Forum One

APRIL 13, 2023

As we finish our three-blog series, we hope you have a better understanding of what service design is and why it’s important for the social sector. There are 4 key phases for service design: Align, Research, Ideate, and Prototype. Phase 1: Align You’ve decided to embark on a service design project!

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NetWits

SEPTEMBER 5, 2012

What goes into creating and designing a successful nonprofit website that inspires action? There are a few steps to successful audience-centric design: Identify Your Audience: Understand all of the groups your serve and find out what makes them tick. Engaging Visual Design. That’s a great question.

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CauseVox

APRIL 22, 2021

This guide will help you understand the two main ways of using Facebook: a page and a group. What is a Facebook Group? If you want a place that people can connect together and have discussions, create a Facebook Group. It’s an online design tool that has pre-created templates. What is a Facebook Group?

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Forum One

DECEMBER 13, 2022

How does fashion design relate to digital design? On a basic level, all designers gather inspiration from a range of sources and many design principles are consistent across different disciplines. Designers from around the world presented work inspired by issues in their community and the world.

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Qgiv

MAY 26, 2021

Your school group may be small, but it’s capable of big things! Now that you’re familiar with what P2P fundraising is, let’s dive in to how school groups like yours can use this fundraising style to raise more funds and help more kids be successful. P2P fundraising events for school groups. What is P2P fundraising? Trivia Night.

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DipJar

AUGUST 12, 2021

A strong design with a user-friendly interface can lead not only to more donors, but larger donations and recurring gifts. . Fortunately, all nonprofits can optimize their website to increase their fundraising potential, even those without a web design expert on staff. Make your donation button highly visible. Use engaging images.

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Nonprofit Tech for Good

OCTOBER 31, 2011

11 Website Design Best Practices for Nonprofits. Whether we like it or not, information overload is a part of our culture now, and the design and tone of your nonprofit’s website need to take this shift in communication seriously and present your website accordingly. Home Page Design. You can view their website at defenders.org.

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NCE Social Media

OCTOBER 8, 2010

This week Facebook rolled out a revised Groups feature. Groups allows you to communicate with people and friends you designate in a group – such as work, home, church, classmates, etc. I wrote about Facebook groups previously. Here’s an alternate view of the new Facebook Groups from the New York Times.

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Media Cause

SEPTEMBER 29, 2021

The other day I attended an information session for a new initiative centered around increasing diversity in design. It was created and hosted by one of the largest design firms in the world, and because of their reputation and great PR team, the call was filled with designers, architects, and executives all ready to join the cause.

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Media Cause

AUGUST 9, 2021

Within Media Cause’s Creative, Brand, and Design team, one of our favorite things to do— besides creating incredible work for our clients—is sharing inspirational and educational resources with each other: articles, POVs, webinars, classes, books, case studies, blogs, tutorials, cheese. Creative-problem solving on a small budget.

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Nonprofit Tech for Good

JULY 23, 2012

That said, below is an excerpt from Chapter 10: Group Text Messaging and Text-to-Give Technology. 11 Group Text Messaging Best Practices for Nonprofits. 11 Group Text Messaging Best Practices for Nonprofits. The nonprofit sector is new to group text messaging, and because of that, most best practices have yet to be determined.

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Nonprofit Tech for Good

AUGUST 7, 2013

The were active on Myspace, YouTube, and creating Facebook Groups long before most of the companies that are often praised for being the pioneers of social media. Graphics Designed by Bureau for Good. Nonprofits were the early adopters of social networks. Twitter Header (Color) :: 300 x 300 pixels.

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VisionLink

APRIL 23, 2012

On behalf of TAConnecT, VisionLink''s Lois Ann Porter conducted a focus group at the AACC (American Association of Community Colleges) Convention: Igniting Innovation , and hosted a well attended networking reception.

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Forum One

SEPTEMBER 28, 2021

In our Service Design: Where Social Impact Meets Innovation webinar, we defined service design, described how service design fits into the social sector, and broke down how mission-driven organizations can apply it to their work. . There are 4 key phases for service design: Align, Research, Ideate, and Prototype.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

SEPTEMBER 13, 2017

Whether our meeting is useless or valuable depends on how we design, facilitate, and follow up. Meeting design is more than just agenda planning or identifying topics. You also need to establish meeting norms or rules of engagement and then design and facilitate the process to get results. Share in the comments below.

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Byte Technology

JUNE 2, 2016

In the world of e-commerce—that virtual marketplace that has increasingly redefined how we shop and spend—the right design can mean the difference between boom and bust, soaring profits and slumping sales, simple success versus outright failure.

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Nonprofit Tech for Good

OCTOBER 4, 2012

For those nonprofits that have claimed their LinkedIn Company Page , today the site rolled out a new design that you’ll want to upgrade to much sooner than later. Related Links: Webinar: How Nonprofits Can Successfully Use LinkedIn Groups & Company Pages.

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Nonprofit Tech for Good

OCTOBER 5, 2011

The best practice listed below are result of spending the last three years maintaining and building the Social Media for Nonprofit Organizations LinkedIn Group. 11 LinkedIn Group Management Best Practices. In the era of social media, LinkedIn Groups have been one of the most underutilized and overlooked tools available to nonprofits.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JANUARY 23, 2014

Graduate Students at MIIS Class Doing Group Exercise in Flexible Classroom Space. I’ll be sharing my best tips and secrets for designing and delivering training for nonprofit professionals that get results. Join me for a FREE Webinar: Training Tips that Work for Nonprofits on Jan.29th 29th at 1:00 PM EST/10:00 AM PST.

