Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JULY 13, 2011

How Helpful is Teaching Nonprofits How to Fish? When thinking about fundraising, many nonprofits and funders believe in the old adage, “Give a person a fish, and you feed him for a day; teach a person to fish, and you feed him for a lifetime.” What you think? Guest post by Paul Connolly. In a vacuum, it can be marginal.

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Eric Jacobsen Blog

AUGUST 29, 2022

And, that means having an essential set of skills that includes collaboration, agility and foresight. Competing In The New World Of Work opens readers’ eyes to a bold new vision for the future of organizations, and how leaders can make those entities, inclusive, collaborative, resilient, empathic, adaptable, agile and poised for growth.

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Eric Jacobsen Blog

AUGUST 8, 2022

It will teach you how to navigate these types of paradoxes more effectively. His work still inspires us and helps bring the Paradox System to life: Assumptions – change the question. Changing the question invites us to think more creatively about possible answers. Navigating paradoxes involves ongoing change and experimentation.

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Eric Jacobsen Blog

OCTOBER 28, 2022

It will teach you how to navigate these types of paradoxes more effectively. His work still inspires us and helps bring the Paradox System to life: Assumptions – change the question. Changing the question invites us to think more creatively about possible answers. Navigating paradoxes involves ongoing change and experimentation.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

OCTOBER 7, 2014

Like all good training sessions, this workshop started off with an opening conversation that allowed us to get to know others in the room and connect to what we already know. Heather facilitated this exercise as a series of share pairs where we discussed each question with a different partner for a few minutes. Wallow in it.

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OCTOBER 18, 2023

How this can show up is in statements like, “foundation staff are out-of-touch, power-hungry people who care more about their salaries than really making change” or “nonprofit staff are those who couldn’t hack it in ‘real jobs’, and they are randomly piecing together programs without any real expertise.” How do they function?

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Get Fully Funded

FEBRUARY 9, 2021

You may feel stress about keeping your organization’s doors open during the COVID-19 pandemic. While they may not fill your bank account, these tips for cutting costs at a nonprofit may keep your lights on, doors open, and sustainability closer and closer. As the economy changes, so might vendor pricing. Example: Energy/Utility.

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AUGUST 25, 2015

Most people join nonprofit boards because they truly want to be “agents of change” on the boards they join. Guest blogger Gail Perry believes that any board member can be that critical agent of change with the right training and support, especially with respect to opening doors for his or her board. Just open doors.

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Eric Jacobsen Blog

SEPTEMBER 12, 2021

Unfortunately, this doesn’t inspire sustained learning or positive change. Even when people do respond, they often do so out of obligation rather than motivation,” explain the authors of the book, Helping People Change: Coaching With Compassion For Lifelong Learning And Growth.

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Eric Jacobsen Blog

MARCH 29, 2022

Unfortunately, this doesn’t inspire sustained learning or positive change. Even when people do respond, they often do so out of obligation rather than motivation,” explain the authors of the book, Helping People Change: Coaching With Compassion For Lifelong Learning And Growth.

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FEBRUARY 1, 2023

Becoming a customer can help these businesses stay open and serve their communities’ needs, whatever they may be. There are many groups working to make positive changes in the world, whether it’s for anti-racism equality work or supporting Black youth. Donate to support their mission here.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

OCTOBER 22, 2018

The program hosts a delegation of women who work in the tech industry to share their knowledge and skills with women-focused nonprofits, startups and girls empowerment programs in developing countries and in the US. The program teaches women how to build confidence with self-promotion.

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Amy Sample Ward

JUNE 21, 2011

The good news is that the myth that you can’t make systemic change quickly is just that, a myth. You are in the business every day of figuring out how to have people engage, have fun, and build skills – change their behaviors through games. That’s teaching. We are seeing the proof in other countries.

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Whole Whale

SEPTEMBER 20, 2022

This group is a go-to for many fundraisers looking to learn and improve their skills. As of writing this, there are over 1,600 open fundraising roles open in the US. Changing Our World, Inc. Made of a team of dedicated impact consultants, Changing Our World, Inc. Website: [link]. Website: [link]. Online Course.

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Beneblog: Technology Meets Society

DECEMBER 8, 2011

President’s Update Fall 2011 Don’t be surprised, but we’re picking up the pace of change at Benetech! Led by Benetech’s VP of Engineering Gerardo Capiel, we will create an online space, SocialCoding4Good, where people in the tech community interested in social causes can volunteer ideas, connections, time and skills.

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SEPTEMBER 22, 2021

The Trailblazers Community sets Salesforce apart from many other cloud technologies as a way to connect with other Salesforce community members and often open doors to new job opportunities. So how do we close the skills gap in the Salesforce ecosystem? But we also know it’s going to take more than training.

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MAY 1, 2023

This is a tall order—however, to maximize the impact of your investment these fundamental changes are necessary. I try to be very clear that no one is exempt from learning and mastering new skills.” To be successful,” he notes, “you have to be open to lifelong learning. It’s a choice.”

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Get Fully Funded

NOVEMBER 11, 2021

If he was on television today, he’d be telling us, “In 2020, the world changed.” The world has changed a lot, and it’s not likely to get back to the old normal. Just about every nonprofit made major changes in 2020. Chances are they changed. A lot went away, and some opened up. Some changed just a little.

