Top Nonprofits

JULY 1, 2022

You may be considering revamping your website by migrating it to a new system or creating a brand new site from scratch. Mobile responsiveness , allowing you to edit your site in the mobile view. Search engine optimization (SEO) tools to help your site pages rank on search engine results pages. Comparing both platforms.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

FEBRUARY 12, 2019

. Much of my training and facilitation work lately has been centered around the ideas in my recent book, The Happy Healthy Nonprofit. I’ve been facilitating nonprofit workshops and staff retreats focused on creating a culture of wellbeing in the workplace. The conversation surfaced some interesting questions and ideas.

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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. Virtual meetings that are not well designed and facilitated can also mean a loss of productivity. Aside from technical issues, the biggest problem is engagement. Use the mute button at your site to prevent the transmission of background noise.

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Saleforce Nonprofit

JUNE 24, 2021

Bryan Stevenson (BS): It’s important that we have a new consciousness about the problems created by our history. Getting proximate to the problem was where the real transformation was. When I was a little boy, everybody went to DC to see the Capitol sites. I want everybody to come to Montgomery to see our sites.

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Nonprofits Source

MAY 25, 2023

Post-visit behavioral and lifestyle adjustment: The patient follows treatment instructions and makes lifestyle adjustments to facilitate healing and well-being. To get more responses, proactively solicit reviews through a review or rating site that sends out follow-up emails, QR codes, and individual text messages. Monitor reviews.

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Volunteer Hub

SEPTEMBER 20, 2023

Given the distinct needs of each organization, including your own, it’s crucial to seek a software provider that tailors the onboarding experience to align with the specific problem you aim to address through their software.

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Connection Cafe

APRIL 28, 2020

We’ve rounded up a list of specific examples of virtual opportunities, organized by nonprofit issue area, that solve real problems and are easy to execute. This new environment is an opportunity to rethink solutions to strategic problems and create innovative virtual events that inspire supporters to do more. DISEASE FOUNDATIONS.

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Forum One

APRIL 27, 2021

Your content strategy is a living document, a map that you and your colleagues can use to decide where your content goes on your site and how you will use it to deliberately create intentional ongoing engagement with your organization. Your strategy allows you to create a cohesive picture of the organization across your whole site.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

OCTOBER 23, 2014

Peter and Madeleine were the among the pioneers in writing about, designing, facilitating, and evaluating networks in the social impact space. I have designed and facilitated a number of networks like this, although I have called them “Peer Learning Exchanges.” Generative Social-Impact Network.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

AUGUST 16, 2017

Wondering how to organize and facilitate a meeting where everyone is on their feet instead of their devices? Karen Bloom, the CEO at Project Kesher, saves up problems that her staff is trying to address and bundles into a weekly problem solving walking meeting. Different experts can speak at different locations.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

OCTOBER 24, 2011

I recently took a workshop on visual facilitation with David Sibbet. As part of my learning journey to put these ideas into practice, I’m integrating visual techniques into my facilitation repertoire. Two things I did. That’s the biggest problem we have with content strategies – getting organized.

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Amy Sample Ward

AUGUST 11, 2010

This is a significant problem for the social enterprise movement." <br /> <br /> Our goal with this site is to help nonprofits and other volunteer organizations grow and thrive by giving them easy access to the<br /> resources they need to better manage their time and volunteers. <br

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Allegiance Group

APRIL 15, 2024

Follow accessibility guidelines such as ensuring sufficient contrast between text and background colors, adding alternative text to images, putting captions on videos, and making it possible to navigate the site with keyboard controls. This way, site visitors can access your donation form from any page in just one click.

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Allegiance Group

MAY 18, 2023

Optimizing your donation form to present the easiest and best user experience when someone lands on your site – from an ad, email, or search engine – is a massive win for acquiring new donors and getting more repeat gifts from existing donors. Keywords facilitate the connection between your website and a prospective donor.

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Get Fully Funded

SEPTEMBER 16, 2021

These insights can be used to improve your operations, increase dwell time on your site, and perfect future campaign strategies. A poor payment processor can easily change your site visitor’s mind. Look for features like: It should be easy to locate, simple to use, and facilitate various methods of payment without issue.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JANUARY 23, 2014

The instructional design included different delivery methods: interactive lecture with slides and whiteboard, facilitation with sticky notes, small group exercises, posters, group discussion, self-directed activities, and self-directed online activities. Problem-solving and reflecting (Intellectual). Talking and hearing (Auditory).

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Bloomerang

APRIL 26, 2021

The problem with viewing fundraising as primarily about money – still a largely taboo subject in our society – is it creates a tendency is to avoid the subject as much as possible. Because, my friends, delivering happiness is the job of a true philanthropy (translated from the Greek as “love of humanity”) facilitator.

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Bloomerang

AUGUST 16, 2021

Mastering personalized, customer-centered philanthropy facilitation, especially mid-level and major donors, to increase donor lifetime value. One of the biggest problems nonprofits face is improving their low donor retention rate. Investing in digital-first fundraising and marketing communications. Mastering relevant content marketing.

