Judi Sohn

MARCH 3, 2011

I look forward to the NTEN NTC (Nonprofit Technology Network's conference) every year. I guess I'll be grateful for that, as it was my being vocal about my displeasure over the timing of the conference that introduced me to many of the people in the organization I hold dear today. . No checked luggage, no security lines.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

APRIL 1, 2013

It takes you through the technologies and tools for each channel for different goals and offers up lots of case studies from organizations such as National Wildlife Federation, Red Cross, AARP, Clinton Bush Haiti Fund, American Museum of Natural History, SEIU and others. Click to see larger version.

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EveryAction

APRIL 1, 2016

In the past year, thousands of nonprofit pros took advantage of our definitive Best Nonprofit Conferences Calendar, and we're so excited to share our brand new 2016 list! As this collection of fantastic conferences continues to grow, we'll be updating event details like ticket prices and event hashtags - you're welcome! Drop us a line!

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MARCH 31, 2014

A study ( [link] ) funded by the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation and MacArthur Foundation has found “when digital games were compared to other instruction conditions without digital games, there was a moderate to strong effect in favor of digital games in terms of broad cognitive competencies.”. Conferences' In Philanthropy.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

SEPTEMBER 17, 2013

As a Master Trainer, one of my favorite models of training adults is the Peer Learning Exchange where a group of participants who are working on a similar project or domain of practices interact regularly to learn how to do it better. The Giving Day Playbook has this useful staffing template.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

OCTOBER 20, 2009

I have been near Camden, Maine for the past few days at the PopTech 2009 Fellows Program as part of the PopTech 2009 conference ( streaming live ), which starts on Wednesday. This includes leadership, social innovation, communications, branding, graphic facilitation, financial and funding models. PopTech is an.

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Nonprofits Source

OCTOBER 6, 2023

Whether you’re paying for employees to attend conferences or go back to graduate school in your field, prove that you’re invested in your employees’ long-term growth with professional development opportunities. Empower them to experience all your community has to offer by providing funds for social outings. Mentorship programs.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

AUGUST 4, 2009

The Environmental Defense Fund or EDF is a grantee organization and also attended the Packard Foundation's recent Network Effectiveness Convening by the Monitor Institute in Washington, DC in May. The objective of the The Innovation Exchange is to facilitate rapid and widespread adoption of environmental innovation in business.

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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. I was presenting a strategic technology workshop at one of their conferences.

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Tech Soup

JULY 8, 2011

Guardian’s ACTIVATE is an annual conference that aims to bring together leaders in media, government and technology to a ctivatedly. Being a novice in the Third Sector, my interest in this conference was mainly about. Being a novice in the Third Sector, my interest in this conference was mainly about. On the core.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MAY 8, 2016

For the past few years, I’ve been facilitating a peer learning group with a small cohort of grantees , all community foundations, hosting Giving Days in their communities using the Giving Day Playbook. What Happened on Give Local America Day? How did community foundations support their nonprofit partners when things got bad?

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

SEPTEMBER 13, 2012

In fact, Lucy has been terrific in finding new ways, like Branch , to use the social tools to facilitate a global brain around these ideas. They shared a slide (see above) about new models we’ll see that combine both – especially the “not invented yet.” Let’s start with a definition first.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JANUARY 18, 2011

I’m the lead for Zoetica for this project where my role is to deliver training, advise on the curriculum and coaching methods, model transparency, and serve as a sort of meta network weaver. A true public/private partnership, the funding partners include Microsoft and craiglist Charitable Fund.

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Museum 2.0

JUNE 25, 2007

I spent Saturday in beautiful Monterey, ocean pounding outside the window of a conference room, where about 40 museum folks were pondering a question more elusive than the origin of the waves: can museums change the world? Their website includes a clear, concise "What Can I Do?"

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JUNE 28, 2006

Katie Salen Parsons (She co-wrote the book Rules of Play ) We're facilitating a process of games versus making games. Scholarships, Role Models (more women making games) How to build change: design games build tools to allow others to design games (example - funded by MacArthur - game to allow kids to design games) design as make-a-game.nl

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Have Fun - Do Good

JUNE 24, 2009

I've been hearing a lot about the Social Innovation Fund lately, an element of the Serve America Act. A May 6th White House blog post by Jesse Lee, What is the Social Innovation Fund? says that the Fund will, "identify the most promising, results-oriented non-profit programs and expand their reach throughout the country."

