Candid

APRIL 8, 2024

In order to facilitate the integration, we formed employee-led workstream groups, one of which, the Change Management and Culture (CMC) group, was initially tasked with formulating Candid’s values: we’re driven, direct, accessible, curious, and inclusive.

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Candid

APRIL 22, 2024

I often refer to the post-World War II period, when civil and human rights movements came to the forefront, along with community-organized philanthropic organizations. It was a pivotal time when women began to exert more influence and demonstrate the different ways in which philanthropy could support the needs of all of humankind.

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Whole Whale

JANUARY 15, 2021

The following is a list of DEI companies and consultants that we either found or were referred to us by reputable sources and clients. We facilitate workshops and trainings, coach and develop teams and leaders, and consult and support systems-level change.”. Note that this is not exhaustive and we hope to continue to grow this list.

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Allegiance Group

APRIL 15, 2024

Donor acquisition refers to how many new donors your nonprofit can attract within a given timeframe. Keywords facilitate the connection between your website and a prospective donor. Paid Search Engine Marketing (SEM) Paid SEM refers to paid media efforts on search engines, usually Google and Bing. Prioritize SEO.

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Bloomerang

SEPTEMBER 12, 2023

Certain regions, often referred to as “media deserts,” have limited or no access to local news coverage. Collaborative reporting: Nonprofits can facilitate partnerships between different news organizations to pool resources, share content, and cover stories more effectively.

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sgEngage

MARCH 7, 2024

The Statement of Activities—commonly referred to as an SOA—is one of four essential financial statements for nonprofit organizations. Broadly grouped expenses or revenues can obscure the allocation of funds across different programs. It offers a comprehensive overview of revenue and expenses over a specific timeframe.

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sgEngage

OCTOBER 24, 2023

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. Program overview: Corporate volunteerism generally refers to groups of employees from a company volunteering their time and skills together to support a nonprofit cause.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

FEBRUARY 18, 2014

I’m co-facilitating a session on Nonprofit Training Design and Delivery with colleagues John Kenyon, Andrea Berry, and Cindy Leonard at the NTEN Nonprofit Technology Conference on Friday March 14th at 10:30 am! Here are some examples of the questions you can ask adult learners to write down and then discuss in small groups.

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Nonprofits Source

NOVEMBER 7, 2023

Esther Press’s list of best Bible studies for women notes that these studies can facilitate collaboration and group discussions, making it a great way for you to get to know other team members’ values and perspectives. For example, you can subtly make your beliefs known by adding a Bible verse reference to your email signature.

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VQ Strategies

NOVEMBER 22, 2022

The term “mattering” was coined in 1981 (by Rosenberg and McCullough ), and it refers to our perception of personal significance in the world. Some are angry about leaders who seem to ignore (or even facilitate) such issues as abuse of civil liberties. “Making a difference is a way to know you matter.”.

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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. After finishing the share pairs, we did a quick full group “popcorn” of the ideas that bubbled up. We were assigned to small groups to work a specific theme. The questions: What do you hope to learn today?

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

DECEMBER 7, 2015

Last week, we had a board retreat to dive into identifying core results as part of results-based accountability work , facilitated by an excellent outside consultant. One of the barriers to incorporating movement into meetings, particularly small group work is the worry “How will we take notes?”

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

NOVEMBER 5, 2005

One immediate use that came to mind is that if you had a distributed work group (based in US) that was working together, you could have people add photos and brief intro to the map. People could reference the page to visually see the group and get a reminder of time zones. Other ideas?

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fusionSpan

DECEMBER 8, 2021

Some of these include: Working with more clear and defined goals for each session groups go further faster. During the time between large group sessions, participants can fully flesh out their ideas on their own or with a few others, so each person’s perspectives will be part of the finished plan.

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Neon CRM

NOVEMBER 30, 2023

Nonprofit storytelling refers to narratives an organization shares (often called “impact stories”) as a way to illustrate its mission and connect with supporters on a personal, emotional level. Saviorism: This term is often referred to as the “savior complex” and is unfortunately common in philanthropy and volunteer work. " 13.

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Forum One

AUGUST 16, 2023

Setting your goals first allows you to anchor a reference point for success. To do this effectively, it’s important to have a good understanding of communication preferences as well as methods and levels of data comfort for different groups of stakeholders.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MARCH 4, 2020

It’s time to up your virtual facilitation and convening skills. Since those days, I have continued to hone my virtual facilitation skills to design and deliver effective virtual meetings and trainings. As nonprofits are impacted by the CoronaVirus and need more virtual meeting skills, I’d like to share what I have learned.

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Achieve

AUGUST 25, 2023

The high ROI of planned gifts and their accessibility to wider groups of donors has always made them a smart investment of your time and development resources. Gifts for the Future Also referred to as deferred planned gifts, this is the most popular category because it contains the easiest and most accessible forms of planned giving.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

AUGUST 22, 2017

and ease people into a group meeting or learning situation. It is important to build in time for an icebreaker whether it is a staff training, board retreat, or a workshop with people coming together for the first time. Icebreakers have these benefits: • create a positive group atmosphere. Also be aware of the group dynamics.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

APRIL 2, 2014

” She references a paper from 2001 why organizational memory is important from Dr. Jeff Conklin from the CogNexus Institute and describes organizational memory into two types: formal and informal knowledge. The former refers to things like manuals and documents, which he points out we tend to preserve very well.

