Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JULY 13, 2011

How Helpful is Teaching Nonprofits How to Fish? When thinking about fundraising, many nonprofits and funders believe in the old adage, “Give a person a fish, and you feed him for a day; teach a person to fish, and you feed him for a lifetime.” What you think? Guest post by Paul Connolly. In a vacuum, it can be marginal.

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Candid

JUNE 17, 2022

Taking a multi-faceted look at Black history that goes beyond notable moments in the Civil Rights era makes HBCUs powerful repositories of historical data, chroniclers of Black lives, and centers of Black culture. When we talk about history, we always say we teach the past while we teach the future. Looking to the future.

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Bloomerang

OCTOBER 4, 2023

The wound on the outside may appear to be high staff turnover , but a deeper dive into the entire organization’s operations and culture will likely reveal the true reason behind the staff turnover. The vendor can teach you how to pull all the data out of one system and put it into a new system, based on how you want the reports to look.

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Qgiv

FEBRUARY 1, 2023

There is so much to learn about Black history and culture and how it has shaped our world, and there are several ways you can support Black businesses and organizations in celebration of Black History Month. These nonprofits rely on funds from generous donors to keep their work going and to provide support to the Black community.

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Nonprofit Tech for Good

APRIL 12, 2019

Once they find you and are engaged, you can teach them your language. Does your nonprofit do amazing work, yet you don’t get the attention you need or deserve to attract supporters and those much-needed funds? According to SEMrush, 260 people a month searched specialized learning and 12,100 searched special education.

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sgEngage

DECEMBER 6, 2022

As you begin planning your final fundraising push for the Season of Giving, make a point of honoring multiple faiths and cultures by creating a more inclusive end-of-year appeal. When you can authentically rejoice in special days across religions and cultures, you’re giving a gift of recognition and welcome to all of your constituents.

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NTEN

FEBRUARY 14, 2011

All Parent Centers have the same mission: to help families of children with disabilities succeed in life, find tools and resources, and develop advocacy strategies despite the many barriers including segregated classrooms, inaccessible communities, and old cultural belief systems about disability. Fast forward to Jan.

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Tech Soup

APRIL 24, 2013

TechSoup kicked off its 2013 Digital Storytelling Challenge with the webinar Creating a Culture of Storytelling. The webinar provided case studies of how one nonprofit and one library created storytelling cultures within their organizations. How to Create a Culture of Storytelling. Escondido Library's LibraryYOU.

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ASU Lodestar Center

JANUARY 11, 2013

With the recent scarcity of grant funding, excellent program evaluation practices are becoming a distinguishing element of effective and grant-competitive nonprofit organizations. 1 Even those who are eager to conduct evaluations often lack the funding and knowledge to evaluate their programs appropriately. As part of a. Get another!

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Eric Jacobsen Blog

MAY 22, 2023

Create a culture of knowledge sharing. Eggers & Kettl : Innovation takes funding, regulating, and doing. But it’s also an outline that can be used to teach students and executives alike to become bridgebuilders.” Make boundaries flexible. Forge unity form diversity. Involve people closest to the problem.

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sgEngage

SEPTEMBER 2, 2021

Health starts long before illness, and all of our patients should have the opportunity to make the choices that allow them to live a long, healthy life – regardless of income, education, or cultural background. Our patient-centric culture has shifted our focus to this new challenge that we are prepared to meet successfully.

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Saleforce Nonprofit

NOVEMBER 22, 2021

Back then, we were concerned about heady items like constituent-centric experiences, data-driven culture and strategy, technology for change, and use cases for technology. As noted, our recent priorities include constituent-centric experiences, data-driven culture and strategy , technology for change, and use cases for technology.

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ASU Lodestar Center

JULY 17, 2019

Rarely do funds cover operational or administrative costs and often they may have additional matches or indirect expenses needed to fulfill all requirements. The long-term sustainability of a charity is dependent on unrestricted funding sources allowing the organization to determine how and where resources should be focused.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JANUARY 17, 2018

It is playbook details the practices for high performance including: testing ideas, measuring impact, funding experimentation, leading collaboratively, and sharing compelling stories. How to create a culture of testing and get funding for experiments? How to go from Post-It to proof of concept? How do you measure that impact?

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JANUARY 4, 2017

This past year took me to London to teach nonprofit leaders at workshops on digital strategy hosted by LinkedIn and Social Misfits, and to Cambodia to teach a series of workshops for Women’s Rights NGOs hosted by Wake International.

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Eric Jacobsen Blog

JANUARY 31, 2021

Some of the broader themes for how to harness the power of humanocracy include: Teaching frontline staff to think like businesspeople. That’s not our culture. In general, how easy is it for an employee to launch a new project that requires a small team and a bit of seed funding? Organizations are (mostly) not. It’s impractical.

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NonProfit Hub

APRIL 5, 2019

Nonprofit Hub is trying to serve as that nurturing parent who teaches their children—in this case, new or yet-to-be nonprofits—the right way to do things, the smart way to do things. If you plan to secure grants to fund your nonprofit’s infancy, please, please think again. You need to have a backup plan in place.

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Qgiv

FEBRUARY 26, 2024

Bake sale Bake sales are always a delightful way to raise funds for your organization. You can also bid off the best looks to boost your funds from the event. You can also raise funds simultaneously by offering tickets to different activities and concessions.

