The Modern Nonprofit

MAY 1, 2024

But how do you ensure your events not only honor this rich heritage but also captivate and mobilize your community towards meaningful action? Well-planned events enable nonprofits, community groups, businesses and government agencies to showcase AAPI arts, food, performances, and more.

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Greater Giving

AUGUST 21, 2023

Your organization’s board and other key stakeholders—such as your major donors, staff, loyal volunteers and influential community members—can then work together with the help of a nonprofit consultant to begin strategic planning. Align your goals with your nonprofit’s values to shape your plans for the future.

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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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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MARCH 19, 2019

I presented and facilitated a small group activity on rituals. Workplaces are tapping into the power of ritual to create a sense of community, build relationships in the workplace and reduce stress. Of course, a raise or bonus is nice, but it is the public acknowledge that helps builds community. Rituals to Build Relationships.

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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. Membership programs take many forms: flat fee models with standardized benefits, tiered models with varying benefits by tier, and something in between. Target audience.

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FAQ Program Guide Arkansas 52

ASU Lodestar Center

FEBRUARY 8, 2017

He describes social capital as “those features of social organization, such as trust, norms and networks that can improve the efficiency of society by facilitating coordinated actions.” Existing research identifies gaps in the ways in which community engagement is measured.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

OCTOBER 8, 2009

Facilitating peer-learning and exchange. My participation included: An interactive presentation on best practices for using social media for external communications. Some reflections on the game: Many the networks in the room had a track record of working together and a number had deep social media expertise.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

OCTOBER 20, 2009

This includes leadership, social innovation, communications, branding, graphic facilitation, financial and funding models. Graphic Facilitation Rocks. With more time, would have done a set of three looking experience/skill, comfort, and communications/program. Peter Durand, Flickr Photo.

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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. just strategy, or just process facilitation, or just fundraising). Building Capacity for Social Change 2.0

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MARCH 30, 2010

Last week, we launched the first session of the " Social Media Lab ," a social media peer group training with a small group of grantees from the Children, Families, Communities Program. I modeled that I don't know everything. She calls it "joyful funeral" -- that you quickly say this didn't work, reflect on why, and move on.

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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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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. Kick Start Your Movement With Peer-to-Peer Fundraising. Clean Energy Leadership Institute.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JANUARY 3, 2011

My Three Words for 2011 inspired by Harold Jarche's Networked Learning Model. For 2011, my three words are: Seek, Sense, and Share inspired by Harold Jarche’s model for networked learning. How these words will guide me in 2011: Seek: Seeking is the process of keeping up to date in your field.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

OCTOBER 17, 2011

After a welcome by Kathleen Enright, President and CEO of Grantmakers for Effective Organizations, Diana Scearce, Monitor Institute was our facilitator. Next, there was a panel discussion that was live streamed on ustream, modeling transparency. Casey Foundation; and Chris van Bergerijk, Hawaii Community Foundation.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

FEBRUARY 11, 2014

As a trainer and facilitator who works with nonprofit organizations and staffers, you have to be obsessed with learning theory to design and deliver effective instruction, have productive meetings, or embark on your own self-directed learning path. Internal: These theories take into account our minds and bodies.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JANUARY 5, 2012

The instructor’s role should be to facilitate this understanding for their students, not dump content on them. This gave me an excuse to look at different types of peer learning exercises and facilitation techniques. She recently took a deep dive into reflective practice and techniques. Illustration by Beth Kanter.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JUNE 6, 2018

There would be plenty of activities that asked me to think hard, interact with colleagues, move around the room, and spend some time in personal reflection. It reflects best practices in adult learning and provides a framework that results in positive change. Pre-work would prime me for the learning objectives.

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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. A model of generosity.

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Have Fun - Do Good

DECEMBER 2, 2008

In her recent article, From Organizing Charity to Community Building, Susan Ellis of Energize Inc. Ellis reflects, "The problem, for me, is that the charity model is one-way. Ellis recommends that volunteer managers focus on building community among the populations they serve, and describes the best volunteering as an "exchange."

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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. Here’s what I learned about the facilitating design thinking processes: What Is A Design Lab? Why Use One? How do we leverage the “rain” of culture change?3.

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Saleforce Nonprofit

JUNE 24, 2021

Stevenson is a lawyer who graduated from Harvard Law School and started EJI to dedicate his life to fighting the unequal treatment of marginalized communities. Juneteenth is both an occasion for celebration and a moment for reflection. With that knowledge, we can look for new ways to share what we know between each community.

