.orgSource

AUGUST 21, 2023

In the age of AI, “Leadership will be about setting the right questions, rather than just finding the right answers.” Today, no-code programming means that computers speak human. Strategists are visionaries, facilitators, and problem-solvers who inspire curiosity. ” That is profound wisdom. An Association 4.0

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JUNE 27, 2018

I co-lead a workshop on digital transformation, co-facilitated a master class on digital fundraising campaigns, co-hosted a learning breakfast for scholarship participants, co-designed a Big Room session on Technology for Good, and in between attended some amazing sessions. I also served on the program advisory committee.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

SEPTEMBER 13, 2009

Note from Beth: This post, Evaluation for Learning , was originally published as a guest post on the Good blog as a response to “ How Might We Celebrate Learning through Evaluation? I tweeted the link to the original and one colleague, Michelle Murrain, wrote a reflection called " Evaluation and Being A Learning Organization.".

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Evaluation Learning Foundation Reflection 86

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. You’re vigilant about gathering this information through post-program surveys or via your website.

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Bloomerang

APRIL 11, 2023

Before you can evaluate your options, you first need to establish your organization’s needs and top features to look out for in a solution. Volunteer management software FAQs Proper volunteer management ensures the overall health and sustainability of programs and events that rely on volunteers. Let’s dive in!

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Volunteer Software Management Track 75

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MARCH 2, 2015

A few months ago, I facilitated a mini-innovation lab on measuring impact for grantees of the Google Nonprofit program at the Impact Hub. Many times, nonprofits, especially smaller ones, do not have the resources to hire outside consultants to measure the impact of their programs. Set Program Goals & Metrics.

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Forj

APRIL 22, 2021

An eLearning consultant can help you answer this question and more. Through that work, we’ve seen the common questions that associations face when it comes to hiring an eLearning consultant— and now, we’re here to answer them: What is an eLearning consultant? What should you consider when evaluating eLearning consultants?

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eLearning Consultant Guide Associations 69

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

NOVEMBER 6, 2013

I’m facilitating a peer exchange for the Knight Foundation for a group of grantees that are hosting a Giving Days over the next year using its recently published Giving Day Playbook. How does your organization learn to improve its campaigns, strategies, programs, and events? Share your examples in the comments below.

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Reflection Practice Results Storytelling 119

Bloomerang

AUGUST 21, 2023

These action steps are designed to correspond with the developmental stage of your fundraising program. Not all fundraising programs look alike. Let’s move to specific actions based on the developmental stage of your fundraising program. The post starts off with general guidance. Having a monetary goal is fundamental.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

OCTOBER 2, 2014

If they do, they are typically “resistant” learners, often questioning the value of the technology. During the graduate course in evaluation and research methods, I gave an interactive lecture and lead discussion. What might a growth mindset intervention for a nonprofit look like when going through a program evaluation process?

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Technique Training Train Learning 127

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

DECEMBER 5, 2016

One of the newest resources, a free online guide called “ The Data Playbook ,” was recently published by the Schusterman Foundation and written by Rella Kaplowitz, Program Officer, Evaluation and Learning. The four key questions are: What data to collect? How to collect data? Making meaning. Communicating Results.

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Forum One

APRIL 1, 2021

This spring, we’ve been evaluating some of the new social platforms on the market to see if there is anything new that would help elevate nonprofit and/or public sector missions. Audiences in turn get the chance to voice their opinions or ask questions directly. As one might guess, Clubhouse was one that floated to the top.

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Allegiance Group

APRIL 15, 2024

Evaluate past fundraising and acquisition campaigns. Evaluate your progress and course correct if some of your strategies aren’t resonating with your audience. Keywords facilitate the connection between your website and a prospective donor. Audit your content to evaluate how well your website meets user search intent.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

AUGUST 28, 2013

I wrote a quick reflection on some of the techniques used to facilitate the meeting. or “collective impact,” this work is characterized by a very different mindset, approach, and set of tools than traditional grant-making or nonprofit work, which has historically focused on supporting programs and organizations, and scaling those up.

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Bloomerang

AUGUST 16, 2021

Mastering personalized, customer-centered philanthropy facilitation, especially mid-level and major donors, to increase donor lifetime value. Once you know the benchmarks, you can compare your data to them and evaluate how successful your efforts are. You identify key metrics by which you’ll determine if your programs are successful.

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Analytics Strategy Fundraising Benchmark 122

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MARCH 18, 2012

If you’re not attending and curious what funders are learning, you’ll have an opportunity to read some of the ideas and questions being discussed right here on this blog. I had the opportunity to facilitate a table conversation about capacity building in transition. How are answering the question: capacity building for what?

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Foundation Build Seattle Conference 95

Amy Sample Ward

DECEMBER 22, 2011

This person will take the helm on laying out tasks in a sequence, informing other staff of their roles and assignments, and providing assistance to people as they complete their parts of the evaluation. Consider using an outside facilitator to help develop questions and protocol and to help identify themes from your data.

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Measure Issue Impact Method 143

Bloomerang

MAY 24, 2021

This is a question I broached in “ What Will a Post-COVID Nonprofit Economy Reveal ? ” Here are several questions for your consideration. Whatever you did, evaluation is in order to assess what worked, what didn’t and why. Ask questions like: Which of the following describes your mood over the past 6 months?

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Nonprofit Digital Virtual International 135

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JANUARY 27, 2014

Designing and delivering a training to a nonprofit audience is not about extreme content delivery or putting together a PowerPoint and answering questions. If you want to get results, you need to think about instructional design and learning theory. And, there is no shortage of learning theories and research.

