Bloomerang

JANUARY 19, 2024

Donor needs a tax deduction this year, and like the flexibility of being able to recommend grants over a period of years (in which they may take the standard deduction). Being human, DAF donors generally want to see some of that love reflected back. As with any other donor, your job is that of a philanthropy facilitator.

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Candid

MARCH 12, 2024

His statement resonated with me because it reflected all that PEAK Grantmaking worked to do last year: moving from scarcity mindsets to mindsets of abundance—putting possibilities at the center of our approach to our mission instead of limitations. “The mistakes you make, you make in front of the world.”

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Learning Journal Practice Reflection 52

The Modern Nonprofit

AUGUST 22, 2023

While donations and grants are traditional revenue streams, here’s a question to give some serious thought. Here’s how an online store can become a game-changer for your nonprofit: Financial Stability through Diverse Revenue Relying solely on donations or grants can be unpredictable.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

APRIL 2, 2014

In mid-March, I had a whirl wind day at the Grant Managers Network Annual Conference where I did the following: Panel Session : Outcomes, Impact, and Communication with Roberto Cremonini and Danette Peters. The number one thing we can do to help groups learn is to create space and time for reflection. GMN2014. —

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JULY 16, 2019

When I facilitate staff retreats or workshop on wellbeing in the workplace based on the Happy Healthy Nonprofit , we do some reflective exercises, including taking the nonprofit burnout assessment , identifying stress triggers and reactions before creating a self-care plan and addressing cultural norms. … Read More.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

SEPTEMBER 2, 2021

Adam Grant recently shared some research that suggests we should create a meeting norm that encourages us to keep our cameras-off to fight zoom fatigue. Cameras-off does not reflect disengagement, but helps improve attention and prevents burnout. Not only turn your camera off, but turn away from the screen to reduce the cognitive load.

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Candid

JUNE 16, 2022

There was also a growing understanding that centering equity in these grants was essential to mitigating the inequities of COVID’s impact. Takeaways and discussion questions conclude each section, providing a useful tool for facilitating dialogues for reflection and learning.

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Guidelines Participatory Case Study Philanthropy 105

EveryAction

JULY 3, 2023

Ensuring a smooth user experience is especially critical for complex virtual campaigns like peer-to-peer fundraising, which relies heavily on your website to facilitate a number of different interactions between donors, their networks, and your organization. Integrated functionality is critical for nonprofit virtual engagement.

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Top Nonprofits

AUGUST 3, 2021

I was reminded of this recently, at the first evening of the online course in Grant Proposal Writing: Our fifteen working adult students logged in to Zoom and were welcomed into our shared virtual classroom. Not surprisingly, their perception was that the conversation had been poorly facilitated and had no structure!

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

AUGUST 28, 2013

I wrote a quick reflection on some of the techniques used to facilitate the meeting. Guest Post by Heather Grant-McLeod. just strategy, or just process facilitation, or just fundraising). What is the role of facilitators, consultants and intermediaries in these networks? Building Capacity for Social Change 2.0

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sgEngage

SEPTEMBER 28, 2021

Adam Grant recently shared some research that suggests we should create a meeting norm that encourages us to keep our cameras-off to fight zoom fatigue. Cameras-off does not reflect disengagement, but helps improve attention and prevents burnout. Not only turn your camera off, but turn away from the screen to reduce the cognitive load.

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Camera Collaboration Attention Research 96

NonProfit Hub

APRIL 17, 2024

Use this template to facilitate the persona creation process: This template offers space to add demographic and behavioral information about your personas and strategize your intended messaging. Facilitate a stronger relationship by sharing compelling personal stories related to your nonprofit. Tell compelling stories.

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Practice Organization Nonprofit Content 36

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

DECEMBER 31, 2013

International Training Work: Most of my work is designing and delivering capacity building projects for nonprofits literally all over the world. This past year I had the honor of facilitating an intense training in Tunisia in January for Women Entrepreneurs that included leadership, entrepreneurship, business planning, and communications.

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Tunisia Facilitation New Zealand Technique 124

Bloomerang

MAY 17, 2021

You are the philanthropy facilitator. . You can be a grant writer or direct mail specialist or fundraising events specialist. You — and the entire social benefit sector — need organizational-development-grounded philanthropic facilitators. Culture tends to reflect who’s in charge. It’s in your job description.

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Culture Philanthropy Facilitation Job 122

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

FEBRUARY 13, 2012

The After Action Review is a reflective practice that can be used for anything, but I find it especially valuable for social media pilots and experiments. The After Action Review (AAR) is a structured way to capture the lessons learned from any project, with the intent of improving future performance. The process is simple.

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Saleforce Nonprofit

APRIL 22, 2022

It is not a time to reflect, it is a time to act. 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.

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Ireland Challenge Empowerment Local 97

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

OCTOBER 7, 2014

The lab was facilitated by Heather Mcleod-Grant and Justin Ferrell , Director of Fellowships at the Stanford d-School. This allowed us to experience the whole design process – design a new wallet – and reflect on it. The questions: What do you hope to learn today?

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JULY 1, 2008

The NTEN project is an excellent learning laboratory for reflection and learning about this topic. provocative questions, offers an alternative view, and helps facilitate fresh insights or alternative sources of information or expertise." When do you as the wiki facilitator get out of the way?

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

APRIL 7, 2015

Yesterday, I had the honor of being a guest facilitator at a transformative leadership retreat with colleagues Heather McLeod Grant, Chris Block, Lance Fors, and David Havens. We started with mindfulness from Chris Block, improvisation from David Havens , and Heather and I co-facilitated a session on networks.

