Pamela Grow

OCTOBER 26, 2022

You can intentionally design your board and mold them into the best ambassadors for your mission. They gave generously of their time and talents. They were also the most diverse board I ever had the pleasure of working with. And I don’t think either was an accident. When you have the systems in place. Board diversity matters.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

FEBRUARY 14, 2020

The panel session about innovation shared lessons learned from both Google employees who were working with projects as well the nonprofits. There was also a fantastic panel discussion on the way to apply Human-Centered design to AI projects and its importance. The panel was facilitated by Di Dang, Google Developer Design Advocate.

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Nonprofit Tech for Good

MAY 28, 2017

This week Nonprofit Tech for Good donated $25 to 25 nonprofits in order to study how nonprofits are progressing in the design of their donation pages and in the efficacy of their online donation process. The Wilderness Society , UNICEF , and Conservation International have well-designed donation pages that were easy-to-use and effective.

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Pamela Grow

APRIL 15, 2021

In this 30-minute training, you’ll discover how to outline your letter, how to write your best lead, design secrets and more. In no time! Deb wrote: “Hi, Pamela—one of the best webinars I’ve attended in a while—very helpful, and not just common sense, or a repeat of something you can see or read a lot of other places.”.

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Forum One

MAY 10, 2021

When designing and developing a website or application, a challenge is that roles and tasks can often operate in silos. To tackle this challenge, we recently piloted a new component-based design approach that prioritizes real-time collaboration. Component-based design.

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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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Eric Jacobsen Blog

OCTOBER 17, 2021

Equity , the new book by Minal Bopaiah , is a timely guide to help leaders create more inclusive organizations using human-centered design and behavior change principles. She says her hope is that her book will open a door in your mind – a new way of seeing how we can design our organizations and why equity is so critical.

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Eric Jacobsen Blog

MARCH 24, 2022

Equity , the book by Minal Bopaiah , is a timely guide to help leaders create more inclusive organizations using human-centered design and behavior change principles. She says her hope is that her book will open a door in your mind – a new way of seeing how we can design our organizations and why equity is so critical.

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Eric Jacobsen Blog

SEPTEMBER 7, 2021

Equity , the new book by Minal Bopaiah , is a timely guide to help leaders create more inclusive organizations using human-centered design and behavior change principles. She says her hope is that her book will open a door in your mind – a new way of seeing how we can design our organizations and why equity is so critical.

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Eric Jacobsen Blog

DECEMBER 18, 2021

Equity , the new book by Minal Bopaiah , is a timely guide to help leaders create more inclusive organizations using human-centered design and behavior change principles. She says her hope is that her book will open a door in your mind – a new way of seeing how we can design our organizations and why equity is so critical.

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Eric Jacobsen Blog

AUGUST 27, 2021

Leave it to leadership and communications expert, David Grossman , to decide to write a book called, Heart First, Lasting Leadership Lessons From A Year That Changed Everything. Heart First is engaging, inspirational and packed with powerful stories of lessons learned by a wealth of leaders with diverse backgrounds. It’s worth it!

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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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Forum One

AUGUST 31, 2021

Web accessibility refers to the design and implementation of digital products and services (i.e., It is an important part of development and design, as it dictates how efficiently people are able to utilize a website. First, what is web accessibility? websites, operating systems, apps, etc.) There’s an accessibility gap.

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Eric Jacobsen Blog

AUGUST 3, 2022

Earlier this summer brought the release of the new book, HBR At 100 , a commemorative volume featuring the most influential ideas since the inception of the Harvard Business Review.

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Forum One

MAY 25, 2021

While omnichannel marketing isn’t a new concept for nonprofits, there are still many lessons you can learn from the commercial sector. 4 commercial omnichannel marketing lessons for the nonprofit sector. 4 commercial omnichannel marketing lessons for the nonprofit sector. Automate for efficiency and scale.

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Eric Jacobsen Blog

JANUARY 29, 2023

Last year brought the release of the new book, HBR At 100 , a commemorative volume featuring the most influential ideas since the inception of the Harvard Business Review.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

DECEMBER 23, 2013

This is an adaptation of the article “ Nine Valuable Marketing Lessons From a Nonprofit – Charitywater.org ” written for the KISSmetrics blog by Chloe Gray. With that in mind, here are nine marketing lessons other nonprofits can take away from charity: water. In fact, the second person Harrison hired was a designer.

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.orgSource

MARCH 28, 2023

But, it also means using the disruption to identify opportunities for innovation and growth and applying lessons learned to develop future initiatives. The goal is to develop short, mid, and long-range strategies with flexibility baked into the design. But COVID reinforced that lesson. Here’s an example from my experience.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JUNE 29, 2016

Note from Beth: At this year’s Nonprofit Technology Conference, I was lucky to co-design and facilitate a session on technology training with colleagues John Kenyon, Cindy Leonard and Jeanne Allen. How to Be a Wizard at Tech Training Design and Delivery guest post by Cindy Leonard and Jeanne Allen.

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Eric Jacobsen Blog

AUGUST 10, 2023

The book is a comprehensive guide designed to help young professionals and career changers navigate these changes,” says Dilenschneider. Over my decades as a consultant to major companies and leaders, I've accumulated lessons and perspectives that I wanted to share. Share the lessons with your team.

