The MatrixFiles

FEBRUARY 23, 2024

Americans today question the value of a college degree and mistrust the so-called “ivory tower” experts. They also distrust the media, calling bias and questioning facts. Higher education and the media have been hard hit with trust issues.

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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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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. Questions about the day can be sent to AFP here. 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. The team looks at some questions: What was the goal of our project?

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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. It’s not a binary question of whether your guidelines state you are or are not a climate or justice funder. Directing more resources to Global South (i.e.,

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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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Eric Jacobsen Blog

OCTOBER 9, 2023

Suppressing your uncertainties, impressions, or questions to try to appear like you always know what you’re doing. Leaders inspire their staff to ask questions, share creative ideas that may seem unconventional, and discover different ways of seeing the world—and they lead the way. Are you stuck in chronic performance?

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AccelEvents

JANUARY 13, 2022

Ask yourself these three questions as you get started: 1. Think global: When you think of hybrid, you should be thinking “reach.” Bonus: Accelevents facilitates participation and networking across both physical and virtual sessions. Taking the plunge into planning hybrid events?

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sgEngage

OCTOBER 17, 2022

IDA is a global membership organization of international and regional membership organizations of persons with disabilities. Meetings with participants, staff or donors, to talk through strategic questions, or grantmaking rules and regulations. Be prepared to facilitate or bring on facilitators to lead these high-stakes group meetings.

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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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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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AccelEvents

AUGUST 14, 2020

Once you have these questions answered, you can begin to look for venues, plan out content, choose a virtual event platform, and develop the event agenda. . Using a tool like Accelevents , you can seamlessly manage all ticketing and registration while facilitating participation and networking across physical and virtual sessions. .

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sgEngage

OCTOBER 9, 2023

But is this the right question? The data collected is usually owned by the grantmaker, not questioned, and not shared back with the grantee or any larger community. For many grantmakers, the answer to these questions is our own institutions. Think about the donor role as facilitator and the community as owner of the results.

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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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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. When we’ve had these discussions before (and before that ), we’ve concluded with a question.

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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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Bloomerang

NOVEMBER 28, 2023

Stripe Best for: Nonprofits looking to easily accept global payments and access instant payouts if needed. Look for a mobile-friendly payment processor that facilitates simple transactions on both mobile and desktop devices. Ask plenty of questions to make sure you feel comfortable with your final choice.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MAY 23, 2017

My co-presenter for the plenary was the amazing Marcelo Iniarra , who is a digital mobilization pioneer and fantastic presenter/facilitator. The moderator, Marcelo Jamberio, organized a set of questions that other Marcelo and I responded to with slides and audience interaction. The audience laughed. Everyone loves a good story.

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Bloomerang

MAY 24, 2021

Brian Solis , Global Innovation Evangelist and Digital Anthropologist, calls this Generation Novel, or Gen N. This is a question I broached in “ What Will a Post-COVID Nonprofit Economy Reveal ? ” Here are several questions for your consideration. We are witnessing the rise of a new generation of donors and nonprofit employees.

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sgEngage

SEPTEMBER 10, 2021

and globally, including those who work in development, membership, finance, marketing, executive leadership and more. Beth Kanter, nonprofit thought leader, virtual facilitator, and author of the Happy Healthy Nonprofit, will deliver our Super Session this year on sustaining wellbeing for remainder of the pandemic & beyond.

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NTEN

FEBRUARY 24, 2021

Globally, nonprofits store their data inside software applications and platforms, small and large. While technology for nonprofits is a win for nonprofits, a question exists about what shapes this technology’s development. Many of these factors are beyond nonprofits’ ability and the global impact economy to influence.

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Tech Soup

JULY 11, 2011

leaders to answer nonprofit questions for the next NPLive. Sign up today to participate in the event to have these and many more of your questions answered. In the meantime, here are answers to a few of the frequently asked questions we receive about social video: What Is Social Video? Video production is a. Collaboration.

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Saleforce Nonprofit

OCTOBER 24, 2022

Food insecurity threatens to worsen as households continue to face setbacks due to COVID-19, fears of a global recession, and the highest increase in inflation rates and food prices seen in the last 40 years. and supporting small farmers in remote areas globally. John de la Parra. Director, Food Initiative, The Rockefeller Foundation.

