DipJar

AUGUST 6, 2020

By covering the purchase cost of your DipJar, your sponsor is facilitating your organization to increase fundraising. Without summer camps, parents are looking for ways to keep their kids busy – and what’s better than giving kids an activity while also teaching them the importance of giving back?! Lemonade Stand.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

SEPTEMBER 16, 2008

I taught in the Bronx for two years through Teach For America while working toward my M.A. I left the classroom in 2007 to join Teach For America staff where I pioneered graduate school recruitment for the organization through May of this year. Why are you passionate about teaching young people?

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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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Bloomerang

MAY 24, 2021

Suggest activities, as appropriate to your nonprofit, e.g., volunteering, attending an in-person event, making a first-time gift, renewing my gift, giving more, committing to monthly giving, leaving a legacy gift, participating in a peer fundraising campaign, purchasing services]. Pick the top 3 – 5].

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Qgiv

JUNE 1, 2021

All you need to do is partner with a shoe drive fundraiser facilitator. Recurring gift drive. Recurring gifts provide steady fundraising to many nonprofits. Recurring gift drive. Recurring gifts provide steady fundraising to many nonprofits. Recurring gifts can keep supporters more invested in your mission.

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Bloomerang

MAY 6, 2022

Their priorities range from facilitating book donation drives to supporting arts education to funding playground construction and family literacy programs. . They focus on supporting smaller and newer 501(c)(3) organizations so that the foundation’s gift can make a more significant contribution to the work of the recipient organization.

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Bloomerang

JUNE 21, 2021

And it’s the best way I know to convey to non-development staff how important their role is in facilitating philanthropy. Your job is to facilitate philanthropy , and you know donors require honesty, transparency, and relevance before they give. That’s the only way to really appreciate what you’re asking donors to support.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JANUARY 5, 2012

The instructor’s role should be to facilitate this understanding for their students, not dump content on them. It’s more fun to teach this way and more fun to learn this. This gave me an excuse to look at different types of peer learning exercises and facilitation techniques. Illustration by Beth Kanter.

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Bloomerang

JULY 26, 2021

Mastering personalized, customer-centered philanthropy facilitation, especially mid-level and major donors, to increase donor lifetime value. When is the first time donors are asked to make another gift? . Investing in digital-first fundraising and marketing communications. Mastering online appeals, user experience and messaging.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

APRIL 24, 2011

At SXSW and facilitating a panel called A Global Discussion About Networked Nonprofits and Free Agents , I introduced myself with this photo of me and Lena, the master trainer from Yemen for the E-Mediat Project. It was always peer learning – I’d share about the technology and they’d teach me about their work.

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Qgiv

JUNE 22, 2021

And, since all virtual engagements are facilitated by your digital tools, it’s the perfect method of collecting valuable data and determining if and where engagements are dropping off. Depending on your mission, you might find more value in asking for in-kind gifts rather than fundraising for money. Virtual supply drive.

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Connection Cafe

AUGUST 28, 2019

So today, I’d like to take you through the four essential steps of successful scholarship fundraising and share some ideas that can help you receive transformative gifts for your scholarship programs. And especially, do they understand that scholarship gifts can range from small one-time donations to large endowments?

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JANUARY 12, 2010

But they also asked to share how I've impacted their work , and by pointing that out has been created a very meaningful birthday gift. I noticed dozens of these connections and facilitated a few. I got to teach two back to back sessions of the class and it was exhilarating. He helped me with reaching my influencers on Twitter.

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Qgiv

OCTOBER 27, 2021

Here are a few tasks you might want to turn over to volunteers or recruit more volunteers for: Day-to-day office work or cleaning Door greeter roles Docent positions Event committee positions Event registration and ticketing Event set-up and clean-up In-kind donations collection Marketing and promotion tasks Fundraising tasks Teaching or tutoring.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

DECEMBER 23, 2010

So, to close out the year, I thought I’d share this list of books with you, especially if Santa gave you an Amazon gift card. I met Mazarine Treyz 3 years ago in Portland, Oregon when I facilitated a one-day social media and nonprofit workshop for the Meyer Memorial Trust. The book is available on Amazon.

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Bloomerang

AUGUST 9, 2021

Mastering personalized, customer-centered philanthropy facilitation, especially mid-level and major donors, to increase your donor lifetime value. Master personalized, customer-centered philanthropy facilitation, especially mid-level and major donors, to increase your donor lifetime value. . They actually cost you money !

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Have Fun - Do Good

AUGUST 1, 2007

Freecycle is a nonprofit that facilitates people giving and getting stuff for free in their own towns. Every gift you give away, you don't mail it somewhere. It's the power of each person individually to make a gift to one other person in their local community. I wanted to keep stuff out of the landfills.

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Bloomerang

AUGUST 21, 2021

In addition to being super active in her San Francisco nonprofit community, she also does a lot, including teaching a CFRE class. Nearly 70% of people make gifts to charity during their lifetimes but only 6% leave a bequest. of donors think it’s totally appropriate for you to ask for legacy gifts. Why is that?

