NTEN

OCTOBER 12, 2011

Your numerical data can tell stories , but can stories be data that leads to continuous improvement? I shared this on Twitter and the conversation brought out some interesting points that I curated in “Storify,” a story telling tool. (I As @orgnet says, “Turning data into stories is the real trick.”. What do you think?

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sgEngage

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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Blackbaud API Empowerment Nevada 85

Neon CRM

NOVEMBER 30, 2023

Stories are powerful. It’s incredibly important for nonprofits to tell stories about their organization and the people they serve. Telling a good story can also give your donors confidence that your nonprofit is making an impact and that their donations are used effectively. What is Nonprofit Storytelling?

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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. Storytelling or rather story sharing isn’t just for presentations , it can help build your nonprofit’s capacity.

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Bloomerang

SEPTEMBER 12, 2023

Collaborative reporting: Nonprofits can facilitate partnerships between different news organizations to pool resources, share content, and cover stories more effectively.

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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. Using the app, organizations can share educational content, tell their stories, and gather insights and feedback from their audiences.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JUNE 13, 2011

Last week public relations and measurement professionals met in Lisbon for a Summit hosted by AMEC (The International Association for Measurement and Evaluation of Communications). The messages or story is created and shared: Metrics are related to the process of producing or sharing the desired message or story.

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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. Meaning Making.

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Whole Whale

SEPTEMBER 8, 2023

Repeat what works – Keep using effective stories, calls to action, and emotional appeals. A charity combating homelessness should feature stories of providing shelter, not just cute mascots. Personal stories, donor benefits, time sensitivity? Evaluate telethons and phone banks – what makes people donate on the spot?

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MAY 8, 2018

Last month, I was honored to present and facilitate an all-day workshop for nonprofit leaders at the Oregon Nonprofit Leadership Conference on how to activate a culture of well being in the nonprofit workplace, based on my book, The Happy Healthy Nonprofit: Strategies for Impact without Burnout. Mission statement and values on the wall.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

NOVEMBER 6, 2014

The content focused on telling a couple of ”campfire” stories with insights about best practices. This where design thinking methods and innovation lab facilitation techniques can be helpful. While evaluation surveys are great, they are only one form of feedback. Share your story in the comments.

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Classy

JULY 14, 2021

Alexa shared a variety of ways her team evaluated the success of their planning and execution of the Collaborative event. The Collaborative used virtual networking happy hours, gamification and contests, and attendee-to-attendee live chat to facilitate this. How to Measure Success. This is a lot more enticing to journalists.

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Get Fully Funded

JUNE 18, 2023

Facilitator. Surprises are few and opportunities are easily evaluated and leveraged. Passion, clarity, and confidence are key to telling your story. You must be able to tell your nonprofit’s story through numbers. Some leaders are inclusive, letting their team have input into decisions. Crunching numbers.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

APRIL 17, 2013

I’m very excited for this learning experience because over the two years my work as Visiting Scholar at the David and Lucile Packard Foundation has focused on going deep on facilitating peer learning for grantees on measuring outcomes for their networks with social media while balancing and upholding the principles of being networked.

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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. Your communication strategy should be a combination of both financial + social impact metrics, and should consider statistics and personal stories that convey your impact.

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NTEN

NOVEMBER 10, 2014

This was my first experience with NTEN, a great organization that I think really “gets it,” both in terms of facilitating positive interactions with people and technology, and understanding challenges specific to the nonprofit world. Can you describe your experience at the 14LCS? 14LCS was a transformative experience for me in many ways.

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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. I have designed and facilitated a number of networks like this, although I have called them “Peer Learning Exchanges.” Generative Social-Impact Network.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MAY 11, 2010

This year, we are experimenting with incorporating social media techniques as part of the evaluation process for the second America’s Giving Challenge. What techniques are you using? How have you used social media to personalize your interactions with potential supporters? Does it work?

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JANUARY 4, 2016

The book is about self-care for individuals who work for nonprofits and how it scales within nonprofit organizations. If your organization has a story to share for our book, let us know. I also designed and facilitated a six month peer learning cohort with colleague Stephanie Rudat. What is your theme for 2016?

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

NOVEMBER 29, 2012

Hire A Consultant: NTEN’s annual nonprofit technology conference and other events, you will find an ecosystem of consultants who do measurement, data analysis, and other skills required to make sense of your data. If you are looking for an evaluation specialist, check out the American Evaluators Association directory.

