Nonprofit Tech for Good

JUNE 4, 2022

Nonprofits now have a range of remote and hybrid events to choose between, and they can make the most of them thanks to platforms like PayBee that facilitate streaming and other digital tools. A fun way to bring in a few extra donations is to start a range of cute merchandise sporting your nonprofit’s logo. 3) Hybrid fundraisers.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JANUARY 5, 2022

Remote and Hybrid Facilitation Workshops : During the pandemic, interested soared in learning how facilitate better virtual meetings. I’ve also facilitated many nonprofit staff retreats and convening and provided training for other facilitators. All done remotely from home as I have yet to get back on airplane.

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NTEN

JUNE 9, 2014

That''s why we''re doing our best to recruit a remarkable group of facilitators to help shape your experience. Each track will have two Lead Facilitators and several additional Facilitators who will design spaces and lead small group conversations to make sure that every participant has the chance to both learn and share.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JANUARY 2, 2022

Remote and Hybrid Facilitation Workshops : During the pandemic, interested soared in learning how facilitate better virtual meetings. I’ve also facilitated many nonprofit staff retreats and convening and provided training for other facilitators. All done remotely from home as I have yet to get back on airplane.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JANUARY 2, 2023

Remote and Hybrid Facilitation Workshops : During the past few years, interest soared in learning how to facilitate better virtual meetings has soared. I have continued to teach facilitation and meeting design workshops and coaching for online and hybrid meetings. Writing : I’ve been writing Beth’s blog since 2004.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MARCH 24, 2020

Since those days, I have continued to hone my virtual facilitation skills to design and deliver effective virtual meetings and trainings. This post is #2 in a series I’ll be publishing on virtual meeting facilitation. The first post was an overview of 9 virtual facilitation tips. ” . That comes next.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

APRIL 8, 2020

Breakout Rooms are a feature on Zoom meetings (it has to be turned on in your zoom profile/account ) that allows the meeting host to put people into small groups for more intimate discussions or activities. . See the small group exercises timing charts in this document ). Which one you select depends on the activity and group dynamics.

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AccelEvents

JULY 22, 2021

But what happens when a more niche session topic is ready for discussion amongst an even smaller group of interested attendees? We now provide you with our new breakout room feature within Workshops to facilitate concentrated conversations. Breakout sessions allow unlimited attendees and Workshop sessions allow up to 250 attendees.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

NOVEMBER 21, 2019

When I facilitate meetings or workshops for nonprofits, not matter the topic, I incorporate many participatory approaches and design thinking methods. As a group we spend time clustering similar ideas before reviewing them. Sometimes I give participants red dots to use for voting, other times I might use fun stickers like those above.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

OCTOBER 8, 2019

In my work as a trainer and facilitator, I make workshops and master classes as interactive as possible, incorporating peer discussion, movement, and creativity. But it isn’t impossible, if you follow best practices for virtual facilitation for meetings. The next step is to facilitate a discussion. And it was fun!

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.orgSource

AUGUST 21, 2023

The challenge is part of the fun, right? Strategists are visionaries, facilitators, and problem-solvers who inspire curiosity. Target interest groups and send impactful messaging to drive higher engagement. “Stuff” is coming your way. No leader expects an easy ride. Make them responsible for understanding technology trends.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

NOVEMBER 12, 2015

Help the facilitator understand who is the room at the beginning (demographics, experience, attitudes, knowledge about the topic) – a quick and dirty participant assessment. Support a fun icebreake r. Help the facilitator understand how people are feeling half-way through the session so real-time tweaks to design can be made.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

APRIL 30, 2020

It is a fun activity that gets a few laughs, people moving, and replenishes energy. Adding some music makes it more fun. The pandemic has inspire a new breed of online collaboration apps that facilitate drop in video chatting for serendipitous conversations that your team might want to test. That is the dance floor.

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AccelEvents

AUGUST 28, 2020

Event gamification elements, like a virtual scavenger hunt, can go a long way to facilitating networking at your virtual event. . Again, attendees can form their own groups, or, you could use the information gathered through registration to match teams and assign them at the start of the conference. . Private Social Media Groups.

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Nonprofit Tech for Good

MAY 23, 2019

Facilitate this natural phenomenon by encouraging team fundraising within your event. Either way, putting an element of gamification in place creates more engagement and an element of fun that is sure to make a difference in your event. Encourage team fundraising. Add social fundraising to your event.

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Nonprofit Tech for Good

JULY 1, 2020

Social media makes participating in campaigns easy and fun. Supporters who build close peer groups through interaction and conversations with other supporters tend to develop a commitment to their new community and are more likely to stay committed to the organization. This gives supporters an idea of what is important to the group.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

SEPTEMBER 8, 2014

Last week I facilitated the “ Impact Leadership Track ” at the NTEN Leading Change Summit with John Kenyon, Elissa Perry, and Londell Jackson. Here’s what I learned: Facilitation Teams. Often, facilitation teams are brought together by an event host. Photo by Trav Williams. Do you have a preferred method?

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MARCH 8, 2019

Before I get to the topic of using posters to make your workshops or meeting more interactive (and fun), I want to wish you a Happy International Women’s Day! This was much more fun than writing it down on a worksheet! Breaking a large group into small groups for an exercise is also instructional design challenge.

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AccelEvents

AUGUST 24, 2021

This might be a corporate team or a social group at an academic association. You might also need to have one of your event managers monitoring the online forums in each session to monitor and facilitate the gamification. Fun things to include in your in-person event are public shout-outs! Team Games.

