Non Profit Quarterly

DECEMBER 14, 2021

Although we did not start with a particular emphasis on equity and access, this theme came up regularly in our conversations with the field. The quotes in this article all come from these focus group conversations. This is not new, but it was on the minds of our volunteer managers, and in a big way.

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ASU Lodestar Center

OCTOBER 4, 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. We're thrilled to have such accomplished faculty on board to help our nonprofit management students reach their full potential! Lili Wang, Ph.D.,

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Qgiv

NOVEMBER 10, 2021

If you get kids in on the fundraising fun, you have a great opportunity to teach them important values like leadership, responsibility, goal-setting, team building, and community engagement. For a fun addition, ask students to bring sleeping bags and blankets to school with them. Then, advertise your event with fliers and handouts.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MARCH 25, 2014

Think of “House of Cards” when Francis turns to the camera and shares the dialogue inside his mind. The Feng Shui of Good Teaching. I’ve done this for many projects and it is a difficult design task when you are doing it as the sole trainer. Interactive Training Engages.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JANUARY 8, 2014

You can also invite Alums to share what they’re up to as part of your engagement strategy on social channels, either as a dedicated post or part of the conversation in the comments. Conversation starters that link alumni to the current school experience can spark tons of engagement. Connect Alumni with Current School Experience.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MARCH 9, 2010

I am a lawyer by profession and presently a student of human rights law in my masters at India. LLM student, NLSIU, Bangalore(Human Rights), India. Going back to my under graduation days i can say social media helped me bring together people for a cause time and again. Megha Bhagat. meghabhagat@nls.ac.in.

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NTEN

NOVEMBER 3, 2011

Over the next three hours, I absorbed the things my instructor was teaching, but I also found myself reflecting on a bunch of things he wasn't trying to teach at all – unless he's really good at Jedi mind tricks ! As class kicked off, the instructor began introducing himself and how he came to be teaching the class.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

DECEMBER 15, 2006

If I didn't have a guided experience on information island and the benefit of conversations with so many educators engaged in exploring it for learning, I might be blogging naive remarks like this too. I can see getting better access to executives and the creative minds at IBM in Second Life than I do in real life, and that's a good thing.

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Bloomerang

DECEMBER 16, 2021

So I want you to keep that in mind that it’s not too late. And I don’t want this to just be a one-way conversation. If you’re ready to have uncomfortable conversations that are momentary. You teach people how to relate to you. It actually knocks Giving Tuesday out of the park. So here we go. No judgment.

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Eric Jacobsen Blog

FEBRUARY 9, 2024

In this highly personable, conversational, insightful, eye-opening, empowering and uplifting book, he shows you how to decode your own loves, turn them into their most powerful expression, and do the same for those you lead and those you love. More specifically, he teaches you how to: Use love to reveal your unique gifts.

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Beneblog: Technology Meets Society

FEBRUARY 3, 2005

My last Davos Diary piece for BBC News was published this week, 'Meetings of Minds'. Issues of poverty, socially responsible investing, human rights, education and health were an integral part of the conversation. This was fun to write, and this Davos was incredible. They say hi and shake hands. Joe exclaims: "You know something?

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ASU Lodestar Center

APRIL 1, 2011

I dont mind administrative spending, but I bristle at high fundraising costs. And I tell my students that Ill give to any of the worthy causes they pour their hearts into, but they have to ask me in person (not on Facebook)! Perhaps that is what some respondents had in mind. So, should we send them more e-mails? Great advice!

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Get Fully Funded

APRIL 25, 2022

It lands in the heart and mind of the listener or reader and just makes sense. Good fundraising messages focus on the donor and what they can gain from supporting your organization: satisfaction, the good feeling that comes from making a difference, and peace of mind in knowing their money went to a good cause. Easy to understand.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JUNE 28, 2005

The initial cyberstrategy was to capitalize on the inmates' interest in music by using music as a means of teaching digital skills. The descriptions of the courses and teaching approach very much resonated with all the work I've done "TechnoStress" over the years. So for teaching robotics, he starts with an actual object.

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Neon CRM

AUGUST 25, 2023

Teaching art by hosting online courses has become a viable option, one that your nonprofit shouldn’t ignore! Consider asking staff members or volunteers if they are interested in teaching a 101 arts course online based on their expertise. Start your campaign with an open mind.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

APRIL 12, 2007

These stories need to be written down and it sparked a memory of a conversation I had with Zittrain at iLaw in 2005 who pointed me to a researcher at HBS who was looking at Open Source Software Communities.). How to engage people in valuable conversation? What are the techniques for conversational weaving?

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Eric Jacobsen Blog

AUGUST 24, 2022

In this highly personable, conversational, insightful, eye-opening, empowering and uplifting book, he shows you how to decode your own loves, turn them into their most powerful expression, and do the same for those you lead and those you love. More specifically, he teaches you how to: Use love to reveal your unique gifts.

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ASU Lodestar Center

FEBRUARY 25, 2011

Two things come to mind. Second, and perhaps more importantly, join in on the conversation about CEO compensation. I know from my own personal experience as a nonprofit student, I really had to educate myself in order to change my perspective about fair compensation. Can You Teach a Watchdog New Tricks?

