Nonprofit Tech for Good

MAY 4, 2022

Below is a sampling of important questions to ask. For more questions, please download the complete Identity Questionnaire. Along with the questionnaire, send a Branding Word Exercise that will help your design or marketing firm to understand the desired feelings to associate with the new brand. Are any of these measurable?

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Nonprofit Tech for Good

APRIL 23, 2023

It is trained on a massive dataset of text and code, and it can generate text, translate languages, write different kinds of creative content, and answer your questions in an informative way. It can generate text, translate languages, write different kinds of creative content, and answer your questions in an informative way.

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Content Calendar Language Social Media 352

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

APRIL 8, 2020

See the small group exercises timing charts in this document ). If participants are working through an exercise or set of discussion questions, create a google document with your prompts and include space for taking notes. Here’s some ideas for different questions for virtual icebreakers for nonprofits ).

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Association Analytics

MAY 11, 2021

Through exercising that data analysis muscle, you can unearth obvious discrepancies in your systems and prioritize which data is most critical to clean in the first place. You might be tempted to think that once your data is in tip-top shape, then you can go beyond reporting and start using data for deriving business insights.

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Analytics Associations Data Analysis 260

Bloomerang

FEBRUARY 26, 2024

Why not try a little writing exercise right now? Here’s a snippet of a fuller exercise from my 7 Clairification Keys To Unlock Your Nonprofit’s Fundraising Potential. Finally, schedule a time (while you’re still in the values frame of mind) to conduct a similar group exercise (write on a whiteboard or easel).

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Learning Change Strategy Journal 92

Nonprofit Tech for Good

OCTOBER 17, 2021

As you investigate, be sure to ask specific questions about setup, like: Do you have an onboarding team devoted to delivering full data conversions? No matter how intuitive a system may be, there are always a few questions, tips, and tricks that a training professional can help you with so you get started on a solid foundation.

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Software Fundraising Training Train 317

Eric Jacobsen Blog

FEBRUARY 5, 2024

And it links you to a website where you alone or in a group can supplement your reading with some interactive exercises and resources. Bjorn Billhardt Nathan Kracklauer Today, the authors answer these questions for us: Question : How will readers benefit from making the book part of a book club experience as you recommend readers do?

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Skills Learning Knowledge Leadership 94

Eric Jacobsen Blog

MAY 5, 2022

During these past two years, the pandemic inspired many of us to question what we value, therefore, making for an ideal time to read, Be Where Your Feet Are , the book by Scott O’Neil. Recently, O’Neil shared these additional insights and advice with us: Question: What inspired you to write a book about your challenges and conflicts?

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Exercise Philadelphia Life Phone 52

Eric Jacobsen Blog

FEBRUARY 11, 2023

We rush to answers instead of asking questions. We treat learning as an individual exercise and neglect the important role played by others. Recognizing that “I don’t know” is a fair place to start—if you quickly follow with a question. We look to fix irrelevant weaknesses instead of playing to our strengths.

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Learning Knowledge Worker Exercise Problem 80

Media Cause

APRIL 15, 2024

Ask Questions About the Tools You Already Use When Media Cause helps a nonprofit audit their MarTech tools, the first thing to do is ask questions that are designed to start a fuller conversation about the technology used to make the work more manageable. Where is that information stored?

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

APRIL 1, 2020

1: Get Enough Sleep, Nutrition, and Exercise. Focus on these three activities: sleep, nutrition and exercise to help strengthen your immune system and feel better. The blessing of shelter in place is that you can still exercise by walking, jogging, or running as long as keep your distance from other people. Look for positives.

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Tips Exercise Nonprofit News 168

Eric Jacobsen Blog

OCTOBER 10, 2021

During these past 1-1/2 years, the pandemic inspired many of us to question what we value – an ideal time for, Be Where Your Feet Are , the book by Scott O’Neil , which lays out the seven principles needed to keep you present, grounded, and thriving in work, home, and everything in between. O’Neil : Work-life balance?

