Blue Fox

AUGUST 4, 2021

If your board members hit the snooze button during meetings, this will reflect in their commitment to fundraising, advocacy efforts, and follow through on assigned tasks. You’ve come to the right place for ideas to jazz up board meetings.

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.orgSource

MARCH 14, 2023

Our members were privileged to hear their reflections on a unique time in their organizations’ history and how the pandemic’s impact reshaped their future. Sharon Rice ,orgSource, Managing Director of Business Strategy, moderated this insightful conversation. Eroding Trust Trust was the theme for the ColLAB.

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Bloomerang

MAY 17, 2021

Welcome to the real world of “more than a great fundraising technician”—and that holds true for pretty much any senior-level position, e.g., program director, finance officer, and of course the ED/CEO.”. Here are some good places to begin: Building a Culture of Philanthropy in Your Organization , Simone Joyaux, Nonprofit Quarterly.

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Bloomerang

JUNE 28, 2023

Additionally, they may have reached a point in their lives where they are reflecting on their legacy and the impact they want to leave behind. The fact remains that most charitable giving still goes to the donor’s family, the school they attended, and their church, synagogue, or place of worship.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

AUGUST 27, 2010

Some Reflections. From Conversational Keynote To Conversational Workshop. I’ve been playing with the conversational panel or conversational keynote models for short sessions (60, 75 or 90 minutes.) A conversational approach is not an expert or a group of experts talking the whole time.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

FEBRUARY 9, 2010

It also has a track that takes place in a large room with roundtables and a designated discussion topic and facilitator. I was asked to facilitate a session on the question, "Should CEOs and Executive Directors Use Social Media?". It has to be authentic, reflect the CEO's personality. I think it depends. .

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sgEngage

SEPTEMBER 6, 2022

Thankfully, there are tools in place to help you map out a marketing strategy that fits your organization. In her conversation with Blackbaud Institute Managing Director Ashley Thompson, Rachel shared insights into how your organization can assess your marketing effectiveness and goals that you can set to reach marketing maturity.

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Saleforce Nonprofit

APRIL 7, 2021

The pandemic revealed the importance of having a strong digital infrastructure in place to weather storms, seamlessly run your entire mission, and set you up for future growth. In our Thought Leadership Spotlight, we’ll be hosting a conversation about organizational resilience and embracing a digital-first future. Because it’s Free!

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Candid

AUGUST 25, 2022

I had recently joined Madison House Autism Foundation as the Director of the Autism After 21 Utah Project (AA21 Utah). Our mission is to develop neuro-inclusive communities for adults with autism and other intellectual or developmental disabilities to ensure that everybody has a place and a sense of belonging in the world.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

APRIL 4, 2010

He is Deputy Director for the Contemporary Jewish Museum , and an expert in using social media in a museum setting. The inspiration was part The Lab Theater a place where you try out contemporary or experimental works before you bring them to the main stage and part peer learning program.

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Museum 2.0

MAY 21, 2014

It has some of the same feel as the disconnected affection of people wishing you a happy birthday on Facebook, with professional reflection baked in. Seeing so many cheerful one-liners in my inbox made me think about how different my work situation is today than the last time I reflected on it in public in 2012, at my one-year anniversary.

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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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Whole Whale

MAY 24, 2023

Reflect : Once a week, take some time to reflect on your progress and make any necessary adjustments to your system. If you are looking for a way to improve your productivity, GTD is a great place to start. Reflect : Once a week, take some time to reflect on your progress and make any necessary adjustments to your system.

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sgEngage

DECEMBER 18, 2023

We can learn through reflection and come to deeper understandings. Knowledge, however, is socially constructed and located specifically in place and time. The underlying assumption and pressure is that, if we just gather the right information and use that information to make decisions, then the world will be a better place.

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Cloud 4 Good

APRIL 14, 2022

This reflects my own journey, and many also in attendance at the event, as my experience with DevOps has slowly matured alongside the emerging technology. Melissa Hill Dees and Sandi Zellner’s conversational session, “Have You Considered the Consequences?”,

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

OCTOBER 20, 2009

Executive Creative Director of frog design , Robert Fabricant, leads multidisciplinary design teams, teaches at NYU’s Tisch School. It is important to have the conversation to unpack it. Social Media Strategy As Design Process. He taught a session on social design right before the social media strategy game at the end of the day.

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sgEngage

FEBRUARY 9, 2023

For example, Colleen is a program director at the local community center that offers senior programs and afterschool programs for youth. Allocating employee time is the best place to start because other office expenses can follow. What about costs that are not salaries or other clearly allocated expenses?

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EveryAction

JUNE 8, 2023

Welcome to another installment of Thursday Thoughts, a dedicated space for our friends in nonprofit sector leadership to reflect on reports, statistics, and other trends—because when our community shares knowledge, we can all do more good. Often, being intentional about the kind of speaker you bring to an event is a great place to start.

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Media Cause

MARCH 15, 2021

But what I haven’t seen written about as as often—or maybe I’m just not looking in the right places—are stories about the little, delightful, unexpected things that changed us in 2020. . Thanks for giving us a place to hide from reality, to question our assumptions, or to escape into a fantasy world, depending on the day.

