Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MAY 4, 2017

Capacity building includes both money (grants), consultants/technical assistance, peer learning/communities of practice, and collaboration. As a trainer and facilitator, the work I do with organizations and networks, often on behalf of a foundation for its grantees, is capacity building.

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Nonprofits Source

SEPTEMBER 25, 2023

Certain corporate giving programs like volunteer grants encourage employees to volunteer with nonprofits. As a result, nonprofits not only earn money from the volunteer grants but also gain a new base of dedicated volunteers. Volunteer grants function very similarly to matching gifts. More volunteer sign-ups. New partnerships.

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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. At the end of every planning process, I send out a feedback survey to participants. I’m sure we each have stories like this.

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Bloomerang

AUGUST 2, 2021

Mastering personalized, customer-centered philanthropy facilitation, especially mid-level and major donors, to increase donor lifetime value. You can’t take your brand for granted. Do this with a simple free survey or ask the question on your donation thank you landing page or in your thank you email.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

FEBRUARY 25, 2014

The session will share the results and insights from research studies that combining social media analytics with survey data. Grant Managers Network Conference: March 18th. I’ll be headed to San Diego for the annual Grant Managers Network Conference. LUMA Institute: March 19-20th.

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Bloomerang

JULY 19, 2023

Creates an environment that facilitates fundraising Regardless of whether you do face-to-face fundraising, ensuring that the organization is prepared to fundraise is the development professional’s main priority. You’re vigilant about gathering this information through post-program surveys or via your website. Senior citizens?

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Bloomerang

APRIL 11, 2023

Your volunteer management system can facilitate more streamlined volunteer engagement and communication. Evaluation: Evaluating your programming and surveying your volunteers for feedback Volunteer management software allows you to manage each of these steps in a centralized platform. What is a volunteer management system?

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Qgiv

NOVEMBER 17, 2022

Grant management. Grants are a great funding source for many nonprofits. With how competitive many grants are, applying to as many grants as you can is your best chance at getting funds for your mission. So how do you keep track of all the grants you’ve applied for and their status? Board management.

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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. Reach out to former volunteers.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MAY 12, 2011

It can also facilitate informal communications with other people in the grantee organization. Transparency isn’t a means to end, but is part of a ladder or scaffolding , particularly if used to spark public learning to make grantmaking strategies more impactful. Kathy Reich offered some context.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

NOVEMBER 22, 2011

Note from Beth: I had pleasure of facilitating a panel discussion in October at the recent Grantmakers in the Arts pre-conference on technology and media with Rory MacPherson where I learned about some of the preliminary study result he discovered. We opened up the survey to all arts organizations in August.

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Tech Soup

JULY 17, 2013

It has facilitated the opening up of access to good quality raw data from statistical agencies in North Africa and the Middle East, which is being shared with individuals, institutions and the public at large. Libya, Djibouti and Jordan have also granted restricted access to micro data to selected individuals and organizations.

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DNL OmniMedia

FEBRUARY 9, 2022

Getting Attention – Google Grants. Employee surveys and workplace investigations. Custom compensation survey development and execution. Getting Attention: Top Nonprofit Consulting Firm for Google Grants. Getting Attention is a nonprofit consulting firm that specializes in Google Grant acquisition and management.

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Nonprofits Source

OCTOBER 6, 2023

How about sending out informational surveys about how to improve the workplace? Offer corporate giving opportunities , such as matching gifts and volunteer grants, to help your workers make an impact through your business. Facilitating these relationships is key to making your business feel more like a community.

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Bloomerang

MARCH 30, 2023

Facilitate a positive experience by planning breaks during longer opportunities and offering water and snacks to help maintain high energy. This data is useful for planning and can also be used in grant applications. Offer ongoing support. What was your least favorite aspect and why?

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ASU Lodestar Center

FEBRUARY 27, 2017

According to a survey by Landles-Cobb, Kramer, and Smith Milway (2015), the second most cited reason for staff turnover, behind low compensation, was lack of leadership development and growth opportunity. Participating in drafting portions of grant proposals. Developing budgets for grants or departments.

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Tech Soup

OCTOBER 26, 2012

This facilitates information-sharing on any platforms that might be used by your stakeholders, as PDFs are one of the most widely used file formats. Convert to Word, Excel, and PowerPoint: Conversely, you may get PDFs from partners and allies where there's information that can be used, like for a grant report for example.

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Tech Soup

OCTOBER 19, 2012

This facilitates information-sharing on any platforms that might be used by your stakeholders, as PDFs are one of the most widely used file formats. Convert to Word, Excel, and PowerPoint: Conversely, you may get PDFs from partners and allies where there's information that can be used, like for a grant report for example.

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Forum One

AUGUST 15, 2010

The second part explores challenges in facilitating collaboration. If you're going to do something sophisticated, like integrating your grants management system with your grantee community, be sure you have very solid management support, a healthy budget, and a very patient stakeholder group. Be wary of big, complex visions.

