The Modern Nonprofit

OCTOBER 17, 2023

All About Donation Pages Donation pages—sometimes known as giving or fundraising pages—are special webpages designed to rally financial support for a cause or individual. You’ll want to tell a compelling story that breathes life into your cause and paints a vivid picture of the powerful difference every donation makes.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JANUARY 23, 2014

I’ll be sharing my best tips and secrets for designing and delivering training for nonprofit professionals that get results. And, if you are attending NTEN’s Nonprofit Technology in March, join me, John Kenyon, Andrea Barry, and Cindy Leonard for a session on designing effective technology training.

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Bloomerang

FEBRUARY 23, 2024

This enables organizations to maintain an integrated view of their interactions with each individual, facilitating personalized outreach efforts. This is where Bloomerang steps in—a nonprofit CRM solution designed with nonprofit organizations in mind. The Education Foundation of Lake County realized this when they adopted Bloomerang.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JANUARY 2, 2022

Pictured above). Remote and Hybrid Facilitation Workshops : During the pandemic, interested soared in learning how facilitate better virtual meetings. I’ve also facilitated many nonprofit staff retreats and convening and provided training for other facilitators.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JANUARY 9, 2020

Pictured above). I’ve continued to do conference keynotes, workshops and facilitate staff retreats about activating a culture of wellbeing. All in all, I presented or facilitated over 50 keynotes, workshops, and webinars on the topic. Rituals are intentional small, tangible acts done routinely and carry meaning.

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Qgiv

OCTOBER 19, 2021

Yes, you’ll need an efficient way to process donations and facilitate the collection of food drive items. However, getting your supporters to show up and participate in your event is only possible with a well-devised branding and design strategy. Are branding and design really that vital to the success of a fundraiser?

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JANUARY 27, 2014

I’ll be sharing my best tips and secrets for designing and delivering training for nonprofit professionals that get results. And, if you are attending NTEN’s Nonprofit Technology in March, join me, John Kenyon, Andrea Barry, and Cindy Leonard for a session on designing effective technology training.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

APRIL 24, 2014

The toolkit was designed through a collaboration between a European agency ( STBY ) and an Indian agency ( Quicksand ), it was commissioned by Nesta and the Rockefeller Foundation , who together saw a gap in the support for innovation provided to the development community. This is not the only social design toolkit.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

SEPTEMBER 29, 2015

Grantees, Experts, and Partners at the end of the Brainerd Foundation’s 21st Century Advocacy Design Lab. What if they used a design thinking process to not only get feedback from grantees but as a way to develop a more agile way of working? Why Use One? Notes from the presentations as well as photos can be found here.

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Bloomerang

NOVEMBER 29, 2023

Nonprofit CRMs and fundraising tools are software solutions designed specifically for the unique needs of nonprofit organizations. They include features for campaign management, online donation processing, and donor analytics, which help nonprofits design effective fundraising strategies.

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Candid

JANUARY 10, 2023

One of the strategies that make capital campaigns successful is that they are designed to involve many volunteers over the life of the campaign through ad-hoc committees. Capital campaign committees are designed to have a beginning, middle, and end. The nature of capital campaign committee structures.

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Greater Giving

FEBRUARY 22, 2022

Remember, the most effective nonprofit websites prioritize donors’ preferences and motivations in their design and structure. Facilitate this information-gathering process by enhancing your site’s user experience (UX). To facilitate this journey, ensure your site is optimized for telling your organization’s story.

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Nimble AMS

FEBRUARY 17, 2022

It’s designed to support the way associations work. Person Accounts was designed to streamline the user experience. It facilitates more unified reporting. Since Person Accounts provides both an account and a contact, which are maintained in tandem, reporting works as expected, making it easier to see the big picture.

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The Modern Nonprofit

AUGUST 29, 2023

Picture streamlined operations, vibrant fundraising campaigns, engaging donor communications, and time freed up from handling tedious admin tasks! Welcome to the transformative world of fundraising software designed for nonprofits. It’s about building a community.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

APRIL 30, 2020

The pandemic has inspire a new breed of online collaboration apps that facilitate drop in video chatting for serendipitous conversations that your team might want to test. The team building games are all simple, even fun activities, and they will help boost your team’s engagement if designed well. .

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

OCTOBER 3, 2017

Empathy or discover walks are designed to build skills in relationship building across disciplines and understanding another person’s point of view. Kick The Sit Out of It: This is a healthy workplace initiative in Canada called “ Sitkicker,” designed to get people standing up at work. Created by PUBLIC Inc.

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sgEngage

MARCH 17, 2022

In some place-based funder collaborations, members combine grantmaking information to create a collective picture of private funding in the community and compare it to a community needs assessment conducted by the local government, a nonprofit, or community foundation. Rotate hosting and facilitation. Start with one conversation.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MAY 22, 2019

I am very grateful to Valerio Melandri who is the director of the festival for inviting me to participate as well as facilitate a maser class on modern wellbeing based on my book. This includes “ algorithmic discrimination ” Another issue is that real people need to be involved in the design of the AI technologies, not just the techies.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

FEBRUARY 18, 2014

I’m co-facilitating a session on Nonprofit Training Design and Delivery with colleagues John Kenyon, Andrea Berry, and Cindy Leonard at the NTEN Nonprofit Technology Conference on Friday March 14th at 10:30 am! Evaluation is one of my favorite parts of the instructional design or training process. Use Learning Theory.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MAY 15, 2012

The project is under the visionary leadership of Cheryl Francisconi who is the director of IIE’s office in Addis Ababa in Ethiopia and has vast expertise in developing, designing, and implementing transformative leadership programs for several decades. Documentation of the Visioning Process. View more presentations from Beth Kanter.

