Tech Soup

MARCH 5, 2014

To kick off our new success stories. section of TechSoup.org we launched a contest last month for great digital inclusion stories. We called it the TechSoup ‘Digital Connector’ Story Challenge. We of course got lots of great stories, and our winner is the Pottsboro Area Library.

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Qgiv

DECEMBER 15, 2022

According to Nonprofit Courses’ guide to nonprofit professional development , your organization’s greatest asset is its people — and that includes volunteers ! Your Program Volunteers Your Fundraising Volunteers Get Them Trained Provide Them with Useful Tools. Train Them On the Job. Teach Them About the Program, Too.

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Eric Jacobsen Blog

SEPTEMBER 5, 2016

Because, Thursday, September 8 brings the official release of Paul Smith 's new book, Sell with a Story: How to Capture Attention, Build Trust, and Close the Sale. I'm a big fan of Paul's earlier best-sellers, including Lead with a Story and Parenting with a Story. A skill like any other skills needed for successful selling.

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Eric Jacobsen Blog

SEPTEMBER 27, 2019

Packed with uplifting personal stories, action steps and writing exercises, you’ll learn how to be accountable for developing your character, integrity, and commitment to reaching your goals. Why writing your success story in reverse is the best approach. Why writing your success story in reverse is the best approach.

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Eric Jacobsen Blog

FEBRUARY 25, 2021

Today, we look back to 2016 : 2016 brought the much anticipated release of Paul Smith 's book, Sell with a Story: How to Capture Attention, Build Trust, and Close the Sale. I'm a big fan of Paul's earlier best-sellers, including Lead with a Story and Parenting with a Story. Storytelling is a skill.

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Eric Jacobsen Blog

OCTOBER 11, 2020

Today, we look back to 2016 : 2016 brought the much anticipated release of Paul Smith 's book, Sell with a Story: How to Capture Attention, Build Trust, and Close the Sale. I'm a big fan of Paul's earlier best-sellers, including Lead with a Story and Parenting with a Story. Storytelling is a skill.

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Story Storytelling Chapter Teach 52

Connection Cafe

JUNE 24, 2013

One of my favorite assignments, though, is what we call “Train the Trainer” (T3), where I will work with a group of folks who will later put on a different hat and train their colleagues on new software. Not just for training. Do you have any success (or not-so successful) stories of implementing new software?

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Cloud 4 Good

APRIL 14, 2022

Across two days full of interactive sessions, workshops, and hands-on training, I had the chance to meet members of my Chicago Ohana Salesforce group and connect with new people with similar passions, challenges, and solutions to share. A palpable sense of camaraderie and companionship was quickly formed over the course of just two days.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JULY 26, 2017

One of them was Vincent Law who is doing interesting work with teaching young children about giving and philanthropy. So while we admire the wonders and success of others in philanthropy, we could have a look at our own culture and we might find a longer and more impactful history of philanthropy in our own society. Lead by Actions.

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Bloomerang

JULY 5, 2021

Train all staff to be enthusiastic communicators. Ready to adopt a more human donor loyalty philosophy and wrap it into a written strategic plan that holds people accountable for seeing it through and measuring success? They don’t care if the touch comes from marketing, fundraising, or programs. Action Steps to Increase Donor Loyalty.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JANUARY 4, 2016

Innovation Lab Facilitation : For the past few years, I’ve trained in and designed and facilitated innovation labs using the Luma Institute Methods. I was honored to lead a featured season at the United Way Leadership Conference on Networked Leadership and teach many workshops networked leadership skills.

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Top Nonprofits

JULY 21, 2021

You might decide to take informative actions like: Taking online courses regarding diversity and inclusion in the nonprofit workplace and sector. The Nonprofit Leadership Alliance’s resource on nonprofit courses lists several options that your organization might consider to get started with a professional perspective.

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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.”. We’ve been trained in our society that it’s not polite to talk about money. — Simone Joyaux. Shape the Conversation .

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Eric Jacobsen Blog

JANUARY 1, 2018

2016 brought the much anticipated release of Paul Smith 's book, Sell with a Story: How to Capture Attention, Build Trust, and Close the Sale. I'm a big fan of Paul's earlier best-sellers, including Lead with a Story and Parenting with a Story. A great story builds credibility and properly positions you in the eye of the buyer."

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Eric Jacobsen Blog

OCTOBER 10, 2016

Last month brought the much anticipated release of Paul Smith 's new book, Sell with a Story: How to Capture Attention, Build Trust, and Close the Sale. I'm a big fan of Paul's earlier best-sellers, including Lead with a Story and Parenting with a Story. A skill like any other skills needed for successful selling.

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Storytelling Chapter Story Teach 40

Achieve

JUNE 7, 2021

After all, our mission was all about teaching. Yet across the table was an educational leader who denied that teaching could have any impact. Most training in the field was from professional associations like. and they were based more on people passing experience and random successes on to each other than any kind of science.

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sgEngage

APRIL 6, 2022

What must the campaign do to be viewed as successful? Examples of these types of events are races, mud runs, and obstacle courses. This will catch participants while they’re still enthusiastic from the past event and gives them time to build their fundraising and train for the next event. Teach people to fundraise more .

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Eric Jacobsen Blog

MAY 6, 2024

As you’ll see through the book, people don’t always give you the whole story right up front. And that deeper story is even more interesting and important than the first one you get,” shares Wetzler. The more you train yourself to listen for content, emotion, and action, the less you'll have room to take in external distractions.

