Candid

FEBRUARY 12, 2024

Were even a modest portion of the untapped 95%—of assets totaling an estimated $1 trillion—to be invested for impact, it could create a sea change in how philanthropy invests in the future. How does impact investing differ from program-related and mission-related investing?

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sgEngage

MARCH 17, 2022

Exponent Philanthropy members are demonstrating ways to partner light to amplify their impact. . According to Exponent Philanthropy’s 2022 Foundation Operations and Management Report , sixty percent of our members collaborate with other funders. These bi-weekly or monthly sessions can lead to collaborations. .

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sgEngage

JANUARY 10, 2024

In philanthropy, there can also be worries of time commitment, grantee burden, complicated methods and, frankly, resources circling the drain without adding any function or value. Datamaking can enhance capacity building efforts through group questioning and analysis. Those who find it fun are called nerds.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JANUARY 2, 2023

I learned a lot about Giving Circles from Philanthropy Together and am presently serving on the advisory committee for the WeGive Summit in May. Remote and Hybrid Facilitation Workshops : During the past few years, interest soared in learning how to facilitate better virtual meetings has soared.

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sgEngage

MARCH 17, 2023

What does this mean for grantmakers and philanthropy as a whole? Exploring the Growing Power of Women in Philanthropy The Women’s Philanthropy Institute (WPI) aims to increase understanding of women’s philanthropy through rigorous research and education, interpreting and sharing our insights broadly to improve philanthropy.

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Candid

APRIL 25, 2023

As equity emerges as the lynchpin of decades of investment for generations of impact, Environmental Grantmakers Association (EGA) is clear on its role to facilitate the shift from discussion to tangible action and offers deep data to affect the course of racial equity as a relevant lens for environmental philanthropy.

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sgEngage

OCTOBER 17, 2022

If you have decided to use a collective group model, you may invite all eligible applicants to participate. Or you might invite a broad group of people to participate, including applicants, residents, donors, researchers, and more. All groups have hierarchies and people who may be marginalized within that context.

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EveryAction

NOVEMBER 9, 2022

You can facilitate donors’ participation by telling the story of their tangible impact. Orr Group is a full-service consulting firm, specializing in the business of philanthropy. Get in touch here! Katy Beth Cassell, Director. What is the quantifiable impact of each dollar amount raised?

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Greater Giving

AUGUST 21, 2023

Aly Sterling Philanthropy explains that nonprofit strategic planning is the process of aligning your organization’s goals with your values to provide a dynamic performance map for the future. To facilitate this process, your consultant will lead interviews with your stakeholders, including your board, to gather their unbiased feedback.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

NOVEMBER 4, 2014

I noticed that Jen Bokoff from the Foundation Center was re-tweeted a photo of an icebreaker she used at her conference session on facilitation techniques. She kindly offered to cross post her blog post about icebreakers here. Take a group selfie. Group selfie ice breakers in our facilitation meeting!

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sgEngage

OCTOBER 9, 2023

A Shared and Flexible Understanding of Impact As practitioners of and advocates for participatory philanthropy, we believe there’s a better way. A way that can be more fair, improve the institution of philanthropy, and deliver a shared and flexible understanding of impact. All we know is what they tell the donors they’re doing.

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Connection Cafe

JUNE 12, 2017

Today’s nonprofit marketers must be experts in learning how to shift their organizational culture towards a culture of philanthropy. This gets to the heart of the best practices that are needed to create a culture of philanthropy within anonprofit organization. Get Everyone Aligned Around the Culture of Philanthropy.

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Amy Sample Ward

NOVEMBER 19, 2010

Earlier this summer, I had the huge privilege to visit Romania and help with the Local Philanthropy Workshop. I had the opportunity to facilitate the IT track and had lots of fun poking, prodding, and supporting some really interesting conversations and sharing sessions. The Local Philanthropy Workshop: Facebook Campaigning in Romania.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MARCH 8, 2019

The next exercise was a small group exercise that modeled the first step a small nonprofit might do to build an audience persona. The next facilitation challenge was to break them into small groups to work on the personas using a poster-sized version of the persona worksheet. There are many ways to do it.

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ASU Lodestar Center

NOVEMBER 13, 2017

In early November, I had the pleasure to be part of a panel conversation on Achieving High Impact Philanthropy as part of the ASU Lodestar Center's Philanthropy Matters Speaker Series. These events are designed to share leading-edge thinking and to stimulate new ideas for philanthropy in Arizona.

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Nonprofits Source

APRIL 15, 2024

This can promote your event to different groups of people, especially walkers and bikers, who would be interested in signing up for a charity event that also furthers their own goals. Research local companies who share similar values as your organization and have a corporate philanthropy program. Social media.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

AUGUST 19, 2013

Note from Beth: Mitch Arnowitz and I recently participated in an online discussion at Venture Philanthropy Partners/Leap of Reason about creating a community of practice for continuous improvement and high performance in the nonprofit sector. He authored The Virtual Community and was an original founder of the WELL.

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Bloomerang

APRIL 11, 2023

Your volunteer management system can facilitate more streamlined volunteer engagement and communication. You can maximize the potential of both groups, providing sustainable support for your fundraising and volunteer initiatives. Here’s what we love about Bloomerang’s system: Easy use for both staff and volunteers.

