ASU Lodestar Center

MARCH 9, 2022

The need for collaboration amongst a diverse array of community members has become a recognized focus within the nonprofit sector. What obligations do white-led nonprofits hold for working with minority community groups and nonprofits in their communities? Illustration by Yuxin Qin. On this, many can agree.

Community 52

Community Build Minnesota Collaboration 52

Amy Sample Ward

AUGUST 4, 2009

The Twestival is back this September, this time focusing on local groups instead of a global campaign! Now is the time to help choose the local organizations that will benefit from the twitter-powered organizing and convening. Check out Twestival Local. Twestival Local puts the spotlight on hundreds of causes around the world.

Local 100

Local Map Guidelines Twitter 100

The MatrixFiles

FEBRUARY 23, 2024

Unfortunately, it continues to rise, spreading from national news down to the local level at an alarming rate. The good news is that smart people are working to identify ways that newsrooms and individual journalists can stem the decline and build trust within their communities. Collaborate with other associations in your field.

Associations 130

Associations Industry Government Education 130

ASU Lodestar Center

NOVEMBER 19, 2020

Collective Impact is a methodology designed to facilitate cross-sector collaborations in order to move the needle on important issues. Collective Impact requires collaborating organizations to: Identify a common goal: Understand a problem and the pathway to solve it together. By design, the Church thrives in this environment.

Impact 98

Impact Raleigh Arizona Collaboration 98

Saleforce Nonprofit

JANUARY 20, 2022

As a result, educators have an important opportunity to harness and facilitate this passion by connecting students to the global citizen science community. Students have the chance to present the workshops’ findings to the global citizen science community and take part in the WEF’s programming.

Voice 98

Voice Global Charlotte Switzerland 98

Saleforce Nonprofit

OCTOBER 24, 2022

Impact Labs convenes community experts, or fellows, across sectors to co-create new technology solutions to support specific issue areas. Our latest Impact Lab cohort on climate justice built an open-source tool for climate community-based organizations to access grant funding more seamlessly with the Grants Content Kit.

Hunger 93

Hunger Impact Puerto Rico Arkansas 93

Nonprofits Source

NOVEMBER 7, 2023

In this guide, we’ll cover three things you can do to express your faith through your work: Be transparent Integrate Christian values Foster a strong community of support The values associated with charitable work and community service generally align with the values of the Christian faith.

Work 52

Work Nonprofit Local Roles 52

The Modern Nonprofit

AUGUST 22, 2023

Community Involvement Collaborate with local artisans or businesses to feature their products on your store. Not only does this foster community engagement, but it can also provide economic opportunities for local enterprises. A well-integrated system can facilitate these upselling opportunities seamlessly.

Stream 98

Stream Online Integration Nonprofit 98

Saleforce Nonprofit

APRIL 22, 2022

At Salesforce.org, we are proud to see how much of our community — whether it’s our employees, our partners, or the nonprofits we support — is jumping in through funding, advocacy, or volunteering. We believe, we know, that moving the needle on climate change requires collaboration on all levels. Valley Clean Air Now (ValleyCAN).

Ireland 97

Ireland Challenge Empowerment Local 97

ASU Lodestar Center

FEBRUARY 8, 2017

He describes social capital as “those features of social organization, such as trust, norms and networks that can improve the efficiency of society by facilitating coordinated actions.” Existing research identifies gaps in the ways in which community engagement is measured.

Measure 40

Measure Community Organization Arizona 40

Connection Cafe

OCTOBER 13, 2020

As they develop community benefit programs to address health disparities and elevate community well-being, co-investment with like-minded partners helps drive greater impact. Community benefit managers and C-suite leaders alike struggle with questions: Where do we start? Remember to include community-based experts.

Community 49

Community Effective Create New Jersey 49

Bloomerang

JULY 19, 2023

Creates an environment that facilitates fundraising Regardless of whether you do face-to-face fundraising, ensuring that the organization is prepared to fundraise is the development professional’s main priority. The BIPOC or LGBTQ communities? The forward-thinking development professional performs the following six practices: 1.

