sgEngage

OCTOBER 9, 2023

All too frequently, the grantmaker alone is determining, leading, and benefiting from MEL processes with no input or collaboration from the people, organizations or community impacted. The practice of participatory evaluation aims to disrupt power dynamics, and to generate knowledge as a result of collaboration.

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Participatory Evaluation Empowerment Grant 83

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JANUARY 5, 2018

I call it my “ To Do, To Done, Don’t Do, Reflection List.” ” I use it for planning and goal setting as well as to reflect along the way. My colleague, Wendy Harman , was also inspired by Chris Brogan’s technique, but she takes it deeper and includes daily reflection questions.

Professional 0

Professional Finland Journal Reflection 0

Bloomerang

FEBRUARY 1, 2023

They do however face unique challenges, which are numerous and varied, reflecting the complex and evolving nature of the nonprofit sector as a whole. Structural barriers to success The nonprofit sector is highly competitive, with organizations often competing for the same limited resources. Add advancement of BIPOC staff where you can.

Accessibility 104

Accessibility Challenge Leadership Tips 104

CauseVox

JULY 18, 2023

Sample SMART fundraising goals Reflect on Your Focus Areas Begin by asking yourself some key questions related to your goals and focus areas. As you reflect on these questions, feel free to update the answers accordingly in your fundraising plan. How have things been coming along?

Develop 76

Develop Fundraising Pledge Track 76

Forum One

OCTOBER 12, 2010

"Adin Miller, a friend and all-around smart guy, wrote a blog post reflecting on James Surowiecki’s talk about the“ Wisdom of Crowds ” at the Communications Network and CommA Fall 2010 Conference. " Tags: Influence Collaboration Communication. people able to draw on own knowledge), and aggregation (i.e.,

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Reflection Conference Communication Network 47

Bloomerang

JULY 24, 2021

Also, Doucet Campbell said that, depending on the structure of the organization, there’s sometimes a misguided belief that a built-in pipeline of giving is automatic. . Faith-based giving can be deeply reflective of a person’s belief. Howat said this offers a different layer of complexity than in other nonprofits.

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Fund Raise Money Organization 119

M+R

JULY 10, 2023

Instead editing is, or should be, a collaboration — where multiple perspectives combine to shape content so that it can better connect with audiences. Or do these opening lines just reflect your own process of writing your way to the thing you really wanted to say? Repetitive structure.

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Guidelines Audience Language Content 91

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JANUARY 3, 2011

I have been reflecting on my system for doing this – looking at the tension between curating one’s network and get things done, but leaving room for serendipity. For networked learning to be beneficial, it requires an open attitude toward learning and finding new things. Sense: Sensing is making sense of the information.

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Share Reflection Social Media Model 102

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MARCH 30, 2012

We at Monitor Institute have been digging into questions such as these as part of a broader reflection on the networks-focused work of the organizational effectiveness team at the David & Lucile Packard Foundation. How can insight generated by the learning group be made more broadly available?

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Learning San Francisco Structure Knowledge Management 97

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. Use reflective listening skills and clear communication to adjust. Emerging nonprofit leaders who engage in reflective listening are more likely to succeed.

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Skills Build Technique Language 50

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JANUARY 27, 2014

So, expect to see regular reflections on good instructional design and delivery for any topic, but especially digital technology and social media related. I use a simple structure to design: before, during, and after. Problem-solving and reflecting (Intellectual). You also need to design good openers and closers !

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Instructional Design Instruction Instructional Training 111

Museum 2.0

MARCH 27, 2013

I've written about different structures for participatory processes (especially in museums), and recently, I've been interested in how we can apply these structures to the design of public space. He's explicit about different project structures and their implications, listing five levels of participation and three of non-participation.

Design 49

Design Participatory Children Museum 49

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. We'd love to check it out, so please post the link in the comments, or add it to this open Google spreadsheet. Reflections from 12NTC Panel on Data Visualization , Beth Kanter. Session Blog Posts.

