Candid

MAY 15, 2024

We understand this as an approach that reimagines relationships among donors, nonprofits, and communities to rebalance power dynamics and decision making, prioritizing authentic connections and mutual learning. Ultimately, TBP is about facilitating community self-determination, helping partners envision and create the future that they want.

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Amy Sample Ward

JUNE 17, 2010

Last week, I had a fun time moderating the June #4Change Twitter Chat on Online Community Building. Best Practices: From @davidahood: Still strongly believe that there has to be an element of face to face/on the ground connection to any successful engagement and mobilisation of any community. Social media makes that much easier.

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Candid

MARCH 12, 2024

The community will be the judge of whether the funder is living up to those goals, and the organization can create reputational risks for itself. With that mindset, PEAK is challenging our member community to be fearless emergent learners and change agents for equity.

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Learning Journal Practice Reflection 52

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

DECEMBER 1, 2010

Photo by Teddy Llovet. Freely sharing and facilitating community knowledge is part of my DNA as it for many colleagues in the nonprofit technology field. Photo by Dkurpaptwa. There is an added benefit to learning communities. Why am I excited about this project?

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Social Media Learning Community Media 102

Candid

APRIL 29, 2024

I facilitated check-in meetings that fostered active engagement among board members, encouraging them to reflect on how their unique strengths could propel Candid toward its vision. This approach can lead to a reactive, rather than proactive, approach to addressing community needs.

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Neon CRM

NOVEMBER 30, 2023

In nonprofit storytelling, this could look like adding someone from a marginalized community to a written story or video to give the impression of diversity when the organization hasn’t created a connection with or made an impact in that marginalized community. Quote over a photo of a woman speaking. Show the difference.

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Storytelling Guide Nonprofit Story 52

NTEN

JUNE 9, 2011

Email is the annoying little brother of online communities: pesky, poking, insistent. But online communities are just one of millions of destinations competing for your community members' attention. When planned and well-written, emails are effective at gently nudging people back to your community. That's so 1995.

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The Modern Nonprofit

APRIL 7, 2024

Social fundraising campaigns allow donors to rally around individuals through status updates, photos, videos and more. With the right mindset and techniques, fundraisers can transform what feels like a burden into a rewarding experience of community, purpose, and achievement. The key is making participation fun and frictionless.

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Challenge Donation Tips Fundraising 59

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. Or the last photo in their phone.

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Nonprofit Tech for Good

MAY 8, 2020

Among other things, WhatsApp can be used to help facilitate team member collaboration, which has suddenly become much more challenging now that teams are having to work virtually due to social distancing. Documents can be attached to a WhatsApp message in various forms, and photos and videos also make suitable attachments.

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sgEngage

AUGUST 23, 2023

Consider your healthcare organization’s website — is it a useful resource that serves your community, or is there room for improvement? Optimizing your healthcare organization or hospital’s website design ensures patients and community members can find the information they need quickly. Take a continuous improvement approach.

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Websites Organization Tips Map 82

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MAY 22, 2014

Earlier this month, I facilitated a workshop for leaders of community foundations in New Jersey for the Knight Digital Media Center on the topic of practical network leadership skills. The workshop covers several topics including: Understanding the networked mindset.

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Leadership Personal Network New Jersey 107

NonProfit Hub

APRIL 17, 2024

This guide will explore best practices for creating a blogging and content strategy that drives audience engagement, encourages donations, and makes readers feel like part of your nonprofit’s community. Add authenticity by using unposed images of real community members rather than stock photos. Simple language free of jargon.

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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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Professional Leadership Develop Proposal 72

Achieve

MARCH 24, 2022

Community nonprofits, PTA fundraising groups, and thousands of other small fundraising teams struggle with the same issue: finding easy yet effective fundraisers to power their mission without breaking the bank. . Then, you’ll set up donation boxes around your community for supporters to drop off their gently worn, new and used shoes.

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Ideas Organization Fundraising Gift 59

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. Set up a mentorship program: A mentorship program is an excellent way to welcome new remote volunteers to your nonprofit’s community. Let’s begin.

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Virtual Volunteer Experiment Tips 52

CauseVox

APRIL 22, 2021

This is also called your personal profile, and it’s where you share photos, status updates, videos, etc. While Business Pages are essentially profile pages maintained and updated by the administrators, Facebook Groups are maintained by the community. What is a Facebook Page? Your personal page is where everything starts on Facebook.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MARCH 8, 2019

Photo by Equal Rights Advocates. The photo above is from a mini-workshop I did as part of Wake International’s “ Tech2EmpowerUSA.” These amazing activists work every day on the front lines of communities across the U.S., I had not been in the room before, although I did see photos.

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Learning Exercise San Francisco Instruction 87

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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Tunisia Facilitation New Zealand Technique 124

Deborah Elizabeth Finn

JANUARY 28, 2018

This is not actually a photo from the dialogue series. We refrained from taking photos, because we wanted to foster an atmosphere of candor and comfort as grantors and grantees engaged in conversation about a difficult topic. However, it is a favorite photo from another recent Tech Networks of Boston event.

