Bloomerang

NOVEMBER 16, 2022

Mission overlap isn’t always a bad thing, as nonprofits can collaborate well, but you’re starting an uphill battle if another local organization already does the job you hope to do. Study good grant writing techniques and apply what you learn to as many as you can. Create an atmosphere of collaboration.

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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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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MARCH 13, 2018

Looking for new techniques to add to your facilitator’s toolbox? This is the focus of a session called “ The Big Bang Theory: Creative Facilitation and Training Techniques, ” that I’m co-facilitating at the Nonprofit Technology Conference with Cindy Leonard and Jeanne Allen. What is Brainstorming? .

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Get Fully Funded

FEBRUARY 22, 2023

Writing job descriptions is essential to building your nonprofit’s organizational structure and ensuring that employees understand their responsibilities. The job description defines the job, expectations of the role, and where within the organizational structure an employee falls. Including specifics about the role.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JULY 23, 2014

While participants in each track will explore their topics in depth and in the context of a facilitated structure, there will be inspiring keynotes and opportunities for networking for all participants. ” The brainstorming techniques from the previous day will yield many, many insights and ideas.

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TechImpact

AUGUST 27, 2013

TechSoup discusses unified communication (UC), which is a type of internal communication structure that combines text messaging, web conferencing, email, video, and instant messaging, among other technologies to connect employees more effective and efficiently. Now we are getting into some newer techniques. File sharing.

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Museum 2.0

DECEMBER 19, 2016

One of my organization's core values is radical collaboration. But radical collaboration with our community only works if we also collaborate internally as a team. We all collaborated to develop programs, strategies, and community partnerships. Sometimes, we fail because we are not collaborative enough.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

APRIL 24, 2014

The toolkit was designed through a collaboration between a European agency ( STBY ) and an Indian agency ( Quicksand ), it was commissioned by Nesta and the Rockefeller Foundation , who together saw a gap in the support for innovation provided to the development community.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JANUARY 5, 2018

1) Review the Year: For as long as I can remember, I have kept an annual professional journal, using a variation of bullet journal technique. 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.

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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. It is a more structured body break and incorporates more in-depth debrief on content. 1. Body Breaks: Incorporate some sort of movement or body activity every ten minutes.

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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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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MAY 23, 2013

Despite what people may say in an evaluation, brain science suggests that the longer people sit the less they learn. The book offers some techniques to incorporate movement with the goal of improved retention and learning: 1. 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

AUGUST 28, 2013

Note From Beth: A few weeks ago, I was lucky enough to participate in a meeting with other capacity builders who work with networks. I wrote a quick reflection on some of the techniques used to facilitate the meeting. But whether you call it “networked” ways of working, “collaboration 2.0” Call this “social change 2.0”.

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Eric Jacobsen Blog

JANUARY 7, 2019

And, the employees who are frustrated are not the demotivated and disengaged employees who simply don't care enough about organizational success to become deeply frustrated.

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Eric Jacobsen Blog

SEPTEMBER 13, 2018

And, the employees who are frustrated are not the demotivated and disengaged employees who simply don't care enough about organizational success to become deeply frustrated.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JUNE 18, 2010

One of the topics was “How to understand social networks through social network analysis and mapping techniques.&# I thought I’d expand on it here. It is really a technique to understand relationships. One of the first social networking analysis map was created by Jacob Moreno. Communications flows.

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Eric Jacobsen Blog

AUGUST 27, 2017

And, the employees who are frustrated are not the demotivated and disengaged employees who simply don't care enough about organizational success to become deeply frustrated.

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Empowerment Authoring Roles Job 40

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

APRIL 1, 2013

” The book offers up advice and techniques on how to make your online channels – email marketing, web site, and newer tools like mobile and social media work together in a sophisticated strategy or your organization to reach its advocacy, fundraising, or community building goals. .” Sometimes easier said than done!).

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Everyaction

DECEMBER 12, 2017

Our institute will also provide opportunities for attendees to create meaningful connections and potential collaborations. Our institute will also provide opportunities for attendees to create meaningful connections and potential collaborations. Collaborate with peers from across North America who understand your challenges.