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Eric Jacobsen Blog

OCTOBER 30, 2022

In this highly personable, conversational, insightful, eye-opening, empowering and uplifting book, he shows you how to decode your own loves, turn them into their most powerful expression, and do the same for those you lead and those you love. More specifically, he teaches you how to: Use love to reveal your unique gifts.

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Connection Cafe

OCTOBER 14, 2015

You can imagine how pleased I was when I was introduced to an organization that combined my two loves, #GivingTuesday and teaching kids about giving. This year on #GivingTuesday, Learning to Give is asking teachers to join the international movement to celebrate an opening day to the giving season by doing what they do best, by teaching.

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EveryAction

APRIL 1, 2016

The Alliance Management Institute (AMI) is the only national conference expressly designed to prepare 400+ college students for a career in the social sector. We have gathered an outstanding group of field experts to teach how to build and sustain this kind of governance. Nonprofit Leadership Alliance / Houston, TX / $250. Leadership.

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sgEngage

NOVEMBER 9, 2022

To honestly say yes to this question, your school must connect efficiently and effectively everywhere that matters—from software functionality to parent communication, teacher and student processes, and financial management. Getting to that “yes” is challenging for most schools. The way to avoid these pitfalls is simple.

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Connection Cafe

OCTOBER 31, 2011

Given group A or B, choose to work for the group that had the tough conversations & planned ahead, or plan to spend a lot of your time teaching staff & board members about long-term sustainability. This blows my mind. Daring to Lead found that many executives doubt they can influence their boards’ performance.

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Neon CRM

SEPTEMBER 21, 2023

With those factors in mind, we’ve put together a list of 52 nonprofit event ideas to help serve as a “vision board” for your organization’s next event. These events foster informed conversations, highlight diverse perspectives, and promote community engagement on important topics related to your nonprofit’s mission.

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Have Fun - Do Good

NOVEMBER 7, 2007

I can't remember the details of our conversation, except that he used a lot of words beginning with "C": courage, commitment, calling, creativity. If you are a college student, or someone in career transition, who wants to find work that fulfills your big vision for a better world, I have a few words of advice, and some books to recommend.

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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. I have actually one of my students on the on this call which is fabulous. So every time I teach or present, I like to do group agreements.

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Bloomerang

NOVEMBER 13, 2021

And, as I was sharing earlier, we usually teach this in person over a period of two to three hours, so, you all are getting the, what we’ll call, the boot-camp version of “Measure of Success.” well, five areas of conversation revolve around, “What is impact reporting? We’ve been teaching a lot recently.

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The Fundraising Authority

OCTOBER 28, 2021

In fact, I am planning to post a how-to article to teach you how I go about writing a typical appeal with Fundwriter. Likely Questions Anticipate questions that will come up in people’s minds. Looking forward to a great conversation! It feels like magic when I use Fundwriter. was the nonprofit. Meeting Invite Draft #2.

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Bloomerang

SEPTEMBER 24, 2021

First thing in the morning here for me, I know it’s afternoon for you, but do you mind kind of reading the chat box as we go? I could practically teaching this class. ” We were floored that half the students were raising their hands. It’s a good group. Julie: I’m going to ask you. Steven: Yes. Will do it.

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Bloomerang

JANUARY 14, 2022

Everything that I’m going to be teaching you today comes straight from this formula. All of my students did too, all of my clients did too. ” Those are alignment-based questions instead of just wealth-based questions that have a much, much, much lower conversion rate. And you may recognize these mistakes too.

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Bloomerang

JANUARY 30, 2022

Everything that I’m going to be teaching you today comes straight from this formula. All of my students did too, all of my clients did too. Those are alignment-based questions instead of just wealth-based questions that have a much, much, much lower conversion rate. So you can take it, you can implement it right away.

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Bloomerang

SEPTEMBER 12, 2021

I that’s what I do for a living or aren’t you teaching us about fundraising today, Jesse?” And I’ve been able to see other people’s make that shift in their minds, other nonprofits and leaders. Took these four steps, the things I’m going to teach you today, and raised $163,000 over that actually.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JANUARY 14, 2014

I’m teaching a graduate class at the Monterey Institute of International Studies based on my books, The Networked Nonprofit and Measuring the Networked Nonprofit. Not every student in my class is focused on the same policy issue. Global Conversations. In fact the range of issues is pretty wide ranging.

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NTEN

NOVEMBER 30, 2011

They are larger in our minds. 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? It provides much needed difference and rhythm we are attracted to, over the often mind-numbing flat Twitter or Facebook feed. Our Collective Stories.

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Bloomerang

JUNE 25, 2021

And so I’m working on developing a telemarketing program for monthly donor conversions for a group in Australia. So just keep that in mind. How many of you feel like that, or cringe when your executive director goes, “Let’s just ask some of these high school students that come to after school?”

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Connection Cafe

DECEMBER 22, 2013

What donors can teach us about making more money, Penelope shares 3 key research driven insights around donor-centric fundraising. Check out some of his blogs from the conference , where he covers benchmarking data, donor ready patrons, and conversion rates. In this presentation, Counter-Intuitive or New Path to Profit?:

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Have Fun - Do Good

NOVEMBER 28, 2007

A high school English teacher in Zimbabwe, whose name is Betty Makoni , began hearing stories from her students after school, that they had been raped. Betty and six of her high school English students founded an organization called the Girl Child Network. Right at the end of that period, I also was teaching.

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