Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MARCH 24, 2020

Since those days, I have continued to hone my virtual facilitation skills to design and deliver effective virtual meetings and trainings. This post is #2 in a series I’ll be publishing on virtual meeting facilitation. The first post was an overview of 9 virtual facilitation tips. Or the last photo in their phone.

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Nimble AMS

APRIL 6, 2020

Associations need technology that facilitates business with both individuals and organizations. In doing so, the Nimble AMS team can easily adapt the solution to meet nearly every membership structure. A sandbox is a testing environment where you can test code changes separately from your live production environment.

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AccelEvents

SEPTEMBER 4, 2020

The good news is that facilitating networking in a virtual setting is quite simple. If you are thinking of hosting a virtual networking event, we have some tips that can help you with the planning and facilitation process. Here are our suggestions for navigating this virtual environment: . How to Host a Virtual Networking Event.

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Saleforce Nonprofit

APRIL 12, 2021

We are committed to actively advocating for clear and consistent science-based climate policies that facilitate a just and equitable global transition to a 1.5°C It completes this mission by leveraging Salesforce technology, Internet of Things (IoT), machine learning, and structured finance to create green buildings in America’s urban core.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

SEPTEMBER 8, 2014

Last week I facilitated the “ Impact Leadership Track ” at the NTEN Leading Change Summit with John Kenyon, Elissa Perry, and Londell Jackson. Here’s what I learned: Facilitation Teams. Often, facilitation teams are brought together by an event host. Photo by Trav Williams. Do you have a preferred method?

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Bloomerang

AUGUST 21, 2023

Stay agile and be ready to adapt your strategies as needed based on new information or developments in the fundraising environment. Have you tried bringing in a communications facilitator to deepen the conversation? The facilitator may be able to better convey the need and achieve the desired results.

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Bloomerang

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. The forward-thinking development professional performs the following six practices: 1.

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ASU Lodestar Center

OCTOBER 16, 2020

Does the environment support change, accountability, and communication? What does the decision making and organizational structure look like? Someone with a sense of humor who can see the big-picture to promote a positive environment and ground the experience. What attitudes toward evaluation are present?

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NonProfit Hub

AUGUST 23, 2018

How Measures of Market Structure Shape Nonprofit Fiscal Health,” a group of scholars set out to answer the question of whether or not there are too many nonprofits in the U.S.—or, The study attributes this to differences in resource structures across nonprofit fields. In a new study titled “ A Field Too Crowded?

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AccelEvents

SEPTEMBER 4, 2020

The good news is that facilitating networking in a virtual setting is quite simple. If you are thinking of hosting a virtual networking event, we have some tips that can help you with the planning and facilitation process. Here are our suggestions for navigating this virtual environment: . How to Host a Virtual Networking Event.

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AccelEvents

SEPTEMBER 24, 2020

These conferences might have a similar structure when compared to a traditional conference but the event is hosted in an entirely online format. . While COVID-19 facilitated the transition to virtual, things were already slowly headed in that direction. Let’s break down why: How digital conferences work.

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AccelEvents

SEPTEMBER 24, 2020

These conferences might have a similar structure when compared to a traditional conference but the event is hosted in an entirely online format. . While COVID-19 facilitated the transition to virtual, things were already slowly headed in that direction. Let’s break down why: How digital conferences work.

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Allegiance Group

NOVEMBER 2, 2023

In today’s digital landscape, integrating social media buttons on your nonprofit website signifies a commitment to fostering engagement, driving awareness, and facilitating convenient avenues for supporters to contribute. Maintain a consistent heading structure for easy navigation and readability, especially for screen reader users.

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The MatrixFiles

FEBRUARY 12, 2024

Your AMS is the lifeblood of your operations, streamlining processes, managing member data, and facilitating communication. This mentorship can facilitate a smoother transition by offering guidance, answering questions, and sharing practical insights about using the AMS.

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sgEngage

OCTOBER 9, 2023

FRIDA’s Strategic MEL Framework is our attempt to ‘queer’ (challenge + change) the language, structures, and tools normally used to think about monitoring and evaluating programming, development outcomes and resource accountability. Think about the donor role as facilitator and the community as owner of the results.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MARCH 31, 2014

GlassLab ( [link] ) explores the potential for existing, commercially successful digital games to serve both as potent learning environments and real-time assessments of student learning. One infamous example is Foldit , a protein-folding puzzle game that crowdsources potential real-world protein structures and solutions. In Education.

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Eric Jacobsen Blog

NOVEMBER 5, 2020

Second, you must establish a protocol for maintaining high-structure, high-substance 1:1 dialogues with the individuals on your team. A great deal has changed in employees’ work lives in a short time, so it’s more important than ever to have a pulse on how their views on the ideal work environment may be evolving.

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Get Fully Funded

OCTOBER 14, 2021

By understanding the role of HR in your nonprofit, you can determine the best way to structure your HR approach to meet your organization’s needs. Recruitment obstacles: Nonprofits tend to face a more challenging recruiting environment because they have tighter budgets. Let’s dive in!

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Nonprofits Source

OCTOBER 6, 2023

Fortunately, there are many formal and informal changes you can implement into your organization’s structure to keep your employees motivated. Since upper leadership doesn’t spend much time interacting with lower-level employees, it’s important to ask them for their feedback about improving the organization’s culture and work environment.

