Bloomerang

NOVEMBER 15, 2023

.” — Alex Osborn, How to Think Up , 1942 seminal book on concept off brainstorming The process of getting a group to generate and build on others’ ideas depends on how you facilitate openness in the group. Today, Claire will be the facilitator. The primary roles are idea generators and facilitators. Give everybody a turn.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JULY 18, 2017

Last week, I was honored to do several workshops hosted by the Fund for Santa Barbara on how nonprofits can link a culture of well being to outcomes based on my book, The Happy Healthy Nonprofit: Strategies for Impact without Burnout. Crisis As Workplace Culture. Culture becomes one of detachment and disengagement.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

SEPTEMBER 6, 2023

Empathy is contagious and influences and shapes a work culture of caring. Model and Celebrate Well-being Practices Creating a robust work culture that incorporates well-being is fundamental. Use Empathy in 1:1 Check-Ins To build a caring work culture, leaders need to ask empathetic questions during regular check-ins.

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.orgSource

JUNE 5, 2023

Talking with leaders who work on a global playing field is a great opportunity to see our own environment from a different perspective. When each board member is a different nationality, everyone arrives at the table with their own cultural expectations. The 98 to 99 percent female demographic makes for a unique environment.

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International Conversation Issue Leadership 221

Whole Whale

JANUARY 15, 2021

From their website : “Nova is a black-owned, women-owned company devoted to transforming organizational cultures. We facilitate workshops and trainings, coach and develop teams and leaders, and consult and support systems-level change.”. The Nova Collective. Website : [link]. true north EDI. true north EDI. Website : [link].

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Bloomerang

FEBRUARY 21, 2023

Let’s Define Your Community Since your mission is to facilitate philanthropy in order to move your mission forward, let’s talk about your philanthropic community – the donors, volunteers, advocates and ambassadors who fuel your work, making your impact the greatest it can be. But it won’t happen unless you facilitate it.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JANUARY 5, 2021

Year in Review During the first two months of 2020, I taught workshops and facilitated digital transformation innovation labs in London and Warsaw. Training & Facilitation: I have been facilitating online meetings for many years and when the pandemic hit, I was very busy teaching these techniques to nonprofits around the world.

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ASU Lodestar Center

JULY 13, 2022

The combined disruptions of these phenomena are affecting business structures, organizational cultures, and processes. Facades of professionalism and efforts at contrived camaraderie in the name of culture building will be viewed as disingenuous. Hierarchies are becoming flatter, work more collaborative and co-location less relevant.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

AUGUST 17, 2021

The hybrid workplace will have a huge impact on the way we design and facilitate meetings, the primary method of how many organizations get stuff done. Our new normal will most likely be more complex to design and facilitate. Here are some considerations for designing and facilitating pandemic-era hybrid meetings.

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Greater Giving

AUGUST 21, 2023

To facilitate this process, your consultant will lead interviews with your stakeholders, including your board, to gather their unbiased feedback. Your strategic plan should include projects that will push forward your priorities, the board members that will help facilitate each task, key performance indicators and a timeline for completion.

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Connection Cafe

JUNE 12, 2017

Today’s nonprofit marketers must be experts in learning how to shift their organizational culture towards a culture of philanthropy. This gets to the heart of the best practices that are needed to create a culture of philanthropy within anonprofit organization. Shifting the organization’s culture is a process, and it takes time.

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sgEngage

SEPTEMBER 13, 2022

For staff, this often involves careful planning and facilitation, and playing a backend organizing role to ensure participants are easily able to engage in the tasks at hand. We know participation is not easy to embrace, because this approach is ultimately about changing culture to embrace iteration and continuous learning.

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Amy Sample Ward

JUNE 21, 2011

Tracy : When we speak about cultureal spaces, we are really talking about caging and preserving culture. We want to focus on experiences and the experience of culture is an interaction, that’s why these places need to be live. That’s one of the goals of research institustions and cultureal spaces in general.

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ASU Lodestar Center

OCTOBER 16, 2020

ECB involves a series of steps taken by an evaluator (internal or external) to build evaluative knowledge and skills, create a culture of continuous learning and accountability, and make resources readily available. Does the environment support change, accountability, and communication? Guide to building evaluation capacity.

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sgEngage

MARCH 17, 2022

When these foundations work together, even briefly, they can leverage these assets to amplify each other’s efforts and meet priority needs that fit their community’s particular culture and environment. . Through deft facilitation, a funder coalition can achieve powerful unity without requiring perfect agreement. .

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

APRIL 6, 2017

In the Happy Healthy Nonprofit: Strategies for Impact without Burnout , my co-author Aliza Sherman and I share a framework to think more broadly about creating a culture of wellbeing in the workplace. It includes our relationship with our physical environment and in the workplace that refers to the nonprofit’s physical office space.

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The Modern Nonprofit

FEBRUARY 1, 2022

But this value can also be in the form of programs and services that benefit hungry children, put a stop to the mistreatment of animals, or preserve the environment, as addressed by the work of nonprofit organizations. This entails having a high-quality company culture , benefits, and decent salaries for employees. Invest in your team.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

AUGUST 17, 2017

I had an exciting and busy week of teaching public workshops, facilitating informal staff workshops, and meetings at the Embassy mostly on the topic of Networked Nonprofit, digital strategy, and leading on social media. The space creates a calm and reflective environment. There are couches and comfortable chairs.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

FEBRUARY 10, 2015

Yet, many nonprofits are loosing productivity and less creative because they are trapped in a culture of sitting. We know sitting too much is bad for your health , but the culture norm at work is sitting, whether it be around a meeting table with other people or in front of a computer screen. A Walking Culture at Work.

