.orgSource

MARCH 6, 2023

Is it possible that your community has doubts about the organization’s credibility? We structured this conference based on feedback from.orgCommunity’s fall Solutions Day participants. Could the decline in membership be a reflection of the decline in trust? It is still possible to create that community, but on a smaller scale.

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Associations Leadership Question Wisconsin 221

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JANUARY 2, 2023

Review the Year: I use a tool called the “ Year Compass, a free downloadable booklet that provides a set of structured reflection questions that help you look back and ahead. I call it my “To Do, To Done, Don’t Do, Reflection List.“ also use it as a reflection as the year progresses.

Professional 89

Professional San Jose Journal Facilitation 89

The Modern Nonprofit

MARCH 26, 2024

Estimated Reading Time: 5 minutes Turning Crisis into Community: How to Make Emergency Donors Lifelong Supporters As nonprofit professionals, we are all too familiar with the cycle of emergency fundraising. Increased opens, clicks and shares will indicate interest areas to highlight in future communications.

Support 52

Support Donor Community Retention 52

Bloomerang

JUNE 5, 2024

Consider using scoring rubrics or structured interview protocols to standardize evaluations and minimize bias to keep things equitable. Engage with these communities to find those who are already stepping up. Make the effort to make sure your board reflects a wide range of backgrounds and perspectives. Welcome them aboard.

Director 76

Director Guide Metrics Nonprofit 76

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.

Government 57

Government Collaboration Nonprofit Evaluation 57

VQ Strategies

OCTOBER 7, 2022

The assessments reveal some undeniable benefits to these structures, including volunteers with profound pride in the historical contributions by these entities, remarkable dedication of council leaders, sincere interest in recruiting new volunteers, and a deep passion for the organization’s mission. Lessons from the Field.

Structure 98

Structure Volunteer Model Leadership 98

sgEngage

OCTOBER 9, 2023

The data collected is usually owned by the grantmaker, not questioned, and not shared back with the grantee or any larger community. For issues with this, check out Vu Le’s 2015 post “ Weaponized data: How the obsession with data has been hurting marginalized communities.” Consider: Who defines objectives and “success”?

Participatory 88

Participatory Evaluation Empowerment Grant 88

EveryAction

JULY 3, 2023

Ensuring a smooth user experience is especially critical for complex virtual campaigns like peer-to-peer fundraising, which relies heavily on your website to facilitate a number of different interactions between donors, their networks, and your organization. Illustrate your mission, work, and community to make compelling cases for support.

Virtual 190

Virtual Site Support Fundraising 190

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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Virtual Facilitation Exercise Training 130

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. How do I determine the best structure for my program? Here are some factors to consider when structuring your membership program: Your organization’s goals. Target audience.

FAQ 52

FAQ Program Guide Arkansas 52

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MAY 7, 2008

Last week was the first week of our workshop as laboratory and Brownyn offered her meta reflections here and Sus Nyrop shared her thoughts here and Nancy White here. The second week of the workshop started last week and it is a week of "field trips" to existing communities of practice. May not translate to other communities.

Reflection 50

Reflection Nptech Tag Community 50

Deborah Elizabeth Finn

JANUARY 28, 2018

What you see here are a few notes that reflect my individual experience. As far as I can ascertain, this series was the first in which grant makers and nonprofit grant recipients came together in equal numbers and met as peers for reflective structured dialogue. What is the heart of the matter for grantors and grantees?

Evaluation 52

Evaluation Grant Data Boston 52

Top Nonprofits

AUGUST 3, 2021

Not surprisingly, their perception was that the conversation had been poorly facilitated and had no structure! I’ve shared all materials ahead of time to encourage participants to check whether they can access them, and so that participants have a chance to review the materials and reflect on them. It wasn’t a big deal.

Virtual 52

Virtual Track Student Virtual Classroom 52

ASU Lodestar Center

MAY 10, 2016

Collaboration is emerging as a popular vehicle to solve complicated problems that our communities face. The remedy though is a lengthy and exhaustive processing of mission, purpose, vision, establishing of roles, sharing of strengths and weaknesses, preparation for power imbalances and conflicts, structure and governance, and planning.

Collaboration 40

Collaboration Training Train Impact 40

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

OCTOBER 7, 2014

Last month, I participated in a Design Thinking Lab with network leadership practitioners convened by the Leadership Learning Community. The lab was facilitated by Heather Mcleod-Grant and Justin Ferrell , Director of Fellowships at the Stanford d-School. The questions: What do you hope to learn today? Once upon a time x happened.

Design 105

Design Course Leadership Network 105

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. It is a more structured body break and incorporates more in-depth debrief on content.

Learning Theory 138

Learning Theory Learning Brain Exercise 138

Museum 2.0

NOVEMBER 18, 2014

What''s the best way to get formal input from diverse community members? I''ve mostly seen museums employ one of two methods for formal community advisors: Create special "spots" on the board of trustees for certain kinds of community representatives. PRO: gets diverse community members in positions of real authority.

Community 39

Community Story Museum Map 39

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.

