Top Nonprofits

AUGUST 3, 2021

Here are five guidelines I’ve created after learning from experiences over the past year: 1) Design the technology experience with the lowest barrier to entry. Not surprisingly, their perception was that the conversation had been poorly facilitated and had no structure! Reading these comments, I felt terrible.

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sgEngage

AUGUST 23, 2023

Review your site’s metrics such as time spent on each page, call to action (CTA) click-through rate, bounce rate, and conversion rates for pages such as your donation form or new patient registration page. Consider your own user pathways and design your site to facilitate a faster transfer of information. Assess website analytics.

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sgEngage

OCTOBER 24, 2023

To maximize the full potential of this period, organizations must explore innovative strategies to drive engagement, increase conversions, and amplify their overall impact. The company reviews the submission, ensures the donation adheres to its program guidelines, and disperses a matching gift to the same organization.

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Allegiance Group

APRIL 15, 2024

Craft a conversion journey. When the entire donor journey is addressed in your plan, conversion rates for donor acquisition are much stronger. Conversely, amplify the strategies or messages that lead to the most conversions. Keywords facilitate the connection between your website and a prospective donor.

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Cloud 4 Good

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. It is not enough to simply be technologically savvy.

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Achieve

SEPTEMBER 8, 2020

Then, the pandemic spread across the globe, and the resulting social distancing guidelines left small to mid-sized nonprofits scrambling to move their events online in order to keep supporters and staff members safe. . Design a conversion-optimized donation page. Tip #1: Design a conversion-optimized donation page.

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NTEN

AUGUST 15, 2013

Amy saw that members of the nonprofit tech community were itching to dive more deeply and regularly into topics of online community building, but she didn’t want to create a space if there weren’t willing co-facilitators and a good deal of buy-in. Whoever’s hosting facilitates the discussion using the @CommBuild account.

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Bloomerang

AUGUST 21, 2023

Remember, these are general guidelines, and the specific actions you decide to take depend on your particular circumstances. Have you tried bringing in a communications facilitator to deepen the conversation? The facilitator may be able to better convey the need and achieve the desired results.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

SEPTEMBER 8, 2014

Last week I facilitated the “ Impact Leadership Track ” at the NTEN Leading Change Summit with John Kenyon, Elissa Perry, and Londell Jackson. Here’s what I learned: Facilitation Teams. A good facilitator knows how to shift or tweak the lesson plan in real time if it isn’t working as planned.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

SEPTEMBER 10, 2019

Last week I facilitated a workshop in Detroit hosed by Co-Act , a nonprofit collaboration space in Detroit. They have built an authentic community through cultivated conversations and events designed to build trust, deepen relationships and set the stage for collective impact. You will learn as you go, sometimes by making mistakes.

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NTEN

MARCH 29, 2012

Allen Gunn (aka Gunner) from Aspiration will be facilitating the NTC Open Salon, and your presence will make it a stellar event. Did you start a juicy conversation in a breakout or in the hallway? Open Salon Guidelines Salons are moderated by someone with topical knowledge with a set description and takeaways.

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NTEN

AUGUST 15, 2013

Amy saw that members of the nonprofit tech community were itching to dive more deeply and regularly into topics of online community building, but she didn’t want to create a space if there weren’t willing co-facilitators and a good deal of buy-in. Whoever’s hosting facilitates the discussion using the @CommBuild account.

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Cloud 4 Good

JUNE 24, 2021

Salesforce has stated, “[We] will follow all local COVID-19 public health guidelines. There has yet to be an announcement on what the digital component will entail, but the goal of this hybrid event is to celebrate, learn, and network in the most accessible way possible. For the in-person events, health and safety are at the top of my mind.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

SEPTEMBER 3, 2015

I’m facilitating a peer learning leadership development group for Emerging Nonprofit Leaders supported by the Packard Foundation. It includes design and facilitation – and these days those are important leadership skills. There is lots of advice out there about how to design and facilitate meetings.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

APRIL 15, 2009

As one social media strategist told me over a year ago, "I facilitated social media guidelines as a first doable step because there was so much fear about encouraging staff to use social media at organization. Laying down guidelines makes everyone think they have more control and it helped everyone to feel better.

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NTEN

NOVEMBER 12, 2010

It’s up to you to maintain an environment that facilitates conversation. Create a set of guidelines for posting on your page, and provide links to these guidelines,” says Jeff Patrick, president and founder of Common Knowledge. Let the person know that you/why you deleted the comment and link to your guidelines.

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DipJar

SEPTEMBER 12, 2022

This small touch of personalization builds rapport and loyalty to your organization, increasing engagement and the likelihood of conversion. Did retargeted ads see more conversions than direct mail solicitors? Follow accessibility guidelines. Payment facilitators. Email open rates, click-through rates, and conversions.

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Achieve

MAY 10, 2021

To get those conversations going, lay out a few core campaign guidelines, like your objective, working fundraising goal, timeframe, and overarching vision. One-on-one conversations and emails will be your best bet to ensure prospects ultimately feel involved and invested in your campaign’s success. Fundraising for Small Shops.

