.orgSource

AUGUST 21, 2023

When we began that project in 2017, we knew business was changing quickly. The following recommendations from our research are designed to weight the scales toward exhilaration and keep disruption at bay. Collaborative relationships are the future currency. Collaborative relationships are the future currency.

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.orgSource

DECEMBER 12, 2022

Initiatives are undermined by silos, turf wars, and poor collaboration. Upper-level managers don’t have the bandwidth to vet or supervise new projects. At Zappos, this arrangement is designed to reflect the company’s values and culture. Collaboration among business units is facilitated and encouraged.

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.orgSource

SEPTEMBER 25, 2023

Use ChatGPT as a virtual event host to welcome attendees, guide them through the schedule, answer queries, and facilitate networking during virtual conferences. Use ChatGPT to design and conduct surveys and market research. To provide customized support, an AI must be configured and trained to assist in your particular project.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MARCH 21, 2017

The session is designed to answer three questions: Why does collaborative technology overload lead to loss of nonprofit workplace productivity and what are the best practices to avoid it? What is Collaborative Overload? While there are many positive aspects to increased collaboration, there is also downside.

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Collaboration Tips Tech Nonprofit 120

Bloomerang

JUNE 5, 2024

Adopt technologies that simplify collaboration and enhance communication , like board portals or other real-time tools. Collaborate with professional associations, industry groups, and affinity networks relevant to your organization’s mission and sector. Let them lead projects that excite them and benefit the organization.

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sgEngage

JANUARY 26, 2024

A well-designed awareness campaign can bring attention to your nonprofit’s cause, educate the public about a significant issue, and drive more donations to fuel your mission. Outline a successful collaboration The most successful collaboration is one that mutually benefits both parties.

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Awareness Campaign Business Collaboration 75

Classy

MAY 26, 2021

As hosts of the Collaborative , an annual immersive experience designed exclusively for nonprofits, we’re no strangers to facilitating meaningful connections. Register to Attend the 2021 Collaborative: Virtual Sessions. Yet this aspect of the experience is often the most daunting for many. Leave Room for Serendipity .

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Conference Network Virtual Facilitation 91

Top Nonprofits

JULY 1, 2022

The top nonprofit websites have more than just solid design and engaging content. Or, if you’re designing your website from scratch, you’ll need a full understanding of what you want your new website to do. Plus, you’ll likely require the support of a skilled web developer to help manage your website migration or build project.

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Drupal Tips WordPress Module 101

Forum One

OCTOBER 12, 2023

Together, participants collaborate, innovate, and discover new ways to spark change with technology. This session is designed to give you a comprehensive introduction and understanding of composable architecture, its critical components, and how it can be integrated into your existing systems and tools. Not Loving GA4?

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Voice Social Media Portland Technique 73

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

SEPTEMBER 29, 2015

Grantees, Experts, and Partners at the end of the Brainerd Foundation’s 21st Century Advocacy Design Lab. What if they used a design thinking process to not only get feedback from grantees but as a way to develop a more agile way of working? Networked Leadership : Jodie Tonita, Social Transformation Project.

Design 50

Design Strategy Facilitation Advocacy 50

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JANUARY 27, 2014

I’ll be sharing my best tips and secrets for designing and delivering training for nonprofit professionals that get results. And, if you are attending NTEN’s Nonprofit Technology in March, join me, John Kenyon, Andrea Barry, and Cindy Leonard for a session on designing effective technology training.

Instructional Design 111

Instructional Design Instruction Instructional Training 111

Tech Soup

MAY 9, 2012

kicked off with a special edition of Nonprofits Live on the topic of collaborative storytelling. Collaborative storytelling refers to working with a team, sometimes distributed, to produce video. David Evan Harris , Founder and Executive Director of the Global Lives Project. Starting a Collaborative Project.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

AUGUST 17, 2021

The hybrid workplace will have a huge impact on the way we design and facilitate meetings, the primary method of how many organizations get stuff done. Our new normal will most likely be more complex to design and facilitate. Here are some considerations for designing and facilitating pandemic-era hybrid meetings.

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Facilitation Tips Camera Nonprofit 180

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

APRIL 24, 2014

The toolkit was designed through a collaboration between a European agency ( STBY ) and an Indian agency ( Quicksand ), it was commissioned by Nesta and the Rockefeller Foundation , who together saw a gap in the support for innovation provided to the development community. Evidence Planning: Helps define outcomes for a project.

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Method Ideas Adopt Facilitation 116

ASU Lodestar Center

MAY 10, 2016

Proposition 22: The normal expectation ought to be that success will be very difficult to achieve in cross-sector collaborations.” - John Bryson, et al., "The The Design and Implementation of Cross-Sector Collaborations". Collaboration is emerging as a popular vehicle to solve complicated problems that our communities face.

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Collaboration Training Train Impact 40

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. Founded in 2015 by Salesforce.org in collaboration with Davos Middle School, Davos Codes believes the voices of the youth need to be front and center in the fight for climate justice.

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Voice Global Charlotte Switzerland 98

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JULY 11, 2017

.” This would be a network or community of practice that freely shares and learns from one another about training and capacity building that is participatory , peer-learning , networked , makes use of design thinking , openly shared and a prelude to collective action. Lack of platforms/resources to facilitate innovations.

Global 91

Global Network Change Create 91

Amy Sample Ward

APRIL 5, 2011

One of the participants was Ericha Hager, the Regional Collaborative Coordinator for Community Media Access Partnership. After the session, she asked to reuse the game locally and I asked her to just let me know how it went: I recently facilitated a day long meeting with a group of 7 different community media centers in California.

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Game Community Impact Media 195

Bloomerang

MAY 6, 2022

Their priorities range from facilitating book donation drives to supporting arts education to funding playground construction and family literacy programs. . What is most important is that whoever writes the grant fully understands the project and the organization and how to present both to the funders. . Funding Priority: Education.

