Allegiance Group

APRIL 9, 2024

The world is changing, and so is philanthropy. But that’s okay: by being vulnerable and open to change, you can transform your organization into one that mirrors your constituents and better serves your mission. Leadership should show a real willingness to recognize that changes need to happen.

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Tech Soup

JANUARY 14, 2014

Want to learn how to make positive change in the world through a top university? 92nd Street Y , a New York City-based nonprofit community and cultural center, is launching a free MOOC (Massive Open Online Course) called How to Change the World through Wesleyan University and Coursera.

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Eric Jacobsen Blog

DECEMBER 16, 2021

With 30 years of experience bridging gags in diverse workplaces, and as a sought-out lecturer and a TEDx speaker, Kriska provides expert insights and actionable strategies in her book to help you: Effectively repair division. Recognize warning signs. Proactively create opportunities. Bring cultural data into the organizational conversation.

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sgEngage

FEBRUARY 9, 2024

The university kept her engaged as life changed. He attended various alum lectures and could see the impact that donors made at the university. What changed? They talked about how the school had changed since she had graduated and how the school had impacted Martha’s life.

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Eric Jacobsen Blog

NOVEMBER 5, 2021

With 30 years of experience bridging gags in diverse workplaces, and as a sought-out lecturer and a TEDx speaker, Kriska provides expert insights and actionable strategies in her book to help you: Effectively repair division. Recognize warning signs. Proactively create opportunities. Bring cultural data into the organizational conversation.

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Eric Jacobsen Blog

MAY 23, 2021

With 30 years of experience bridging gags in diverse workplaces, and as a sought-out lecturer and a TEDx speaker, Kriska provides expert insights and actionable strategies in her book to help you: Effectively repair division. Recognize warning signs. Proactively create opportunities. Bring cultural data into the organizational conversation.

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Eric Jacobsen Blog

FEBRUARY 23, 2021

With 30 years of experience bridging gags in diverse workplaces, and as a sought-out lecturer and a TEDx speaker, Kriska provides expert insights and actionable strategies in her book to help you: Effectively repair division. Recognize warning signs. Proactively create opportunities. Bring cultural data into the organizational conversation.

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Qgiv

JULY 10, 2023

Strength-Based Messaging: A Powerful Tool Thankfully, in recent years, new and long overdue attention has been focused on changing the way we build our donor relationships. There is, frankly, revenue risk with any sudden change in messaging. But that changed when he met Molly, a service dog your support helped train.

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Eric Jacobsen Blog

FEBRUARY 13, 2023

Proprietary insights are the keys to game-changing businesses : you don’t need a unique project to start an empire, just an intuition all your own. Higgins is co-founder and CEO of private investment firm RSE Ventures and a lecturer and Executive Fellow at Harvard Business School.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JANUARY 17, 2018

Not too long, I had the pleasure of “walking The Dish” with Kathleen Kelly Janus, a social entrepreneur, author, and lecturer at Stanford University’s Program on Social Entrepreneurship. She just published a new book, Social Start Up Success: How the Best Nonprofits Launch, Scale Up, and Make a Difference.

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DipJar

APRIL 14, 2022

Museum programming, which included films and lectures, was also moved online. But, that is poised to change. The development of a planned virtual tour — created to the same standards as the in-person version — was accelerated by COVID.

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ASU Lodestar Center

NOVEMBER 2, 2022

We listened to lectures, participated in reflections and had the chance to hear about real life experiences in the sector. I suffered from a severe case of imposter syndrome and was constantly having to remind myself why I was there: I want to change the world.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

DECEMBER 28, 2018

She was also interviewed on the City Arts and Lectures podcast recently and well worth a listen. AI Now Institute Co-Founder, Kate Crawford, shared the top line trends as a thread on Twitter. AI and Faith: Can a computer become God?

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Beneblog: Technology Meets Society

JUNE 13, 2011

Rob is also a lecturer at Stanford Law School where he teaches the Law of Nonprofit Organizations. We are fortunate to have his experience, intellect and deep dedication to innovative social change on Benetech's governing body! He’s a principal at Adler & Colvin, San Francisco's top law firm specializing in nonprofit law.

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Bloomerang

JUNE 28, 2021

How will this communicate renewed vision amidst a time of rapid change? Eschew lectures, educational pieces, self-congratulatory prose, and corporate speak. Assess Which Changes Donors Appreciated Last Year. How can you sustain and build on these changes? Be a Change Agent. you must be a change agent as well.

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The Modern Nonprofit

APRIL 6, 2021

Her goal is to see more nonprofits become true “sustainable social benefit organizations”– those that help people be the change they want to see in their communities and the world. She was one of the first to publish about using social media for social impact and has lectured at Stanford University.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JANUARY 26, 2012

Peeragogy comes from Howard Rheingold via his Social Media Classroom and he explains it here: When I participated in the Change: Education, Learning, and Technology MOOC , I grew even more interested in the intersection of digital media/networks with self-directed learners and collaborative learning methods. .”

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

OCTOBER 2, 2014

One thing I realized is that training social workers receive as part of their education is also very relevant for change makers inside of nonprofits, consultants, and trainers. Nancy used the phrase “pre-contemplation” and “contemplation” stages of behavior change and introduce me to a behavior change framework.