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Nonprofit Tech for Good

AUGUST 30, 2020

What’s more, golf event participants are often an affluent and influential group; players recruit members of their personal and professional networks to field a team, creating substantial opportunities for organizations to grow their donor base when this data is processed and handled correctly.

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Have Fun - Do Good

JANUARY 7, 2011

Here are 5 have fun, do good letter writing ideas: 1. For inspiration, check out the book Good Mail Day: A Primer for Making Eye-Popping Postal Art , and its corresponding Good Mail Day Flickr group. Make your own cards! I love Strathmore's collection of blank cards. Watercolor postcard with collage 2. Write a letter to yourself.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MARCH 4, 2020

It’s time to up your virtual facilitation and convening skills. Since those days, I have continued to hone my virtual facilitation skills to design and deliver effective virtual meetings and trainings. As nonprofits are impacted by the CoronaVirus and need more virtual meeting skills, I’d like to share what I have learned.

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sgEngage

JANUARY 10, 2024

Those who find it fun are called nerds. Datamaking can enhance capacity building efforts through group questioning and analysis. However, grants to create publicly available data sets or data training for marginalized groups or under resourced organizations do not by themselves lead to equitable outcomes.

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AccelEvents

SEPTEMBER 4, 2020

The good news is that facilitating networking in a virtual setting is quite simple. If you are thinking of hosting a virtual networking event, we have some tips that can help you with the planning and facilitation process. Allowing people to have space away from the group will add value to your event. . Who are you inviting?

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MAY 8, 2018

Last month, I was honored to present and facilitate an all-day workshop for nonprofit leaders at the Oregon Nonprofit Leadership Conference on how to activate a culture of well being in the nonprofit workplace, based on my book, The Happy Healthy Nonprofit: Strategies for Impact without Burnout. Hike during staff retreat.

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AccelEvents

AUGUST 28, 2020

Event gamification elements, like a virtual scavenger hunt, can go a long way to facilitating networking at your virtual event. Again, attendees can form their own groups, or, you could use the information gathered through registration to match teams and assign them at the start of the conference. Private Social Media Groups.

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Qgiv

SEPTEMBER 15, 2021

Through carefully curated programs hosted by trained volunteer facilitators at various schools and community centers, they’re able to create a curriculum that features courses on common issues many girls face. This page features an extensive list of fundraising ideas grouped into 4 main categories.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JANUARY 19, 2017

Yesterday, I spent a day facilitating leadership workshops for arts leaders attending the Art House Convergence Conference near Park City, Utah. Having a large enough space so people can move around and self-organize into small groups also promotes learning. If you are trying to do an interactive lecture, it stops group interaction.

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Qgiv

OCTOBER 12, 2021

When you’re planning your end-of-year fundraising campaigns, you really won’t want to miss out on all the fun the holidays provide. And if you commit to joining in on the spooky festivities, you can also develop some frighteningly fun fundraiser ideas your horror buff donors will love. Halloween baking class. Fall carnival.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MARCH 19, 2019

I presented and facilitated a small group activity on rituals. Recognize Birthdays and Work Anniversaries: Look for a fun way to celebrate birthdays and work anniversaries. This could be over a meal, or might involve doing a fun activity together outside of work, such as a hike. Rituals to Build Relationships.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

APRIL 1, 2020

Lots of fun to show off our neighborhoods or our dogs. Here’s a fun process to establish meeting norms during a pandemic that can be done online. Here’s a simple set of desk stretches that you can do alone or as a group. So, I’ve been experimenting with how to socialize at a distance using the technology.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MARCH 1, 2016

In a couple of weeks, one of the sessions I’m facilitating at the Nonprofit Technology Conference in San Jose is called “ How To Be A Wizard at Tech Training.” Co-Designing and Working with Other Facilitators and Trainers. Group Polling Techniques and Tools. Small Group – Making Posters.

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Amy Sample Ward

NOVEMBER 19, 2010

It was so much fun and it was an amazing experience to work with people like Chris Worman and meet with so many local nonprofit and community changemakers. I had the opportunity to facilitate the IT track and had lots of fun poking, prodding, and supporting some really interesting conversations and sharing sessions.

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Qgiv

MARCH 21, 2022

If a hospital is well known for their cardiac department and expertise, for example, they may decide to support a nonprofit that specializes in research, programs and services, education, and support group facilitation for survivors of major cardiac events. Scrub in and Suit Up for a Black Tie Event.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

FEBRUARY 11, 2014

As a trainer and facilitator who works with nonprofit organizations and staffers, you have to be obsessed with learning theory to design and deliver effective instruction, have productive meetings, or embark on your own self-directed learning path. Internal: These theories take into account our minds and bodies. Training Design'

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

OCTOBER 22, 2018

Our group of advisors includes 20 impressive women from 8 technology companies who are sharing their skills and expertise with local women entrepreneurs help them to scale their businesses. It is great to have a day of fun before starting an intense week working on service projects. Here’s how Kanika facilitated the exercise.

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AccelEvents

SEPTEMBER 18, 2020

Well, yes, it may seem surprising but your hybrid event needs to facilitate networking opportunities ! Networking can be facilitated by an event platform through segregated networking sessions. Your event will be facilitating a potential connection between the onsite presenter and the online audience. Networking opportunities.

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