Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MARCH 15, 2011

Over the past month, I have been thinking about a couple of different ideas and how to incorporate them into training design to facilitate learning. My questions are: 1. How can we use graphic facilitation or graphic note taking in real time to deepen understanding of the topic being discussed? I feel it stifles learning.

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Nimble AMS

MARCH 24, 2024

How Nimble AMS supports customers during every product release During the testing of the Salesforce Spring ’24 release , our team discovered an issue with mandatory global access for aura components. Continue reading to learn more about how Nimble AMS stands apart from the competition, removing the worry from product upgrades.

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Amy Sample Ward

FEBRUARY 15, 2011

I’ll be speaking, facilitating and assisting with the event. Related Links : TechSoup Global. Hashtag: #tsg2011. Conference wiki: [link].

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.orgSource

OCTOBER 17, 2023

Recent data from the global consulting firm Spencer Stuart shows that 98% of S&P 500 boards conduct a board evaluation of some type, although only about a third review the board as a whole, individual directors, and committees as part of the process. Sometimes an outside facilitator can move members forward more quickly.

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Candid

FEBRUARY 12, 2024

A coalition of funders—public, private, and philanthropic—investing in drug research, development, and clinical trials to defeat tuberculosis can collectively shape advances in medical science as well as global markets. The Global Impact Investing Network estimates the size of the worldwide impact investing market at $1.64

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Beneblog: Technology Meets Society

MARCH 14, 2012

This global Martus meeting brought together individuals who use Martus to address different human rights documentation and security needs in widely varied projects, to share their successes and challenges with the software. In the meantime, we’re going to continue the conversations begun at the meeting.

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.orgSource

JUNE 5, 2023

Zonta International, where Allison served as Executive Director* and Chief Staff Executive, was honored with the 2021 ASAE Summit Award for the UNFPA-UNICEFF Global Program to End Child Marriage. Leaders who work on a global playing field can help you see in a new perspective. Summers, CAE, a guest on the Association 4.0

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

NOVEMBER 3, 2015

I’ve just returned from an inspiring week in Kiev, Ukraine where I got to facilitate a training for women’s organizations organized by Wake , an amazing start up founded by two respected colleagues Trish Tierney and Heather Ramsey. You have to think of your interpreters as extensions of your facilitation techniques.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

FEBRUARY 17, 2011

I spent the last two days at the TechSoup Global Summit getting inspiration overload about social media, networks, social network mapping, networks of networks, global peer learning, building a sector, nonprofit technology, and many other ideas I’m passionate about. Designing for Serendipity.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

FEBRUARY 16, 2011

I spent today at day 1 of the TechSoup Global Summit in Mountain View with two hundred and forty people who work in the TechSoup Global Network around the world, plus other stakeholders. Plus it is always a pleasure for me to observe “Gunner’s&# facilitation techniques (I learn so much).

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sgEngage

SEPTEMBER 13, 2022

It can perhaps best be described by the slogan of the global disability rights movement: “nothing about us without us.”. For staff, this often involves careful planning and facilitation, and playing a backend organizing role to ensure participants are easily able to engage in the tasks at hand. How Is Participatory Grantmaking Done?

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Bloomerang

NOVEMBER 8, 2023

Philanthropy is an effort an individual or organization undertakes based on an altruistic desire to improve human welfare, and wealthy individuals sometimes establish private foundations to facilitate their philanthropic efforts. It has become a global movement to recognize and promote philanthropy. In the U.S.,

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MARCH 13, 2013

This week I was in Austin, TX for SXSW Interactive Festival where I presented or facilitated at several social good sessions or events. This post is to share my deck and comments from my lighting talk about failure at Good by Global at SXSW.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MARCH 9, 2011

Illustration by Jonny Goldstein who will provide live graphic facilitation of this highly interactive and fun panel. Jonny Goldstein will be our graphic facilitator and capture the conversation – these images will be shared on Twitter with NGOs around the world. Here’s what will happen: 1.)

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The MatrixFiles

FEBRUARY 23, 2024

“Trust in companies from global companies is in decline, worry over societal threats and establishment leaders misleading us is growing, while peers are as trusted as scientists for information on new innovations.” – 2024 Edelman Trust Barometer A couple of weeks ago, I facilitated a discussion through UST Education about trust and associations with (..)

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

APRIL 18, 2013

I was honored to be invited to cover this year’s Global Philanthropy Forum , a community of donors and social investors committed to international causes. ” with Jacob Harold , Guidestar; Robert Kirkpatrick , UN Global Pulse; Mayur Patel , Knight Foundation. Global Pulse @rgkirkpatrick.

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Tech Soup

FEBRUARY 23, 2011

This is the first of a three part series about cloud computing as it relates to civil society organisations (CSOs) by Keisha Taylor the communications manager at GuideStar International, part of TechSoup Global's network of partners. This was first posted on the GuideStar International blog. and Is Cloud Computing Greener? read more.

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Nonprofit Tech for Good

MAY 8, 2020

By Elizabeth Ngonzi , is an Adjunct Faculty at New York University Center for Global Affairs where she teaches Digital Storytelling, Innovation and Fundraising. She has worked with Candid, Cornell University, the United Nations, and Vital Voices Global Partnerships, among others.