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Saleforce Nonprofit

APRIL 12, 2021

We are committed to actively advocating for clear and consistent science-based climate policies that facilitate a just and equitable global transition to a 1.5°C Below are resources for companies, nonprofits, and education institutions alike to deepen their commitment to the environment: Sustainability Cloud. From nonprofits like 350.org

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Greater Giving

JUNE 15, 2023

Factors include the complexity of the event, committee size, and the organization’s culture. Foster Collaboration: Encourage open communication, idea-sharing, and collaboration among committee members, promoting a positive and productive working environment. Typically, chairs serve for one to three years.

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Get Fully Funded

OCTOBER 14, 2021

Recruitment obstacles: Nonprofits tend to face a more challenging recruiting environment because they have tighter budgets. They’re taking notes from the nonprofit HR playbook to determine how they can foster a purpose-driven environment for employees. Your HR department can help create and maintain this balanced compensation strategy.

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AccelEvents

AUGUST 24, 2021

Badges are great at fundraising events and career fairs , as badges generate environments of networking and collaboration! The winning team could win a big prize , like a trip to a unique location, a pre-paid dinner, or special perks like a unique cultural event. The badges could be one-off badges that will never be printed again!

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

APRIL 10, 2009

Sam's story illustrates the pressing need for culture change within nonprofits or as colleague, Allison Fine , puts it "organizational silos prevent people from empowering their edge." . He suggests an "organizational gut check" about organizational culture. Is the protection worth it in the new environment?

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sgEngage

JULY 20, 2021

“Ignoring social justice issues that your workforce is dealing with outside of work can, in turn, affect productivity and morale in your work environment,” writes Christie Lindor. Ignoring polarizing social justice issues can even increase unconscious biases that could wreak havoc on your culture.”

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Bloomerang

AUGUST 2, 2021

Mastering personalized, customer-centered philanthropy facilitation, especially mid-level and major donors, to increase donor lifetime value. Internalizing and externalizing an organization-wide culture of philanthropy. Arts and culture. 8 Ways College Students Can Save the Environment Every Day. Environmental.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

SEPTEMBER 8, 2009

Several months ago, my colleague Rachel Happe from the Community Roundtable invited me to facilitate a discussion with members about the issues that swirl around organizational adoption of social media. In healthcare, terms are used like blamefree environment, failure analysis, and responsible reporting.

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Qgiv

JUNE 1, 2023

Their approach is holistic, with a variety of programs focused on cultural arts, wellness, and social justice. Prism Health North Texas Prism Health North Texas (PHNTX) is a healthcare organization that provides comprehensive, personalized medical care for North Texans in a judgement-free and affirming environment.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MARCH 22, 2013

You don’t always have flexibility in room set up and I have found myself “hacking” the physical space (moving around furniture) to create an environment that invites interactivity, peer learning, and engagement. I designed and facilitated a peer learning workshop at SXSW last week.

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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? How do we leverage the “rain” of culture change?3.

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.orgSource

JANUARY 30, 2024

The most challenging problems centered around culture. Relationships that had been tenuous in the office became untenable in the remote environment. Create Awareness The easiest way to introduce EI into your environment is to build awareness about the concept. For a positive virtual culture, practice both.

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Bloomerang

AUGUST 21, 2023

The Fundraising Planning and Climate Report ’s findings show the following: Adjust fundraising strategies : Based on the report’s predictions, consider adjusting your fundraising strategies to align with the current socioeconomic and cultural climate, and donor preferences. How are you nurturing and supporting your fundraising staff?

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

APRIL 27, 2011

For many of us of a certain age, that style has carried over to our work culture where we are rewarded for our expertise and to keep quiet what we don’t know (or screw up). Creating an environment for learning in public means that it is okay to say “I don’t know” about an issue or problem and to ask others what they think.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JUNE 6, 2018

Note from Beth: Blocking out time for your nonprofit’s staff to do planning and work on areas like organizational culture is essential for success. In a distributed workforce like ETR’s, one of the keys to building an engaged and energetic culture is making an extra effort to respect and celebrate remote workers.

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Nonprofits Source

OCTOBER 6, 2023

Organizational culture. Enrichment and advancement opportunities. Since upper leadership doesn’t spend much time interacting with lower-level employees, it’s important to ask them for their feedback about improving the organization’s culture and work environment. Leadership style. Close off communication.

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Eric Jacobsen Blog

NOVEMBER 5, 2020

A great deal has changed in employees’ work lives in a short time, so it’s more important than ever to have a pulse on how their views on the ideal work environment may be evolving. The most important thing a leader can do in this COVID-19 environment is to recognize that adversity represents their greatest opportunity to lead.

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Eric Jacobsen Blog

FEBRUARY 4, 2018

All of which will drive a clash of cultures that demands a new management approach. Both Millennials and GenZ are incredibly entrepreneurial and will expect more independent work environments. Question: When a leader helps to facilitate mentoring within his/her organization, what works best?

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