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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. Reflective Listening Techniques.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

OCTOBER 28, 2013

The secret is in the structure and design of the small group exercises. For example, I incorporate tactical and visual techniques for participants to use to do the exercises. While there is no one right way to use the technique, what would customarily be defined as homework (problem sets, essay writing, etc.) Reflection.

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Eric Jacobsen Blog

FEBRUARY 23, 2016

And, the employees who are frustrated are not the demotivated and disengaged employees who simply don't care enough about organizational success to become deeply frustrated.

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Eric Jacobsen Blog

MARCH 19, 2014

And, the employees who are frustrated are not the demotivated and disengaged employees who simply don''t care enough about organizational success to become deeply frustrated.

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Eric Jacobsen Blog

OCTOBER 2, 2015

And, the employees who are frustrated are not the demotivated and disengaged employees who simply don't care enough about organizational success to become deeply frustrated.

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Empowerment Authoring Roles Job 40

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? Are there facilitation skills/techniques that you enjoy and are great at doing? Are there facilitation skills/techniques that you want to improve or work on? Do you have a preferred method?

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Eric Jacobsen Blog

MAY 16, 2015

And, the employees who are frustrated are not the demotivated and disengaged employees who simply don't care enough about organizational success to become deeply frustrated.

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The Science Behind Engaging your Supporters

NOVEMBER 27, 2018

Our institute will also provide opportunities for attendees to create meaningful connections and potential collaborations. Our institute will also provide opportunities for attendees to create meaningful connections and potential collaborations. Presented in collaboration with African American Development Officers Network (AADO).

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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. The process for the one and half day lab used techniques that fall into these categories: Looking and Observing: Unpacking the Context for 21 st Century Advocacy.

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Beneblog: Technology Meets Society

NOVEMBER 3, 2008

As an intern, I was working for Bookshare in Chennai, India, as their "on-the-ground" person, doing outreach and helping to establish a structure that will support their service there. I collaborated with people at Worth Trust to develop techniques that will improve the efficiency and quality of their work.

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Gyrus

SEPTEMBER 20, 2016

It is important to establish a clear direction as to what you want these new structures to accomplish. This, in itself, is a great habit forming technique. Assign work that can only be achieved in a collaborative setting. Clear Direction. Don’t just enable social features for the sake of having them. Assign Group Work.

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DNL OmniMedia

FEBRUARY 9, 2022

Speak candidly with any prospective consultant partners to develop a clear understanding of their fee structure. They understand that strong compensation structures are essential for building a scalable, sustainable organization that retains its talent and grows year over year. Top Nonprofit Consulting Firms by Specialty.

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Eric Jacobsen Blog

OCTOBER 5, 2011

And, the employees who are frustrated are not the demotivated and disengaged employees who simply don't care enough about organizational success to become deeply frustrated.

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Eric Jacobsen Blog

MARCH 24, 2013

And, the employees who are frustrated are not the demotivated and disengaged employees who simply don't care enough about organizational success to become deeply frustrated.

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Empowerment Authoring Skills Roles 40

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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Bloomerang

JUNE 11, 2021

So she’s talking about what does it look like to bring folks together about STEM education and how do we talk to donors and our volunteers and our, you know, supporters of any kind about the work that we’re doing using different techniques that ground us. What are you most curious about in terms of how we might collaborate? .

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Everyaction

JULY 18, 2018

Don’t forget - despite the structured, sometimes mechanical feel a fundraising plan can have, storytelling does have a place in the planning process. Tip: Once you feel you’ve compiled all of the resources in your inventory, collaborate with members of your nonprofit staff at-large and executive leadership to assign value to each asset.

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Connection Cafe

FEBRUARY 6, 2017

At #WEF17, I met Samantha Stein, founder/CEO of Hacktivision, who is leveraging Silicon Valley techniques to coordinate volunteerism in the high-tech community through hackathons benefitting the social good community. The collaboration and innovative thinking around building a better world I saw at Davos this year encouraged me.

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