ASU Lodestar Center

MAY 14, 2019

With limited people and financial resources, leaders of nonprofit organizations must execute strong management styles that develop the talent of their teams, foster healthy working environments and encourage retention of valuable employees. Build a Supportive Structure. Measure Performance.

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Team Build Colorado Mentoring 61

Amy Sample Ward

JUNE 22, 2011

I just had the honor of being part of a new leaders group studying how different generations were leading in the work force and we found there were lots of differences between where people were in life. When you take on a job in a nonprofit, you’re normally doing a lot more than you signed for without a lot of structure.

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Discussion Generation Donor Structure 211

ASU Lodestar Center

OCTOBER 5, 2020

Collaboration: Millennials want a sense of belonging. There is evidence that millennials thrive in flatter organizational structures with shared governance and peer to peer collaboration. It turns out, only five percent of employees think ping pong tables and similar perks add value to the work environment.

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Utah Strategy Retention Arizona 40

Eric Jacobsen Blog

NOVEMBER 5, 2020

Second, you must establish a protocol for maintaining high-structure, high-substance 1:1 dialogues with the individuals on your team. A great deal has changed in employees’ work lives in a short time, so it’s more important than ever to have a pulse on how their views on the ideal work environment may be evolving.

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Authoring Leadership Environment Team 75

ASU Lodestar Center

JUNE 12, 2017

For nonprofits seeking to expand their programs, careful analysis of self and environment are crucial. Keep in mind that many of the most complex and intractable social issues that nonprofits face can only be effectively addressed by collective impact, via collaboration among organizations or even across sectors. Who is involved?

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Program Impact New York Model 64

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

DECEMBER 15, 2006

danah boyd has a post called " On Being Virtual " (be sure to read the comments) As Kevin Gamble on the SLED list notes, what she seems to be saying is that if you look at the rise of social tech amongst young people, it's not about divorcing the physical social structures to live virtually. avies' to stand around and chat.

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Environment Teach Second Life Learning 50

Eric Jacobsen Blog

FEBRUARY 8, 2021

Second, you must establish a protocol for maintaining high-structure, high-substance 1:1 dialogues with the individuals on your team. A great deal has changed in employees’ work lives in a short time, so it’s more important than ever to have a pulse on how their views on the ideal work environment may be evolving.

Leadership 52

Leadership Authoring Environment Team 52

Eric Jacobsen Blog

DECEMBER 29, 2020

Second, you must establish a protocol for maintaining high-structure, high-substance 1:1 dialogues with the individuals on your team. A great deal has changed in employees’ work lives in a short time, so it’s more important than ever to have a pulse on how their views on the ideal work environment may be evolving.

Leadership 52

Leadership Authoring Environment Team 52

NTEN

JUNE 22, 2011

I just had the honor of being part of a new leaders group studying how different generations were leading in the work force and we found there were lots of differences between where people were in life. When you take on a job in a nonprofit, you're normally doing a lot more than you signed for without a lot of structure.

Discussion 57

Discussion Generation Donor Structure 57

Gyrus

APRIL 3, 2018

The Greek Philosopher, Heraclitus, was recorded multiple times for saying “Change is the only constant in life.” Measuring the effectiveness of current offerings is vital in any learning environment. Finally, do not be afraid of employing the utilization of new elements within your learning environment.

Process 49

Process Business Learning Training 49

Museum 2.0

MAY 21, 2014

We talk a lot at our museum about empowering our visitors, collaborators, interns, and staff by making space for them to shine. I''ve never worked in such a supportive, energized, active environment. We have prioritized opening up to as many partners as possible through collaborative structures that scale. She is right.

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Museum Director History Teen 49

ASU Lodestar Center

JULY 31, 2017

The question then turns to this: how can nonprofits structure their governance based on their organizational and lifecycle needs? Challenging as it may seem, the payoff that comes from structuring governance according to organizational and lifecycle needs is well worth the time and effort. 378) (Brown, 2005, p. 1996, 370-73).

