Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JANUARY 5, 2022

Pictured above). Remote and Hybrid Facilitation Workshops : During the pandemic, interested soared in learning how facilitate better virtual meetings. I’ve also facilitated many nonprofit staff retreats and convening and provided training for other facilitators.

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Professional Facilitation Reflection Journal 111

Candid

JANUARY 11, 2024

Our aim is to provide the most robust and current data possible to facilitate the social sector’s work on the vast problems we face as a society. In addition to official data sources, our data science team pulls live data from news, websites, and social media to create both a more comprehensive and current picture of the sector.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JANUARY 2, 2022

Pictured above). Remote and Hybrid Facilitation Workshops : During the pandemic, interested soared in learning how facilitate better virtual meetings. I’ve also facilitated many nonprofit staff retreats and convening and provided training for other facilitators.

Professional 96

Professional Facilitation Reflection Journal 96

Bloomerang

FEBRUARY 23, 2024

This enables organizations to maintain an integrated view of their interactions with each individual, facilitating personalized outreach efforts. By serving as a comprehensive repository of every interaction, preference, and donation, CRMs provide a complete picture of each donor. Here, CRM systems play a crucial role.

Education 82

Education Fundraising Integration Nonprofit 82

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.

People 114

People Community Facilitation Philanthropy 114

The Modern Nonprofit

OCTOBER 17, 2023

You’ll want to tell a compelling story that breathes life into your cause and paints a vivid picture of the powerful difference every donation makes. This isn’t just about beautiful words—pictures and videos are your allies, bringing the world closer to your cause and adding a human touch to cold stats.

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Donation Giving Badge Headline 105

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JANUARY 9, 2020

Pictured above). I’ve continued to do conference keynotes, workshops and facilitate staff retreats about activating a culture of wellbeing. All in all, I presented or facilitated over 50 keynotes, workshops, and webinars on the topic. Rituals are intentional small, tangible acts done routinely and carry meaning.

Professional 140

Professional Personal Croatia Build 140

Candid

JANUARY 10, 2024

It’s about reimagining systems, facilitating change, and co-creating a better future. Negative emotions and focusing on what hurts create tunnel vision, heightening our ability to zero in on the immediate issue, but making it harder to think about the bigger picture or brighter future.

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Celebrate Movie Social Exercise 98

Greater Giving

AUGUST 21, 2023

Your board will understand their roles in the “big picture” and how they can contribute to your nonprofit’s success over the long term. To facilitate this process, your consultant will lead interviews with your stakeholders, including your board, to gather their unbiased feedback. Support your donor stewardship strategy.

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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. The one I like the best is called “Two Pictures” where everyone shares 2 pictures about anything unrelated to work and spends some time sharing it with the team.

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Virtual Tips Nonprofit Interaction 180

sgEngage

MARCH 17, 2022

In some place-based funder collaborations, members combine grantmaking information to create a collective picture of private funding in the community and compare it to a community needs assessment conducted by the local government, a nonprofit, or community foundation. Rotate hosting and facilitation. Start with one conversation.

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Collaboration Foundation Local Philanthropy 95

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

APRIL 24, 2014

Look at both the detail and the big picture. Tell stories and make maps. Work at human scales and connect across networks of people and things. Make things to explore, test and learn. Imagine scenarios of use, and provoke and inspire alternatives. Make the familiar unfamiliar and the unfamiliar familiar.

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Method Ideas Adopt Facilitation 116

sgEngage

APRIL 23, 2021

Here’s what I’d recommend: I’d like you to schedule a meeting with everyone who uses the database and facilitate a few fact-finding sessions. The goal for these sessions is to help you get a clear picture of how your team is using the system now. These aren’t about placing blame!

Database 112

Database San Francisco Fundraising Data 112

Bloomerang

NOVEMBER 29, 2023

The CRM becomes a repository of every interaction, every preference, and every donation, painting a complete picture of each donor. Efficient communication: Integrated communication tools in CRM solutions facilitate personalized and effective donor outreach. Data-driven strategies: Informed fundraising is successful fundraising.

Fundraising 91

Fundraising Relationship System Integration 91

Candid

JANUARY 10, 2023

After all, a capital campaign can involve wildly different tasks—ranging from reviewing big-picture development progress down to choosing a color scheme for your public phase marketing materials. To make sure your capital campaign is a success, consider these key committee meeting elements and our recommendations for improving them: 1.

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Campaign Structure Phase Review 98

Nimble AMS

FEBRUARY 17, 2022

It facilitates more unified reporting. Since Person Accounts provides both an account and a contact, which are maintained in tandem, reporting works as expected, making it easier to see the big picture.

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Personal Model Associations Contact 129

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

OCTOBER 7, 2019

Above all, silence facilitates clear and creative thinking and quiets negative thoughts. ” You simply close your eyes and picture yourself in a peaceful setting that brings you joy and relaxation. Alternately, you can imagine yourself doing an activity that energizes you.

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Exercise Work Personal Tips 104

The Modern Nonprofit

AUGUST 29, 2023

Picture streamlined operations, vibrant fundraising campaigns, engaging donor communications, and time freed up from handling tedious admin tasks! Many software solutions include tools that can help automate personalized communications, facilitate relationship-building, and cultivate long-term engagement with donors.

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Software Fundraising Synchronous Nonprofit 52

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.

Culture 126

Culture Philanthropy Facilitation Job 126

Greater Giving

FEBRUARY 22, 2022

Facilitate this information-gathering process by enhancing your site’s user experience (UX). To facilitate this journey, ensure your site is optimized for telling your organization’s story. With these website elements, you can create a fundraising culture within your organization that facilitates donations 365 days a year.

