Amy Sample Ward

OCTOBER 30, 2009

You can check out the Community Voices group on the Social by Social community for videos, notes and other reflections from the event. During these report backs I captured a word cloud on a flip chart of key words. Were you there, and have ideas to add to this reflection? What’s of interest? Existing Communities.

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Amy Sample Ward

OCTOBER 30, 2009

You can check out the Community Voices group on the Social by Social community for videos, notes and other reflections from the event. During these report backs I captured a word cloud on a flip chart of key words. Were you there, and have ideas to add to this reflection? What’s of interest? Existing Communities.

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Voice Reflection Conversation Digital 102

.orgSource

AUGUST 28, 2023

Design a program that reflects the customized service you want to deliver and the quality of outreach you want to produce. My first bit of advice is, don’t treat recruiting these experts casually. They will be representing your organization. Someone with the wrong attitude or who doesn’t understand the goals can do more harm than good.

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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. We had some fun doing role plays with a partner to figure out their style and some reflection on how we needed to adapt. Reflection questions : “Why did this work?”. ask, “How have sales been going?”.

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Candid

JANUARY 24, 2024

It’s that time when we reflect on our work over the past year and set goals for the new one. You also love a nice chart. And it’s no different for social media managers. Here is a peek behind the scenes into how Candid assesses our social media annually. We get it, who doesn’t love data presented in a nice visual format?

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JUNE 27, 2018

Rather than start at the beginning, I’m starting at the end by sharing some tips for a formal reflection process that can lead to improving results of a project or event. A structured reflection process generates insights about what worked and what could be improved. Ask team members to reflect on their lessons learned.

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sgEngage

MARCH 7, 2024

This walkthrough isn’t just a cautionary tale—it’s a roadmap to ensuring your financial narrative remains clear, accurate, and reflective of your nonprofit’s integrity and mission. Financial statements must reflect the true nature of resources available. Let’s dive in! 5 Mistakes to Avoid 1.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

APRIL 8, 2020

See the small group exercises timing charts in this document ). The reflection questions might include: What resonated? The first rotation is a quiet reflection alone. Reflection & Takeaways. Participants can be placed into the rooms automatically (randomly) or you can manually assign people to different groups.

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VQ Strategies

OCTOBER 14, 2022

Regardless of where leaders of volunteers fall on an org chart, their success relies not only on nurturing positive relationships between volunteers and the organization but also on nurturing effective partnerships internally with other staff.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JUNE 22, 2017

1: Make Time Everyday for Reflection: Keep a Journal. The first step is self-awareness and that happens through tracking and observing yourself in work situations that trigger stress. One way to do this is to build in some reflection time into your day and maintain a journal. There are also many other benefits to writing a journal.

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Tech Soup

FEBRUARY 25, 2013

Some of the main goals of the implementation meeting are to produce a consensus on the definition of: The chart of accounts. This blog will provide some suggestions on building your chart of accounts in a manner that is practical and that will satisfy as many users of the financial statements as possible.

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M+R

APRIL 22, 2021

Go explore the findings, charts, and analysis at mrbenchmarks.com. . These findings reflect the determination of so many nonprofits to advance essential missions in the midst of uncertainty, hardship, and tragedy. We are excited to report that the 2021 M+R Benchmarks Study is ready for you.

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Candid

JUNE 5, 2023

The PCS is meant to reflect the work of the sector; it’s important to us that the sector has a chance to shape it. Before moving forward with these changes, however, we want to give as many people as possible a chance to weigh in on them.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MARCH 13, 2018

The ideas can be captured on a flip chart or participants can write them down on sticky notes and post them on a wall. Then you reflect on the difference in creative energy – typically yes and has more of it. Write them on a flip chart, white board, or slide so everyone can see it. Say the ground rules for brainstorming.

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Candid

JULY 27, 2023

Much like a developing human, our data collections have gotten bigger over time (see chart below), undergone developmental changes, and experienced the associated growing pains. Over the past 21 years, we’ve strived to evolve Candid’s overall grants data set to reflect the needs of our ever-changing sector.

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sgEngage

APRIL 26, 2024

Audit teams would then be caught off guard, unaware of either newly implemented accounting systems, new chart of accounts, or changes in processes and management roles. Nonprofits would sometimes modify or overhaul their systems and controls without engaging their auditors.

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Bloomerang

DECEMBER 29, 2021

So here’s why reflecting on the acronym “RESULTS” is so worthwhile in our efforts to achieve nonprofit success! Few would set off blindly and chart as they go, but we refer to the hard work done by others to map the world before us and then we create our strategies from that sound foundation.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

DECEMBER 22, 2014

That’s is the practice of working out loud and it has many benefits from helping productivity to encouraging reflective practice. It will help you understand when to use a pie chart versus a bar chart – but it goes beyond that. If you are working with data in any way, you need this book.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

FEBRUARY 24, 2009

This was useful for the introduction and pre-workshop activity, homework, and reflections. Thinking through a strategy requires more reflection and discussion within the organization and some level of experience with the tools. Use the smart chart to get communications strategy in place first. Setting up a blog.