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Museum 2.0

MAY 24, 2011

Ken is a game designer and writer who develops narrative, collaborative augmented reality experiences about serious issues. In this post, Ken shares some surprising lessons learned so far. The goal was to design an audio tour for people who never do audio tours. What are the lessons learned? We shouldn’t have.

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NTEN

AUGUST 22, 2013

Of course, it wasn''t a complete loss as we did learn several valuable lessons in how not to design a data driven experiment. Start with small, easy to design experiments: This was by far the largest data driven experiment NTEN had tried to date, and our lack of experience clearly showed.

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Candid

OCTOBER 3, 2023

Our existing process of extensive copy review, graphic design and layout, print production, and mailing was incredibly time-consuming and expensive, with quotes for printing and mailing services of up to $15,000! Lessons learned As nonprofits, we often approach our work through a lens of what’s been successful in the past.

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Forj

MAY 13, 2021

At this point, you can incorporate the lessons learned from 2020’s pivot to virtual events to plan a thoughtful experience for your members. 6 Virtual Conferences Lessons Learned for 2021. 6 Virtual Conference Lessons Learned for 2021. Prioritize accessibility for all attendees. Work with outside experts.

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Tech Soup

JUNE 8, 2012

This live session with Josephine Dorado (JD), Barry Joseph (BJ), Michelle Byrd (MB), and Ben Stokes (BS) joining me (EH) was rich with strategic lessons learned — enjoy a few highlights below! A Selection of Strategic Game Design Lessons for Nonprofits. Design Process. How to Design. Nonprofits Live!

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Nonprofit Tech for Good

OCTOBER 12, 2015

The good news is that there were only three nonprofits that I was unable to donate to in this round of donations (thus 9%), but it was frustrating to see how many “Thank You” landing pages and “Thank You” emails are still underutilized and poorly designed (heavy on text, void of visuals, lacking in creativity).

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Eric Jacobsen Blog

FEBRUARY 10, 2024

Mayberry, former linebacker for the Chicago Bears and now keynote speaker and global expert in leadership development, culture change, and organizational performance, took the lessons he learned on the field and in the locker room straight to the boardroom. Those characteristics include: A strong commitment to excellence.

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.orgSource

OCTOBER 24, 2023

What’s the first lesson of Leadership 101? Mirroring dialogue can seem like that annoying customer service tactic designed to calm unhappy campers. (“I Begin with yourself. Be the change. Walk the talk—right? It sounds simple. But it’s the assignment that’s easiest to fail. Because you might not know yourself as well as you think.

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The MatrixFiles

JUNE 15, 2021

Heinan Landa (CEO of Optimal Networks ) asked me last week: As we’re slowly returning to the office and in-person meetings, what lessons from 15 months of virtual meetings should endure? Here are lessons that I hope will endure: Higher Quality Sessions. ALL of these lessons should endure past this pandemic!

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Forum One

MARCH 16, 2023

Using the National Gallery of Art’s experience conducting ongoing audience research, we’ll discuss what inclusive research looks like and give you concrete tips for how you can ethically structure your research to ensure you’re designing impactful experiences for your audiences. How to conduct ongoing audience research. Find out more here.

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Eric Jacobsen Blog

SEPTEMBER 19, 2023

Mayberry, former linebacker for the Chicago Bears and now keynote speaker and global expert in leadership development, culture change, and organizational performance, took the lessons he learned on the field and in the locker room straight to the boardroom. Those characteristics include: A strong commitment to excellence.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MAY 31, 2016

Four Early Lessons Learned in the Quest to Improve Feedback Loops in Philanthropy – Guest Post by Melinda T. In the spirit of encouraging others to join us on this feedback journey, we want to share early lessons learned from our nonprofit partners as they work through various stages of the feedback loop.

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Nonprofit Tech for Good

NOVEMBER 5, 2022

When it comes to fundraising events, one of the biggest lessons learned from the pandemic years is the unique value of golf fundraisers. By Jennifer Wemhoff , Communications Manager at GolfStatus.org – the leading event management platform for golf fundraisers. 3) Organizers Will Focus on Add-ons & Experiences.

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ASU Lodestar Center

AUGUST 13, 2018

These valuable lessons have been, in most cases, more personal than professional. Public Allies Arizona is a 10-month apprenticeship program designed to develop the next generation of civic leaders. This year I have learned a lot about myself. Because of Public Allies, I learned my peers consider me a very good listener.

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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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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

OCTOBER 6, 2010

Lessons Learned From A Twitterthon by Diana Scimone. We used those insights to design our Twitterthon on 10/10/10. Those funds allowed us to pay for the pre-prep for the wordless book that’s the centerpiece of The Born2Fly Project—illustrations, design work, professional scanning, and a lot more. 1. Build your base first.

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Eric Jacobsen Blog

JANUARY 21, 2023

Jones Using her stories and those of other women as examples, Jones’ four step “ EDIT ” methodology ( Envision , Design , Iterate , and Transform ) will enable you to transform your mindset to win. Design your future life on purpose. Reflect on your accomplishments and lessons learned. Learn all you can from everyone you can.

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