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Instructional Design Instruction Instructional Training 111

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

APRIL 1, 2015

I was most interested in Part 2 (pages 17-21) because I think the advice is applicable to organizations beyond those managing head start programs. They have a created a safe space for staff and program participants and other stakeholders to give feedback, reflect, ask questions, and think creatively about solutions.

Culture 50

Culture Data Create Reflection 50

Nonprofits Source

AUGUST 18, 2023

Ensure any potential provider offers timely assistance when facing technical issues or questions. Robust reporting facilitates informed decision-making and aids in demonstrating the impact of your efforts to stakeholders. Carefully evaluate these elements in your matching gift software buying. Bruce Wirth, c89.5

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MAY 15, 2012

I was honored to be a trainer as part of the launch of the ACE Leaders Project, a program developed by the Institute of International Education Sub-Saharan Regional Office and supported by the Packard Foundation. Here’s a few facilitation techniques that I learned from documenting the session. Fish Bowl Exericse.

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Rwanda Social Media Training Train 113

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

OCTOBER 23, 2014

Peter and Madeleine were the among the pioneers in writing about, designing, facilitating, and evaluating networks in the social impact space. Way back in 2009, when I first Peter and Madeline, we brainstormed some questions about the strategic use of social media to build a network. It doesn’t do more than that.

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Review Change Cleveland Generation 106

Qgiv

OCTOBER 27, 2021

By hosting a volunteer program, your organization can enable students, city officials, business owners, and other community members to get involved with a cause that aligns with their values and helps people in need, strengthening community ties in your area. Volunteers help nonprofits connect with the community.

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Volunteer Strategy Guide Local 98

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MAY 10, 2011

Maybe the scaffolding for learning in public for an evaluation goes something like this: Transparent: This is the first step to make learning products visible. Maybe it takes the form of collaboratively interupting the results of the evaluation. Maybe it leads to other collaborative creation.

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Public Learning Wiki Taxonomy 103

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?

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Design Strategy Facilitation Advocacy 50

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MAY 12, 2011

Vincent Stehle moderated and other panelists included Paula Goldman , Omidyar Network, Jacob Harold , Program Officer, The William and Flora Hewlett Foundation, and Travis Manzione , Director of Assessment Tools for CEP. There were questions about social media policies as well as content and engagement strategies and handling mistakes.

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Social Media Foundation Work Media 102

Neon CRM

JANUARY 23, 2024

Once you’ve mastered this part of the process, you can expand your search outwards and evaluate donors who tend to support specific programs. In order to see success with your major gifts program, you need to appoint a leader. Without a leader for your major gift fundraising efforts, your program will flounder.

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Gift Strategy Raise Database 52

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

APRIL 25, 2014

Earlier this month I was lucky enough to attend the CATechFest in LA designed and expertly facilitated by Aspiration. For example, the Irvine New Leadership Network project that has used network mapping for two purposes: 1) evaluation 2) direct network engagement. Some questions to ask: What patterns do you see? Organization.

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Technique Network Tools Map 116

Connection Cafe

OCTOBER 13, 2020

As they develop community benefit programs to address health disparities and elevate community well-being, co-investment with like-minded partners helps drive greater impact. Community benefit managers and C-suite leaders alike struggle with questions: Where do we start? Who should be involved in the planning process?

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Community Effective Create New Jersey 49

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

DECEMBER 17, 2013

On December 17 at 6:30 pm, I am facilitating a discussion and presenting at one of Scoop.It’s “ Lean Content ” events in San Francisco. Answer the question yourself: Answer the question raised in the article from your own experience. Evaluating: Rate and rank items in your collection.

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Content San Francisco Technique Skills 123

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

DECEMBER 6, 2013

Note From Beth: Back in 2011, I had pleasure of facilitating a panel discussion Grantmakers in the Arts pre-conference on technology and media with Rory MacPherson and Jai Sen from Sen Associates where I learned about research study they were conducting about social media use in the arts. How Strong Is Your Social Net? Research Studies'

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Social Media Arts Social Attitude 106

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

APRIL 23, 2013

Here’s a curated transcript of the chat that I pulled together. But for this post, I’d like to dig into one of the questions, ”How do you measure your network so you know if it is growing stronger? How do you measure your network to learn how to improve outcomes? Victoria Dougherty (@VJDConsulting) April 18, 2013.

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Qgiv

JULY 14, 2021

She has tremendous knowledge on managing the day-to-day challenges of fundraising and enjoys facilitating the decision-making process with clients. to describe the development team’s feelings, but the question they all have is: “Are we really ready to do this?”. Enter any number of musical themes (does anyone hear the Jaws theme?)

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Fundraising Nonprofit Campaign Consultant 98

Connection Cafe

OCTOBER 31, 2011

Daring to Lead report finds that a full 55% of your peer executives name technology as a “depleting” aspect of their job (it would have been the most depleting of all options surveyed, if not for the joys of HR – like evaluating and hiring/firing staff). The Seven Questions. ” Follow-up questions might be.

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Question System Training Train 51

Classy

JULY 14, 2021

As you organize your nonprofit virtual fundraising event , you’ll also want to ask yourself questions during planning, execution, and follow-up on whether your schedule is respectful of your participants’ time. Alexa shared a variety of ways her team evaluated the success of their planning and execution of the Collaborative event.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MARCH 3, 2011

The project is being managed by IIE and builds on a highly successful program launched in the Middle East five years ago, Women in Technology that trained over 10,000 women from 9 countries in the Middle East and in collaboration with over 60 training partners. Here’s how it was used during Day 4. Fluency in social media skills.

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