Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

APRIL 3, 2017

Last year we were honored to facilitate an emerging leadership program for a cohort of leaders who were part of the Packard Foundation’s Conservation and Science portfolio of grantees. Creating Next Generation Leaders and the Organizations to Support Them – by Beth Kanter and Kari Dunn Saratovsky.

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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? New Technology for New Power Movements.

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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 ). Here’s a blog post by Rachel Dearborn describing the process.

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AUGUST 2, 2021

Mastering personalized, customer-centered philanthropy facilitation, especially mid-level and major donors, to increase donor lifetime value. To give you an example of how to do this, a recent client was having problems telling the story of the marine conservation program they were building. Mastering relevant content marketing.

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For example, it wouldn’t make sense for a nature conservation organization to partner with an oil company. If you have a few potential partners in mind, take a look at your constituent database and see if you have any connections that would be willing to facilitate an introduction. Rely on your connections.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MARCH 27, 2017

Note from Beth: Last year I was honored to partner with Kari Dunn Saratovksy from Third Plateau to facilitate an emerging leadership program to a cohort of leaders who were part of the Packard Foundation’s Science and Conservation portfolio of grantees. Flickr Image – ImageGroup.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MARCH 15, 2012

During the facilitated discussion session at GEO’s National Conference in Seattle it was my great privilege to convene a group of brave pioneers. She has been working in philanthropy for over 15 years in community and private foundation settings focused on social justice, conservation and health and human services.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MAY 28, 2014

Last week, I had the pleasure of designing and facilitating the ultimate social media practitioner panel at the Social Media on Purpose Conference hosted by Stanford Social Innovation Review. The panelists included: Cindy Johanson , Executive Director, Edutopia. Matt Fitzgerald , Attention Lab Director, Upwell. ” Yes!

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

OCTOBER 7, 2010

We had one person handling the technology and another person serving as moderator in the room. We had planned our presentation to include content delivery and facilitated discussion – and it worked. For the audio, we use a phone line that was fed into the AV system and wireless mic. Talk about multi-tasking.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MARCH 19, 2012

” The article described fascinating new uses of sensors and other smart telecommunications devices in energy conservation, transportation, health care, and food distribution. TechSoup Global is building NGOSource , an online data repository to facilitate the sometimes costly business of getting grants to overseas charities.

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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. I appreciated the facilitation provided by Mukara Meredith who integrates universal principles of healing into a new model of leadership called Matrixworks.

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Nonprofits Source

SEPTEMBER 25, 2023

As a result, your employees can facilitate the matching gift or volunteer grant process right from nonprofit websites without having to do extensive research on your corporate giving program. They mostly support children’s hospitals, arts and STEM education, and environment conservation.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JUNE 1, 2010

Or the Web site Microsoft Hohm that lets people calculate their energy footprint and get tips on conservation. Take for example deploying 200 sensors throughout the Brazilian rainforest to measure and visualize the effects of climate change. “ Unleashing Technology. View more presentations from Akhtarbad.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JULY 9, 2008

It's been over a month since my trip to Australia where I presented and facilitated workshops at the ConnectingUp Conference. Clear guidelines are important - see this interview I did with folks from Nature Conservancy about their contest. Nature Conservancy Photo Contest. Photo by Feast of Fools. Creative Commons Swag Contest.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

AUGUST 17, 2008

I work for a conservation organization and we???re Listening is a critical marketing practice and it just so happens that social media tools help facilitate listening. I received this email recently: Dear Beth: I've been receiving your blog for a couple of weeks & find it fascinating reading. I also read Seth Godin???s,

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JULY 28, 2009

Our job as organizational communicators lies in trying to facilitate a larger conversation by providing the means for people to share, perhaps initiate conversations, and highlight the great work and thoughts of others. Movements involve people, not Marketing, PR, Comms, Public Affairs, etc., Never forget that, either.

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AUGUST 17, 2016

The more my organization has become focused on community engagement, the more we've balanced being experience producers with being experience co-creators/facilitators. Is it more effective to produce X yourself or empower others to produce X in their own contexts?

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

AUGUST 11, 2009

We simply put up a sign that tells the visitor where the artwork is (on loan to another museum, on view elsewhere in the building, or in the conservation center for treatment). conference in January 2009, in which he talked about how Flickr is a great tool to facilitate communities. We are storage, after all. at the Smithsonian 2.0

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MARCH 8, 2007

is a web-based digital photo sharing application that uses tags to facilitate finding people and photos. Nature Conservancy Photo Contest. Here's a few resources that might be of interest: How to do you explain flickr to those who haven't heard of it? It isn??????t t simply about putting your photos up on the web for the world to see.

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Connection Cafe

AUGUST 5, 2020

For example, Monterey Bay Aquarium’s mission statement is “To inspire conservation of the oceans.” With CTAs, you can help to facilitate that user’s initial giving journey. How can you incorporate CTAs into your nonprofit website and increase your virtual fundraising efforts?

