Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MARCH 24, 2020

Since those days, I have continued to hone my virtual facilitation skills to design and deliver effective virtual meetings and trainings. This post is #2 in a series I’ll be publishing on virtual meeting facilitation. The first post was an overview of 9 virtual facilitation tips. How am I getting outside today?

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Nonprofit Tech for Good

MAY 8, 2020

She is also the Founder and CEO of Liz Ngonzi Transforms , a boutique international consulting firm that provides consulting, executive coaching, and training services that enable social sector leaders and entrepreneurs to increase their impact and reach their potential. Below are four examples: 1) Virtual Team Management.

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Bloomerang

NOVEMBER 8, 2023

15 th , 2023, is a day set aside to recognize and celebrate the contributions of philanthropy to individuals, communities, and the world. These events aim to honor philanthropists, volunteers, professional fundraisers, and organizations that have made a positive impact on their communities. National Philanthropy Day, Wednesday Nov.

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Top Nonprofits

AUGUST 3, 2021

Each student signed in to the collaborative Google document to indicate that they were in attendance. Well, maybe the student didn’t delete the whole roll sheet – maybe it just got moved into the document header. So I started using collaborative Google documents. If you share a document, someone may corrupt it.

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VQ Strategies

NOVEMBER 22, 2022

When training nonprofit leaders, I often share that volunteers want to make a difference. Rarely have I gone deeper than the obvious impacts on solving problems in the community to explore what making a difference means on an individual level. Training : Engage volunteers in training other volunteers.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JANUARY 4, 2017

Emerging Leaders Playbook: With the generous support of the Packard Foundation and in collaboration with Third Plateau Social Impact Strategies, we wrote and published the Emerging Leaders Playbook last year, along with facilitating a peer learning cohort with colleague Stephanie Rudat.

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Bloomerang

MARCH 30, 2023

Has your nonprofit identified an unaddressed need within your community? To help you build a sustainable volunteer program, in this guide, we’ll cover the essential steps for starting a volunteer program: Conduct a community needs assessment. Train volunteers. Streamline ongoing volunteer management and communication.

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Candid

APRIL 11, 2023

Companies can benefit from sponsoring your event by: Boosting their brand awareness and credibility in your community. For instance, let’s say your nonprofit’s mission is focused on advancing science, technology, engineering, and mathematics (STEM) education in your community.

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Bloomerang

JULY 19, 2023

Creates an environment that facilitates fundraising Regardless of whether you do face-to-face fundraising, ensuring that the organization is prepared to fundraise is the development professional’s main priority. The BIPOC or LGBTQ communities? The forward-thinking development professional performs the following six practices: 1.

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Top Nonprofits

JULY 1, 2022

You’ll be able to leverage these features to create a user-friendly nonprofit website that facilitates online donations and other transactions, keeps donor information secure, and increases brand awareness. Plus, they both have a strong user support community. Staff training to assist with content migration and entry.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

DECEMBER 31, 2013

I taught social media integration and “ Train the Trainers ” workshops for trainers who would be delivering the curriculum throughout Tunisia. Peer Learning Capacity Building Programs: This year I continued my work in designing and facilitating peer learning programs on behalf of several foundations for their grantees.

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Tech Soup

MARCH 12, 2015

One finalist's pitch was: "We have buy-in from the community, we have rich networks on the ground, and we are building on pre-existing technologies." Empowering Marginalized Communities Using Technology. Dd's mission is "to empower marginalized communities to use technology to defend their rights."

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Connection Cafe

DECEMBER 11, 2020

Leading a group of passionate volunteers, doing deeds that help the community around you, and making a meaningful difference to an important cause are what make the job of a volunteer management leader worth it. Online document collection. It’s easy to share key documents online now, even if it’s just through email.

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Beneblog: Technology Meets Society

MARCH 14, 2012

I have led Martus outreach and training for the past 4 years and worked with human rights defenders all over the world, but because of the project-specific nature of our work, I interact with each of our partners separately. The Benetech Human Rights Program (HRP) team is small - and the Martus outreach and training team is no different.

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NTEN

NOVEMBER 1, 2010

Amy Sample Ward, Community Development Manager, TechSoup Global. Over the last few of years I've had a the opportunity to work with a team of intelligent and thoughtful colleagues, speak at conferences, and collaborate with other facilitators and community builders. Community Map. Why : Why map your community?

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

APRIL 8, 2014

Note from Beth: I’m working with the Knight Foundation to facilitate a peer learning exchange that will help their community foundation partners learn and spread best practices in planning and implementing Giving Days. What’s the best way to recruit and train volunteers on a Giving Day? Today, we are excited to share them.

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NTEN

JUNE 10, 2011

Maybe you’ve also taken the next step of strengthening your stakeholder community by engaging in back and forth dialog online – whether in existing social spaces like blogs, Facebook, Twitter, and YouTube, or in a custom built online community. Are you ready to take your community to the next level of maturity? Some are huge.

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Qgiv

SEPTEMBER 8, 2021

She has tremendous knowledge on managing the day-to-day challenges of fundraising and enjoys facilitating the decision-making process with clients. She is especially passionate about helping boards become more inclusive and intentional in representing the communities they serve. Looking for additional tips on working with your board?