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CauseVox

OCTOBER 25, 2023

This can include heartfelt notes, stories, or even photos to make the dedication uniquely meaningful. The organization Unleashing Hope builds community through their CauseVox campaign with donor wall messages. When donors contribute in honor of someone, provide them with options to customize their message or add a personal touch.

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Gift Donation Celebrate Donor 67

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. Photo by Be Chandra.

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Thailand Laos Cambodia Burma 95

Qgiv

OCTOBER 12, 2021

As Halloween-inspired decorations begin popping up around your community, a spooky scavenger hunt will get your donors on their feet and in the Halloween spirit. Participants can download an app to submit photos, videos, and text answers proving that they’ve completed challenges or deciphered clues. Halloween Fundraising Ideas.

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Ideas Fundraising Movie Contest 98

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

OCTOBER 9, 2013

I’m facilitating a Peer Learning Program for the Knight Foundation with community foundations that are hosting Giving Days using the Knight Foundation’s Giving Day Playbook. Carry your camera phone around and snap impromptu photos of your #nonprofit. Use images in every communication #21CapitalCamp.

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Camera Photography Content Strategy 101

Get Fully Funded

MARCH 16, 2023

By giving supporters a way to connect with other like-minded supporters and your nonprofit’s staff, you can facilitate community and deep relationships at these events. But, someone raises a concern about not having permission to share photos of each participant, and your fraternity decides not to share the images out of caution.

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Online Fundraising Social Media Fun 52

Tech Soup

NOVEMBER 7, 2011

Are you considering a photo or video campaign for your organization? If you have ever asked your members to post photos on Facebook or asked for stories from your clients, you have tasted the abundance that user-generated content (UGC) can bring to your organization. Pacific time Hashtag: #NPLive RSVP. Pacific time! Pacific time!

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Generation Content Question Facilitation 68

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

APRIL 8, 2013

Last week I was in Chicago to facilitate a session as part of Knight Digital Media Center’s Digital Strategy for Community Foundations and Nonprofits workshop. Lots of chatter beyond the Reddit community. He said that photo sharing is really social grooming. ” Lots of comments pros and cons.

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Social Media Digital Mobile Trend 114

ASU Lodestar Center

NOVEMBER 13, 2017

Following, Dr. Robert Ashcraft, ASU Lodestar Center's Executive Director, facilitated a conversation with Kat, Partner Jacky Alling from the Arizona Community Foundation and me, where we discussed the high impact philanthropy ecosystem in Arizona. See more photos from the event on our Facebook page.

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Arizona Impact Pennsylvania Giving 64

Have Fun - Do Good

DECEMBER 2, 2008

In her recent article, From Organizing Charity to Community Building, Susan Ellis of Energize Inc. Ellis recommends that volunteer managers focus on building community among the populations they serve, and describes the best volunteering as an "exchange." Also ask yourself, "How can I facilitate our doing something together?"

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Volunteer Build Community Facilitation 40

Amy Sample Ward

APRIL 7, 2011

SXSWcares , co-branded as SXSW4Japan, was a campaign that rallied the SXSW community to raise awareness and harness support for disaster relief. That morning, I saw the jaw-dropping photos and videos from the Japan tsunami disaster. Many of them were really driven by the community. How did you co-created the campaign?

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Raise Japan Interview Disaster 176

Amy Sample Ward

FEBRUARY 1, 2011

Last year, I had the unique privilege to help facilitate The Local Philanthropy Workshop with the TechSoup Romania team. Create Community Dialogue. Most of the time, if someone has something bad to say, other community members will step up to right the remark before you even have a chance! Multimedia Storytelling.

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Romania Create Organization Local 237

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

NOVEMBER 21, 2014

Community Block Party attendees check out participating nonprofit organizations during the event. Photo courtesy of The Miami Foundation. This post was cross-posted from the Knight Foundation Blog and written by Jessica Hodder who is the digital communications associate for Knight Foundation. “As

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Miami Raise Giving Florida 104

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

AUGUST 28, 2013

Photo by Beth Kanter. 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).

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

NOVEMBER 12, 2008

Flickr Photo by Key Lime Pie. This is part of series of reflections on what I've learned about working wikily through working on NTEN's WeAreMedia wiki - not so much the content, but the community curriculum development and knowledge sharing process. Dave's most recent critical friend post offers some thoughts about community.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

NOVEMBER 2, 2010

Flickr Photo by WiserEarth - WiserEarth's team from Around the World play Peek-A-Boo With Book. The photo above shows WiserEarth ’s team from around the world in the Bay Area during break from a staff retreat reading the Networked Nonprofit. Photo by KK. Flickr Photo by KK. Flickr Photo by James Leventhal.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

DECEMBER 7, 2015

I recently joined the advisory board of the Leadership Learning Community. Last week, we had a board retreat to dive into identifying core results as part of results-based accountability work , facilitated by an excellent outside consultant. The facilitator told us a specific time to be back.

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Tips Brain Facilitation Chart 50

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? Notes from the presentations as well as photos can be found here.

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