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Whole Whale

MAY 17, 2023

Why are CEOs and executive directors so insistent on this AI thing? Your role in making the world a better place is irreplaceable. Fear vs Function: “AI Generative Tools Don’t Work” The quality of an AI response is now a bigger reflection of the author rather than the AI.

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Connection Cafe

OCTOBER 20, 2014

While live-tweeting the immeasurably quotable conversation, I reached out to my friend and colleague, Willie Matis, asking if he planned to blog about the luncheon. People, places, and organizations get complacent all too often. Nonprofit Management AFP capital campaign leadership nonprofit board of directors' I got brilliance.

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ASU Lodestar Center

JANUARY 29, 2014

Once I was honest with him and let him know about my new involvement with the Alliance, things became very relaxed and our conversation became very centralized on my growth and development in the nonprofit sector. Nothing takes the place of being there!" A third generation native of Arizona, Lyn is currently Sr.

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Museum 2.0

JUNE 8, 2010

This is the second installment of a book discussion about Ray Oldenburg’s book The Great Good Place. You can join the conversation in the blog comments, or on the Museum 2.0 You can join the conversation in the blog comments, or on the Museum 2.0 How can a local history museum connect with third places in the community?

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NTEN

APRIL 19, 2013

Amy Borgstrom, Chair, NTEN Board of Directors Wow! This community came together at the NTC to have a conversation with Dan and Beth, and to help co-create the content of, and resources from, every session on the agenda. All in the process of making this world a better place.

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BoardAssist

APRIL 25, 2017

They want us to find them a way to truly be an agent of change on the boards where we place them. Once on board, they often do just that, like this week’s guest blogger Vanessa Wilson who BoardAssist was honored to place on several boards. Revenues are reflected in the month the check is expected to be cashed.

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Bloomerang

AUGUST 21, 2023

Current budget numbers reflect your existing program commitments, not your aspirational ones. This step provides a golden opportunity to include the finance director in your work and create an important ally. The capital reserve stays in place after construction and is restricted to building maintenance.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

DECEMBER 9, 2007

I'm happy that my new laptop has an extended battery life so I am writing some reflections on the plane en route to Boston. What I most enjoy about doing face-to-face training workshops is the right after reflection questions: How could this learning experience been improved? The venue, the IRDC , was wonderful place.

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Bloomerang

JULY 6, 2023

The strategic planning process involves reflecting on your mission to identify your most important goals and determining the strategies you’ll use to reach them. Ideally, every three to five years, your board and staff directors will meet to realign regarding goals and begin the strategic planning process. Online fundraising.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JANUARY 13, 2009

Photo emailed from Cambodia by Elephant, Sharing Foundation 's in-country director In this post, I share some learnings as a free agent fundraise r (an individual who uses personal fundraising to raise money for a charity) who is leveraging their personal network to support a nonprofit's programs that help children in need.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

DECEMBER 12, 2007

That's a video blog post I did to demonstrate how a simple technique for creating effective videos using your cell phone or digital camera and placing it one the web, in this example, on YouTube. While the workshop wasn't a handson video workshop, I did something along those lines in Cambodia - the curriculum is here.).

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Neon CRM

AUGUST 11, 2023

As Tim Sarrantonio, Neon One’s Director of Brand reflected, a 5.2% But there’s a catch: Collecting extra data is useful, but adding additional fields to your donation form will decrease your conversion rates. A large community of supporters helps you mitigate that risk.

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Museum 2.0

AUGUST 25, 2016

Five years later, project director Dr. Piotr Bienkowski's final report for Our Museum tells a different story. If you are reading this via email and would like to share a comment or question, you can join the conversation here. And consider sharing a comment here with a takeaway that is meaningful for you.

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NTEN

NOVEMBER 1, 2013

As the NTEN Community overall consists of a greater number of non-members than members, we are pleased to see this balance reflected this year in response rates. Technology Adoption is a place that NTEN membership impacts responses, however: 29% of current members are at the "Innovating" level compared to 16% of non-members at this level.

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Everyaction

JANUARY 16, 2018

From your board members requesting the latest donor stats to your digital director asking for email conversion rates, tracking your data can be hard. We love pre-built reports that give you an easy place to start, but can be quickly customized with a ton of filters, columns, and sorting. But it doesn’t have to be.

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Achieve

AUGUST 5, 2022

Your brand is a reflection of who you are as an organization, conveyed in a compelling way to your audience, and can include the following elements: Logos or custom icons. Conversely, an in-person fundraiser has different requirements. A logical place to start is where people spend. Step 2: Leverage your brand. social media.

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Qgiv

FEBRUARY 22, 2022

About De’Yonté Wilkinson: De’Yonté is the Director of Site Builds at Cornershop Creative. He’s spent the last three years specializing in WordPress and conversion optimization, and is an active proponent of coding guidelines. User-Friendliness and Scalability.

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Museum 2.0

MARCH 3, 2020

After I was sated, we moved into a conversation about flex work. Recently, I’ve been reflecting on that conversation often. She emails the director. The director doesn’t like having to sort through this particular type of challenge and sends it back to the curator, who says but I told them about the change.

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