Nonprofits Source

OCTOBER 30, 2023

Because of their distance, however, it’s easy for them to feel disconnected from your nonprofit’s community if you don’t have specific initiatives to help them feel included and engaged. Host a live-streamed orientation session and consider recording it to give volunteers the flexibility to watch it at any time. Let’s begin.

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Nonprofits Source

OCTOBER 30, 2023

Common ideas for in-person nonprofit events include fundraising galas, donor acquisition lunches, and community engagement events. In-person events are a unique opportunity to build deeper relationships with the businesses in your community. Community building. Some of the drawbacks of in-person events include: Cost.

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Nonprofits Source

APRIL 15, 2024

By taking advantage of more traditional methods as well as leveraging social media and peer-to-peer fundraising best practices, you’ll be on your way to hosting a winning event! Start planning early and secure your venue, date, and speakers, and you’ll be on your way to hosting a successful gala!

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

OCTOBER 8, 2009

The workshop was hosted by the Packard Foundation and Monitor Institute. Facilitating peer-learning and exchange. My participation included: An interactive presentation on best practices for using social media for external communications. I revised the cards for the first time in a while to reflect some of the new content.

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Social Media Reflection Network Strategy 82

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

DECEMBER 31, 2013

International Training Work: Most of my work is designing and delivering capacity building projects for nonprofits literally all over the world. This past year I had the honor of facilitating an intense training in Tunisia in January for Women Entrepreneurs that included leadership, entrepreneurship, business planning, and communications.

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NTEN

AUGUST 15, 2013

In July 2010, Amy Sample Ward wrote a blog post called Monthly Chats About Community Building: Are You With Me? Just two weeks later, having received a ton of thoughtful comments on that original post, her new headline was Join the Monthly Community Building Chats !

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Facilitation Guidelines Hosting Twitter 82

Qgiv

FEBRUARY 6, 2024

Your community trusts you to keep their private information safe, whether it’s your donors’ payment information or personal details about who you’re helping. Create strategies to restore any equipment that was impaired due to a cybersecurity incident and keep your community updated. Notify affected parties. Best practices.

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DipJar

JUNE 20, 2023

Nonprofit membership programs can help your organization raise money, build your network, and give members a louder voice in your organization or community. What will they cost to produce, host, or send out? Apply all knowledge you have about your donor base and community. What is a nonprofit membership program? Dues and tiers.

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FAQ Program Guide Arkansas 52

Tech Soup

MARCH 12, 2015

Many years ago, NetSquared hosted challenges and conferences to highlight and bring together fledging social entrepreneurs. 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." Key Challenges in Working in Remote Areas.

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Deborah Elizabeth Finn

JANUARY 28, 2018

The process was a collaboration in itself, with TSNE MissionWorks , and Essential Partners serving as co-hosts. What you see here are a few notes that reflect my individual experience. World class facilitation and guidance was provided by Essential Partners, with the revered Dave Joseph serving as facilitator-in-chief.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JANUARY 4, 2016

I had a wonderful break – filled with fun, family, walking, hiking, reading, quiet, and reflection. One annual ritual is to create “To Do/Not To Do/Reflection” notebook where I use modified bullet journaling to track my progress. I also designed and facilitated a six month peer learning cohort with colleague Stephanie Rudat.

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Bloomerang

MAY 17, 2021

You are the philanthropy facilitator. . You — and the entire social benefit sector — need organizational-development-grounded philanthropic facilitators. Organizations are complex systems that interact constantly and significantly with a host of other equally complex systems. Culture tends to reflect who’s in charge.

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ASU Lodestar Center

JANUARY 29, 2014

Student seeking the Certified Nonprofit Professional (CNP) credential from over 40 campuses across the country attend workshops, hear from national leaders and provide the host community with opportunities to learn from student case studies. It is not easy to pull this together for the national organization or the local campus.

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Leadership Reflection Arizona Student 49

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JUNE 20, 2017

Last week I facilitated a workshop on the Happy Healthy Nonprofit: Linking Nonprofit High Performance to Wellbeing in Santa Cruz hosted by the Community Foundation of Santa Cruz County. Part of the workshop includes an assessment and reflection about the causes of stress in the nonprofit workplace.

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Nonprofit Culture Reflection Poll 123

NTEN

AUGUST 15, 2013

In July 2010, Amy Sample Ward wrote a blog post called Monthly Chats About Community Building: Are You With Me? Just two weeks later, having received a ton of thoughtful comments on that original post, her new headline was Join the Monthly Community Building Chats !

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Facilitation Guidelines Hosting Twitter 60

Classy

APRIL 16, 2021

We’re acknowledging eight nonprofits leading the charge with dedicated fundraising campaigns as communities unite to support a cleaner, healthier, and more sustainable planet. The event gives passionate supporters a way to breathe and reflect. CELI also hosts an annual 5K Run for Clean Energy every spring to support their mission.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MARCH 6, 2015

I just returned from my 15 consecutive Nonprofit Technology Conference hosted by NTEN! If you take this lens to walking , you can see that it has economic, social, transportation, community health, and other benefits. The slides and resources from the session can be found here. Finally, the IT is the system and design thinking.

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Qgiv

OCTOBER 27, 2021

Volunteers help nonprofits connect with the community. There are likely a number of interested parties in your community that want to make the world a better place. For example, you’ll need far fewer volunteers at a small lecture event than you will at a community-wide dance-a-thon. Use current volunteers as a resource.

