Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

FEBRUARY 18, 2014

I’m co-facilitating a session on Nonprofit Training Design and Delivery with colleagues John Kenyon, Andrea Berry, and Cindy Leonard at the NTEN Nonprofit Technology Conference on Friday March 14th at 10:30 am! If you think of your training as making a soup, your participant survey is like the food critic’s review of the soup.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

AUGUST 17, 2021

A recent McKinsey survey suggests that 90% of organizations will adopt some version of the hybrid workplace. 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.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

NOVEMBER 6, 2013

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. ” Here’s a methodology for doing an After Action Review, but it boils down to: Capture the lesson learned (big or small).

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sgEngage

JULY 20, 2021

3 Data from our 2021 Industry Review shows that over $2.8 Our objective is to create a company that includes the kind of robust diversity that facilitates the best productivity, problem solving, and innovation coming from people bringing a variety of perspectives to bear on our challenges and opportunities.

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VQ Strategies

OCTOBER 7, 2022

In recent years, we have conducted surveys and interviews at institutions with longstanding volunteer councils. Having an outside facilitator helps to ensure that all voices are heard and that the process keeps moving forward. Lessons from the Field. Mapping the Change. This is where collaboration is especially crucial.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MAY 4, 2017

As a trainer and facilitator, the work I do with organizations and networks, often on behalf of a foundation for its grantees, is capacity building. They also facilitated discussion with others funders that invest in capacity building. Bibliography with links and summaries of studies reviewed. Presentation slides.

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Bloomerang

AUGUST 21, 2023

1,071 fundraising professionals were surveyed at small and medium-sized nonprofits supporting a variety of causes. Multiple, practical action steps are presented below to advance your fundraising based on the survey results. Your own careful review of the report is encouraged. And that’s fine. Do you have a fundraising plan?

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Top Nonprofits

AUGUST 3, 2021

At the end of every planning process, I send out a feedback survey to participants. 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. Reading these comments, I felt terrible.

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Amy Sample Ward

DECEMBER 22, 2011

Decide how information can be efficiently and realistically gathered utilizing the different methods that are best for your organization including: Surveys - Consider what features you will need. If you’re just looking to get your feet wet with a quick survey, one of the many free or low cost online tools will do the trick.

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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. You’re vigilant about gathering this information through post-program surveys or via your website. Senior citizens?

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Whole Whale

SEPTEMBER 8, 2023

Survey existing donors on what compelled them to support you before. Surveys, interviews, and data analysis can reveal the equivalent of that Rolls-Royce insight – the key emotional triggers, values, and desires of your existing and potential supporters. Survey existing donors on what spurs them to give quickly when appealed to.

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ASU Lodestar Center

FEBRUARY 10, 2021

Review their strategic plan and incorporate goals that are tied to increasing specific types of technology that will further the mission of the organization and increase the impact of the work that they do. Nonprofits should be highly encouraged to facilitate the use of new platforms of service delivery to increase their impact.”.

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Bloomerang

AUGUST 2, 2021

Mastering personalized, customer-centered philanthropy facilitation, especially mid-level and major donors, to increase donor lifetime value. If you have Yelp reviews, look at those too. . Do this with a simple free survey or ask the question on your donation thank you landing page or in your thank you email.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MAY 8, 2018

Last month, I was honored to present and facilitate an all-day workshop for nonprofit leaders at the Oregon Nonprofit Leadership Conference on how to activate a culture of well being in the nonprofit workplace, based on my book, The Happy Healthy Nonprofit: Strategies for Impact without Burnout. Use surveys to find out what staff need.

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Classy

JULY 14, 2021

You can easily adapt these for your nonprofit’s event, and review them before, during, and after your event to gauge your success. Registrants: Classy aims to increase the total number of registrants for the Collaborative year over year, so Alexa’s team reviews this metric first. How to Measure Success.

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Nonprofits Source

OCTOBER 30, 2023

Pair your new supporters with veteran volunteers who can answer questions, review best practices to succeed in their roles, and more. Therefore, it’s essential to have the right technology in place to easily manage your volunteers and facilitate their transition into their new roles.

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Bloomerang

APRIL 11, 2023

In this guide, we’ll review what you need to know about volunteer management software and the top solutions to be aware of. Your volunteer management system can facilitate more streamlined volunteer engagement and communication. What is a volunteer management system?

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Nonprofits Source

JUNE 5, 2023

Social media platforms (like Facebook) facilitate connection, allowing your nonprofit to spin an extensive web of support all across the globe. Send surveys to ask for feedback and gain more information about users, such as their personal reasons for supporting your organization.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

NOVEMBER 6, 2014

This where design thinking methods and innovation lab facilitation techniques can be helpful. After the session, I spend a few hours doing an analysis of what people wrote on the cards and use it to review with my lesson plan. While evaluation surveys are great, they are only one form of feedback.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MAY 17, 2011

While it might be more work, it is better to pre-assign the participants to a specific group based on a survey. If you use a survey ahead time, you can do more fine-tuning. Facilitating Virtual Small Groups: The webinar software has the ability for participants to ask the instructor to come to their group if they have question.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JANUARY 27, 2014

For the networked nonprofit workshops I facilitate, I’ve developed a maturity of practice assessment called “ Crawl, Walk, Run, Fly ” which gives me a detailed understanding of where the organization is in its practice. It is also important to target the right level of authority. Development. I do this all the time.

