The MatrixFiles

FEBRUARY 23, 2024

Declining trust and polarization is affecting national organizations’ ability to partner with their chapters. Consider: can you/should you offer tools and resources to help your members address trust issues with their stakeholders? One association conducts an annual brand tracker; trust in the association is one of the metrics.

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Top Nonprofits

JANUARY 14, 2022

However, although you engage with it every day, we’d guess that your nonprofit isn’t using the platforms and their fundraising tools to the fullest extent. All participants are added to a corresponding Facebook group to connect with one another and raise funds using individual Facebook fundraisers started on behalf of your organization.

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Challenge Facebook Support Hosting 98

Neon CRM

JUNE 23, 2023

85+ countries now have their own GivingTuesday chapters, and 2022 saw nine new countries launch national GivingTuesday movements. GivingTuesday Participants Want to Be Part of a Huge Group of People Doing Good 52% of GivingTuesday supporters said that they are drawn to the idea of a bigger group of people doing good.

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Statistics Fundraising United States Global 98

Nonprofit Tech for Good

APRIL 10, 2022

The service provides early access to new Twitter tools and a variety of unique features. Using a graphic design tool such as Canva or Venngage , converting powerful stats, quotes, and CTAs into graphics is a time-tested, proven method to grab the attention of your followers, thus increasing your engagement on Twitter (and all social media).

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CauseVox

MARCH 4, 2021

If you have a similar event or tradition that is a part of your chapter, consider adding a fundraising component. If you need to update your chapter house, fund scholarships, or complete a particular project, a fundraiser that’s dedicated to raising those funds will be quite effective. Competition. Here are some of our favorite ideas.

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Examples Fundraising Ideas Chapter 79

Achieve

DECEMBER 21, 2021

What about my different chapters around the country? If your organization has different chapters, you can also set up automated reminders to be sent to all of your components, enabling them to instantly file their forms. the process can still become cumbersome if you’re filing on behalf of several different chapters.

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Eric Jacobsen Blog

OCTOBER 1, 2023

Speaking about the book, Hunter Arscott states that it will equip you with the tools to navigate the workplace strategically and successfully, despite challenges and setbacks. “Despite recognizing the benefits of making bold moves, most women—especially those early in their careers—struggle to harness the power of risk-taking.”

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Voice Exercise Chapter Script 79

Nonprofit Tech for Good

JANUARY 12, 2011

The last four chapters of my book cover mobile social networking and mobile communications and fundraising for nonprofits, and I need some examples of success, or attempted success. Nonprofits that are managing group texting campaigns, especially those that link to their mobile website in text alerts (I have yet to find one!).

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Mobile Blackberry Technology Research 190

Candid

APRIL 13, 2021

Our automated tool “reads” about 300,000 media articles each day. The $126 million grant, to Easterseals, is an outlier in size and structure—it actually represents an aggregation of grants to a set of individual Easterseals chapters. Grant coding by issue area and beneficiary group. This figure excludes Easterseals.).

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Grant Structure Analysis Aggregator 98

Saleforce Nonprofit

APRIL 12, 2021

org’s product team is constantly analyzing data, improving websites, and providing the right system and tools to their users. org’s Climate Justice Action map , which connects people with local groups and other activists. org’s local chapters are utilizing uniquely-built Salesforce instances to suit the needs of each team.

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Organization Massachusetts Org Africa 98

Nimble AMS

MARCH 3, 2021

A successful chapter program delivers valuable benefits for an association – including member engagement, member satisfaction, and overall member growth. But how do you set-up your chapters for success? Five ways you can set your chapters up for success through technology. Provide the tools to make chapter management easy.

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Chapter Technology Mobile Metrics 78

Bloomerang

AUGUST 4, 2021

Informal professional groups – Groups exist in some larger cities and virtually on Facebook and LinkedIn. Formal professional groups – These exist for many specialties such as the Association of Fundraising Professionals and the Grant Professionals Association, which have local chapters and a national office. .

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Consultant Search Interview Script 115

Bloomerang

JANUARY 29, 2024

Use segmentation tools to identify connections between members, such as those who work in the same field or live in the same area. Create groups to send more personalized communications to different membership segments. Using membership management tools, you can create a personalized experience that exceeds member expectations.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

APRIL 1, 2013

” The book offers up advice and techniques on how to make your online channels – email marketing, web site, and newer tools like mobile and social media work together in a sophisticated strategy or your organization to reach its advocacy, fundraising, or community building goals. Encourage brainstorming. Develop shared language.

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Campaign Online Chapter Model 97

Amy Sample Ward

NOVEMBER 13, 2009

The ideas and issues do focus, though, on the emphasis that nonprofits and individual supporting causes, campaigns and specific groups online have put on free, social media, 3rd party tools. And then yesterday, another tool that’s been used by many changemakers and social innovation groups has dropped off: Ideablob : Goodbye!

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Myspace Award Platform Advice 184

VQ Strategies

NOVEMBER 22, 2022

Placing mattering front and center in our volunteer engagement strategy can be a powerful tool to drive success – on all fronts. To learn more, read the chapter by Natalye Paquin, President and CEO of Points of Light. Every volunteer wants to feel valued, whether a senior or teen.

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Volunteer Teen Training Train 52

Amy Sample Ward

NOVEMBER 13, 2009

The ideas and issues do focus, though, on the emphasis that nonprofits and individual supporting causes, campaigns and specific groups online have put on free, social media, 3rd party tools. And then yesterday, another tool that’s been used by many changemakers and social innovation groups has dropped off: Ideablob : Goodbye!

