Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

DECEMBER 18, 2017

Note from Beth: My long-time colleague, Teresa Crawford, Executive Director, Social Sector Accelerator, shares some thoughts about nonprofit capacity building programs based on extensive research. Her answer to the question about capacity building programs leading to better impact will surprise you. Who is defining results anyway?

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Saleforce Nonprofit

APRIL 19, 2021

They’re flexible enough to pursue multiple paths to impact, which is critical given how quickly the world changes today. The organization focused early in its transformation on unifying data about programming and volunteers. Have we designed our programs and services around the specific needs of our participants?

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Saleforce Nonprofit

MARCH 26, 2021

And local Boys & Girls Clubs helped open the door to opportunities young people might not have otherwise, offering career training, skill building, positive mentors, and pathways to a great future. The pandemic was a reminder of just how important the relationships are between our Club mentors and the kids they serve.

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Eric Jacobsen Blog

APRIL 22, 2024

They view stressors as changes, not threats. Ask your manager for a change in your work conditions. After several months of recovery and spending time reflecting on my unhealthy relationship with work, I decided to enroll in a doctoral program at The University of Pennsylvania. Try an anti-stress diet. Get proper sleep.

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Saleforce Nonprofit

APRIL 5, 2021

By: Bose’ Akadiri , Program Manager, Employee Volunteerism at Salesforce, and Cécile Poyet, Director, Product Marketing, Philanthropy Cloud at Salesforce.org. Additionally, Salesforce provides specific volunteering opportunities that align with its citizen philanthropy and strategic programs to maximize impact in the local communities. .

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Saleforce Nonprofit

FEBRUARY 25, 2022

The goals of the DEI Open Source Commons team center around leveling the playing field for everyone in tech by increasing diversity and inclusion at Salesforce community events, in addition to creating and modeling a toolkit that groups can use towards their own diversity, equity, and inclusion (DEI) initiatives. “I About the Author.

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ASU Lodestar Center

JUNE 22, 2022

Respondents of color report greater workplace challenges than white respondents, including: Lack of role models. Disparities in access to mentorship programs. empower participants, affirm employees that they have control over their biases, increase awareness of biases and focus on behavior change, etc.). Lack of social capital.

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ASU Lodestar Center

APRIL 2, 2020

While conferences were once the only idea in gaining professional development skills, peer-to-peer mentoring is shown to give the highest output of learned skills. Performance evaluation should give staff the opportunity to set a goal to make change and to help track how they are doing on delivering what it is they promised.

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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. If your organization takes on corporate philanthropy as an engagement practice, you can change real people’s lives. Create employee engagement programs. Enhanced community impact.

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ASU Lodestar Center

DECEMBER 17, 2014

We have also been able to piggyback on the foundation’s existing hard infrastructure (such as office space and technology) and soft infrastructure (such as tacit knowledge and mentors)”. The "science" is determining whether the program related investment aligns with the foundations exempt purpose. She is an active volunteer. -

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Beneblog: Technology Meets Society

JUNE 13, 2016

In the pilot phase, you frequently have the best (human) conditions: the best partners and the best program staff making something work. A great teacher is going to be better than a software program on a laptop or tablet. A mentor is going to have a more powerful impact over somebody than YouTube videos.

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Tech Soup

JUNE 30, 2011

In the Games for Change Festival opening keynote speech, Former Vice President Al Gore jokingly admitted that his last video game experience was playing Pong , though he acknowledged the power of games, observing that "Games are the new normal for hundreds of millions of users.”

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Museum 2.0

DECEMBER 4, 2013

In this guest post, CUNY lecturer and former manager of the Guggenheim Internship program Michelle Millar Fisher makes a passionate argument for the end of unpaid internships. I got my first real job in a museum (at the Guggenheim) after a life-changing internship. Is your museum running on interns? I have taken a firm stand.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JULY 29, 2013

A model of generosity. I met Dan when I was 20 and running a program for immigrant families. By luck, I was introduced by my roommate’s father’s friend’s colleague to a scholarship program that supported low-income students of color complete college (networks have a way of being pretty darn powerful). I think he’d be proud.

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ASU Lodestar Center

DECEMBER 18, 2018

Starting out, my main focus was recruiting community members to become change makers and role models in children’s lives—also known as Big Brothers and Big Sisters. That means in one day’s work, I took part in changing 34 lives. At BBBS, my work has consistently been about engaging and empowering others.

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Tech Soup

NOVEMBER 27, 2013

Giving Tuesday provides us with an opportunity to change the dialogue. And w e would like to spotlight a few in the TechSoup community who have joined us in championing this second annual national day of giving : InvestED has launched a volunteer and donation program specially designed around Giving Tuesday.

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NTEN

FEBRUARY 2, 2011

David Geilhufe, Philanthropy Program Manager, NetSuite In this age of cloud computing, sophisticated, affordable (often free!) They configure the accounting software without understanding the core reporting needs of key constituencies like the board, funders and program managers.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

SEPTEMBER 29, 2015

I’ve been facilitating design labs for nonprofits and foundations, and continue to be excited about them because it is a way to generate feedback and ideas that can improve a strategy or program in service of the participants being served. How do we leverage the “rain” of culture change?3. Concept 4: 21st Century Enquirer.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MAY 15, 2012

I was honored to be a trainer as part of the launch of the ACE Leaders Project, a program developed by the Institute of International Education Sub-Saharan Regional Office and supported by the Packard Foundation. For the past ten days, I’ve been in Rwanda, Africa. Documentation of the Visioning Process.

