Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

SEPTEMBER 8, 2014

So, it is important for the host to hold a call with the facilitation team to clarify expectations for the session outcomes and team authority/decision-making roles. Next, of course, is diving into the design task of identifying goals and framing for the session and specific roles. Defining Roles.

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VQ Strategies

OCTOBER 7, 2022

This is precisely why some hospitals retain an auxiliary to run the gift shop, while also maintaining an entirely separate volunteer corps, managed by staff, to fill patient care roles. Having an outside facilitator helps to ensure that all voices are heard and that the process keeps moving forward. Lessons from the Field.

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Achieve

MARCH 18, 2024

Whether it’s an emailed donation appeal, social media post, or old-school flyer on a bulletin board, the best nonprofit communications help your audience relate to and position themselves within your mission’s story. But what about some of your highest-impact communications— grant proposals ? Be mindful of passive voice.

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Candid

FEBRUARY 23, 2023

If you’re new to web design and development, creating a homepage that accurately reflects your nonprofit’s mission and values can feel difficult. For instance, a nonprofit focused on equality in the workforce likely values diversity, equality, and inclusion of the communities it serves. Issue areas. Ways to get involved.

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Neon CRM

JANUARY 19, 2024

Start by developing personalized communication strategies that resonate with your members. Develop a Public Relations Plan Advocacy is about being the voice of change. Identify your target audiences, whether they be policymakers, community leaders, or the general public, then develop communication strategies for each group.

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Double the Donation

MARCH 28, 2021

Once you know what your role is, you will know what projects to say “yes” to and what projects to say “no” to. Brand Voice. If it does, this becomes a powerful communications tool that can help you garner financial and volunteer support. Your mission statement should reflect a call to action and an anticipated result.

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Achieve

JANUARY 22, 2024

Because mid-level donations play an essential role in your nonprofit’s fundraising strategy, cultivating and stewarding strong mid-level donor relationships is vital. Assemble a donor communications team Identifying your mid-level donors is a process that takes time and effort. Express appreciation. Offer ways to give feedback.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

SEPTEMBER 14, 2012

“It depends on whether this is the beginning of a trend or an extremely exceptional response to an extremely exceptional situation,” said Rebecca MacKinnon, co-founder of Global Voices, a network of bloggers worldwide, and author of “Consent of the Networked,” a book that addresses free speech in the digital age.”

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Forum One

APRIL 13, 2021

To do this effectively, content strategy for digital collections is a necessary piece that is able to streamline the approach of how these institutions shape and expand their roles as modern resources. The items that museums, archives, and libraries collect reflect the human spirit. Fostering audience relationships.

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Bloomerang

JUNE 1, 2022

Planning early allows you to minimize the negative effects of unexpected circumstances and gives your team members enough time to understand their roles and responsibilities. Ensure all of your marketing materials reflect your organization’s brand by incorporating your logo, fonts, colors, and tone of voice.

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Saleforce Nonprofit

APRIL 7, 2021

As we gain perspective following a year of the COVID-19 pandemic, we’ll use this opportunity to reflect on what we’ve learned, and how to use those lessons to prepare us for the future. Trovon Williams, Senior Vice President of Marketing and Communications, NAACP. “I’m 3. .” – Graham MacDonald, Urban Institute.

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Eric Jacobsen Blog

MARCH 23, 2023

A: When she reflected, she saw that she needed to safeguard the public by ensuring the recall is done immediately. Therefore, be cognizant of your tone of voice, facial expressions, and be aware that people pick up on authentic communication. In very big roles it’s not your job to be the specialist, you are the generalist.

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Bloomerang

AUGUST 31, 2022

Nonprofit storytelling refers to a specific way of communication that organizations use to personalize their mission. Many times, communication is something people don’t feel is their strong suit. So, what do we do when our time is limited and we need to communicate with the community and our donors? We tell stories.

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Saleforce Nonprofit

AUGUST 20, 2021

An organization, company, or other entity can have all of the diversity numbers in the world, but until everyone feels included and that there is a place and voice for them, it is all for naught. Workstream priorities should reflect this knowledge. Personalize communications based on identity to attract diversity in donors and teams.

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Bloomerang

JULY 6, 2023

The strategic planning process involves reflecting on your mission to identify your most important goals and determining the strategies you’ll use to reach them. When it comes to strategic planning, there are a few common hesitations that nonprofits voice throughout the process.

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The Modern Nonprofit

MAY 1, 2024

The theme should clearly reflect the purpose of honoring and highlighting AAPI cultures. Voices That Inspire: Welcoming AAPI Luminaries to Your Stage When planning your AAPI Heritage Month event, consider inviting influential speakers and community leaders from within the Asian American and Pacific Islander community to participate.

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NTEN

OCTOBER 18, 2011

For the most part, nonprofit organizations' online communications suffer from an identity crisis: they have no identity. A blog is an opportunity not only to change static into dynamic, but also discover and share voices from your organization. It's a chance to convene and nurture a community of storytellers.

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Classy

APRIL 16, 2021

Environmental sustainability is an ongoing movement, and Earth Day is an excellent reminder of our role. We’re acknowledging eight nonprofits leading the charge with dedicated fundraising campaigns as communities unite to support a cleaner, healthier, and more sustainable planet. How I Love a Clean San Diego Takes Action on Earth Day.

