, like we’re experiencing now during the pandemic, is to listen to his or her people. The most important thing a leader can do in this COVID-19 environment is to recognize that adversity represents their greatest opportunity to lead.

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Authoring Leadership Environment Team 75

Bloomerang

AUGUST 21, 2023

The Fundraising Planning and Climate Report ’s findings show the following: Adjust fundraising strategies : Based on the report’s predictions, consider adjusting your fundraising strategies to align with the current socioeconomic and cultural climate, and donor preferences. One size does not fit all. Do you have a fundraising plan?

Action 74

Action Report Practice Fundraising 74

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MARCH 22, 2013

You don’t always have flexibility in room set up and I have found myself “hacking” the physical space (moving around furniture) to create an environment that invites interactivity, peer learning, and engagement. I designed and facilitated a peer learning workshop at SXSW last week.

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Teach Instructional Design Learning Instruction 101

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. Here’s what I learned about the facilitating design thinking processes: What Is A Design Lab? How do we leverage the “rain” of culture change?3.

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Design Strategy Facilitation Advocacy 50

Eric Jacobsen Blog

FEBRUARY 8, 2021

“The most important thing a leader can do during periods of significant change and times of uncertainty, like we’re experiencing now during the pandemic, is to listen to his or her people. The most important thing a leader can do in this COVID-19 environment is to recognize that adversity represents their greatest opportunity to lead.

Leadership 52

Leadership Authoring Environment Team 52

Eric Jacobsen Blog

DECEMBER 29, 2020

“The most important thing a leader can do during periods of significant change and times of uncertainty, like we’re experiencing now during the pandemic, is to listen to his or her people. The most important thing a leader can do in this COVID-19 environment is to recognize that adversity represents their greatest opportunity to lead.

Leadership 52

Leadership Authoring Environment Team 52

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JUNE 6, 2018

Note from Beth: Blocking out time for your nonprofit’s staff to do planning and work on areas like organizational culture is essential for success. It reflects best practices in adult learning and provides a framework that results in positive change. Here’s some terrific advice from Sarah Axelson.

Design 90

Design Lesson Effective Life 90

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

APRIL 1, 2013

Colleagues Allyson Kapin who founded a web agency called Rad Campaign (they designed my blog) and Amy Sample Ward, who the NTEN Membership Director (and I’ve known since 2007 ) have published a new how to book called “ Social Change Any Time Every Where.” The book offers some recipes for culture change.

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Campaign Online Chapter Model 97

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

APRIL 27, 2011

For many of us of a certain age, that style has carried over to our work culture where we are rewarded for our expertise and to keep quiet what we don’t know (or screw up). Creating an environment for learning in public means that it is okay to say “I don’t know” about an issue or problem and to ask others what they think.

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Wiki Public Learning Wikispaces 96

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

AUGUST 16, 2017

Earlier this week, I was honored to do a webinar for Soapbox Engage about self-care and bringing a culture of wellbeing into the nonprofit workplace based on The Happy Healthy Nonprofit: Strategies for Impact without Burnout. Wondering how to organize and facilitate a meeting where everyone is on their feet instead of their devices?

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Guide Nonprofit Group Virtual 96

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

NOVEMBER 17, 2015

This makes it difficult for staff to strike a meaningful, sustainable balance between work and self-care because it does not permeate a organization’s culture or fundamentally change staff behavior. It changes how we think.”. And, that’s an great way for change, from the bottom up. Scarcity captures the mind.

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Nonprofit Culture Practice Policy 50

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

SEPTEMBER 12, 2012

I did a mini-workshop on networked leadership and culture change to support these transformations. Cara Matteliano, VP of Programs, gave a presentation about three different initiatives designed to create the environment for local news including GrowWNY.org. This takes patience.

Digital 93

Digital Foundation Community Strategy 93

ASU Lodestar Center

SEPTEMBER 4, 2018

When you work with a nonprofit board, creating an environment where participation is valued is essential. This supports a culture of accountability and keeps everyone on the same page. So show them how their leadership is changing lives everyday and keep them connected to the mission. Where did everyone go?

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Volunteer Pledge Awareness Relationship 60