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.

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VQ Strategies

OCTOBER 7, 2022

As the field of volunteer engagement has become more professionalized and as organizations grow and mature, many that historically benefited from auxiliaries now recognize some of the challenges inherent in these relationships. Of course, there are auxiliaries that are adaptable, responsive, and truly collaborative. A Path to Change.

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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.

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Impact Raleigh Arizona Collaboration 98

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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ASU Lodestar Center

MAY 18, 2016

Social enterprise models may well offer an answer. Should nonprofits become more aggressive in adopting new business models that can add needed revenue? What are the downsides and dangers in pursuing new models? These social enterprise efforts can add a business model by creating sustainable revenue.

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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

It includes our relationship with our physical environment and in the workplace that refers to the nonprofit’s physical office space. The Gensler study suggests that employees need four different work areas to be productive: focus, collaborate, learn, and socialize. But there are challenges, too.

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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. That's the vision for his company and work.

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Collaboration Learning Exercise Online 93

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 forward-thinking development professional performs the following six practices: 1.

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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. How can social media be used to build high-quality connections, a motivating relationship between members and build trust and reciprocity? Generative Social-Impact Network.

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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. Here’s the list: Function.

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Saleforce Nonprofit

AUGUST 12, 2021

A comprehensive solution will require a collective effort, and creative collaboration across the private, public, and nonprofit sectors. The result is a model for cross-sector partnerships that span the nonprofit, for-profit, and education sectors, and include the Numi Foundation , World Central Kitchen , and Eat.

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Beneblog: Technology Meets Society

JULY 15, 2014

During the diplomatic conference, Bookshare was the most-cited model of what other countries could hope to achieve with the Treaty. As a result, the Treaty closely follows the Chafee Amendment , which is the copyright exception that has made Bookshare possible in the United States.

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Cloud 4 Good

OCTOBER 5, 2021

More specifically, the flagship land grant and top research university sought out this Salesforce CRM expansion to enable greater collaboration and insight into UVM researcher engagements with internal stakeholders and external partners. We’ve achieved a model for success that we can now use as a foundation to build from.

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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.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

FEBRUARY 11, 2014

As a trainer and facilitator who works with nonprofit organizations and staffers, you have to be obsessed with learning theory to design and deliver effective instruction, have productive meetings, or embark on your own self-directed learning path. The lab does research on the relationship between physical fitness and cognitive function.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MAY 23, 2012

NetSmart is Howard Rheingold’s latest book. It synthesizes his 30 years of experience if being a model digital citizen and what he has learned from asking other this simple question: How to use social media intelligently and mindfully? They include: attention, crap detection, collaboration, networks, and participation.

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Online Social Media Attention Chapter 128

NTEN

FEBRUARY 24, 2021

This choice in the market can run counter to the relationships between nonprofits and large software companies and their ecosystems. 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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Amy Sample Ward

SEPTEMBER 22, 2009

We highlight and support their work by connecting teams with local Net Tuesday groups (for feedback, presentations), foundation and nonprofit organizations (to help implement technologies in the real world), and the larger community (for new ideas and collaborations).

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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

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.” Relationships, feelings and personal security are important to Amiable Style people.

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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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Judi Sohn

MARCH 3, 2011

. (#11NTCbrand) Social Media and Contact Relationship Management – the New Mix (1:30-3 pm Friday) - Ironic that I'm writing about this session as I'm watching the live feed o f Salesforce making social media announcements in New York City. Bringing multiple communication channels in to a contact-centered model. I love it.

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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. 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.

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Measure Impact Program San Francisco 50

Judi Sohn

MARCH 3, 2011

Social Media and Contact Relationship Management – the New Mix (1:30-3 pm Friday) – Ironic that I'm writing about this session as I'm watching the live feed o f Salesforce making social media announcements in New York City. Bringing multiple communication channels in to a contact-centered model. It's the new shiny.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

SEPTEMBER 12, 2011

But when he gets excited about activity that could benefit the nonprofit technology sector, I listen. What do you think of the Campus Party model? Futura is a private company but their model looks to barely break even on registrations and income from the Campuseros. He has seen it all. And like Bar Camps , people hack.

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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.

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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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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JULY 22, 2009

Instead of getting distracted by the tools and the terminologies, I focus on the four underlying themes in social media, the 4Cs of social media: Content, Collaboration, Community and Collective Intelligence. The Second C: Collaboration. Collaboration can happen at three levels: conversation, co-creation and collective action.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

NOVEMBER 16, 2011

More and better partners, more and better relationships with reporters and more or better policy maker relationships. Synergistic Collaboration: Who are you aligned partners online/offline? Organizations’ communications strategies have more impact individually and collectively. How will you get their voice?

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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. That builds relationships or social capital – the glue that holds networks together.

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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. And how will this impact the way we build relationships and find information? Illustration by Jonny Goldstein of my SXSW panel proposal. Trust me.

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ASU Lodestar Center

MAY 24, 2011

You can find websites with practical ways to facilitate community interactions, or ask colleagues at other nonprofit organizations for tips. I agree we need more of these model communities. Better Together: Collaboration and Nonprofit Netwo. Action in this case really means interaction. Our 15 year old son is severely autistic.

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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. With employees becoming more generous, a relationship with a corporation or one of its executives becomes even more valuable for nonprofits. Impact investing takes center stage .

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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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Collaboration Project Data Lesson 80

Bloomerang

FEBRUARY 1, 2022

And as fundraisers, this is really important because it grounds us in the value of building relationships with people. They’re collaborative, they’re passionate about your mission. Second is building meaningful relationships. So when you really think about it, individuals drive about 80% of total giving in America.

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Nonprofits Source

DECEMBER 15, 2023

Here are a few tools you can leverage to facilitate the process: Customer relationship management (CRM) systems: CRM platforms , such as Salesforce, make it possible to gather and manage all of your association’s data effectively. Encourage member-driven content creation. how to align with association standards and values).

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