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Websites Donation Images Mobile 97

Bloomerang

MARCH 4, 2024

Picture this: your donor data and fundraising trends reports are due, but instead of the usual stress, you’re calm, prepared, and even proud of what you’re about to submit. Fundraisers often have a love/hate relationship with fundraising CRM reports. Sounds ideal, right? Let’s find out how to achieve that level of reporting Zen consistently.

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Report Effective Fundraising Template 60

The Modern Nonprofit

MARCH 5, 2024

Mobilizing for Impact: Organizing Successful Lobby Days Picture this: a sea of supporters, each one a champion for your cause, coming together in a powerful display of unity and purpose. Let’s give your supporters the microphone and let their stories roar.

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Advocacy Tech Mobile Support 59

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MAY 22, 2019

I am very grateful to Valerio Melandri who is the director of the festival for inviting me to participate as well as facilitate a maser class on modern wellbeing based on my book. And, while that is a benefit, there is a bigger picture or ecosystem view that is required. And, also to Marcele Iniarra for his creativity.

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Digital Technology Fundraising Adopt 114

sgEngage

AUGUST 19, 2022

Break out information and use charts to visualize bigger picture concepts, such as changes in spending categories over time. Be sure to include the goals and supporting information with the Board in advance to help facilitate a constructive conversation. Ensure the budget is presentable : You have worked hard on the budget.

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Process Create Review Stream 93

DNL OmniMedia

JANUARY 17, 2024

To paint a comprehensive picture of your audience, there are several different sources you’ll need to pull from, including: Previous data. You can add videos, questions, special promotional opportunities, and other activities to increase interactions and facilitate a stronger connection between you and your audience.

Game 52

Game Marketing Change Tips 52

Twenty Hats

JANUARY 12, 2021

The best way I thought to keep in touch was to facilitate weekly 45-minute video calls on Zoom. I have collected pictures of many cats and some dogs, beautiful spring flowers and gardens, people walking outside, painting and other art projects, home improvements in action, cooking and baking, and much more.

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Volunteer Poll Slides Video 76

CauseVox

JUNE 26, 2023

Picture Sarah, a donor touched by the compassionate care her grandmother received at a local hospice center. It enhances the donor experience and ensures that tribute details are captured accurately, facilitating meaningful connections and gratitude.

Donation 77

Donation Donor Help Celebrate 77

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

OCTOBER 3, 2017

Trainer’s Notes: Working with Graphic Recorders: Charlotte Young, Picture Your Thoughts did graphic recording, visually note taking, for the session. I learned this from ETR’s facilitator tips. Created by PUBLIC Inc. Graphic recorders do some preparation for the session. Have you been to a training workshop recently?

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Charlotte Canada Blended Slides 91

sgEngage

JANUARY 10, 2024

Past approaches, and current time pressures, responsibilities, and siloes make it easy to lose sight of the notion that change is not just about understanding parts but is very much about seeing the big picture. Change, of course, is only possible when we embrace both parts and whole—the notion of dialectic.

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Data Knowledge Philanthropy Policy 100

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MAY 15, 2012

Here’s a few facilitation techniques that I learned from documenting the session. The next step was for participants to draw another circle draw another big circle with pictures representing how the world might change for the positive. I facilitated a session that introduced networks, networking, and the Networked NGO.

Rwanda 113

Rwanda Social Media Training Train 113

AccelEvents

JANUARY 13, 2022

Bonus: Accelevents facilitates participation and networking across both physical and virtual sessions. And don’t stop marketing when the event is over: Post pictures and video clips from sessions. You can even split one room off into smaller different chats based on theme or areas of interest.

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Tips Strategy Virtual Sponsor 98

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

FEBRUARY 12, 2014

I’m working with the Knight Foundation to facilitate a peer learning exchange that will help their community foundation partners learn and spread best practices in planning and implementing Giving Days. Beth facilitated the calls, but the community foundations drove the content, creating a true peer exchange.

Knowledge 100

Knowledge Goal Share Giving 100

Robert Weiner

JULY 24, 2014

to facilitate these transactions. Payment Processing in Pictures. One of the best ways methods is to set up Address Verification Service (AVS). If your bank does not provide this service, consider using a payment gateway (e.g., Authorize.net, BluePay, iATS, etc.) Many offer this protection. Fraud Scam'

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Online Giving Oregon Gift 233

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MARCH 21, 2012

This conference used interactive design — such as visual facilitation, speed geeks, world cafe, full group discussions, small group discussions, and interactive lectures. I facilitated the sessions using the translation headsets and by bilingual colleagues to help me translate in real time.

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Jordan Conference Lebanon Morocco 113

Forum One

AUGUST 16, 2023

How to glean insights: Having the data is one thing, but knowing what insights to pull with confidence that it is the right picture is quite another. Knowing where and how to access the full package of data to even begin to review it is a real challenge, especially when data platforms aren’t connected to one another or aren’t online.

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Story Report Data Blended 60

Get Fully Funded

JUNE 18, 2023

Facilitator. Be ready to paint the picture of where you’re going and then motivate folks to join you for the journey. Explain what needs to be done and how it fits into the big picture. The upside is that they know how everything in their organization works and can provide backup for most, if not all, staff positions.

Skills 119

Skills Leadership Director Nonprofit 119

Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

NOVEMBER 19, 2008

It was a great combination of really detailed tech learning (like I learned a really cool trick using JQuery to generate rounded corners, which is generally not an easy thing to achieve,) and big picture thinking. What is Ethical Consulting (not so surprising, I facilitated that one.). I got to learn a ton, and contribute a bit.

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Drupal Open Source API Facilitation 100