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

APRIL 17, 2008

In the spirit of Earth Day and transparency, this is a recycled Good Card that I received as a gift during the holidays.) They teach them life skills and educate them to be self-sufficient. Epic Change uses their donations to provide interest-free loans to local partners to finance their community improvement efforts.

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Bloomerang

APRIL 12, 2024

The other day I spoke with a major gift fundraiser who had quit her job with a large health care facility. If you want gifts, give them. And more and more of us are re-teaching, remembering, reaching for the core knowledge and wisdom that many call the birthright of humanity: Love. Or they don’t want to continue giving at all.

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Eric Jacobsen Blog

JULY 19, 2023

That means instead of having our team onsite to facilitate, we share the programs so anyone in our client organizations can facilitate. Magnuson : I believe one of the greatest gifts in all of life is the gift of being well led. Not only that, but all our programs are also available for license.

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Everyaction

DECEMBER 12, 2017

Join other data experts, academics, practitioners, and social sector leaders for two days of skillfully-led sessions on topics ranging from aligning practice with policy to creating a culture of data, and how Silicon Valley is facilitating data practices in civil society. Structuring Major Gifts Conference. Research / @SSIReview.

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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. If we’re just talking about methods, there’s major gifts, bequests and trusts, corporate relations, grant proposals, direct mail, social media, virtual and in-person events.

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Bloomerang

APRIL 9, 2021

So when I’m talking about giving generously, board members need to make their own personal gift. And so how do you facilitate that discussion about 100% board giving? The other thing that you’re going to do to facilitate that conversation is you’re going to. That’s how we facilitate it. .

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JUNE 25, 2012

It marked the start of a six month peer learning exchange where I, along with colleague Stephanie Rudat will work remotely with grantees as they implement an action learning project to put techniques into practice and facilitate organizational change from the inside out. We are working very closely with V.S. Anupam Shukla and Ms.

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Cloud 4 Good

OCTOBER 18, 2021

Using a combination of Blackbaud Luminate CRM (LCRM) and Luminate Online, the Foundation was facing limitations in the way they managed their constituents, donors, gifts, events, and emails. At Riley Children’s Foundation, every gift received makes an impact, and every act of giving has the potential to greatly improve the lives of children.

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Neon CRM

NOVEMBER 27, 2023

This doesn’t mean every board meeting has to be dedicated to teaching board members how to write appeals or run a great event. Can they facilitate a conversation with a potential major donor? Nearly all of them will require training, and that training will be most effective when done on an ongoing basis. Tell stories.

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Qgiv

DECEMBER 2, 2021

Or, with renewed interest in old school hobbies like gardening, breadmaking, and woodworking, do you have members who could donate their time to teach these skills? Work-a-thons make for a great way for your congregants to raise funds while sharing their gifts with others in your community! Envelope fundraiser. Karaoke night.

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Bloomerang

JULY 19, 2021

For example, simply saying “we prioritize major gifts” or “we focus on donor retention” isn’t helpful without understanding specifically how you’re doing so and then tracking and measuring your results so you can improve. . Of course they could! . Mastering online user experience and messaging. Mastering relevant content marketing.

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Bloomerang

NOVEMBER 13, 2021

She’s also certified by the Institute of Cultural Affairs, in the USA, for facilitation. And, as I was sharing earlier, we usually teach this in person over a period of two to three hours, so, you all are getting the, what we’ll call, the boot-camp version of “Measure of Success.” So let me navigate around that.

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EveryAction

APRIL 1, 2016

We have gathered an outstanding group of field experts to teach how to build and sustain this kind of governance. Structuring Major Gifts Conference. Structuring Major Gifts Conference. Discover how these and other factors are irrevocably changing the ways donors structure their largest gifts of a lifetime. Governance.

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Bloomerang

JULY 17, 2021

I mean, she’s a CFRE and she even teaches a CFRE class. I know we’re all gifted fundraisers in the house for the most part. And for all of us who are parents who had privilege of teaching these children, just be glad you’re still like those little people. Okay, y’all. And Paris, you are so right.

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Bloomerang

JANUARY 18, 2022

Do you get heart palpitations when you pick up the phone to make an ask for a philanthropic gift? Whenever someone I know expresses resistance to asking for a philanthropic gift, I revisit 5 Ways Giving Is Good for You on the Greater Good Science Center blog. When we give, we don’t only help the immediate recipient of our gift.

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Have Fun - Do Good

FEBRUARY 13, 2008

It didn't matter whether gifts of money and time went to churches or symphony orchestras — givers to all types of religious and secular causes were far happier than non-givers." Skills: SCORE (Counselors to America's Small Business) facilitates volunteer mentors' giving advice to aspiring entrepreneurs. I'm a big fan of Kiva too.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MAY 24, 2012

This is a common experience when you attempt to facilitate global presentations, discussions or peer groups. I made a small donation and hope you might consider a small gift too). Unfortunately, our presenter from Lebanon had connectivity issues and was unable to present.

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