Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

NOVEMBER 18, 2014

The hot button issue was capacity, skills, and lack of resources. It was articulated as: “We don’t have the skills to analyze, slice and dice, and make sense of our data, so it is hard to do it well.” I hear this too often from nonprofits. The people with skills are out there.

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fusionSpan

DECEMBER 18, 2023

At fusionSpan, we’ve been supporting non-profits to take full advantage of this. Contact our experts today for a personalized consultation and take the first step towards enhanced efficiency and growth. Ready to supercharge your Salesforce with AI? Easy creation of new Salesforce applications.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

NOVEMBER 29, 2012

One of the reasons cited in the report and also from participants on the webina: “We don’t have the skills to analyze, slice and dice, and make sense of our data – so we don’t look at it.” The skills are out there. ” I hear this too often from nonprofits. from MIT in rocket science.

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ASU Lodestar Center

SEPTEMBER 18, 2018

New investors and for-profit professionals are starting to work in this sector, and the line between businesses and nonprofits is beginning to blur. Many business experiences and skills can be adapted to the nonprofit sector - such as project management , sales and marketing, and accounting. Evaluate Your Skills and Experience.

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Bloomerang

JANUARY 22, 2024

This guide will teach you what you need to know to get your new organization up and running. In contrast to for-profit organizations, nonprofits rely on donations, usually a combination of individual donations, grants, sponsorships, and corporate donations, to fund their operations and further their charitable missions. In the U.S.,

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NonProfit Hub

MAY 18, 2018

Just because your organization is “not for profit” doesn’t mean you aren’t profitable. Part of the organization’s mission is to teach young women business practices. ” I can’t tell you how many times I’ve heard this question during consultation sessions with nonprofit professionals.

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Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

JUNE 11, 2007

" That blog entry came about because she and I had a long conversation about what kinds of skills nonprofit technology providers needed, and what we felt was missing. There are many challenges – how do you teach self-reflection and self-evaluation? How do you teach the ins and outs of the nonprofit sector?

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Qgiv

AUGUST 10, 2022

Matt Hugg, President and Founder, Nonprofit.Courses – He’s the author of the Guide to Nonprofit Consulting, and teaches nonprofit management at several universities, via the web, and in-person in the United States, Africa, Asia and Europe. Find out where their skills are in this area and use them! Board Evaluations.

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NTEN

JANUARY 22, 2009

Sometime after leaving WGBH and feeling lost about my career for a while, I discovered NTEN and the career called "non-profit techie" That’s when I also discovered the two-step secret to becoming a non-profit techie. Step 1: Call yourself a career non-profit techie !

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NTEN

FEBRUARY 4, 2013

Dan was a revered figure in the New England community of mission-based organizations and nonprofit technology assistance providers – a consultant’s consultant. In the non profit sector - we benefited from all of those remarkable qualities. He was truly a “gentle man”. My colleagues and I saw that dedication all the time.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

AUGUST 17, 2011

Works with measurement consultants or specialists to improve skills and capacity. Works with measurement consultants or specialists to improve skills and capacity or to commission independent study and provides training and professional development for staff. Celebrates successes by sharing measurement data across the organization.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

APRIL 23, 2015

From 2001 – 2011, nonprofit growth represented 25% of economic growth; and for-profits? There will be a lesson learned, there will be clear accountability and you might – just might – have mentored someone in important leadership skills. But only if you lead with the belief that failure always teaches everyone something.

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NonProfit Hub

MARCH 3, 2016

Marius has more than 20 years of experience in analytics and data warehousing and was previously the co-founder and CEO of Integral Results, a leading business intelligence consulting company that was acquired by Idea Integration. But do we hear of big data powering nonprofits to new levels of donations and impact?

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Care2

SEPTEMBER 14, 2007

Consultants and Vendors Thursday, November 16, 2006 at 05:26PM | by Justin Perkins Matt Howes Guest Blog By Matt Howes, Director of Technology, Media Matters for America Remember when the webmaster did everything from graphic design to information architecture and content writing? 60) Search « Would you like a share of $5 million?

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Everyaction

DECEMBER 12, 2017

Learn about new and proposed accounting and auditing standards and how they will impact not-for-profit entities and their auditors. Our institute is designed to advance the skills and knowledge of nonprofit professionals, volunteers, board members, and community leaders. 40th Annual FAE Nonprofit Conference. Finance / @nysscpa.

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NonProfit Hub

NOVEMBER 22, 2016

Cause Camp is Nonprofit Hub’s annual conference, bringing the best and the brightest from both the for-profit and nonprofit sectors, to inspire, educate and transform nonprofits of all shapes and sizes, from all over the world. She enjoys writing, gardening, volunteering, hiking, vegetarian cooking and teaching her kids how to bake.

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Wild Apricot

JUNE 27, 2008

Think back to your school days, and which teaching style was most likely to keep your attention long enough to learn something â?? These might include knowledge or skills tests, observations notes, evaluation forms, even anecdotal reports collected after a presentation, workshop, training session, meeting or other communications event.