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JANUARY 2, 2015

Facilitator for Learning Network: Most of my work is designing and delivering capacity building projects for nonprofits literally all over the world and here in the US. I wrote many posts on instructional design for nonprofit training , including this wrap up post from our NTEN NTC session on teaching and learning for nonprofits.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JANUARY 4, 2016

I also designed and facilitated a six month peer learning cohort with colleague Stephanie Rudat. Innovation Lab Facilitation : For the past few years, I’ve trained in and designed and facilitated innovation labs using the Luma Institute Methods.

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Candid

FEBRUARY 20, 2024

At Candid, we partner with libraries and nonprofit resource centers across the country to provide nonprofit organizations and local communities with free access to Candid’s educational resources, trainings, and products. Candid community partners are strengthening the local nonprofit sector and helping their communities.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

NOVEMBER 21, 2014

Community Block Party attendees check out participating nonprofit organizations during the event. These strategies are helping community foundations experiment, iterate and implement best practices when it comes to hosting Giving Days as well as document and spread those practices to others in the Network.

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Nimble AMS

MAY 20, 2019

Salesforce uses this Hawaiian word which means “family” to describe their culture and the larger family of their customers, employees, partners and communities that “…take care of each other, have fun together, and work collaboratively to make the world a better place.” Fun and easy product training. Investment in innovation.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

APRIL 27, 2012

The four-day intensive face-to-face training was for senior level staff and their social media staffers. With facilitator’s guidance, grantees will design and implement a small action learning project. Grantees Implement A Modest and Realistic Action Learning Pilot. We did this on Day 1.

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NonProfit Hub

DECEMBER 9, 2022

If you want or need more from them, it’s critical that you communicate those expectations clearly. Here are a few ways to get started: Set board goals quarterly for volunteer hours, attendance, donations, or facilitating new connections. . Include expectations as part of your onboarding process for new members.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JUNE 6, 2018

Developed by ETR in 2014, this is a research-based approach for designing and delivering skill-building trainings. Now, our staff retreat was not actually intended as a skill building training. Sarah Axelson, MSW, is the Director of Training at ETR. Step 1: Be Intentional About Intent.

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NonProfit Hub

MAY 4, 2021

If you want or need more from them, it’s critical that you communicate those expectations clearly. Here are a few ways to get started: Set board goals quarterly for volunteer hours, attendance, donations, or facilitating new connections. . Include expectations as part of your onboarding process for new members.

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Amy Sample Ward

DECEMBER 18, 2009

Are you working in the nonprofit community? Perhaps you manage a communications team and want to dive into social media but you’re a little old school. As sessions happen people volunteer to document the outcomes on a wiki (The notes of what was said is even better). NonProfit 2.0 Then from midmorning forward, NonProfit 2.0

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Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

SEPTEMBER 19, 2008

September 19, 2008 Note: This blog entry was originally posted on Idealware’s new community blog. Some, especially those that are very content/document heavy, have become familiar with Document Management Systems (DMS). Increasingly, a wide variety of training opportunities are being delivered via LMS.

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Connection Cafe

APRIL 6, 2020

It’s easy to push training to the bottom of a packed priority list, but it is truly an investment. Tons of organizations are offering free training – including Blackbaud! Schedule time on your calendar monthly for training so it doesn’t drop to the bottom of the priority list again! This is important because….

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Care2

MAY 11, 2011

We so often focus on learning from innovative online campaigns that we miss out on opportunities to integrate offline cause communities and grassroots advocacy. Facilitating face-time and team building for your regional staff. telling the stories of homeless individuals across the United States has been well documented.

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Nonprofits Source

AUGUST 18, 2023

Robust reporting facilitates informed decision-making and aids in demonstrating the impact of your efforts to stakeholders. We installed the plugin on our website, set it up on the host page, and have begun sharing with our community in only a few hours time! Carefully evaluate these elements in your matching gift software buying.

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Tech Soup

JULY 17, 2012

The Community Forums. Lara also facilitated a discussion regarding TechSoup product donations, which are currently available in 40 countries. Send qualification documents. TechSoup’s senior marketing manager Lara Franklin first gave a presentation on where to find resources on the TechSoup website. The TechSoup blog.

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Classy

JULY 14, 2021

The Collaborative used virtual networking happy hours, gamification and contests, and attendee-to-attendee live chat to facilitate this. An emcee can also help your nonprofit facilitate smoother transitions with the technology, as that person can remind your audience about important features for engaging during the sessions.

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DNL OmniMedia

FEBRUARY 9, 2022

An RFP is a document that thoroughly details your project, its purpose, your needs, and the guidelines you’ve already laid out. Frost on Fundraising – Speaker Training. Staff, management, and executive-level coaching and training in a variety of areas. Board governance training in a concise “Boards 101” format.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

APRIL 4, 2010

He welcomed me to the Bay Area and asked if I would be interested in doing some trainings for the local arts community. I think this style is a better match for social media as well as social media training. Most importantly, I need a good facilitator for each table. I said yes. Somethings to improve.

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Museum 2.0

DECEMBER 11, 2020

As a teenager, asserting my independence, my friends and I would take in the train to catch late night showings of Laser Floyd in their Rose planetarium. The game itself then becomes a document of that relationship (for those in the know). SR: My favorite games are board games, I think.

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