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Education Grant Fund Resource 91

TechImpact

OCTOBER 16, 2014

Facilitate one-on-one relationships first. Create collaborative goals. Forcing collaboration isn’t necessarily always a bad thing. By designing a project that requires a mutual dependency on one another, you’re ensuring your team members are interacting and collaborating to achieve a common goal.

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Leadership Team Build Work 123

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

APRIL 6, 2017

There are numerous reports, indices, and studies, such as Gensler’s Workplace Index , that explore the relationship between physical space design and business performance metrics. The Gensler study suggests that employees need four different work areas to be productive: focus, collaborate, learn, and socialize.

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Open Work Global Collaboration 107

Museum 2.0

MARCH 27, 2013

I've written about different structures for participatory processes (especially in museums), and recently, I've been interested in how we can apply these structures to the design of public space. While Dr. Hart is focused on the design of public gardens, his overall message is broad: there is participation, and there is tokenism.

Design 49

Design Participatory Children Museum 49

Saleforce Nonprofit

APRIL 22, 2022

We believe, we know, that moving the needle on climate change requires collaboration on all levels. These principles — Seek Community Validation, Implement Sustainability, and Design for Reuse — are intended to guide us toward solutions that will help us drive equitable shifts in climate change. Opens new window.

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Ireland Challenge Empowerment Local 97

Saleforce Nonprofit

OCTOBER 24, 2022

For example, our first Impact Lab cohort designed Service Match , an open-source app designed for case managers who connect people experiencing homelessness to vital human services. Getting to zero hunger will require unprecedented collaboration and a multi-pronged approach that gets to the numerous causes.

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Hunger Impact Puerto Rico Arkansas 93

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.

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Professional Facilitation Journal San Jose 103

sgEngage

OCTOBER 9, 2023

On its face, evaluation seems like a neutral activity, designed to help us understand what’s happened, and to change course where needed. And, the focus of MEL is generally on evaluating grantee projects or organizations, rather than on the grantmaker and its practices. It promotes mutuality instead of extraction.

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Participatory Evaluation Empowerment Grant 88

OneCause

NOVEMBER 28, 2022

To ensure that your event goes smoothly and encourages as much support from attendees as possible, don’t forget to plan for your auction’s stage design. . What is event stage design? According to Spacehuntr’s Ultimate Guide to Event Stage Design , it is the strategic optimization of a venue through the addition of physical objects. .

Tips 52

Tips Design Audience Sponsor 52

Forum One

AUGUST 15, 2010

This is the final post in our series on online collaboration for grantmakers. In part one, we look at determining the value of creating a collaboration community. The second part explores challenges in facilitating collaboration. The world of collaboration platforms is a bit of a jungle.

Collaboration 44

Collaboration Tools Ning Sharepoint 44

NTEN

MAY 20, 2014

This September, join us for the inaugural Leading Change Summit , a conference experience designed to support and highlight all those in the room. This is your chance to bring questions or difficulties to others who have tackled a similar project or campaign and to get feedback from those leading the field. Is LCS for you?

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Hints Change Facilitation Sponsor 64

The Modern Nonprofit

SEPTEMBER 12, 2023

The year-end campaign’s objective can vary from meeting a specific monetary goal to rallying your donor base or broadening range or giving spotlight to a particular project. Reinforce roles, foster a culture of collaboration and alignment towards campaign objectives. Define your purpose early on to set a clear trajectory.

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Fundraising Synchronous Platform Campaign 59

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JANUARY 2, 2012

This year, 2012, will have a focus on designing and delivering capacity building projects with NGOs outside the US. I will be working with a cluster of Packard grantees in Pakistan and India in collaboration with IIE.

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Learning Pakistan Haiti Facilitation 92

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MARCH 4, 2020

It’s time to up your virtual facilitation and convening skills. Since those days, I have continued to hone my virtual facilitation skills to design and deliver effective virtual meetings and trainings. As nonprofits are impacted by the CoronaVirus and need more virtual meeting skills, I’d like to share what I have learned.

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Facilitation Virtual Effective Technique 163

NTEN

SEPTEMBER 11, 2014

After three days of exploring ideas, gathering feedback on projects and concepts, and thinking critically amongst nonprofit peers, the Idea Accelerator gave participants the chance to switch gears and think about how to put their ideas into action. Supported by teammates Zenzel Lewis, CSRA EOA Inc.

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Ideas Change Technology San Francisco 99

sgEngage

MARCH 7, 2024

Misinterpreting these restrictions can lead to the improper recognition of revenue and restricted net assets, skewing the report on available funds for designated activities or projects. It automates and facilitates these comparisons, allowing for more efficient monitoring and decision-making.

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Activities Active Activism Comparison 83

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MAY 15, 2012

I was honored to be a trainer as part of the launch of the ACE Leaders Project, a program developed by the Institute of International Education Sub-Saharan Regional Office and supported by the Packard Foundation. Here’s a few facilitation techniques that I learned from documenting the session.

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Rwanda Social Media Training Train 113

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MAY 8, 2018

Last month, I was honored to present and facilitate an all-day workshop for nonprofit leaders at the Oregon Nonprofit Leadership Conference on how to activate a culture of well being in the nonprofit workplace, based on my book, The Happy Healthy Nonprofit: Strategies for Impact without Burnout. Volunteer on a project together.

Culture 125

Culture Activities Active Activism 125

Amy Sample Ward

JULY 28, 2010

The project is commissioned and supported by NESTA , an independent body with a mission to make the UK more innovative. Project objectives: • To develop a transferable model for amplifying a diverse city’s grassroots innovation capacity through connecting diverse communities through key individuals. • That you know your community.

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