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Care2

NOVEMBER 16, 2006

Consultants and Vendors Thursday, November 16, 2006 at 05:26PM | by Justin Perkins Matt Howes Guest Blog By Matt Howes, Director of Technology, Media Matters for America Remember when the webmaster did everything from graphic design to information architecture and content writing? 60) Search « Would you like a share of $5 million?

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Eric Jacobsen Blog

SEPTEMBER 18, 2013

If the union knew our real profit prospects, they would beat us black-and-blue at the bargaining table. Workers were also encouraged to move from family to family to expand their range of skills. Rather than making their powerful writing skills even stronger, children weak in geography waste time on remedial geography with few results.

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Classy

JULY 13, 2021

Even seasoned fundraisers and nonprofit professionals need to learn new skills and hear new perspectives, and that’s where our reading list comes in. This book focuses on getting results by teaching new and experienced nonprofit leaders the fundamental skills of effective management. By Alison Green and Jerry Hauser.

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Have Fun - Do Good

JUNE 20, 2006

Urban Sprouts teaches youth to grow, harvest, prepare, and eat vegetables from the school garden in order to help them to become more engaged in school, eat better, exercise more, and connect with the environment and each other. And some of them had gardened before. So there's a pretty good amount in the Bay Area.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

APRIL 20, 2007

NTEN blog points us to Code for Change this Summer , an opportunity for those with drupal skills to put them to good use. Social Media and Nonprofits Anshe Chung Studios in China has been quietly building a Second Life space, managed by TechSoup, for non-profits. You've got to love their logo. " Have any to add? Paul Lamb might.

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Have Fun - Do Good

SEPTEMBER 9, 2009

What makes us special, I think, is the caliber of consulting that we do. What that means to us is a company that has reached 15 million in revenues, has been profitable for four consecutive quarters, and has been cash positive for four consecutive quarters. I'm a personal believer that you can't teach someone to be an entrepreneur.

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Michael Stein's Non-profit Technology Blog

MARCH 21, 2006

I often wonder if technical troubleshooting skills can be taught, and what the best way is to do that. Donald Gause and Gerald Weinberg wrote a cute little book a while back ago that tries to teach problem solving. And that includes both consultants, and on-staff IT people who need to solve their user's problems.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JULY 1, 2005

I am 28 years old and am just beginning to work in consulting and training in the use of new web tools for research and communication. More specifically, I help non-profit, small business and academic groups and individuals learn how to use web applications and services like RSS, blogs, wikis, search, social bookmarking, podcasting and more.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

NOVEMBER 14, 2018

The thesis of the book is that as technology becomes more pervasive in our work and personal lives, interpersonal skills become more essential. This year was honored to be the keynote for the Washington State Nonprofit Conference and teach a workshop at University of Washington. Here’s an article by Dan about his new book.

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Have Fun - Do Good

JULY 3, 2006

But by and large, people were pushed into poverty wage jobs and forced to make profit for huge corporations, while not having any opportunity to improve the living standards for themselves or their families. Through the negotiation training, women began identifying particular problems that they were having in their work. Steve Williams: Yes.

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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. one of my favorite things about our guests is she’s been in her shoes, right, she’s been an ED, she’s been not just a consultant but also has worked for and with nonprofits directly, which is great, over two decades.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

SEPTEMBER 27, 2016

Note from Beth: As a trainer and someone who teachers other trainers, I’ve been obsessed with improving my facilitation skills and written a lot about it on this blog. ETR is a non-profit that develops and evaluates health education programs. Whenever we can, we assess knowledge and skills before a training event.

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Qgiv

JULY 21, 2022

Patton, Senior Consultant at Donorly. They can help you with more technical processes and teach you how to improve your data hygiene routine. Lean into your storytelling skills to explain the need that the donor’s gift will fill, and then ask for a specific dollar amount. Patton – Senior Consultant , Donorly.

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Have Fun - Do Good

JUNE 21, 2006

We do a garden nutrition program at our two school sites and at the YMCA site, which is basically for children, at these sites, teaching them about gardening and about nutrition. And it's all primarily youth run, as well, so it's another kind of laboratory for our young people to learn business skills.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

NOVEMBER 28, 2009

My social media plans for 2010 involve 1) developing my own knowledge and skill set, 2) helping to develop a strategy for my organization- Metro United Way in Louisville, KY - and 3) teaching within my organization to develop the knowledge and skills of others. Erin even wrote a little poetry as part of her entry.

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Bloomerang

MAY 28, 2021

It’s a skill because when you have influence, you have everything. And in my work, when I started teaching and training people influence, I realized, “If I can teach you influence, marketing is so much easier. Well, if we’re not allowed to make a profit, then what is our value? We’re a nonprofit.

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Have Fun - Do Good

NOVEMBER 28, 2007

"[T]hose of us who take pictures, even for our own personal trips, and share those pictures with friends, because we have that skill, also have an obligation to help people understand each other more completely. Right at the end of that period, I also was teaching. I never went back to doing purely communications consulting.

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Have Fun - Do Good

JUNE 30, 2007

Then out of that class, I did a lot of work and discovered that what I wanted to do was pass on the Art and Revolution skills, the dance, and the theater and how to bring art into the streets to homeless youth, and low-income youth of color. Louis, Missouri, and I was working for an environmental law clinic as a consultant.

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