Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MARCH 15, 2012

Photo by Aaron Schmidt. During the facilitated discussion session at GEO’s National Conference in Seattle it was my great privilege to convene a group of brave pioneers. Yet foundation staff charged with organizational learning responsibilities are still charting a new course in our field.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

OCTOBER 7, 2010

This morning Liz Karlin, who works at the Packard Foundation in Grant Operations , and I did a remote presentation for the Foundation Financial Officers Group on Organizational Change and Social Media Policy development. For the audio, we use a phone line that was fed into the AV system and wireless mic.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

SEPTEMBER 3, 2015

Flickr Photo by Iain. I’m facilitating a peer learning leadership development group for Emerging Nonprofit Leaders supported by the Packard Foundation. It includes design and facilitation – and these days those are important leadership skills. One of the modules is on meetings.

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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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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. Peer-to-peer platform.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

SEPTEMBER 13, 2009

Photo by Darren Hester. I appreciated Sally’s post on the topic of active learning and the questions she has posed are similar ones we challenge ourselves with at the Packard Foundation. At the Packard Foundation our commitment to effectiveness directly plays out in our evaluation and learning culture and practices.

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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”. "To Role of Foundations in the movement.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

FEBRUARY 26, 2013

Flickr Photo by HorrorTaxi. On the other hand, if you have a system and are already collecting a data point, than it is easy. The process of linking results to key performance indicators and associated metrics it is like hooking up a big TV. What are the Indicators by which you will judge your progress?

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Qgiv

JUNE 23, 2021

Creating the perfect fundraising strategy takes a lot of time and effort, so your best bet to grow and raise more each year is to first lay out a solid fundraising foundation. No matter how extensive your software features are, the most important thing is that all of these metrics are stored in your centralized CRM system.

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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. Using visuals to document a network's outcomes - whether photos or videos - is incredibly powerful. This video is from a local site in Louisville , part of the Annie E.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

AUGUST 23, 2011

Creative Commons Licensed Photo from Flickr by United Nations Photo. Any advice about setting up systems to track Twitter. In addition, Roya Hosseini, who manages the Khaled Hosseini Foundation ’s Twitter account, signed on as a “special guest” between 1 & 2 p.m. Describe the Twitter Charts: What are you showing?

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Have Fun - Do Good

APRIL 4, 2008

Last week I had the pleasure of facilitating a career counseling session for a group of Stanford students who were spending their "alternative spring break" meeting with social entrepreneurs in the Bay Area. Photo: The fabu students who participated in the Social Entrepreneurship in the Bay Area spring break (and me).

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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." Or, the IT systems may be so locked down and controlled that didn't give people enough wiggle room for experimentation. There are examples (see below).

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JUNE 13, 2007

Photo by Rikomatic. MacArthur Foundation. National Science Foundation. How to find the right funding mechanism to facilitate collaborative teams? It is also no small feat to get traditional foundation board to agree to fund game initiatives. That the old metrics aren't working. New set of research methods for this.

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Tech Soup

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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Bloomerang

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. What’s the need?

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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). 6. Irvine Foundation Arts Innovation Fund. What are some examples?

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

OCTOBER 29, 2010

Created with support from the Rockfeller Foundation, the tool allows users to easily see and understand grantmaking strategies and patterns within and across institutions so they can make better decisions in pursuit of their goals. This tool is important because is facilitates funders working in a networked way. Photo gy George Rohrig.

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Bloomerang

JULY 20, 2023

Choose an online fundraising platform Choose the software solutions that will facilitate your online fundraising efforts. Post photos of your first, second and third-place finishers on your social media pages and thank all involved for their generous support. If you’re looking to invest in a new system, start with this buyer’s guide.

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Bloomerang

AUGUST 21, 2021

And I’ve taken photos and I really like the concept of using them in this presentation just to kind of prompt us to think about the values that people have because that’s really what legacy giving is all about. And, as a philanthropy facilitator, you have an opportunity, I would say, a responsibility to help. I mean talk.

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Have Fun - Do Good

MAY 4, 2010

We didn't just dig holes, and build eco-sand composting toilets, and rainwater harvesting systems in schools, and BioSand water filters. We had women who had expertise in community organizing, micro-finance, facilitation and leadership development. This training was tremendous.

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Non Profit Quarterly

NOVEMBER 17, 2021

Photo by S O C I A L. While the current intent is to deepen the presence of an existing local currency, digital currency offers the potential for other local, as well as non-geographic, communities of common interest to organize systems of their own. C U T on Unsplash. a local currency issuer.

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Connection Cafe

JUNE 29, 2020

Foundations are in the midst of a sudden and unexpected upheaval of long-held grantmaking practices. Foundations have a fiduciary responsibility to be good stewards of their endowment. Foundations are scrambling to award grants faster, and nonprofits are pressing to eliminate all non-value-added activity.

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Qgiv

OCTOBER 28, 2021

If you’re unsure about your web design expertise, rest assured that your own experience browsing professional websites has likely already helped you form a solid foundational understanding. However, nearly all nonprofits share many core website design choices to help facilitate common user actions, such as making a donation.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MARCH 20, 2009

Photo by Becky J McCray At SXSW, I participated in the " Social Media for Social Good BBQ " co-hosted by Jeff Pulver and Porter Novelli. The term " social good " implies that there is social impact, a change of behavior on the ground or systemic change. Obviously this isn't systemic, societal change.

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SEPTEMBER 12, 2014

[Photo credit: Idea Accelerator contestants high five after practicing their pitches at the Microsoft evening reception, Sept. Credit: Broken Banjo Photography] It takes a lot to jump onstage and pitch a brand new idea in front of a new group of people. Will they laugh at you, start to cheer, or be intrigued?

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