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NTEN

DECEMBER 19, 2011

Decide how information can be efficiently and realistically gathered utilizing the different methods that are best for your organization including: Surveys - Consider what features you will need. If you’re just looking to get your feet wet with a quick survey, one of the many free or low cost online tools will do the trick.

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Nonprofits Source

SEPTEMBER 25, 2023

Let’s review some of the most popular ways that businesses give back to nonprofits. The donor’s employer reviews the request and checks with the nonprofit that the donation was made. The volunteer’s employer reviews the request and checks with the nonprofit that the volunteer did in fact work with that nonprofit.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

OCTOBER 24, 2011

I always try to do an extensive participant survey prior to the workshop to uncover the knowledge in the room and used a “living case study” technique. My review of this excellent book is coming in the next weeks). I recently took a workshop on visual facilitation with David Sibbet. Social Media Master Class.

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Amy Sample Ward

FEBRUARY 4, 2010

My latest post is up on the Stanford Social Innovation Review opinion blog. The survey found that blogging and blog outreach was the most popular social media choice. Over half of the organizations surveyed reported that they do not use Twitter and do not intend to, with only 24% reporting use of the tool.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

AUGUST 10, 2011

I’d love to see a survey of nonprofit measurement practice that quantifies this. As part of my work as Visiting Scholar at the David and Lucile Packard Foundation, I’m facilitating peer exchange groups on measuring the networked nonprofit with 60 grantees. Does not have a dashboard or simple collection method.

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Bloomerang

MARCH 30, 2023

This will allow you to manage no-shows and late volunteers throughout the day in real time and review volunteer performance later. Facilitate a positive experience by planning breaks during longer opportunities and offering water and snacks to help maintain high energy. Maintain open communication. Offer ongoing support.

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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. I’ve written many blog posts with practical tips about walking meetings and reviewed the research literature.

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Qgiv

JUNE 4, 2021

Your best bet is to review creative ideas that other nonprofits have already tried and found effective. You can check out an in-depth look at the survey results in our webinar Inspiration Station: Creative Virtual Fundraising Ideas from Real Nonprofits. Consider finding one that can facilitate both text-to-give and text-to-donate.

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Connection Cafe

JULY 9, 2019

n-ear) – noun: the architect, and engineer of retention strategies to facilitate the matriculation of students. Pro Tip: Assess national trends and review your institution’s historical data to identify dropout trends and success indicators. And what if you could transform them into “retentioneers” for your institution?

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JANUARY 25, 2013

For us, this has been linked not just to content like articles a blog posts but also forum threads, email outreach, and broad campaigns — like our recent Cloud Survey. I can’t facilitate peer learning groups, design/write curriculum, or coach unless I’ve had the experience myself). My answer: Yes!

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

APRIL 30, 2015

” I facilitated an interactive featured session on why and how leaders should be engaged on social as well as other insiders (employees, board, and volunteers). Here’s an example of some survey questions you should ask. The conference theme was “Working Together in the Era of the Individual.”

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

NOVEMBER 9, 2009

Last week, I had the opportunity facilitate a " Social Media Strategy Map " workshop for over 100 Bay Area nonprofits. Every time I present or facilitate a workshop, I review the web sites and social media ant trails (social media properties) of participants. . Robot Voice Disguiser for Large Group Facilitation.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MARCH 16, 2015

What I absolutely love, is that the book has a companion web site with worksheets and checklists from every chapter. As someone who designs and facilitates professional development projects for nonprofits, this is a trainer’s dream!

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DNL OmniMedia

FEBRUARY 9, 2022

There are a few general steps that you should follow when looking to hire a nonprofit consulting firm for any type of project: Review your needs. Review your candidates. Review their proposals. Develop a basic scoring system for each key stakeholder to use when reviewing and ranking each proposal. Board retreats.

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Connection Cafe

FEBRUARY 3, 2014

By reviewing the content inventory and content audit, we can get a pretty comprehensive view of all pages that need to be included in the new website. Ideally, we’ll have some insight into user needs thanks to the research we conducted in earlier phases of the project such as Surveys and Interviews or Personas. Surveys and Interviews.

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Tech Soup

OCTOBER 26, 2012

This facilitates information-sharing on any platforms that might be used by your stakeholders, as PDFs are one of the most widely used file formats. While web forms and surveys are also popular, there may be programmatic or privacy reasons why hard-file forms are more suitable.

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