sgEngage

APRIL 18, 2023

Sometimes trends are purely of the moment—a fun way to mark the past, like shag carpet and 8-track tapes. To learn more about participatory grantmaking, how to get started, and examples of other organizations using this model, check out our post, “ Bring Your Community into Your Decision Making Through Participatory Grantmaking.”

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MAY 8, 2018

Participants prioritized the ideas by combining and evaluating the cost/impact, boiling down to a couple of ideas to present to the whole group. Establish norms around compassionate behavior and modeled by SLT. Casual Fridays or “Fun Fridays” Encourage staff to ask for help.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

FEBRUARY 25, 2014

I’ll also be attending Penguin Day. There are also lots of fun social events, like NTCBeer. I’ll be doing a session designing and delivering effective training with John Kenyon, Andrea Berry, and Cindy Leonard on March 14th at 10:30 am. More about the session here. Grant Managers Network Conference: March 18th.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MARCH 1, 2016

It also has been fun to reflect back on training sessions I’ve designed and facilitated over the past 2 decades as working as trainer in the nonprofit technology area. Over the last few years, I’ve used my blog as a transparent reflection tool. Evaluation. 6 Tips for Evaluating Your Training. Remote Presenting.

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.orgSource

MAY 1, 2023

They should be role models who inspire colleagues to see from a different perspective. Recreational activities allow groups to practice working together in a fun setting and celebrate accomplishments. Test and evaluate as you move ahead.” Innovators Innovators are the rule-breakers and disrupters who see beyond the status quo.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

APRIL 27, 2011

And that can be fun too! One answer comes from Eugene Eric Kim in a presentation he did about networks, “Be the Change You Want To See&# – it’s about modeling. Social media has unleashed a fabulous opportunity for professional learning about practice in public. Three Different Designs for Public Learning On Wiki.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MARCH 14, 2012

The opening plenary was both fun and informative – an improv company “performed” the results of GEO’s latest research on the relationship between grantmaking practices and grantee success. Teri Behrens, formerly the director of evaluation at the W. A Culture of Learning – Guest post by Teri Behrens.

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Bloomerang

SEPTEMBER 7, 2021

At its best, a nonprofit fundraising event is fun. Calculating indirect costs can be tricky; here’s one model to help you out. They’ve still got some consideration and evaluation to do. I confess to having a love/hate relationship with fundraising events. After all, it’s easier to sell tickets than ask for a gift. .

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Amy Sample Ward

JUNE 8, 2011

Yesterday, I had a very fun time presenting with my friend and colleague Debra Askanase at the 2 011 National Conference on Volunteering and Service. You can model behavior all you want but if no one can tell what tools you are using to be so successful, there’s no way they can jump in and help man the ship. Here are the slides!

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JANUARY 27, 2014

” ADDIE is an instructional design method that stands for Analysis, Design, Development, Implementation, and Evaluation. The design is a description of how you will use the time slots – goals, content, instructional activities, materials, technology, documentation, and evaluation. This is evaluation.

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Get Fully Funded

JUNE 18, 2023

Here’s a fun, fast, and free leadership quiz you can take: [link] Not everyone is a born leader. Surprises are few and opportunities are easily evaluated and leveraged. Factions can emerge and infighting among the team can get ugly because there’s no one to be the referee or remind everyone of their role.

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Amy Sample Ward

JUNE 21, 2011

They can’t build the schools and they can’t train the teachers fast enough to replicate our model. You are in the business every day of figuring out how to have people engage, have fun, and build skills – change their behaviors through games. There’s still going to be assessments but hopefully better models.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

APRIL 23, 2013

The chat was a prelude to a convening on April 25th at the Robert Wood Johnston Foundation of 40 thinkers and practitioners, bringing diverse perspectives and expertise into discussions to develop measures for evaluating the impact of social media on philanthropic outcomes. NodeXL and Marc Smith.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MARCH 3, 2011

I’m the lead for Zoetica where my role is to deliver training, advise on the curriculum and coaching methods, model transparency, and serve as meta network weaver. Naeema Zarif lead us through a fun icebreaker that involved dancing and prizes. Trainer models the steps to the three others, slowly – narrating what they are doing.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

SEPTEMBER 29, 2015

The next morning participants gathered to make individual and collective sense of the ideas that were shared by experts. The techniques that help you get at understanding are not always fun or easy to do. It requires stepping back and seeing the big picture. How might we create a funding model that nourishes flexibility and innovation?

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Bloomerang

JUNE 11, 2021

This’ll be a fun one. . This is kind of fun for you, I imagine, Lindsay, because you’re usually in my shoes listening to a guest speaker, but … – [Lindsay] I am. . That’s just a quick fun fact for you. So here’s a model for how you can establish common ground. . Thanks for being here.

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DipJar

SEPTEMBER 27, 2022

For instance, you’ll create a sustainable fundraising model and have reliable funding coming in throughout the year that you can put toward various budgeting needs. If an event that you run one year is particularly popular, evaluate what went well and what could be improved. Family fun events.

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NonProfit Hub

DECEMBER 24, 2017

it is nothing but a shift or a transformation that is the result of some emerging technologies and business models, with the power of impacting the value of existing technology, products or services currently offered.

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Tech Soup

JULY 1, 2014

You should, because it’s awesome fun. Naples, FL: How to Evaluate your Social Media Campaigns. New York, NY: Content Modeling: Where Strategy, Design, and Tech Converge. Have you ever thought about hosting nonprofit technology events in your community? Tuesday, July 1, 2014. Wednesday, July 23, 2014.

