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.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

AUGUST 13, 2015

Note from Beth: For the past two years, I’ve had the honor of facilitating a peer learning exchange of Knight Grantees who are hosting Giving Days. What Sesame Street Can Teach Us About the Giving Challenge – Guest Post by Susie Bowie. Flickr Image from Carlos ZGZ. Plan thoughtfully but be flexible. Friends Matter.

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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! This helps with increasing attention spans and retention as well as make the session more fun.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JANUARY 4, 2016

I had a wonderful break – filled with fun, family, walking, hiking, reading, quiet, and reflection. I also designed and facilitated a six month peer learning cohort with colleague Stephanie Rudat. This year I facilitated several labs, including one for the Brainerd Foundation to rethink 21 st Century Advocacy. How about you?

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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. on personal and organizational resilience based on the ideas in my new book, The Happy Healthy Nonprofit. That’s why I always enjoy teaching in flexible classroom spaces.

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Have Fun - Do Good

MAY 13, 2012

Hello Have Fun * Do Gooders! Juicy Blogging Circle: Grow Your Blogging Habit May 16-June 6, 2012 Virtual A fun group blog coaching experience! Receive ideas, tips, resources, and cheerleading from the Juicy Blogging Circle’s facilitator (me!). Share your blogging goals for the week. Shoot me an email.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JULY 27, 2015

I just returned from doing two days of facilitating a Networked Nonprofit training in Mexico City with Oxfam Mexico and participants from offices throughout Latin America, South America, and Caribbean. Together, we co-facilitated this exercise in two languages and Maria did a great job at bi-lingual capture of the notes.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

OCTOBER 22, 2018

The program hosts a delegation of women who work in the tech industry to share their knowledge and skills with women-focused nonprofits, startups and girls empowerment programs in developing countries and in the US. It is great to have a day of fun before starting an intense week working on service projects. Tech2Empower Kanika Raney.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JANUARY 27, 2014

Join me for a FREE Webinar: Training Tips that Work for Nonprofits on Jan.29th I’ll be sharing my best tips and secrets for designing and delivering training for nonprofit professionals that get results. 29th at 1:00 PM EST/10:00 AM PST. I use a simple structure to design: before, during, and after.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JANUARY 5, 2012

It is a great opportunity to ponder the question: How to design and deliver learning experiences for nonprofits that connect, inspire, and engage? What are the best practices? The instructor’s role should be to facilitate this understanding for their students, not dump content on them. Content Delivery Is Not Learning.

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Qgiv

OCTOBER 27, 2021

Volunteers are the backbone of any nonprofit organization. Clearly, volunteers are essential to your nonprofit’s ability to move its mission forward. Here’s what we’ll cover: Why are volunteers important to nonprofit organizations? Why are volunteers important to nonprofit organizations? Request a Demo.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

SEPTEMBER 8, 2016

Since the theme this year was “Change Making,” I taught a workshop on self-care for change makers based on my forthcoming book, The Happy Healthy Nonprofit , co-authored with Aliza Sherman. Nina Simon, the executive director of the museum, is an expert in participatory design and fantastic facilitator.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

APRIL 27, 2012

Last week, I had the pleasure of working with a group of Population and Reproductive Health grantees from Pakistan on a peer learning group called “ The Networked NGO ,” based on the ideas in my book, The Networked Nonprofit. The four-day intensive face-to-face training was for senior level staff and their social media staffers.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MARCH 2, 2011

Day 3 of the Train the Trainers session was devoted to Digital Activism and facilitated by Mary Joyce. The learning objectives: To provide participants with a formula for training digital campaign strategy. One of the fun parts of the project for me is the opportunity to observe other trainers and learn from them.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

SEPTEMBER 29, 2015

I was thrilled to work with the Brainerd Foundation staff to help design and facilitate a design lab using techniques based on Luma Institute methods earlier this month. Here’s what I learned about the facilitating design thinking processes: What Is A Design Lab? Why Use One?

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Qgiv

JUNE 22, 2021

Did you know that almost 70% of nonprofits are planning to incorporate virtual elements into their events in some way, whether that’s with hybrid events, virtual-only events, or a combination of all of them? This is because this strategy involves recruiting passionate supporters to fundraise on your nonprofit organization’s behalf.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JUNE 26, 2009

Submitted by Britt Bravo, publisher of Have Fun • Do Good Should all nonprofits have a blog? Below are eight benefits of having a nonprofit blog. If you've worked for a nonprofit, you know how painfully long it can take to put together a newsletter. Blogs facilitate conversations with supporters and potential supporters.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

AUGUST 27, 2010

I feel that my technology training for nonprofits work is more like a calling for me than simply a job or career. For the past 15 years, I have been excited about nonprofit technology training design and delivery and it is what I will continue to focus on as part of my role at Zoetica over the coming years.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MARCH 18, 2016

We are working on a book together called The Happy,Healthy Nonprofit : Strategies for Impact without Burnout. There were lots of creative, unique and fun ideas were generated. How is your nonprofit using innovation or creativity techniques to generate ideas for your organization’s programs?

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ASU Lodestar Center

JUNE 8, 2011

Disclaimer Wednesday, June 8, 2011 Crafting a Successful Third Generation Nonprofit-Business Relationship posted by Laura L. Manager of Curriculum Design & Innovation, ASU Lodestar Center Working as a nonprofit professional in the current economic environment can be challenging — and sometimes discouraging. Bush, Ph.D.