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Qgiv

JUNE 14, 2021

That’s why you have to develop a fundraising strategy for your nonprofit that consists of a variety of different approaches, reflects elements like campaign strategies and budget planning , and helps your organization meet its goals. Create a goal chart to guide your team during this process.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JULY 16, 2019

When I facilitate staff retreats or workshop on wellbeing in the workplace based on the Happy Healthy Nonprofit , we do some reflective exercises, including taking the nonprofit burnout assessment , identifying stress triggers and reactions before creating a self-care plan and addressing cultural norms. … Read More.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JANUARY 31, 2007

David Wilcox wrote his reflections on our workshop in Birmingham two weeks ago while stuck on a train enroute back to London. I have been processing my experience and wanted to reflect more on my instructional practice, something I used to do regularly. He's spot on. Once I get in the room, we throw away the slides.

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Greater Giving

APRIL 8, 2022

You’ll find graphics and charts illustrating each of the major discoveries from our survey. What you’ll find in The State of Nonprofit Fundraising 2022. We’ve distilled our comprehensive fundraising report into easy-to-read highlights to give an overview of the most critical findings.

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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. A good strategic plan ensures you have charted the necessary pathways to meet (and hopefully exceed) your organization’s goals.

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Candid

MARCH 15, 2022

Given that there is a strong correlation between organizational expense size and CEO compensation package (see chart below), it might not be surprising that men CEOs enjoy higher pay. However, it’s also worth reflecting on just how far we have to go until we reach equal pay in our sector, especially within large organizations.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

SEPTEMBER 22, 2017

The chart above comes from a recent study on the link between well being and workplace productivity and the impact of office design. Another method is finding a “ Shultz Hour ” where you carve an hour before or after work for silent reflection, or maybe a Shultz ten minutes by closing your office door.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

AUGUST 20, 2014

Reflective Practice. Writing people’s ideas on a flip chart or white board helps with the group memory and knowledge capture. The chart writer’s role is to captures the groups ideas. Whenever possible, the chart writer writes down the speaker’s exact words. Here’s just a few: Instructional.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JULY 24, 2009

I used the wiki a flip chart - so the leave behind is the slide deck, notes, and a few resources. The techniques of face-to-face networking strategies are very much transferable to online tools. In fact, you need these skills to really reap the benefits of your professional online network. EPIP Slides View more presentations from kanter.

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Whole Whale

MAY 17, 2023

Fear vs Function: “AI Generative Tools Don’t Work” The quality of an AI response is now a bigger reflection of the author rather than the AI. The quality of AI response is starting to be a bigger reflection of the author rather than the AI.

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Adopt Generation Picture Reflection 52

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

NOVEMBER 12, 2015

Here’s what my reflection: Technology Tools To Poll Participants. It does close-ended questions and displays a bar chart or can also create a word cloud. Help participants vote on concepts or reports as part of a report out to stimulate discussion or reflection (replaces sticky dot voting and visualize the vote technique).

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JULY 27, 2017

And that causes stress unless we reflect and analyze how we are actually using our time. As soon as you tick off completed tasks, you add new ones. Tracking what you have done allows you to track what you have accomplished and reflect on it, not bury myself in busyness. Here’s a guide to this useful productivity habit.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

DECEMBER 5, 2016

It also important to think about to development skills internally regardless and the Playbook offers a good list: Being “data-minded”: Someone who currently has or can build skills for creating charts, graphs, pivot tables and Excel formulas; someone who is interested in building surveys, exploring data and helping to make meaning out of numbers.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

SEPTEMBER 29, 2011

I decided to spend a little bit time reflecting on the diagram and pull out some tips for re-learning focus: 1.) Manage Your Attention, Not Just Your Time: Don’t just create a to do list, lay it out on daily and weekly schedule, breaking down key tasks of the project to chunks.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

DECEMBER 13, 2016

I realized that I was in front of my computer monitor, trying to squeeze out one more email or just one more bar chart. I also found walking was a great time to reflect on what the data means – a brief walk does wonders for improving your pattern analysis.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JUNE 18, 2014

He describes a simple technique of taking 5 minutes every morning to write down 3 important tasks to accomplish and then reminding yourself every hour as to whether you have completed those tasks using your iPhone alarm. And then reflecting at the end of the day for 5 minutes about what you accomplished.

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Greater Giving

AUGUST 31, 2023

Provide a seating chart to caterers with seat totals for each table and a list of who ordered which meal. A Job Well Done: Wrapping Up and Reflecting on Event Logistics The best thing you can do for yourself and your fundraising event is to give yourself and your team grace when things don’t work out exactly as expected.

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The Modern Nonprofit

NOVEMBER 9, 2021

This can be reflected in your campaign’s progress in real-time. As you can see from the chart above, there are in fact, many differences between bill-to-carrier and mobile checkout. You can give the option for supporters to make recurring donations. And instead of waiting up to 90 days, your organization receives the funds immediately.

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