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AccelEvents

JUNE 15, 2020

Recent global happenings have turned the event industry on its head and event organizers have been scrambling to save their events and deliver a valuable experience to event attendees, exhibitors, and sponsors alike. Facilitate Networking. Consider real-time text chat as well as audio and video chat.

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Beneblog: Technology Meets Society

DECEMBER 5, 2009

December 4, 2009 Benetech’s Reply Comments in response to the Copyright Office Notice of Inquiry and Request for Comments on the Topic of Facilitating Access to Copyrighted Works for the Blind or Other Persons With Disabilities The issue all comes down to human rights vs. money. And this raises the central human rights question.

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Bloomerang

APRIL 11, 2023

Your volunteer management system can facilitate more streamlined volunteer engagement and communication. Let’s answer a few frequently asked questions about how this process works: What are the steps of the volunteer management process? Global support for operations in different countries.

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AccelEvents

NOVEMBER 5, 2020

By having the option to streamline event planning and event facilitation, event planners experience less stress and are better equipped to provide services for each remote attendee as well as the event hosts. Facilitate attendee engagement. Facilitate globalized networking. Supportive integrations.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

OCTOBER 18, 2011

I had the opportunity to facilitate 3 world café sessions on this topic this morning at the GEO: Growing Social Impact in a Networked World funder conference. How can networks facilitate that? You may have noticed that my key takeaways are in the form of more questions. How do networks evolve into movements?

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

DECEMBER 13, 2005

I'm just back from the Global s Summit in London. I vlogged some of the friday night informal dinner - global dining partners - Download globaldinningpartners.wmv. One might think that it would be difficult to sustain a truly interactive experience, but the way Ethan and Rebecca facilitated - it was an intense day-long conversation.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

OCTOBER 18, 2011

How Wikimedia tapped into the wisdom of its network of 100,000 global volunteers to write their strategic plan…and why. Much more detail outlining the process and the facilitation can be found here: “Wikimedia strategic planning wiki,” [link]. So the question really isn’t did they create a better plan. Guest post by Anna Muoio.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

APRIL 4, 2011

Over the past 18 months, I’ve been participating in The Network of Networked Funders , a community of practice for grantmakers facilitated by the Monitor Institute. We’ll be live tweeting insights, so if you want to follow along, ask questions, or share ideas about networks, follow the #netfunders hashtag on Twitter.

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Amy Sample Ward

JUNE 17, 2010

What’s the point in using “global” tools (social media) for local organizing? From @amoration: I find we’re always both global & local, so many of us travel frequently that virtual organizing tools are essential even for “local&# endeavors. Inspire, empower and facilitate to take action.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JANUARY 26, 2012

As a trainer, I’m intensely interested in creating learning experiences that integrate or about how to use the technology for nonprofits that engage and inspire people to put the ideas into practice. I’ve been obsessed with peer learning and self-directed learning models in my own learning and the trainings I design and facilitate.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

DECEMBER 1, 2010

We will have a monthly theme, which will include resources, discussion questions, and more. Our intent is to provide a space for just-in-time answers and share best practices at no charge. It’s our way of embracing and spreading the abundance that working a networked way offers. Why am I excited about this project?

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JUNE 1, 2010

Ed Granger-Happ, Nethope; Claire Bonilla, Disaster Response Microsoft; Daniel Ben-Horin, TechSoup Global, Vida Durant, CARE USA. After lunch, Steve Ballmer, Microsoft’s CEO gave his perspective on the company’s philanthropy and corporate citizen activities and answered questions. View more presentations from Akhtarbad.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JULY 18, 2014

Again, using design-thinking facilitating methods, the process started with a presentation from the executive director on the strategy for the year and measurement. In particular, they were interested in looking at transformational metrics such as donor engagement, building nonprofit capacity, and global reach.

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NTEN

NOVEMBER 20, 2014

The session was facilitated by Susan Feeney, Partner at GMMB , and explored the range of new media models and venture journalism experiments. “As Sherry questioned. 4 Think global, write local Don’t forget op-eds and letters to the editor! While topics might be global, news is local,” explained Chan. and James L.

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