Greater Giving

MARCH 26, 2024

A chaotic jungle of emails and phone calls. Auction Powerhouse: Greater Giving’s software facilitated both silent and live auctions, allowing the EAF to accept bids from remote participants and maximize their fundraising potential. Online registration? Nonexistent. Sponsorship management?

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sgEngage

MARCH 22, 2024

Free download: Peer-to-Peer Fundraising Idea Calendar Take Mobile Fundraising Seriously Your supporters wouldn’t dream of leaving the house without their cell phones, which means you really need to have your mobile strategy dialed in. About 28% of online contributions are made from a cell phone.

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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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Nonprofit Tech for Good

JANUARY 29, 2022

The process to complete the transaction took several phone calls, paperwork, and more than a week to complete. “It We are here to educate, facilitate and communicate,” he said. It was such a pain, I never did it again,” Latham said.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

APRIL 15, 2020

?. This morning I facilitated a virtual mini-workshop for the Resource Alliance as part of its Plan C Online Discussions. I’ve also turned off all alerts on my phone and put in the charging station. The workshop, Work/Life Balance: Tips Fundraisers During A Pandemic included fundraisers from many different countries.

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Bloomerang

MARCH 22, 2024

Develop an email and/or phone number acquisition program. This is particularly useful for retreat facilitation and department reorganization. Develop or switch to a new donor database , CRM, email provider, or website. Develop user-friendly donation landing pages and gift processing. Develop a direct mail donor acquisition program.

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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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Nonprofit Tech for Good

MAY 8, 2020

WhatsApp represents one such medium that presents nonprofits with an outstanding opportunity to engage with stakeholders through texts, attachments, and multiple forms of conversations delivered to their mobile phones and now to their desktops. Recent data indicates that there are in excess of 1.5

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M+R

APRIL 13, 2023

Volunteers self-selecting into text banking, phone banking, social media, community mobilization, and/or storytelling. Having volunteers lead calls , facilitate meetings, speak out about their own experiences, and have a sense of ownership over the success of their teams.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MARCH 24, 2020

Since those days, I have continued to hone my virtual facilitation skills to design and deliver effective virtual meetings and trainings. 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. Or the last photo in their phone.

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Qgiv

JANUARY 3, 2024

Text-to-give is a text fundraising method, similar to text-to-donate, that allows your supporters to donate to your organization using their cell phones via text messaging. Text-to-give allows your donors to give through their phone bill, while text-to-donate takes your donors to a mobile donation form to complete their transactions.

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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

NOVEMBER 4, 2014

I noticed that Jen Bokoff from the Foundation Center was re-tweeted a photo of an icebreaker she used at her conference session on facilitation techniques. She kindly offered to cross post her blog post about icebreakers here. Materials: at least one smart phone. Group selfie ice breakers in our facilitation meeting!

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Nonprofits Source

APRIL 15, 2024

For major donors, start with a phone call and then send out an official email or printed invitation with the registration information. Make sure people can easily purchase tickets to your event online and from their phones. Segment your communications. Depending on your target audience, you’ll want to vary your messaging.

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Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

OCTOBER 25, 2009

Yesterday, I spent the day in Manhattan, at the UNICEF building, with a bunch of folks passionate about the technology in mobile phones, and the ways to use that technology for good. I was so interested, I facilitated a session.) Use J2ME to write applications for mobile phones, and send the data via SMS to a central database.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

APRIL 8, 2020

A few tips include: use the phone instead, switch to asynchronous modes of working, or use a few camera tricks. As the facilitator or meeting host, you can also judge whether you have allowed for enough time by watching the note-taking process in the google document. How can you avoid Zoom Overload? What is a challenge?

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The Modern Nonprofit

MARCH 26, 2024

This includes an optimized website that’s mobile-friendly and easy to navigate, strategic use of search engine optimization (SEO) to increase visibility during times of high public interest, and an established monthly giving program to facilitate the transition from one-time to recurring donations. This builds a connection.

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DipJar

JUNE 23, 2022

PITTSBURGH, June 23, 2022 – DipJar, a giving technology platform, today announced the Early Access release of DipJar Online, which will enable nonprofit organizations to create goal-driven, campaign-based fundraising initiatives that facilitate multi-channel donor engagement. New and existing customers can sign up for early access here.

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Bloomerang

AUGUST 21, 2023

Have you tried bringing in a communications facilitator to deepen the conversation? The facilitator may be able to better convey the need and achieve the desired results. Launch a Text-To-Give, or Text-To-Donate drive : Your donor likely has a cell phone. How are you nurturing and supporting your fundraising staff?

