.orgSource

MAY 23, 2023

Meeting new colleagues is easier when someone facilitates introductions. Distribute a survey to identify where there is room for improvement. This is a concept that bears repeating, so don’t hesitate to remind the group, from time to time, where the buck stops. Introduce Key Players Introduce key financial players.

Raise 419

Raise Law Associations Director 419

Nonprofit Tech for Good

MAY 31, 2020

We surveyed over 700 nonprofits to find out what advice they’d give themselves and others about fundraising in the new normal. If you haven’t done so already, update your procedures to collect contact methods and donor information that will facilitate virtual fundraising. Many of the nonprofits we surveyed did that with great success.

Survey 338

Survey Virtual Nonprofit Sponsor 338

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

NOVEMBER 3, 2015

I’ve just returned from an inspiring week in Kiev, Ukraine where I got to facilitate a training for women’s organizations organized by Wake , an amazing start up founded by two respected colleagues Trish Tierney and Heather Ramsey. You have to think of your interpreters as extensions of your facilitation techniques.

Facilitation 50

Facilitation Training Train International 50

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 112

People Community Facilitation Philanthropy 112

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.

Facilitation 180

Facilitation Tips Camera Nonprofit 180

sgEngage

MARCH 22, 2024

Survey supporters as part of registration questionnaires, in-person interviews, or your donor satisfaction online survey. Many non-sport options also happen to be ideal for tracking on a wearable device. How do you pick the right event? Ask your donors for their input.

Track 91

Track Activities Active Activism 91

.orgSource

AUGUST 21, 2023

Our research included interviewing thought leaders, organizing think tanks, and surveying professionals. Strategists are visionaries, facilitators, and problem-solvers who inspire curiosity. Our goal was to help association professionals navigate a new technological era or Industry 4.0. Association 4.0

Leadership 170

Leadership Associations Skills Digital 170

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JUNE 27, 2018

I co-lead a workshop on digital transformation, co-facilitated a master class on digital fundraising campaigns, co-hosted a learning breakfast for scholarship participants, co-designed a Big Room session on Technology for Good, and in between attended some amazing sessions. Survey participants and incorporate their feedback.

Practice 105

Practice Thailand Asia Reflection 105

Bloomerang

MARCH 22, 2024

Develop a donor engagement survey. This is particularly useful for retreat facilitation and department reorganization. Develop a monthly giving program. Develop a planned giving program. Develop gift acceptance policies and procedures. Optimize content and messaging for mobile and search. Develop a social media engagement strategy.

Consultant 102

Consultant Develop Teach Problem 102

.orgSource

SEPTEMBER 25, 2023

Use ChatGPT as a virtual event host to welcome attendees, guide them through the schedule, answer queries, and facilitate networking during virtual conferences. Use ChatGPT to design and conduct surveys and market research. Leverage ChatGPT to generate reports, articles, and newsletters.

Las Vegas 221

Las Vegas Language Interaction Associations 221

Eric Jacobsen Blog

FEBRUARY 20, 2024

Communication Fitness : How to facilitate conversations, conduct effective collaboration, bring value to customers, and lead productive meetings. 83% of executives we surveyed said that their meetings were an unproductive use of time. Horwath : Killing meetings.

Leadership 93

Leadership Evaluation Brain Business 93

Media Cause

APRIL 15, 2024

Once you have surveyed your organization and learned about the tools in use, have you come up with any pain points? Are there any tools that are glaringly missing or that aren’t serving the team well?

Build 59

Build Map Platform Integration 59

Bloomerang

OCTOBER 28, 2023

Engage on digital platforms: Use the technology younger donors favor—like QR codes or Tap to Pay —to facilitate easy capture of contact information and donations. Understand your attendees: Take advantage of surveys and reporting tools to gain deeper insights into your attendees’ preferences and behaviors.

Network 79

Network Donor Fundraising Registration 79

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.

Evaluation 128

Evaluation Training Train Tips 128

Candid

MARCH 28, 2024

Through a combination of survey responses from over 1,500 organizations and interviews with 16 nonprofit leaders, our study sought to answer key questions including: How were nonprofits collecting and sharing demographic data in general and with Candid nonprofit profiles specifically?

Demographics 59

Demographics Data Support Profile 59

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. Have you tried bringing in a communications facilitator to deepen the conversation? And that’s fine.

Action 75

Action Report Practice Fundraising 75

Candid

APRIL 25, 2023

As equity emerges as the lynchpin of decades of investment for generations of impact, Environmental Grantmakers Association (EGA) is clear on its role to facilitate the shift from discussion to tangible action and offers deep data to affect the course of racial equity as a relevant lens for environmental philanthropy.

Effective 104

Effective Demographics Philanthropy United States 104

Nonprofits Source

APRIL 15, 2024

According to the OneCause guide to silent auction software , the right fundraising tools can help you manage the entire planning process, from marketing your event and facilitating mobile bidding to streamlining checkout. Create and share surveys. Update your social media.