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Mind Work Exercise Nashville 50

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MARCH 15, 2012

During the facilitated discussion session at GEO’s National Conference in Seattle it was my great privilege to convene a group of brave pioneers. How to set aside time for reflection and learning. What We Talk About When We Talk About Organizational Learning – guest post by Cindy Rizzo.

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Learning Seattle Knowledge Management Evaluation 92

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JANUARY 2, 2015

Facilitator for Learning Network: Most of my work is designing and delivering capacity building projects for nonprofits literally all over the world and here in the US. It is about making it possible for participants to capture, share, and reflect on what they have learned. Year in Review.

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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

OCTOBER 27, 2021

You could even ask volunteers to facilitate a warm introduction for you instead of just giving you a list of names. Publicize volunteer grant opportunities. Through volunteer grant programs, companies provide grants to organizations where employees volunteer on a regular basis.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MAY 21, 2013

The second year we made changes and moved our event to a large park in Omaha and in doing so we were able to save the organization more than 25K in expenses and make it possible for us to retain more of our profits allowing us to provide larger grants and scholarships to help the local LGBT community! Check references before you hire.

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Contest Omaha Government Grant 93

Everyaction

DECEMBER 12, 2017

We have everything from: Fundraising & Grants. Fundraising & Grants/ @CASEAdvance. Fundraising & Grants. Fundraising & Grants / #CPI2018 / @NorCalGrant. Fundraising & Grants. Fundraising& Grants / @GCIRtweets. Fundraising& Grants. Fundraising & Grants.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

APRIL 8, 2015

I had the honor of being a guest facilitator at a transformative leadership retreat with colleagues Heather McLeod Grant, Chris Block, Lance Fors, and David Havens – I got to teach but more importantly got to learn from amazing people. Not great as many of reflected. Collective Capital (@cocapimprov) April 6, 2015.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

SEPTEMBER 13, 2009

I tweeted the link to the original and one colleague, Michelle Murrain, wrote a reflection called " Evaluation and Being A Learning Organization.". The latter reflects an approach we refer to as “real-time” evaluation. to evaluation for program improvement (“What did we learn that can help us make the program better?”).

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Evaluation Learning Foundation Reflection 86

ASU Lodestar Center

MAY 10, 2016

posted by Grant Deering Graduate Student, ASU Master of Nonprofit Leadership & Management. Additionally, a neutral facilitator, the sponsor who brings reputation and networks, and the champion who rallies the team, are extremely vital to leading the train toward the destination.

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NTEN

JUNE 7, 2011

Themes will reflect both a specific programmatic focus and an ongoing opportunity for growth – for example, Public Computing (vs BTOP grants). NTEN will facilitate ongoing growth and community development with the help of volunteer organizers who agree to nurture and ignite conversation and engagement.

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NTEN Practice Community Literacy 54

Bloomerang

AUGUST 28, 2023

Some of the core features of this CRM solution include: Donor and volunteer profiles and relationship-tracking tools Supporter segmentation and email marketing Customized online stores to sell nonprofit merchandise Grant management and tracking options NeonCRM’s pricing packages start at $99 and scale up for additional features.

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Profile Software Nonprofit Donor 91

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MARCH 21, 2017

The potential for being overwhelmed by technology is magnified in the workplace by something called “ Collaborative Overload ” Rob Cross and Adam Grant in a recent Harvard Business Review article. Team members reflect on their own remote working experiences and use that insight to create a shared charter for your nonprofit.

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Collaboration Tips Tech Nonprofit 120

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MAY 10, 2011

The TCC Group is facilitating a “learn in public&# process by sharing early research findings related to 1300 capacity building grants. There has been an interesting discussion on the wiki and blogs about strategy for public learning.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

SEPTEMBER 25, 2009

Eugene was the consultant on Packard Foundation’s Organizational Effectiveness grant to strengthen the network of a Population/Reproductive Health grantee, The International Institute of Education's Leadership Development for Moblizing Reproductive Health Program. He is currently facilitating strategic planning for the wikimedia movement.

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Collaboration Learning Exercise Online 93

Have Fun - Do Good

FEBRUARY 22, 2012

You do not need to be an “artist” to make a postcard, but each participant is surprised and delighted by their creativity and to see that their cards contain colors, words and images that reflect their strongest selves. Anyone can become a facilitator and host a workshop in their community, and we encourage everyone to get involved.

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ASU Lodestar Center

MAY 18, 2016

billion from retail sales, $666 million from industrial and service contract work, $104 million from government grants, $33 million from corporate and foundation grants, $48 million from individual gifts/endowments/fees for services, and $393 million from government support for its mission services (Goodwill Industries International, 2015).

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MARCH 19, 2012

During the next two days, I will be facilitating a two-day social media bootcamp for NGOs from Jordan and Lebanon that have been through the program in their respective countries. E-Mediat is working with more than 220 NGOs in Jordan, Lebanon, Morocco, Tunisia, and Yemen. I’m looking out my hotel window at the Dead Sea in Jordan.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JUNE 14, 2010

On Friday, I facilitated the final face-to-face workshop for the Social Media Lab for 25 arts organizations inspired by Thomas Edison’s approach. It was sponsored by the Hewlett Foundation, Wallace Foundation, San Francisco Foundation, Grants for the Arts, and the Koret Foundation. Posters: Wall of Reflection and Gratitude.

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