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NTEN

FEBRUARY 24, 2021

In early 2020, several longstanding NTEN members and community leaders created the first iteration of the NTEN Equity Guide for Nonprofit Technology. But this is what nonprofits do: share research, community standards, methods of service, and more, to elevate the needs of shared constituencies. This is genuinely a good thing.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

APRIL 27, 2012

It marked the start of a six month peer learning exchange where I, along with colleague Stephanie Rudat will work remotely with grantees as they implement an action learning project to put techniques into practice and facilitate organizational change from the inside out. organizational change, and technology. Program Design.

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Pakistan NGO Network Exercise 111

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MARCH 30, 2012

The model has a natural appeal. Peer learning is certainly not new, and there is rich insight draw on from the study of communities of practice. How do you set up a peer learning community that can prove valuable to a wide range of participants? Field-wide capacity is never going to be built one organization at a time.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

APRIL 24, 2011

At SXSW and facilitating a panel called A Global Discussion About Networked Nonprofits and Free Agents , I introduced myself with this photo of me and Lena, the master trainer from Yemen for the E-Mediat Project. The photo shows us modeling “shoulder to shoulder&# learning. Flickr Photo by SMEXbeirut.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MARCH 1, 2011

I’m the lead for Zoetica where my role is to deliver training, advise on the curriculum and coaching methods, model transparency, and serve as meta network weaver. Shabakat Al Ordon trains young people in technical, professional and facilitation skills who then go out and create programs to train people in their communities.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

SEPTEMBER 25, 2009

The focus of Eugene's work with this network was to better understand its community, the most promising group practices, and have an open discussion that would facilitate learning and interaction among these leaders who were miles apart, spoke different languages, and had Internet access challenges. We knew what was coming.

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Collaboration Learning Exercise Online 93

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

AUGUST 25, 2006

A team of "live bloggers" from the ranks of participants are recruited to post ramping up to the conference, assigned to take notes at sessions, and post after the event reflections or roundups. This model can also be scaled to an entire blog community platform. Take for example, the netsquared conference.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

APRIL 17, 2009

Recently, I reconnected with colleague, Joitske Hulsebosch , who I met in 2005 through Nancy White's Online Community workshop. From the English book review : " In the third chapter, "Thinking about change in five different colors", Caluwé and Vermaak introduce their color model. I was struck by his reflections of the Web2.0

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JANUARY 9, 2012

There are, however, other equally important aspects that are often missed in the numbers alone, including the fundamental changes that a leader, organization, or community experiences through their involvement in organizing and advocacy.” Community organizing. Communications and framing. Civic engagement.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

FEBRUARY 8, 2011

Last week, I facilitated an interactive keynote in Seattle at 2011 Tech for Good Leadership Summit sponsored by Microsoft Community Affairs , in partnership with NPower Seattle. By all accounts , the event held the space for peer learning. Watech4good Summit. View more presentations from Beth Kanter.

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Knowledge Seattle Social Media Measure 97

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

FEBRUARY 9, 2011

June Holley, an expert in networks and facilitating a community of practice of network weavers , defines some of these techniques below. Close Triangles: This is the practice of introducing people in your network to one another. Share Learning: To share learning, you have to intentionally hit the pause button and reflect.

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Integration Network Work Linkedin 96

ASU Lodestar Center

SEPTEMBER 4, 2013

Cultivating this discipline of planning can be greatly eased and enhanced by engaging your stakeholders in collaborative inquiry, defined by Jennifer Donahoo as a process that offers participants a systematic way to explore issues and determine resolutions through shared inquiry, reflection, and dialogue. Collecting the data.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JANUARY 18, 2011

Last week, I participated in three very intense days of project, curriculum, and online community planning for a new project, E-Mediat , a multi-stakeholder capacity building project for NGOS and Social Media in the Middle East. The debriefing question encouraged us to reflect on points of connection and reciprocity.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MARCH 19, 2012

During the next two days, I will be facilitating a two-day social media bootcamp for NGOs from Jordan and Lebanon that have been through the program in their respective countries. He founded Shabakat Al Ordon , the first networked nonprofit that I discovered in the Middle East and that provides youth ICT training 300 communities in Jordan.

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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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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

SEPTEMBER 8, 2009

Several months ago, my colleague Rachel Happe from the Community Roundtable invited me to facilitate a discussion with members about the issues that swirl around organizational adoption of social media. It helps lay the overall groundwork, iron out some of the wrinkles, and provide a model to follow.

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