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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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JULY 28, 2009

There have the been the well discussed successes like DonorsChoose and Lil Green Patch. Our job as organizational communicators lies in trying to facilitate a larger conversation by providing the means for people to share, perhaps initiate conversations, and highlight the great work and thoughts of others. Never forget that, either.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MARCH 10, 2010

Last year, I facilitated a version of the Social Media Game for Packard Grantees as part of a convening on Network Effectiveness in Washington, DC. We have a mix of staff who dived into social media long ago (see our business innovation blog and green business twitter feed ), and others who have maybe sort of heard of Twitter.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

AUGUST 3, 2009

What's it like behind the firewall facilitating everyone in the organization to embrace social media? She was like a little kid in a candy store snapping pictures, then turning to her iPhone and Tweeting about how she spotted Wildlife with the #NWF hash tag to share with the Wildlife Watch program what she had seen. I got curious.

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Tech Soup

AUGUST 5, 2011

This vastly improves the management and allocation of financial and environmental resources and facilitate technology-enabled breakthroughs on climate change and disease outbreaks. Green technology spurs mobile payments development in Africa. Systems thinking and knowledge management become critical skills for philanthropists.

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OneCause

JANUARY 31, 2024

In addition to raising money, you might also use a fundraising event to facilitate other goals, such as: Acquiring new donors. Look to your donor database to get a picture of the kind of event your donors might be interested in. Promoting your cause or gaining publicity. Stewarding existing donors. Engaging prospective major donors.

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Bloomerang

APRIL 9, 2021

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. Each board member had a give of 500, a give of 5,000 and if it was in the green for that quarter, that meant they were on track. So keep that in mind.

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