Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

SEPTEMBER 8, 2014

Pivots can make the difference between a successful session and disaster. The lead facilitator tasks might include: introducing a section or activity and why it important, offering instructions on how to complete the activity, facilitating full group instruction, and offering a synthesis of the discussion. Orienting the Group.

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.orgSource

MARCH 6, 2023

We structured this conference based on feedback from.orgCommunity’s fall Solutions Day participants. When the group reimagined their office space, incorporating elements of culture into the new design was a priority. ENA’s culture journey brought the group from a score of minus one in 2017 to a score of 40.5

Associations 221

Associations Leadership Question Wisconsin 221

VQ Strategies

OCTOBER 7, 2022

They go by many different names – volunteer councils, auxiliaries, “friends” groups, and more – but regardless of their varied titles, such groups share a great deal. Lessons from the Field. In recent years, we have conducted surveys and interviews at institutions with longstanding volunteer councils.

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Blue Avocado

JANUARY 23, 2024

Often, this means conducting periodic focus groups, needs assessments, or surveys. Often, this means conducting periodic focus groups, needs assessments, or surveys. Notably, both of these advisory committees have different foci (that should absolutely be defined in advance). Create structure.

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Nonprofit Tech for Good

AUGUST 9, 2021

In the last few years, Microsoft has rebuilt LinkedIn working out many of the kinks and bugs that made it frustrating to use, and has launched a suite of new tools and functionality for LinkedIn Pages , Profiles , and Groups. 9) Join and participate in LinkedIn Groups. Strangely, nonprofits have been slow to embrace LinkedIn.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JANUARY 5, 2021

These rituals also help me set-up systems for consistent reflection and positive habit change throughout the new year. My journal is not only an annual planning and goal-setting tool but also supports daily reflection as the year progresses. It isn’t just about the tools, but about how people need to work and think differently.

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sgEngage

DECEMBER 18, 2023

Learning and knowledge are intimately connected but are actually different. 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. Learning, we do naturally.

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Knowledge Philanthropy Change Work 67

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JUNE 27, 2018

Rather than start at the beginning, I’m starting at the end by sharing some tips for a formal reflection process that can lead to improving results of a project or event. A structured reflection process generates insights about what worked and what could be improved. Ask team members to reflect on their lessons learned.

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Practice Thailand Asia Reflection 105

Bloomerang

OCTOBER 30, 2023

Reflect and analyze Review your results from GivingTuesday , including the total amount raised, donor demographics, and the success of your different approaches and social media channels. Update your supporters on how their contributions are making a difference and achieving your organization’s goals.

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sgEngage

OCTOBER 9, 2023

We all want to know whether our work makes a difference. Indeed, if we commit to shifting power, we need to see and understand things differently. Other participatory grantmakers have developed new MEL tools to better reflect a power shift to grantee perspective on impact. But is this the right question?

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MARCH 30, 2012

Group Photo with Certificates. 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. 1. Facilitating Tri-Lingual Events: Not Lost in Translation. Showcase Panel.

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Morocco Tunisia Reflection Conference 100

EveryAction

JUNE 8, 2023

Welcome to another installment of Thursday Thoughts, a dedicated space for our friends in nonprofit sector leadership to reflect on reports, statistics, and other trends—because when our community shares knowledge, we can all do more good. Find out what other groups they support to better target future online acquisition efforts.

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Advocacy Local Audience Poll 143

.orgSource

MARCH 14, 2023

Our members were privileged to hear their reflections on a unique time in their organizations’ history and how the pandemic’s impact reshaped their future. But knowing that we were making a difference became a strong rallying cry.” I wonder how your vision has changed and what you are doing differently today?” Sharon asked.

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Milwaukee Story Share Wisconsin 221

ASU Lodestar Center

OCTOBER 6, 2021

Unfortunately, this is a common dilemma for minority groups and various ethnic populations. Implementing these five strategies into your current nonprofit organizations DEI initiatives will ensure that your organization is critically thinking about and including the community you serve into all layers of your organizational structure.

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Strategy Help Demographics Environment 98

Neon CRM

JANUARY 19, 2024

Here are seven different elements that any association strategy—including yours—should include. Your strategic plan should outline the issues that matter most to your members while also position your group as a credible and influential force. Start by outlining your organizational structures. Don’t stop there!

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Associations Practice Strategy Leadership 52

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

OCTOBER 28, 2013

Design for Different Levels of Capacity and Skills: Adapt in Real Time. For the past twenty years that I’ve been doing training, no matter what I usually get a group of participants who are mixed levels of experience and capacity. The secret is in the structure and design of the small group exercises. Reflection.

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Training Train Reflection Design 98

Candid

NOVEMBER 17, 2021

We reflected. Recent evidence from the Technology Association of Grantmakers (TAG) indicates that grantmakers are asking the same questions with slight differences across funders, wasting a significant amount of a nonprofit's time during the application process. Corporate Delegation and Oversight, Organizational Structure (5 percent).

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Grant Analysis Application Contact 111

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MARCH 24, 2020

I am not suggesting that you make every meeting into a group therapy session. Group check-ins or icebreakers allow us to become more connected as humans as well as name, claim and move on from distractions and focus on the meeting at hand. I’ve done this with small groups of ten and also on larger calls with several hundred.

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Virtual Facilitation Exercise Training 130

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

AUGUST 27, 2010

The morning had two segments, beginning with content and small group exercises on several themes from the Networked Nonprofit including culture change , transparency , and simplicity. Geoff Livingston did a great job at live blogging the first section in the morning. Some Reflections. The Colorado Trust blog has notes here.).

