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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Qgiv

JULY 17, 2023

Provide the tools Offer folks training to increase their skills so they can hold conversations about DEI. Organizations need to train people how to recognize, address (this is often during feedback conversations), and de-escalate the conflict. Most people are yearning for and want to provide inclusion.

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Activities Active Activism Organization 97

Bloomerang

JULY 19, 2023

Your work behind the scenes is to establish a structure—plans, systems and processes—by which the nonprofit may reach its advancement goals. You’re vigilant about gathering this information through post-program surveys or via your website. Call or email funders with any questions about their interests and your eligibility.

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Professional Leadership Develop Proposal 72

Eric Jacobsen Blog

NOVEMBER 6, 2023

Specifically, you’ll learn about Horwath’s Strategic Quotient (SQ) , a validated assessment tool which evaluates an individual’s ability to lead and think strategically. Leadership Fitness : Leadership philosophy, personal performance, mental training, and ability to master time and calendar.

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Leadership Evaluation Brain Business 58

ASU Lodestar Center

JULY 25, 2022

Leaders need to evaluate their leadership approach to ensure the style employed is designed to positively influence and empower their staff, promote success, and build collaboration. Kanter & Sherman remind us that respect, kindness and compassion must be modeled from the top-down in order to become an organizational norm.

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Results New Jersey Leadership Nonprofit 98

Whole Whale

MAY 16, 2022

Prediction: in 5 years using an AI writing tool that will be trained on your style and tone will become the standard. Train like a champion, diet, exercise, or take performance-enhancing supplements? More sophisticated tools can actually write larger sections of text based on prompts in a way that mimics the style they are trained on.

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Allegiance Group

NOVEMBER 7, 2023

Nevertheless, choosing isn’t simply about popularity. Business Considerations: Elements like budget, licensing type, training needs, and change management are also essential considerations in CMS selection. Licensing Methods The licensing model of a CMS plays a pivotal role in long-term costs. How will this impact your budget?

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MAY 8, 2018

Leadership skills are only just about our inner-selves, it is also how we relate to other people and manage those relationships, especially in the workplace. One of the workshop exercises was to teach leaders a process they can facilitate back in their organizations to begin the discussion about how to activate a culture of well being.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

AUGUST 28, 2013

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. But whether you call it “networked” ways of working, “collaboration 2.0” Call this “social change 2.0”.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

FEBRUARY 11, 2014

Here are some techniques you can incorporate into your training and staff meetings that will help with learning and retention. 2. Walk and Talk: If you have taken a training with me , you know that won’t be sitting in your chair for long. It is a more structured body break and incorporates more in-depth debrief on content.

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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? If you are going to purchase one book about using social media , this is the one to read.

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Online Social Media Attention Chapter 128

Have Fun - Do Good

MAY 16, 2008

The Prize also seeks to build an information base of effective practice models that can be studied and used by academics, nonprofit leaders and grantmakers to inspire and advance their work." Why don't more nonprofits collaborate? Logo from The Collaboration Prize web site. nonprofit collaboration award philanthropy

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

APRIL 15, 2014

If you are not already familiar with their work, you will learn a lot about online collaboration, knowledge management, informal learning, and networks by following them. I first discovered Dave’s work through colleague, Eugene Eric Kim, who recently shared this great story about Dave and his work.

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Learning Work Knowledge Management Knowledge 98

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MARCH 30, 2012

The model has a natural appeal. Yet, we still have much to learn about how funders can tap the power of peer learning. It should be clear to all involved that the learning process will be exploratory and emergent rather than tightly structured and directive. It’s a form of network building.

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Learning San Francisco Structure Knowledge Management 97

Tech Soup

JUNE 29, 2014

It might sound like I’m describing a typical college student's house, but I’m actually talking about one of the many workspaces in Zappos’ enormous headquarters in Las Vegas. The tour was organized by a group of library consultants from Kixal, Anneal, and Clarion Collaborative. Ping pong tables. Bean bag chairs.

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Media Cause

SEPTEMBER 29, 2021

But the more I heard them explain it, the more I started thinking about how the current design “table” is a big problem in and of itself. . Color theory, golden ratios, and hierarchy principles are rehearsed and practiced in design school and written about in magazines over and over again. What were structures in places at the time? .

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Design System Structure Ratio 52

Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

JUNE 19, 2008

Home About Me Subscribe Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology Thoughtful and sometimes snarky perspectives on nonprofit technology NPTECH Punk June 19, 2008 Beth, of course, suggested this , and I’m jumping on her bandwagon. I realized, in being introduced to Edupunk , that I have been doing it for, oh, almost 20 years now.

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Tech Soup

JUNE 29, 2014

The tour was organized by a group of library consultants from Kixal, Anneal, and Clarion Collaborative. When you walk into Zappos, the first thing you notice is the unique structure of the building. There’s also no rules about decorating your workspace. What do you think of the Zappos model?

