.orgSource

FEBRUARY 27, 2024

We’ve incorporated the structure that many groups say they want. We’re open and honest about initiatives that didn’t work. Leaders and decision-makers should reflect those changes. We’re a board of eight. That smaller size makes us nimble. Our board’s primary role is fiduciary, and they also guide our strategy.

Digital 221

Digital Build North Carolina Attitude 221

.orgSource

FEBRUARY 12, 2024

To align your mission with your brand and reflect that symmetry through products and services, you need to bring membership and marketing to the Equator. When you want to give validity and structure to ideas, put them in writing. These are tips to help them make the journey toward collaboration. Be clear about accountability.

Collaboration 221

Collaboration Marketing Integration Trend 221

Candid

APRIL 29, 2024

I facilitated check-in meetings that fostered active engagement among board members, encouraging them to reflect on how their unique strengths could propel Candid toward its vision. Two prevalent scenarios, both lacking collaboration I’ve observed two nonprofit governance scenarios prevalent across the sector.

Government 59

Government Collaboration Nonprofit Evaluation 59

.orgSource

MAY 15, 2023

To align your mission with your brand and reflect that symmetry through products and services, you need to bring membership and marketing to the Equator. When you want to give validity and structure to ideas, put them in writing. These are tips to help them make the journey toward collaboration. Be clear about accountability.

Collaboration 221

Collaboration Marketing Team Integration 221

Bloomerang

JUNE 5, 2024

This isn’t about filling seats; it’s about enriching your organization’s culture and capabilities with new perspectives to support your mission and drive growth. Consider using scoring rubrics or structured interview protocols to standardize evaluations and minimize bias to keep things equitable. Your challenges?

Director 84

Director Guide Metrics Nonprofit 84

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JANUARY 5, 2021

My New Year’s rituals help me let go of things in my professional work that can open the door to positive change and growth. These rituals also help me set-up systems for consistent reflection and positive habit change throughout the new year. I have discovered first-hand the benefits of incorporating rituals into the way I work.

Journal 148

Journal Reflection Facilitation Technique 148

sgEngage

DECEMBER 18, 2023

We can learn through reflection and come to deeper understandings. Professionals tasked with a knowledge role often organize what feels like chaos—to create structure and focus attention on the most important information. When we ask a question, we can open new ways of understanding. Learning, we do naturally.

Knowledge 72

Knowledge Philanthropy Change Work 72

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MARCH 30, 2012

It was also an opportunity for me to co-facilitate with in-country team, meet the NGOs and hear their stories first-hand, and learn a lot about modeling and adapting interactive training techniques for different cultures. Quiet Reflection: Socoot. Showcase Panel. 11. What does it mean to be a “Master Trainer?”

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Morocco Tunisia Reflection Conference 100

Forum One

JUNE 17, 2021

Delivering authenticity in your DEI messaging means not just talking the talk, but walking the walk by working to be part of a larger cultural conversation around systemic issues of inequality. . Cultural issues of privilege and oppression are bigger than your organization. Do they feel included in the process? Be authentic.

Culture 82

Culture Pledge System Industry 82

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JANUARY 5, 2018

I call it my “ To Do, To Done, Don’t Do, Reflection List.” ” I use it for planning and goal setting as well as to reflect along the way. My colleague, Wendy Harman , was also inspired by Chris Brogan’s technique, but she takes it deeper and includes daily reflection questions.

Professional 0

Professional Finland Journal Reflection 0

Bloomerang

FEBRUARY 1, 2023

They do however face unique challenges, which are numerous and varied, reflecting the complex and evolving nature of the nonprofit sector as a whole. Structural barriers to success The nonprofit sector is highly competitive, with organizations often competing for the same limited resources. Add advancement of BIPOC staff where you can.

Accessibility 110

Accessibility Challenge Leadership Tips 110

Qgiv

FEBRUARY 27, 2023

Philanthropy is often an important part of any company’s structure. By connecting with nonprofits and starting your own employee giving program, your employees can feel proud about working for a company that reflects their values and is devoted to making the world a better place. Are you planning time-sensitive campaigns?

