Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

APRIL 3, 2018

The article caught fire – not only in nonprofit and philanthropy circles – but also business, government, and beyond. Connectivity helps facilitate highly distributed groups of people to work on a campaign, project, or share ideas that spread with unprecedented velocity and reach.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

AUGUST 28, 2013

I wrote a quick reflection on some of the techniques used to facilitate the meeting. Most often these new experiments have grown out of frustration with the fact that, despite several decades of rapid growth in philanthropy and nonprofits, many of the same social and environmental problems persist, or are getting worse.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

APRIL 9, 2013

Last week I was in Chicago to facilitate a session about leadership and social media as part of Knight Digital Media Center’s Digital Strategy for Community Foundations and Nonprofits. The workshop is co-presented by S tanford Center on Philanthropy and Civil Society. Model the Model.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

OCTOBER 9, 2018

Most recently, we co-wrote an op-ed for the Chronicle of Philanthropy on the age of automation and it implications for fundraisers. Facilitated by Lucy Bernholz, the panelists discussed how data mining, policy algorithms, and predictive risk models affect poor and working-class people in America.

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Connection Cafe

JANUARY 24, 2017

2016 was a record-setting year for philanthropy, with Americans donating more than $373 billion and communities across the globe setting new standards for #GivingTuesday. The Philanthropy Outlook from the Indiana University Lilly Family School of Philanthropy projects a 3.6 Even better news? percent in 2018. percent in 2018.

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ASU Lodestar Center

FEBRUARY 10, 2021

The Chronicle of Philanthropy states, “The nonprofit sector has not yet figured out how to navigate these thousands of new tools. Nonprofits should be highly encouraged to facilitate the use of new platforms of service delivery to increase their impact.”. But it should, because they’re incredibly powerful.

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Saleforce Nonprofit

JULY 28, 2021

Planning Ahead and Outlining Goals Facilitates Long-Term Success. To get the most out of Salesforce, your organization will need to know how to use it to its full potential. Customers offer four tips for doing just that. The most important tip that customers recommend is planning ahead to get the most out of the platform.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MARCH 8, 2019

The next exercise was a small group exercise that modeled the first step a small nonprofit might do to build an audience persona. The next facilitation challenge was to break them into small groups to work on the personas using a poster-sized version of the persona worksheet. There was a lot of snapping.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JULY 29, 2013

A model of generosity. Dan believed that “just a little financial help and encouragement” could facilitate our ability to do extraordinary things with our lives. Networks Organizational Culture Philanthropy' Earlier this week, I woke up to learn that Dan had passed peacefully in his sleep at 89.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

APRIL 4, 2011

Over the past 18 months, I’ve been participating in The Network of Networked Funders , a community of practice for grantmakers facilitated by the Monitor Institute. In late 2011, Funder’s Guide to Networks will synthesize the knowledge and publish a print publication for the broader field of philanthropy.

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Tech Soup

AUGUST 5, 2011

Engaging the imagination, it puts forward four global scenarios, with an accompanying fictional case study that describes how philanthropy and technology may co-evolve for development. It examines how philanthropy and technology are now interlinked for development initiatives. Four Scenarios: Do You Want to Live in Any of These Worlds?

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Givinga

JANUARY 29, 2019

As their demands evolve, so does corporate responsibility and the software used to facilitate it. Employees contribute to causes chosen and approved by management, either via private foundations or other internal corporate philanthropy vehicles. In this article, we’ll look at some of these changing market demands.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MAY 8, 2016

For the past few years, I’ve been facilitating a peer learning group with a small cohort of grantees , all community foundations, hosting Giving Days in their communities using the Giving Day Playbook. The convening should bring in philanthropy, funders, digital strategy experts, and tech experts. What do you think?

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

SEPTEMBER 17, 2013

As a Master Trainer, one of my favorite models of training adults is the Peer Learning Exchange where a group of participants who are working on a similar project or domain of practices interact regularly to learn how to do it better. 18, and a Google Hangout with the Chronicle of Philanthropy at 1 p.m. ET Thursday Sept.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

FEBRUARY 8, 2013

Later in the morning, I facilitated a large group discussion hour-long discussion right before lunch with Greg and Laura Efurd from ZeroDivide. Listening to the conversation and watching the audience for signs of energy drop, I inserted some movement into the discussion related to the topic by asking them to do the ” failure bow.”

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

FEBRUARY 17, 2011

Modeling the Network Mindset. I think that TechSoup Global’s three leaders – Daniel Ben-Horin, Rebecca Massisak, and Marnie Webb – have been modeling this practice. Design and Model Peer to Peer Connections and Appreciation. Designing for Serendipity. The design for event was superb.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

SEPTEMBER 12, 2012

Modeling: CEO needs to model the change they want to see inside their organizations. She told the story of “ Poop_Strong ” who describes himself in his Twitter profile as “31 year-old sustainability PhD student fighting Stage IV colon cancer. This takes patience.

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Top Nonprofits

OCTOBER 18, 2021

Lead Gift Committee Meetings — A Simple Model. Here’s a model for your lead gift committee and some suggestions for making sure your Lead gift committee meetings work well. Topics might include their roles in the community, interests in other organizations, hobbies, lifestyle, philanthropy, and more.). It saves time and energy.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MARCH 31, 2014

Within just 10 days of folding, Foldit players helped decipher the structure of an AIDs-causing virus and produced an accurate 3D model of the enzyme, a problem that had eluded scientists and supercomputers for more than 10 years. In Philanthropy. Zynga.org ( [link] ) was created with the mission to use games to help those in need.