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NTC San Francisco NTEN Conference 66

ASU Lodestar Center

MAY 18, 2016

Researchers have often referred to social enterprise structures as the “fourth sector” (after private, public, and nonprofit) because they combine charitable missions, corporate methods, and diverse social and environmental philosophies in ways that surpass the traditional business and philanthropy models (Billitteri, 2007).

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Model Fund Social United States 53

Museum 2.0

MAY 21, 2014

It has some of the same feel as the disconnected affection of people wishing you a happy birthday on Facebook, with professional reflection baked in. Seeing so many cheerful one-liners in my inbox made me think about how different my work situation is today than the last time I reflected on it in public in 2012, at my one-year anniversary.

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Museum Director History Teen 49

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

SEPTEMBER 21, 2007

Organizing a community and serving it well has a lot of dimensions poorly reflected in webstats alone. Maybe open Social Graphs will help ? Trends in the Living Networks blog gives an analysis of the structure of influence and social opinion which offers some insights into leveraging a network effect.

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Open Source Nptech Summary Tag 50

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MARCH 13, 2018

Brainstorming can be done as a solo activity or group or collaborative brainstorming. Then you reflect on the difference in creative energy – typically yes and has more of it. Questions are most productive when they are open versus closed, short versus long, and simple versus complex. What is Brainstorming? .

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Facilitation Work Chart Technique 106

Museum 2.0

OCTOBER 2, 2013

This is the last of the guest posts offered during this fall season, and it dovetails with last week''s post about opening up collections access nicely. In 2003, collaborator Stephanie Sherman and I “re-discovered,” the former store, declared nothing for sale, and began inviting artists to create works using the set, or collection of objects.

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Artist Museum Proposal Participatory 49

Museum 2.0

NOVEMBER 18, 2014

Our work would become more relevant, our collaborations more timely, our network more diverse. A year-long program with an intention to ignite new collaborations across the County to build a stronger, more connected community. Suddenly, C3 felt more like an engagement program that advances our institutional goals. Meet them here.

Community 39

Community Story Museum Map 39

NonProfit Hub

JANUARY 15, 2015

Katie Bouton is a guest contributor for Nonprofit Hub and the founder and president of Koya Leadership Partners , a nationally recognized executive search firm committed to collaborating with nonprofit organizations to recruit and retain exceptionally talented and diverse professionals who can make a lasting impact.

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Interview Roles Nonprofit Exercise 28

Bloomerang

JUNE 11, 2021

By understanding core motivations, intentions, perspectives reflected in this webinar, you will be able to build a stronger case for support, increase the impact you have, and gain strategies for creating and preserving community. Also, perhaps you’re interested in the podcast and reflections that I’ve learned.

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People Community Video Podcast 76

Forum One

FEBRUARY 19, 2024

This Black History Month, we reflect on the strategy work that our team does through our partnership with the Smithsonian National Museum of African American History and Culture —much of which centers around expanding access. And for those who have, they quickly understand that the Museum has much more to offer than can be absorbed in a day.

History 73

History Accessibility Museum Award 73

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

SEPTEMBER 29, 2015

To get people in the mindset for brainstorming, I lead them through a couple of improvisation exercises that teach acceptance and openness to new ideas. Collaborating more with other funders would led to the creation of a pooled fund, more multi-year funding, a common grant application, and the ability to be more nimble.

Design 50

Design Strategy Facilitation Advocacy 50

Museum 2.0

JANUARY 4, 2010

But next month, Britain Loves Wikipedia will commence--the third instance of a strange and fascinating collaborative project between museums and the Wikipedia community (Wikimedians). In contrast, the Wikimedians were focused on making cultural content digitally available online using as open a licensing structure as possible.

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Wikipedia Arts Museum Images 40

Museum 2.0

MARCH 4, 2009

Jane McGonigal and the folks from IFTF have released a new future-casting game/collaborative experience called Signtific Lab. What excites me is that Signtific provides a very deliberate framework that prioritizes collaborative thinking and dialogue. question and allowed open response, it would not be as good.