Program 98

Program Create Giving Companies 98

Connection Cafe

JANUARY 19, 2021

arts & culture institutions) may have even experienced a drop in donations compared to 2019. To stay true to your organization’s mission while being open to change, continually ground yourself and your team in why you do what you do. The “how” – program models, operational processes, staffing structures – can shift.

Environment 49

Environment Hunger Model Phase 49

sgEngage

APRIL 18, 2022

Change is hard and building a strong internal controls structure in your nonprofit when there has not been one previously takes time. Here are seven practices for building an internal control structure that will increase buy-in and stand the test of time. Nurture open communications. Communicate a consistent message.

International 95

International Culture Build Structure 95

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JANUARY 3, 2011

networks, training and capacity building approaches, and culture change. I have been reflecting on my system for doing this – looking at the tension between curating one’s network and get things done, but leaving room for serendipity. Sense: Sensing is making sense of the information.

Share 102

Share Reflection Social Media Model 102

Eric Jacobsen Blog

MAY 5, 2022

The pandemic has forced us to check ourselves, slow down, and even to pause time and space to reflect on the lives we were leading,” says O’Neil. By creating structure, holding and protecting your time for the people, passions and priorities in your life, you will be able to commit to each moment fully.

Exercise 52

Exercise Philadelphia Life Phone 52

Eric Jacobsen Blog

OCTOBER 10, 2021

The pandemic has forced us to check ourselves, slow down, and even to pause time and space to reflect on the lives we were leading,” says O’Neil. By creating structure, holding and protecting your time for the people, passions and priorities in your life, you will be able to commit to each moment fully.

Exercise 52

Exercise Philadelphia Life Phone 52

Eric Jacobsen Blog

JULY 28, 2021

The pandemic has forced us to check ourselves, slow down, and even to pause time and space to reflect on the lives we were leading,” says O’Neil. By creating structure, holding and protecting your time for the people, passions and priorities in your life, you will be able to commit to each moment fully.

Exercise 52

Exercise Philadelphia Life Phone 52

ASU Lodestar Center

JULY 23, 2018

According to The Chronicle of Philanthropy, “nonprofit leaders must focus more attention on innovation, measuring the impact of their efforts, and creating funding structures that encourage risk taking, according to a report from Independent Sector." Putnam reflects on his previous article “Bowling Alone: America Social Capitalism”.

Arizona 40

Arizona Tucson Test America 40

Forj

AUGUST 12, 2021

Design a training/onboarding process that reflects your organization. In fact, it’s more and more common for workers these days to value workplace culture and other indirect benefits over simply a large salary. A digital system will make it easier to: Track employees as they go through the training and onboarding process. Wrapping Up.

Retention 36

Retention Tips Training Train 36

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MARCH 21, 2017

Research shows that staff often resist using multiple services, often because they don’t want to open one more window on their computer or launch one more app on their mobile device. Planning is about using structure and rituals to keep organized. It is important for your team to have the right amount of structure in their workflow.

Collaboration 120

Collaboration Tips Tech Nonprofit 120

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

AUGUST 10, 2009

Specifically around the question, "What it is in the culture of organizations that are able to make the shift that is different from organizations that cannot?" Openness and transparency are hallmarks of the networked mindset and a successful social meda strategy. O ( open architecture is best): We try to build forms (i.e.,

Social Media 95

Social Media Adopt Share Media 95

Museum 2.0

MAY 21, 2014

It has some of the same feel as the disconnected affection of people wishing you a happy birthday on Facebook, with professional reflection baked in. Seeing so many cheerful one-liners in my inbox made me think about how different my work situation is today than the last time I reflected on it in public in 2012, at my one-year anniversary.

Museum 49

Museum Director History Teen 49

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MARCH 13, 2018

Then you reflect on the difference in creative energy – typically yes and has more of it. Questions are most productive when they are open versus closed, short versus long, and simple versus complex. Creating a positive culture of brainstorming. Capture their reflections on the flip chart by writing down key phrases.

