Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

OCTOBER 10, 2013

Our interactive session at the Fall 2013 Communications Network Conference in New Orleans was a blend of content delivery and peer learning – a conversation about the value, different approaches and models, and best practices. Training Design'

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ASU Lodestar Center

MAY 18, 2016

Social enterprise models may well offer an answer. More than a million tax-exempt organizations exist in the United States, including public charities, private foundations, and civic organizations—not counting the 220,000 religious congregations that are also registered. What are the downsides and dangers in pursuing new models?

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Candid

APRIL 11, 2024

They made Foundation Directory more accessible by removing the paywall for small nonprofits when they earn a Gold Seal of Transparency. Grounded in a participatory approach, the tool will be designed by WFN members and built by WFN’s data and insights team. They built a public API and released a public data set.

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.orgSource

DECEMBER 12, 2022

You are ready to add new categories of membership, sell products to a different audience, expand programs, or even revise the business model. At Zappos, this arrangement is designed to reflect the company’s values and culture. These are telltale signs: Your strategy has changed. Remote work is challenging teams.

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Nucleus

SEPTEMBER 24, 2020

Dave Coriale of DelCor realized 12 years ago that many associations benefit from using a framework to assess these elements, and created the Association IT Maturity Model for this purpose. Among other uses, it was adopted in 2015 by the ASAE Foundation for an industry-wide research project.

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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. Here’s what I learned about the facilitating design thinking processes: What Is A Design Lab? In some ways, a design lab can be thought of as “participatory research and testing.”. Why Use One?

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

NOVEMBER 13, 2010

As part of my work as Visiting Scholar at the David and Lucile Packard Foundation this year, I’ve been experimenting with a lot of models for workshop delivery and curriculum for social media. Community Foundation of Monterey. Tags: Training Design. View more presentations from Beth Kanter.

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Eric Jacobsen Blog

OCTOBER 31, 2023

Be sure to Interviews, Toolkits and Checkpoints – all designed to enrich your learning. May and Pablo Dominguez provide readers with a powerful framework of universally applicable principles that enable any company to effectively accelerate its ability to scale and grow.

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.orgSource

JUNE 25, 2023

If you don’t have the budget to provide these resources, you probably need to rethink staffing and business models. These sessions should be designed to find solutions to challenges or develop new initiatives. Even if some areas are less than favorable, transparency is the foundation for trust, new attitudes, and a positive culture.

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Bloomerang

JULY 6, 2023

This can help you start defining goals and considering which model strategic plan will best work for your organization. Choose a strategic planning model based on your nonprofit’s current circumstances, opportunities, and threats. It’s best to use this model when your organization’s external surroundings are generally calm.

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Global Giving

JULY 25, 2017

Jessamine Chin Director, VMWare Foundation Who She Is: As Director of the VMware Foundation, Jessamine Chin leads engagement for VMware's 20,000+ employees and heads their worldwide, social impact programs. The key is that it’s in phases: Discover, Design, Implement, and Maintain.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

SEPTEMBER 17, 2013

As a Master Trainer, one of my favorite models of training adults is the Peer Learning Exchange where a group of participants who are working on a similar project or domain of practices interact regularly to learn how to do it better. Here’s list of prizes from the Centre Foundation, a Knight Foundation grantee.

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Candid

JANUARY 6, 2023

Kellogg Foundation This resource helps answer a key question on many leaders’ minds: How can leaders and companies create a culture that embodies a feeling of inclusion and a sense of belonging for all employees? Kellogg Foundation in partnership with the University of New Mexico This report examines how W.K.

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Pamela Grow

OCTOBER 29, 2023

To help nonprofits tackle this quandary, we teamed up with two other business professors , Arian Aflaki and Goker Aydin , to develop a mathematical model to guide nonprofits on how to divvy up their spending to optimize both current performance and future resilience through their spending priorities.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

SEPTEMBER 12, 2012

At this year’s Council on Foundations conference in New Orleans, I had the honor of doing a mini-workshop for CEOs of Community Foundations as part of a half-day pre-conference session organized by the Knight Digital Media Center called “Digital Strategies for Community Foundations.” This takes patience.

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sgEngage

NOVEMBER 7, 2022

In a recent discussion that included Adriana Jiménez , PEAK’s former board co-chair, she spoke about how some nonprofits have chosen to be small or nontraditional because it’s the best model for them to advance their mission. Risk models were not designed for our sector. But the myth of risk stubbornly persists.

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Eric Jacobsen Blog

DECEMBER 5, 2023

In addition, the book is fast paced and highly readable, with a bold design including captivating graphics, end-of-chapter Q&A’s, and bite-size content presentation for easy reading and comprehension. The new model leadership we talk about in When Everyone Leads is a match for our turbulent times. It is hopeful and forward-looking.

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Tech Soup

FEBRUARY 19, 2015

Autodesk's advanced design software can be used to design buildings, infrastructure, products, entertainment content, and more. Autodesk is perhaps best known for its computer-aided design (CAD) software, AutoCAD. Autodesk's software requires a great deal of specialized design experience to use.

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Eric Jacobsen Blog

OCTOBER 18, 2022

The real answer lies in listening to your employees and creating a strong cultural foundation that allows for flexibility for them to create work/life harmony. At the foundation is what we’ve used as levers from the science of happiness for a decade! So, it may not work for every organization.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MAY 12, 2011

This week I attended Center for Effective Philanthropy’s conference “ Better Philanthropy: From Data to Impact &# where I participated on a discussion panel about social media, foundations, and grantees. There were questions about social media policies as well as content and engagement strategies and handling mistakes.

