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.

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CauseVox

AUGUST 23, 2023

I am also looking forward to fall festivals and the bounty of creative and exciting ways to raise funds while having fun! Pumpkin Patch Create a charming pumpkin patch and offer fun activities like pumpkin carving contests, hayrides, and pumpkin painting. And always remember to acknowledge your volunteers’ hard work.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MAY 8, 2018

If we lack the skills to avoid collaborative overload, manage difficult conversations, learn from failure, the resulting physical, emotional, and mental strain gets in the way of a nonprofit organization’s success. Then, I have participants work in small groups, using a structured brainstorming process. Responsive tech support.

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Qgiv

APRIL 9, 2024

Your organization’s social media strategy should be a carefully structured plan with SMART goals, posting frequency, key dates (like an awareness month tied to your mission), and content guidelines for posts. TikTok can be the perfect platform if your organization has a lot of fun and lighthearted content to share. Engagement.

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Have Fun - Do Good

MAY 16, 2008

To be eligible to apply, the collaboration must: "Involve two or more nonprofit organizations that each would otherwise provide the same or similar programs or services and compete for clients, financial resources and staff. Why don't more nonprofits collaborate? Logo from The Collaboration Prize web site.

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Whole Whale

MAY 16, 2022

They can also help you generate ideas and structure your thoughts. Collaboration: AI software can help you collaborate with others on projects, making writing a team effort. Here is a fun podcast of the CEO of Whole Whale interviewing an AI version of himself. AI writing tools will make you more productive. Peppertype.ai.

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CauseVox

APRIL 13, 2022

The Structure of a Peer to Peer Fundraising Campaign. These would be groups of supporters who collaborate to reach their collective fundraising goals. Looking for a fun way to add an incentive program to your peer to peer fundraiser? Quick Overview. What is Peer to Peer Fundraising?

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JANUARY 14, 2013

It’s Not Too Late To Set Your Communications Agenda with LightBox Collaborative’s 2013 Editorial Calendar – Guest Post by Holly Minch, Lightbox Collaborative. The LightBox Collaborative 2013 Editorial Calendar is here! It’s given structure to what was a wild wild west approach to reaching out to our community.”

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NonProfit Hub

MAY 28, 2019

It’s never fun to think about the worst-case scenario. If you don’t have the capacity to do what those organizations are doing, collaboration could be an option. This is less likely with larger, structural problems, but if you’re a niche organization with a highly specific mission, it’s completely possible. How are they funded?

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CauseVox

JUNE 15, 2023

Ultimately, this collaborative approach not only drives financial success but also cultivates long-term relationships between the nonprofit and its supporters. Team Fundraising Peer-to-peer fundraisers can also be structured to include teams. Finally, there is plenty of opportunity for fun when fundraising together!

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NTEN

AUGUST 28, 2014

Screencasting with Jing : Learn how to record presentations using the free tool Jing to share images and short videos of your computer screen Capture an image Record on-screen video (5 min max) Various uses: Screen shots for whitepapers, tutorials, and documentation Staff/Volunteer on-boarding, training videos Tip of the week Embed video or images (..)

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Gyrus

JULY 14, 2016

I personally am out of poké balls and am unable to join in on the fun at current moment… perhaps I’ll take a lunch time walk down to the nearest poké stop. You may be surprised at the inspiration you draw from it and most importantly, have fun. Bibliography. 'Pokémon

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Get Fully Funded

JANUARY 17, 2022

When you create your fundraising plan based on your strengths and your organization’s assets, you’ll find fundraising easier and more fun. Make it a FUN event that people talk about for days afterward. A Google Doc or Sheet is a great place to start, because you can collaborate with your team. But you know what?

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JANUARY 12, 2010

And while I have had many amazing collaborations, partners and clients, I feel that I can have a much greater impact by working within a formalized business structure, a company, and with partners who have complimentary strengths. I've been in the nonprofit field since 1980 and since 1985 have worked as a soloist, a freelancer.

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Connection Cafe

FEBRUARY 10, 2020

Accountability: Nonprofits tend to foster collaborative environments where staff are wearing many hats and are willing to pitch in to initiatives that aren’t in their job description. That can make for a fun, team-based environment, but can also make lead to a lack of accountability and clarity around roles.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MAY 23, 2012

They include: attention, crap detection, collaboration, networks, and participation. Sometimes your goal might be to learn or deepen relationships – in which case – having fun or making small talk or exploring from link to link is permissible – and important. Small talk nourishes trust. Trust lubricates transaction.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

FEBRUARY 11, 2014

It is a more structured body break and incorporates more in-depth debrief on content. Not all our work inside of nonprofit organizations is dependent on working and collaborating with groups of people, there is time when we have to work alone – writing reports, thinking through strategy, researching, planning, and other tasks.

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NTEN

AUGUST 23, 2011

Breaking away from the traditional workplace environment and structure allowed Jessica and her team to unleash their creativity. You must find out what works for your organization – what promotes efficiency, collaboration, and creativity. And finally, don’t forget to have fun! Do you work in an ROWE work environment?