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Structure Government Phase Director 75

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

SEPTEMBER 8, 2014

Is there a lead facilitator who is responsible for the final decision or is the team to work collaboratively making decisions? Good instructional design to create an environment for peer dialogue begins with good on boarding and for people to connect with something they already know or believe. Then we opened up for discussion.

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Reflection NTEN Change Facilitation 124

Museum 2.0

MAY 9, 2007

In January, I interviewed Sibley about the potential use of virtual worlds and Second Life by museums, but in the four months since then, the virtual world platform--and the hype around it--has exploded. It seems that Second Life is both the closest and farthest thing from many museum professionals' minds. Collaborative Experience.

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Second Life Museum Life Virtual 20

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

SEPTEMBER 29, 2015

Over the past twenty years, the Brainerd Foundation has invested nearly $50 million in organizations working to protect the environment in the Northwest. Collaborating more with other funders would led to the creation of a pooled fund, more multi-year funding, a common grant application, and the ability to be more nimble.

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Design Strategy Facilitation Advocacy 50

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

SEPTEMBER 21, 2007

With video conferencing, broadband, and Second Life, well, we can all safely stay ensconced in our own virtual-reality-sensory-deprivation-tanks and just digitally dance the salsa at the next NTEN gathering.??? The event is encouraging bloggers around the web to write a post about the environment. Maybe open Social Graphs will help ?

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Open Source Nptech Summary Tag 50

Museum 2.0

JUNE 6, 2008

On June 4, we opened The Tech Virtual Test Zone , a new 2000 sq ft gallery at The Tech Museum of Innovation featuring exhibits on the theme of art, film, and music that were originally developed in Second Life by a community of creative amateurs. In Second Life, I am not an expert--but many of our virtual exhibit designers are.

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Virtual Tech Lesson Develop 21

Museum 2.0

APRIL 23, 2009

And their unique structure and bottom-up approach offers some instructive lessons for museums that want to really embrace visitors and members as co-creators of the institutional experience. Most hackerspaces have very transparent legal structures and operate on a consensus model. They're organized around members.

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Museum North Carolina San Francisco Structure 24

Forum One

JUNE 22, 2022

Ideation—literally the formation of ideas—is at the core of Forum One’s approach to collaborative digital strategy. Our digital strategy expertise paired with their purpose is how we bring the vision to life. Explore and adapt this structure for your own internal or collaborative projects. Preparation. Wrapping Up.

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Facilitation Structure Conversation Phase 46

Have Fun - Do Good

DECEMBER 28, 2006

Our essential intention is to cultivate partnerships of grassroots women who are working at the community level on issues of environmental sustainability and social justice, so that they can really find opportunities to collaborate and to exchange best practices, exchange resources, and really build a collective agenda.

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Green Global Action Network 40

Bloomerang

JULY 17, 2021

She’s also the founder of The Rooted Collaborative, which I think she’s going to tell you more about later on. And as Steven mentioned, my baby that I released into the world is The Rooted Collaborative. I was super excited about life and I was fresh to death in my Old Navy gear in the ’90s. Absolutely.

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Management Work Video Slides 91

Cloud 4 Good

MAY 27, 2021

The open and flexible framework of EDA also works to break down departmental silos between Admissions Offices, Student Services, and Academic Departments to create a collaborative environment for all sides of campus that impact recruitment & admissions efforts. Being able to access the system from anywhere is a massive change.

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Education Student Alabama Vermont 121

Museum 2.0

APRIL 1, 2009

I learned to cultivate creative greed while working on Operation Spy at the International Spy Museum, where I was lucky to be working on a project that was so new to us that we didn't have any pre-established models or structures for doing it. But this is a museum that just a few years ago was seen by voters as irrelevant to life in Columbus.

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Museum Conversation Columbus Local 20

Museum 2.0

APRIL 29, 2015

We invited community members in, to be active contributors, collaborators, and co-creators in our museum space. We think about this redefinition of affinity not just in terms of our programming but our internal structures as well. We had incredible success transforming our institution into a vibrant cultural center.

