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. These new collaborative initiatives pull together various players (often government, private sector and nonprofits) within an ecosystem, defined by issue and/or place, to coordinate and align their action to drive greater impact.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

APRIL 6, 2017

The Gensler study suggests that employees need four different work areas to be productive: focus, collaborate, learn, and socialize. Such spaces offer great benefits for collaboration, transparency, knowledge sharing, learning, creativity, and team building. And that means saying goodbye to cubicles and fixed seating plans.

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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. Professional development plans/funds.

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Classy

APRIL 20, 2021

After facilitating Salesforce’s first investment in Classy and a lasting partnership between the two companies, I became a Board Member and advisor to Classy in 2014. The events of this past year have changed giving as we know it and the role of technology has never played a more important part in helping nonprofits fund their missions.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

SEPTEMBER 29, 2015

I was thrilled to work with the Brainerd Foundation staff to help design and facilitate a design lab using techniques based on Luma Institute methods earlier this month. Here’s what I learned about the facilitating design thinking processes: What Is A Design Lab? Why Use One? How do we leverage the “rain” of culture change?3.

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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.

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NTEN

FEBRUARY 24, 2021

It is missing a translation layer, which is why even the largest, most well-funded organizations struggle with technology. The inherent collaboration of nonprofit organizations globally drives the need for structures that facilitate exchanging nonprofit data. This is genuinely a good thing.

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Forum One

DECEMBER 11, 2010

So, you have decided you need a tool for collaboration or content management. Below I discuss some adoption strategies that you should consider if you plan to launch a collaborative platform or content management system. Every collaboration or content management site needs one. Model Wanted Behavior. Even better.

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ASU Lodestar Center

MARCH 18, 2020

This is not surprising, as organizations working to alleviate the impacts of the recession on vulnerable populations saw upticks in funding during the GFC as donors refocused donations. Second, model out and scenario plan for revenue declines of 5, 10 and 15 percent. This is a time to make informed and collaborative decisions.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MARCH 3, 2011

I’m the lead for Zoetica where my role is to deliver training, advise on the curriculum and coaching methods, model transparency, and serve as meta network weaver. A true public/private partnership, the funding partners include Microsoft and craiglist Charitable Fund. NGOS work as a network to reach broader civil society goals.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MAY 10, 2011

The TCC Group is facilitating a “learn in public&# process by sharing early research findings related to 1300 capacity building grants. There has been an interesting discussion on the wiki and blogs about strategy for public learning. Maybe it takes the form of collaboratively interupting the results of the evaluation.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

APRIL 1, 2013

It takes you through the technologies and tools for each channel for different goals and offers up lots of case studies from organizations such as National Wildlife Federation, Red Cross, AARP, Clinton Bush Haiti Fund, American Museum of Natural History, SEIU and others. Click to see larger version. Sometimes easier said than done!).

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Saleforce Nonprofit

DECEMBER 2, 2021

Our first program used private funds to pay restaurants to make meals for food-insecure San Franciscans who we reached through existing networks of care built by long-serving community-based organizations. We made a “playbook” outlining our systems and platforms and shared it so that our program model could be duplicated in other areas.

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Saleforce Nonprofit

MARCH 2, 2022

Giving 150 local communities £1 million each with no strings attached: This is the leap of faith the National Lottery Community Fund took in 2012 when it established a nonprofit organisation called Local Trust to deliver Big Local, a programme that puts money directly into the hands of communities across the UK.

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Judi Sohn

MARCH 3, 2011

Bringing multiple communication channels in to a contact-centered model. Using technology to deliver a message, or to raise funds. Structurally, these are collaborative/conversational sessions. Steve Spiker and Steve Backman are facilitating this session with me. Tight integration between database and social media.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MARCH 2, 2011

I’m the lead for Zoetica where my role is to deliver training, advise on the curriculum and coaching methods, model transparency, and serve as meta network weaver. A true public/private partnership, the funding partners include Microsoft and craiglist Charitable Fund. It is important to add this framing.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MARCH 2, 2015

A few months ago, I facilitated a mini-innovation lab on measuring impact for grantees of the Google Nonprofit program at the Impact Hub. Acumen Fund has some free courses. Another option is to create a Theory of Change or Logic Model , which should include inputs, activities, outputs, outcomes, and impact.

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Judi Sohn

MARCH 3, 2011

Bringing multiple communication channels in to a contact-centered model. Using technology to deliver a message, or to raise funds. Structurally, these are collaborative/conversational sessions. Steve Spiker and Steve Backman are facilitating this session with me. Tight integration between database and social media.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MARCH 1, 2011

I’m the lead for Zoetica where my role is to deliver training, advise on the curriculum and coaching methods, model transparency, and serve as meta network weaver. A true public/private partnership, the funding partners include Microsoft and craiglist Charitable Fund.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

OCTOBER 20, 2009

This includes leadership, social innovation, communications, branding, graphic facilitation, financial and funding models. Graphic Facilitation Rocks. I appreciated the facilitation provided by Mukara Meredith who integrates universal principles of healing into a new model of leadership called Matrixworks.