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Exercise Philadelphia Life Phone 52

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MARCH 13, 2018

Avoid any discussion of ideas or questions, as these stop the flow of ideas. Group Idea Generation: After laying out the ground rules and a simple warm up exercise, participants are encouraged to share their ideas verbally. Brainstorming Warm Up Exercise. You can brainstorm questions to kick off your session.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MARCH 24, 2020

This includes orientating participants to the agenda, introductions and a check-in or icebreaker, questions or activities used to help people ease people into a meeting or learning situation. . Longer Introductions with Pandemic Check-In Question: You can add on a check-in question. Some of these were inspired by this tweet.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

FEBRUARY 15, 2007

The discussion included some pointers to the tools as well as some clarifying questions. So, I went poking around the wiki and I discovered this wonderful exercise she created to get people comfortable. The key in choosing the tool is the right fit to purpose and practices. The work of the editors is done on a wiki.

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Eric Jacobsen Blog

APRIL 22, 2024

Kandi Wiens Today, Wiens shares these insights with us: Question: Why did you decide to write the book? I wanted to understand one big question – why do some people get burned out and others do not? Question: Of the five EI-based skills, which one is typically the most challenging to master and why? Try meditation.

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Build Pennsylvania Environment Skills 61

Nonprofit Tech for Good

OCTOBER 30, 2021

Discoveries are essentially risk mitigation exercises, and they should be a separate contract from the build phase whenever possible. Your people can help answer critical questions: Are we solving the right problem? When done this way, they remove inefficiency from the build which almost ALWAYS lowers the overall investment.

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Eric Jacobsen Blog

JANUARY 19, 2023

They require taking risks—to reveal yourself, question your beliefs, take a leap of faith, or move out of your comfort zone. Fortunately, each book chapter includes a real-world practice called a Pro Move and an exercise, both carefully crafted to help you overcome hang-ups and take more joy in communicating.

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Challenge Communication Exercise Teach 52

.orgSource

JANUARY 9, 2023

Mentors can contact new directors before the meeting to review the agenda, discuss norms for behavior, and answer questions that might be awkward in a more public setting. Exercises like the Myers Briggs Type Indicator will deliver a deeper level of insight. Meeting icebreakers and informal social events are obvious activities.

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Mentoring Director Associations Professional 221

Eric Jacobsen Blog

JULY 28, 2021

During these past 1-1/2 years, the pandemic inspired many of us to question what we value – an ideal time for, Be Where Your Feet Are , the new book by Scott O’Neil , which lays out the seven principles needed to keep you present, grounded, and thriving in work, home, and everything in between. Give this exercise a try.

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Exercise Philadelphia Life Phone 52

Kindful

MARCH 11, 2021

If you answered “yes” to any of these questions, it’s time to find a new board retreat facilitator. Ask the right questions. They will also have people up and moving around doing thoughtful, interactive exercises, usually in small groups to facilitate discussion and collaboration. They ask the right questions.

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Facilitation Exercise Fun PowerPoint 98

Eric Jacobsen Blog

JULY 30, 2023

Dilenschneider Awhile back, Dilenschneider shared these added insights with us: Question: How many of the 25 people you profiled in your book were on your original list of landmark figures you planned to profile? Question: Who might have been the few additional people you would have profiled in your book if you had gone beyond 25?

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

APRIL 13, 2017

My instructional needs were simple: Question/Answer back channel where participants in the room or faraway could post questions. In Hartford, I had challenge of a large number of participants, a “master class” type set up, and but a room and time constraints that limited the amount of full group interactive exercises.

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Interaction Audience Poll Tools 81

Pamela Grow

MARCH 14, 2024

Conduct an initial interview with a predefined set of questions and criteria. Ask behavioral and situational questions to get a better understanding of the candidate’s role compatibility. This could include a quick cognitive exercise or a series of short quizzes. Offer ongoing communication and support.

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Strategy Interview Skills Retention 52

Pamela Grow

MARCH 14, 2024

Conduct an initial interview with a predefined set of questions and criteria. Ask behavioral and situational questions to get a better understanding of the candidate’s role compatibility. This could include a quick cognitive exercise or a series of short quizzes. Offer ongoing communication and support.