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Tech Soup

SEPTEMBER 21, 2011

In the panel Rethinking Strategy: The Intersection of Impact, Brand, and Business Model, three experts defined these terms and illustrated their use for effective nonprofit communications. Evaluative thinking needs to be built into the foundation of both strategy and everyday operation, and means much more than deploying an annual survey.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MAY 15, 2020

According to Beth, a good meeting is based on good design. We’ve modeled them as part of the session and it allowed us to brainstorm in smaller teams on how to be more engaging in our meetings from now on. Planning and Design. Staff Birthday Party at the Packard Foundation. Don’t wing it alone. List of Energizers.

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Bloomerang

NOVEMBER 11, 2022

One option is to secure a capacity-building grant for this purpose from a foundation. without other restrictions); (2) withdrawals from board designated endowments; (3) a small assessment on gifts generated by the campaign; (4) withdrawal from operating reserves, and/or (5) use of operating revenue.

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VisionLink

NOVEMBER 19, 2015

Vice President, has helped design and implement. The Academy format is based on Lois Ann’s Institute design.

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sgEngage

MAY 28, 2024

No longer confined to the more traditional, narrow lane of strictly managing an organization’s revenue and expense sheets, today’s nonprofit CFOs are increasingly asked to design a multifaceted approach that encompasses strategic vision, collaboration, and innovation. Decisions should not be predicated by cash on hand.

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Saleforce Nonprofit

JANUARY 24, 2022

The mantra and model of CCF remains education for all and a commitment to equal opportunities for girls. Our mantra and model remains education for all, and a commitment to equal opportunities for girls: CCF currently supports the education of more than 1,700 children. Delivering Sustainable, High-Quality Education.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

FEBRUARY 14, 2024

Panel at Global Nonprofit Leaders Summit Last month, at the Global Nonprofit Leaders Summit in Seattle hosted by Microsoft, I moderated a roundtable, “Empower Employees with AI Productivity Tools,” with leaders from three nonprofits: Alex Duncan,, British Heart Foundation; Jon Townsend, National Trust; and Joel Ramjohn, Agape Source.

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.orgSource

APRIL 17, 2023

Accountants Content moderators Legal Assistants Proofreaders Entry-level stock traders Transcribers Graphic designers, where creativity isn’t a priority Customer service representatives Soldiers Writers, where quantity is a greater concern than quality I reviewed several of these lists. The nominees varied depending on the publication.

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Bloomerang

APRIL 7, 2022

Robert Wood Johnson Foundation. Hanley Family Foundation. American Legion Child Welfare Foundation. Cigna Foundation. RBC Foundation – USA. Autism Science Foundation. The David & Lura Lovell Foundation. Anthem Foundation. Foundation for Autism. O’Neill Foundation.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

AUGUST 14, 2015

Yesterday, I facilitated the first webinar in a series hosted by the Knight Foundation on taking the practice of Giving Days to the next level. I thought I’d take this opportunity to reflect again on a decade of experience of designing and delivering interactive webinars. Three Ways to Think About Content. Think Beyond Presenters.

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Kindful

OCTOBER 1, 2021

Robert Wood Johnson Foundation. Hanley Family Foundation. American Legion Child Welfare Foundation. Cigna Foundation. RBC Foundation – USA. Autism Science Foundation. The David & Lura Lovell Foundation. Anthem Foundation. Foundation for Autism. O’Neill Foundation.

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Nonprofit Tech for Good

AUGUST 9, 2021

That said, organic reach has been dropping slightly for LinkedIn Pages over the last year and will likely continue to do so, but the recent growth in its popularity, the demographics of its users, and the ability to connect with donors and engage corporate sponsors and foundations have made LinkedIn a must-use social network for nonprofits.

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ASU Lodestar Center

OCTOBER 20, 2021

Nonprofits whose organizational cultures encourage outreach and relationship building are already laying the foundational groundwork of high-performing collaboration. Model selection. Implement a model that aligns most closely with the partners’ mission, capacity, and vision. Layer two begins with the implementation process.

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Whole Whale

NOVEMBER 19, 2021

Like the stickers are for food delivery, the trust as a service model is a great opportunity for most businesses today. The model is defined by two mains steps. Historically, the trust as a service model has been used to grow businesses, get new customers, and set industry service/safety standards.

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Eric Jacobsen Blog

OCTOBER 9, 2023

When leaders are not deliberate about building shared mental models, people end up having different ideas of what things mean—such as feedback, imperfection, or mistakes—what is valued, and how to behave at work. Modeling learning : Leaders often engage in learning behaviors but do so in private when others aren’t watching.

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Nimble AMS

AUGUST 28, 2019

That’s why many membership-based organizations are moving to enterprise customer relationship management (CRM) platforms as the foundation for their association management software (AMS). As the leader in CRM, Salesforce serves as the foundation for a modern AMS that puts the member at the heart of an association’s activities.

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ASU Lodestar Center

NOVEMBER 19, 2020

Collective Impact is a methodology designed to facilitate cross-sector collaborations in order to move the needle on important issues. While the framework allows each entity to remain true to its institutional identity, it also provides the organizational model necessary to scale impact.

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