Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

AUGUST 14, 2015

I’ve had the honor of facilitating an online peer learning exchange of Knight Grantees that are hosting Giving Days, applying and iterating on the Giving Day Playbook since 2013. 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.

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APRIL 1, 2024

APIs and the Art of the Possible (Panel) Panelists include Nick Marchese of Emma Willard School, Shandor Simon of Beaver Country Day School, and Stephen Boyle of Blackbaud The power of APIs lies in their ability to seamlessly connect disparate systems, unlock data silos, and facilitate the exchange of information in real-time.

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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. None of this can be done effectively without systematic planning upfront – and that takes time.

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MARCH 28, 2014

Members of the NAF WBL Fellows 2014 The National Academy Foundation (NAF) is a leader in preparing high school students for college and career success. For more information about NAF, visit naf.org.'

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

OCTOBER 24, 2011

Program outcomes: Guidance on developing an effective integrated social media strategy to support your mission. Practical frameworks and guidelines for effectively developing an integrated content strategy and measurement practice. Best practices for effective use of common social media tools: Facebook and Twitter.

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Greater Giving

AUGUST 21, 2023

To effectively advance your cause and push your fundraising goals forward, your nonprofit needs a strong internal infrastructure and team. To facilitate this process, your consultant will lead interviews with your stakeholders, including your board, to gather their unbiased feedback. Support your donor stewardship strategy.

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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. It can also facilitate informal communications with other people in the grantee organization.

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ASU Lodestar Center

JULY 13, 2022

The pandemic has caused a re-thinking of how we live and work, while social justice movements have highlighted demands for liberation from models and methods that have upheld the status quo. Recent events have been disruptive on a global scale. Intent-based leadership fosters initiative and creates partnership between leader and staff.

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Eric Jacobsen Blog

NOVEMBER 6, 2023

Organization Fitness : Ability to create the appropriate business structure, evolve the business model, develop talent while planning for succession, and innovate. Communication Fitness : How to facilitate conversations, conduct effective collaboration, bring value to customers, and lead productive meetings.

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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. Communicate openly and timely.

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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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OCTOBER 5, 2021

This project also paved the way for UVM to increase their ability to report and track the effectiveness of UVM’s various research initiatives and provide more reliable client service. We’ve achieved a model for success that we can now use as a foundation to build from. Enabling UVM’s Salesforce CRM Expansion.

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JULY 19, 2023

Creates an environment that facilitates fundraising Regardless of whether you do face-to-face fundraising, ensuring that the organization is prepared to fundraise is the development professional’s main priority. Demographics: Foundations and corporate funders will want to know who is benefiting from your nonprofit’s services.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

OCTOBER 8, 2009

The workshop was hosted by the Packard Foundation and Monitor Institute. Specifically, the workshop will be focused on: Introducing and applying network tools, frameworks, and case studies that can help network leaders assess their effectiveness and increase their impact. Facilitating peer-learning and exchange.

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AUGUST 12, 2021

The kind of food that nourishes the mind and body, and is foundational to growth and many other critical human needs, like education, housing, jobs, and transportation. And supporting the whole student starts with making sure kids have nutritious meals, which serve as the foundation to learning, playing, and everything else.

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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? https://storify.com/ResourceMedia/brainerd-foundation-s-21st-century-advocacy-design”>Storify. Why Use One?

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JULY 29, 2013

ImpactRising.org helps to make standards of practice explicit, so that social sector organizations like nonprofits, NGOs and foundations don’t have to reinvent the wheel. The project is funded by the Packard Foundation, Hewlett Foundation, and The Evelyn and Walter Haas, Jr. A model of generosity.

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Classy

APRIL 20, 2021

As CEO, Chris will build upon the foundation laid over the past 10 years, seven of which he served as advisor, investor, board director , and, most recently, as Classy’s chief operating officer. Chris will continue Classy’s track record of creating world-class technology to serve the social sector. .

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MAY 10, 2011

The Foundation has teamed up with an evaluation consultant, TCC Group, to figure out if working wikily can enhance the quality of learning as the OE Goldmine Research project and the Foundation’s OE program review move forward.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

OCTOBER 17, 2011

After a welcome by Kathleen Enright, President and CEO of Grantmakers for Effective Organizations, Diana Scearce, Monitor Institute was our facilitator. Casey Foundation; and Chris van Bergerijk, Hawaii Community Foundation. They key points in tweets can be found here.

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Bloomerang

MAY 24, 2021

Brian Solis, and psychologists and neurobiologists, uses the term somatic marker to help define this experience and its effects. You may have focused more on individual major giving since foundations and businesses were cutting back. . How does your business model incorporate today’s constituent perspectives?

