Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

FEBRUARY 12, 2019

. Much of my training and facilitation work lately has been centered around the ideas in my recent book, The Happy Healthy Nonprofit. I’ve been facilitating nonprofit workshops and staff retreats focused on creating a culture of wellbeing in the workplace. The conversation surfaced some interesting questions and ideas.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MAY 8, 2018

Last month, I was honored to present and facilitate an all-day workshop for nonprofit leaders at the Oregon Nonprofit Leadership Conference on how to activate a culture of well being in the nonprofit workplace, based on my book, The Happy Healthy Nonprofit: Strategies for Impact without Burnout.

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MARCH 10, 2023

orgCommunity event featured interactive conversations led by engaging speakers , with decades of leadership experience in the association sphere. We spent our time in round table discussion with association leadership professionals , learning and sharing our own experiences. With work, MacRae was able to improve the culture at ENA.

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JUNE 6, 2014

That''s why we''re doing our best to recruit a remarkable group of facilitators to help shape your experience. Each track will have two Lead Facilitators and several additional Facilitators who will design spaces and lead small group conversations to make sure that every participant has the chance to both learn and share.

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Eric Jacobsen Blog

FEBRUARY 20, 2024

Conducting meetings that take conversations down rabbit holes that cause widespread frustration amongst the members of your group. Communication Fitness : How to facilitate conversations, conduct effective collaboration, bring value to customers, and lead productive meetings. Horwath : Killing meetings.

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Connection Cafe

MARCH 6, 2020

First up is Colleen Dilenschneider, the Chief Market Engagement Officer for IMPACTS, a global leader in predictive market intelligence and related technologies, and the publisher of one of our team’s favorite websites, Know Your Own Bone , which shares data and analysis about how cultural audiences think and behave.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MAY 26, 2015

Guidestar has multiple office locations, so this session was done as a virtual meeting using a platform and apps that offered features like chat, desktop sharing, polling, white board, sticky notes, and audio and video conferencing. It is between the two methods. This helped us do a better job of sense-making.

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MARCH 17, 2022

You can start by sharing information and agreeing to work on something for a few short weeks or months. When these foundations work together, even briefly, they can leverage these assets to amplify each other’s efforts and meet priority needs that fit their community’s particular culture and environment. .

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

APRIL 30, 2020

Now more than ever we must create a robust workplace culture and stronger relationships to retain our humanness. We are not used to conversations with another person while we are staring in a mirror. Incorporate water cooler conversations into your virtual collaboration space. Why Remote Work Is Exhausting. Want more ideas?

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

SEPTEMBER 20, 2016

A few weeks ago, I wrote a blog post called “ Why the Nonprofit Work Ethic Is Outdated and Needs Change ,” about why nonprofit professionals need to pay attention to self-care and bring a culture of wellbeing into the nonprofit workplace. (The When I shared this article on my Facebook Page , it resonated with a lot of people.

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ASU Lodestar Center

JUNE 29, 2021

While not all stakeholders can participate in the task force meetings, ensure that reports and goals will be shared throughout. This will help shape your conversations, strategies, and goals. Remember, working with a consultant or a facilitator will require resources, which may be limited. Engage with a DEI professional.

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MAY 26, 2021

As hosts of the Collaborative , an annual immersive experience designed exclusively for nonprofits, we’re no strangers to facilitating meaningful connections. Visit and refresh your website, LinkedIn profile , and any other personal or professional accounts that you hope to share. Leave Room for Serendipity .

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Eric Jacobsen Blog

NOVEMBER 6, 2023

Conducting meetings that take conversations down rabbit holes that cause widespread frustration amongst the members of your group. Communication Fitness : How to facilitate conversations, conduct effective collaboration, bring value to customers, and lead productive meetings. Horwath : Killing meetings.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

NOVEMBER 2, 2016

I am thrilled with the response to The Happy Healthy Nonprofit: Strategies for Impact without Burnout as my co-author and I have been sharing the ideas on a virtual book tour during the last month. One of our hopes for the book was that it would spark conversation about the need for self-care as part of doing the work.

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sgEngage

JANUARY 10, 2024

We utilize datamaking as part of shared meaning making. However, when we initiate a more practical conversation, we can determine which questions will be most useful. The following image conveys what this looked like in practice for the same cultural intermediary that used the matrix tool above.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

AUGUST 17, 2021

The hybrid workplace will have a huge impact on the way we design and facilitate meetings, the primary method of how many organizations get stuff done. Our new normal will most likely be more complex to design and facilitate. Here are some considerations for designing and facilitating pandemic-era hybrid meetings.

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AUGUST 25, 2022

No longer just inherent to explicitly tech-based conglomerates, tech fuels everything from banks and financial services to food-delivery services and traditional retail as it facilitates the rapid migration online to meet the needs of a world spending more time at home than ever before. Implementing Ethics In Company Culture.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JULY 11, 2017

.” This would be a network or community of practice that freely shares and learns from one another about training and capacity building that is participatory , peer-learning , networked , makes use of design thinking , openly shared and a prelude to collective action. Lack of platforms/resources to facilitate innovations.