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Library Las Vegas Culture Learning 62

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JANUARY 3, 2011

My Three Words for 2011 inspired by Harold Jarche's Networked Learning Model. For 2011, my three words are: Seek, Sense, and Share inspired by Harold Jarche’s model for networked learning. How these words will guide me in 2011: Seek: Seeking is the process of keeping up to date in your field.

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Share Reflection Social Media Model 102

Judi Sohn

MARCH 3, 2011

I guess I'll be grateful for that, as it was my being vocal about my displeasure over the timing of the conference that introduced me to many of the people in the organization I hold dear today. With the conference in DC, it means that getting there and back is easy by train. No checked luggage, no security lines. I love it.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

APRIL 21, 2009

It covers different models for purpose, structure, style, value creation, design, leadership, and change management. But what about for internal coordination/collaboration? . There are online collaboration tools with social features - many of which can be used for internal coordination/collaboration.

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Judi Sohn

MARCH 3, 2011

I guess I'll be grateful for that, as it was my being vocal about my displeasure over the timing of the conference that introduced me to many of the people in the organization I hold dear today. . With the conference in DC, it means that getting there and back is easy by train. No checked luggage, no security lines. 11NTCbrand).

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Bloomerang

JUNE 11, 2021

If you’re watching the recording, hope you’re having a good day because we are here to talk about some creative ways that people are contributing to the community. We do these webinars just about every Thursday. And I’m really excited about this topic too. This webinar is about my podcast actually.

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People Community Video Podcast 76

Whole Whale

AUGUST 7, 2023

Rewriting strengthens logic, structure, and transitions. Collaboration provides an outside perspective to counter biases and assumptions. Overall, this methodology structures regular critical analysis of output to curate higher quality through ongoing refinement. Basically, great writing comes from great editors.

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Museum 2.0

SEPTEMBER 22, 2009

How do we define and talk about these different kinds of participation? In this report, the authors describe three specific models for public participation: contribution, collaboration, and co-creation. I would add a fourth model, tentatively called co-option. Fortunately, science has a (partial) answer.

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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. Every tactic here is as much about retention and appreciation as it is about perks. A dedicated blog post about the sponsorship. Consult with an attorney if you plan to do this.

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Donor Sponsor Accessibility Music 337

Bloomerang

FEBRUARY 1, 2022

We are here to talk about philanthropic leadership. And we’re going to be talking about that today over the next hour or so. We do these webinars just about every Thursday throughout the year. Tell us all about those philanthropic ambassadors. So a little bit more about me very quickly. Are you doing okay?

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Leadership Fundraising Gift Slides 60

Museum 2.0

JANUARY 24, 2011

This is the third in a series of posts about Paul Light's book Sustaining Innovation: Creating Nonprofit and Government Organizations that Innovate Naturally. As a long-time employee of the Walker, how do you react to Paul Light's observations about what makes an institution innovate? That's how we build trust.

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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. We work with about 60,000 refugees from across the continent. They're walking away with skills.

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EveryAction

APRIL 1, 2016

We've scoured the nonprofit-sphere for high-quality conferences and forums, informal trainings, and more that will be taking place all over the world, focusing on essential topics like: Nonprofit management. Learn about new and proposed accounting and auditing standards and how they will impact not-for-profit entities and their auditors.

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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. I really don???t

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Environment Teach Second Life Learning 50

VisionLink

MAY 17, 2013

Here are some lessons learned about selecting a new solution and transferring your existing data to that new platform. Your Future Operational Model? At 99.9%, the service will be up for all but about 45 minutes a month. Excellent Training & Support? Click here to download full White Paper. The devil is in the detail.

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Platform Software System Facilitation 186

Non Profit Quarterly

JULY 27, 2021

And I’ll introduce them, and you’ll learn a little bit more about Tech Impact if you don’t already know about them in a moment. So that’s what today is about. I want to just tell you a tiny bit more about Tech Impact before we begin, so that you know what qualifies me and Francis to be talking with you about this.

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Bloomerang

JULY 17, 2021

We are here to talk about how to lead and manage in our new work reality. You can learn more about us. She’s also the founder of The Rooted Collaborative, which I think she’s going to tell you more about later on. Kishshana: Yes, we can. Steven: All right. Well, good afternoon, everybody.

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Management Work Video Slides 89

Bloomerang

OCTOBER 8, 2021

We are here to talk about “Demystifying the Grants Lifecycle.” So we’ve got a true grant expert here to talk about some tips for you. . We do these webinars just about every Thursday throughout the year. This is one where Rachel and I had been talking about this session for. ” Oh, yeah.

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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." I would recommend to anybody who was thinking about starting a business like that, that they find preferably at least two people to work with them.

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Gyrus

APRIL 3, 2018

Meaning, keep your ear to the ground and look out for any outlying theories that may contradict this ideal mix, and be aware that with all the new forms of learning that are quickly enhancing the marketplace, there is a very real chance that this model may need to be tweaked, to also represent unaccounted for learning objects. References.

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