.orgSource

MAY 15, 2023

They will reward you by crafting messages that move the hearts and minds of your most important audiences and reinforce brand identity. During the early stages of this relationship, teams may require assistance from a skilled facilitator to develop trust and discover a common language. They can alert membership to emerging issues.

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.orgSource

MARCH 6, 2023

Trust isn’t a challenge that is currently top of mind for association leaders. The World Café Format To maximize the brain power of our.orgCommunity professionals and to allow for a robust exchange of ideas, Sharon facilitated this conversation in a World Café format. The problem might be something you’ve never considered.

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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.

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Bloomerang

FEBRUARY 21, 2023

Let’s Define Your Community Since your mission is to facilitate philanthropy in order to move your mission forward, let’s talk about your philanthropic community – the donors, volunteers, advocates and ambassadors who fuel your work, making your impact the greatest it can be. But it won’t happen unless you facilitate it.

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The MatrixFiles

FEBRUARY 23, 2024

When a keynote speaker at an event leans one way politically, associations are more mindful of having another speaker who leans in the other direction. Organizations are having to remind members that discourse should always be civil and open-minded. Many execs say you always need to circle back to your mission.

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Bloomerang

FEBRUARY 23, 2024

This enables organizations to maintain an integrated view of their interactions with each individual, facilitating personalized outreach efforts. This is where Bloomerang steps in—a nonprofit CRM solution designed with nonprofit organizations in mind.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

AUGUST 17, 2021

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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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MARCH 15, 2011

Over the past month, I have been thinking about a couple of different ideas and how to incorporate them into training design to facilitate learning. My questions are: 1. How can we use graphic facilitation or graphic note taking in real time to deepen understanding of the topic being discussed? I feel it stifles learning.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MARCH 24, 2020

Meico Whitlock (Mindful Techie) leads the NTEN Board in a meditation meeting opener. This post is #2 in a series I’ll be publishing on virtual meeting facilitation. The first post was an overview of 9 virtual facilitation tips. As the facilitator you can model it with brevity – it should be no more than 30 seconds.

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AccelEvents

JULY 22, 2021

We now provide you with our new breakout room feature within Workshops to facilitate concentrated conversations. We love putting like-minded individuals together in a brainstorming space! Facilitating this relationship-building creates memories by slowing everyone down to be present in the moment. .

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

OCTOBER 7, 2019

We will be doing early morning sessions to engage participants in some mindful moment and movement exercises. I’m going to share different techniques for weaving mindful moment and exercises into your workday. Above all, silence facilitates clear and creative thinking and quiets negative thoughts.

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.orgSource

AUGUST 21, 2023

Strategists are visionaries, facilitators, and problem-solvers who inspire curiosity. Make them think you’re reading their minds. .” Engage Broadly To promote that collective focus, engage employees across the organization. Make them responsible for understanding technology trends.

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Media Cause

OCTOBER 14, 2023

But, more specifically, project managers juggle various responsibilities and wear a multitude of hats—organizer, leader, motivator, facilitator, liaison, and driver—to ensure success. Their ability to pivot while keeping the project’s goal top-of-mind is crucial, and they are skilled at doing so.

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Classy

MAY 26, 2021

As hosts of the Collaborative , an annual immersive experience designed exclusively for nonprofits, we’re no strangers to facilitating meaningful connections. When you identify someone you’d like to connect with, use LinkedIn or the event’s designated platform (or both) to facilitate the conversation. Leave Room for Serendipity .

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Candid

MARCH 7, 2024

Technology facilitates our ability to work from home. Psychological detachment ” is the technical term for being able to put work out of your mind when you’re not working. But when you’re working from home, it’s too easy to simply keep working. It also exacerbates this issue. Mentally put your work down.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

OCTOBER 8, 2019

In my work as a trainer and facilitator, I make workshops and master classes as interactive as possible, incorporating peer discussion, movement, and creativity. But it isn’t impossible, if you follow best practices for virtual facilitation for meetings. The next step is to facilitate a discussion.

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Greater Giving

AUGUST 21, 2023

By keeping your mission on the top of their minds, you can utilize board members’ skills, enthusiasm and influence to improve your nonprofit as a whole. To facilitate this process, your consultant will lead interviews with your stakeholders, including your board, to gather their unbiased feedback. Let’s begin.

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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. It requires us to be willing to learn with an open mind and a receptive heart.

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sgEngage

OCTOBER 17, 2022

Always be mindful of the burden you’re placing on applicants. You or the facilitators can ask participants to identify biases and point out any discrepancies or gaps that emerge as the group moves towards decision making. Be prepared to facilitate or bring on facilitators to lead these high-stakes group meetings.