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Allegiance Group

MAY 18, 2023

Keywords facilitate the connection between your website and a prospective donor. Search Engine Marketing (SEM) SEM refers to paid media efforts in search engines, usually Google and Bing. Allegiance Group works with podcast networks to serve ads on some of the most popular podcasts in production.

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Achieve

MARCH 10, 2021

This research includes the behaviors of 150,000 millennials and reflects on how this group has influenced philanthropy, and most pertinently, what they expect of the organizations they give to. . For anyone to facilitate online payments and receive funds, you need a merchant account. Refer to this. check out this guide. .

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MARCH 30, 2012

Group Photo with Certificates. It was also an opportunity for me to co-facilitate with in-country team, meet the NGOs and hear their stories first-hand, and learn a lot about modeling and adapting interactive training techniques for different cultures. 1. Facilitating Tri-Lingual Events: Not Lost in Translation.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

DECEMBER 1, 2010

We’ll also be referring folks to resources for more formal learning and peer connections, like NTEN , the Nonprofit Technology Network and host of the annual Nonprofit Technology Conference and Netsquared and TechSoup Global – and of course sharing resources from our colleagues in the nonprofit/social media field.

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Amy Sample Ward

NOVEMBER 15, 2010

Over the last few of years I’ve had a the opportunity to work with a team of intelligent and thoughtful colleagues, speak at conferences, and collaborate with other facilitators and community builders. During this time, I’ve help create community maps and strategic plans with my own team and with many other groups.

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Connection Cafe

DECEMBER 11, 2020

Leading a group of passionate volunteers, doing deeds that help the community around you, and making a meaningful difference to an important cause are what make the job of a volunteer management leader worth it. For instance, create a specific group for those who are skilled in coding and web design. Take your onboarding online.

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3rd Sector Labs

AUGUST 15, 2014

I refer to this report fairly often because the summary points are such good reminders to all of us in the nonprofit sector (I’m interpreting a bit to use nonprofit terminology): Focus on your best donors. Chris stressed the importance of testing fundraising messages in order to target specific groups of prospective donors.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

OCTOBER 2, 2013

They are also working on software that uses this approach in the classroom and takes the passivity and lectures out of classroom instruction. In the 60 minutes piece, it is referred to the flipped classroom or peer instruction a mindset that directs attention away from teachers and puts it squarely on the students and their learning.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MAY 2, 2011

At Zoetica, we facilitating a social media peer learning project called “ Leveraging Social Media: Becoming A Networked Nonprofit.&# Devon Smith, who writes the 24 Usable Hours blog, and a self-described “data nerd&# did a benchmarking analysis for participants. Arts and Social Media. View more presentations from Devon Smith.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

FEBRUARY 17, 2011

Next, “Fomentors&# or moderators were asked to pick a topic related to the theme and frame and facilitated a small group discussion and ask someone in the group to summarize and report back to the whole group. I was a fomentor for two sessions: Social Networks for Social Change and Peer Learning.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MARCH 23, 2011

I designed and facilitated one panel, I’ve Found My Free Agent, Now What? This year I not only facilitated a conversation in the room, but integrated visual facilitation techniques to spark insights and capture learnings. Also, the element of fun, more interaction, and opportunities for sharing in smaller groups.

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Qgiv

NOVEMBER 16, 2021

You may also have an additional group of passionate supporters who can help your P2P efforts succeed: your volunteers! Be sure to use their preferred name in your messages and reference their history of involvement to personalize your outreach. Contact these prospective volunteers individually to see if they’d like to get involved.

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NTEN

NOVEMBER 1, 2010

Over the last few of years I've had a the opportunity to work with a team of intelligent and thoughtful colleagues, speak at conferences, and collaborate with other facilitators and community builders. During this time, I've help create community maps and strategic plans with my own team and with many other groups. Content Map.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

NOVEMBER 7, 2015

I’m very honored to be giving the ending keynote and facilitating a design lab on self-care and avoiding burnout at the National Arts Marketing Project Conference. Because I started my career in the arts field and wanted to do some active listening to the audience before speaking, I came in for the whole conference.

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Achieve

AUGUST 20, 2021

They can come with insights and comments, rather than having to go over each document as a group and wasting everyone’s time brainstorming on the spot. Maintaining a good pace and energy requires proactive facilitation by the board chair. Use these previous topics as a frame of reference, and then you can adjust accordingly.

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AccelEvents

JULY 14, 2021

Many brands host their event on a virtual event hosting platform that facilitates chat rooms during sessions, pre-recorded sessions, private messaging, social rooms, networking rooms, and more. . Conference organizers need to be prepared with a virtual event format that works with their group. Marketing Materials.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

NOVEMBER 8, 2011

I’ve referred several Packard grantees who have used John Lovett’s social analytics framework to help them think through social media metrics. I sent a tweet to John asking if there was a blank copy and he sent me a blank one with permission to hack and share. Click for larger image. What will change?

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