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. Here’s what I learned about the facilitating design thinking processes: What Is A Design Lab? https://storify.com/ResourceMedia/brainerd-foundation-s-21st-century-advocacy-design”>Storify. Why Use One?

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JULY 19, 2017

These are two photos of me and Tharum Bun , a Cambodia blogger I met via our blogs back in 2003. The opening plenary was hosted by the renowned Usha Menon , past chair of the Resource Alliance and celebrated speaker, connector and consultant to the social impact sector. I’ll share that in my next post!

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JULY 18, 2014

Flickr Photo by PetitPlat - Stephanie Kilgast. A focus on the bar charts without taking the time to understand the challenges and open up creative thinking will not inspire organizational buy-in which is so important. ” How Human-Centered Design Methods Can Help You Design A Better Dashboard. Tracking for Impact and Learning.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

FEBRUARY 16, 2011

Photo by Glenn Hirsch. Plus it is always a pleasure for me to observe “Gunner’s&# facilitation techniques (I learn so much). Photo by Glenn Hirsch. The photo was from a session to discuss strategies for avoiding “networked silos&# and building networks of networks.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

APRIL 27, 2011

Photo by Beth Kanter. I’m just beginning a new crop of peer learning projects for nonprofits to learn the practice of being networked nonprofits and use social media effectively at Zoetica and through my work as Visiting Scholar at the Packard Foundation. It’s open or public document.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JUNE 28, 2016

Earlier this month I was in Boston for the annual convention for Americans for the Arts where I facilitated a leadership development pre-conference workshop, “Impact without Burnout: Resilient Arts Leaders from the Inside/Out.” ” So I set up a series of photos depicting different body language and different situations.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MAY 10, 2011

The Foundation has teamed up with an evaluation consultant, TCC Group, to figure out if working wikily can enhance the quality of learning as the OE Goldmine Research project and the Foundation’s OE program review move forward. Flickr Photo by Gary Hayes.

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MAY 12, 2023

Live-streaming Tools Live-streaming gives your virtual event a more engaging, dynamic feel and opens up additional opportunities both to keep attendees interested and to ask for more support. Whatever the context of your online fundraising event, you’ll need livestreaming software to facilitate any live segments of your virtual auction.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

APRIL 19, 2012

Photo by Ceclcia Aros. As of this writing, there are 13 responses (ok, two are from me) from people who work (in some cases lead) the Morino Institute, Random Hacks of Kindness, TechSoup Romania, CROS, Meedan, the Gates Foundation, Beth Kanter, Campus Party USA, Vulcan Labs, and Fundacja TechSoup/Warsaw Social Hackathon.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

AUGUST 11, 2009

Photo by American Art Museum Note from Beth: This week I'm trying to understand crowdsourcing and nonprofits, hopefully with a crowd of other folks. If you are the Luce Foundation Center for American Art , you offer the public the ability to become “citizen curators.” What is the Luce Foundation Center doing?

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

SEPTEMBER 16, 2015

Flickr Photo by qwrrty. For the past few months, I’ve been facilitating a Nonprofit Emerging Leaders online peer learning project with Third Plateau Impact Strategies. It’s a pilot supported by the Packard Foundation that tests different approaches to emerging leaders professional development. A simple hmm… often works.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

APRIL 27, 2012

With facilitator’s guidance, grantees will design and implement a small action learning project. Over the past 20 years of providing capacity programs online, I’ve faced my share of bandwidth challenges. That’s why we will not rely solely on online channels to facilitate discussions.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

NOVEMBER 17, 2008

I am here in Romania for a conference hosted by the Soros Foundation as part of their pilot advocacy through blogging program. I just finished a presentation and later this afternoon will facilitate a workshop on strategy which will include the Romanian version of the Social Media Game. It is important to use video, photos, and audio.

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JULY 30, 2021

In fact, 84% of Generation Z is open to becoming a fundraiser on behalf of your organization! . 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.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

NOVEMBER 9, 2009

Last week, I had the opportunity facilitate a " Social Media Strategy Map " workshop for over 100 Bay Area nonprofits. The workshop was hosted by Compasspoint , with support from the Lucile and David Packard Foundation. Robot Voice Disguiser for Large Group Facilitation. Photo by Nelson Layag.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

OCTOBER 11, 2009

Photo by Justin Benttinen. I also lead a workshop on social media strategy for communications professionals who work with networks, nonprofits, and foundations. My reflections have mostly that has been around the subject matter of how nonprofits and foundations are thinking about and using social media. My reflections are here.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

OCTOBER 19, 2009

Casey Foundation's " Making Connections " initiative Part of the Making Connections core approach uses (offline) social networks. I've been exploring the line between open/closed networks or communities, particularly online learning communities. Open/Closed and how it impacts the learning. It isn't black and white.