Professional 73

Professional Leadership Develop Proposal 73

Classy

JULY 14, 2021

We recently wrapped up our 2021 Collaborative: Virtual Sessions event here at Classy. The Classy team created engaging content that Collaborative participants could use in their professional lives. Alexa shared a variety of ways her team evaluated the success of their planning and execution of the Collaborative event.

Virtual 105

Virtual Professional Marketing Fundraising 105

CauseVox

MARCH 13, 2024

And we couldn’t think of a better organization to highlight than Spur Local. Spur Local blew it out of the water last year with their Give Local Together Campaign. About Spur Local Spur Local (formerly Catalogue for Philanthropy), is a nonprofit dedicated to strengthening communities in the Greater Washington region.

Local 77

Local Campaign Raise Story 77

Amy Sample Ward

APRIL 2, 2010

If you are an organization or group that wants to catalyze and support community-generated projects or you are someone that wants to get involved, I hope this is a format you can take and run with. And I want to share it with you, get your ideas, and start a long-term process of collaboratively improving and refining this model.

Project 126

Project Remix Collaboration Wiki 126

Bloomerang

MAY 6, 2022

Their priorities range from facilitating book donation drives to supporting arts education to funding playground construction and family literacy programs. . The Awesome Foundation is a global community advancing the interest of “awesome in the universe,” mostly through providing $1,000 micro-grants. Wish You Well Foundation.

Education 89

Education Grant Fund Resource 89

Saleforce Nonprofit

MAY 25, 2022

As the students learn more about the SDGs, they learn more about their community and the impact of sustainability on it. With Davos Codes, we wanted to create a program that didn’t just educate students and their communities about the goals, but really demonstrated how they could personally commit to them. Creating Lasting Change.

Student 52

Student San Francisco Technology Charlotte 52

Saleforce Nonprofit

APRIL 6, 2022

Community fundraising and events were abruptly redirected online. To optimize donor experience, nonprofits must challenge clunky manual processes that can be replaced with integrated payments and platforms and donor-centric, cross-functional collaboration. Major donor and corporate engagements turned virtual overnight.

Change 75

Change Marketing Fundraising Stream 75

Qgiv

SEPTEMBER 5, 2023

During September, the International Association for Suicide Prevention (IASP) collaborates with the World Health Organization (WHO) and the World Federation for Mental Health (WFMH) to host World Suicide Prevention Day on September 10 with National Suicide Prevention Week being recognized in the week around September 10.

Awareness 52

Awareness National Los Angeles Causes 52

Classy

MAY 31, 2021

Your organization, then, needs to decide which type of recurring giving program or strategy is best tailored for your community and would incentivize these recurring donations. . Membership programs are an approach to recurring giving that invite your donors to join a “community” of recurring givers.

Program 105

Program Giving Sponsor Gift 105

Bloomerang

NOVEMBER 15, 2023

In the vast landscape of nonprofit operations, volunteers are the unsung heroes who fuel the engine of change and community service. Each has a unique reason to volunteer—whether it’s for personal growth, community engagement, or a heartfelt connection to your cause. Keeping them engaged is where the real challenge lies.

Arts 60

Arts Volunteer Retention Skills 60

Qgiv

OCTOBER 27, 2021

Volunteers help nonprofits connect with the community. There are likely a number of interested parties in your community that want to make the world a better place. For example, you’ll need far fewer volunteers at a small lecture event than you will at a community-wide dance-a-thon. Collaborate with local businesses.

Volunteer 98

Volunteer Strategy Guide Local 98

Museum 2.0

OCTOBER 23, 2018

We partnered with foster youth, former foster youth, artists, and community advocates to create an exhibition that used art to spark action on issues facing foster youth. We co-created it from start to finish with community partners. We commissioned new collaborative artwork. Short story: we learned a lot. What did we learn?

Issue 45

Issue Childhood Community Create 45

Qgiv

JUNE 1, 2023

Pride Month is a celebration of the LGBTQIA+ communities around the world during the month of June! Learn more about the origins of Pride Month, how you can take part in celebrating the LGBTQIA+ community, and what nonprofits you can support! But there’s more to Pride Month than just fun celebrations.

Awareness 52

Awareness Causes Texas Celebrate 52

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JANUARY 4, 2017

Emerging Leaders Playbook: With the generous support of the Packard Foundation and in collaboration with Third Plateau Social Impact Strategies, we wrote and published the Emerging Leaders Playbook last year, along with facilitating a peer learning cohort with colleague Stephanie Rudat.

