The NonProfit Times

MAY 6, 2024

This way of thinking is reflected in your actions and demeanor, modeling behavior for those around you. Building an organizational culture of growth will not happen overnight. Meaningful, substantive conversations are one of the most effective ways to learn and grow. You transcend what you already know. McKinsey & Company.

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.orgSource

FEBRUARY 12, 2024

To align your mission with your brand and reflect that symmetry through products and services, you need to bring membership and marketing to the Equator. They will reward you by crafting messages that move the hearts and minds of your most important audiences and reinforce brand identity. They can alert membership to emerging issues.

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Classy

JUNE 17, 2021

If personal wellness was not at the forefront of everyone’s minds before, the year 2020 made it an unavoidable priority. In light of the pandemic and shift to remote work, we also made four wellness apps accessible (and free) to all employees: Headspace: Rest and mindfulness are integral to our physical wellbeing. Wellness Apps.

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.orgSource

MAY 15, 2023

To align your mission with your brand and reflect that symmetry through products and services, you need to bring membership and marketing to the Equator. They will reward you by crafting messages that move the hearts and minds of your most important audiences and reinforce brand identity. They can alert membership to emerging issues.

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M+R

JANUARY 24, 2022

Does our creative reflect the demographics of the audiences we want to reach? Cultural consumption. What cultural touchstones are likely to speak to them? The question here is: what is already top of mind for our audience? The first step in generating relevance is to develop an understanding of our audience.

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Classy

APRIL 27, 2021

To prevent burnout from taking over your nonprofit’s culture, passion, and productivity, you have to understand it. May is Mental Health Awareness Month, but mental health in the nonprofit workplace is a topic that calls for an honest conversation all year long. MEET LISA THOMPSON AND LIBBY RAPIN, FOUNDERS OF BLUWAVE WELLBEING.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JUNE 28, 2016

Participants reflected on their style strength and how it has helped them be successful in different situations. We had some fun doing role plays with a partner to figure out their style and some reflection on how we needed to adapt. Reflection questions : “Why did this work?”. ask, “How have sales been going?”. Thx https://t.co/5uMFbEKR3y.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

AUGUST 17, 2011

I’ve been reflecting on why some nonprofits do a better job of measurement and learning, while others do not. It comes down to organizational culture. The nonprofits that embrace measurement have a data-driven culture. The Evolutionary Stages of A Data-Driven Culture. Example of A/B Testing Results.

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Deborah Elizabeth Finn

NOVEMBER 25, 2019

I recently had a conversation with a friend and colleague about what I perceive to be a revolution in progress. It is really inspiring to see philanthropic and nonprofit professional engaging in public conversations about these challenges, and even more inspiring to see them taking action to create positive changes.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MARCH 6, 2015

This post summarizes some thoughts and reflections. To shift expectations, we let people know at the beginning of the that they could stand at anytime, pace, or sit — that we want to make standing an okay cultural norm. If a a body at rest or sitting stays at rest, so does the mind. Photo by Jim Nickerson.

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AccelEvents

JUNE 28, 2021

I’m in a position of a majority and try to be mindful of privilege, so I know that my comfort with expressing myself and engaging in discourse with a peer may be an entirely different experience than someone else. ” “To me, Pride is an opportunity to reflect, celebrate, and educate.

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Forum One

JUNE 17, 2021

Delivering authenticity in your DEI messaging means not just talking the talk, but walking the walk by working to be part of a larger cultural conversation around systemic issues of inequality. . Cultural issues of privilege and oppression are bigger than your organization. Create goals. without stated goals. Be authentic.

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Eric Jacobsen Blog

FEBRUARY 16, 2022

“Very few of us ever learned how to be present with another person, to ignore internal and external noise and distractions, and to connect and converse with others in useful or collaborative ways,” affirm the authors of the new book, Bridge The Gap: Breakthrough Communication Tools To Transform Work Relationships From Challenging To Collaborative.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JUNE 20, 2017

Part of the workshop includes an assessment and reflection about the causes of stress in the nonprofit workplace. In Santa Cruz, when the word “Perfectionism” bubbled up to the top, it lead to an wonderful conversation about “satisficing.” The word “Perfectionism” was the most frequent response.

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Classy

MAY 17, 2021

Offers an opportunity for the corporation to demonstrate its values and company culture by providing a way for employees to get involved with a nonprofit’s mission. This should include your materials for initial outreach, exploratory conversations, the pitch, and examples of how you will highlight the company in your campaign.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

NOVEMBER 17, 2010

Last week, I had the honor of doing a mini workshop at the annual BoardSource Conference called “Governing the Networked Nonprofit in An Age of Social Media &# where I had an opportunity to share some ideas on social media culture, transparency, and simplicity from the Networked Nonprofit , co-authored with Allison Fine.

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Museum 2.0

JUNE 28, 2017

One of the biggest questions on my mind as I listen is: why isn’t my industry scaling up the way these businesses do? I can think of many extraordinary innovators in the nonprofit cultural sector--people and organizations creating brilliant programs, site-based experiences, and products. Change may be necessary. Skills mismatch.

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Neon CRM

NOVEMBER 16, 2023

There Has Been a Change In Your Nonprofit’s Scope Over time, technology, politics, and culture will impact your mission and how you approach it. If your nonprofit has made any large-scale changes, your team should sit down and assess whether your mission statement still accurately reflects your work. What Is Your Impact?