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

AUGUST 27, 2010

The workshop was presented by the Colorado Association of Funders and the Colorado Nonprofit Association and sponsored by Gill Foundation , Gay & Lesbian Fund for Colorado , The Colorado Health Foundation , and The Colorado Trust. I’ve using the technique to deliver conversational keynotes at conferences.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

DECEMBER 16, 2010

I’ve had the pleasure working with Diana Scearce , from Monitor Institute, who has been facilitating and weaving this network. Recently, I presented a high level overview of crowdsourcing , including examples from the lens of funding and doing. impact of the crowd-produced product, impact on the crowd / community)?

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

NOVEMBER 5, 2014

Last week, I was honored to deliver the lunch keynote at the 2014 TechNow Conference in Pittsburgh, PA organized by The Bayer Center for Nonprofit Management at Robert Morris University. (My Giving Day Campaigns and Crowd Funding Campaigns Are Than Dollars Raised. Who are the people you want to reach? How would you describe them?

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

OCTOBER 27, 2014

Last week I was lucky enough to facilitate a mini-innovation lab for 60 community foundation program officers at the first meeting of ProNet during the Council on Foundations conference in Cleveland, Ohio that celebrated 100 years of community philanthropy.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

APRIL 13, 2007

His definition: projects that are not well funded. " Rolf Kleef has looked over the list to identify " facilitator projects " that give people the tools to improve their own situation in their own way. Here's Steve Wright modeling his ). Congrats to Avaaz.org for the winning video in the NTC Video Contest.

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Have Fun - Do Good

AUGUST 1, 2007

This summer I've been interviewing the innovators behind the 21 Projects that went to the NetSquared Conference (N2Y2) this year (I'm the Community Builder for NetSquared). Freecycle is a nonprofit that facilitates people giving and getting stuff for free in their own towns. Deron Beal: My name is Deron Beal.

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Connection Cafe

OCTOBER 31, 2011

Daring to Lead’s findings indicate that you have a 44% chance of interviewing with an organization whose board can’t come together – as a united front – and say that each board member supports the cause enough to hand over personal funds. Before you accept a job offer, you deserve to know if the board has your back.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

APRIL 21, 2010

Last week I was in Pittsburgh for 2010 GEO National Conference, " Unleashing Philanthropy's Potential: Smarter Grantmaking for Better Results." The session examined what networks mean to grant makers, many who are oriented to funding single organizations. . Networks 101 Presentation View more presentations from dianascearce.

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Bloomerang

NOVEMBER 13, 2021

If you all don’t know Marie, she is the lead consultant over at Funding for Good. If you don’t know Funding for Good, their principal, Mandy Pearce, has been on our webinar series many, many times over the last few years, recommended Marie as her top expert. You may be saying, “What do donors want to fund?”

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Neon CRM

SEPTEMBER 26, 2023

Fundraising Tools: Most nonprofit CRMs also come equipped with fundraising tools that facilitate donations, both online and IRL (that’s “in real life,” for those of you who don’t speak Internet). If you regularly attend industry events and nonprofit conferences , you can cast an even wire net for recommendations (or warnings).

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Have Fun - Do Good

OCTOBER 6, 2010

Dining for Women is a seven-year-old organization that facilitates a network of 130 giving circles across the country. I was just in Atlanta for our leadership conference, and one of the chapters there was saying that they've all become best friends, and that really is the glue that holds them together.

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Museum 2.0

SEPTEMBER 11, 2008

While there are some criticisms of its consensus-based model for information-vetting, there's no doubt of its success as a collaborative knowledge-creation project. a conference). After the conference, the wiki switched from being a participatory site to a useful record. The wiki has to be the best tool for the job.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

APRIL 10, 2012

It’s hard to find funders who will fund a risky idea – they usually want case studies an proven techniques. If people fail in an intervention model, you can destabilize a society. If you doing a plenary discussion panel at a conference, it is a good question to ask the host. It comes from individuals with ideas.

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Connection Cafe

JUNE 29, 2020

If ever there was a mandate to reexamine the role and process of funding, now is that time. The practice of funding has traditionally been lopsided in favor of those doing the granting. It emphasizes six core principles to establish stronger relationships and streamline administration: Provide multi-year, unrestricted funding.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MAY 24, 2012

” Using a webinar and conference call platform, we were able to bring in participants from San Francisco, Rwanda, Kenya, Algeria, Tunisia, and Egypt. She shared Akili Dada’s model and impact for developing high-potential young women from underprivileged families who are passionate about social change.

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Have Fun - Do Good

JUNE 29, 2006

So, last spring Ella Baker Center, to launch its new program Reclaim the Future, took a big role in the United Nations World Environment Day Conference that was happening here in San Francisco. How to have better practices in communication, and I think one of the things we do at Art and Action is model collective leadership.

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