Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MAY 8, 2018

One of the workshop exercises was to teach leaders a process they can facilitate back in their organizations to begin the discussion about how to activate a culture of well being. As part of the set-up to the exercise, I share some examples from the Happy Healthy Nonprofit: Strategies for Impact without Burnout.

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JUNE 20, 2023

This opens great opportunities for social impact organizations to raise or grant more funds and advance their missions. At their heart, these principles require organizations to: Be transparent about how you use and disclose data, what rights people have, and how to exercise them. How will you help us navigate future change?

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

FEBRUARY 28, 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. A true public/private partnership, the funding partners include Microsoft and craiglist Charitable Fund. February 27, 2011.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MARCH 2, 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. A true public/private partnership, the funding partners include Microsoft and craiglist Charitable Fund. Mary Joyce, Digital Campaigns. It boils down to audience.

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Get Fully Funded

JUNE 18, 2023

We all know we need to eat right, exercise, and get enough rest. I find that exercise not only helps my physical strength, but my mental strength, too. So why don’t we do it? Why do we have an epidemic of stressed out and exhausted people? I think because we take it for granted.

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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. A true public/private partnership, the funding partners include Microsoft and craiglist Charitable Fund. The notes are captured here. Photo by SMEXbeirut.

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MAY 1, 2023

They should be role models who inspire colleagues to see from a different perspective. And don’t overlook the power of social events and team-building exercises to cement relationships. Provide adequate funding and an appropriate timeline. Innovators Innovators are the rule-breakers and disrupters who see beyond the status quo.

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FEBRUARY 24, 2021

It’s used here to mean the global impact economy’s ability to exercise even greater agency in its use of existing and emerging data tools, platforms, and applications as seamlessly and economically efficient as possible. This is genuinely a good thing. “Innovation” is a heady word.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

SEPTEMBER 29, 2015

Participants voted on the questions that would be most important for the Brainerd Foundation to consider in its strategy: How might we adopt a hybrid model of new and old power? How might we create a funding model that nourishes flexibility and innovation? The Brainerd Foundation would follow and fund the ideas of new leaders.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JULY 23, 2012

Note from Beth : This is an ongoing series from the Organizational Effectiveness Program team at the Packard Foundation about developing their program funding strategy in an open way or what has been dubbed “Learning In Public.” Photo by Leff.

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JUNE 8, 2023

Stewardship - ongoing: The final phase of the campaign involves thanking donors, collecting pledges, stewarding your donor relationships, celebrating your success, and getting started executing your funded projects. The key takeaway is that successful capital campaigns take time and resources. Always conduct a feasibility study.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MARCH 1, 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. A true public/private partnership, the funding partners include Microsoft and craiglist Charitable Fund.

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Get Fully Funded

OCTOBER 14, 2021

Project-reliant staffing: Many nonprofits depend on grants and other forms of project or program-specific funding. All in all, this means that nonprofit HR departments play essential roles within their own organizations and can act as role models for other types of organizations as well. appeared first on Get Fully Funded.

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Some of these activities included virtua l Wine and Art Nights with art professors, yoga sessions with exercise science professors, and music nights or lessons with music professors. . By May, I UP raised over $193 K from more than 383 donors in support of the Emergency Response Fund and Food Pantry. .

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Nonprofits Source

OCTOBER 6, 2023

Peer-to-peer mentorship can help new team members acclimate to the organization faster and have a role model in a similar role to them. For instance, you could award a prize for the most miles run in a month or reward participation in a daily meditation exercise. Mentorship programs. Fitness and mindfulness challenges. DEI initiatives.

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Eric Jacobsen Blog

JULY 5, 2015

Schroeder calls this The Lean Model Framework. Developing and evolving a solid business model , rather than agonizing over writing a formal business plan, with attention to their venture’s unique value, target segments, key partners, and creating a customer relationship “feeling.” Smile and talk to strangers that you meet.

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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.

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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. What inititiaves are availabiel for funding? And we do see independent and small groups winning those funds. There’s still going to be assessments but hopefully better models.

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JUNE 15, 2012

The reality is that shifting to a more flexible telecommuting model with your organization is likely to be a bit like a new exercise routine. The majority of academic research in this area has been funded or motivated by transportation improvement efforts.

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OCTOBER 3, 2012

Its funding has skyrocketed as major foundations and technology companies have made multi-million dollar grants and investments in its growth. More importantly, it means that we should be looking to their model to push ourselves in how we think about delivering the most engaging, powerful content possible.

