Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

SEPTEMBER 6, 2023

You need to provide opportunities for their continuous learning on the job and mentoring. These skills include self-awareness, adaptiveness, active listening, coaching with powerful questions, observing signs of burnout, giving and receiving feedback, facilitating inclusive meetings, and engaging in difficult conversations.

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Greater Giving

AUGUST 21, 2023

To facilitate this process, your consultant will lead interviews with your stakeholders, including your board, to gather their unbiased feedback. Your strategic plan should include projects that will push forward your priorities, the board members that will help facilitate each task, key performance indicators and a timeline for completion.

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sgEngage

OCTOBER 17, 2022

This might include: On-boarding or training about grantmaking rules and regulations, and philanthropy in general. Support from a mentor, peer, or staff person. Grantmakers should address the potential for bias through training or direct conversations. Share what support participants will have to fulfill their role.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MAY 17, 2016

Advisers contribute their skills and expertise to provide training and mentoring to help amplify the work of anti-trafficking organizations in Cambodia. I am serving as the Master Trainer and facilitator for the event. Canva and Guy Kawaski generously sent me some t-shirts that I have gifted during my workshops.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MAY 8, 2018

Last month, I was honored to present and facilitate an all-day workshop for nonprofit leaders at the Oregon Nonprofit Leadership Conference on how to activate a culture of well being in the nonprofit workplace, based on my book, The Happy Healthy Nonprofit: Strategies for Impact without Burnout. Leadership training on communications styles.

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The MatrixFiles

FEBRUARY 12, 2024

Your AMS is the lifeblood of your operations, streamlining processes, managing member data, and facilitating communication. Start Them Off with a Good Introduction Schedule time to have a training session that includes real examples of tasks they will be performing in the system.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MARCH 17, 2017

Wake’s Tech2Empower program organizes delegations of volunteer Technology Advisors, women who work for Silicon Valley companies like Google, Salesforce, Mozilla, YouTube, GE Digital and IRC, to provide training for women’s rights and girls empowerment NGOs in developing countries and here in the United States.

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Bloomerang

MARCH 30, 2023

Volunteers provide nonprofits with the on-the-ground support they need to further their missions, whether that means helping to build homes, providing meals for food-insecure families, mentoring local youths, or cleaning up trash at local parks. Train volunteers. Train volunteers. Make the training accessible.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MARCH 22, 2013

All of my work these days is focused on designing and delivering effective training for nonprofits -primarily on the topics of social media, strategy, networks, and measurement. I’m also doing a lot of training of other trainers. I designed and facilitated a peer learning workshop at SXSW last week.

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Museum 2.0

OCTOBER 6, 2017

Become their friends and invite them to be your mentors. I started to see generous mentors everywhere. Then about six months ago, I stumbled into a professional training environment. The first training I went to was on Public Narrative, led by master facilitator Sarah El-Raheb. Learn from them. As Museum 2.0

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Qgiv

NOVEMBER 16, 2021

Providing them with the right tools and training will make them feel motivated and ready to start! You want your advocates to feel confident and encouraged, so be sure to answer any questions they have throughout the training process. Remember to provide the proper training and take the time and effort to make them feel ready.

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Eric Jacobsen Blog

FEBRUARY 4, 2018

Learning is a lifelong pursuit , and motivating senior team members to develop their skill sets is just as important as mentoring new and mid-career members of the team. Grubb : If your company is still struggling with how to manage the Millennial generation, it’s time to get serious about your management practices and training!

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Eric Jacobsen Blog

SEPTEMBER 21, 2017

Learning is a lifelong pursuit , and motivating senior team members to develop their skill sets is just as important as mentoring new and mid-career members of the team. Grubb : If your company is still struggling with how to manage the Millennial generation, it’s time to get serious about your management practices and training!

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Bloomerang

MAY 6, 2022

Their priorities range from facilitating book donation drives to supporting arts education to funding playground construction and family literacy programs. . Educational Assistance and Training Programs. Educational Assistance and Training Programs. The Lisa Libraries. First Book. Digitunity. Webb Family Foundation. The Bruce J.

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Eric Jacobsen Blog

APRIL 30, 2017

Learning is a lifelong pursuit , and motivating senior team members to develop their skill sets is just as important as mentoring new and mid-career members of the team. Grubb : If your company is still struggling with how to manage the Millennial generation, it’s time to get serious about your management practices and training!

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Connection Cafe

DECEMBER 11, 2020

With the popularity of online experiences and the abundance of software to help facilitate them, this article can even help you recruit volunteers in a post-COVID-19 world. Take your training online. Traditional volunteer training usually happens in person. Take your onboarding online. Keep your volunteers engaged.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MARCH 16, 2015

What I absolutely love, is that the book has a companion web site with worksheets and checklists from every chapter. As someone who designs and facilitates professional development projects for nonprofits, this is a trainer’s dream! Trained mentors who can support on the job learning. Agreed upon plan. Evaluation.

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ASU Lodestar Center

MARCH 3, 2020

Whether it be packing food boxes, mentoring youth, or assisting with general office work, volunteers contribute valuable time and energy to help organizations succeed. Initial training and oversight should be provided to develop their capabilities, but the return on investment will be beneficial once volunteers can lead projects autonomously.