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Twenty Hats

JANUARY 12, 2021

Smithsonian Associates (SA) , which annually presents 700+ classes and other educational and entertaining programs, made a hard fast pivot in June 2020, when it began to present all of its lectures and art courses as livestreamed programs on Zoom.

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Have Fun - Do Good

APRIL 19, 2007

In San Francisco, Yoga Sangha is hosting a "Spiritual Activation Series" with lecture, yoga and meditation. What are some examples you've seen of yoga for social change? These days, yoga is about more than getting in shape, or getting in touch with yourself. It's about getting the world in shape too. Photo credit: Yoga by Mark MacLean.

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Beneblog: Technology Meets Society

JULY 15, 2014

First, WIPO, with a mandate from its member nations, is working to address the need to change national laws and get more accessible books flowing—a process that will take a long time.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

SEPTEMBER 10, 2019

My style of teaching is participatory; I don’t lecture with PPT endlessly and involve the audience. So I engaged them in a discussion about term “walking meetings,” and how to change the name as well as make accommodations. The participants came up with a brilliant solution – change the name to “StROLLing Meetings.”

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Have Fun - Do Good

JULY 4, 2007

For the past five years, the Mercantile Library in Cincinnati has honored Harriet Beecher Stowe's birthday by asking a writer to give the annual Harriet Beecher Stowe Lecture about, "Writing to Change the World." Anya Achtenberg will be teaching an online workshop, Writing for Social Change: Re-Dream a Just World, later this year.

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Forum One

FEBRUARY 1, 2022

It was true even before the pandemic, but now—with nearly every aspect of our lives moved online in some way—the expectations of what a mission-driven organization can and must do to connect and engage with its community have changed. Organizations can no longer use their digital platforms to simply explain their mission or successes.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JUNE 11, 2013

Stanford University lecturer Laura Arrillaga-Andreessen teaches students at Stanford about how to master philanthropy. The author of the book, Giving 2.0 , has just released all her teaching notes and syllabi, along with philanthropy library. 3) Giving 2.0:

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AccelEvents

SEPTEMBER 7, 2020

Virtual events can offer live sessions, webinars, chats, lectures, and networking events. Going online doesn’t change any of that. However, it is important to remember that with the right virtual event platform , participants will feel like they are sitting live in the audience or deeply engaged with other members of the community.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JANUARY 3, 2019

I know that might seem old fashioned, but being a trainer and facilitator and in the room with social change leaders is what inspires and energizes me. Resilience is what allows you to recover from change or hardship, whether in the workplace or life in general. I wrote guest posts for many nonprofit publications and blogs.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MARCH 22, 2013

I did a measurement workshop at SXSW and we were in a traditional college lecture hall – fixed seating that rises, desks on the seats, and no room for small group interaction. It takes a little bit of hacking to create some interaction, but it was a challenge.

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Get Fully Funded

JULY 13, 2021

The first step may be to change the way you work. If you want to be more productive and get more done without working 24/7, you have to change your habits. Do you constantly lecture yourself to work smarter? Adopting a new work practice is challenging, especially if the whole team needs to embrace the change.

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Get Fully Funded

MAY 2, 2022

Plan a program that is fast-paced, engaging, and focused on the lives changed by your organization’s work. Virtual Lecture: A virtual event is a fantastic opportunity to land a speaker you never thought you would be able to get. You may want to add an auction, a fund-the-need, or entertainment. Make it about making a difference!

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Museum 2.0

DECEMBER 9, 2019

This changed attitude manifested in many different ways. For example, this change included sharing our collections online. As Jeremy mentioned, many museums wanted to be social spaces and made changes to create that culture, and as Andrea mentioned, they created amenities to support this social use.adding public wifi.

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NonProfit Hub

FEBRUARY 25, 2019

Here, unlike most nonprofit conferences, you’ll find so much more than run-of-the-mill speaker lectures, cheap coffee and goodie bags filled with pencils. Our goal is to host people from all backgrounds, and we hate the thought that a pricey ticket would ever stop someone from experiencing something as life-changing as Cause Camp.

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Beneblog: Technology Meets Society

NOVEMBER 25, 2013

Ten years later, our strategy has proven its worth and Martus is an initiative that captures the essence of Benetech’s focus on creating positive social change through technology and on doing the right stuff right—two of the Seven Benetech Truths.

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Forum One

FEBRUARY 1, 2022

It was true even before the pandemic, but now—with nearly every aspect of our lives moved online in some way—the expectations of what a mission-driven organization can and must do to connect and engage with its community have changed. Organizations can no longer use their digital platforms to simply explain their mission or successes.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

OCTOBER 5, 2006

Do you consider yourself more of a techie or a nonprofit/social change activist or both? Techie first social change activist second. Most people don't always understand how a piece of software that facilitates conversations can change the world. Hence the idea of the League was born. It has made my life more difficult.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

NOVEMBER 6, 2014

The technique I use for getting verbal on a workshop is to ask what would participants keep, change, or delete? You can also handout index cards and ask people to write “positives” on one side and “please change” on the other. What part of the workshop should be changed to improve learning? Or, have them fold 8 x 11.5

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Bloomerang

JULY 5, 2021

Not surprisingly, the pandemic caused many consumers to change the way they shop, including shifting to ecommerce channels. Per the Loyalty Barometer, 57% of consumers indicated that they did not change brands due to the events of 2020. A lover, not a lecturer. Loyalty can sustain brands through disruption.

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