Bloomerang

MAY 31, 2022

You likely understand the general benefits of planning, but why is creating a fundraising plan so important for your nonprofit? Although every nonprofit is unique, there are several factors that every fundraising strategy should include to be successful. With that, let’s get started. Why you should create a fundraising strategy.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JULY 29, 2013

ImpactRising.org helps to make standards of practice explicit, so that social sector organizations like nonprofits, NGOs and foundations don’t have to reinvent the wheel. Broke and living in community housing, I came home one evening to find my room burgled, my laptop and cash savings gone.

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Greater Giving

FEBRUARY 22, 2022

The nonprofit fundraising calendar tends to go through phases of ups and downs. However, with the rise of online fundraising technology and virtual events, nonprofits are moving away from the traditional strategy of hosting just one larger event each year. Intuitive user experience. A conversion-optimized donation page.

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Qgiv

NOVEMBER 17, 2022

Navigating the world of nonprofit tools can be tough. This guide is here to help you learn more about nonprofit fundraising platforms, what’s available to your organization, and when you should consider using each. Nonprofit Tools. What are the most important nonprofit tools? Nonprofit Fundraising Tools.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

FEBRUARY 8, 2018

Classroom style with desks puts a barrier between the students and the instruction, especially when people are using laptops or tablets to take notes. I always create a lesson plan, a more detailed agenda, that includes topics, bullet points, timings, processes, and materials, even if I am the only one facilitating the class.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

AUGUST 16, 2017

Earlier this week, I was honored to do a webinar for Soapbox Engage about self-care and bringing a culture of wellbeing into the nonprofit workplace based on The Happy Healthy Nonprofit: Strategies for Impact without Burnout. Wondering how to organize and facilitate a meeting where everyone is on their feet instead of their devices?

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

SEPTEMBER 2, 2015

That’s why we included a module in the Emerging Nonprofit Leaders peer learning group on meeting design and facilitation – and these days it is an important leadership skill. Andrea Kihlstedt and I gave a webinar for Guidestar on healthy and productive nonprofit meetings. Our tips are here.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JANUARY 19, 2017

Yesterday, I spent a day facilitating leadership workshops for arts leaders attending the Art House Convergence Conference near Park City, Utah. on personal and organizational resilience based on the ideas in my new book, The Happy Healthy Nonprofit. If you are trying to do an interactive lecture, it stops group interaction.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

OCTOBER 12, 2015

Last week, I facilitated a peer learning session for Emerging Nonprofit Leaders and their mentors about healthy and productive meetings. We covered the best practices of meetings , both face-to-face and virtual meetings. That means everyone – the facilitator, note taker, and even the senior manager.

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Tech Soup

DECEMBER 3, 2014

ABCS, with offices across the state and operations in Mexico, offers counseling and pregnancy services, classes on budgeting and personal finance, and foster care services, and also works with the state of Arizona to facilitate adoptions, among other things. A parenting class offered by ABCS, by Debbie Gillmore.

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Tech Soup

SEPTEMBER 14, 2011

Last week, I had the pleasure of facilitating the webinar Endpoint-Level Security at Your Library or Nonprofit. " Andy defined an endpoint in the following way: An endpoint is a desktop or laptop computer. So when we say endpoint we're really talking about desktops, servers, and laptops.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

SEPTEMBER 3, 2015

I’m facilitating a peer learning leadership development group for Emerging Nonprofit Leaders supported by the Packard Foundation. It includes design and facilitation – and these days those are important leadership skills. There is lots of advice out there about how to design and facilitate meetings.

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Tech Soup

MAY 12, 2014

A clever and inexpensive "nonprofit in a box" enables them to do that. ” Their simple nonprofit in a box is a perfect example of how using basic practical tools can help nonprofits better serve their communities. ” The Nonprofit in a Box Solution. It contains three things: A laptop computer.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MAY 7, 2013

I was invited to present a key note at the Mekong ICT Camp in Thailand about nonprofits, social media, and measurement. This method was used because the facilitator needed to speak into the mic so I could hear the questions. kanter we have wifi connection interuption here. Henry Khu (@HenryKhu) May 7, 2013.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JANUARY 23, 2014

Join me for a FREE Webinar: Training Tips that Work for Nonprofits on Jan.29th I’ll be sharing my best tips and secrets for designing and delivering training for nonprofit professionals that get results. Have you facilitated a training in a flexible space? 29th at 1:00 PM EST/10:00 AM PST.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MAY 1, 2014

As Louis Sullivan, HHS Secretary in 1989-93 and famous for walking meetings, notes in an HBR blog post ” For me, walking has proved to be a great way to promote a healthy lifestyle, while facilitating my communications skills and leadership efforts. Even in the nonprofit sector. Walking meetings? Standing desks?

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Tech Soup

MARCH 27, 2009

This post was written by TechSoup's Lead Technology Analyst, Kevin Lo and originally posted on Managing Technology to Meet Your Mission , a strategic wiki for nonprofit leaders. Their sub-$400 prices don't hurt the nonprofit as much as a normal laptop. Kevin Lo and Willow Cook from TechSoup contributed a chapter.