Marketing 52

Marketing Fundraising Tips Registration 52

Candid

OCTOBER 1, 2021

Based on a survey of 1,626 U.S. percent of respondents gave to charity in 2020, comparable to survey results from 2017 and 2015. Based on a survey of 1,626 U.S. percent of respondents gave to charity in 2020, comparable to survey results from 2017 and 2015. MacArthur Foundation announces 2021 fellows. and Catherine T.

Ohio 52

Ohio Massachusetts Indiana Minnesota 52

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. There is also an opportunity to weave in analysis of your data from surveys and incorporate storytelling with your data.

Reflection 119

Reflection Practice Results Storytelling 119

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. Those recommendations are then presented to leadership.

Structure 98

Structure Volunteer Model Leadership 98

Eric Jacobsen Blog

NOVEMBER 6, 2023

Communication Fitness : How to facilitate conversations, conduct effective collaboration, bring value to customers, and lead productive meetings. 83% of executives we surveyed said that their meetings were an unproductive use of time. Horwath : Killing meetings.

Leadership 58

Leadership Evaluation Brain Business 58

ASU Lodestar Center

JANUARY 26, 2022

Woodford and Preston list four main outcomes to validate stakeholder participation: helping organizations make informed decisions, facilitating stakeholder commitment and support, stakeholder education about the organization, and successful program implementation. Where to begin.

Collaboration 98

Collaboration North Carolina Effective Participatory 98

AccelEvents

SEPTEMBER 4, 2020

The good news is that facilitating networking in a virtual setting is quite simple. If you are thinking of hosting a virtual networking event, we have some tips that can help you with the planning and facilitation process. This survey is the best way to get honest feedback from guests.

Virtual 98

Virtual Hosting Network Industry 98

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.

Virtual 52

Virtual Track Student Virtual Classroom 52

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. Capacity building is about improving organizational (or network) effectiveness.

Measure 57

Measure Impact Build Grant 57

sgEngage

JULY 20, 2021

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. Last October we launched Blackbaud’s first Diversity, Inclusion and Belonging survey.

Government 96

Government Social Blackbaud Companies 96

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.

Measure 143

Measure Issue Impact Method 143

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.

Lesson 59

Lesson Fundraising Digital Test 59

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

DECEMBER 6, 2013

Note From Beth: Back in 2011, I had pleasure of facilitating a panel discussion Grantmakers in the Arts pre-conference on technology and media with Rory MacPherson and Jai Sen from Sen Associates where I learned about research study they were conducting about social media use in the arts. How Strong Is Your Social Net? Mary Trudel.

Social Media 106

Social Media Arts Social Attitude 106

Bloomerang

APRIL 11, 2023

Your volunteer management system can facilitate more streamlined volunteer engagement and communication. Evaluation: Evaluating your programming and surveying your volunteers for feedback Volunteer management software allows you to manage each of these steps in a centralized platform. What is a volunteer management system?

Volunteer 77

Volunteer Software Management Track 77

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

FEBRUARY 25, 2014

The session will share the results and insights from research studies that combining social media analytics with survey data. I will be taking my dream workshop – a workshop on methods for facilitating innovation using human-centered design principles from the masters at Luma Institute. LUMA Institute: March 19-20th.

Conference 113

Conference San Diego New York City Social Media 113

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

DECEMBER 5, 2016

It also important to think about to development skills internally regardless and the Playbook offers a good list: Being “data-minded”: Someone who currently has or can build skills for creating charts, graphs, pivot tables and Excel formulas; someone who is interested in building surveys, exploring data and helping to make meaning out of numbers.

Resource 105

Resource Practice Data Work 105

Bloomerang

AUGUST 2, 2021

Mastering personalized, customer-centered philanthropy facilitation, especially mid-level and major donors, to increase donor lifetime value. Do this with a simple free survey or ask the question on your donation thank you landing page or in your thank you email. Investing in digital-first fundraising and marketing communications.

Content 126

Content Marketing Strategy Fundraising 126

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MAY 2, 2011

At Zoetica, we facilitating a social media peer learning project called “ Leveraging Social Media: Becoming A Networked Nonprofit.&# Devon Smith, who writes the 24 Usable Hours blog, and a self-described “data nerd&# did a benchmarking analysis for participants. Arts and Social Media. View more presentations from Devon Smith.

Benchmark 96

Benchmark Social Media Measure Results 96

NetWits

DECEMBER 6, 2010

Survey your volunteers online to see what they like and perhaps what can be improved upon regarding volunteering for your organization. Allow your volunteers to network with one another online to keep them engaged and facilitate a community.

Websites 152

Websites Donor Tips Retention 152

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.

Culture 125

Culture Activities Active Activism 125