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Byte Technology

DECEMBER 27, 2016

For anyone who designs, owns or runs a website, the threat of getting hacked is a constant reality whether you’re a mega-corporation dealing with millions of users or just a one-person blog shop promoting products or services. Security leaks are detected all the time by designers, users etc.

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Nonprofit Tech for Good

JULY 19, 2012

So, now that the automated tweets are gone and the LinkedIn News Feed has a new design with larger pictures, it would be a very good time for nonprofit staff to start posting authentically to the LinkedIn News Feed again. Related Links: Webinar: How Nonprofits Can Successfully Use LinkedIn Groups and Company Pages.

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Nonprofit Tech for Good

SEPTEMBER 3, 2012

For nonprofit pioneering Apple’s iOS, please see 12 Useful, Well-Designed, Worth-Downloading iPhone Apps Created by Nonprofits. Environmental Working Group :: Dirty Dozen App. 12 Useful, Well-Designed, Worth-Downloading iPhone Apps for Nonprofits. Twelve nonprofits pioneering Android are listed below.

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.orgSource

FEBRUARY 5, 2024

Sandy Marsico, Founder and CEO of Sandstorm Design, described the challenge of balancing risk with growth like this: “You need the courage to take chances and the stomach to handle anxiety. These funds are designated for experimentation. Joanna Pineda, founder, CEO, and Chief Troublemaker at Matrix Group International, Inc.

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Nonprofit Tech for Good

MARCH 18, 2013

Nonprofit website design and online fundraising have dramatically changed in recent years due to the rapid rise of social media and mobile communications. In fact, to allow for maximum content, the WWF used a tiny 8 point font in their 2008 home page design. View: worldwildlifefund.org Archive 3/15/10. World Wildlife Fund :: Today.

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Nonprofit Tech for Good

MAY 4, 2022

Choose people that have different understandings and relationships with your (new) organization and whose influence with their peer group is notable. This group should be given ultimate decision-making authority and will be responsible for reporting to your Board of Directors. Soul Searching as a Launch Pad.

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Nonprofit Tech for Good

SEPTEMBER 6, 2016

The rapid rise of social media and mobile technology has had a profound impact on website design and email marketing, yet many nonprofits have not yet adapted to the new aesthetics and functionality of a mobile, social Internet. It was the final presentation of the website design and email marketing webinar. billion by 2020.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

OCTOBER 7, 2014

Last month, I participated in a Design Thinking Lab with network leadership practitioners convened by the Leadership Learning Community. The session was an introduction to design thinking methods and to generate ideas for instructional modules for networked leadership development. That is not design thinking.

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Nonprofit Tech for Good

AUGUST 23, 2016

The rapid rise of social media and mobile technology has had a profound impact on website design and email marketing, yet many nonprofits have not yet adapted to the new aesthetics and functionality of a mobile, social Internet. It was the final presentation of the website design and email marketing webinar. billion by 2020.

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.orgSource

DECEMBER 19, 2022

If you make kindness official by designating it as an organizational value, you can weave the threads of consideration throughout your team. Although I doubt that many organizations still need a Casual Friday, if your group is a holdout, this is an easy, high-impact fix. Cater a healthy group lunch every quarter.

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.orgSource

APRIL 8, 2024

Here’s how Greg describes the group. The first group is punks who are masquerading as “suits.” We’re a community that’s designed for rule-breakers, and we help each other through the hard stuff. But it would have been inspiring to belong to a group of like-minded innovators.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JUNE 6, 2018

Designing the meeting so it is effective and encourages team-building can be tricky. How to Design an Effective Staff Retreat: A Lesson from Life – Guest Post by Karen Axelson from ETR. The planners of this event offered some valuable lessons for any organization on how to design effective and engaging retreats.

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.orgSource

FEBRUARY 27, 2024

It’s a shift that many groups struggle to implement. We’ve incorporated the structure that many groups say they want. Although there are still groups that look too much alike, every association is a brighter rainbow than it once was. How do you push the reset button and start exploring other directions?

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.orgSource

OCTOBER 24, 2023

Even better, is a group of trusted colleagues who have walked in your shoes, can provide wise counsel, and will deliver constructive criticism. My colleague Joanna Pineda, CEO and Chief Troublemaker at Matrix Group International Inc., My colleague Joanna Pineda, CEO and Chief Troublemaker at Matrix Group International Inc.,

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.orgSource

MAY 23, 2023

While you may not have a Warren Buffett in the group, hopefully, there are some above-average number crunchers. But a poor web design won’t get anyone on the bad side of the law whereas ignoring those important statements might. Invite the auditor to present to the group as preparation for the audit review.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

OCTOBER 22, 2013

We used some Human Centered Design techniques from their “ Innovating for People ” design methods recipe book. It was the most stimulating web platform strategy session that I have ever experienced! What is Human Centered Design? Here’s a high level overview of some of the methods the small group of 12 participants used.

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Beneblog: Technology Meets Society

MARCH 14, 2012

Guest Beneblog by Vijaya Tripathi The first ever Martus users group meeting took place earlier this month in Chiang Mai, the capital of Northern Thailand. Martus is Benetech's free and open source software package designed for human rights activists to collect stories and data about human rights abuses.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MAY 17, 2011

The content is important, but it is only half of the instructional design task. Present a concept for 15 minutes, break people into small groups with a particular exercise to apply the material, and then come back as a full group for a report out. This mirrors what you might do in a face-to-face workshop.

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