NTEN

FEBRUARY 24, 2021

Further, while it is expected that corporate software standards will frequently meet nonprofit requirements, especially around technological features and functions, where they fall down is precisely the difference between a shareholder-driven and a mission-driven economy: collaboration and coordination. This is genuinely a good thing.

Problem 62

Problem Data API Global 62

Bloomerang

SEPTEMBER 12, 2023

What’s the problem? Digital disruption : The rise of digital platforms and online advertising has disrupted traditional revenue models for local news, making it difficult for many outlets to adapt. Nonprofits are being asked to address these challenges and find sustainable models for local journalism.

Journal 89

Journal Local News Fund 89

Eric Jacobsen Blog

FEBRUARY 20, 2024

Organization Fitness : Ability to create the appropriate business structure, evolve the business model, develop talent while planning for succession, and innovate. Communication Fitness : How to facilitate conversations, conduct effective collaboration, bring value to customers, and lead productive meetings.

Leadership 92

Leadership Evaluation Brain Business 92

ASU Lodestar Center

JULY 13, 2022

The pandemic has caused a re-thinking of how we live and work, while social justice movements have highlighted demands for liberation from models and methods that have upheld the status quo. Hierarchies are becoming flatter, work more collaborative and co-location less relevant. Recent events have been disruptive on a global scale.

Leadership 98

Leadership Impact San Diego Structure 98

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. While the framework allows each entity to remain true to its institutional identity, it also provides the organizational model necessary to scale impact. Communicate openly and timely.

Impact 98

Impact Raleigh Arizona Collaboration 98

ASU Lodestar Center

MAY 18, 2016

Solving basic social problems requires a level of sustainable investment that donors and government cannot provide alone. Social enterprise models may well offer an answer. Should nonprofits become more aggressive in adopting new business models that can add needed revenue?

Model 53

Model Fund Social United States 53

Eric Jacobsen Blog

NOVEMBER 6, 2023

Organization Fitness : Ability to create the appropriate business structure, evolve the business model, develop talent while planning for succession, and innovate. Communication Fitness : How to facilitate conversations, conduct effective collaboration, bring value to customers, and lead productive meetings.

Leadership 58

Leadership Evaluation Brain Business 58

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. This question does not come with a simple solution, and there are daily decisions made to work toward making contacts with community leaders, elders, agencies, and members who can collaborate and share resources.

Community 52

Community Build Minnesota Collaboration 52

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. Most often these new experiments have grown out of frustration with the fact that, despite several decades of rapid growth in philanthropy and nonprofits, many of the same social and environmental problems persist, or are getting worse.

Build 112

Build Change Social Facilitation 112

Candid

JANUARY 10, 2023

This means they also require plenty of clear communication and collaboration. Confirm that everyone is on the same page by restating the meeting’s purpose, expected outcomes, agenda items, and the roles that individuals will play (such as facilitator or note-taker). The nature of capital campaign committee structures.

Campaign 98

Campaign Structure Phase Review 98

Saleforce Nonprofit

AUGUST 12, 2021

As our understanding of the problem has evolved, the language we use has evolved too. We once thought the problem was simply about a lack of calories, but now we know it’s more about not having enough nutritious food to support body and brain development. Nutrition insecurity. But technology alone isn’t the answer.

Hunger 59

Hunger Podcast Community America 59

Eric Jacobsen Blog

OCTOBER 9, 2023

Among the many techniques Briceño teaches, the book also offers four tips for helping your team continuously advance their skills, even when it feels like there’s no time to problem solve: Why most managers often misuse praise—and what you should do instead to help your team improve. Confusion and conflict emerge.

Learning 94

Learning Free Reflection Model 94

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.

Open 107

Open Work Global Collaboration 107

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. Here’s the list: Function. Transparency.

Culture 125

Culture Activities Active Activism 125

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

Eric Jacobsen Blog

NOVEMBER 4, 2014

In her new book, The Fall of the Alphas: The New Beta Way to Connect, Collaborate, Influence – And Lead , she shows why the Beta model is the key to both business and career success. The Beta model is taking its place. Fluid communication is facilitated and encouraged. shared mission.

Collaboration 62

Collaboration Model Leadership Companies 62

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

AUGUST 29, 2013

It talks about how to use today’s tools to build a collaborative culture and using them to find ways for individuals and organizations to team up in building new solutions. They can help people with different knowledge, skills, and points of view to tackle a shared problem, see old things in new ways, or challenge the status quo.

Arts 95

Arts Design Collaboration Analysis 95

Eric Jacobsen Blog

JULY 22, 2014

In her book, The Fall of the Alphas: The New Beta Way to Connect, Collaborate, Influence – And Lead , she shows why the Beta model is the key to both business and career success. The Beta model is taking its place. Fluid communication is facilitated and encouraged. Beta companies are communities, not armies,” she writes.

Collaboration 49

Collaboration Model Leadership Companies 49

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.

Design 50

Design Strategy Facilitation Advocacy 50

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.” Nonprofit organizations can benefit from this working model as it can be a useful tool in achieving a participatory culture.