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Forum One

JUNE 22, 2022

The first step is to facilitate ideation. Yet facilitating workshops, ideation sessions, or other conversations with the goal to encourage creativity and discourse can be challenging. Yet facilitating workshops, ideation sessions, or other conversations with the goal to encourage creativity and discourse can be challenging.

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Eric Jacobsen Blog

FEBRUARY 8, 2021

Second, you must establish a protocol for maintaining high-structure, high-substance 1:1 dialogues with the individuals on your team. A great deal has changed in employees’ work lives in a short time, so it’s more important than ever to have a pulse on how their views on the ideal work environment may be evolving.

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Eric Jacobsen Blog

DECEMBER 29, 2020

Second, you must establish a protocol for maintaining high-structure, high-substance 1:1 dialogues with the individuals on your team. A great deal has changed in employees’ work lives in a short time, so it’s more important than ever to have a pulse on how their views on the ideal work environment may be evolving.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

APRIL 1, 2013

” The chapter suggests “Tearing down the silos” and that this will encourage more open leadership, and create a transparent environment. The idea is to go from a hierarchical structure (what Allison Fine and I described as Fortress in our book) to a more collaborative, team offer. Cross disciplinary teams.

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ASU Lodestar Center

JULY 6, 2012

The ideal social network structure, as well as organizational structure, would contain a mixture of both types of ties between individuals in the network. First of all, a structure must be put into place for mentorship. As for support, both strong and weak ties create a strong network of relational support for an organization.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

DECEMBER 10, 2009

I participated in a meeting today at the Packard Foundation facilitated by the good folks at Monitor Institute to reflect on the work they've been doing over the past 18 months on network effectiveness. Working in an institutional setting is far more structured, formal, more face-to-face meetings, slower paced, and less porosity.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

OCTOBER 18, 2011

How do you create trusted spaces and trusted information in an environment that is working very hard to amplify fear and distrust? In addition, they’ve changed the physical structure of LCW so that there are fewer desks for the staff to stand or sit behind. Sense of reciprocity: Strive to allow and facilitate give/get relationships.

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Achieve

AUGUST 18, 2020

These core steps will give your event planning team a solid structure upon which you can build your auction strategies. Online auction software for planning the event and facilitating bids is the primary expense associated with hosting your first virtual auction. In today’s environment, procuring auction items can take a bit more work.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JANUARY 27, 2014

I use a simple structure to design: before, during, and after. For the networked nonprofit workshops I facilitate, I’ve developed a maturity of practice assessment called “ Crawl, Walk, Run, Fly ” which gives me a detailed understanding of where the organization is in its practice. Development.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

SEPTEMBER 29, 2015

I was thrilled to work with the Brainerd Foundation staff to help design and facilitate a design lab using techniques based on Luma Institute methods earlier this month. Here’s what I learned about the facilitating design thinking processes: What Is A Design Lab? Why Use One? Making: Ideation and Rapid Prototyping.

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NTEN

MARCH 5, 2010

Social media are tools that should be in everyone’s toolbox (not relegated to the “IT” person only), and the environment in which we are all doing our work is evolving quickly. In the Jewish community, we’re starting to see “program director” positions start to take on “community facilitator” characteristics.

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NTEN

JUNE 2, 2010

Flickr photo by Giorgio Montersino You probably already know many of the advantages of working virtually: no commute (saving money, time, and the environment), fewer office space requirements, improved morale, or maybe even an office on the beach.

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Eric Jacobsen Blog

NOVEMBER 4, 2014

According to Ardi, the Beta environment functions like an orchestra – where the conductor plays a coordinating role, but each member’s input is distinct and critical, and a variety of musicians can have solos. Fluid communication is facilitated and encouraged. The Beta model is taking its place.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

APRIL 19, 2012

What I love about these (youth driven, hackathon) events is the optimism, hope, raw ability and potential for a home-run in a networked tech-environment that can accelerate to tangible and scalable change in a relatively short period of time. … Also, how we facilitate our networks and sharing control to solve complex problems. “

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JULY 28, 2009

We are asked to do it in controlled environments. Creating open communities with old siloed corporate structures. And yes nonprofits mimic their corporate brethren with siloed structures. Instead, how can you use your Facebook group to engage your fellows, change your work environment, and spark your movement.

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ASU Lodestar Center

MAY 10, 2016

Financial resources are a catalyst, but this should not create an environment in which one partner is valued more than the others. Additionally, a neutral facilitator, the sponsor who brings reputation and networks, and the champion who rallies the team, are extremely vital to leading the train toward the destination.

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BoardAssist

MARCH 24, 2015

Structure yourself for success. In an operating environment that is characterized by constant change, this is a wake-up call: Boards need to get outside of their comfort zones and provide stronger external leadership — especially in fundraising and advocacy — that enables their organizations to adapt and adjust to change.

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Eric Jacobsen Blog

JULY 22, 2014

According to Ardi, the Beta environment functions like an orchestra – where the conductor plays a coordinating role, but each member’s input is distinct and critical, and a variety of musicians can have solos. Fluid communication is facilitated and encouraged. The Beta model is taking its place.

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