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Eric Jacobsen Blog

NOVEMBER 24, 2020

Some of the broader themes for how to harness the power of humanocracy include: Teaching frontline staff to think like businesspeople. That’s not our culture. In general, how easy is it for an employee to launch a new project that requires a small team and a bit of seed funding? Organizations are (mostly) not. It’s impractical.

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Top Nonprofits

JULY 21, 2021

Rather, it means that we can’t get so caught up in these things that we lose sight of Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion (DEI) best practices or refuse to spend some of the funds we earn on becoming a more inclusive organization. Watch the Culture Start Shifting. Watch The Culture Start Shifting. Guide Your Staff.

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Eric Jacobsen Blog

AUGUST 4, 2020

Some of the broader themes for how to harness the power of humanocracy include: Teaching frontline staff to think like businesspeople. That’s not our culture. In general, how easy is it for an employee to launch a new project that requires a small team and a bit of seed funding? Organizations are (mostly) not. It’s impractical.

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People Create Organization Headline 52

.orgSource

MAY 1, 2023

Integrating IT into the organization’s strategy and culture should be the new reality. Help teams to feel comfortable with unfamiliar processes and learn to put a toe in the water of calculated risks by encouraging a culture where learning is valued and missteps, that occur in the process, are tolerated. It’s a choice.”

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Amy Sample Ward

JUNE 22, 2011

Both of these organizations have both been able to figure out how to bring people together across ages, cultures, etc. Millennials come to the work place more prepared to teach than previous generations. The ability to teach, with patience, is essential. Is your organizational culture shifting? do people respond?

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The Modern Nonprofit

MARCH 23, 2021

They should also understand how those funds will be used to run your programs and what the final impact will be. As you build a board culture that emphasizes 100% engagement, you’ll also need to teach your board members how to fundraise ! Give them the resources they need to be successful.

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Tech Soup

AUGUST 3, 2017

More Funding. For example, let's say a funder is interested in increasing the availability of mental health services in your community; you can show how funding your technology project will help achieve that goal. A good plan also provides a basis for showing other funders what your technology costs are for projects they fund.

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Cloud 4 Good

MARCH 16, 2021

Fundraising at Scale: How Salesforce Helped the CDC Foundation Raise More Funds. The Teach for America Story: Creating Exceptional Constituent Experience. Join Teach for America as they share how they’re increasing constituent engagement & organizational impact.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

SEPTEMBER 29, 2015

It is a useful technique for creating a more responsive, flexible organizational culture as well as coming up with more innovative ideas for programs and grants that are a good fit. How do we leverage the “rain” of culture change?3. How might we create a funding model that nourishes flexibility and innovation?

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JANUARY 4, 2016

In addition to the Emerging Leaders Peer Learning project, I continued to serve as the facilitator for a learning network of community foundations who are hosting Giving Days, funded by the Knight Foundation. I produced four “ Advanced Practices Webinars ” for the Knight Foundation for Giving Days hosts.

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Museum 2.0

NOVEMBER 26, 2019

As someone texted me recently, Art History grad school didn't teach us anything about working with others in museums. Museums are "no" cultures, often for good reason. But that no culture also often translates into a no culture in the workplace. Everyone can learn from others. We all need help to do this better.

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Classy

AUGUST 4, 2021

With such a close connection to the ins and outs of fundraising, members of this team can teach other departments the basics of fundraising and how they can support that work. They’ll be interested in metrics related to things like which projects need funding focus and how unrestricted funding levels are doing. Database Owners.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

NOVEMBER 25, 2007

My kids have posed for photos in t-shirts , emptied their piggy banks , helped me make fundraising videos , contributed clothing or other items to drives at school, and have attended lots of fund raising events. As someone who works in the nonprofit sector, I understand the importance of giving - and trying to pass that down to my kids.

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Bloomerang

JUNE 14, 2021

Did you work on your culture of diversity, inclusiveness, and love of humanity ? . In fact, funding for digital initiatives increased more than anything else—more than increases in costs, numbers of people in technology roles, and numbers of customers. . Did you check in with donors more frequently simply to see how they were doing?

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NonProfit Hub

DECEMBER 13, 2017

Kristen Hadeed imagines a world in which all organizations have cultures that. She is an expert in developing and teaching practical, ready-made tools that inspire people to take action. In 7-8 weeks of live coaching Lori will work with your team to create a communication culture that ensure you exceed your fundraising goal.

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ASU Lodestar Center

OCTOBER 4, 2016

My professional role includes three aspects: teaching, research, and service. The findings also revealed interesting cultural influences and regional differences in the propensity to engage in formal and informal volunteering. What has been your most rewarding experience or the proudest moment in your career so far?

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Eric Jacobsen Blog

JANUARY 17, 2014

Hams takes a no holds barred approach in his book, Ownership Thinking -- How to End Entitlement and Create a Culture of Accountability, Purpose and Profit. Entitlement has become an enormous problem in our culture, and I''m afraid it''s getting worse with every generation," says Hams. What is the best thing they can do?

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MARCH 8, 2016

This day was intended to celebrate the social, economic, cultural and political achievement of women. At the workshop they met a group of fantastic young women – girls, really – who are teaching themselves to design mobile apps to address community problems like sexual violence. You can make a donation here.

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Museum 2.0

AUGUST 28, 2018

Not because of religious affinity--I'm an atheist Jew--but because church planters teach me new lessons about relevance and inclusion. Church plants are part of a healthy ecosystem for innovation and diversity--the kind of ecosystem I wish we had in the cultural sector. I've been fascinated by church planting for a long time.

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