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NTEN

JUNE 18, 2014

Connect with co-presenters Provide speaker prep calls to relay things like venue logistics, AV setup, and public speaking tips Speaker resources page Connect with Tech Clubs and CoP to help test the waters with topic and practice NTC Speaker Lounge Discounted rates for speakers Scholarships are available. 15NTC Community NTC'

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

OCTOBER 24, 2011

Practical frameworks and guidelines for effectively developing an integrated content strategy and measurement practice. Gets feedback and start conversations about their work. I recently took a workshop on visual facilitation with David Sibbet. JD Lasica and I co-facilitated a workshop on measurement.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

OCTOBER 6, 2009

I just finished the first day of a training on Network Effectiveness for Packard Grantees facilitated by the good folks at Monitor Institute. But many networks need a private place or password protected place to have conversations online. We focused on how you manage security and privacy when that is essential to the conversation.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JUNE 13, 2011

6: Social Media Can and Should be Measured: This principle is about incorporating the discipline of measurement into your approach and to go beyond just measuring “coverage&# but also measure conversation and communities. Geoff Livingston has a good post about the problems with this – using influence as the metric.

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Double the Donation

SEPTEMBER 13, 2021

This platform has facilitated over $1 billion in charitable giving to schools through innovative and effective fundraising avenues. GiveCampus boasts impressive resources, such as: Tailored and easy-to-use giving forms that reduce friction and increase donor conversion. GiveCampus. Why We Love This School Fundraising Platform.

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Museum 2.0

DECEMBER 28, 2006

has gone on to build other games and tutorials, but their bread and butter is the crafting of honest, successful "interactive conversation interfaces." What's an "interactive conversation interface"? Jellyvision has now released a list of Jack Principles on Interactive Conversation Interface design. It reacts when you move.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

OCTOBER 11, 2009

But, I'm also interested in improving my skills as a trainer - especially facilitating social learning or learning in public. We are also learning in public when we engage in in-depth conversation whether it is offline or online, for example in the comments of a blog post or asking questions on Twitter. I want to know what you think.

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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?

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

AUGUST 31, 2009

First, we need to move beyond the false dichotomy of message control vs. conversation. There’s a prevailing belief that you can’t foster conversation and get a message out. Social media teaches us that the best way to get the message out is to foster conversation.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JUNE 8, 2010

The Conversational Keynote: Room Configuration Is Key. I’m working on perfecting the conversational keynote. The space where I gave my keynote in Toronto is well designed designed for conversational keynote format. This made it easy for me to get off the stage and wander into the audience to engage them in conversation.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

APRIL 1, 2009

According to Iavor, "Our role changed to a facilitator of conversations and content around the three key themes rather than a creator of messaging and materials." Facilitate the content creation, you can't control it, but make sure you have a solid overarching strategy. This a terrific example of in working in networked way.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JULY 23, 2010

This year my work as Visiting Scholar at the David and Lucile Packard Foundation includes training, coaching, and facilitating peer learning sessions for grantees on using social media effectively, becoming a Networked Nonprofit. It has been incredible laboratory to put the big ideas in the book in practice. Facebook Strategic Objectives.

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NonProfit Hub

JULY 14, 2015

They are still an effective tool to use in marketing campaigns and to start movements or conversations—they’re an icon. Creating connections and making friends on social media is vastly important, but social media facilitates the relationship, it is not the relationship itself. Believe it or not, conversation can be the best content.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MARCH 21, 2017

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. Set a specific time limit for being annoyed or angry.

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Forum One

JULY 1, 2009

Following Ari, would-be topic facilitators stepped up to suggest a session they wanted to facilitate. Principally, there are no policies in place to notify users, and there are no guidelines to protect the data. How do government employees converse openly on these tools without getting their employer in trouble?

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Have Fun - Do Good

FEBRUARY 22, 2012

Expressing their emotions so openly was a new and uneasy task, but with the help of a wonderful facilitator, Conso Buzabo , they intuitively shared their compassionate connections through simple art making. Anyone can become a facilitator and host a workshop in their community, and we encourage everyone to get involved. Learn more!

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Qgiv

MAY 6, 2021

Text fundraising is a popular method of charitable giving facilitated by messages on a mobile device. The guidelines are based on each organization’s size and mission. By minimizing the fields, using large text, and other mobile-friendly design elements, you can ensure your form is easy to complete and maximize conversion rates.

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Forum One

AUGUST 15, 2010

The second part explores challenges in facilitating collaboration. Here are a few guidelines to help you along: Do a few things well. I had a fascinating conversation recently with a program officer about running an online community for African educators making use of good old-fashioned Listserv technology.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MAY 19, 2008

Why it works: conversation, authentic, story, translates into action -- how do I let go and let my supporters take hole of my messaging. Their project will have a way to facilitate online communication between people with disabilities and able-bodied peers using existing social networking utilities - ChiPs and MentorNet.

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