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Connection Cafe

APRIL 28, 2020

sign up) to ask for donations (see our “No Money, More Problems” webinar for how), or host fundraising-specific events like multi-day virtual galas with different speakers, trainings on best virtual fundraising practices and webinars with donor special guests. Shortage of healthy, trained medical staff. Urgent issues. Urgent issues.

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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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Nonprofits Source

OCTOBER 6, 2023

Recruiting and onboarding new employees is far more costly than retaining existing trained employees. Before we go over how to implement new strategies to engage employees, let’s discuss the challenges many businesses and nonprofits face when it comes to employee engagement, such as: Insufficient training. Increased retention.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JANUARY 18, 2011

I’m the lead for Zoetica for this project where my role is to deliver training, advise on the curriculum and coaching methods, model transparency, and serve as a sort of meta network weaver. Deliver targeted, cutting-edge social media training and coaching to 150 – 250 NGOs and CSOs in 15+ communities.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

SEPTEMBER 16, 2015

For the past few months, I’ve been facilitating a Nonprofit Emerging Leaders online peer learning project with Third Plateau Impact Strategies. We created The Emerging Leaders Playbook which served as the “text book” or content for the training. Intentional Silence: Leaving space for quiet, an essential facilitation skill.

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ASU Lodestar Center

FEBRUARY 27, 2017

This problem is compounded by nonprofits’ lack of investment in manager training, leaving nonprofit organizations unprepared for the inevitable succession of leadership (Koenig, 2016). Although many nonprofits lack the resources needed to create comprehensive in-house leadership programs, training can be woven into daily work (Koenig, 2016).

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JULY 29, 2013

Dan was the sole anonymous donor for the program, which brushed off my indignity and furnished me with a new laptop, a mentor, and monthly checks for books, food and travel. Dan believed that “just a little financial help and encouragement” could facilitate our ability to do extraordinary things with our lives. I think he’d be proud.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

APRIL 30, 2015

” I facilitated an interactive featured session on why and how leaders should be engaged on social as well as other insiders (employees, board, and volunteers). Design and Plan Training: To build an effective training, you need to do some assessment of the current skills, knowledge, and comfort level of employees.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JULY 28, 2011

As part of my work this year as Visiting Scholar at the David and Lucile Packard Foundation, I’m designing and delivering peer training sessions for grantees all around the theme of social media, learning, and measurement. Spectragram is a facilitation technique I learned from Allen Gunner at Aspiration. Spectragram.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

FEBRUARY 17, 2012

Note from Beth: This past year has been a deep exploration into how nonprofits can use measurement and reflection to improve their practices as a networked nonprofit and using social media. As part of my work at the Packard Foundation, I designed and facilitated several peer learning groups and exchanges.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MARCH 30, 2010

As part of my work as Visiting Scholar at the David and Lucile Packard Foundation this year, I have been leading some peer trainings with grantees. Last week, we launched the first session of the " Social Media Lab ," a social media peer group training with a small group of grantees from the Children, Families, Communities Program.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MARCH 27, 2017

Note from Beth: Last year I was honored to partner with Kari Dunn Saratovksy from Third Plateau to facilitate an emerging leadership program to a cohort of leaders who were part of the Packard Foundation’s Science and Conservation portfolio of grantees.

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ASU Lodestar Center

JULY 26, 2011

I often found myself asking, "What do you mean I have to create a volunteer program, or put together an advocacy training, or plan a Halloween carnival? Michael Soto traveled to every corner of Arizona to facilitate a comprehensive arts education program he designed. I hope that you'll join us.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

NOVEMBER 18, 2014

Last week, I facilitated a mini-innovation lab on measuring impact for grantees of the Google Nonprofit program at the Impact Hub. They are teaching digital measurement best practices by connecting great causes with experienced mentors and motivated students.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

NOVEMBER 29, 2012

They are teaching digital measurement best practices by connecting great causes with experienced mentors and motivated students. Get Training : NTEN is offering regular webinars on the topic of how nonprofits can effectively use data. The team works on a practical project that take less than four weeks to complete.

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NonProfit Hub

NOVEMBER 22, 2016

And hundreds of top mentors contributed to what’s rattling around in his head. Beth has over 35 years working in the nonprofit sector in capacity building and has facilitated trainings for nonprofits on every continent in the world (except Antarctica). She is an in-demand keynote speaker and workshop facilitator.

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Connection Cafe

JULY 23, 2013

Set the expectation with stakeholders that undocumented requirements won’t be considered to facilitate a thorough analysis of the actual business process and outcomes to be supported. Training on Solution Developer Kit (SDK) and Application Programming Interface (API)? Or even if they are.). Consider Rolling Your Own.

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Nonprofits Source

DECEMBER 15, 2023

Here are a few tools you can leverage to facilitate the process: Customer relationship management (CRM) systems: CRM platforms , such as Salesforce, make it possible to gather and manage all of your association’s data effectively. With this information, you can tailor communications and engagement opportunities to your members’ interests.

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Tech Soup

SEPTEMBER 13, 2017

TechSoup's staff also uses it to facilitate philanthropic support to tens of thousands of nonprofits, from the Girl Scouts of Eastern Oklahoma to the Tax Busters in Serbia. Orienting new users is a breeze, because Zoom's training videos are short and to the point. We Shopped Around, and Zoom Is a Great Solution.

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