Build 20

Build Community Museum Artist 20

Have Fun - Do Good

JUNE 19, 2009

FORGE uses a collaborative, rather than top-down model, to serve refugees' needs, and much has been written in the blogosphere and media about Erickson's "radical transparency" around the organization's financial challenges. You use a process that on your website was described as the, "collaborative project planning process."

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Interview Sudan Africa Congo 40

Bloomerang

APRIL 16, 2021

And one of the things that often occurs to me about mindshare that I think we lose sight of in nonprofits is that mindshare has a shelf life. And the book is structured in a way where each of these elements is given its own chapter with a whole bunch of stuff in it. By “finite” what I mean is they have a short shelf life.

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Build Video New York City Communication 122

Museum 2.0

JUNE 16, 2020

At large, I am proud of the countless hours of cross-departmental and community collaborations that will inspire me forever, hand-in-hand with colleagues who have invested their best efforts on behalf of the people we are committed to serving. The entire system and structure of this country has been built on racism.

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Museum Detroit Arts Leadership 22

Bloomerang

FEBRUARY 1, 2022

They’re collaborative, they’re passionate about your mission. And the way that I’m going to talk about these case studies is the purpose, the structure, and the outcome of each. Next is we want people who we can partner with. We also want people who have a unique perspective. It’s how my brain works.

Leadership 60

Leadership Fundraising Gift Slides 60

Have Fun - Do Good

AUGUST 12, 2010

I think it's part of what life is about, as a human being, visualizing those things, then finding the ways to make them actually come into being and to live that life." We eat a lot of factory-processed foods, and it's having terrible consequences for our health and for the environment. It's been fairly informal.

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Interview Support Community Create 79

Bloomerang

OCTOBER 8, 2021

Maybe you use a structured process and a grants database. I’m glad to see that more than half of you are using a structured process and a grants database. First, I mentioned you should use a database and a structured process to search for funders. . So maybe your board members randomly tell you about grant opportunities.

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Grant Lesson Tips Video 77

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

AUGUST 24, 2016

We learned about the country’s history, political complexity, religions, people, and ancient and contemporary life. collaboration and interaction opportunities between participants, local experts, and others. The design included the following structure to allow for full group and small group dialogue, interaction, and exercises.

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Leadership Develop Exercise 50

Have Fun - Do Good

JULY 16, 2007

Community and opportunities for collaboration can be lost when it is just you sitting down to work each day. I guess I got involved in coworking originally because I was working out of cafes and wanted a more collaborative, productive environment to go to and work around other people in.

Green 40

Green Interview San Francisco Environment 40

Museum 2.0

MAY 14, 2009

Asserting personal identity with respect to an institution is something we do daily in other environments. While this can be facilitated digitally, it doesn't take complicated tools to create an environment in which guests are treated personally based on their preferences and interests. Some allow you to write your life story.

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Museum Personal Experiment Profile 20

Bloomerang

SEPTEMBER 6, 2021

I had to blur it out because it’s a real life example of my situation. You don’t have to have this, like, you know, very structured communication that you might have in other channels. not interactive, but like more comfortable, a comfortable environment for people to participate? So WhatsApp in action.

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Community Video Broadcast Phone 65

Tech Soup

JULY 10, 2011

BetterWorld Telecom provides services that enable and support a virtual work environment, as a donation partner with TechSoup Global. The primary organizing principle behind all the practices that our team implements is a democratic and horizontal management structure. Regular, Structured Check-ins. Democratic Workplace.

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Virtual Work Structure Environment 66

Blue Avocado

JANUARY 2, 2024

This so-called chilling effect on nonprofits is concerning given that they already operated in a challenging environment before the decision and faced two harrowing realities: Reality 1: Funding for this work is already grossly deficient.

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Action North Carolina Grant Nonprofit 52

Have Fun - Do Good

JUNE 19, 2006

And so I thought well, it seems like if we're going to actually change the human patterns that are so severely impacting our environment and communities around the world, maybe there are some other ways to do it. So the more that we can create institutions and structures and organizations that do just that.

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