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JULY 20, 2022

The Smithsonian National Museum of African American History and Culture (NMAAHC) was planning the next installment of their already-successful and well-attended event, “A Seat at the Table.” It was a lovely evening that inspired rich conversation. The process of sharing the meal and conversation is central to the event experience.

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Bloomerang

AUGUST 2, 2021

Mastering personalized, customer-centered philanthropy facilitation, especially mid-level and major donors, to increase donor lifetime value. Internalizing and externalizing an organization-wide culture of philanthropy. Here are some examples of what you can share: A story they’ll want to enter into. Arts and culture.

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Bloomerang

AUGUST 16, 2021

Mastering personalized, customer-centered philanthropy facilitation, especially mid-level and major donors, to increase donor lifetime value. Internalizing and externalizing an organization-wide culture of philanthropy. Do you know what social media posts they like or share? Mastering relevant content marketing.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JULY 23, 2014

If you want to a chance to win, leave a comment on this post sharing something that you’d like to learn about Impact Leadership or some wisdom from your experience about practicing impact leadership! One of our first design tasks as facilitators was for all of us to get clear on what we mean by “Impact Leadership.”

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Deborah Elizabeth Finn

JANUARY 28, 2018

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. World class facilitation and guidance was provided by Essential Partners, with the revered Dave Joseph serving as facilitator-in-chief. My Recommendations.

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Bloomerang

JUNE 21, 2021

If it won’t inspire them to share their love of your mission with family and friends, rethink this strategy. . We give it labels like “culture of philanthropy” and “donor-centered fundraising.” As the fundraiser, you must lead the way in developing a culture that supports this. Donor Experience . Brian Solis .

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

FEBRUARY 10, 2015

Yet, many nonprofits are loosing productivity and less creative because they are trapped in a culture of sitting. We know sitting too much is bad for your health , but the culture norm at work is sitting, whether it be around a meeting table with other people or in front of a computer screen. A Walking Culture at Work.

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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. That’s why we’ve included a highly practical toolkit that consists of facilitator agendas and worksheets for nonprofits to apply the ideas and frameworks.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

APRIL 10, 2009

One of my favorite things about writing a blog, are the conversations in the comments and sidebars (private email conversation). I learn so much from those who have share their stories and advice. He allowed me to share his story if I stripped out all the identifying details. I'll call him "Sam" (not his real name).

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DECEMBER 20, 2021

Part of the job of being a true philanthropy facilitator is showing donors how they might benefit from being a little more generous. Today I want to look at two ways to promote philanthropy that are too-little used by the lion’s share of charities: Current tax incentives. IRA distributions. IRA Distributions . Final Note.

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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. This takes buy-in from the top down.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JUNE 20, 2017

Last week I facilitated a workshop on the Happy Healthy Nonprofit: Linking Nonprofit High Performance to Wellbeing in Santa Cruz hosted by the Community Foundation of Santa Cruz County. In Santa Cruz, when the word “Perfectionism” bubbled up to the top, it lead to an wonderful conversation about “satisficing.”

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OCTOBER 5, 2021

Building off this Salesforce foundation, UVM has utilized the new CRM as a centralized tool allowing for more effective information sharing. Centralizing Communications + Connections in the Community. It’s also keyed into one of UVM’s rallying taglines: “ amplify our impact.”

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Bloomerang

JULY 26, 2021

Mastering personalized, customer-centered philanthropy facilitation, especially mid-level and major donors, to increase donor lifetime value. Internalizing and externalizing an organization-wide culture of philanthropy. Is it easy to share your website and other links via social media or email? . Social media should be social.

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ASU Lodestar Center

MARCH 9, 2022

What are the tactics and structures one must incorporate into their nonprofit models to ensure they are doing their due diligence to collaborate and share resources with nonprofit agencies of all racial and ethnic make-ups? There is much need for spending time with community members, learning their culture, beliefs, and needs.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

OCTOBER 22, 2013

Last week, I was lucky enough to participate in a brainstorming meeting at a foundation that was developing a strategy for its digital platforms (web, social, mobile, etc). The process was facilitated byPeter Maher, founder and CEO, of Luma Institute. Understanding: Methods for Analyzing Challenges and Opportunities.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MARCH 15, 2013

This post summarizes the sessions I facilitated or participated in related to “ Measuring the Networked Nonprofit ,” which included a book signing, panel discussion in the Beacon Lounge , and a workshop with co-author KD Paine. They shared the story of one of their YouTube videos getting 1.5 Neff (@daveiam) March 11, 2013.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

SEPTEMBER 21, 2010

Ironically, it was during a session facilitated by Phil Klein called “Tackling the Unexpected&# who shared insights about he took back his life after surviving a cancer diagnosis. We had a fantastic conversation about the role of leadership in changing the culture of the organization.

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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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