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Amy Sample Ward

DECEMBER 15, 2010

However, these two alternative structures of human organization can interact in a variety of ways, both mutually beneficial and destructive. And it's fun! These are but two recent examples of how decentralized digital networks can have dramatic effects on centralized hierarchies.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

NOVEMBER 16, 2010

In fact, this may be one of the largest collaborative social media efforts in the nonprofit world. Social media success: collaborate, inform, build, engage. I was a guest on a popular Minnesota Tweetchat #nptalk last week to talk about online collaborative fundraising and Give to the Max Day. Will you help us?

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Judi Sohn

MARCH 3, 2011

Much more fun to have the time to plan. 11NTCSocialCRM) Tech Track: Keeping it Real (Secure) – Security in Your Network Neighborhood (10:30 am-12 pm Saturday) - The tech track sessions differ in both content and structure. Structurally, these are collaborative/conversational sessions.

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Tech Soup

JULY 6, 2012

Siembieda-Gribben structured the hackathon to maximize learning and shared knowledge. Proposals included fun geocaching activities to draw attendees into deeper engagement with the biennial; informative, interactive maps; and a personalized, art-enhanced experience to alleviate the stress of festival parking.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JANUARY 5, 2018

I used my holiday break as an opportunity for a brief digital detox and time for family, travel and fun. This year I used a new tool recommended by colleague Alexandra Samuel, the “ Year Compass, a free downloadable booklet that provides a set of structured reflection questions. I wish you a very happy and healthy 2018!

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Judi Sohn

MARCH 3, 2011

Much more fun to have the time to plan. Tech Track: Keeping it Real (Secure) – Security in Your Network Neighborhood (10:30 am-12 pm Saturday) – The tech track sessions differ in both content and structure. Structurally, these are collaborative/conversational sessions. 11NTCSocialCRM).

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Connection Cafe

OCTOBER 26, 2017

NMSU would not have had its Giving Tuesday results without serious collaboration. All in all, the teamwork was stellar; however, we did have one key learning that when it comes to our internal planning committee structure, there is such a thing as too many cooks in the kitchen. Our biggest takeaway: Be consistent. Be everywhere.

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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? What I liked about this activity is that it is fun, creative, and people aren’t sitting down, but walking around. I wish I had done a structured creative thinking exercise to get people comfortable.

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ASU Lodestar Center

JANUARY 8, 2014

In addition to these structures, there are also cultural mechanisms one can employ to make the performance evaluation system a success. There are many other fun incentives we could offer. First, it is important to ritualize the celebration of successes. Recognize a job well done! Parking close to the building is a premium. Get another!

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Metrics Fundraising Evaluation Measure 68

ASU Lodestar Center

JULY 8, 2011

Leaders are proponents of professional development, and the vast majority of them value shared leadership — meaning an approach that is both inclusive and collaborative, and shares decision making and authority with others throughout the organization. Is this a contradiction?

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Leadership Research Develop Management 92

NTEN

MAY 2, 2012

We wanted to round up all your posts and resources in one place, so you can continue to collaborate and learn from each other. Greenpeace Experiments With Technology Team Structure , Derek Lieu. And just for fun, here are all the photos on Flickr tagged 12ntc ! If we missed your blog post, we're sorry! Monday morning after NTC.

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Museum 2.0

OCTOBER 24, 2012

We actively seek participation and develop structured opportunities for visitors to collaborate with us. What started as a fun personal project for her will hopefully become part of our permanent history gallery--a space we are trying to make more interactive over the coming years. The magic isn't by design.

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Museum 2.0

JANUARY 25, 2012

Stacey has been collaborating with local artists to produce a series of content-rich events that invite visitors to participate in a range of hands-on activities. The events are informal, personal, and fun, but our feedback mechanism--onsite and post-event surveys--not so much. It accomplished several things at once: It drew people in.

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Nonprofit Tech for Good

DECEMBER 14, 2022

You can collaborate with other nonprofits in your region or in your issue area to investigate whether you can all offer benefits for each other. Does anyone carve, knit, sew or create t-shirts… or fun food? You can even have fun engaging your supporters and board members when coming up with these designs. Get creative.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

SEPTEMBER 16, 2015

One area we cover is social awareness, the ability to recognize and understand the moods of other individuals and teams that we collaborate with professionally. This assessment will give you a good sense of where you stand now and offers a structured approach to practicing based on your assessment. Ask Good Questions.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

SEPTEMBER 29, 2015

The next morning participants gathered to make individual and collective sense of the ideas that were shared by experts. The techniques that help you get at understanding are not always fun or easy to do. It requires stepping back and seeing the big picture. We finished with a group photo and fun co-creation reflection.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JANUARY 27, 2014

I use a simple structure to design: before, during, and after. Whatever the structure for your learning activities, they should use four different kinds of activities that help the brain learn rapidly and identify your discussion questions. The learning model is called “SAVI ” : Moving and doing (Somatic).

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Museum 2.0

OCTOBER 17, 2012

We experimented with everything--hours, front desk staffing structure, community programs. and we've tried to internalize a mindset of perpetual beta and modular support for community collaboration. We knew we weren't doing everything at the desired quality level. But we got it going anyway.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JANUARY 27, 2010

I had sooo much fun creating and delivering it. The community is hosted by Maddie Grant and Lindy Dreyer of SocialFish in collaboration with Omnipress. I had sooo much fun creating. I blogged about the content last week. And, in looking over the evaluations and reviews , I think the participants did too.

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