The MatrixFiles

FEBRUARY 23, 2024

From Tara: How declining trust is affecting the media Declining trust is something that isn’t new within the journalism landscape; we’ve been dealing with it for decades. Unfortunately, it continues to rise, spreading from national news down to the local level at an alarming rate.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JANUARY 3, 2019

1) Review the Year: For as long as I can remember, I have kept an annual professional journal, using a variation of bullet journal technique. At end of the year, I read through the journal and think about accomplishments:What gave me a sense of purpose and feeling of personal and professional fulfillment?

Professional 114

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

AUGUST 14, 2015

I’ve had the honor of facilitating an online peer learning exchange of Knight Grantees that are hosting Giving Days, applying and iterating on the Giving Day Playbook since 2013. Yesterday, I facilitated the first webinar in a series hosted by the Knight Foundation on taking the practice of Giving Days to the next level.

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Candid

JANUARY 10, 2024

It’s about reimagining systems, facilitating change, and co-creating a better future. By contrast, positive emotions and experiences broaden our perspectives and build up our mental resources, facilitating increased innovation, social connection, and solutions. However, our task as a sector is about more than survival.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JANUARY 4, 2017

My rituals include: 1) Review the Year: For as long as I can remember, I have kept an annual professional journal, using a variation of bullet journal technique. In early January, I read through the year’s journal and think about accomplishments:What gave me a sense of purpose and feeling of professional fulfillment?

Professional 103

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Candid

MARCH 12, 2024

This year we released the action planner and an issue of PEAK Grantmaking Journal dedicated to our Learn, Share, Evolve Principle , which focuses on how sharing knowledge across the sector empowers funders to better see the possibilities of what we can collectively accomplish to achieve greater impact.

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Learning Journal Practice Reflection 52

Candid

MARCH 7, 2024

Technology facilitates our ability to work from home. Taking a few minutes to meditate or journal at the beginning or end of the workday can also help shift your attention from one area of life to the next. But when you’re working from home, it’s too easy to simply keep working. It also exacerbates this issue.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JANUARY 5, 2018

1) Review the Year: For as long as I can remember, I have kept an annual professional journal, using a variation of bullet journal technique. In early January, I read through the journal and think about accomplishments:What gave me a sense of purpose and feeling of personal and professional fulfillment? Year in Review.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JUNE 22, 2017

1: Make Time Everyday for Reflection: Keep a Journal. The first step is self-awareness and that happens through tracking and observing yourself in work situations that trigger stress. One way to do this is to build in some reflection time into your day and maintain a journal. There are also many other benefits to writing a journal.

Professional 113

Professional Management Journal Reflection 113

Cloud 4 Good

AUGUST 25, 2022

No longer just inherent to explicitly tech-based conglomerates, tech fuels everything from banks and financial services to food-delivery services and traditional retail as it facilitates the rapid migration online to meet the needs of a world spending more time at home than ever before.

Roles 59

Roles Companies Technology Journal 59

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

AUGUST 1, 2017

It creates a safe space to share learning in a way that isn’t about pointing fingers or blaming (if facilitated in the right way). But, without this important step, we are doomed to repeating the same mistakes, over and over again. But how to create a routine around reflection for yourself and at your nonprofit?

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Reflection Structure Journal Nonprofit 94

TechImpact

SEPTEMBER 13, 2013

Image courtesy of The Journal. While each organization varies in size, locales, and causes, technology can help facilitate workflow. A connected nonprofit is a successful nonprofit when it comes to collaborating and working in teams.

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Collaboration Tech Calendar Laptop 137

Whole Whale

JANUARY 15, 2021

We facilitate workshops and trainings, coach and develop teams and leaders, and consult and support systems-level change.”. We are not just facilitators or consultants–we are co-conspirators in your organization’s transformation.”. true north EDI. Website : [link]. She + Geeks Out. Small Companies. Website : [link].

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

NOVEMBER 6, 2013

I’m facilitating a peer exchange for the Knight Foundation for a group of grantees that are hosting a Giving Days over the next year using its recently published Giving Day Playbook. All of these work well with small groups and inside of organizations. In other words, how to scale reflective practice in age of connectedness?

Reflection 119

Reflection Practice Results Storytelling 119

ASU Lodestar Center

DECEMBER 1, 2020

Create an office library and update it regularly using materials from books, newspaper articles, and academic journals. Partner with corporations, nonprofits, and government entities to facilitate external job swaps. Leaders must decentralize decision-making and play a facilitative role within their organizations.

Strategy 52

Strategy Organization Social Culture 52

NTEN

NOVEMBER 20, 2014

In 2009, Clay Shirkey predicted , “For the next few decades, journalism will be made up of overlapping special cases.” The session was facilitated by Susan Feeney, Partner at GMMB , and explored the range of new media models and venture journalism experiments. “As According to the 2013 Foundation Center report , U.S.

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Media Seattle Journal Bangladesh 100

ASU Lodestar Center

JUNE 29, 2021

Working with a professional will help facilitate discussions, allow everyone to participate in the dialogue, and shape a process to create a plan of action. Remember, working with a consultant or a facilitator will require resources, which may be limited. Walker shares this example in an article in The Journal of Infectious Diseases.

Arizona 52

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

APRIL 1, 2020

I had to reclaim my morning routine of doing quiet activities that include stuff journaling, reading, or writing. There are lots of useful resources created by nonprofits to help facilitate kindness and mutual aid. I have also use that time to set my intention for the day. Caring for others or just checking in can help reduce stress.

Tips 168

Tips Exercise Nonprofit News 168

Socialbrite

MARCH 8, 2020

The fundraising software facilitates tracking your donors, accepting online donations, creating social campaigns around your fundraising activities and more. Truthout portrays itself as a form of journalism seeking justice. The organization relies on its audiences and contributions from foundations that are committed to its work.