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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

APRIL 8, 2009

The session was expertly facilitated by the Monitor Team which included David Sawyer, Diana Scearce, and Heather McLeod Grant. We also did a pre-survey to learn where they were in terms of using social media for external communications. I did a presentation on social media and nonprofits in the afternoon.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JANUARY 27, 2010

The community is hosted by Maddie Grant and Lindy Dreyer of SocialFish in collaboration with Omnipress. In the presentation, I showed folks how to easily survey the audience using google forms. I like webinar software that facilitates learning between participants). It has 400 members. Are the three wiki tools listed free?

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The Modern Nonprofit

FEBRUARY 15, 2022

Reduction of time spent on grant reports. Survey your team to understand what each of the tasks is and how long each takes (annually). . Uncover any surprises or friction points early on, and bring them up to the support team of your new vendor to get help in facilitating new processes. Increase in single donations. TechBridge.

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Connection Cafe

OCTOBER 31, 2011

A third (33%) of nonprofit executives take over from someone who was fired or forced to resign, according to the 2011 Daring to Lead report, which surveyed 3000 nonprofit executive directors earlier this year. Grant fundraising and foundations. Author: Jennifer Darrouzet. Telephones & voicemail. Computer & printer networking.

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Nonprofits Source

NOVEMBER 1, 2023

For example, teachers might survey their classes to find out what extracurricular activities would be most appealing to the student population. If you have the resources to connect with kids through donors or volunteers who are parents, consider surveying them and asking what they’d like to help out with.

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Classy

MARCH 29, 2021

The 2019 Aflac Corporate Social Responsibility Survey found that 77% of consumers surveyed are “motivated to purchase from companies committed to making the world better,” and 49% of Americans say it is more important for a company to “make the world a better place” than “make money for its shareholders.” Ben & Jerry’s.

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Neon CRM

MAY 18, 2023

Whether you are fully dependent on donations or utilize a variety of revenue sources like government grants, corporate partnerships, major contributions, or membership fees, successful fundraising is key to maximizing your impact on your mission. Instead, send them a donor survey soon after they’ve submitted their gift.

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Bloomerang

SEPTEMBER 24, 2021

Sometimes, you have too many ideas so you need a strong facilitator who can make sure we hear from everyone, but are able to put these ideas through a funnel and find those common threads. That facilitator has to be able to manage many different personalities, the different cultures, different experiences. They’d have a burner.

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Cloud 4 Good

APRIL 7, 2021

Marketing Cloud – Create Quality Content + Engagement It has never been more important to reach your constituents where they are, and there’s never been a more versatile product to facilitate that need than Marketing Cloud. You May Also Enjoy: Report: 2020 – 2021 State of Salesforce in the Nonprofit Sector.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

NOVEMBER 15, 2013

As part of the research, they looked at more than 170 different technological tools now available to funders, dove deeply into the literature on philanthropic collaboration, analyzed the results of recent Foundation Center surveys, and spoke with a wide range of experts from the worlds of both technology and philanthropy.

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EveryAction

APRIL 1, 2016

The total buying power of this community is projected to be more than $790 billion and the surveys indicate that the LGBT community is especially likely to consider supporting charitable organizations for which they are committed with a planned gift. Grant Managers Network Annual Conference. Grant Managers Network Annual Conference.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

FEBRUARY 19, 2014

The guide identifies on the key benefits of transparency as reported by the funders interviewed for the guide: Foundations profiled in this guide and those who responded to a 2013 GrantCraft survey listed the following benefits of transparency: Less time spent explaining goals and strategies to potential grantees.

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NonProfit Hub

JANUARY 15, 2016

Here’s a rule you can use each and every week: don’t write a grant, plan an event or send out an e-mail appeal until you’ve set up lunch meetings with five donors. —Joe Create a survey that you send to all first-time donors. Just create a free SurveyMonkey account to create the survey.

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Bloomerang

MAY 21, 2021

You’re teaching grant writing and doing board development and super involved in the nonprofit community there. And I teach Board Development and Grant Writing for the program. It may be that, for some organizations, a really large strategic planning process would include hiring an outside facilitator, doing a.

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Bloomerang

JULY 20, 2023

Choose an online fundraising platform Choose the software solutions that will facilitate your online fundraising efforts. Plus, you can gain access to $10,000 per month in free Google ad spending by applying for the Google Ad Grant program. Follow these steps to help you choose the right solution for your organization.

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Get Fully Funded

MARCH 8, 2012

If this doesn’t work, consider bringing in an outside person like a facilitator or consultant. For example, let’s say that through surveying and research, you discover that most of your donors are women, 55+, college graduates, and married. Subtract out grants, corporate income and special events.

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Get Fully Funded

MARCH 8, 2012

If this doesn’t work, consider bringing in an outside person like a facilitator or consultant. For example, let’s say that through surveying and research, you discover that most of your donors are women, 55+, college graduates, and married. Subtract out grants, corporate income and special events.

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