Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

SEPTEMBER 8, 2015

For the past few years, I’ve been teaching a workshop called “ Leading on Social Channels ” for nonprofits that want to leverage the personal brands of their leaders. Nonprofit leaders need to use social media to drive conversations online and offline, influence others, and shape perceptions.

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Connection Cafe

SEPTEMBER 23, 2019

While this year’s Summit focused on climate change, in line with the Climate Summit during the UN General Assembly and on the heels of the climate strikes around the world, there were many conversations applicable to every social good movement. Indigenous communities need to have a seat at the table.

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Double the Donation

OCTOBER 25, 2021

Track and incentivize successful conversations. Non-pledge close: For those calls that don’t end in success, it’s important to help close the conversation gracefully to maintain the relationship with the donor. Spend significant time working with your organization’s communication director to put this resource together.

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NTEN

DECEMBER 14, 2021

The Lead Organizers are planning an orientation next year for the many group organizers to connect virtually and also during the 22NTC Community Conversations. I am from and currently live in Pittsburgh, PA, and am an elected public school board director. Let’s get to know the new Lead Organizers. Lead Organizers for Tech Clubs.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MAY 23, 2017

João is also the executive director of ABCR , the professional association for fundraisers in Brasil and the host of the annual ABCR Festival. I also discussed the importance of laying out the supporter journey and having metrics to understand and improve conversion rates.

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Museum 2.0

DECEMBER 15, 2014

And pop culture icons, from basketball players to rock stars , are making highly visible commentary with their clothes and voices. Are there civic organizations in your area that are hosting conversations? Could your director or other senior staff join local initiatives on this topic? Where do museums fit in? inclusion'

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Bloomerang

JUNE 21, 2021

Donors want to meet with folks they consider VIPs—and this tends to mean your executive director, board president, or a person in charge of implementing the program they support. . You may not currently have much of a voice in these touches. Are the people donors want to connect with within your sphere of influence as the fundraiser?

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ASU Lodestar Center

MAY 8, 2017

While most nonprofit directors report being satisfied with their board, in a survey done by researchers Larcker, Donatiello, Meehan & Tayan, (2015), nearly all nonprofit participants also reported some sort of serious governance-related problem within the previous calendar year that has negatively affected their organization. Holland, T.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JANUARY 30, 2010

I just finished doing a training for Open Society Institute media and information coordinators on social media with colleague, David Sasaki , from Global Voices. It can serve as an anchor for additional conversations. There is also always an inherent power struggle in teaching networked technologies to people in positions of power.

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ASU Lodestar Center

AUGUST 3, 2016

We’d like to provide our readers with a peek into what we do each day to accomplish our mission by introducing members of the faculty and staff via short interviews and conversations. Also, the importance of telling your own story with your own voice. I’m very grateful to those young people for teaching me so much.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JUNE 22, 2008

I came across Ore's writing via Sokari Ekine's fantastic bridge blogging of the African blogosphere on Global Voices. Oreoluwa Somolu is Executive Director of the Women???s The project will teach women how to use Web 2.0 The idea is to have a conversation with the participants. s Technology Empowerment Centre (W.TEC).

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NTEN

FEBRUARY 10, 2015

Day 1 Plenary: Ignite with Ideas, Part 1 : Capitalizing on the Colbert Effect Speaker: Jennifer Breakspear, Executive Director, Options for Sexual Health. What happens when a conversation with Stephen Colbert goes viral? Digital Battles for the World''s Souls Speaker: Chris Worman, Senior Director, Global Media, TechSoup Global.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

APRIL 27, 2012

100% of participants implement an action learning project that uses measurement to help improve their practice, share insights with peers, and identify opportunities to amplify each other’s voices through social media. It almost always naturally leads to discussion about how to amplify each other’s voices using social media.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

SEPTEMBER 13, 2012

But I also got the opportunity to learn and hear Rob Reich, associate professor of political science, Stanford University, and faculty co-director, Stanford Center on Philanthropy and Civil Society (Stanford PACS) and Lucy Bernholz, visiting scholar, Stanford PACS present their research in a talk called “New Skills for the New Social Economy.”

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Connection Cafe

APRIL 7, 2016

As the United States population becomes even more diverse, fundraisers have an unparalleled opportunity to employ strategies that engage new audiences , bring new voices to the table, and enrich the nonprofit sector with new talent and leadership.

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Bloomerang

DECEMBER 16, 2021

And I don’t want this to just be a one-way conversation. I’ve been a development director, and I’ve had over 12 years of experience being a fundraiser. If you’re ready to have uncomfortable conversations that are momentary. You teach people how to relate to you. I want to hear from you.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

SEPTEMBER 29, 2015

To get people in the mindset for brainstorming, I lead them through a couple of improvisation exercises that teach acceptance and openness to new ideas. This approach would also create capacity for new voices and new ideas to be engaged in the environmental movement. All together, participants came up with over 500 ideas.

