The Modern Nonprofit

MARCH 5, 2024

Whether it’s the instant spreadability of Twitter, the communal spirit of Facebook, or the captivating visuals of Instagram, each platform is a chapter in your storytelling saga. Social Media: Your Digital Soapbox In the vast digital landscape, social media is your stage , and your cause is the star of the show.

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Eric Jacobsen Blog

OCTOBER 9, 2023

Composed of Chapters 1 through 7, it introduces the foundational ideas and key strategies that any individual can use to overcome the performance paradox. Eduardo Briceño is a global keynote speaker and facilitator who guides many of the world’s leading companies in developing cultures of learning and high performance.

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Eric Jacobsen Blog

JANUARY 19, 2023

Fortunately, each book chapter includes a real-world practice called a Pro Move and an exercise, both carefully crafted to help you overcome hang-ups and take more joy in communicating. She facilitates strategic planning and executive coaching for clients in diverse industries, in governments, at non-profits, and in academia.

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VQ Strategies

NOVEMBER 22, 2022

Some are angry about leaders who seem to ignore (or even facilitate) such issues as abuse of civil liberties. To learn more, read the chapter by Natalye Paquin, President and CEO of Points of Light. Many more people have been driven to action by anger or guilt—both powerful motivators for transformational engagement.

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Saleforce Nonprofit

JUNE 17, 2021

Your website can also pull and display data stored in Salesforce, such as lists of sponsors or grantees, program data, chapter or affiliate information, or some other personalized experience based on the visitor’s profile. The plugin also facilitates development to further modify the sync for your needs.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

OCTOBER 23, 2014

Peter and Madeleine were the among the pioneers in writing about, designing, facilitating, and evaluating networks in the social impact space. I have designed and facilitated a number of networks like this, although I have called them “Peer Learning Exchanges.” It doesn’t do more than that.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MARCH 9, 2011

Illustration by Jonny Goldstein who will provide live graphic facilitation of this highly interactive and fun panel. The session title is based on a chapter in our book, The Networked Nonprofit. Our panelists include Danielle Brigida, National Wildlife Federation, Mark Horvath, Invisible People, and Jessica Dheere, SMEX Beirut.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

APRIL 1, 2013

As a trainer, I was most interested in Chapter 7 about equipping your organization to do multi-channel campaigns. The chapter goes on to outline different the optimum staffing for multichannel campaigns. So, I’ve been practicing by creating visual notes.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

APRIL 6, 2017

Their staff spent a day with a facilitator and came up with some strategies to change their way of working that balanced excellence without excessive work hours and stress. How do we balance what makes sense for our mission and vision and what makes cents for our nonprofit business?

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

DECEMBER 9, 2011

I’ve been heads down working on my next book about measurement and networked nonprofit s with KD Paine and our editor, Bill Paarlberg. One of the chapters is about measuring transparency. ” A nonprofit example is Engineers Without Borders that makes it impact assessment reports available on its web site.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JANUARY 22, 2015

A part of my practice is around network design and facilitation and one of my most respected colleagues in this area is Eugene Eric Kim. Next, Eugene facilitated a fishbowl conversation with Janne. So, when he sent around an email that Janne K. Here’s one brilliant idea that I loved.

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Have Fun - Do Good

FEBRUARY 10, 2012

Longtime readers know that I'm a big fan of Dining for Women , an organization that facilitates "potlucks for a purpose." You can watch the 2-minute video by clicking this link , or on the player below You'll find information about starting, or joining a chapter on the Dining for Women site.

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NTEN

MARCH 19, 2013

Please join me in congratulating Annaliese on a terrific tenure at NTEN and a great new chapter. Last year, for her work on NTEN's Change journal, she received the 2012 Publishing Trendsetter Award. And, she'll continue tweeting with the #nptech hashtag to stay connected to all the developments in this community.

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Qgiv

JANUARY 17, 2024

While we may have just closed another year’s chapter, the work is far from over. For a deeper dive into donor retention and how automation facilitates this level of personalization at scale, read our comprehensive guide on donor retention.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MARCH 16, 2015

What I absolutely love, is that the book has a companion web site with worksheets and checklists from every chapter. As someone who designs and facilitates professional development projects for nonprofits, this is a trainer’s dream! There are also some great practical tips , sample mentor/mentee agreement , and plan.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

APRIL 8, 2014

Note from Beth: I’m working with the Knight Foundation to facilitate a peer learning exchange that will help their community foundation partners learn and spread best practices in planning and implementing Giving Days. From GiveMN Case Study - Click for Case Study. This learning approach has two ways to capture knowledge.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

NOVEMBER 2, 2016

Last June, I facilitated a leadership workshop at the Americans for the Arts Conference where I tested some of the assessments and checklist tools in our book. At the staff retreat, they used assessments from Chapter 3 of The Happy Healthy Nonprofit and had everyone self-assess their symptoms. Each employee created their own plan.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

FEBRUARY 12, 2014

I’m working with the Knight Foundation to facilitate a peer learning exchange that will help their community foundation partners learn and spread best practices in planning and implementing Giving Days. Beth facilitated the calls, but the community foundations drove the content, creating a true peer exchange.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

APRIL 6, 2009

Learning across the network, particularly across chapters is important. Their chapters grow faster than internal staff can support them. I asked how they work effectively with chapters when they can't "control" the message or groups necessarily. How do you facilitate the hive? The above map that Chad explains gets at it.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

FEBRUARY 13, 2013

The book’s co-authors, Beth Kanter and KD Paine will facilitate an updated of the original poetry-slam session with the same four nonprofit leaders about they have used networked strategies and measurement to improve results and transform failure into success. link] (The book will be used a textbook for the workshop.). Register here.

