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. And I imagine your organization has a culture of philanthropy in which everyone comes from a place of love. Just make sure to continue putting in place strategies to energize the donors you work with!

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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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The Modern Nonprofit

MARCH 26, 2024

Preparation is key To effectively retain emergency donors, you must have a solid foundation in place. Having these elements in place not only positions you to capitalize on the increased attention during emergencies but also provides a clear pathway for donors to continue their support. This builds a connection.

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Nonprofits Source

APRIL 15, 2024

However, if no one knows that your event is taking place, you won’t be able to achieve a high turnout or meet your fundraising goals. For major donors, start with a phone call and then send out an official email or printed invitation with the registration information. This is why a strong marketing strategy is essential.

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Nonprofit Tech for Good

MAY 31, 2020

Like you, many of your constituents are also working from home, using their personal cell phones and email addresses. If you haven’t done so already, update your procedures to collect contact methods and donor information that will facilitate virtual fundraising. Have a Solid Donor Stewardship Plan in Place.

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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. You must have in place certain financial, cultural, and eligibility documents in place before applying for those grants. She has facilitated numerous workshops with hundreds of nonprofit professionals.

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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. The place to find reports on what happend is on the wiki. I was so interested, I facilitated a session.)

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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. Participants can be placed into the rooms automatically (randomly) or you can manually assign people to different groups. 1-2-4-All: This facilitation process comes from Liberating Structures. What is a challenge?

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Bloomerang

AUGUST 21, 2023

The capital reserve stays in place after construction and is restricted to building maintenance. 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. How are you nurturing and supporting your fundraising staff?

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Network for Good

MAY 17, 2021

The place for prospecting and tracking donations, grants, memberships, and volunteering. The system for tracking just about any of your other program-related work: canvassing, phone banking, events, tabling, outcomes and evaluation, etc. Take up hours and hours of staff time to organize and execute a campaign.

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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. Consider whether you need a meeting in the first place. Virtual Meetings Require Iron Fist Facilitation. Second, assign someone in the room to be the “bridge facilitator.”

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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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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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Network for Good

MAY 17, 2021

The place for prospecting and tracking donations, grants, memberships, and volunteering. The system for tracking just about any of your other program-related work: canvassing, phone banking, events, tabling, outcomes and evaluation, etc. Take up hours and hours of staff time to organize and execute a campaign.

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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. Include the message in multiple places (i.e. Google Docs can be used to create collaborative agendas or meeting minutes.

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VQ Strategies

NOVEMBER 22, 2022

Placing mattering front and center in our volunteer engagement strategy can be a powerful tool to drive success – on all fronts. Some are angry about leaders who seem to ignore (or even facilitate) such issues as abuse of civil liberties. But it would be wrong to assume that only young volunteers are interested in mattering.

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Nonprofits Source

OCTOBER 30, 2023

Therefore, it’s essential to have the right technology in place to easily manage your volunteers and facilitate their transition into their new roles. Use the right tools Remote volunteering may feel confusing and difficult to navigate, especially for first-time volunteers.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

OCTOBER 9, 2013

I’m facilitating a Peer Learning Program for the Knight Foundation with community foundations that are hosting Giving Days using the Knight Foundation’s Giving Day Playbook. Carry your camera phone around and snap impromptu photos of your #nonprofit. And it is those limitations that help you focus on your subject.

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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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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MAY 7, 2013

The camp took place in Cha-am, Petchburi, Thailand. The audience had very good English skills so no translation was needed. During the presentation, we had participants jot down questions on index cards and those were used by the facilitators to lead the discussion. kanter we have wifi connection interuption here.

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Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

MAY 17, 2011

The apps I use most on my phone include the Facebook app for Android and Tweetdeck. In other words, I don’t avoid social media, I use it a lot, and I actively facilitate my clients use of social media integration with their web presence. ( I’ve been using social media to actively promote my new science fiction books.

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Bloomerang

NOVEMBER 15, 2023

From the first email, phone call, or meeting, volunteers are gauging whether your organization is a place where they want to invest their time and energy. Social events, online forums, or group projects can facilitate connections and friendships, adding a social dimension to their volunteering experience.

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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. – Hold virtual ‘town halls’ to educate the community on places people can go to get food.

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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. Examples include when I read the papers, on the train on the way to work or back home, waiting for a meeting, on line while buying lunch, etc.

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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. Look Within Your Walls: The first place to look is down the hall or ask at your next board meeting. My Nonprofit Needs A Data Nerd!

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

OCTOBER 9, 2018

Facilitated by Lucy Bernholz, the panelists discussed how data mining, policy algorithms, and predictive risk models affect poor and working-class people in America. The point is that algorithms are scaling inherent bias – and should not be used as crystal balls to predict what civil society needs, but be a mirror of civil society.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

SEPTEMBER 2, 2015

That’s why we included a module in the Emerging Nonprofit Leaders peer learning group on meeting design and facilitation – and these days it is an important leadership skill. The best advice is to ask yourself if you need to schedule a meeting in the first place. Many of our meetings take place on conference calls.

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sgEngage

MAY 12, 2023

Virtual Auction Software To effectively manage your charity auction , you’ll need all your tools in one place. This way, attendees can begin and close out their auction experience with ease right from their phones. Let’s begin. To improve the user experience, look for a provider that offers express check-in and self checkout options.

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Connection Cafe

APRIL 6, 2020

Find constituent phone numbers. Check and identify constituent phone numbers annually – and cell phone numbers biannually. Research time that doesn’t facilitate, spark, or lead to action in your donors and prospects isn’t time well spent, even when you have a little more time in your day. Ensure email delivery.

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Tech Soup

NOVEMBER 15, 2012

Mobile phones are a powerful marketing communications tool and allow organizations to directly targeting mobile phone users to increase donations or generate event ticket sales. As an organizer, mobile phones can actually help you keep track of the event. Your audience can bid while commuting!

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Eric Jacobsen Blog

DECEMBER 9, 2012

Turn off the television, turn off the cell phone, and pay attention to the people around you. It could even be a place you've never visited in your home town. How many experiences have you overlooked in your own town, because you just keep going to the same familiar places? • Realize when you are not engaged and re-engage.

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Qgiv

JUNE 4, 2021

Instead of multiple phone calls back and forth, they can just enter their information on your online form and press “submit.” A good way to facilitate an in-kind donation campaign virtually is to take advantage of your online tools and make an eCommerce page with a list of needed products. Leverages common tools. Virtual House Parties.

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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. This way, all of your important data is centralized in one place, allowing any of your tools to add to or pull from it. Phone/text banking. Graphic design.

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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 ” These apps can transform our mobile phones, tablets, and computers from agents of distraction into agents of mindfulness.

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Gyrus

APRIL 26, 2016

Let us look at some of the common misconceptions about mobile learning or m-learning through this blog: Mobile Learning Means Learning via Mobile Phones. While it is true, that a mobile phone can be used for mobile learning, it is not the only device that can be utilized. as mobile learning tools.

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Achieve

MARCH 10, 2021

How do we know that millennials place heavy value on transparency versus other attributes when choosing an organization to contribute to? . Keep in mind, if your donors’ personal information such as their phone numbers and financial credentials were to be compromised, it could tarnish the reputation of your brand.

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Connection Cafe

APRIL 3, 2018

A mutual communication calendar can even facilitate logistics like consistent verbiage or timing of messages. While this organizational structure certainly facilitates partnership , it is not the only format and is definitely not a requirement to coordinate efforts.

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