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Have Fun - Do Good

SEPTEMBER 9, 2009

The more successful you are, the more you have to give back." -- Jose Corona, Inner City Advisors Jose Corona is the Executive Director of Inner City Advisors , a nonprofit that helps build sustainable and responsible inner city businesses that create quality jobs, reinvest in the community, and contribute to the local economy.

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Have Fun - Do Good

APRIL 25, 2008

Anisha Desai is the Executive Director of the Women of Color Resource Center. Desai came to the Women of Color Resource Center from a Deputy Director role at United for a Fair Economy. Then, I moved into the world of teaching. She has co-authored publications on fair taxation, housing and the racial wealth divide.

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Bloomerang

MAY 21, 2021

You’re teaching grant writing and doing board development and super involved in the nonprofit community there. And I teach Board Development and Grant Writing for the program. So every time I present or teach, I like to be really clear about what we will be talking about, what the outcomes for the session are.

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Get Fully Funded

JANUARY 30, 2023

As a Development Director, I used to get kids’ Valentine cards and send them to my best donors. I teach my clients that offering warm touches – the little things that warm a donor’s heart and make them feel good – are THE BEST donor retention strategies to keep people giving. It has a warm, conversational feel to it.

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Have Fun - Do Good

JULY 3, 2006

I recently posted my interview with Steve Williams, the Executive Director and co-founder of POWER: People Organized to Win Employment Rights on the Big Vision Podcast. Initially, after conversations with a lot of domestic workers, we realized that the women really wanted to have negotiation training. I was hooked from that moment on.

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Bloomerang

SEPTEMBER 12, 2021

I have to admit, I hate asking people for money and I know you’re like, “Wait a minute, I’m a development director. I that’s what I do for a living or aren’t you teaching us about fundraising today, Jesse?” And your voice and your unique personality that no one else has.

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Bloomerang

JANUARY 14, 2022

Like so many of you, and you can raise your hand if this applies to you, I became an accidental fundraiser as a nonprofit executive director. And before I knew it, I was a managing director and then an executive director. Everything that I’m going to be teaching you today comes straight from this formula.

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Bloomerang

JANUARY 30, 2022

Like so many of you, and you can raise your hand if this applies to you, I became an accidental fundraiser as a nonprofit executive director. And before I knew it, I was a managing director and then an executive director. Everything that I’m going to be teaching you today comes straight from this formula.

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Bloomerang

JULY 17, 2021

Full Transcript: Steven: You’ll hear a robot voice. I mean, she’s a CFRE and she even teaches a CFRE class. Let’s keep the conversation going. And for all of us who are parents who had privilege of teaching these children, just be glad you’re still like those little people. Kishshana: Go ahead.

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Bloomerang

JULY 2, 2021

So we’re going to talk about how to communicate with authenticity, how to use your voice to convey your message, that’s one V. So we’re at voice, vision, and values. So the first one is your voice, how to use your voice to convey your message. Voice was being one of those. So this is our agenda.

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Qgiv

JULY 21, 2022

The most important one for our conversation—95% of donors consider content created by nonprofits to be trustworthy! The KPI goals (Key Performance Indicators) that gauge your success will vary for these campaigns and would include: Click-through-rate Conversion rate Impressions Website traffic Attribution & direct donation revenue.

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Bloomerang

SEPTEMBER 6, 2021

So people right now are on WhatsApp and we can use it as a way to start a new channel of conversation with people that is complimentary to how we already communicate with volunteers, with donors, with, you know, our support base. What can they teach me?” And the last thing which is super important as how can I include the voices?

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Bloomerang

APRIL 16, 2021

And that’s what I’m going to do today, I’m going to try to cover a lot of ground but leave some time at the end for Q&A and conversation and all of that. A lot of the work we do at Big Duck is about helping organizations articulate their voice. Earned media is when you get press or coverage by somebody else.

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NTEN

NOVEMBER 30, 2011

By Nam-ho Park, Director, Mobile Service, Forum One. Why are they the same size as the person whom I casually had a short conversation with at a conference I don’t even remember? And maybe that can teach us something about ourselves. And somewhere on the internet this information is quietly collecting.

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Qgiv

AUGUST 10, 2021

days – Before COVID – I was having lunch with the executive director and board chair of an advocacy organization, talking about fundraising. The executive director said, “We really need to raise a bunch of money fast, so let’s focus only on major gifts.”. Back in the B.C. Usually, the response to such a remark is high enthusiasm.

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Have Fun - Do Good

DECEMBER 18, 2007

"These skills, which one sees in action around the country with certain key individuals who seem to be able to bridge gaps between organizations and issue areas, we can teach them. And I think teaching them is probably the most important thing we can do right now." They are teachable. You can read a transcript of the interview below.

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Have Fun - Do Good

JUNE 30, 2007

The speakers were Alli Chagi-Starr, who is the Co-Founder of Art in Action ; Ilyse Hogue, the Campaign Director for MoveOn.org ; Melinda Kramer, the Founder and Director of Women's Earth Alliance ; and Reem Rahim, the Co-Founder and Vice President of Marketing for Numi Tea. I am the Campaign Director at MoveOn.org. We are a 3.5

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