Professional 103

Professional Facilitation Journal San Jose 103

Tech Soup

MARCH 18, 2013

Michael DeLong, senior manager of online community and social media at TechSoup and managing editor at Emerging Arts Professionals , moderated the discussion. Panelists included: Danielle Siembieda, former community engagement and special projects manager for ZERO1: The Art & Technology Network in San Jose, CA.

Arts 57

Arts San Francisco Community San Jose 57

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

SEPTEMBER 10, 2019

Last week I facilitated a workshop in Detroit hosed by Co-Act , a nonprofit collaboration space in Detroit. Co-Act is a unique organization, a hub for accelerating collaborative action in Southeast Michigan’s nonprofit community. You will learn as you go, sometimes by making mistakes. … Read More.

Detroit 77

Detroit Instruction Instructional PPT 77

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

NOVEMBER 21, 2014

Community Block Party attendees check out participating nonprofit organizations during the event. These strategies are helping community foundations experiment, iterate and implement best practices when it comes to hosting Giving Days as well as document and spread those practices to others in the Network.

Miami 104

Miami Raise Giving Florida 104

Top Nonprofits

OCTOBER 13, 2021

DoinGud is a soon-to-launch platform providing, “…NFT ecosystem for creators, collectors, curators, and communities to do good.” Wendy is collaborative, inclusive, and positive. Feher and Rebecca Stokes, of DoinGud provide viewers an overview into the changing technology and its implications for nonprofits.

Tanzania 52

Tanzania Fundraising New York City Cameroon 52

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. The members of these networks are intentional about building, strengthening, and maintaining relationships with one another that generates collaborative activities together.

Review 106

Review Change Cleveland Generation 106

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

SEPTEMBER 25, 2009

The focus of Eugene's work with this network was to better understand its community, the most promising group practices, and have an open discussion that would facilitate learning and interaction among these leaders who were miles apart, spoke different languages, and had Internet access challenges.

Collaboration 93

Collaboration Learning Exercise Online 93

Tech Soup

APRIL 21, 2016

We use mobile apps to capture memories, keep track of tasks, entertain ourselves, and communicate. But what if an app could be used to help nonprofits, public libraries, and other community groups organize and solve pressing problems? The Five-Step Process to Create an App for a Community. Caravan Studios' App Successes.

Develop 36

Develop Community Library Adopt 36

Saleforce Nonprofit

JUNE 27, 2021

We support children and their families from pregnancy to early childhood through to adolescence, and many live in some of the world’s most rural, vulnerable, and remote communities. Now, we are using our 75-year history and expertise to reach every community with COVID-19 vaccines. Store & Deliver Vaccines to Remote Communities.

History 80

History Papua New Guinea Australia Guinea 80

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

AUGUST 28, 2013

I wrote a quick reflection on some of the techniques used to facilitate the meeting. Over the last five years, a series of funders, communities and cross-sector stakeholders have embarked on new ways of working characterized by thinking at a systems-level, and then mobilizing networks of actors to try and solve large problems at scale.

Build 112

Build Change Social Facilitation 112

Amy Sample Ward

NOVEMBER 19, 2010

Earlier this summer, I had the huge privilege to visit Romania and help with the Local Philanthropy Workshop. It was so much fun and it was an amazing experience to work with people like Chris Worman and meet with so many local nonprofit and community changemakers. The slides are below as well as some notes.

Romania 178

Romania Facebook Campaign NGO 178

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MAY 27, 2011

The agency was created by local nonprofit agencies to address the preparedness and response needs of service providers — whose consumers are among the most vulnerable people in any community. Together, they formed CARD – Collaborating Agencies Responding to Disasters. CARD is a nonprofit agency, based in Oakland California.

Disaster 106

Disaster Oakland California Training 106

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MAY 8, 2016

What Happened on Give Local America Day? For the past few years, I’ve been facilitating a peer learning group with a small cohort of grantees , all community foundations, hosting Giving Days in their communities using the Giving Day Playbook. Midland Gives, a member of the peer learning group, had a Plan B.

America 50

America San Antonio Local Philanthropy 50