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Volunteer Strategy Guide Local 98

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MAY 4, 2015

I also was honored to facilitate a reflection exercise as part of the closing plenary session with data for good rock stars Bob Filbin, Jeffrey Blandt, and Jake Porway. Here’s a round up closing plenary and a brief reflection about the plenary session and some great learning moments below. Mark of a good conference?

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Conference Data Exercise Reflection 50

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. It is about making it possible for participants to capture, share, and reflect on what they have learned. Year in Review.

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Instructional Design Facilitation San Antonio North Carolina 50

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MAY 7, 2013

This event is a biannual training workshop on information, communication, and technologies for citizen media, community health, and civil society development in Mekong Region and included participants are coders, journalists, and NGO staff from Burma, Cambodia, Laos, Thailand, and Vietnam. Format: Our session was 90 minutes.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JULY 29, 2013

I was invited to blog about the launch of ImpactRising.org , a new resource for nonprofits and social sector consultants intended to support their organizational capacity building efforts, build a vibrant community of practitioners, and ultimately grow impact across the sector. Paying it forward: ImpactRising.org.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JANUARY 3, 2011

A lot the products of my sense-making are shared through this blog, flickr, YouTube, and Slideshare – as well as offline through presentations, book and article writing, and facilitating workshops. Sense: Sensing is making sense of the information. Most of all, sensing requires discipline, a routine, systems, and being organized.

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Share Reflection Social Media Model 102

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MARCH 15, 2012

Note from Beth: I’m hosting a small army of guest bloggers, grantmakers, who are attending the GeoFunders National Conference taking place this week in Seattle. The GEO community is united by a common drive to challenge the norm in pursuit of better results. How to set aside time for reflection and learning.

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Learning Seattle Knowledge Management Evaluation 92

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JUNE 13, 2011

Last week public relations and measurement professionals met in Lisbon for a Summit hosted by AMEC (The International Association for Measurement and Evaluation of Communications). We’ve come a long way since the early days of social media in terms of measurement practice.

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Measure Social Media Media Metrics 115

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. Diverse Goals. Building buzz and press for an advocacy action. Raising funds. Building local chapters.

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Advocacy Community Build Storytelling 72

AccelEvents

JUNE 16, 2021

For brands with a smaller budget, or perhaps those who don’t take their event seriously, they might use a streaming service and other pieces of software to host and then promote their event. You don’t want to lose track of your attendees as this can reflect poorly on your brand, on the event organizers, and you can lose potential customers.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

NOVEMBER 19, 2013

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 ). Crisis communication strategy. Disaster work.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

OCTOBER 31, 2011

Some reflections questions I used to understand the data: What content/links are of interest to the people who are engaging with me? For example, here’s the spreadsheet from the workshop I facilitated that was hosted by Compasspoint. I track to learn and improve relationships on Twitter. Who is regularly retweeting me?

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Twitter Tools Learning Measure 110

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. Here’s what I learned about the facilitating design thinking processes: What Is A Design Lab? Why Use One?

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Bloomerang

JUNE 1, 2022

Ensure all of your marketing materials reflect your organization’s brand by incorporating your logo, fonts, colors, and tone of voice. Your online donation form itself should be easy to fill out to facilitate ongoing donations through your website. Events are a great way to reinforce a sense of community within your organization.

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Guide Giving Nonprofit Metrics 107

Forum One

AUGUST 17, 2009

Before the event we used the Knowledge Garage to share document resources with participants, promote discussions and idea sharing, and to facilitate online connections so participants could better connect with each other when the Summit began. Make the event site a community rather than a conference program.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

NOVEMBER 9, 2009

Last week, I had the opportunity facilitate a " Social Media Strategy Map " workshop for over 100 Bay Area nonprofits. The workshop was hosted by Compasspoint , with support from the Lucile and David Packard Foundation. Robot Voice Disguiser for Large Group Facilitation. Compasspoint Workshop Slides - Beta.

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Neon CRM

JANUARY 23, 2024

Consider hosting a special event to provide your organization with some valuable face time, or give them opportunities to connect with you on a one-on-one basis. Most donors won’t give large sums without a genuine understanding of how that gift will impact their community and help them achieve their own philanthropic goals.

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Gift Strategy Raise Database 52

Qgiv

APRIL 23, 2021

Silent auctions can be hosted in-person or virtually, meaning participants can bid for prized items from the comfort of their homes. Because of the auction logistics, from where it’ll be hosted to what items need to be procured, it is more difficult to host a successful silent auction fundraiser on a whim.

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Fundraising Virtual Sponsor Hosting 52

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JANUARY 27, 2010

On Tuesday, I had the opportunity to do a Webinar called " Social Media for Trainers: A Bag of Tricks " over at the Engage 365 Online Community site. I've been experimenting with integrating social media into instruction for the past five years, so the webinar was a great opportunity to reflect on practice. How: 6 Tools and Tips.

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Museum 2.0

APRIL 15, 2015

We were discussing the potential for cultural organizations to have significant impact across communities: on planning, health, education, and quality of life. The Yerba Buena Center for the Arts (which she directs) teamed up with the San Francisco Planning Department and the Knight Foundation to host the Market Street Prototyping Festival.

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