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Bloomerang

MAY 17, 2021

You are the philanthropy facilitator. . You — and the entire social benefit sector — need organizational-development-grounded philanthropic facilitators. Why Successful Leaders Frame Culture As a Management System , Jason Korman, Gapingvoid Culture Design Group. It’s in your job description. And it’s not an individual sport.

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The Modern Nonprofit

MARCH 5, 2024

Mobilizing for Impact: Organizing Successful Lobby Days Picture this: a sea of supporters, each one a champion for your cause, coming together in a powerful display of unity and purpose. Flipcause’s customizable fundraising platform is designed to rally financial support for all your initiatives.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

FEBRUARY 12, 2014

You can expect to continue to see more blog posts from me on the topic of peer learning design and training techniques as I continue to do this work. You can expect to continue to see more blog posts from me on the topic of peer learning design and training techniques as I continue to do this work.

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Top Nonprofits

FEBRUARY 16, 2022

Here’s what we’ll cover: Design and Sell Custom T-Shirts. Design and Sell Custom T-Shirts. Nonprofits have realized the power that well-designed apparel holds. To get the most out of your apparel, you need to put thought into your design and how you’ll offer the products to supporters. Optimize Your Nonprofit’s Website.

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DNL OmniMedia

JANUARY 17, 2024

To paint a comprehensive picture of your audience, there are several different sources you’ll need to pull from, including: Previous data. For example, you could create a short promotional reel for Instagram and a well-designed graphic and caption for an informative Facebook post. Social media. Sponsor connections.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MARCH 21, 2012

I have created the design and delivered an intensive Train the Trainers session in Beirut almost a year ago for master trainers and their teams from Jordan, Yemen, Lebanon, Morocco, and Tunisia. I also developed the curriculum for the 15 workshops that were localized and delivered by the in-country trainers to over 220 NGOs over 9-month period.

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sgEngage

JANUARY 10, 2024

Keys to Datamaking Success Many of the tools and techniques that we have learned about data design and collection continue to be relevant in datamaking, such as: Ask clear questions and prioritize which data points, or combinations of data points, are most relevant to answering the questions.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

NOVEMBER 6, 2014

As a trainer and subject matter expert, I fight a big battle when designing a workshop. Balancing the amount of content delivery with exercises and right sizing given the available time for the workshop. This where design thinking methods and innovation lab facilitation techniques can be helpful. Or, have them fold 8 x 11.5

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Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

NOVEMBER 19, 2008

It was a great combination of really detailed tech learning (like I learned a really cool trick using JQuery to generate rounded corners, which is generally not an easy thing to achieve,) and big picture thinking. What is Ethical Consulting (not so surprising, I facilitated that one.). Designing RESTful APIs. Business Models.

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ASU Lodestar Center

NOVEMBER 13, 2017

These events are designed to share leading-edge thinking and to stimulate new ideas for philanthropy in Arizona. Pictured, from left: Jill Watts, Director of Capacity Building Initiatives at the ASU Lodestar Center; Jerry Hirsch, Chairman of The Lodestar Foundation; Robert Ashcraft, Ph.D.,

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sgEngage

NOVEMBER 19, 2023

Realistic Revenue Goals: A well-run planned giving program can facilitate long-term growth. Data Analysis and Alerts: Donor metrics can provide your team with increased opportunities to identify revenue needs and get a full picture of the donor network.

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Get Fully Funded

NOVEMBER 10, 2022

Picture this: You’re about to hold the fundraising event of a lifetime. The right software can facilitate changes to your event registration process that might otherwise be daunting or intimidating. A well-designed event landing page is key to kicking off your event’s marketing strategy. Create an event landing page.

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DipJar

SEPTEMBER 12, 2022

Neglecting site design. Neglecting site design. But are you paying attention to your site’s design ? . Having a website that is user-friendly and well-designed should be a top priority. To help your nonprofit brainstorm ways to improve site design, follow these tips: Design with visual hierarchy.

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Nonprofits Source

JUNE 5, 2023

Social media platforms (like Facebook) facilitate connection, allowing your nonprofit to spin an extensive web of support all across the globe. Adding engaging graphic design to your posts can go a long way toward conveying your nonprofit’s mission to Facebook users around the world.

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ASU Lodestar Center

OCTOBER 16, 2020

In your organization, this may look like negative attitudes toward evaluation, poor research designs and collecting data but not using the data. Someone with a sense of humor who can see the big-picture to promote a positive environment and ground the experience. The root problem here is poor evaluation capacity.

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Allegiance Group

MAY 18, 2023

Keywords facilitate the connection between your website and a prospective donor. An essential step is starting with a specific digital advertising plan that accounts for assumptions, projected growth, budget, flight dates, targeting your ideal donor profile, design, analytics, and reporting.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

APRIL 8, 2013

Last week I was in Chicago to facilitate a session as part of Knight Digital Media Center’s Digital Strategy for Community Foundations and Nonprofits workshop. It is expected if you are unders a certain age – you have to take a picture of every meal you eat, cloud you see, etc. Instructional Design Notes.

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