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sgEngage

MARCH 22, 2024

This new-era approach ensures that your fundraising campaign is not confined to a specific physical location but can reach a global audience. Make mobile fundamental to your P2P strategy so that you’re able to connect with donors and participants where they are and when they are available. That means more donors and more dollars.

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Candid

JUNE 16, 2022

But, as a result of the global crisis, every responsible funder had to adapt and respond to new needs facing communities due to COVID, and many did so in creative ways. Directing more resources to Global South (i.e., organizations outside Europe and the United States) and to frontline organizations in the Global North. .

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

APRIL 24, 2014

How would they engage enough of the global development community to test the prototype, and after that how would they get people to actually use it? How could they present easy-to-use worksheets but avoid an overtly ‘design & innovation’ identity? They responded to the design challenge by making the toolkit as practical as possible.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

APRIL 30, 2020

My absolute favorite, which comes from Katy Grennier, DSIL Global , is the dance off that can be done on a video conference platform. 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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Tech Soup

FEBRUARY 22, 2016

This is the problem that Foundation Center, GlobalGiving, GuideStar, and TechSoup have set out to solve by creating BRIDGE (Basic Registry of Identified Global Entities). The knowledge derived from the BRIDGE project will also facilitate more strategic decision making by those who are working to create positive change across the globe.

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Saleforce Nonprofit

APRIL 22, 2022

Through their own reforestation, regeneration, and restoration projects around the world as well as the empowerment of others with the same goal, Plant-for-the-Planet aims to facilitate bringing back 1 trillion trees, helping us keep global warming below 2°C. Plant-for-the-Planet’s projects are highly local, with global impact.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

APRIL 6, 2017

This week I was lucky enough to do a Happy Healthy Nonprofit mini-workshop at the Global Giving office, an organization that I have known and worked for the past ten years. Global Giving’s office uses an open office layout to maximize collaboration and connections between staff and projects.

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sgEngage

JULY 20, 2021

Companies that operate globally will need to approach social justice as it relates to the needs of their employees and communities around the world. Blackbaud is a global company. Starting Your ESG Reporting Journey: Insights from Rachel Hutchisson VP, Global Social Responsibility at Blackbaud.

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Forum One

MARCH 6, 2009

Two weeks ago Forum One's Seattle office convened a group of Global Health web communicators and talked in depth about using social media to build connections and awareness. Last week at the Institute for Health Metrics and Evaluation a group of 23 folks who manage Global Health data met to talk about common issues and best practices.

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Saleforce Nonprofit

JUNE 27, 2021

Beyond distributing two billion COVID-19 vaccines to the most vulnerable and remote communities in the world, the Alliance aims to build vaccine confidence, champion equitable access to vaccines globally, and raise critical funds for vaccine rollout and emergency response. UNICEF is the largest buyer and distributor of vaccines worldwide.

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Cloud 4 Good

APRIL 16, 2021

This in-depth roundtable discussion focused on how these organizations have navigated the tectonic technological terrain created by the global pandemic, and what life will, or should, look like for nonprofits post-pandemic.

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sgEngage

OCTOBER 17, 2022

IDA is a global membership organization of international and regional membership organizations of persons with disabilities. You or the facilitators can ask participants to identify biases and point out any discrepancies or gaps that emerge as the group moves towards decision making. We often find that bias is the bigger threat.

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AccelEvents

JUNE 3, 2021

And planning an event during a global pandemic only adds more complications. The Global Biorisk Advisory Council (GBAC) helps organizations overcome biohazard risks like COVID-19. Have venue or event staff on hand to help enforce and facilitate this flow. Top 5 Proven Ways To Keep Your Next Hybrid Event Safe.

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Forum One

APRIL 1, 2021

Clubhouse—the invite-only, audio-based social application that’s been drawing in celebrities and expert thought leaders—facilitates widespread collaboration on global topics by allowing users to participate in different conversations on different topics in real-time. Provides free access to thought leadership and global collaboration.

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Forum One

OCTOBER 7, 2010

Forum One held two roundtable discussions in Seattle in the past couple of weeks on global health web communications as well as data collection, management, and dissemination. We heard from Yaw Anokwa about his work on the Open Data Kit , an Android-based suite of tools for collecting, aggregating, and visualizing field information.

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Saleforce Nonprofit

MAY 25, 2022

Climate anxiety is seriously affecting our youth: In a recent global survey of 10,000 young people aged 16–25, 59% were very or extremely worried about climate change, and 83% said they think people have failed to take care of the planet. We believe it will make local residents interested in the local environment.”.

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ASU Lodestar Center

JULY 13, 2022

Recent events have been disruptive on a global scale. While leaders remain ultimately responsible for what the organization does or fails to do, organizational structures become less hierarchical and instead, facilitate collaboration between individuals throughout the organization, regardless of position. Illustration by Yuxin Qin.

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Beneblog: Technology Meets Society

JULY 15, 2014

As a long-time advocate for a global copyright exception and the founder of Benetech—which I started twenty-five years ago in order to make technology tools to address the needs of people with print disabilities—I was thrilled to become an active player in global diplomacy and witness the adoption and signing of this landmark Treaty.

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AccelEvents

JANUARY 13, 2022

Think global: When you think of hybrid, you should be thinking “reach.” Whether the event is too far, too expensive, or just too much time away from everyday life, the virtual element allows people who maybe wouldn’t have been able to attend the event to still partake—potentially on a global level.

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