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El Salvador Fundraising India Austin 98

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

APRIL 12, 2013

The Unantipcated Benefits of Content Curation – article in NTEN Journal and other resources. Social media and working online doesn’t have to be overwhelming; you can take back control. Additional Resources. NetSmart: How To Thrive Online. How To Focus in an Age of Distraction. Visualization Techniques. Balance in Hyperconnected World.

Mind 100

Mind Social Media Wikispaces Media 100

NTEN

SEPTEMBER 27, 2011

Read the complete issue of NTEN's new quarterly journal for nonprofit leaders by subscribing to the journal for free! ]. This would seem to be a no-brainer for encouraging engagement, but there are nuances for what kinds of questions will facilitate the best conversation. By Beth Kanter, Beth's Blog.

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Facebook Technology Journal Tips 98

NTEN

MARCH 19, 2013

Last year, for her work on NTEN's Change journal, she received the 2012 Publishing Trendsetter Award. Basically, Annaliese brings a whole lot of awesome to the game.

NTC 86

NTC NTEN Chapter Journal 86

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! Too often, our participant surveys only focus on the first level. Formative Evaluation.

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Evaluation Training Train Tips 128

Amy Sample Ward

AUGUST 11, 2010

– "The goal of the Global Digital Activism Data Set (GDADS) project is to turn qualitative case studies of digital activism around the world into a non-proprietary quantitative machine-readable data set in spreadsheet form that will facilitate the work of scholars in this new field."

Web 114

Web Bookmarking Case Study Map 114

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JUNE 20, 2017

Last week I facilitated a workshop on the Happy Healthy Nonprofit: Linking Nonprofit High Performance to Wellbeing in Santa Cruz hosted by the Community Foundation of Santa Cruz County. Keep a new ideas journal and don’t feel like a failure if you don’t implement everything. Accept you won’t get everything done.

Nonprofit 123

Nonprofit Culture Reflection Poll 123

NTEN

SEPTEMBER 19, 2014

From a Tech Club organizer, to NTEN Lab facilitator, to NTC speaker, to Editorial Committee member, he has demonstrated his commitment for nearly a decade. After doing that for a number of years, I got the opportunity to be one of the initial members of the Editorial Committee for the NTEN: Change Journal.

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NTEN Director Education Lesson 95

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

AUGUST 20, 2015

For the past few months, I’ve been designing curriculum and materials and facilitating a Nonprofit Emerging Leaders online peer learning project with Third Plateau Impact Strategies. It’s a pilot project supported by the Packard Foundation that tests different approaches to emerging leaders professional development.

Skills 50

Skills Build Journal Leadership 50

Amy Sample Ward

DECEMBER 22, 2011

Read the complete article, "From Outcomes to Impact," by subscribing to the journal for free! ]. Consider using an outside facilitator to help develop questions and protocol and to help identify themes from your data. [Note: The following is an excerpt of an article in the December 2011 issue of NTEN:Change.

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Measure Issue Impact Method 143

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.

Mind 50

Mind Work Exercise Nashville 50

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JANUARY 4, 2016

One annual ritual is to create “To Do/Not To Do/Reflection” notebook where I use modified bullet journaling to track my progress. I also designed and facilitated a six month peer learning cohort with colleague Stephanie Rudat. Facilitation, Curriculum Development and Train the Trainers.

Iowa 50

Iowa Facilitation Teach San Antonio 50

sgEngage

OCTOBER 9, 2023

Jara Dean-Coffey, founder and director of the Equitable Evaluation Initiative, in the American Journal of Evaluation Shifting towards Grantee Perspective Many grantmakers, and perhaps particularly participatory grantmakers, have embraced learning and reflection approaches. Compensate them for their contributions generously.

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Participatory Evaluation Empowerment Grant 85

sgEngage

JULY 20, 2021

Our objective is to create a company that includes the kind of robust diversity that facilitates the best productivity, problem solving, and innovation coming from people bringing a variety of perspectives to bear on our challenges and opportunities.

Government 96

Government Social Blackbaud Companies 96

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MAY 4, 2015

I also was honored to facilitate a reflection exercise as part of the closing plenary session with data for good rock stars Bob Filbin, Jeffrey Blandt, and Jake Porway. I filled my journal with pages of notes, to dos, and inspiration for year long professional learning for myself.

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Conference Data Exercise Reflection 50

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JANUARY 3, 2012

I want to sustain that focus throughout the year and apply to what I do — from content curation to blogging to facilitating trainings and developing curriculum. Be more of a focusing lens versus a fire hydrant. I will be designing and facilitating capacity building programs in the Middle East, Africa, and India.

Reflection 102

Reflection Technique Journal Teach 102

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MARCH 16, 2012

Lehrer’s piece on the Wall Street Journal is here. One-plussing” can facilitate the process of taking a good idea and improving upon it. Note from Beth: I’m hosting a small army of guest bloggers, grantmakers, who are attending the GeoFunders National Conference taking place this week in Seattle.

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Seattle Journal Children National 112

NTEN

AUGUST 15, 2012

[Editor's note: The following is an excerpt from a feature article in the June 2012 issue of NTEN:Change , NTEN's quarterly journal for nonprofit leaders. Read the rest of article, and the complete issue on "Content Curation" when you subscribe to the journal for free! ]. By Beth Kanter, Beth's Blog.

Content 62

Content Exercise Technique Journal 62

Tech Soup

DECEMBER 20, 2010

In my first blog , I mentioned that the very first step in configuring QuickBooks is to have a QuickBooks implementation meeting, and I recommended using a questionnaire to facilitate the meeting and act as a centerpiece. My second blog dealt with setting up the chart of accounts in a nonprofit environment. By flagging a transaction (i.e.,

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