Measure 40

Measure Community Organization Arizona 40

Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

JUNE 19, 2008

From their website: Some of the features that distinguish Hampshire from more traditional liberal arts colleges include student-designed academic concentrations; an active, collaborative, inquiry-based pedagogy; an interdisciplinary curriculum; and a narrative evaluation system. Sounds a lot like Edupunk, doesn’t it? I learned a lot.

Nptech 100

Nptech Unconference Open Source Model 100

Eric Jacobsen Blog

JANUARY 21, 2014

In her new book, The Fall of the Alphas: The New Beta Way to Connect, Collaborate, Influence – And Lead , she shows why the Beta model is the key to both business and career success. The Beta model is taking its place. Fluid communication is facilitated and encouraged. shared mission.

Collaboration 45

Collaboration Model Leadership Companies 45

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JUNE 28, 2016

Earlier this month I was in Boston for the annual convention for Americans for the Arts where I facilitated a leadership development pre-conference workshop, “Impact without Burnout: Resilient Arts Leaders from the Inside/Out.” Next Janet shared examples of empowering questions that help facilitate listening and coaching.

Reflection 64

Reflection Arts Exercise Facilitation 64

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MAY 15, 2012

My role was to deliver components of the Networked NGO curriculum – sessions on network mapping, challenges assumptions about networked ways of working, as well as training on how to use the online collaboration platform for their together moving forward. Fish Bowl Exericse. Network assessment.

Rwanda 113

Rwanda Social Media Training Train 113

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. Another option is to create a Theory of Change or Logic Model , which should include inputs, activities, outputs, outcomes, and impact. Acumen Fund has some free courses.

Measure 50

Measure Impact Program San Francisco 50

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. Server crashes and other logistical glitches during Giving Days are not unknown potential problems. It’s complicated.

America 50

America San Antonio Local Philanthropy 50

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JANUARY 5, 2012

The instructor’s role should be to facilitate this understanding for their students, not dump content on them. This gave me an excuse to look at different types of peer learning exercises and facilitation techniques. Allan Gunn from Aspiration and his legendary facilitation skills and knowledge. Begin Connections.

Experiment 116

Experiment Learning Create Exercise 116

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.

Culture 47

Culture Philanthropy Marketing Create 47

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JANUARY 27, 2014

For the networked nonprofit workshops I facilitate, I’ve developed a maturity of practice assessment called “ Crawl, Walk, Run, Fly ” which gives me a detailed understanding of where the organization is in its practice. The learning model is called “SAVI ” : Moving and doing (Somatic). Development. Implementation.

Instructional Design 111

Instructional Design Instruction Instructional Training 111

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

AUGUST 17, 2010

Jonny will provide live graphic facilitation of the highly interactive and fun panel. In addition to the graphic facilitation, there will be other interactive learning elements. There are over 200,000 professional artists in the US — and a bunch of them have problems the techies could help solve. Trust me.

Comment 97

Comment Artist Social Media Hype 97

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

NOVEMBER 16, 2011

My role was to facilitate and model new practices and present on a couple of new approaches, such as content curation. We established a hashtag for the event #fflsmart and modeled how you can capture a complete archive with rowfeeder and since content curation was on the agenda, I modeled using storify to capture a curated record of the event.

Social Media 97

Social Media Training Train Network 97

Forj

JULY 8, 2021

Problem-based scenarios: Learners are immersed in a situation that has gone awry and asked to apply their skills to identify and solve the problem at hand. Group Collaboration with Feedback. Of the various assessment methods in this list, group collaboration with feedback is easily the least quantitative method.

eLearning 69

eLearning Course Test Knowledge 69

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

OCTOBER 11, 2009

Peer discussion on use of online tools for collaboration for bounded networks, exploring some of the concepts in Digital Habits (each participant got a copy). But, I'm also interested in improving my skills as a trainer - especially facilitating social learning or learning in public. Putting It Into Practice As a Facilitator.

Public 94

Public Learning Conference Social 94

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MAY 5, 2017

Note from Beth: Several years ago, I was got trained in design thinking facilitation methods using Luma and have incorporated these techniques into my consulting and training practice. Different Ways Nonprofits Are Using Design Thinking to Solve Problems and Achieve Impact. Mike Radke agreed to share this post about the work.

Problem 103

Problem Design Difference Impact 103

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).

Collaboration 74

Collaboration Build Homeless Arizona 74

Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

AUGUST 11, 2008

You are dependent on your internet connection – which could be a problem for mission-critical applications. What you should do Make an assessment – will using this online tool really save money or time, or facilitate collaboration in ways that is not possible with local apps?

AJAX 134

AJAX Application Open Source Plugin 134

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MARCH 30, 2010

There is one problem with this design: Many of us find experimenting difficult. I modeled that I don't know everything. I've been delivering technology trainings as a one-woman band since 1994 when I facilitated workshops in how to use email or create web pages. Experiments require short-term losses for long-term gains.

Social Media 91

Social Media Reflection Media Social 91