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Game Experiment Participatory Museum 24

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

APRIL 18, 2007

Openness - ????A Personal learning and reflection on and about your instructional topic. Collaboration on student projects or other ways. Your first blog could even document your learnings and reflections about Web.20! Professional development - reflect and learn about your work. Step 1: Find People. Hiring people.

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Remix Professional Technorati Wiki 50

Museum 2.0

SEPTEMBER 18, 2013

I''d love to hear more peoples'' reflections on this. If your institution cares about delivering on mission, measure indicators that reflect your core values. This question of evaluation is still very open. This is one of the toughest questions I''ve been grappling with lately, and I''d love to hear your reflections on it.

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Museum Question Participatory Evaluation 45

Museum 2.0

APRIL 25, 2011

I'd love to hear more peoples' reflections on this. If your institution cares about delivering on mission, measure indicators that reflect your core values. This question of evaluation is still very open. This is one of the toughest questions I've been grappling with lately, and I'd love to hear your reflections on it.

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Question Participatory Museum Evaluation 49

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JUNE 20, 2005

The reason I think this is a classic Internet story is that 90% of the ongoing cost of publishing that blog is my own cost of staying informed and reflecting on what I learn. As I see it, staying informed and reflection are part of my job. Most importantly, it remains a tool for staying informed and for reflection.

Conversation 50

Conversation Bookmarking Nonprofit News 50

Museum 2.0

AUGUST 25, 2009

When you want visitors to spend a long time reflecting and sharing their thoughts, you need to design spaces for response that are comfortable and minimize distractions. If you feel that your audience needs monitoring or social support, position the talkback stations in open settings.

Design 31

Design Goal Difference Platform 31

Museum 2.0

JUNE 5, 2009

In 45 minutes, we were able to make some sophisticated observations about how to change the rules to reflect a wide variety of underlying values or goals. It had a very simple structure. AHA #1: If you abstract far enough, you can prototype interpersonal interactions very quickly. AHA #2: Visitors have strategies.

Game 21

Game Design Museum Interaction 21

Everyaction

OCTOBER 5, 2016

It’ll open with candid stories about the ups and downs of working in social good and close with an afternoon of action and volunteering with local nonprofits. Opportunity Collaboration. Opportunity Collaboration. Opportunity Collaboration / Cancún Yucatán, (Int.) Opportunity Collaboration / Cancún Yucatán, (Int.)

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Conference Calendar DC Washington 111

Have Fun - Do Good

DECEMBER 28, 2006

Our essential intention is to cultivate partnerships of grassroots women who are working at the community level on issues of environmental sustainability and social justice, so that they can really find opportunities to collaborate and to exchange best practices, exchange resources, and really build a collective agenda.

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Green Global Action Network 40

Museum 2.0

JUNE 6, 2008

On June 4, we opened The Tech Virtual Test Zone , a new 2000 sq ft gallery at The Tech Museum of Innovation featuring exhibits on the theme of art, film, and music that were originally developed in Second Life by a community of creative amateurs. However, the contest also prevented us from legitimately fostering collaboration.

Virtual 21

Virtual Tech Lesson Develop 21

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JULY 17, 2009

Source: Robotson on Flickr I don't know about you, but I am a big fan of open standards, particularly when my bladder Direct Messages me with the hashtag #urgent. Open standards (see picture above) guide me to a place where I can @reply in a hurry. Sometimes collaborating in one area raises the bar of competition in another.

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Open Adopt Collaboration Social Network 50

Museum 2.0

MAY 7, 2007

I spoke to them on different days, so I've taken some liberty with structure here, but their words are maintained intact. Well, if we can come up with an open structure where anyone who works at any level of the process could share that process-that would be very unique and add very high value. So I keep updating it.

NSF 20

NSF Interview Case Study Museum 20

Museum 2.0

JUNE 16, 2020

At large, I am proud of the countless hours of cross-departmental and community collaborations that will inspire me forever, hand-in-hand with colleagues who have invested their best efforts on behalf of the people we are committed to serving. The entire system and structure of this country has been built on racism. And it shows.

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Museum Detroit Arts Leadership 22