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Pamela Grow

OCTOBER 16, 2023

Easy Unsubscription Process: To enhance user control, Gmail now mandates that large senders facilitate easy unsubscription for recipients. While this is a positive step, nonprofits should be mindful of their email engagement rates to avoid triggering spam alerts.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MARCH 12, 2018

Last month I was lucky enough to run into Maia Duerr who participated in Wake’s Tech2EmpowerUSA at a workshop I was facilitating on the Happy Healthy Nonprofit. ” Given our mutual interests, we had a lot to share about mindfulness and well being. The book focuses on six principles: Become intimate with your core intention.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

DECEMBER 31, 2013

International Training Work: Most of my work is designing and delivering capacity building projects for nonprofits literally all over the world. This past year I had the honor of facilitating an intense training in Tunisia in January for Women Entrepreneurs that included leadership, entrepreneurship, business planning, and communications.

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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.

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Saleforce Nonprofit

FEBRUARY 24, 2022

Are there connections we can facilitate? “I have enjoyed being with like-minded leaders on a consistent basis. Sterrin does a great job organizing speakers and facilitating discussion.” And things are still changing, day by day and moment by moment. I watched it happen and I wondered: How can we at Salesforce help?

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Blue Fox

OCTOBER 1, 2021

So often, nonprofit fundraising efforts are facilitated and driven by staff members. Is your staff prepared to make the asks, attend the events, mail the collateral and try some Facebook fundraising ads? What about your board members… are they fired up for fundraising season? What’s wrong with that?

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JANUARY 4, 2017

When you have worked in a field a long time (for me it has been over 3 decades), you have to keep an open mind about remembering and reflecting on what you have heard before — looking at as if it was new. The themes are less about exploring something new, but to commit to continuous learning and improvement.

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Professional Facilitation Journal San Jose 103

ASU Lodestar Center

NOVEMBER 19, 2020

Collective Impact is a methodology designed to facilitate cross-sector collaborations in order to move the needle on important issues. Coordinate efforts through a backbone support organization: Facilitate, convene, coordinate, mobilize. Set long-term generation-long goals: Develop short-term goals with the long-term in mind.

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Greater Giving

NOVEMBER 27, 2023

Bidding Site Setup: Configure your bidding site to facilitate electronic raffle ticket sales. Note: Keep in mind that most states regulate or even may prohibit tickets sales. Here’s how: Tip : If you’re a Greater Giving Online Bidding client, you can limit the number of raffle tickets, creating more demand.

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Forum One

AUGUST 16, 2023

When it comes to your reporting strategy, it’s important to keep in mind who your key stakeholders are, and how can you package your data and results in a way that speaks to them directly. Then you can begin looking at your data with a direction and purpose in mind. Goal setting matters a lot here.

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The Modern Nonprofit

SEPTEMBER 5, 2023

Flipcause: Your Solution to Social Media Fundraising Changes Designed with small nonprofits in mind, Flipcause offers cost-effective tools that facilitate easy integration with your existing social media tools, providing a seamless fundraising experience. ” – That’s where Flipcause steps in!

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Facebook Tools Change Guide 98

Saleforce Nonprofit

NOVEMBER 17, 2021

Guided discovery, a facilitated workshop, and design thinking frameworks led the Common Sense team to think differently about how the organization can support parents and educators. We have some great minds on our team and I’m confident we will figure out the “how” of making changes happen. What is the ideal user experience?

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Candid

AUGUST 22, 2023

A glimpse into AI at Candid When considering the applications of AI and machine learning at Candid, we keep the following questions in mind: Does this application help our staff do their work more effectively? Facilitating intelligent funding connections (coming soon.)

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Allegiance Group

NOVEMBER 2, 2023

In today’s digital landscape, integrating social media buttons on your nonprofit website signifies a commitment to fostering engagement, driving awareness, and facilitating convenient avenues for supporters to contribute. By placing the donation button on every page, you reinforce its presence in the minds of your website visitors.

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Nimble AMS

SEPTEMBER 24, 2021

And keep in mind that one of the greatest resources for chapter leaders is other chapter leaders, so help them connect, too. Roll-up reports that offer insights into the health of chapters to facilitate more data-driven strategic decisions. Strong collaboration requires more than just ad hoc communications.

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Nonprofit Tech for Good

MAY 8, 2020

When using WhatsApp to engage with various stakeholders, nonprofits have to be mindful of incorporating the various digital storytelling elements discussed above in order to ensure a successful engagement with those stakeholders. WhatsApp is a useful tool with which to apply the elements of good storytelling.

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Bloomerang

APRIL 11, 2023

Your volunteer management system can facilitate more streamlined volunteer engagement and communication. With that in mind, here are 17 top solutions to consider when searching for the right software for your volunteer program. What you need today may not be enough tomorrow.

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Candid

JANUARY 10, 2023

Confirm that everyone is on the same page by restating the meeting’s purpose, expected outcomes, agenda items, and the roles that individuals will play (such as facilitator or note-taker). Just remember to set a hard time limit on the kickoff portion of the meeting to avoid having it overtake the entire conversation.

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