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JUNE 11, 2021

Weave in stories that are connected to the podcast and I’m going to share some model language for you. . So here’s a model for how you can establish common ground. . But her business model is all about generosity, all about offering. It’s my modeling. Let’s think outside the box. .

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Connection Cafe

JULY 12, 2018

When I was growing up in northern Minnesota, I didn’t see examples of organizational efficiency models, and I had never heard of lean concepts. But with grant funding, there is no prize for cutting costs; the goal is to do exactly what you promised you’d do within the given budget. Efficiency Drives New Ways of Thinking.

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OCTOBER 13, 2023

Auctions Auctions are a major source of funding for a lot of nonprofit associations because they engage the competitive spirits of supporters. Of course, they’re also challenging to manage as you’re handling the donations of items on one end and funds on the other. Organizations can gain funds through entry fees and individual pledges.

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Get Fully Funded

SEPTEMBER 21, 2021

When you embrace this donor-based model of thinking about the needs and desires of your donors, fundraising gets easier. This exercise doesn’t have to be scientific or precise. I heard about this exercise at a conference and thought “I want to try this.” How will funds raised be used? You never beg. Are they men or women?

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Museum 2.0

JUNE 12, 2013

A revolution is not an exercise in concentric circles. Even if your new resource pool includes most of the people and funds that you originally had, the programmatic core of the transformed organization is likely way outside of the original purple circle. You just get bigger.

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JANUARY 13, 2012

Food can offer great visuals and this can be a great community building exercise. That might mean the new school opening, the elder-care center, the new hospital wing, or the playground you funded to help revitalize the neighborhood. Build a Board of images modeling healthy food choices.

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Tech Soup

OCTOBER 23, 2015

Caravan Studios' SafeNight app uses a similar model, in which individual donors can fund hotel rooms when domestic violence shelters are full. This mobile app provides one-on-one coaching, feedback on meals and nutrition, exercise tips and motivation, and other lifestyle change help. Connecting People to Vital Services.

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Connection Cafe

JUNE 12, 2017

But the reality is that in many nonprofit organizations, different teams and departments do not have a shared mental model for a culture of philanthropy. For the past six months, I’ve been collaborating with Third Plateau Social Impact on the “ Emerging Leaders Playbook ,” with funding from the David and Lucile Packard Foundation.

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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. What initiatives are available for funding? And we do see independent and small groups winning those funds. There's still going to be assessments but hopefully better models. They are going to look for innovation solutions.

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Connection Cafe

JUNE 12, 2014

In his prior career he managed direct response programs for a variety of nonprofits, resulting in countless donors and dollars going to fund some incredible missions. . Sure this example is just a practice exercise but it is easily seen in the real race of fundraising for many organizations. . Peer-to-Peer Fundraising'

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Tech Soup

MARCH 17, 2014

He estimated that half the developers were hobbyists, and half were people with start-up ventures who came to San Francisco looking for seed funding. Their disruptive business model is make a vast improvement on preventative healthcare by having patients use wearable biometric devices like the activity tracker Fitbit.

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Bloomerang

JULY 31, 2021

Whether you are new to grants, and re-evaluating how your organization seeks out grant funding, Rachel Werner will go through what you need to know to become more grant ready. So the first thing that I want to know, this is a chat question, Steven, you can tell me how people respond, what are your biggest funding needs now versus pre-COVID?

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Amy Sample Ward

MARCH 22, 2011

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. So, we started listening and asking questions to learn more about what they really liked and what they didn’t need from the old model. CDSI Game – Roles.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

NOVEMBER 5, 2014

The next day, I facilitated a workshop on Best Practices for Crowd Funding that blended traditional instruction with innovation lab facilitation techniques. Giving Day Campaigns and Crowd Funding Campaigns Are Than Dollars Raised. To reap all benefits of crowd funding for your organization, you need a strategy.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

OCTOBER 27, 2014

To set the stage for this exploration, Bill Somerville, founder and President of Ventures Foundation shared some ideas from his experience. He spoke about the need for the model of community foundation philanthropy to innovate. From the facilitator’s point of view, there are a couple of ways to facilitate this exercise.

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Museum 2.0

APRIL 7, 2009

I once worked on a project where the main goal behind our community-based participatory model was to make our exhibit process faster and cheaper. And that's a major monkey wrench in the standard models for how museums operate, staff, and fund their work. But it's never done.

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AUGUST 29, 2012

There's a missed opportunity to reframe what the millage means and the role of community support in museum funding when saying thank you. But the institution should jump on that.

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