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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. The goals for the Giving 2.0 3) Giving 2.0:

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Eric Jacobsen Blog

SEPTEMBER 27, 2019

It’s important to be completely open with yourself about how you distract yourself from living out of your declaration. I can be pretty tough because you’re changing your fundamental way of being. The number one skill you need to overcome challenges in life is commitment. Vacantly scrolling through your social media feeds?

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Whole Whale

MAY 20, 2021

This group is a go-to for many fundraisers looking to learn and improve their skills. As of writing this, there are over 1,600 open fundraising roles open in the US. Changing Our World, Inc. Made of a team of dedicated impact consultants, Changing Our World, Inc. Website: [link]. Website: [link]. Online Course.

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Tech Soup

AUGUST 1, 2014

Nonprofits can change the world through storytelling. Our live webinar and workshop events are a great way to teach web skills, engage with our community, expand digital media learning, and empower story makers to make impact. Submissions Open – August 26, 2014. Participate and Learn. Best story overall - $5,000.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JANUARY 5, 2018

When you have worked in a field a long time (for me it has been over 3 decades), you have to keep an open mind about remembering and reflecting on what you have heard before — looking at as if it was new. These help guide my professional learning and improvement and maintaining good habits.

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ASU Lodestar Center

SEPTEMBER 18, 2018

Many business experiences and skills can be adapted to the nonprofit sector - such as project management , sales and marketing, and accounting. Evaluate Your Skills and Experience. Take a few hours to review your skills and experience and how they apply to the needs of nonprofit organizations. Build Educational Experiences.

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JULY 8, 2021

These exercises can measure knowledge gained, skills learned, or even attitudes or mindsets changed. Or, individuals in a business course could complete an open-ended case study-based assessment to test how well they can apply the information presented, effectively testing skills acquired. Detail a process.

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Bloomerang

JUNE 14, 2021

Think about what changed for you, your nonprofit, and your constituencies. . A new survey from McKinsey finds responses to the Covid-19 pandemic sped business adoption of digital technologies by several years—and many of these changes will likely be here for the long haul. Next look at what you didn’t change from the BC period.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MARCH 8, 2016

The One Campaign has launched an open letter signed by 86 leading voices for women around the world. We need more better policies to address gender parity and more programs that build the capacity of nonprofits and the tech skills of women and girls in the development world. The Tech Girls of Dharavi. You can make a donation here.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

OCTOBER 8, 2008

Blogging Basics: Managing Information Overload: How to find your blogging community Join Beth Kanter, who has been writing about what she prefers to call "online information coping skills" since the 1990s, when we mostly had to worry about email. Do you open up multiple tabs in your browser and then forget what you were going to do?

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AUGUST 17, 2020

It is important to focus on growing your networking skills and develop lasting and real connections. Gravitate towards the event type that most interests you and be open to sharing your business ideas with the other attendees. . They’ll also teach you about the ins-and-outs of that industry and things to keep an eye on. .

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

FEBRUARY 27, 2014

What’s most interesting to me is how these trends and technological developments in e-learning will impact sectors beyond education, particularly how it will change nonprofits, both individuals, inside the workplace, and networks of organizations working together to solve social change issues. Find your e-learning change agent.

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Eric Jacobsen Blog

JUNE 19, 2020

Friedman teaches that there are seven steps , based on human virtues we all strive to achieve, that are key to unlocking the power of a people-first culture : Patience. Leading by example and encouraging open and honest communication. Looking inward before taking those crucial first steps toward change. Honesty and Integrity.

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Eric Jacobsen Blog

MAY 7, 2018

It’ll teach you how to leverage the power of The Five Practices of Exemplary Leadership to consistently make extraordinary sales. Deb Calvert Today, Deb Calvert shared these additional insights about selling: Question : When did the change to today's new type of buyer take place? And, what primarily drove the change?

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

SEPTEMBER 8, 2015

This year’s award nominations for CEOs and Trustees who inspire, encourage and provoke debate is now open and you can nominate a nonprofit leader here. For the past few years, I’ve been teaching a workshop called “ Leading on Social Channels ” for nonprofits that want to leverage the personal brands of their leaders.

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Bloomerang

MAY 24, 2021

Change happens fast, and we must adapt or die. How has your own world perspective changed over the past umpteen months? How have you considered your donors’ changed perspectives in your fundraising and marketing strategies? Especially in light of changed perspectives. You’ve probably experienced some strong emotions.

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NOVEMBER 26, 2019

But, being a manager is a learned skill. A few suggestions were about outside training to improve your skills. As someone texted me recently, Art History grad school didn't teach us anything about working with others in museums. (I walking meetings to open up our lungs and our thinking). Everyone can learn from others.

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Eric Jacobsen Blog

MAY 12, 2019

And, if you've been a leader for a long time, how about taking a few minutes to run through the list and scoring yourself on how well you carry out each leadership skill? Teach something new to your team 24. Be willing to change your decisions 45. Have an open door policy 66. Don't micromanage 2. Don't be a bottleneck 3.

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Eric Jacobsen Blog

FEBRUARY 29, 2016

This week brings the new book, The Mindfulness Edge , a fascinating manual that teaches you how through mindfulness training you can become a better leader. Tenney is a social entrepreneur and has been teaching mindfulness in various capacities since 2002.

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