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Strategy Interview Skills Retention 52

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JULY 16, 2019

When I facilitate staff retreats or workshop on wellbeing in the workplace based on the Happy Healthy Nonprofit , we do some reflective exercises, including taking the nonprofit burnout assessment , identifying stress triggers and reactions before creating a self-care plan and addressing cultural norms. … Read More.

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Tips Exercise Brain Facilitation 73

Eric Jacobsen Blog

OCTOBER 1, 2023

It can also be used for those who coach, mentor, counsel and advise early career women, with insights and exercises for those you are supporting. Christie Hunter Arscott Today, Hunter Arscott shares these additional insights with us: Question: How can women address and improve feelings of frustration and burnout in their careers?

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Voice Exercise Chapter Script 79

Candid

MARCH 28, 2023

For example, one customer mentioned that they can review up to 500 funder profile pages in one day using Candid’s Foundation Directory , a time-consuming and tedious exercise! This raises the question of whether we may be able to help get the information they need more quickly and efficiently.

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Profile Product Research Exercise 98

Media Cause

MARCH 4, 2022

To spur this kind of thinking, the course poses the question, “How might we?” One exercise I particularly enjoyed was called the Mash-Up. Through this exercise, I came up with the idea of a time-tracking app that features video footage of nature that plays in the background. How might we improve distance learning?

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Exercise Classes Brain Design 52

sgEngage

FEBRUARY 12, 2024

With AI, you first define some outcome, some question you want answered. Decisions When Building the Models When building a predictive AI model, you’ll have many questions. We found the answer to this question could change based on whether you have an AI system working on its own or alongside a subject matter expert.

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Action Effective Model Hype 79

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

NOVEMBER 6, 2014

As a trainer and subject matter expert, I fight a big battle when designing a workshop. Balancing the amount of content delivery with exercises and right sizing given the available time for the workshop. The format of the concept poster was more open then the close-ended set of exercises and questions on the worksheet.

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Activities Active Activism Integration 105

Candid

MARCH 2, 2022

Here’s a quick exercise. Generate a list of your organization’s top donors and campaign prospects and try to answer these questions about each of them: Why does this donor give to our organization? If you can answer these questions, you have what you need to make personalized asks and shouldn’t be overly concerned with donor fatigue.

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Campaign Donor Gift Test 111

Kindful

JUNE 8, 2021

You should also discuss policies and allow ample time for questions and answers. Use videos, assessments, group exercises, and role plays to educate and train them. Boards that get financial stewardship exercise diligence in the oversight of the financial interests of their organizations. Teach them about fundraising.

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Build Literacy Nonprofit Exercise 109

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

APRIL 1, 2014

We received copies of his Luma’s book and cards, “Innovation for People,” which is a synthesis of landscape analysis of design-thinking and human centered design methods. A frequent question Peter is asked about how an organization can become more innovative. “What are the skills that we need to practice for 10,000 hours? Bull’s Eye.

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Facilitation Method Technique Exercise 132

Allegiance Group

APRIL 9, 2024

If your board is willing to do the work and ask hard questions, it will move one step closer to being a more diverse and inclusive representation of your community. They use readings, role-playing, videos, and small group exercises to engage those in the workshop. How might this fact help you build a more equitable organization?

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Policy Reflection Culture Training 52

Qgiv

MARCH 11, 2022

If you have a lot of campaigns that can sometimes feel disjointed, the funnel exercise is a great way to unify them. Everyone’s funnel will be a bit different, but it’s a helpful exercise to map your existing activities in the funnel. Donor community? Talking to people at the different stages is how you really build trust.

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Marketing Impact Strategy Exercise 98

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

SEPTEMBER 8, 2014

That’s hard if deadlines are looming, but essential to have a session to explore questions such as: What is your facilitation style and philosophy? Who is the lead singer, guitarist, bass, and drums. Here’s how that translates to team facilitation: Facilitator Lead: The person who is facilitating the discussion or exercise.

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Reflection NTEN Change Facilitation 124