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Bloomerang

AUGUST 29, 2023

Online fundraising is increasingly essential for nonprofits, but these types of initiatives come with unique challenges. To effectively ramp up fundraising, your nonprofit needs the right online fundraising platform for your needs. What are online fundraising platforms? Give donors an easy way to show their support.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JUNE 25, 2012

This was the launch of a peer learning group called “ The Networked NGO ,” based on the ideas in my book, The Networked Nonprofit. The four-day intensive face-to-face training was for senior level staff and their social media staffers. This is something that nonprofit professionals are just beginning to explore. Monica Wahengbam.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

OCTOBER 7, 2010

For the audio, we use a phone line that was fed into the AV system and wireless mic. We had planned our presentation to include content delivery and facilitated discussion – and it worked. The other challenge is the lack of feedback from the audience.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JUNE 18, 2014

I’m facilitating and presenting on a panel session at the Opera America National Conference taking place in San Francisco this week with Guillaume DeCugis, CEO of Scoop.It and Sean Waugh, San Francisco Opera. We will, of course, share the tools in the context of best practices.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MAY 24, 2013

Two weeks ago, I was lucky enough to be in New Zealand, leading a workshop on social media and I facilitated a module on mindful social media. It seemed very inappropriate given that my host, Stephen Blyth , collaborated with Peter Sykes, CEO & Founder at Mangere East Family Service Centre and we held the workshop on a Marae.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MARCH 1, 2011

&# The workshop was based on the concepts in The Networked Nonprofit , including listening, transparency, simplicity, social culture, and working with free agents. The specific learning objectives: To understand the principles of “being” a Networked Nonprofit. They’ve simplified and focused on what they do best.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JANUARY 5, 2012

It is a great opportunity to ponder the question: How to design and deliver learning experiences for nonprofits that connect, inspire, and engage? What are the best practices? The instructor’s role should be to facilitate this understanding for their students, not dump content on them. Content Delivery Is Not Learning.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

FEBRUARY 19, 2015

Andrea gave an awesome presentation with some great frameworks and tips on planning and facilitating productive meetings to avoid death by meeting. She started off with some statistics that the average professional attends 13.7 We all have lived through that awful conference call or equally horrendous in person meeting.

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Neon CRM

JANUARY 23, 2024

Major gifts are generally the largest donations a nonprofit receives. The average nonprofit considers a gift of $5,000 or more a “major gift,” but that’s not a hard and fast rule. They’re substantial funding for a nonprofit. Next, you should look at past giving patterns—both to your organization and to other nonprofits as well.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

APRIL 27, 2012

Last week, I had the pleasure of working with a group of Population and Reproductive Health grantees from Pakistan on a peer learning group called “ The Networked NGO ,” based on the ideas in my book, The Networked Nonprofit. The four-day intensive face-to-face training was for senior level staff and their social media staffers.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MARCH 2, 2011

Day 3 of the Train the Trainers session was devoted to Digital Activism and facilitated by Mary Joyce. The learning objectives: To provide participants with a formula for training digital campaign strategy. 4) Mary had a “laptops down&# rule and only allowed participants to be online during breaks. It boils down to audience.

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Connection Cafe

OCTOBER 4, 2013

How about a laptop or desktop screen? 7) Facilitate Sharing. Content Marketing #bbcon Content marketing infographic nonprofit infographic' Before you get into creation mode, you need to decide which platforms you want it to work on. Do you want people to easily access it on their iPhone? Should it work well on a tablet?

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JUNE 8, 2010

Join me on June 21st from 1-2 PM PST for the virtual launch of The Networked Nonprofit. Last week, I was in NYC to deliver a keynote with Allison Fine about our book, The Networked Nonprofit. An Impressive Week-Long Learning and Networking Event for Nonprofits. View more presentations from Beth Kanter.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MARCH 19, 2012

During the next two days, I will be facilitating a two-day social media bootcamp for NGOs from Jordan and Lebanon that have been through the program in their respective countries. He founded Shabakat Al Ordon , the first networked nonprofit that I discovered in the Middle East and that provides youth ICT training 300 communities in Jordan.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JULY 23, 2009

My laptop was logged onto a webinar session and there a phone line in the room - so remote participants to see and hear the presentation. What was cool was that one of the remote twitter users live tweeted the session, including my response to one of the skeptics. Perhaps not the right word. thanks from someone who couldn't be there!

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JANUARY 9, 2007

If you look at the photo closely, you'll notice that Alex replicated her Mac sticker cover for her laptop. I attended a lecture on the use of technology in the legal classroom last month in Second Life, facilitated by Rebecca Nesson. Over fifty avatars attended. I'm embargoed from saying much more, but pretty soon. I learned a lot.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

APRIL 24, 2007

I would bring the laptop and plug into the phone line and do demos in small groups. And I had to tape flip chart paper over the windows so it would get dark enough to project the laptop to show the presentation. First, my preferred method of instruction is to be more interactive and facilitate discussion. This was circa 1997.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

NOVEMBER 15, 2005

The nonprofit technology social calendar was packed full this evening with events happening all over Harvard Square, from the Symposium on Social Architecture co-sponsored by Corante and the Berkman Center to the 501 C3Tech Club gathering to a Blogher Meetup ! Probably not quite as good as being there.

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Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

JUNE 24, 2008

Home About Me Subscribe Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology Thoughtful and sometimes snarky perspectives on nonprofit technology Linux desktops? At some point, when I’ve saved up enough pennies, I’m going to buy a Mac laptop again. And, guess what? I’m giving up. And, of course, always, for developers.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

AUGUST 25, 2006

I often see many people taking notes at conference, either with pen in a moleskin or typing into a laptop. Britt Bravo recently attended Craigslist Foundation Nonprofit Boot Camp and pointed us to the Boot Camp Wiki. Take for example these two nonprofit oriented conferences: Games for Change and Nonprofit Technology Conference.

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