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Cloud 4 Good

APRIL 16, 2021

The pandemic has created the need for new conversations, new solutions to be implemented that ensure the safety of employees and constituents while preserving the missions of nonprofit operations. Most innovation happens when you least expect it,” Jordan reflected. Zero to Three’s Crisis Challenges + Shifts.

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Whole Whale

AUGUST 25, 2021

Whether you’re a nonprofit leader or nonprofit curious, there are some key numbers to keep in mind related to nonprofits, giving, and the growing giving landscape. Giving to education, public-society benefit organizations, and arts, culture, and humanities all increased over 10% since the year before. 2015 Stats. Giving Report.

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Connection Cafe

MAY 7, 2020

Monday, May 18th is International Museum Day , the mission of which is to raise awareness of the fact that, “museums are an important means of cultural exchange, enrichment of cultures and development of mutual understanding, cooperation and peace among peoples.”. For more ideas, watch our recent webinar on this subject here.

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Qgiv

JANUARY 12, 2023

And beyond that, you can expand your reach to find even more like-minded people who would resonate with your mission and be interested in supporting your organization. Choose useful metrics that track things like your engagement, impressions, reach, referrals, and conversion rates. Determine what channels to use. Drive engagement.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

AUGUST 19, 2013

After I wrote up this summary on my blog, How To Get Started Thinking About Online Peer Learning Communities for Nonprofit Professionals , Mitch offered to write a guest post reflecting on peer learning online and online communities. The discussion thread reminded me of an AdMarketing conversation we had a long time ago.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

SEPTEMBER 29, 2011

It comes speeding at us from our email boxes, social networks, kindles, and even paper and snail mail! We scan, we browse, we try to thoughtfully read the best stuff, and interact through online conversations. 4.) Reflection: Reflection doesn’t have to be a huge amount of time to be effective.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

FEBRUARY 24, 2012

Conference where I gave my full attention to the presentations and conversation. The Wisdom 2.0 This year, I was honored to be speaking on a conversational panel about Wisdom and Social Good, Giving, and Technology along with Laura Arrillaga-Adreeessen, author of Giving 2.0 Twitter Photo by Jennifer Barr @rjenbarr.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MAY 1, 2010

Soren is the author of the book, " Wisdom 2.0 " and writes about mindfulness and technology use for Huffington Post and on Mashable. Soren is the author of the book, " Wisdom 2.0 " and writes about mindfulness and technology use for Huffington Post and on Mashable. Organizational Culture of Balance Is Important.

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Museum 2.0

MAY 9, 2012

And I talked about some of the challenges of finding the right income and expense models for a museum that operates more like a community center than a traditional cultural institution. It was terrific to have a packed room and a long, open conversation (we split the session into half presenting, half audience discussion) about these issues.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JULY 6, 2012

I invited Lisa to reflect on her experience and share some advice as a blog post. Facebook had recently revamped its Groups, and it seemed like the perfect place to take the conversation for a spin. My staff and I invited many people in our networks and our professional communities who we felt were “ripe” for the conversation.

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Media Cause

AUGUST 31, 2022

Cultural Reasons (Thanksgiving) – Being thankful for what we have and recognizing that we might have more to be thankful for than others. . Your nonprofit’s donors do not belong to you alone; you’re likely in competition with many like-minded organizations. It also presents seasonal needs for some charities. .

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Bloomerang

AUGUST 21, 2023

The Fundraising Planning and Climate Report ’s findings show the following: Adjust fundraising strategies : Based on the report’s predictions, consider adjusting your fundraising strategies to align with the current socioeconomic and cultural climate, and donor preferences. It’s important to determine the real amount of revenue needed.

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Bloomerang

JULY 16, 2021

However, if you can take the time to reflect on where you want to go, then plan how you’ll get to a certain level or leverage an opportunity into a different playing field. Keep in mind that you can request a reference from other places you’ve worked, not only your most recent employer. . Then you can look for alignment in a job.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JANUARY 6, 2014

The NetTalks series , which includes five sessions, is intended to spark a meaningful conversation around alumni engagement and supporting a broader community practice of effective alumni networks. It is also important to be mindful of how different generations use online social networking and the trends.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MARCH 21, 2017

Make Solo Time A Part of Your Team Culture. Having negative conversations with yourself in your head, gossiping with others, or venting only drains precious energy. Go have a direct conversation, make a request, or make the conscious choice that you won’t let it steal your energy or productivity. PRIORITIES.

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Eric Jacobsen Blog

MAY 5, 2022

The pandemic has forced us to check ourselves, slow down, and even to pause time and space to reflect on the lives we were leading,” says O’Neil. other words, you need to be there mind, body, and soul. Question: What kinds of conversations do you hope your book might inspire between teammates, colleagues, and friends?

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Eric Jacobsen Blog

OCTOBER 10, 2021

The pandemic has forced us to check ourselves, slow down, and even to pause time and space to reflect on the lives we were leading,” says O’Neil. other words, you need to be there mind, body, and soul. Question: What kinds of conversations do you hope your book might inspire between teammates, colleagues, and friends?

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MARCH 1, 2011

The workshop was based on the concepts in The Networked Nonprofit , including listening, transparency, simplicity, social culture, and working with free agents. It was inspired by a conversation we had during the planning sessions in San Francisco in January about whether or not there was an Arabic word for Nerd (there isn’t).

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Media Cause

MARCH 4, 2022

Everyone is encouraged to be open and honest, rank and title are left outside the room, and there’s a shared agreement that the conversation is for the greater good of everyone, so egos are not allowed. . Much of what we focus on in Retrospectives tends to be about outcomes or processes, which are completely valid things to reflect on.

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