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Qgiv

JULY 30, 2021

Participants can customize their pages, share their stories, and upload photos and videos to their page. This encourages active engagement because it facilitates a friendly, competitive environment. Qgiv’s custom walkthroughs train supporters to create a unique, beautiful page that tells their personal story.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

SEPTEMBER 8, 2009

Several months ago, my colleague Rachel Happe from the Community Roundtable invited me to facilitate a discussion with members about the issues that swirl around organizational adoption of social media. A few weeks ago, I had the pleasure of hearing Michael Quinn Patton , an evaluation guru, speak at the Packard Foundation.

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Qgiv

JUNE 23, 2021

Then, evaluate what donor acquisition and engagement strategies worked and what didn’t. . Share stories and testimonials from the people you help! You can also make sure your marketing material includes case studies and real stories from the people you help. . New, lapsed, or at-risk donors. .

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Museum 2.0

DECEMBER 11, 2020

But, I will say, I also love a game with a story. While for many the divide has now been bridged - turns out it’s not so binary - but for many years people argued that what made games special is their gamey-ness, the things it allows people to do; meanwhile, others focused on the unique ways games can be used to tell a story.

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Bloomerang

APRIL 26, 2021

Because, my friends, delivering happiness is the job of a true philanthropy (translated from the Greek as “love of humanity”) facilitator. It’s a good time to evaluate where you may have gaps in your technology. 2) Does it have design elements that tell a story with words and pictures? (3) And that’s a shame.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JULY 24, 2012

We used to help us design the program, determine process outcomes, and help us evaluate participant’s progress. Solicit and share stories. 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

NOVEMBER 18, 2014

Last week, I facilitated a mini-innovation lab on measuring impact for grantees of the Google Nonprofit program at the Impact Hub. I speak to college students regularly, many times through skype like this group of students in Indiana this past month who shared stories about their internships which often included measurement and spreadsheets.

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.orgSource

JUNE 12, 2023

A technology assessment is a performance evaluation of your IT systems. The purpose of an IT assessment is to evaluate whether your systems’ functionality and efficiency are in alignment with organizational goals and strategy. Any of the following objectives and concerns might trigger an evaluation.

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.orgSource

JANUARY 30, 2024

If you think EI is a soft skill, one of those activities that requires maximum effort for minimum results, these statistics tell a different story. A facilitated workshop will put the five EI competencies on everyone’s radar. It can also help you evaluate your group’s current strengths and weaknesses.

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Virtual Work Skills Culture 221

Nonprofit Tech for Good

JULY 16, 2023

If you uncover misalignment and/or a lack of clarity, consider holding a facilitated Leadership Alignment Intensive process , designed to get your team rowing in the same direction. Participants who feel heard and respected will volunteer unique information, stories, and ideas. Listen carefully and look for trends.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

AUGUST 10, 2011

As part of my work as Visiting Scholar at the David and Lucile Packard Foundation, I’m facilitating peer exchange groups on measuring the networked nonprofit with 60 grantees. Conversion, as measured in dollars and cents, as a means to evaluate and justify the time spent on social media. How to measure behavioral change.

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Results Data Charlotte Measure 95

Amy Sample Ward

NOVEMBER 24, 2009

With recent events like Causes leaving MySpace and ideablob shutting down, social changemakers have had to re-evaluate the way they select and use “free&# social media tools that they cannot control.

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Change Technology India Social 108

Connection Cafe

OCTOBER 13, 2020

And with a goal as ambitious and nebulous as elevating community well-being, how do we evaluate success? If not, you must relentlessly share your “community health story” with the C-suite and Board. Inspira also provides fitness staff to facilitate gym assemblies on staying active. Who should be involved in the planning process?

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Nonprofits Source

OCTOBER 6, 2023

We’ll go over how to evaluate your organization’s own strengths and weaknesses when it comes to employee engagement strategies later on. Facilitating these relationships is key to making your business feel more like a community. However, as we’ll explore later, there are plenty of ways to engage remote employees as well.

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Qgiv

OCTOBER 27, 2021

Take the time to assess your operations and evaluate any gaps that volunteer work could fill. You could even ask volunteers to facilitate a warm introduction for you instead of just giving you a list of names. See if a well-connected board member or current volunteer can go with you to facilitate introductions to key community members.

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BoardAssist

JANUARY 27, 2015

Armed with this knowledge, a nonprofit misses a terrific opportunity to tell their story as fully as possible if they are not thinking strategically about how information is presented in this important document. Program Service Accomplishments – This is your opportunity to tell your story in your own words.

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Care2

MARCH 11, 2014

This session will describe sometimes painful, but often rewarding process to do a better job of collecting, analyzing and acting on data, for use in both strategic planning and evaluation. Disrupting the Nonprofit Sector Friday, March 13th, 10:30 AM. million organizations. Where: The Black Squirrel, 2427 18th Street NW.

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