Share 102

Share Reflection Social Media Model 102

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

Build 112

Build Change Social Facilitation 112

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MARCH 30, 2012

How do you set up a peer learning community that can prove valuable to a wide range of participants? We at Monitor Institute have been digging into questions such as these as part of a broader reflection on the networks-focused work of the organizational effectiveness team at the David & Lucile Packard Foundation.

Learning 97

Learning San Francisco Structure Knowledge Management 97

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.

Problem 62

Problem Data API Global 62

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? Making: Ideation and Rapid Prototyping.

Design 50

Design Strategy Facilitation Advocacy 50

Beneblog: Technology Meets Society

NOVEMBER 3, 2008

I received a copy of her reflections and asked if I could share it with more people. As an intern, I was working for Bookshare in Chennai, India, as their "on-the-ground" person, doing outreach and helping to establish a structure that will support their service there. Thanks to Anna for saying yes, and for sharing her experiences!

Accessibility 100

Accessibility India United States International 100

ASU Lodestar Center

MAY 18, 2016

Researchers have often referred to social enterprise structures as the “fourth sector” (after private, public, and nonprofit) because they combine charitable missions, corporate methods, and diverse social and environmental philosophies in ways that surpass the traditional business and philanthropy models (Billitteri, 2007).

Model 53

Model Fund Social United States 53

Museum 2.0

MARCH 27, 2013

I've written about different structures for participatory processes (especially in museums), and recently, I've been interested in how we can apply these structures to the design of public space. He's explicit about different project structures and their implications, listing five levels of participation and three of non-participation.

Design 49

Design Participatory Children Museum 49

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

OCTOBER 11, 2009

Over the summer, Holly Minch , who is an expert at helping nonprofits and philanthropies unlock the potential of strategic communications for social change, suggested that I facilitate a workshop on social media strategy with a group of nonprofit and philanthropy communications folks. .

Social Media 97

Social Media Strategy Communication Remix 97

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JANUARY 5, 2007

I've been reflecting on some of the points made about the pros/cons of the NpTech Tag and the comment that Laura Quinn left here. But is there a way to make it proactive and more organized rather than reactive with no structure or organization? Post 1 : Some initial musings on blog communities and facilitated learning.

Nptech 50

Nptech Tag Discussion Taxonomy 50

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JULY 22, 2008

I'm just back from the red eye and really tired - and wanted to capture a few reflections about network effectiveness and resourcing. This is a group of women who have been working/playing together to explore how technology can support the World Cafe global community. tools that facilitate this. Marnie Webb by JD Lasica.

Network 50

Network Skype Blogher Wiki 50

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JANUARY 25, 2011

Daniel facilitated a network mapping activity with NNF’s 10 education advocacy staff from regional offices and headquarters. Social networks have specific structures and patterns to them. Have each person add the “go to&# people, organizations, or online communities that help reach their objective.

Network 124

Network Map Exercise Nonprofit 124

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.

Channel 87

Channel Instructional Instruction Instructional Design 87

Bloomerang

SEPTEMBER 24, 2021

Community engagement, though at times unwieldy and time-consuming, is critical to truly propel all variables towards a common goal. Julie Ha Truong will outline best practices in community engagement in planning. I wish I could see you all because so much of what we do in this work is building community. That would be wonderful.

Community 84

Community Video Slides Survey 84

Everyaction

DECEMBER 12, 2017

We invite you to join in this extraordinary conference experience and community in the spirit of love, curiosity, and respect for each other and our LGBTQ family. Governing well is one of the most profound ways to help our communities. Northern California Grantmakers and Silicon Valley Community Foundation / San Francisco, CA / $350.

Calendar 85

Calendar Conference Las Vegas DC 85

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JULY 13, 2010

The instruction not only included the content – all the best practices and how-tos, but also took an approach that encouraged and developed reflection. The best part of this design is that participants are the content – the community is the curriculum! Participant-Generated Instructional Content.

Social Media 99

Social Media Network Media California 99

Museum 2.0

JUNE 6, 2008

On June 4, we opened The Tech Virtual Test Zone , a new 2000 sq ft gallery at The Tech Museum of Innovation featuring exhibits on the theme of art, film, and music that were originally developed in Second Life by a community of creative amateurs. We inspired a community and got real results. Give away the fun (and easy) part.

Virtual 21

Virtual Tech Lesson Develop 21

Forum One

FEBRUARY 19, 2024

This Black History Month, we reflect on the strategy work that our team does through our partnership with the Smithsonian National Museum of African American History and Culture —much of which centers around expanding access. It was a lovely evening that inspired a rich conversation. But then, As we all know, the world shut down.

History 74

History Accessibility Museum Award 74

Forum One

JANUARY 26, 2024

This targeted approach can lead to increased visibility among individuals seeking in-depth information on relevant subjects, ultimately fostering a more informed and supportive community around your nonprofit’s cause. Regularly update your content to reflect the latest industry trends and changes.

International 91

International Strategy Search Structure 91

Bloomerang

FEBRUARY 1, 2022

And what we’re seeing is that while this is encouraging, the numbers are going up, nonprofit boards are still far from representing the communities that they serve. Next, it’ll allow us to cultivate trust and confidence with the communities that we serve. Okay, so positive trend.

Leadership 64

Leadership Fundraising Gift Slides 64