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Reflection People Network Colorado 103

Get Fully Funded

FEBRUARY 1, 2022

Everyone starts a nonprofit to make a difference. How will yours make a difference? How will your organization be different? Or are you looking to open a shelter for teens who have left or been kicked out of their homes, a need totally different than the family shelters in your community. Feed people?

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Nonprofit gMail Money Foundation 111

sgEngage

OCTOBER 21, 2021

In the past I have been guilty of launching into end of year fundraising without reflecting upon the previous year. It is true, the way individuals gave last year was a different, with online giving growing by 21% year over year ( 2020 Charitable Giving Report, Blackbaud ). Your donor should and will look different.

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Lesson Fundraising Attitude Celebrate 92

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

SEPTEMBER 13, 2012

” This post shares my notes from that session along with a reflection about my session and some resources. ” The point was that nonprofits can expect to have competition from these different entities for dollars. [ And those that don't already have business plans, should probably go read this book by David LaPiana].

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Skills Reflection Management Aggregator 96

Media Cause

JUNE 30, 2022

What’s different between this ad and the other five in the ad set? I find it easiest to build chunks of ad names based on target audience groupings. I like to use a descriptive title for each new grouping of ads. Bonus: If you’d like to use consistent Campaign or Ad Group names, you can do so using a similar formula.

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Report Build Media Channel 52

NonProfit Hub

JUNE 12, 2015

Branding and marketing are as different as my birthday and Christmas. Both situations may be close, but they serve a different purpose. It’s a little different in the nonprofit sector because you typically have two to three points of view because of your audience and the way your organization is structured.

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NPO Difference Marketing Blended 28

sgEngage

JUNE 28, 2023

Like many diversity efforts, including women’s voices in grantmaking decisions—particularly women from historically marginalized groups—doesn’t often happen organically. So, G4CG set out to identify organizations that the group did trust and move money out to those organizations. It was about whether they trusted us.”

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Voice Strategy Mississippi Boston 66

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JULY 23, 2014

While participants in each track will explore their topics in depth and in the context of a facilitated structure, there will be inspiring keynotes and opportunities for networking for all participants. NTEN is hosting the “ Leading Change Summit ” in San Francisco from September 3-6th.

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Registration Leadership Impact Change 128

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.

Accessibility 104

Accessibility Challenge Leadership Tips 104

CauseVox

JUNE 16, 2023

Luckily, we live in a digital age where using the right fundraising platform can make a world of difference. You know, a place that reflects who you are, where lifelong memories will be made, and where your bond as brothers and sisters will grow even stronger. Get Your Members Involved Remember, fundraising is a group effort !

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Pledge Fundraising Chapter Classes 74

Top Nonprofits

AUGUST 3, 2021

Throughout the session, we’d divide into smaller groups or pairs to learn from each other more collaboratively. Not surprisingly, their perception was that the conversation had been poorly facilitated and had no structure! 4) Keep learning and adapting with each group. Reading these comments, I felt terrible.

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Virtual Track Student Virtual Classroom 52

Bloomerang

AUGUST 21, 2023

Subsequent action steps are grouped according to your level of fundraising development: Getting Started, Advancement (somewhere further along), and Going from Good to Great. Current budget numbers reflect your existing program commitments, not your aspirational ones. The post starts off with general guidance.

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Action Report Practice Fundraising 73

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JUNE 22, 2009

Of note, I wanted to let you know that the reflection paper about America's Giving Challenge from the Case Foundation has been published ( Allison Fine and I were the co-authors.) She shared some powerful stories from the heart, and also mentioned that we shouldn't think we're too small to make a difference. "If

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America Social Network Challenge Reflection 91

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MARCH 13, 2018

Brainstorming can be done as a solo activity or group or collaborative brainstorming. Osborn outlines the essential rules of a successful group brainstorming session. The most critical thing that distinguishes brainstorming from other types of facilitated group activity is the absence negative feedback. What is Brainstorming?

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Facilitation Work Chart Technique 106

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

SEPTEMBER 7, 2012

Some reflections from David here ). He gave a brief reflection with how is strategic consulting to nonprofits practice has changed over the many decades he has been in service to the field. ”It used to be that nonprofits developed five-year plans – we used to refer to as “The Stalin Approach.” Competitors?

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Review Business Nonprofit Measure 106

Qgiv

FEBRUARY 27, 2023

Philanthropy is often an important part of any company’s structure. Different Types of Employee Giving Employee Giving Program Ideas How to Run a Successful Employee Giving Program What is an employee giving program? But if your company is new to philanthropy, a great place to start is by starting an employee giving program!

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Program Create Giving Companies 98

CauseVox

JULY 18, 2023

Sample SMART fundraising goals Reflect on Your Focus Areas Begin by asking yourself some key questions related to your goals and focus areas. As you reflect on these questions, feel free to update the answers accordingly in your fundraising plan. Instead, focus on tailoring your message to connect with different donor segments.

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Develop Fundraising Pledge Track 76

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

OCTOBER 7, 2014

Heather facilitated this exercise as a series of share pairs where we discussed each question with a different partner for a few minutes. How do we help individuals and organizations make that internal shift in mindset as well as structure for working to be effective? We were assigned to small groups to work a specific theme.

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Design Course Leadership Network 105

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

SEPTEMBER 27, 2019

– Sharing Knowledge Wiki -This wiki was created by The ICT-KM group of the CGIAR and other partners to catalog and document processes for nonprofits that want to share knowledge across partners doing development work. Collection of Nonprofit Design Thinking Playbooks This blog post profiles different nonprofit design thinking toolkits.

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Facilitation Skills System Change 86