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Myspace Award Platform Advice 165

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JULY 17, 2007

Nick Rice , one of my blog readers, contributed a chapter. He also pointed me recently to a tool called CoReap ( www.coreap.com ), a social search and bookmarking add-on for your web browser. If you bookmark web sites and web pages on a regular basis, or do team research on the web, then CoReap is just the tool for you!

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NTEN

DECEMBER 14, 2021

Please join NTEN in welcoming our new Lead Organizers, Dave Tinker (Pittsburgh, PA) and James Porter (Denver, CO) for Tech Clubs and Dar Veverka (Baltimore, MD), and Jonea Agwa (Burlington, Ontario, Canada) for online groups. Lead Organizers for Online Groups. Let’s get to know the new Lead Organizers. Lead Organizers for Tech Clubs.

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Nimble AMS

APRIL 6, 2022

Hosted by Community Brands, Xperience allowed attendees virtual one-on-one meetings with conference exhibitors, in addition to larger group sessions. With Flow Builder on your side, you have the most powerful tool a Salesforce administrator can have at their disposal, giving you powers close to a developer. Adam Carey, Sr.

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Associations Retention Analytics Missouri 123

Bloomerang

JULY 6, 2023

Each person then comes up with actionable next steps to help get closer to that goal by the next time the group meets. The model usually looks like this: Your organization frequently meets as a large group to define short-term objectives for individual team members.

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Examples Guide Model Nonprofit 122

Bloomerang

AUGUST 21, 2023

Subsequent action steps are grouped according to your level of fundraising development: Getting Started, Advancement (somewhere further along), and Going from Good to Great. See my book, Fundraising 401 , Chapter 10, “Finance & Fundraising Are Not in Opposition.”) The post starts off with general guidance.

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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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Non Profit Quarterly

JANUARY 15, 2019

Writing in NPQ at the end of 2017, MJ Kaplan cited the emergence of a group called Zebras Unite. Zebras are also mutualistic: by banding together in groups, they protect and preserve one another. The tool of venture capital is so specific to a tiny, tiny fraction of companies. Women of color get 0.2 percent of VC funding.

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Tech Soup

NOVEMBER 23, 2015

The Bay Area chapter underwent dramatic organizational changes in recent years that required better collaboration tools. Michael Hersher, direct services manager of the Bay Area Chapter explains , "Around two years ago, our chapter had expanded from 6 counties to covering 10 counties — the entire greater Bay Area.

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Collaboration Disaster San Francisco Chapter 36

AccelEvents

MARCH 8, 2021

Virtual summits are a great way for diverse groups of people to connect over ideas, trends, and best practices! Use Case Example: Microsoft’s Ignite will kick off on March 2, 2021, showcasing to new users the latest tools of the platform as well as Microsoft’s latest cloud technologies. It can be a powerful team building exercise.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

OCTOBER 23, 2014

” This is when a group of organizations working on a similar practice have ongoing discussions and resource exchanges – or spend time together to gain new insights from their peers and apply what they’ve learned to their practice. They act as either individuals or on behalf of organizations.

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Review Change Cleveland Generation 106

AccelEvents

MARCH 8, 2021

Virtual summits are a great way for diverse groups of people to connect over ideas, trends, and best practices! Use Case Example: Microsoft’s Ignite will kick off on March 2, 2021, showcasing to new users the latest tools of the platform as well as Microsoft’s latest cloud technologies. It can be a powerful team building exercise.

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Virtual Conference Hosting North America 97

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. It encompass mindset and ways of working which can be used to exercise new power despite whatever platform or tool is available to us. An example is Kim Jong-un. (In

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

DECEMBER 13, 2018

I’ve been leading this work at Google.org for five years and was previously at The Bridgespan Group where I helped nonprofits and foundations address strategic questions. Does it require that applicants use Google AI tools ? My early career was in international development, working for the U.S.

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Google Challenge Interview Impact 84

Amy Sample Ward

FEBRUARY 5, 2009

Last month, my blog here on SSIR discussed the idea that nonprofit organizations, with the use of social media, can now create shared spaces online for their communities—truly convene groups online. She posts her photos to the group and something clicks, “we could do this for our annual holiday event!”

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

APRIL 30, 2012

” And that as networks evolve and grow, you experiment with different tools and then spread the knowledge of how to use the tools to the rest of the network. 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

APRIL 6, 2009

Learning across the network, particularly across chapters is important. Their chapters grow faster than internal staff can support them. They use Internet tools and regional trainings to support learning across the network. They also have many high school groups on Facebook. The above map that Chad explains gets at it.

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Offline Map Activities Active 67

Top Nonprofits

DECEMBER 31, 2021

At least half of all donors attend fundraising events – no matter their generation – so why not try some innovative virtual events this year that will engage your diverse donor groups? Machine learning and predictive technology make it easy – all you have to do is integrate these tools with your donor management system.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JULY 24, 2009

I just finished up the Social Media Strategy Game workshop with EPIP Chapter leaders. The game uses a deck of cards to help a group to brainstorm a social media strategy. This prevents making tool-based decisions. An example of this creative spirit was when one group created a new card on a napkin.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

FEBRUARY 12, 2014

So I thought I’d share some details on how the exchange worked, and some insights the group learned that helped them increase their impact. As with any new group, many of the foundations were reluctant to make a commitment to participate in the exchange. And the group got creative when it came to offers.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

APRIL 8, 2014

The second is a peer learning group of participants who are regularly sharing what they learned from implementing ideas and tools in the Playbook. The Outreach section offers tips on volunteer recruitment, orientation and training, while the chapter on Day-Of Logistics includes ways to maximize efficiency during your event.

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Campaign Tips Wichita Giving 96