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Trainer’s Notebook: Facilitating Brainstorming Sessions for Nonprofit Work

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

Does your work at a nonprofit include facilitating meetings or trainings? Looking for new techniques to add to your facilitator’s toolbox? The most critical thing that distinguishes brainstorming from other types of facilitated group activity is the absence negative feedback. Basic Approaches. Before the Session.

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Philanthropic Leadership: Engaging Board Members As Fundraising Ambassadors

Bloomerang

We are here to talk about philanthropic leadership. Just want to let you all know that we are recording this session, and we’ll be sending out the slides as well as the recording later on this afternoon. That’s awesome, really involved in their nonprofit leadership program, which is really cool. A lot of Cs, okay.

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8 Tips for Facilitating Nonprofit Hybrid Meetings

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

The hybrid workplace will have a huge impact on the way we design and facilitate meetings, the primary method of how many organizations get stuff done. Our new normal will most likely be more complex to design and facilitate. Here are some considerations for designing and facilitating pandemic-era hybrid meetings.

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Guest Post: Maintaining a connection with pandemic-inactive volunteers

Twenty Hats

The best way I thought to keep in touch was to facilitate weekly 45-minute video calls on Zoom. Staff participation was modeled by our Unit Director and leadership team, who participated in some of the early calls. The participation of senior leadership was important for gaining the buy-in of SA staff as speakers.

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Happy Healthy Nonprofit Workplaces: How To Kick the Sit Out It

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

Last week, I was honored to do the keynote workshop at the Peel Leadership Center’s TimeOut Conference in Toronto, Canada. They request a copy of the discussion guide or slides so they can create a visual lexicon of key concepts to use during the session. I learned this from ETR’s facilitator tips.

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Don’t Miss These 10 Nonprofit Conferences in 2023 & 2024

Neon CRM

Nonprofit conferences can feature a variety of topics, like fundraising, marketing, nonprofit tech, and leadership. TNPA Leadership Summit Date: September 19-23, 2023 Location: Washington, D.C. Attendance at the 2023 Leadership Summit is restricted to TNPA members and invited guests, and seating will be capped at 150 attendees.

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Can You Measure the Impact of Capacity Building for Nonprofits?

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

According to the survey of funders about capacity building completed by GrantCraft , the top five areas of capacity building that funders most likely support include: leadership, strategic planning, financial management, governance, and fundraising. They also facilitated discussion with others funders that invest in capacity building.

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