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? The Back Channel.

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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. Hybrid meetings are familiar for many nonprofits, particularly larger international nonprofits with many country offices or national networks with affiliate office locations.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JANUARY 4, 2017

Emerging Leaders Playbook: With the generous support of the Packard Foundation and in collaboration with Third Plateau Social Impact Strategies, we wrote and published the Emerging Leaders Playbook last year, along with facilitating a peer learning cohort with colleague Stephanie Rudat.

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Nonprofit Tech for Good

MAY 8, 2020

She is also the Founder and CEO of Liz Ngonzi Transforms , a boutique international consulting firm that provides consulting, executive coaching, and training services that enable social sector leaders and entrepreneurs to increase their impact and reach their potential. Storytelling is core to how we as human beings communicate.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

NOVEMBER 12, 2015

When thinking about adding mobile/online polling to a training, you have to think like an instructional designer for it be effective. Help the facilitator understand who is the room at the beginning (demographics, experience, attitudes, knowledge about the topic) – a quick and dirty participant assessment.

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Bloomerang

JULY 19, 2023

Creates an environment that facilitates fundraising Regardless of whether you do face-to-face fundraising, ensuring that the organization is prepared to fundraise is the development professional’s main priority. Do the necessary market research to learn which foundations—local, regional and national—are funding nonprofits like yours.

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MAY 30, 2023

Foundations can play a pivotal role in enhancing the capacity of their grantees by providing technical assistance, training programs, and mentorship opportunities. Networking and Collaboration: Foundations can serve as connectors, facilitating collaborations among their grantees and other community organizations.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MARCH 21, 2012

” The conference marked the end of an 18-month capacity building program that trained more than 220 NGOs in Jordan, Lebanon, Morocco and Tunisia on how to use social media effectively to advance civil society. 12 training centers have been established. I’ve been working on this project for more than year.

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Deborah Elizabeth Finn

JANUARY 28, 2018

World class facilitation and guidance was provided by Essential Partners, with the revered Dave Joseph serving as facilitator-in-chief. These dollar amounts might be for staff time, technology, training, an external consultant, or even for office supplies. What is the heart of the matter for grantors and grantees?

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JANUARY 4, 2016

I also designed and facilitated a six month peer learning cohort with colleague Stephanie Rudat. Innovation Lab Facilitation : For the past few years, I’ve trained in and designed and facilitated innovation labs using the Luma Institute Methods.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JULY 27, 2015

I just returned from doing two days of facilitating a Networked Nonprofit training in Mexico City with Oxfam Mexico and participants from offices throughout Latin America, South America, and Caribbean. Together, we co-facilitated this exercise in two languages and Maria did a great job at bi-lingual capture of the notes.

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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. Our grants are awarded to schools, local music programs, and national music programs.”. The Lisa Libraries. First Book.

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Saleforce Nonprofit

OCTOBER 29, 2021

Rue Mapp (RM): I didn’t start with the intention of growing a national network. Our participants were hungry for leadership experiences, so we formalized a network to train people to become welcoming outdoor leaders in their own community. What inspired you to start Outdoor Afro and grow it from a blog into a leadership network?

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MARCH 3, 2011

I’m the lead for Zoetica where my role is to deliver training, advise on the curriculum and coaching methods, model transparency, and serve as meta network weaver. I have the honor of co-training with some of the best folks doing work in this part of the world. (Here’s the posts from Day 1 and Day 2 ). Fluency in social media skills.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

FEBRUARY 25, 2014

I’ll be doing a session designing and delivering effective training with John Kenyon, Andrea Berry, and Cindy Leonard on March 14th at 10:30 am. I will be taking my dream workshop – a workshop on methods for facilitating innovation using human-centered design principles from the masters at Luma Institute.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MARCH 30, 2012

It was also an opportunity for me to co-facilitate with in-country team, meet the NGOs and hear their stories first-hand, and learn a lot about modeling and adapting interactive training techniques for different cultures. 1. Facilitating Tri-Lingual Events: Not Lost in Translation. Group Photo with Certificates.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

NOVEMBER 10, 2010

As part of my work as Visiting Scholar at the David and Lucile Packard Foundation, I’ve had the honor to facilitate training workshops at grantee’s conference. I just returned from doing Networked Nonprofit and Social Media workshops at the National Summer Learning Association’s Conference in Indianapolis.

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Achieve

MARCH 24, 2022

to tried-and-true community fundraisers, plenty of fundraising opportunities still exist that your team can hold at little-to-no cost, with just a few trained volunteers. . is that there’s already a pipeline in place to facilitate donations. simplified multichannel fundraising campaigns. unique (and easy!) fundraising ideas.

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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 I’ve trained myself with the 18 minutes technique to avoid temptation of looking at friends’ dog photos that way while I am working.).

