Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

OCTOBER 24, 2014

” I first used this exercise in 2011 in Lebanon to kick off E-Mediat project that brought trainers and capacity builders from 5 countries in the Middle East to be trained on curriculum based on my book, the Networked Nonprofit , and interactive training techniques. .”

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

APRIL 27, 2012

As part of the face-to-face training, we spent a day introducing participants to the different platforms and because we had wifi at the training, integrated using it as part of the exercise report outs. We are also using a Facebook group for daily communication. There is also an self-assessment exercise. We did this on Day 1.

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Pakistan NGO Network Exercise 111

Get Fully Funded

FEBRUARY 1, 2022

But first, you need to build a solid foundation so your nonprofit will thrive, not struggle. As you consider these questions, here are two important exercises that will help you clarify your vision and goals: 1. Build a solid foundation. To start a nonprofit and have the biggest impact, you have to build a solid foundation.

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Beneblog: Technology Meets Society

DECEMBER 8, 2011

Knight Foundation, our SocialCoding4Good initiative will kick off later this year. Route 66 Route 66, our online platform for teaching reading, has officially launched thanks to support from the Peery Foundation. and James L. Route 66 is software that provides teachers (and non-teachers!)

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Candid

APRIL 22, 2021

Thanks to amazing colleagues across Candid, we quickly launched remote access to Foundation Directory Online so that our FIN partners could continue to support their patrons and communities despite their physical building closures.” and abroad had real-time information on how nonprofits and foundations responded to COVID-19.”

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

SEPTEMBER 29, 2011

This morning I learned a new word for information overload – “content fried” from a colleague at the Packard Foundation. It resonated. We have so much content in our professional lives. Mindmap by Jane Genovese. 3.) Establish Rituals: Rituals in your work life are valuable.

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Content Tips Help Exercise 139

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JULY 2, 2012

After I finished teaching an intensive Networked NGO workshop for Packard family planning grantees in Delhi, I headed to Bangalore to visit my friend and colleague, Rufina Fernandes where I conducted a social media workshop for staff and teachers and got see a start up education company and its CSR program, close up.

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Gyrus

JULY 12, 2016

As we become increasingly dependent on our technology, it only makes sense that it teach us as well. When building eLearnings it is necessary to consult people who teach and record their methodologies in making sure a message maintains its pertinence over time. Successful E-Learning – A Roadmap. Interactive.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MARCH 11, 2015

I’ve just finished teaching an online course for The Knight Digital Media Center @ USC Annenberg for community foundation leaders on practical networked leadership skills. How do you de-clutter your professional online network? Do you have an intentional connection policy? … Read More Professional Networking'

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Bloomerang

MAY 24, 2021

I suggest using these as a brainstorming exercise with your team (executive management; development; board or whoever your key stakeholders are) to develop the raw material you’ll need to create a future-facing strategic plan that speaks to the times in which we’re living. Please read my article linked above; let’s then explore further. .

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JUNE 25, 2012

This year a lot of my work as Visiting Scholar at the David and Lucile Packard Foundation is working with grantees outside of the US. I’ve just returned from leading a training for Population and Reproductive Health grantees from India. We devote an entire chapter to it and the workshop exercise is based on this chapter.

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India NGO Network Exercise 102

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

AUGUST 14, 2015

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. Recent research and teaching practice shows that the lecture is a less effective teaching tool. You should have a mix of approaches in your webinar. Medium: Up to 50 people.

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NTEN

JULY 18, 2013

This session featured panelists Nicole Roy Tobin from Deloitte ; Heidi Jark , Fifth Third Foundation , and Nicole Robinson , Mondel?z z International Foundation discussing Millennial Leadership. Many engaged in the pre-session morning exercise program and the post-session fireside chats. To this end, the Mondel?z

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

AUGUST 27, 2010

The workshop was presented by the Colorado Association of Funders and the Colorado Nonprofit Association and sponsored by Gill Foundation , Gay & Lesbian Fund for Colorado , The Colorado Health Foundation , and The Colorado Trust. Social Media Game: Scaling Small Group Learning Exercises. Colorado Project.

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Connection Cafe

AUGUST 23, 2018

Emotional intelligence teaches us to challenge our discomforts. Admittedly, I am fortunate to have a hospital CEO who is intimately involved in the work of our healthcare foundation. However, he or she has likely never been through the exercise of asking those individuals for a gift. Your CEO as fundraiser.

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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. Over the past twenty years, the Brainerd Foundation has invested nearly $50 million in organizations working to protect the environment in the Northwest. Why Use One? Understanding: Landscape and Opportunity Analysis.

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Connection Cafe

NOVEMBER 26, 2018

Teach people to get better at their craft. Many of these can be found for free, or at a low cost from local nonprofit associations, universities, or foundations. Be generous with opportunities to develop expertise by attending trainings, conferences, or other skills development seminars. Step 3: Strategize appropriately for retention.