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Connection Cafe

JUNE 12, 2017

To do so, they need to be skilled collaborators, adept at bringing diverse perspectives together, and confident in their abilities to collaboratively steward supporters at every touchpoint along the ladder of engagement with other teams, departments, and senior leadership.

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Museum 2.0

MARCH 12, 2014

I was co-author of a recently completed research study [ PDF ] funded by the National Science Foundation, the Bilingual Exhibit Research Initiative (BERI), which strove to better understand bilingual labels from the visitor perspective. Adults who were previously dependent on their children could now take the lead as confident facilitators.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

APRIL 14, 2009

She also points to some funding sources. How well does your organization's business model support a co-creation network, and how it can be innovative in minimizing its cash outlay while maximizing its outreach? These tools can facilitate coordination/discussion/communication amongst key stakeholders about the content.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MAY 8, 2016

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. What Happened on Give Local America Day? How did community foundations support their nonprofit partners when things got bad?

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JANUARY 18, 2011

I’m the lead for Zoetica for this project where my role is to deliver training, advise on the curriculum and coaching methods, model transparency, and serve as a sort of meta network weaver. A true public/private partnership, the funding partners include Microsoft and craiglist Charitable Fund.

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Museum 2.0

AUGUST 17, 2016

The more my organization has become focused on community engagement, the more we've balanced being experience producers with being experience co-creators/facilitators. We could do the work directly with more people, achieving impact with those participants and serving as a model for others interested in this kind of work.

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Museum 2.0

OCTOBER 3, 2012

Its funding has skyrocketed as major foundations and technology companies have made multi-million dollar grants and investments in its growth. More importantly, it means that we should be looking to their model to push ourselves in how we think about delivering the most engaging, powerful content possible.

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ASU Lodestar Center

JUNE 8, 2017

The nonprofit sector has the ability to achieve significant social change through collaboration across sectors. Cross-sector collaboration can be defined as partnerships between nonprofit, private, and government entities working together towards mutual goals to produce change (Simo & Bies, 2007).

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Connection Cafe

JANUARY 24, 2017

The post-march narrative is all about organized action, with dozens of new initiatives emerging to help facilitate sustained political engagement. Both foundations and corporations are embracing the impact-investing model, which is designed to generate social and environmental benefits and financial returns.

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Non Profit Quarterly

DECEMBER 15, 2021

The nonprofit landscape is littered with abandoned grant-funded and poorly maintained tech projects. Nonprofit tech projects have trouble getting off the ground because they rarely have the consistent funding needed to make the project the full time focus of an experienced developer team. Nonprofits and technology often don’t mix.

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Tech Soup

AUGUST 5, 2011

” This scenario unfolds an increase in international collaborations and a dwindling of the power of nation states. Collaboration enables governments and the development sector to get and better understand data. No Future World Without Technology and Collaboration. That is one fictional scene from this world.

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NTEN

MARCH 25, 2013

That’s the complicated part of social change - complicated problems call for complicated solutions, even when our business models force us to focus on one simple arena. In January 2011, at a gathering hosted by TechSoup Global, we began talking about how to model our own ideals. Of course, collaboration is tough work.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JUNE 28, 2006

Katie Salen Parsons (She co-wrote the book Rules of Play ) We're facilitating a process of games versus making games. Kids are collaboratively working together to build a tale. How can we facilitate change? Games are made of up of rules - what you can or can't do in a game. After specific restraints comes play.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

DECEMBER 16, 2010

I’ve had the pleasure working with Diana Scearce , from Monitor Institute, who has been facilitating and weaving this network. Recently, I presented a high level overview of crowdsourcing , including examples from the lens of funding and doing. impact of the crowd-produced product, impact on the crowd / community)?

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Amy Sample Ward

JANUARY 23, 2010

I appreciate this opportunity to talk about ClientTrack and its ability to promote effective collaborations. Optimizes collaborations within and between organizations. How does CT define “collaboration&# and what is so important about it? And that’s what effective collaborations among community providers do.

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Have Fun - Do Good

JUNE 19, 2009

Erickson founded FORGE (Facilitating Opportunities for Refugee Growth and Empowerment) in 2003 when she was a 20 year-old junior studying public policy at Stanford University. You use a process that on your website was described as the, "collaborative project planning process." It's the same thing in a development context.

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Bloomerang

FEBRUARY 1, 2022

They’re collaborative, they’re passionate about your mission. Our board members can facilitate personal introductions to our professional leadership. And I would say this is a pretty replicable model, right? And I would say there’s no like one-size-fits-all model for the number of people.

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