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OneCause

NOVEMBER 28, 2022

TV, Cameras, and WiFi: To facilitate a remote auction experience for everyone around the world! . Don’t forget to test all of your tech ahead of time to avoid common event planning problems. These pages are less complex than regular sites and focus on event-specific content. These efforts won’t be lost on your clients.

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NTEN

AUGUST 15, 2013

Amy saw that members of the nonprofit tech community were itching to dive more deeply and regularly into topics of online community building, but she didn’t want to create a space if there weren’t willing co-facilitators and a good deal of buy-in. Whoever’s hosting facilitates the discussion using the @CommBuild account.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

DECEMBER 3, 2012

As someone who has facilitated panel featuring “poetry slam case studies” in Iambic pentameter , how could I refuse? Here’s what he had to say about renewing one’s inspiration: “Lack of direction, not lack of time, is the problem. “Lack of direction, not lack of time, is the problem.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

DECEMBER 19, 2013

This true interdependence – including funders in the mix – paves the way for the kind of deep collaboration and problem-solving that is necessary to tackle complicated community problems. As we see it, the Omaha community is relationships.”. The Civity Networks Project—Taking Relationships Seriously.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JUNE 13, 2011

This is using bogus social media metrics to translate into some value. Geoff Livingston has a good post about the problems with this – using influence as the metric. 2: Measuring the Effect on Outcomes is Preferred to Measuring Outputs : Measure your results, not just numbers.

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Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

APRIL 2, 2009

I’m betting this is a loss-leader - a product designed to get people in the door, and when they are chomping at the bit for more (which they will be in about 2 days after they set up their site,) there is a more costly (and profitable) product waiting right around the bend for them. The problem I have is that they hid it.

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NTEN

JUNE 23, 2014

Furthermore, across our multiple online platforms and websites, there’s little to no design consistency, and the transitions between the sites are clunky at best. Finally, and perhaps most glaringly, none of our sites have a real responsive design, making them difficult or impossible to access on a mobile device. Design triumph?

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

SEPTEMBER 8, 2016

Nina Simon, the executive director of the museum, is an expert in participatory design and fantastic facilitator. It was great to watch her in action facilitating the creative, interactive, and fun program. This is a Band-Aid, not addressing the main problem.” A mature employee knows how to manage up.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

SEPTEMBER 19, 2017

Workplace flexibility creates a need for better skills in facilitating virtual meetings and hybrid meetings where some participants are in the room and others participate are using audio-only or video conferencing platform. That’s why I’ve added a new workshop on running and facilitating effective virtual meetings.

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Tech Soup

APRIL 21, 2016

But what if an app could be used to help nonprofits, public libraries, and other community groups organize and solve pressing problems? At tightly facilitated events called Generators, leaders with a range of expertise from the nonprofit and library communities discuss their daily work. What's Next for Caravan Studios?

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MARCH 2, 2015

A few months ago, I facilitated a mini-innovation lab on measuring impact for grantees of the Google Nonprofit program at the Impact Hub. There are some very helpful sites and publications that look more broadly at measuring social impact. Of course, greater dollars will help expand your mission’s depth and scale.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JUNE 1, 2010

Microsoft researchers are collaborating with the academic community on environmental problems, such as aggregation and visualization of complex scientific data from many sources. Or the Web site Microsoft Hohm that lets people calculate their energy footprint and get tips on conservation. "Our philanthropy has to ignite action.

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NTEN

AUGUST 15, 2013

Amy saw that members of the nonprofit tech community were itching to dive more deeply and regularly into topics of online community building, but she didn’t want to create a space if there weren’t willing co-facilitators and a good deal of buy-in. Whoever’s hosting facilitates the discussion using the @CommBuild account.

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Qgiv

OCTOBER 27, 2021

You could even ask volunteers to facilitate a warm introduction for you instead of just giving you a list of names. See if a well-connected board member or current volunteer can go with you to facilitate introductions to key community members. Use volunteer matching sites. Try the following: Attending networking events.

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Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

MARCH 27, 2008

And, I guess truthfully, the blurb on my consulting site is kinda dry. I think of myself in these terms: I educate, facilitate, mediate, and problem-solve. I don’t implement much for them (although in a pinch, I’ll set something up, or fix a specific problem.) Gotta work on that. So, what do I do?

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

DECEMBER 20, 2013

Note from Beth: I’m facilitating a peer exchange for the Knight Foundation for a group of grantees that are hosting a Giving Days over the next year using its recently published Giving Day Playbook. We had also prepared a template response for social media in the event of technical problems: “Thanks. Stay tuned!”. Our Response.

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Whole Whale

SEPTEMBER 8, 2023

A great tool to see how different companies make their product the hero is by looking through swipe files curated by sites like [link]. Use statistics to vividly demonstrate the scale of the problem being addressed. Facilitate two-way dialogue to make supporters feel heard. This helps show the mission’s importance.

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NTEN

JUNE 18, 2014

Check out sites like You are Allowed to Apply and We Are All Awesome. Try to ignore any feelings of inadequacy and anxiety and think about what gets you excited and what you want to share.

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DNL OmniMedia

FEBRUARY 1, 2023

From bringing in revenue to connecting with constituents, the right technology can save your team time and help you facilitate a better donor experience. Troubleshoot technical problems. Testing your new technology before rolling it out to your entire organization will help you catch potential problems early.

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