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Classy

APRIL 27, 2021

We’re bringing that honest conversation right to you with some new voices with a passion for nonprofit culture and employee wellness. . A: With many nonprofit leaders holding multiple hats and roles in their organizations, we constantly hear that they are exhausted. A: My top recommendation is to communicate very early on.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

APRIL 27, 2012

This blog post includes some reflections on the instructional design, delivery, and insights that I hope will inform the field building discussion taking place over at the Packard OE Program site. Networked NGOs and Social Media Integrated Into Organizational Communications. organizational change, and technology. Program Design.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

DECEMBER 1, 2016

Note from Beth: December is a time when start to reflect on the past year and future online trends for fundraising. Personalize all communications, even if it’s an informal email. All of us have access to our own communication channels (social media platforms, email, recommendation sites, etc.) 2: Recommendations Are Key.

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NTEN

FEBRUARY 5, 2014

The focus of our winter staff meetings was NTEN''s community-driven practice. How are we ensuring that programs come from the needs and goals of community members? How do our resources and communications provide a platform for new voices? After a year of work, the Collected Voices: Data-Informed Nonprofits report is here!

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

NOVEMBER 19, 2013

Explores the ecosystem of data for social problem solving and the role philanthropy can play. The convening used participatory methods to identify topics for small group conversations related to the theme and was expertly facilitated by Allen Gunn from Aspiration. ( I wrote a reflection last week about the facilitation techniques here ).

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

APRIL 15, 2014

She is one of the leading voices of ”social learning practice” which is about self-directed and informal learning from your online networks. She also talked about a new role called “Social Learning Practitioner,” someone who encourages and enables and supports knowledge sharing and learning across the organization.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

NOVEMBER 9, 2009

And they worked! I wanted to capture a couple of reflections on the process as well as content learnings by way of this post. . The Valley Medical Foundation: This organization provided an example of the personal versus organizational voice issue that social media often brings up. Ant Trails As Learning Opportunities.

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Connection Cafe

FEBRUARY 1, 2019

It’s also been productive for us to increase our transparency into agency decisions and to give staff an active role in strategic deliberations, program design and policy creation. Read on for great tips from HR experts and nonprofit leaders that can help you improve the culture at your organization: Jeffrey L. Reynolds, Ph.D,

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Qgiv

OCTOBER 27, 2021

Here are a few tasks you might want to turn over to volunteers or recruit more volunteers for: Day-to-day office work or cleaning Door greeter roles Docent positions Event committee positions Event registration and ticketing Event set-up and clean-up In-kind donations collection Marketing and promotion tasks Fundraising tasks Teaching or tutoring.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

NOVEMBER 16, 2011

We have designed and been delivering “ Friending the Finish Line ” with the goals of having organizations create an integrated social media strategy into their overall communications plan and as a way to accelerate the progress of their children’s health care advocacy work and create a peer networked learning community.

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BoardAssist

JUNE 3, 2014

Succession planning is the ongoing process of defining the organizational roles and capacities needed for success and of identifying and developing personnel to prepare them to fill those roles as needed. Once you give voice to the thinking you have around succession issues, it may become more real to you. Be prepared.

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Museum 2.0

MARCH 27, 2013

Young people feel competent and confident enough in their role as community members to understand the need for collaboration and that in asking adults for their input, the project may be strengthened. A key aspect of this rung is the degree to which children are engaged in critical reflection. Here's a synopsis: Participation 1.

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NonProfit Hub

JANUARY 15, 2015

Instead, consider this an opportunity to step back and evaluate goals, responsibilities, qualifications and team structure while also being thoughtful and deliberate about what you really need in the role. Do you have an effective communicator? Look Within. Do you have a people motivator on your team?

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MARCH 13, 2013

On the other hand, the growth mindset is about learning how to improve from setbacks. These people are willing to take more risks since challenging experiences are chance to grow and that their performance on every task is not a reflection on their intelligence. Some people are extrapunitive—prone to unfairly blaming others.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JANUARY 17, 2008

On Twitter, Kami Huyse pointed over to her reflections on this paper which lead me again to the paper itself. This voice, articulated through social media, can be extremely powerful and can force individuals, companies and communities to change the way they behave. s voice louder than ever before. In Edelman???s

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Michael Stein's Non-profit Technology Blog

FEBRUARY 7, 2008

"Mainly", she said, "to police our staff to make sure they haven't posted anything that would reflect badly on our organization". -- "You could also take the opportunity to post stuff yourself that would promote your organization and mission", I prompted. --"I don't think so." she chuckled.

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Connection Cafe

FEBRUARY 25, 2020

There are several areas to target for increased collaboration: Human Resources, Marketing, Communications, Executive Team. Offer profile/success stories for employee communications. The very good news is HR collects and manages employee data and can provide distribution lists and insights to help your targeted communications efforts.

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Bloomerang

JULY 2, 2021

We are here to talk about “The 3 V’s of Virtual Communication.” Hi, Steven, very glad to be here and chat with you again and featuring attendees about communication strategies. And it’s really how to communicate your cause in 2021. And ask anything about communication, what you’re focusing on.

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Connection Cafe

APRIL 7, 2016

As the United States population becomes even more diverse, fundraisers have an unparalleled opportunity to employ strategies that engage new audiences , bring new voices to the table, and enrich the nonprofit sector with new talent and leadership. Another strategy is to identify projects that may appeal to the specific audiences in mind.

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