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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 org’s local chapters are utilizing uniquely-built Salesforce instances to suit the needs of each team.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

APRIL 3, 2018

Connectivity helps facilitate highly distributed groups of people to work on a campaign, project, or share ideas that spread with unprecedented velocity and reach. One of my favorite chapters of the book describes different leadership profiles based on the values and leadership approaches that different leaders use.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MAY 23, 2012

The attention chapter is about why and how to control your attention when you’re online. To say that social media facilitates distraction is not to say that social media has to control your awareness – you can take control back and through repeated conscious efforts.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

SEPTEMBER 21, 2010

Ironically, it was during a session facilitated by Phil Klein called “Tackling the Unexpected&# who shared insights about he took back his life after surviving a cancer diagnosis. Then off to an evening session at PRSA-Alaska Chapter at the Providence Center Cancer Center to talk about the Networked Nonprofit.

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Bloomerang

AUGUST 21, 2023

See my book, Fundraising 401 , Chapter 10, “Finance & Fundraising Are Not in Opposition.”) Have you tried bringing in a communications facilitator to deepen the conversation? The facilitator may be able to better convey the need and achieve the desired results. Determine the capacity to give of your donors and funders.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JULY 30, 2009

Last week I was in Michigan to do a training for Chapter Leaders of EPIP. What do you need in your social media strategy to facilitate your supporters self-organizing around your goal? We were are all leaving Detroit at different times and the taxi to the airport wasn't exactly cheap.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

DECEMBER 23, 2011

I love David Sibbet, Rachel Smith, and everything Grove Consulting does. I had the pleasure of taking the visual facilitation workshop last fall (my write up is here ). Visual Teams: Graphic Tools for Commitment, Innovation, and High Performance by David Sibbet.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

APRIL 30, 2012

To me, this creates the perfect book to help guide your practice of building and working within a network.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MAY 24, 2013

Two weeks ago, I was lucky enough to be in New Zealand, leading a workshop on social media and I facilitated a module on mindful social media. Her work was the inspiration for Rheingold’s book (the mindfulness chapter).

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MARCH 31, 2014

The Code Liberation Foundation ( codeliberation.org ) aims to change the female-to-male ratio in video game development by offering free workshops in order to facilitate the creation of video game titles by women. Around Gender. In 2013 alone, the organization ran over 100 hours of programming in New York City.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

FEBRUARY 24, 2009

Not too long ago, I submitted my chapter to BJ Fogg's Psychology of Facebook Applications. The chapter is an analysis of Facebook applications that help raise money or awareness or encourage people to take a social action. The winning application will receive $10,000.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JANUARY 3, 2012

Each chapter starts with a personal story that illustrates a concept related to managing unproductive distractions. I want to sustain that focus throughout the year and apply to what I do — from content curation to blogging to facilitating trainings and developing curriculum. Be more of a focusing lens versus a fire hydrant.

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ASU Lodestar Center

SEPTEMBER 3, 2014

Lyn spent 10 years as Director of Project LEARN for Valley of the Sun United Way and Communities in Schools facilitating relationships with schools, business, government and nonprofits to better serve students living in poverty.

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Tech Soup

AUGUST 4, 2014

Our chapter leaders are using the cards to recruit speakers and sponsors for their events. Vancouver, Canada: The End of Slacktivism: How to Understand, Facilitate & Deepen Online Engagement. We gotta keep those NetSquared organizers busy! Oh, and aren’t those business cards fancy? Upcoming Events. Tuesday, August 5, 2014.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

SEPTEMBER 20, 2010

at the Providence Cancer Center for the Alaska Chapter of PRSA. I’m doing various other trainings, book parties, etc. I facilitated a discussion with the group about whether and how their community foundations, located in very rural areas, might embrace social networking. Welcome To Alaska.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

AUGUST 10, 2010

On the blogging side, while the main event page is on WordPress, Geoff will be using a posterous blog for updates about the conference and to publish early chapters of #crisisdata white paper. This will facilitate a self-organized, community scrapbook of the event from attendees.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JULY 31, 2017

But here’s an example and tool to help play that out — See3 recently facilitated a workshop for a national nonprofit working to align its chapters around a signature program – everyone was doing it differently, which is no way to scale (and no way to work). Easier said than done, for sure.

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