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Get Fully Funded

FEBRUARY 14, 2022

Check your state laws regarding raffles – you might need a special permit for a game of change. Step 12: Create the program. Do you even need a program? If you have speakers, carefully plan your program and prep the speakers so they know how long they have to speak. Can you add a silent auction? A wine pull?

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JANUARY 20, 2011

Listening, responding, and being flexibly are qualities that I observed being modeled throughout the three days of planning from project leaders – an important networked leadership skill. The 4 Ways Tech Can Change Politics. She has seen this in a mentoring program for women engineers.

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Beneblog: Technology Meets Society

SEPTEMBER 13, 2008

Through mentors, professional networks and investor forums, ZeroDivide brings a deep knowledge of what makes a venture successful. Throughout our work, we are guided by four principles: Innovation Changing the world requires new thinking. But access to technology is just the starting point.

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ASU Lodestar Center

MAY 31, 2016

This emphasis towards hands-on learning is a product of the 70-20-10 model promulgated by the Center for Creative Leadership, which suggests that successful leaders learn through: 70% challenging (stretch) assignments, 20% developmental relationships, and 10% coursework and training.

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Tech Soup

JUNE 2, 2015

We were especially thrilled to learn that one of TechSoup's nonprofit members, Year Up , was spotlighted as a model for employment and technology training. " Changing Corporate Culture. And this really needs to change. Volunteer as a mentor, instructor, or support for a nonprofit (such as Year Up!)

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Bloomerang

JUNE 11, 2021

Maybe you’re considering your program and how you can actually engage folks to actually think that they’re part of a community which will create that sticky power that continues to be self-perpetuating so that folks continue to give their time, their talent, their technology, their treasure. . The leadership changed.

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CauseVox

SEPTEMBER 28, 2021

They made the decision to pivot to a different kind of event: an online brunch fundraiser based on the peer-to-peer model called A Toast to AuSM – and it’s one of our top crowdfunding and peer-to-peer website examples from 2021. Many of the fundraisers also hosted Zoom watching parties of the livestream program.

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Have Fun - Do Good

DECEMBER 2, 2005

I want to highlight a blog that I've been reading for a while, the Tutor Mentor Connection blog written by Daniel Bassill out of Chicago, Illinois. Daniel's blog was recommended to me through a great list serv for anyone interested in volunteers and volunteer program managment, Cybervpm at Yahoo!

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Eric Jacobsen Blog

DECEMBER 24, 2010

What youll read is primarily based on what Ive learned from a variety of mentors, co-workers and supervisors over the past 30 years. -- Eric Jacobson -- formerly a Senior Vice President at Penton Media in Overland Park, Kansas (Kansas City, MO). So, decide today to secure a mentor who will work with you during 2011.

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Eric Jacobsen Blog

DECEMBER 5, 2010

What youll read is primarily based on what Ive learned from a variety of mentors, co-workers and supervisors over the past 30 years. -- Eric Jacobson -- formerly a Senior Vice President at Penton Media in Overland Park, Kansas (Kansas City, MO). A mentor always exercises the power of suggestion. They pose alternatives.

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Neon CRM

SEPTEMBER 25, 2023

Membership associations are a popular type of nonprofit that use a member-based business model to advocate for change and foster community—usually within a specific industry or sector. They play a pivotal role in fostering collaboration, advancing causes, and driving change across diverse industries and sectors.

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NTEN

OCTOBER 6, 2010

This part of the stack includes web servers (Apache), database engines (MySQL, Postgres), version control (SVN, Git), programming languages and frameworks (PHP, Ruby, Zend). . and licensing models. Identify or recruit some open-source mentors and build this skill set in your organization if it's not already there.

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Museum 2.0

NOVEMBER 7, 2010

I'd always believed in engineering as a creative path to changing the world, and my professors encouraged that mindset. At the tiny science center, I got to do everything from leading programs to building exhibits to managing volunteers to cleaning snot off of plexiglass. It was exhausting, stressful work, and I loved it.

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Saleforce Nonprofit

SEPTEMBER 20, 2021

Lobbying with local governments with the aim to make national policy changes. Salesforce employees in Israel volunteer their time to mentor local Arab Israeli youth for successful careers in the tech industry. This task force supports Tsofen’s work by leading future readiness and workforce development programs in Israel via: 1.

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ASU Lodestar Center

APRIL 3, 2018

Aid programs may be necessary to benefit the individuals currently in poverty, but it does not provide a lasting solution (Dees, 2008). Understanding how a nonprofit leader can catalyze and guide systemic development to foster collaboration may lead to creating effective change on a greater scale. percent in 2000 to 15.5 percent (U.S.

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Have Fun - Do Good

SEPTEMBER 9, 2009

What we do here in Oakland, and throughout the Bay Area, is we work with inner city companies that not only have a scalable model, but also have a social responsibility aspect built into their business model. He came in the '70s when there was still the Bracero Program in Mexico. We don't seek out socially responsible companies.

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Cloud 4 Good

MAY 31, 2022

The initial focus will be on Project and Program Management. The role provides support and mentorship to the Program/Project Managers in their roles of Engagement Management and Program/Project Management across all of the delivery models and services lines at Cloud For Good.

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Eric Jacobsen Blog

SEPTEMBER 9, 2010

What youll read is primarily based on what Ive learned from a variety of mentors, co-workers and supervisors over the past 30 years. -- Eric Jacobson -- formerly a Senior Vice President at Penton Media in Overland Park, Kansas (Kansas City, MO). Thursday, September 9, 2010 Is Your Crisis Management Program In Place? And, how often?

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