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Museum 2.0

OCTOBER 3, 2012

She was a free agent for a long time, until the beginning of 2012, when she joined the teaching staff of Khan Academy. Its funding has skyrocketed as major foundations and technology companies have made multi-million dollar grants and investments in its growth. the way the best museums do.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JANUARY 28, 2008

I launched a bloggers campaign and Twitter Wall of Fame as part of the Sharing Foundation's America's Giving Challenge. (To To learn more about the Sharing Foundation, see this article ) I've been reaching out to my network, and Vicky Davis is one of the people I turned to for to ask for help with the from her network of wired educators.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

SEPTEMBER 3, 2007

The idea for the kits came from the video blogging community when I blogged about wanting to see more video blogging in Cambodia and through the generosity of Coffee with Doug video blog, I sent over 3 camera kits with Jay Dedman and Ryanne Hodson to the Sharing Foundation's computer school. I have a long post about Khmer unicode in the que).

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

SEPTEMBER 1, 2007

You can come in as a expert, do a presentation, provide some hands on exercises, and leave behind well documented manuals. So, he may need to travel into Phnom Penh to send or copy onto a CD and give to a sharing foundation rep on their regular visits. Listen for resistance and incorporate that in your teaching materials.

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Bloomerang

MAY 7, 2021

These days I spend my time doing fundraising, teaching, training, and coaching with my own firm, Productive Fundraising. And I have the honor of teaching the fundraising courses for both Temple University and their 10-week online certificate program and Messiah University for their undergraduate courses. Who do you exercise with?

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JANUARY 7, 2010

This year I'm indulging in three of my passions: raising money for Cambodian children with social media, teaching a social media nonprofit strategy class, and eating chocolate. Beth's 51st Birthday : This was part of an overall campaign for the America's Giving Challenge in 2008 for the Sharing Foundation that raised over $50,000.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JUNE 17, 2015

Rachel Calderon, Marketing and Communications Manager, Central Florida Foundation was a workshop participant and after the workshop we brainstormed a design for training her board members to be champions. She agreed to write up her process and experience – and especially grateful as I’m in London now teaching the same topic.

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Neon CRM

OCTOBER 13, 2023

Exercise Class You can hold a regular exercise class with a volunteer instructor—like a boot camp-style fitness program—for long-term fundraising. With the US Golf Foundation reporting that 37.5 Tap your network to see what kinds of artists and craftspeople are out there and are available to teach.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JANUARY 13, 2010

I do this with every social media activity as well as whenever I teach. That was the reason for the eating chocolate exercise I did in PoST class on Monday. The exercise is intended to help you slow down, be in the moment, and shift you into a reflective mindset or at least feel what it is like. Setting the Right Dollar Goal.

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Classes Learning Fundraising Reflection 95

Bloomerang

APRIL 9, 2021

You have to teach them to share their personal stories, and we’re going to get into that in more detail in what I’m talking about around sharing the personal story. I’ve worked with those foundations. I know those foundations. I got caught up in something else.” So keep that in mind. That is just facts.

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Roles Resource Develop Video 121

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

FEBRUARY 18, 2010

The Nasscom Foundation in India, the epicenter of nonprofit technology and social innovation, invited me to present as part of the Global CSR track in a session about reaching the Bottom of the Pyramid with technology and social media. Teaching in an international context. My 8 day visit to India was a whirlwind.

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India NGO Social Media Reflection 96

Bloomerang

NOVEMBER 13, 2021

And, as I was sharing earlier, we usually teach this in person over a period of two to three hours, so, you all are getting the, what we’ll call, the boot-camp version of “Measure of Success.” Maybe I am teaching computer classes, or English as a second language classes, maybe I’m teaching those and I have 10 students.

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Bloomerang

NOVEMBER 26, 2021

So today, I’m going to teach you a bit about how to actually do that. As Steven so kindly shared, you know, I’ve been an executive director, I’ve been the director of a foundation briefly. In fact, there are two types of goals, which I’m going to teach you next. I want you to have tons of support, right?

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Bloomerang

APRIL 16, 2021

And one of the exercises you can use to figure that out is this kind of bullseye graphic, which is in the book but you can easily draw it on a piece of paper. You should practice what you teach, which is, you know, be open and learn and grow. ” It was the idea that you’re a teacher, you want people to learn. Sarah: Yes.

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Bloomerang

DECEMBER 10, 2021

foundation that paid down their endowment. Was a major environmental foundation because a dollar spent on the environment today is worth five dollars a decade from now if we’re doing things like climate change or preserving [inaudible 00:30:02] forests. . And we turned this into an exercise. . Now, next slide. .

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Bloomerang

JULY 2, 2021

It was interesting because one of the exercises that I have people do is I will have them do their own Zoom video, as if they’re making the virtual ask. So one simple exercise that you can do, if you don’t know where to start, it’s your nonprofit’s website. Foundation Center also has lists that you can use.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

DECEMBER 3, 2018

” The book is a big milestone, a delivery of almost twenty years of research, teaching, and inquiry into the ethical, political, and economic dimensions of philanthropy. 80% of giving is from individuals, with the remainder by foundations and corporations. Foundations are a menace to the welfare of civil society. .

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