Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

APRIL 24, 2014

The toolkit was designed through a collaboration between a European agency ( STBY ) and an Indian agency ( Quicksand ), it was commissioned by Nesta and the Rockefeller Foundation , who together saw a gap in the support for innovation provided to the development community. Generate new ideas. Thinking Hats: To generate new ideas.

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Nimble AMS

AUGUST 19, 2022

Innovators introduce new ideas, inventions, or discoveries to our ever-changing world. Becoming a trailblazing association means solving problems within your organization. The Marine Corps Association & Foundation (MCA&F) adopted Nimble AMS to improve its member experience. Be a trailblazer.

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sgEngage

DECEMBER 18, 2023

Today, knowledge work is coming into fashion in foundations and the nonprofit sector. Professionals tasked with a knowledge role often organize what feels like chaos—to create structure and focus attention on the most important information. Philanthropy loves “new” things. Learning, we do naturally. Fast forward to today….

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Eric Jacobsen Blog

DECEMBER 5, 2023

It can be unfamiliar and uncomfortable, but in a culture where everyone leads, organizations start to make progress on their most difficult problems,” explain the authors. We want to spread our counterculture leadership ideas far beyond the people we can reach through our in-person and Zoom-base programs. Don’t get us wrong.

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Leadership Kansas Authoring Chapter 85

Bloomerang

JANUARY 22, 2024

Do you have an idea for an organization that will bring good to the world and serve a charitable purpose? You might be inspired to bring your idea to life by starting a nonprofit. However, any new nonprofit needs a strong foundation to thrive. However, any new nonprofit needs a strong foundation to thrive.

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Blue Avocado

JANUARY 23, 2024

1 While all of these are useful tools for program development and planning, there is another strategy that provides consistent access to community input while also routinely building a supportive foundation from diverse, innovative ideas: the creation of strong advisory committees. Create structure. What are advisory committees?

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Deborah Elizabeth Finn

NOVEMBER 25, 2019

The origins of some foundations’ wealth, which in some cases includes slavery and other forms of exploitation. The tendency of philanthropic professionals, big donors, and other relatively privileged people to assume that they know what is best for the people who are directly affected by the problems that need to be addressed.

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Forum One

MAY 28, 2024

County Health Rankings & Roadmaps Gold – Website & Mobile Sites – Health / Fitness / Wellness County Health Rankings & Roadmaps , a collaboration between the University of Wisconsin Population Health Institute and the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation , uses data to show how where we live matters to our health.

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Candid

AUGUST 18, 2022

Since 1987, Echoing Green has identified visionary leaders with bold ideas for transforming the world and invested in their ideas and leadership. According to the Council on Foundations , only 10.3% of CEOs and leaders of surveyed foundations are people of color. . Black voices, Black spaces.

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Saleforce Nonprofit

AUGUST 12, 2021

As our understanding of the problem has evolved, the language we use has evolved too. We once thought the problem was simply about a lack of calories, but now we know it’s more about not having enough nutritious food to support body and brain development. Nutrition insecurity.

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Beneblog: Technology Meets Society

JUNE 3, 2011

A longtime venture capitalist with his DEFTA Partners firm , he wants to help solve social problems using hybrid capital structures that meld nonprofit and for-profit partners. He uses the Alliance Forum Foundation as one of his vehicles for making deals along these lines in Asia and Africa.

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Get Fully Funded

JULY 16, 2023

Take Your Nonprofit Board Meeting Back to the Basics Before we get to the meeting itself, let’s back-track to some basic foundational pieces that will make everyone’s lives easier. Overcoming Challenging Board Members Almost every small and growing nonprofit Board has problems. People-problems are harder to fix.

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sgEngage

AUGUST 22, 2022

I enjoy learning how organizations and teams get their work done, and we then kick around some ideas that can make things better. The problem, as she told the story, was Alan. The secret is identifying the problem without making it feel personal. First, you need to admit that you have a problem.

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Forum One

MARCH 23, 2021

Designing a desktop menu is one way; it’s one aspect of navigation that informs a website’s overall structure. Business goals : What problem are you trying to solve? Your audience is ultimately the one interacting with the site, and so you want to be certain that you’re solving the right problems. What gaps need to be addressed?

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

OCTOBER 22, 2013

Last week, I was lucky enough to participate in a brainstorming meeting at a foundation that was developing a strategy for its digital platforms (web, social, mobile, etc). The process was facilitated byPeter Maher, founder and CEO, of Luma Institute. We had to understand the problem and the challenge we were working on.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MARCH 14, 2012

Some of the greatest breakthroughs arrive when people who are outside the traditional structure take a look at a problem. At the Durfee Foundation, we bring together nonprofit leaders from different fields to work on intractable problems in the Los Angeles region. Seek outsider knowledge. How does this apply to funders?

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Eric Jacobsen Blog

JULY 4, 2023

It can be unfamiliar and uncomfortable, but in a culture where everyone leads, organizations start to make progress on their most difficult problems,” explain the authors. We want to spread our counterculture leadership ideas far beyond the people we can reach through our in-person and Zoom-base programs. Don’t get us wrong.

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Benefit Kansas Leadership Authoring 52

Forum One

DECEMBER 15, 2021

Maybe that made a whole new set of people more empathetic to the idea of accessibility. The “checkbox” approach to accessibility rested on the idea that someone—usually a developer —managed accessibility and had the power to make a website accessible or not accessible. When the website launched, we knew it had a stronger foundation.