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ASU Lodestar Center

MAY 24, 2011

ASU Home ASU A-Z Index My ASU Colleges & Schools Directory Map About Blog Academics Organizational Assistance Emerging Leaders Professional Development Philanthropy Research News & Events You are here: Home → Blog Pages Blog Home Write for us! I agree we need more of these model communities.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MARCH 30, 2012

The model has a natural appeal. His work at Monitor Institute has addressed topics including social innovation, social media, and the changing context for philanthropy. Many funders are interested in using peer learning to help nonprofit leaders advance their capabilities.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

SEPTEMBER 13, 2012

But I also got the opportunity to learn and hear Rob Reich, associate professor of political science, Stanford University, and faculty co-director, Stanford Center on Philanthropy and Civil Society (Stanford PACS) and Lucy Bernholz, visiting scholar, Stanford PACS present their research in a talk called “New Skills for the New Social Economy.”

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MAY 12, 2011

This week I attended Center for Effective Philanthropy’s conference “ Better Philanthropy: From Data to Impact &# where I participated on a discussion panel about social media, foundations, and grantees. It can also facilitate informal communications with other people in the grantee organization.

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Nonprofits Source

OCTOBER 6, 2023

If your organization takes on corporate philanthropy as an engagement practice, you can change real people’s lives. Peer-to-peer mentorship can help new team members acclimate to the organization faster and have a role model in a similar role to them. Talent attraction. Enhanced community impact. Mentorship programs.

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Get Fully Funded

JUNE 18, 2023

Facilitator. The upside is that they know how everything in their organization works and can provide backup for most, if not all, staff positions. The downside is that they tend to leave no room for anyone else’s ideas which squashes creativity and can lead to high staff and volunteer turnover.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

SEPTEMBER 12, 2011

But when he gets excited about activity that could benefit the nonprofit technology sector, I listen. What do you think of the Campus Party model? Futura is a private company but their model looks to barely break even on registrations and income from the Campuseros. He has seen it all. Food for a week cost another $80.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

APRIL 1, 2015

So, when Mary K Winkler , one of the nonprofit data nerds I follow on Twitter and Senior Research Associate at Urban Institute’s Center on Nonprofits & Philanthropy specializing in performance management told me via Twitter she had just published a new guide on this topic, I had to check it out. Cultural Indicators.

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Bloomerang

FEBRUARY 1, 2022

This is one of my absolute favorite topics in philanthropy, this idea of engaging board members as fundraising ambassadors. We’ll start with a few key trends in philanthropy that will ground our conversation. And this is according to a 2020 report The Role of Volunteering In Philanthropy by Fidelity Charitable.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

AUGUST 4, 2009

For more context, see Networks and Philanthropy Exploration and the most recent release of the Working Wikily paper from Monitor Institute. The objective of the The Innovation Exchange is to facilitate rapid and widespread adoption of environmental innovation in business.

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Have Fun - Do Good

JUNE 24, 2009

Some factors she feels can support social innovations' success are: Engaging the crowd and using the wisdom of the crowds to facilitate innovations coming through the pipeline. He would like to see the Fund support new models that disrupt the system, focus on results, and challenge other aspects of how government works.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

APRIL 23, 2013

Understanding and mapping your network is one of the indicators in my “Crawl Walk Run Fly” maturity of practice model and looks something like this: Click to see larger image. This comes from my first book, ” The Networked Nonprofit ,” co-authored with Alison Fine. Ventura County Community Foundation - March, 2013.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

SEPTEMBER 1, 2009

I attended a panel called "The Future of Social Innovation on the Web" This all-guy panel was facilitated by Dennis Whittle, Global Giving and featured Premal Shah, Kiva.org; Jonathan Greenblatt, Our Good Works; Steve Newcomb, Virgance; and Ben Rattray, Change.org. The context is that many projects don't offer this. They don't.

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Tech Soup

JULY 8, 2011

should enable power in members and facilitate a global impact of highly local activity.” ” Jeremy Heimans, Purpose, Australia, while he argued that micro payments are a better funding model than plain charity, for social change. ” Ory Okolloh, Google’s Head of Policy and Government Relations, Africa.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

AUGUST 27, 2010

I’ve been playing with the conversational panel or conversational keynote models for short sessions (60, 75 or 90 minutes.) The Colorado Funders Association is doing this on its blog about philanthropy stories. ) The fun part of instructional design is embedding opportunities for this to happen.

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Nonprofits Source

OCTOBER 4, 2023

Here’s a quick breakdown of common expenses: Subscription or License Fees: Many CSR solutions operate on a subscription or licensing model. The Benefits of Leveraging A CSR Platform More companies are turning to dedicated platforms to manage their philanthropy programs, and it’s not hard to see why.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

OCTOBER 27, 2014

Last week I was lucky enough to facilitate a mini-innovation lab for 60 community foundation program officers at the first meeting of ProNet during the Council on Foundations conference in Cleveland, Ohio that celebrated 100 years of community philanthropy.

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EveryAction

APRIL 1, 2016

Philanthropy Southwest / Austin, TX / $625. Yale Philanthropy Conference 2016. Yale Philanthropy Conference 2016. Yale Philanthropy Conference / New Haven, CT / $110. This year, the Yale Philanthropy Conference will explore the evolving role of philanthropy within this ecosystem of change. Governance.

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