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Qgiv

JUNE 22, 2021

In particular, peer-to-peer fundraising has found great success when it comes to pivoting to virtual, as its engagements already happen primarily online. To ensure that this stays virtual, consider having a dedicated web page or microsite to host all the information and even post additional stories about the memorialized subject.

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Eric Jacobsen Blog

AUGUST 6, 2015

I think the millennials in the workplace is a trending story, specifically millennials in leadership roles. Leaders today are more apt to train, teach and engage with their teams informally. Burke : I am a big fan of my clients ' books, of course. Burke : We have worked on leadership titles since FSB Associates began.

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Nonprofit Tech for Good

DECEMBER 14, 2022

He offers courses, consulting, and coaching to transform your organization and your leadership. If you are with a job training program, maybe you make a bookmark that is focused on job interview tips. Free access to trainings or programs that normally have a fee. Does your organization do in-person or online trainings?

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Neon CRM

NOVEMBER 27, 2023

Instead, help your board members tell a story. You can even take a portion of a board meeting to go around the table and have your board practice sharing their fundraising story. They Need More Training Most new board members don’t have fundraising experience. The solution to this problem is simple, even if it isn’t easy.

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Bloomerang

SEPTEMBER 12, 2021

We help you all tell your story to the masses and raise more funds faster. And so I’m also the creator of an online course called the Marketing Anatomy of a Growing Nonprofit where we bring together all of our knowledge in this space to eight modules to really give you the full training that you need to be successful.

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Bloomerang

APRIL 12, 2024

Of course, the idea of loving all of humanity may seem too abstract. She was telling me a harrowing story of escape from a concentration camp. As demonstrated by the fact that, at a point where she was still in danger in the story, I thought I had to cut the call short to join a staff meeting. Or perhaps unattainable.

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ASU Lodestar Center

MAY 4, 2011

Disclaimer Wednesday, May 4, 2011 Can You Teach a Watchdog New Tricks? However, story after story pointed to pressures from donors for nonprofits to invest as little money as possible in administration and fundraising. Where do donors get trained to think that investment in administration and fundraising is bad?

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Non Profit Quarterly

AUGUST 25, 2022

Research backs up their claim: Studies show that incarcerated individuals who participate in prison education programs are 43 percent less likely to return to prison than those who did not enroll; yet, only a quarter of people in prison participate in vocational training programs.

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Bloomerang

NOVEMBER 20, 2021

Jacobwith will show you five powerful and simple “must do’s” to cut through year-end fundraising noise, help increase your Giving Tuesday success, and increase donor retention. We are here to talk about Five “Must Dos” for Year-End Fundraising Success. Be an ambassador but tell a specific story? . ” Okay. .

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Museum 2.0

MAY 19, 2010

In the best of these situations, visitors are naturally inclined to spontaneously teach others how to use exhibits or share what they see--happily taking on a complicit role of friend and helpmate. Do you have a story of a time when complicity with strangers changed your experience? What design elements made that experience possible?

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Bloomerang

APRIL 9, 2021

But she’s been in your shoes, like I said, being a leader of an organization and also raising a ton of money and does a lot of these trainings. She’s got an awesome YouTube channel where she does a lot of free trainings as well. Then around being an advocate, share their personal stories. So keep that in mind.

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Bloomerang

JANUARY 14, 2022

She’s got a really cool training program. And I’ve sat in on her trainings. She’s done tons of training. She’s trained a ton of people. She’s trained a ton of people. Choosing the Maggie route seems uncomfortable and unfamiliar at first, but that is the route to success.

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Bloomerang

JANUARY 30, 2022

She’s got a really cool training program. And I’ve sat in on her trainings. She’s done tons of training. She’s trained a ton of people. Choosing the Maggie route seems uncomfortable and unfamiliar at first, but that is the route to success. I think she’s going to tell you about it later on. So this is crazy.

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Neon CRM

SEPTEMBER 21, 2023

If your race is a success, you can pretty easily turn it into an annual tradition—one that your community will love! For nonprofits whose missions lie in the arts and culture spaces, many of the events listed here are pretty par for the course. In this image, three women sit in a field watching a charity concert.

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Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

SEPTEMBER 17, 2007

For organizations, web stats are useful indicators of how many people are being reached by their message, the geographical spread of the visitors and whether or not a specific campaign was successful in driving traffic or creating actions (like donations, or letters, etc.) Webstats alone only tell a tiny fraction of that story, if at all.

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Have Fun - Do Good

JULY 3, 2006

Initially, after conversations with a lot of domestic workers, we realized that the women really wanted to have negotiation training. Through the negotiation training, women began identifying particular problems that they were having in their work. Britt Bravo: Do you have any stories of individual women's successes that you can share?

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Bloomerang

DECEMBER 10, 2021

The key to successful fundraising is asking smarter questions. Andy also has written a lot of great books, especially one on training your board. Jimmie Alford, one of the great fundraisers in America, told me a story a few years ago, which was about this volunteer who had to raise money for mental health in a community.

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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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Bloomerang

NOVEMBER 26, 2021

It’s awesome that we got a full room because you always bring great trainings, you did a great session for us last year on budgeting. I’ll never forget the story of a now consultant, but executive director when we talked about like, “Well, what did you do for support or for help when you did this job?”

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