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Eric Jacobsen Blog

JANUARY 30, 2023

It can be unfamiliar and uncomfortable, but in a culture where everyone leads, organizations start to make progress on their most difficult problems,” explain the authors. We want to spread our counterculture leadership ideas far beyond the people we can reach through our in-person and Zoom-base programs. Don’t get us wrong.

Benefit 52

Benefit Kansas Leadership Authoring 52

ASU Lodestar Center

OCTOBER 9, 2013

The problem is the organizational structure in most nonprofits prevents it. This structure is derived from the industrial age when mass production transformed the workplace. It has been the foundation of organizational structure for the last 100 years. Every manager knows the value of teamwork.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JULY 24, 2013

By the end of the day, she was able to summarize ideas and takeaways that we discussed. Incorporating the creative of use of sticky notes into a meeting, training, or convening can not only be fun, but also an effective way to brainstorm, solve problems, or summarize discussions as the example above illustrates.

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Achieve

JUNE 8, 2023

Your campaign’s objectives create a foundation that sustains the campaign’s energy, shows others what it’s all about, and motivates donors to give. Do your research to understand the structure and timeline of a typical capital campaign in advance. Don’t underestimate the amount of time you’ll need. What should you do instead?

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.orgSource

NOVEMBER 28, 2023

I realized that while many of these ideas are currently in the realm of fantasy, the future is so uncertain that we can’t say they will permanently reside there. While AI does involve logic and problem-solving, it does not think. Humans think in terms of analogies and metaphors, which allows us to connect concepts and ideas.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

OCTOBER 23, 2014

Almost five years ago to the day, I was lucky enough to meet Peter Plastrik and Madeleine Taylor while I was Visiting Scholar at the Packard Foundation. Here’s a few ideas, concepts, and insights from the book that resonated. There is minimal structure or roles and as a living organism, the structure changes.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

FEBRUARY 17, 2011

I spent the last two days at the TechSoup Global Summit getting inspiration overload about social media, networks, social network mapping, networks of networks, global peer learning, building a sector, nonprofit technology, and many other ideas I’m passionate about. Being/Doing Structure: The first day offered more structure.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

SEPTEMBER 29, 2015

Grantees, Experts, and Partners at the end of the Brainerd Foundation’s 21st Century Advocacy Design Lab. Over the past twenty years, the Brainerd Foundation has invested nearly $50 million in organizations working to protect the environment in the Northwest. Why Use One?

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Forum One

MAY 3, 2021

This should serve as a foundation for your new website content and structure. A general, open-ended Request for Information (RFI), in which you ask for approaches to solving specific problems can also help but adds a step to the process. The primary goal of your website should be to meet the needs of your key stakeholder groups.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

OCTOBER 18, 2011

What if those of us trying to solve the problem of the poor didn’t distance ourselves from them? Casey Foundation, works as director of partnerships, innovation and evaluation at LCW. In addition, they’ve changed the physical structure of LCW so that there are fewer desks for the staff to stand or sit behind.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

APRIL 19, 2012

It riffed off a diverse European trip I had just taken and broached a fairly simple idea — that there was a generational divide in terms of thinking about change, and that maybe this divide was bigger and more important than was generally realized. I hadn’t seen that particular idea much discussed, so I thought I’d just throw it out there.

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Everyaction

DECEMBER 12, 2017

Participants will acquire a foundational understanding of this increasingly important component of fundraising strategy and will be able to identify and distinguish between the most common planned giving vehicles. Northern California Grantmakers and Silicon Valley Community Foundation / San Francisco, CA / $350. Planned Giving Primer.

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Museum 2.0

AUGUST 28, 2019

The idea of throwing the doors wide open is something many of us dream about. Foundations give real money for DEAI efforts. Last week, I talked a bit about the structural issues inherent in our systems and how they may play a part in our access issues. And, as such, many of our ideas are resistant to other forms of thought.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

APRIL 26, 2011

I’ve had the pleasure of working closely with Compasspoint as part of my continuing work as Visiting Scholar at the David and Lucile Packard Foundation. I enjoy it because I get double dose: great ideas about the integration of technology with leadership, training, and capacity building AND the content. Carson , Ph.D.,

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Forum One

OCTOBER 12, 2010

Following the event, he had some very helpful insights to share, especially about crowdsourcing, an increasingly popular and effective practice for spurring new ideas and innovation. Adin is right: there are challenges to putting the wisdom of crowds to good use for foundations. Foundation application?

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ASU Lodestar Center

MARCH 16, 2012

and the Rockefeller Foundation, titled: " A New Tool for Scaling Impact: How Social Impact Bonds Can Mobilize Private Capital to Advance Social Good." The emergence of microfinance and social entrepreneurship has given rise to new ideas about the role of venture capital in the social sector. Components of Evidence Based Success.

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Qgiv

APRIL 2, 2024

A grant proposal is a structured document that outlines the need for funding, your nonprofit’s objectives, the proposed project’s scope, and the budget you need to accomplish your project. Writing a good grant proposal requires attention to detail, strategic thinking, and a compelling solution to a problem. Research previous winners.

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Get Fully Funded

MAY 18, 2021

A tiny nonprofit was launching a capital campaign to buy land and build a modular structure to meet the needs of the immigrants they served. Bigger, more comfortable, and homier than the modular structure the Board originally envisioned. Accepting unneeded donated items creates storage and clutter problems. Five bedrooms!

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Museum 2.0

DECEMBER 17, 2019

We won't go down the looming problem of the lack of physicians our nation will be facing in the upcoming decades, but instead let's look at museum work. This problem becomes compounded by the fact that many museum professionals get paid lower wages and therefore likely delay retirement. Money is the regulatory mechanism in museums.

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