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

AUGUST 12, 2009

Notwithstanding the apprehension of many of today’s more traditional or conservative leaders and managers, the possibilities of crowdsourcing useful vision and wisdom from employees, constituents and markets has been made much easier with the capabilities of today’s interconnected and interlinked Web.

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JUNE 25, 2007

Let’s start with some examples (many of which were also presented at AAM): The Monterey Bay Aquarium maintains an Ocean Action group that visitors can join to get involved in advocacy for marine life and conservation. The Congo Gorilla Forest , is a special exhibition produced by the Wildlife Conservation Society at the Bronx Zoo.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

FEBRUARY 6, 2008

Colleagues Jonathan Coleman from the Nature Conservancy and Carie Lewis from the Humane Society are also mentioned and quoted extensively. A new role here to facilitate these Wired fundraisers.

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APRIL 23, 2021

If you find yourself needing to budget more conservatively, using volunteers instead of staff or receiving auction items as donations is a good idea. In addition to showcasing your auction items and facilitating registrations, make sure that your website can host “fund-a-need” items.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

DECEMBER 28, 2008

An easy way to support the Nature Conservancy if you're on Facebook is to install (Lil) Green Patch. So, why not consider a micro loan to lend4health that facilitates loans to individuals with autism spectrum disorders so they seek treatment. April: We celebrate Earth Day this month. Organizations like Kaboom help build them.

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Have Fun - Do Good

MARCH 21, 2008

An Ocean Conservancy member created a Facebook Cause for the organization without telling them. I guess that explains why I've been hearing frogs at night since February) Frogwatch USA is a monitoring program that facilitates people's collecting and sharing data about frogs in their area.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

OCTOBER 12, 2006

Joitske Hulsebosch, who lives and works in Netherlands, writes a blog called " Communities of practice for development " where she writes about topics related to her work of facilitating processes at different levels; teams, groups, organizations, networks, and communities of practice.

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JANUARY 26, 2024

Pursue educational keywords related to your cause Let’s say you’re a nonprofit organization dedicated to environmental conservation. Additionally, a well-structured sitemap can reveal essential metadata, such as the last modification date of a page, facilitating timely updates in search engine databases.

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FEBRUARY 11, 2013

Competition is real in the marine conservation space. With just a year and about $1 million to prove our model, this pilot project (incubated by Ocean Conservancy) had no choice but to invent a new way to collaborate. It’s our mission to make the ocean more famous online. Blue” orgs get a small fraction of environment funding.

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OCTOBER 30, 2007

An early talk-back in that conservation-minded exhibition asked, 'What can you do to help the environment?' The pledge talk-back was in the context of an exhibition explicitly about conservation controversies (and many visitors responded emotionally to the exhibit rather than making pledges). What made these solicitations meaningful?

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Connection Cafe

OCTOBER 31, 2011

I’d urge you to “drill down” and ask to see the source document that shows a specific outcome, whether it is a legal document showing that a piece of land was conserved, or a stack of surveys indicating that students now know how to report bullying.

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Everyaction

DECEMBER 12, 2017

Join other data experts, academics, practitioners, and social sector leaders for two days of skillfully-led sessions on topics ranging from aligning practice with policy to creating a culture of data, and how Silicon Valley is facilitating data practices in civil society. Research / @SSIReview. The Corps Network National Conference.

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JUNE 22, 2011

As examples, check out Conservation International. It isn’t that we need to organize them, but we need to facilitate ways for them to organize themselves. Instead of printed annual reports, try doing a video with interview and clips from what you’ve done the last year. Engage your Millennials as guest bloggers.

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MAY 26, 2021

These small adjustments to your donation form will inspire donors and facilitate donations… and all of them can be done in just a few minutes. Environmental conservancies can show people enjoying the outdoors. Don’t have much time? That’s perfect! Want to see these tips in action?

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MAY 18, 2023

Operations & Leadership Google Ads for Nonprofits: 12 Expert Tips for Managing Your Campaigns 24 min read Read Now Online Donation Form Strategies donation form best practice: a section where you can write an appeal to donation page visitors Your online donation form is the key player when it comes to facilitating online donations.

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Have Fun - Do Good

AUGUST 1, 2007

Freecycle is a nonprofit that facilitates people giving and getting stuff for free in their own towns. And in doing so, of course, we move forward our nonprofit conservation mission of keeping good stuff out of landfills. Britt Bravo: Where did the idea for the Freecycle Network come from?

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JUNE 10, 2016

Her most recent nonprofit position was as the director of development and communications with the NC Conservation Network. She holds a certificate in Nonprofit Management from Duke University and is a trained facilitator. Image 1 : Reed George / CC BY-SA. Image 2: Heather Yandow. spanhidden.

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