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Bloomerang

JULY 21, 2021

Instead, your board should be well balanced and highly diverse and include a dedicated group of individuals. . Not understanding philanthropy or the fundraising process . Philanthropy, not fundraising, will shift you and your board from feeling negative to feeling positive. Thinking they can immediately get grants .

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Bloomerang

AUGUST 16, 2021

Mastering personalized, customer-centered philanthropy facilitation, especially mid-level and major donors, to increase donor lifetime value. Internalizing and externalizing an organization-wide culture of philanthropy. You assign similar but separate groups one or the other of the options and then compare results.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

NOVEMBER 19, 2013

” Lucy Bernholz, “ Data-first Philanthropy.” ” Lucy Bernholz, “ Data-first Philanthropy.” A starting point for envisioning a future state in which data is the ‘GPS of philanthropy.’ Explores the ecosystem of data for social problem solving and the role philanthropy can play. Alliance Magazine, September 2012.

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Bloomerang

JUNE 28, 2023

What age group should you target? This age group often has more disposable income and is more inclined to include charitable giving in their financial plans. This inclusivity can foster a sense of shared philanthropy and strengthen the overall relationship with your nonprofit. Provide clear instructions.

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sgEngage

OCTOBER 24, 2023

One potent but underutilized tool at your disposal during this time is employee giving⁠ —a form of corporate philanthropy that directly engages a company’s staff. Plus, it can be as easy as leaving a collection box at a corporate office or store and facilitating pick-up after the drive has run its course.

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Bloomerang

AUGUST 21, 2023

Subsequent action steps are grouped according to your level of fundraising development: Getting Started, Advancement (somewhere further along), and Going from Good to Great. The report groups nonprofit fundraising dilemmas into external and internal factors. The post starts off with general guidance. Do you have a fundraising plan?

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Saleforce Nonprofit

APRIL 12, 2021

We are committed to actively advocating for clear and consistent science-based climate policies that facilitate a just and equitable global transition to a 1.5°C org’s Climate Justice Action map , which connects people with local groups and other activists. Liz oversees the Salesforce.org editorial strategy and blog. .

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

APRIL 1, 2020

Aisha Ahmad in the Chronicle of Philanthropy points out. Here’s a simple set of desk stretches that you can do alone or as a group. There are lots of useful resources created by nonprofits to help facilitate kindness and mutual aid. If you are feeling COVID-19 anxiety, you are not alone. It will be a marathon.

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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. Internalizing and externalizing an organization-wide culture of philanthropy. Mastering relevant content marketing. Mastering an analytic approach to strategy and planning.

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DNL OmniMedia

FEBRUARY 9, 2022

Aly Sterling Philanthropy – Capital Campaign Support. Bristol Strategy Group – Strategic Planning & Board Development. The Alford Group – Corporate Partnerships. Aly Sterling Philanthropy: Top Nonprofit Consulting Firm for Capital Campaign Support. Explore Aly Sterling Philanthropy. EXPLORE REALHR SOLUTIONS.

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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. Most often these new experiments have grown out of frustration with the fact that, despite several decades of rapid growth in philanthropy and nonprofits, many of the same social and environmental problems persist, or are getting worse. So what to do?

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Saleforce Nonprofit

OCTOBER 24, 2022

At our first in-person design sprint*, the group challenged each other to bust orthodoxies that hold us back from reducing hunger. Notably, the group debated the tension between short-term fixes and long-term systemic change. We have an opportunity in front of us to create psychological safety around this biological imperative.

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Get Fully Funded

JUNE 18, 2023

What Nonprofit Leadership Really Is By definition, a leader is someone in a position of authority with the responsibility to guide a group. They’re responsible for planning, organizing, and directing a group so that goals are reached in a timely fashion. Facilitator. The upside is that there is space for new leaders to emerge.

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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. In late 2011, Funder’s Guide to Networks will synthesize the knowledge and publish a print publication for the broader field of philanthropy.

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Achieve

MARCH 24, 2022

Community nonprofits, PTA fundraising groups, and thousands of other small fundraising teams struggle with the same issue: finding easy yet effective fundraisers to power their mission without breaking the bank. . are a type of corporate philanthropy—the programs that businesses undertake to support charitable causes.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

OCTOBER 11, 2009

Over the summer, Holly Minch , who is an expert at helping nonprofits and philanthropies unlock the potential of strategic communications for social change, suggested that I facilitate a workshop on social media strategy with a group of nonprofit and philanthropy communications folks. .

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Connection Cafe

SEPTEMBER 28, 2020

The goal of these activities is to help form strong relationships to help facilitate honest and impactful decisions in the board room. . When there is need, philanthropy steps up. According to the latest report by Candid and the Center for Disaster Philanthropy , i n the first half of 2020 more than $11.9

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MAY 8, 2016

For the past few years, I’ve been facilitating a peer learning group with a small cohort of grantees , all community foundations, hosting Giving Days in their communities using the Giving Day Playbook. Midland Gives, a member of the peer learning group, had a Plan B. What Happened on Give Local America Day?

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Saleforce Nonprofit

JULY 28, 2021

Each year, we speak with a group of customers who represent the diversity of region, size, and experience among our customers. Planning Ahead and Outlining Goals Facilitates Long-Term Success. We asked them many questions, and honed in on what it took for them to be successful. Customers offer four tips for doing just that.

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