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JULY 24, 2012

Support national partner Facebook chats, blog carnivals, and other networked advocacy activities. Training Design. It also includes a face-to-face workshop where there is also the same balance. This year’s session was piggy-backed with the annual meeting, so the training came at the end of 2.5 Cultivate “super fans”.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

NOVEMBER 17, 2014

Note from Beth: Last week I was in New Orleans for the National Assembly of State Arts Councils meeting. I facilitated a peer session with Public Information Officers and a Mini-Workshop on managing and measuring a social media presence. We covered strategy, especially identifying audiences through personas and key objectives.

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OCTOBER 27, 2021

Retention is everything your organization does to keep the volunteers you recruit, like providing proper training and management , aligning volunteer assignments with individual volunteers’ interests, or working hard to create personal relationships with your volunteers. Use current volunteers as a resource.

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Achieve

AUGUST 25, 2023

Training your team and developing their communication skills will be essential. Try using this language on your Ways to Give page or planned giving microsite—here’s an example from the National Museum of Wildlife Art. They’re also framed in appealing ways that emphasize the benefits donors receive from them.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

APRIL 1, 2009

Photo of Iavor Ivanov , Web Experience, United Way (national) Meet Iavor Ivanov, the Director of Web Experience for the United Way (National). I was curious how a large national network with local affiliates approaches a social media strategy in a networked way. Wondering where he got that awesome T-shirt?

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MARCH 2, 2012

ThinkShout is facilitating an NTC Drupal Day on April 3rd, 2012, the first day of the NTC. Note: This event will not be a training on “How to build a website with Drupal,” nor will it be a Drupal vendor or product spotlight.).

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Neon CRM

AUGUST 10, 2023

The conference favors networking opportunities over speaker-led sessions and utilizes the “Liberating Structures” facilitation technique to spark conversation and empower innovation. The first was a free general admission ticket that included access to all live keynotes, sessions, workshops, and networking events.

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ASU Lodestar Center

MARCH 7, 2013

Organizations should also set concrete expectations for the board collectively and individual members’ responsibilities and incorporate these into board recruitment, orientation, and training. Incorporate these individual member expectations into board recruitment, as well orientation and training, so new members know exactly what to expect.

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Everyaction

DECEMBER 12, 2017

National LGBTQ Task Force / Washington, DC / 475. The National LGBTQ Task Force’s 2018 Creating Change Conference convenes in Washington, DC, January 24-28, 2018. We are excited to host our national movement gathering in the Capital. The Corps Network National Conference. The Corps Network National Conference.

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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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MAY 25, 2021

Whether it’s Continuing Medical Education (CME), Continuing Nursing Education, or training for other healthcare specialties, the education must align with specific accreditation regulations. Instead, you should seek a CME LMS that can facilitate virtual events alongside CE programming. Virtual Event Capabilities.

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Tech Soup

MARCH 5, 2014

Forty-two percent of Pottsboro’s school children are eligible for the National School Lunch Program. Purchasing Adobe Creative Suite 6 Design through TechSoup made it possible to offer training in Photoshop and Premier Pro. It is now more of a community center that offers training and facilitates events.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

APRIL 15, 2014

She explained that “learning or teaching the old” is about training, knowledge transfer, and structured, directed learning. She points out that you can’t teach people to be social, only to show what it is and help facilitate it. Teaching the new is not structured because it is social learning.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

APRIL 17, 2013

I’m very excited for this learning experience because over the two years my work as Visiting Scholar at the David and Lucile Packard Foundation has focused on going deep on facilitating peer learning for grantees on measuring outcomes for their networks with social media while balancing and upholding the principles of being networked.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JANUARY 27, 2010

I had to look up the Clark Griswald reference ( National Lampoon's Christmas Vacation ), but you might be scratching your head wondering what the heck is a back channel? Cliff Atkinson's new book, The Back Channel is a must read for anyone presenting at conferences or planning trainings in age of social media. look here ).

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BoardAssist

SEPTEMBER 9, 2014

Anne Wallestead is the President and CEO of national nonprofit BoardSource, one of the leading resources on governance available to the nonprofit community. A seasoned nonprofit professional, Anne has held leadership positions with a number of local and national organizations. And what are we willing to do about it?

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Tech Soup

MAY 1, 2017

National Volunteer Week has come and gone, but I ask you to join me every week in celebrating the amazing contributions of TechSoup's NetSquared community. Our mighty army of volunteers hosted over 500 free nonprofit technology trainings last year, and we're on track to reach even more organizers this year. You like numbers?

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Beneblog: Technology Meets Society

NOVEMBER 3, 2008

Reflections on an internship with Bookshare.org in Chennai, India Made possible through support from the Amherst College Center for Community Engagement Anna Reid, religion major, class of 2010 Anna Reid with employees of Worth Trust, a South Indian organization that provides vocational training and employment for people with disabilities.

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