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JANUARY 28, 2007

TechSoup holds regular meetings for nonprofits in Second Life and I have been attending regularly and sometimes facilitate like this I did this past week. So, I've been reflecting about effective facilitation of virtual meetings in Second Life Right now the primary method of group interaction is via unmoderated chat interface.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MARCH 4, 2020

It’s time to up your virtual facilitation and convening skills. Since those days, I have continued to hone my virtual facilitation skills to design and deliver effective virtual meetings and trainings. As nonprofits are impacted by the CoronaVirus and need more virtual meeting skills, I’d like to share what I have learned.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

SEPTEMBER 9, 2015

If you are responsible for planning and facilitating virtual meetings, here are some tips that’ll help you make your meetings more productive. Virtual Meetings Require Iron Fist Facilitation. Appoint a facilitator to function as traffic cop, spelling out the rules of engagement and calling on people when it’s their turn.

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Get Fully Funded

AUGUST 15, 2022

It lets you choose from Stripe or Moolah to facilitate online transactions, monthly gifts, or EFT donations. Kindful is another powerful donor-tracking software that facilitates online giving as a built-in feature. Be sure that the tool you choose is mobile friendly since many people are online via their phone.

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Bloomerang

MAY 17, 2021

You are the philanthropy facilitator. . You — and the entire social benefit sector — need organizational-development-grounded philanthropic facilitators. When connecting with board members , consider how to persuade them that philanthropy facilitation is everyone’s job. It’s in your job description. It takes a village.

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Top Nonprofits

AUGUST 3, 2021

Some participants will have two or more screens, others may be accessing a meeting through their phone or iPad. Not surprisingly, their perception was that the conversation had been poorly facilitated and had no structure! I am a member of the Technology of Participation network of facilitators.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

APRIL 30, 2020

The pandemic has inspire a new breed of online collaboration apps that facilitate drop in video chatting for serendipitous conversations that your team might want to test. Essentially, everyone loads up zoom or a messenger group on their mobile phones, and then walks around their neighborhood. These can be useful for 1:1 check-ins.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

APRIL 8, 2013

Last week I was in Chicago to facilitate a session as part of Knight Digital Media Center’s Digital Strategy for Community Foundations and Nonprofits workshop. He reminded us that April 3rd was the 40th anniversary of the first mobile phone and today the mobile audience in the US is 89% of adults and 51% smartphones and 31% tablets.

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Forum One

APRIL 11, 2023

Service design can facilitate internal innovation by working across previously siloed teams and spur new ideas and approaches. They conducted extensive research, including an employee workshop, created a current state journey map, and conducted contextual inquiries and phone interviews. Increase your capacity for innovation.

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Network for Good

MAY 17, 2021

The system for tracking just about any of your other program-related work: canvassing, phone banking, events, tabling, outcomes and evaluation, etc. Integrate with other programs that facilitate donor communication, stewardship, and payment processing. Take up hours and hours of staff time to organize and execute a campaign.

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Bloomerang

JULY 21, 2021

This form can be completed by mail, phone, fax, or online. The turnaround is immediate online or by phone. She has facilitated numerous workshops with hundreds of nonprofit professionals. Check with your Secretary of State for your state’s requirements. Obtain an Employer Identification Number (EIN). . The cost is $0. .

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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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Bloomerang

JANUARY 20, 2023

She reached out to me at least quarterly, we had phone calls, Zoom calls, and even met in person for coffee. That assumption, most of the time, is just plain wrong.” – – Lisa Greer, author, donor, coach, Philanthropy 451 It’s a fundraiser’s job to facilitate philanthropy by energizing their donors.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

AUGUST 1, 2007

However, in one of the discussion threads on the Summit wiki, there has been mention about using cameraphones or smart phones for this in addition to. The photographs above were taken on the last day of Blogher, at the Unconference on Sunday morning facilitated by the talented Kaliya Hamlin who blogs about unconferences here.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

FEBRUARY 6, 2008

s Super Bowl launch of a United Way fund-raising campaign using mobile phone text messaging. The Mobile Giving Foundation is a new nonprofit aimed at facilitating more efficient and cost-effective mobile fundraising in the United States. Last Friday, Mobile Active reported on the Sunday???s

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Bloomerang

FEBRUARY 28, 2023

Also, determine what their preferred method of contact is, whether emails or phone calls. Facilitate peer-to-peer fundraising. Learn about the best practices for facilitating peer-to-peer fundraising. This can be a great way to show gratitude for the individual and the donors who are giving on their behalf.

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Connection Cafe

APRIL 28, 2020

Host a virtual phone bank for supporters to contact local businesses and grocery stores requesting excess food donations. – Host a phone bank where supporters reach out to their networks to donate excess food to local dropoff spot. Host a virtual phone or text bank to get out the word about COVID’s impact on program changes.

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Media Cause

NOVEMBER 3, 2023

Discover why communication tools are important to include for effective project management Google Products Shared Google Sheets and Docs work well to facilitate asynchronous work and communication at a low cost. Project plans can be efficiently set up in spreadsheets with deadlines and tasks that the whole team has access to.

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