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Have Fun - Do Good

JULY 29, 2008

Hello Have Fun * Do Gooders! One idea that I'd like to try out here is a new weekly feature on Have Fun * Do Good called, Ask Britt: Q & A on Career Design for Artists and Activists. Now I work with people on-one-one, and facilitate workshops, like the one I did for Stanford's Social Entrepreneurship in the Bay Area Spring Break.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JANUARY 31, 2007

It's been fun to bounce ideas back and forth with Jay and everyone, particularly in light of their extensive experience teaching folks video skills. The learning goals are: To introduce the concept of video blogging as a way to document or share stories of a nonprofit's programs or work. Check out his Group Learning page.

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Museum 2.0

OCTOBER 3, 2012

Her nerdy, entertaining videos about math evoke the power of free choice learning while poking gentle fun at the drudgery of how math is often taught in school. She was a free agent for a long time, until the beginning of 2012, when she joined the teaching staff of Khan Academy. We are reminded of how much fun learning can be.

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ASU Lodestar Center

MAY 24, 2011

Disclaimer Tuesday, May 24, 2011 Creating, Building, and Sustaining Nonprofit Communities posted by Hannah Humphrey , Public Allies Arizona Alumna / Outreach Coordinator, Xico What does it mean to be a community organization? Nonprofit professionals use the word "community" a lot. Crafting a Successful Third Generation Nonprofit-B.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

APRIL 23, 2013

I’ll be participating in the session, as part of the context setting by giving an overview of themes in my book, “ Measuring the Networked Nonprofit ,” co-author with measurement guru KD Paine. This comes from my first book, ” The Networked Nonprofit ,” co-authored with Alison Fine. Radio Bilingue.

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Qgiv

JUNE 1, 2021

Almost every kind of nonprofit has been able to benefit from a giving day. All you need to do is partner with a shoe drive fundraiser facilitator. Recurring gifts provide steady fundraising to many nonprofits. You can teach a new craft and supply materials for a registration fee. Themed giving days. Recurring gift drive.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

APRIL 5, 2011

1. Deep Analysis of Your Audience: I always (try) to do a thorough participant assessment before I teach any workshop or do a presentation. Role Playing Simulation For Making ROI Argument: Many nonprofits are often faced with the question, “What the value of social media&# from senior management.

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NTEN

JUNE 10, 2011

Whether your nonprofit organization provides services or advocates for a cause, your stakeholders have common interests. The nonprofit technology community is a robust knowledge sharing network widely dispersed across many blogs, tweets, discussion boards, Facebook walls, etc. Now go forth and facilitate knowledge sharing!

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Wild Apricot

JUNE 27, 2008

5 Keys to Effective Knowledge Transfer for Nonprofits. is vital to any nonprofit organization. It lies at the root of everything a nonprofit does â?? Think back to your school days, and which teaching style was most likely to keep your attention long enough to learn something â?? Effective communication â??

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Bloomerang

AUGUST 2, 2022

Good writing, and I mean good writing, should be a top priority at your nonprofit because good writing is a tool of tremendous power, influence, and leverage. The nonprofit world swims in an ocean of written documents. We spell poorly, and we know less grammar and sentence structure now than when we played tetherball.

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Qgiv

JUNE 1, 2021

Almost every kind of nonprofit has been able to benefit from a giving day. All you need to do is partner with a shoe drive fundraiser facilitator. Recurring gifts provide steady fundraising to many nonprofits. You can teach a new craft and supply materials for a registration fee. Themed giving days. Recurring gift drive.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JUNE 25, 2012

This was the launch of a peer learning group called “ The Networked NGO ,” based on the ideas in my book, The Networked Nonprofit. The four-day intensive face-to-face training was for senior level staff and their social media staffers. This is something that nonprofit professionals are just beginning to explore. Monica Wahengbam.

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Bloomerang

MAY 21, 2021

We’re going to have some fun today. We’re going to have some fun over the next hour or so. You’re teaching grant writing and doing board development and super involved in the nonprofit community there. Steven: It’s always a fun transition. I’m Steven. I’m over here at Bloomerang.

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Achieve

JUNE 7, 2021

After all, our mission was all about teaching. Yet across the table was an educational leader who denied that teaching could have any impact. and the updates in science, and the pressures on nonprofits for revenue, “the only way to learn is to do it!” Everyone touching a nonprofit must get some level of fundraising education.

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EveryAction

APRIL 1, 2016

In the past year, thousands of nonprofit pros took advantage of our definitive Best Nonprofit Conferences Calendar, and we're so excited to share our brand new 2016 list! Nonprofit technology, and more! 2015 - 2016 Best Nonprofit Conferences Calendar. Nonprofit Leadership Alliance / Houston, TX / $250. Fundraising.

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Have Fun - Do Good

JUNE 24, 2009

Cheryl Dorsey, the President of Echoing Green , a nonprofit that provides seed funding and support to social entrepreneurs, talked about how providing capital for social innovation can: Provide incentive for individual and collective engagement around social problems. Create a competitive marketplace that showcases a variety of ideas.

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Tech Soup

FEBRUARY 12, 2016

Nonprofits often struggle with creating effective content and engagement strategies. Remember that most content is consumed and discarded, and so use content as a teaching moment, and a way to engage and involve your audience in your work. She has created a community around making fitness fun and also a little bit crazy.

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