sgEngage

JANUARY 22, 2024

The sector itself continued to change, but it was a challenge to effectively adapt questions to match those changes. We needed to change up our questions. By assessing our process and by changing our questions as a result, we received more thought-provoking and insightful responses. Take it out. Streamline your process!

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Connection Cafe

APRIL 7, 2021

The social impact sector cannot return to a pre-pandemic operating model because we have adapted and grown in the last year. Now is the time to step back and reflect on what is and isn’t working. Some programs won’t survive in a post-pandemic service model, and that’s okay.

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Change Vietnam Nonprofit Leadership 49

Media Cause

MARCH 15, 2021

There are so many big things, scary, unexpected things that changed us as individuals, families, communities, and a collective human race in 2020, that as I was trying to write this blog post, it was hard to know where to start. Turns out that this last thing in particular—reading—didn’t just change me in 2020.

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Change North Carolina America Nigeria 98

VQ Strategies

OCTOBER 7, 2022

A Path to Change. So, how are these institutions addressing the challenges while also leveraging the strengths of the model? Using data from their own assessments and from the field, they are making the case for change to staff and to volunteers. Mapping the Change. Implementing the Change. Sustaining the Change.

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Candid

AUGUST 8, 2022

These donors had various motives for supporting abolition, however it rarely involved creating an equitable society that included Black people nor supported continual policy and societal change. Philanthropic efforts for the Black community haven’t changed much since the abolitionist movement.

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Voice Philanthropy Atlanta Student 128

sgEngage

NOVEMBER 2, 2023

These three simple words each pack their own challenge for a sector that often fails to prioritize learning, where knowledge hoarding is pervasive, and where the pace of change can feel extremely slow. Shift the gaze internally to reflect on both progress made and opportunities ahead. A primary lever of change is grantmaking.

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Philanthropy Influence Grant Practice 79

Eric Jacobsen Blog

OCTOBER 9, 2023

We also need to ask questions, experiment, solicit feedback, reflect on surprises or mistakes, learn from others, and habituate other Learning Zone strategies. Each of us can regularly reflect on how well the habits we’re engaged in are working and what adjustments we want to try. Briceño : This depends on the situation.

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Learning Free Reflection Model 94

ASU Lodestar Center

MAY 18, 2016

In order to make change that is sustainable and scalable, additional funding sources need to be considered to help nonprofits achieve their core missions. Social enterprise models may well offer an answer. Should nonprofits become more aggressive in adopting new business models that can add needed revenue?

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Model Fund Social United States 53

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. Building Capacity for Social Change 2.0 Call this “social change 2.0”. Guest Post by Heather Grant-McLeod.

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Build Change Social Facilitation 112

sgEngage

OCTOBER 9, 2023

But things forever changed when OpenAI released version 3.5 Generative AIs went from entertaining but ultimately not very useful to possessing, and the change happened overnight.  of ChatGPT last December. Generative AIs have the power to transform education. Want to learn more about AI?

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Generation Education Blackbaud Model 93

Whole Whale

APRIL 11, 2023

GPT models, like GPT3 & 4, have garnered significant attention for their impressive capabilities in generating coherent, human-like text. In this article, we will discuss the seven most common objections to GPT models and offer rebuttals to them. However, they have also been subject to criticism and objections.

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Model Technique Training Train 52

ASU Lodestar Center

OCTOBER 20, 2021

Layer one, internal assessment, is an exercise in rigorous self-reflection. Results seen in the Partner Readiness Assessment determined sufficient readiness to partners across multiple dimensions including organization and operations, leadership and management, and adaptive or change readiness. Model selection. Recommendations.

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Collaboration Los Angeles Strategy Indiana 98

BoardAssist

APRIL 4, 2017

In this second part of the series, Alice Antonelli, Director for Advisory Services at NFF, shares more terrific advice and insights on financial health and nonprofit business models. Best Practices for Nonprofit Financial Health, Part Two: Smart Nonprofit Business Models. What is a smart nonprofit business model? Thanks Alice!

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Bloomerang

JULY 6, 2023

The strategic planning process involves reflecting on your mission to identify your most important goals and determining the strategies you’ll use to reach them. This can help you start defining goals and considering which model strategic plan will best work for your organization.

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Examples Guide Model Nonprofit 117

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JUNE 28, 2016

Participants reflected on their style strength and how it has helped them be successful in different situations. ” This is known as being “versatile” and can help you succeed in different situations. We had some fun doing role plays with a partner to figure out their style and some reflection on how we needed to adapt.

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Nonprofit Tech for Good

OCTOBER 9, 2020

The entire social sector learned a valuable lesson in 2020: even the most rigorous planning can’t insulate us from the need to be flexible and adapt to the changing world around us. That’s partly because underlying trends that have been driving the nonprofit sector for years have completely changed.

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Trend Fundraising Virtual Haiti 261

Whole Whale

MAY 24, 2023

Reflect : Once a week, take some time to reflect on your progress and make any necessary adjustments to your system. Instead of completing the task yourself or putting it on the pile, send it to a trained model that can deliver a rough draft or quick solutions. MODEL: requires Read.ai MODEL: requires Read.ai

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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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Build Pennsylvania Environment Skills 87

Candid

AUGUST 29, 2023

To this end, the Job-Demands-Resources model offers a simple equation: burnout = demands > resources. This model highlights three important things to understand about burnout: Burnout isn’t about too many demands but demands without enough resources. Reflect on the demands your job places on you—can any be removed?