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Qgiv

JUNE 4, 2021

A good way to facilitate an in-kind donation campaign virtually is to take advantage of your online tools and make an eCommerce page with a list of needed products. These “Family Meetings” are a great way to not only keep supporters engaged, but also to facilitate them meeting other supporters they don’t know.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

FEBRUARY 9, 2010

It also has a track that takes place in a large room with roundtables and a designated discussion topic and facilitator. I was asked to facilitate a session on the question, "Should CEOs and Executive Directors Use Social Media?". His Twitter account is his personal account, but he identifies himself with his foundation and businesses.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

SEPTEMBER 4, 2009

Photo by Stephanie McAuliffe. Moderator Antony Bugg-Levine from the Rockefeller Foundation got a big laugh when he made the usual polite introductions of one panel’s speakers and summarized by saying, “they have an incredible impact on the world… or maybe they don’t”. People are open sourcing their metrics, and building taxonomy.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

APRIL 15, 2009

Photo by Terry Bain in Flickr I've been hearing a lot lately from folks who work in nonprofits asking for examples of "social media or social networking policies." But what if you want your organization to be more transparent and open. Last week, I heard a wonderful presentation by Chad Nelsen from the SurfRider Foundation.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JUNE 13, 2007

Photo by Rikomatic. MacArthur Foundation. Talked about the openness to games and the need for research. National Science Foundation. How to find the right funding mechanism to facilitate collaborative teams? There is more open dialog. That the old metrics aren't working. New set of research methods for this.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

APRIL 22, 2009

Flickr Photo by Vaguely Artistic. Back in 2007, when Facebook opened it doors to people older than college students and nonprofits started the early experiments on Facebook Causes, Froggy Loop did an extensive analysis " The Long, Long Tail of Facebook Causes " using the dollars per donor analysis.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

AUGUST 25, 2006

I've seen this used frequently with "unconference" or "open space" technology-oriented conferences and workshops. Britt Bravo recently attended Craigslist Foundation Nonprofit Boot Camp and pointed us to the Boot Camp Wiki. Wikis can also be used in the pre-planning or organizing some of the social events.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

DECEMBER 28, 2008

Last year, when I turned 51, I posted a challenge on my blog - could I get 51 people to donate $10 to the Sharing Foundation? For my 50th birthday, I held a 50th Birthday Card Photo Remix Contest on flickr and donated $50 the winner's favorite charity. And, yes they did ! But it doesn' t always have to be you asking people to donate.

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FEBRUARY 25, 2013

In my first blog post , I mentioned that the very first step in configuring QuickBooks is to have a QuickBooks implementation meeting, and I recommended using a questionnaire to facilitate the meeting and act as a centerpiece. Think of the chart of accounts as the foundation for a building you are about to construct. Photo: GenBug.

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FEBRUARY 1, 2022

In June 2021 Giving USA Foundation and partnership with the Lilly Indiana Family School of Philanthropy released their annual Giving USA report. So A, corporations, B foundations, or C individuals. And foundations this 19% includes both, you know, national foundations and family foundations.

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DECEMBER 2, 2021

To support your community, you first need a strong financial foundation. Go for a gala feel, complete with a “red carpet” and photos, or throw a more low-key event. All you need to do is partner with a shoe drive fundraiser facilitator. Small churches do big things. You can make it as formal or informal as you want! Buy-a-brick.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MAY 19, 2008

More Flickr Photos here. There will be typos and I'll clean up later Day 1: Morning Opening Session Malcom Downes, Deputy Chairperson, CISA Inc. Bill Strathmann Opened with his personal story about he got started with Networked For Good. Valued open-source software that is cheap, flexible, easy and multi-featured.

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AUGUST 2, 2022

We dodge opportunities to write whenever we can, though we never cease to smile when we open our mailboxes and dis­cover a handwritten letter addressed to us. We then wrote a new set of marketing materials, programming literature, opera­tional handbooks, and appeal letters to donors and foundations.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

SEPTEMBER 20, 2011

Council on Foundations. Photo by Christine Beddia. What does your foundation need to do to open to free agents or how do your grantees need to change? Is the concept of working with a free agent out of the question for a foundation? Free Agents and Foundations. View more presentations from Beth Kanter.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JUNE 23, 2015

Photo by Social Misfits. I also facilitated several workshops for London-based nonprofit CEOs and communications directors on developing a strategy for their leadership profiles on social and internal champions (board, staff, and volunteers). Storify with Tweets and Photos. My blog post with slides and links.

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JULY 20, 2023

Choose an online fundraising platform Choose the software solutions that will facilitate your online fundraising efforts. This opens up the traditional auction setting from a strictly in-person event to a virtual or hybrid opportunity. ” This will catch recipients’ attention and make them more likely to open your messages.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JANUARY 28, 2013

I had the honor facilitating a session on measuring impact with Greg Baldwin and Jay Backstrand from VolunteerMatch discussing how their approach to measuring impact over the past decade. ” The Failure Bow (Click for Photo for More Information). Its open to all staff, interns, board members. What are some examples?

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NOVEMBER 5, 2021

And is a really great and pretty highly esteemed trainer and facilitator. In fact, he was named one of the 10 best retreat facilitators in America. What could you do and I want you to write in the chat and it’d be great if Steve you could help me kind of facilitate some of this. And so I got a photo of them.

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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. Share photos or mini stories about people being helped by your project over the course of the campaign. And everyday until…. Until one day…. Because of that….

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

OCTOBER 19, 2009

Last week, as part of my work at the Packard Foundation as visiting scholar I had the opportunity to participate in a face-to-face convening of the "Network of Network Funders," facilitated by the Monitor Institute. You want someone who is open to learning and a good listener and can teach others network weaving skills.

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