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.orgSource

AUGUST 7, 2023

Having fun is one tenant we identified as part of our organizational DNA. As our consciousness expanded, we realized that the leadership team needed to model the behavior we were seeking to promote. Making that evaluation requires collaboration. We believe these are the qualities that support a healthy office environment.

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Qgiv

AUGUST 2, 2022

Another way to create special moments is by helping your volunteers connect and have fun with each other. An easy way to ensure your next chair is in place is to have a rotating co-chair (or “chair-elect”) to chair model. Finally, periodically evaluate your event committee to determine if you need to add positions or committee members.

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.orgSource

MARCH 25, 2024

The passion that takes a job beyond work into fulfillment and fun. Trust isn’t just about modeling good behavior or making people like you. In an atmosphere of trust and safety, evaluating the team’s performance can also be an opportunity for individuals to identify challenges and to seek support from their colleagues.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JULY 27, 2015

I started with an introduction to the Networked Nonprofit and an assessment that allows them evaluate where their use of networks and social media is along a continuum. We came up with some really practical and useful models. This was part of an exercise to think through how a personal brand can support an organizational brand.

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Museum 2.0

JANUARY 17, 2017

days of fun, fellowship, and active learning. The Dialogue Catalyst will be part of a new exhibition model that connects art to social action. You’ll lead the activation, documentation and evaluation of the issue-driven exhibition Lost Childhoods about challenges facing transition-age foster youth.

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Amy Sample Ward

MARCH 22, 2011

Well, you’ll find that much of the work that involves your community, whether it’s building up the community, working on engagement, listening, evaluation, or anything else, involves strategy that goes in a circle. This next part is where it gets fun. The first step: Who’s your community? Strive to Be Replaced.

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Bloomerang

FEBRUARY 21, 2024

In a wine-tasting experience, participants sample a variety of wines while evaluating them using criteria such as appearance, smell, and taste. Cars A car can be an exciting big-ticket auction item, especially if you can get your hands on a vintage model. Here are a few creative packages and basket ideas to wow attendees.

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Care2

AUGUST 28, 2013

Though the shared model of high volume lists and low response rates is comparable among both Email and Direct Mail marketing, you typically have a huge advantage in the long term if you own the email list, as opposed to renting a Direct Mail list for acquiring new supporters. You can download the Breakeven/ROI Calculator here.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

OCTOBER 11, 2009

And that can be fun too! The answer comes from Eugene Eric Kim in a recent presentation he did about networks, "Be the Change You Want To See" - it's about modeling. I love the way they've made fun for the capture team to document the conference and their evaluation questionnaire. Thanks to Jeris to sending me the link).

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Nonprofit Tech for Good

DECEMBER 14, 2022

Does anyone carve, knit, sew or create t-shirts… or fun food? You can even have fun engaging your supporters and board members when coming up with these designs. You can also send fun cards using Felt. help to evaluate resumes of kids). Throw in beer and pizza and music and it can be fun. Design them free on Canva.

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NTEN

JUNE 21, 2011

They can't build the schools and they can't train the teachers fast enough to replicate our model. You are in the business every day of figuring out how to have people engage, have fun, and build skills - change their behaviors through games. How do you evaluate organizations that you invest in that develop games to support learning?

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

SEPTEMBER 1, 2009

However, there was also a plea not to make evaluation painful, collecting huges amount of data and not using it to improve a program. Ben Rattray mentioned: The vast majority of social good platforms have failed because they have modeled social good platforms on commercial applications. They don't.

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Forum One

JUNE 18, 2009

how do you evaluate the health significance of "one glass of rice wine per day" in China vs. Japan?). Sherrilynne Fuller of the UW's Center for Public Health Informatics observed that a typical attitude to these daunting data infrastructure problems is "let's deal with that tomorrow and do fun stuff now."

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Forum One

DECEMBER 11, 2010

I assume most people start there because it is arguably the easiest part to grapple with; at least you can quantitatively evaluate and compare various solutions. Modeling appropriate site use and enforcing the “Terms of Use” as appropriate. Model Wanted Behavior. Support Users in Learning the System.

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Connection Cafe

FEBRUARY 25, 2020

For example, evaluating any changes in your company from the previous year will help to avoid typical pitfalls that can derail your well-intentioned efforts to raise dollars or increase employee donors, such as: A merger/acquisition or layoffs. Organize a healthy competition between departments that is fun and positive.

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Museum 2.0

JUNE 22, 2009

My model is the shining star. I draw design lessons from outside models all the time, so "creative thievery" approach feels natural to me. I'm enjoying designing a place that I think is going to be successful and a hell of a lot of fun. I want to make a well-documented model to serve as an engine of new physical ideas.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

AUGUST 17, 2009

And like last year's ROI Poetry Slam , our session will be interactive, thought-provoking, and dare I say, fun! Evaluating Next-Gen Volunteer Opportunity Platforms: Forget about the high school community service club : The next generation of volunteering platforms is here -- from Google's All for Good to the President's Serve.gov.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

SEPTEMBER 3, 2009

And like last year's ROI Poetry Slam , our session will be interactive, thought-provoking, and dare I say, fun! Evaluating Next-Gen Volunteer Opportunity Platforms: Forget about the high school community service club : The next generation of volunteering platforms is here -- from Google's All for Good to the President's Serve.gov.

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