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Beneblog: Technology Meets Society

JULY 9, 2018

I believe it is a combination of copyright exceptions and business model innovations. The second group of enablers of the brighter future are business model innovations. Technology advances have created the opportunity for many of us to experiment with one or more of these models.

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Beneblog: Technology Meets Society

MARCH 14, 2012

And, support from the Open Society Foundation made this event possible! With generous support for new technology developments from the MacArthur Foundation, we now have the ability to assess and prioritize needs, enhance existing features, build new functionality and develop client and server infrastructure.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MARCH 31, 2014

A study ( [link] ) funded by the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation and MacArthur Foundation has found “when digital games were compared to other instruction conditions without digital games, there was a moderate to strong effect in favor of digital games in terms of broad cognitive competencies.”. In Philanthropy.

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ASU Lodestar Center

MARCH 18, 2020

According to a study by The Russell Sage Foundation and The Stanford Center on Poverty and Inequality, the GFC reduced total giving by 7 percent in 2008 and by another 6.2 Second, model out and scenario plan for revenue declines of 5, 10 and 15 percent. For the nonprofit sector, the GFC wreaked havoc on donations and budgets.

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Museum 2.0

MAY 3, 2010

Like many people in the arts, I'm interested in new models that help people combine mission-driven work with an entrepreneurial spirit. The idea is that you specify your values, relationships, and assets, and then match those up with potentially fruitful legal structures, financing models, and growth potential.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

AUGUST 29, 2013

You can watch a facilitator give the group engaging ways to interact with one another and co-create content, but it’s often hard to see in the moment how those reflect intentional design choices, and understand how to use their approach in designing your own convenings. He tweets at @noahflower and edits the Monitor Institute blog.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

APRIL 27, 2011

I’m just beginning a new crop of peer learning projects for nonprofits to learn the practice of being networked nonprofits and use social media effectively at Zoetica and through my work as Visiting Scholar at the Packard Foundation. Three Different Designs for Public Learning On Wiki.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

FEBRUARY 17, 2011

Modeling the Network Mindset. As Visiting Scholar at the Packard Foundation, one of the areas of inquiry as been Network Effectiveness which is part of Organizational Effectiveness area. The question has come up: Does leading networks require a different a skill set than leading organizations?

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Nonprofits Source

OCTOBER 6, 2023

So what happens when your investment doesn’t pay off and your organization isn’t as effective as it should be? Employee engagement is a major indicator of your organization’s overall health and effectiveness in achieving your goals. Facilitating these relationships is key to making your business feel more like a community.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JULY 24, 2012

This peer learning exchange is designed to help state-based groups to be more effective in engaging their networks toward covering uninsured children. The framework is a social media maturity of practice model called “Crawl, Walk, Run, Fly” Maturity of Social Media and is featured in my next book, Measuring the Networked Nonprofit.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MARCH 30, 2012

The model has a natural appeal. We at Monitor Institute have been digging into questions such as these as part of a broader reflection on the networks-focused work of the organizational effectiveness team at the David & Lucile Packard Foundation. Field-wide capacity is never going to be built one organization at a time.

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Givinga

JANUARY 29, 2019

As their demands evolve, so does corporate responsibility and the software used to facilitate it. Employees contribute to causes chosen and approved by management, either via private foundations or other internal corporate philanthropy vehicles. In this article, we’ll look at some of these changing market demands.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

APRIL 27, 2012

Grantees will engage in peer discussions about integrating social media effectively into their communications strategies and will learn from each other – from challenges and missteps as much as from accomplishments and wins – so success means organizations sharing both. Day 2: Certificates Awarded To Senior Staff Attendees.

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Get Fully Funded

APRIL 6, 2021

For example, if a nonprofit organization operates health clinics inside public schools, the Advisory Board might be made up of pediatricians, family physicians, and nurses, who could advise the Governing Board on how the model could best operate to meet families’ needs. They can: Ask their networks to financially support the organization.

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Neon CRM

MAY 9, 2023

Fundraising Software: Fundraising software facilitates donations, fundraising events, and other online fundraising activities. A strong CRM can act as the foundation for relationship building by giving you the tools you need to get that messaging in front of your donors. Automation: You can automate workflows, emails, and other tasks.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

SEPTEMBER 25, 2009

. Yesterday at the Packard Foundation, as part of a series of "deeper dives" to learn about networks and social media, Eugene Eric Kim of Blue Oxen Associates gave a talk about "Networks in an International Context." . More than one third of Packard Foundation’s grantees are networks and many more get their work done through networks.

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