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

FEBRUARY 14, 2024

Understand staff concerns about AI changing their jobs Jon Townsend, National Trust says that leaders should understand people’s anxiety about AI in the workplace as the very first step. There’s also discomfort over the rapid pace of change and perceived steep learning curve while being overwhelmed with current workloads.

Adopt 79

Adopt People Nonprofit Skills 79

Nimble AMS

APRIL 14, 2021

At our core, we reflect regularly, monitor progress, and continuously improve. The Nimble AMS product team mirrors Salesforce’s ideal product upgrade model. The changes began in Summer, continued through Winter, and concluded in Spring.?. A model for product development: Partnering to share best practices. Save my spot.

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Product Practice Tech Org 78

ASU Lodestar Center

JULY 8, 2015

So, as I made my transition – keep in mind that I am still working a nonprofit, just a c4 instead of a c3 – the moment gave me reason to reflect upon the 10 years of experience I had at the Alliance and with colleagues across the country through the National Council of Nonprofits. I first tried to remember what it was like in 2005.

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Reflection Arizona Nonprofit Classes 40

Saleforce Nonprofit

NOVEMBER 22, 2022

Among other things, it requires new models of collaboration, which is why several leading organizations recently came together to rethink core assumptions about how to address global hunger, with the audacious goal of ending chronic hunger in our lifetimes. The approach just might serve as a model for other issues, as well.

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Collaboration Challenge Hunger Kenya 76

Connection Cafe

JULY 10, 2018

My first experience with modeling happened at the University of Washington development office in the fall of 1992. My job, as the director of research, was to use the modeling results for prospecting—but also to sell them to the directors of development in the schools and colleges. I don’t make models. Garbage in, garbage out.

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Blue Fox

AUGUST 4, 2021

You open up the agenda, update the new date, and make a few changes. If your board members hit the snooze button during meetings, this will reflect in their commitment to fundraising, advocacy efforts, and follow through on assigned tasks. Each monthly meeting is hardly different than the next. Truthfully, you’re bored.

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Help Virtual Metrics Sound 78

.orgSource

MARCH 6, 2023

Could the decline in membership be a reflection of the decline in trust? Associations revolve around relationships, but the shape of those connections has changed. We considered the following issues, which moved from broad to specific. Do our members and stakeholders view our association as legitimate?

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Associations Leadership Question Wisconsin 221

NTEN

JANUARY 25, 2022

2021 was an eventful year at NTEN as we continued to promote, work towards, and model equitable practices internally and externally. While our complete evaluation is quite long, we’ve summarized reflections and commitments for 2022 from every area of our commitments in practice. Staff, board, and volunteers. 2022 focus.

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Community NTC Sponsor NTEN 88

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

AUGUST 27, 2010

The morning had two segments, beginning with content and small group exercises on several themes from the Networked Nonprofit including culture change , transparency , and simplicity. Geoff Livingston did a great job at live blogging the first section in the morning. Some Reflections. The Challenge of Transfer.

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Reflection People Network Colorado 103

Byte Technology

OCTOBER 25, 2019

Any information collected to create a profile that reflects the individual’s preferences. For businesses like Google and Facebook who collect data for targeted advertising, this could pose a serious threat to their business model. Internet browsing history. Products purchased or considered for purchase.

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California Law Companies Data 189

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JUNE 12, 2009

Allison Fine and I have been noodling with an evaluation model that looks social media from an organizational perspective - from social networks to social capital (relationships) to action in the real world. These points also make me think about an organizational listening/learning model. My questions: .

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Model Relationship Strategy Social 74

Classy

APRIL 20, 2021

The nonprofit sector was already moving this way—it was the thesis that Classy was founded upon—but 2020 changed everything. The lines are blurring between for-profit and nonprofit models like never before, and the strain of 2020 proved to us that the traditional CSR model is outdated and broken. . New Beginnings.

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Fundraising Chapter Product Roles 98

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JULY 27, 2015

I always like to start with an icebreaker that allows participants to reflect and identify burning questions. We came up with some really practical and useful models. Then afterwards we repeated the poll and they saw how the energy level changed. The workshop was a tango dance between English and Spanish — and it worked!

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

SEPTEMBER 13, 2012

” This post shares my notes from that session along with a reflection about my session and some resources. And, those who wanted to make money would head to Wall Street. That’s changed. They shared a slide (see above) about new models we’ll see that combine both – especially the “not invented yet.”

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Skills Reflection Management Aggregator 96

Forum One

FEBRUARY 7, 2023

Google changed it to Universal Analytics after they acquired it in 2005.) Needless to say, a lot has changed since 2005. Why is Google making this change? GA4 is designed to be far less reliant on cookies, using AI and data modeling to help fill the gaps in data caused by privacy restrictions. How do I get started?

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FAQ Organization Analytics Google 58

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

OCTOBER 8, 2009

The workshop will be an opportunity for social change leaders to step back from their day-to-day responsibilities and develop strategic insight about their networks. Some reflections on the game: Many the networks in the room had a track record of working together and a number had deep social media expertise.

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Social Media Reflection Network Strategy 82

sgEngage

MAY 25, 2023

In a sector that is so risk-averse—afraid of change, reluctant to explore new ideas, and adopt new practices—why do we rely on super risky problem-solving skills? Most really good proposals and reports often better reflect an organization’s capacity to hire a great grant writer or marketing expert than their ability to do great work.

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Problem Skills Proposal Grant 74

sgEngage

FEBRUARY 23, 2022

What changes have prospects experienced in the past year? It’s possible that changes for the donor or the organization dictate a realignment. If you have predictive modeling results , that is the best place to start (and if you don’t, put it on the wish list for next year!). With this limited number, each one needs to count.

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