Facilitation 106

Facilitation Work Chart Technique 106

Museum 2.0

MARCH 27, 2013

I've written about different structures for participatory processes (especially in museums), and recently, I've been interested in how we can apply these structures to the design of public space. He's explicit about different project structures and their implications, listing five levels of participation and three of non-participation.

Design 49

Design Participatory Children Museum 49

Museum 2.0

OCTOBER 2, 2013

This is the last of the guest posts offered during this fall season, and it dovetails with last week''s post about opening up collections access nicely. Successful” artworks draw out qualities in the collection, reflect material histories, and show the artists’ process and conceptualization.

Artist 49

Artist Museum Proposal Participatory 49

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JANUARY 28, 2009

Listening may happen at the personal, staff level as a best practice for doing their job whether or not it is embedded in the organization's culture. For listening to become an organization wide activity and more impact, it needs to be part of the organization's culture. That happens when leaders model and encourage it.

ROI 91

ROI Examples Results Social Media 91

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 reimagine our goals so they aren’t trapped by old power values and/or culture?

Design 50

Design Strategy Facilitation Advocacy 50

Forum One

FEBRUARY 19, 2024

This Black History Month, we reflect on the strategy work that our team does through our partnership with the Smithsonian National Museum of African American History and Culture —much of which centers around expanding access. A Seat at the Table It was March 2020. Endowed by Dr. Ruth J.

History 73

History Accessibility Museum Award 73

NonProfit Hub

JANUARY 15, 2015

But acting hastily to fill the open position may not be in your best interest. Instead, consider this an opportunity to step back and evaluate goals, responsibilities, qualifications and team structure while also being thoughtful and deliberate about what you really need in the role. Who carries and strengthens your culture?

Interview 28

Interview Roles Nonprofit Exercise 28

Museum 2.0

SEPTEMBER 18, 2013

I''ve seen this line of questioning almost completely disappear in the past two years due to many research studies and reports on the value and rise of participation, but in 2006-7, social media and participatory culture was still seen as nascent (and possibly a passing fad). I''d love to hear more peoples'' reflections on this.

Museum 45

Museum Question Participatory Evaluation 45

Museum 2.0

JANUARY 4, 2010

The Wikimedians asked if the museum would coordinate a project in which people could photograph artworks in cultural institutions to illustrate Wikipedia articles. In contrast, the Wikimedians were focused on making cultural content digitally available online using as open a licensing structure as possible.

Wikipedia 40

Wikipedia Arts Museum Images 40

Museum 2.0

APRIL 25, 2011

I've seen this line of questioning almost completely disappear in the past two years due to many research studies and reports on the value and rise of participation, but in 2006-7, social media and participatory culture was still seen as nascent (and possibly a passing fad). I'd love to hear more peoples' reflections on this.

Question 49

Question Participatory Museum Evaluation 49

Bloomerang

FEBRUARY 1, 2022

I’ve managed campaigns ranging from about $5 million to over a billion dollars in health care, education, arts and culture, and advocacy sectors. So strategy really focuses on organizational direction, establishing values, mission, ensuring the organization embodies its cultural ethos. It builds a culture of trust and respect.

Leadership 64

Leadership Fundraising Gift Slides 64

Museum 2.0

JANUARY 28, 2009

I'm a huge fan of Jane's and have been writing about her work since the early days of this blog, so I was thrilled to learn that the CFM was bringing in Jane to speak live and then opening up the lecture to a wider audience of about 300 online. However, I'm wary of the limitations of game structures to support human happiness.

Museum 21

Museum Game Structure South America 21

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JUNE 28, 2005

This most inspiring case study on cyberstrategy was about how to change the culture of the prison from penal to rehabilitative using a network of computer labs linked to FM radio. Or the more elegant opening questions posed by Nesson: " Is there some magic in the Internet space that can help fight crime? " Oh no. Cyberschool.

Jamaica 50

Jamaica National Develop Wikipedia 50

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

APRIL 18, 2007

Openness - ????A Personal learning and reflection on and about your instructional topic. The best approach is to learn blogging is to create a personal professional development blog - a blog you use to write reflections and learnings about your subject area or personal learning goals. It's messy. Step 1: Find People.

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Remix Professional Technorati Wiki 50