EveryAction

JUNE 8, 2023

For example, an action alert message to legislators doesn’t have to be about a specific piece of legislation—it could be educating them or sharing a resource. This can be done through education as well as action. The goal is to move your position forward while engaging your supporter audience.

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The Nerdy NonProfit

NOVEMBER 13, 2020

Do you have extra time to spend on courses that, while fun and interesting, aren’t going to improve your life in a noticeable way? Examples, questions, and scenarios that reflect what the learner will encounter. Or, would you have questions like: “Who is the learner and what do they ‘like’? Make the course relatable.

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Have Fun - Do Good

APRIL 29, 2011

When Jeneen Robinson sat before the AME Church's Board of Examiners in the PBS documentary miniseries, The Calling , she was asked a "vocational discernment question": What is God trying to do with you, and through you, in ministry?" I can't rest unless I'm preaching and teaching and pouring out to God's people. It's like an itch.

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Bloomerang

JUNE 7, 2021

Who you call and how many donors you call will depend upon your own resources and the makeup of your donor base. TIP: Strapped for resources and folks to make calls? One fun way to organize this in this transitional year (with not everyone ready to join others inside) is via a Zoom call with volunteers.

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Bloomerang

APRIL 9, 2021

We are here to talk about the board’s role in fundraising and resource development, one of my favorite topics, and we got one of my favorite people also here to talk about it. If you’re going to share this with a board member, that’d be kind of fun too. So thank you, all, for being here. That’s awesome.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

AUGUST 20, 2014

There is no better resource than “ The Facilitator’s Guide To Participatory Decision-Making ” by Sam Kaner. (They also offer workshops ). The book is an extremely practical resource whether you are working on improving your skills or teaching others. You end your paraphrase with with “Did I get it?”

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Connection Cafe

MARCH 26, 2020

As a parent, I’m especially thankful for all the educational and entertainment resources available for my children. While reading through various social media posts, I noticed how many parents commented that the organizations providing these sanity-keeping resources will be getting a donation in the future. Virtual Tours.

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Amy Sample Ward

DECEMBER 15, 2010

I come across so many great conversations, ideas, and resources all over the web every day. To follow more of the things I find online, you can follow @amysampleward on Twitter (which is just a blog and resource feed), or find me on Delicious (for all kinds of bookmarks). And it's fun!

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JANUARY 8, 2014

In this post, I’m sharing my slides , resources , and practical engagement tips with a higher purpose. This example from Teach for America is a photograph of handwritten thank you note from a student to an TFA alumni thanking them for making a difference. 5. Images, Questions, and Comments Inspire Facebook Engagement.

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NetWits

NOVEMBER 5, 2010

But we want to give nonprofits with limited resources access to quality tools and training that will allow them to build a house social network even if they don’t have a big budget or a social networking guru on staff. You can see the fun part here—we’re building something with so many potential uses and such diverse audiences.

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Have Fun - Do Good

MAY 13, 2012

Hello Have Fun * Do Gooders! Juicy Blogging Circle: Grow Your Blogging Habit May 16-June 6, 2012 Virtual A fun group blog coaching experience! Receive ideas, tips, resources, and cheerleading from the Juicy Blogging Circle’s facilitator (me!). Share your blogging goals for the week. Shoot me an email.

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Connection Cafe

MARCH 25, 2020

Examples could include: Teach how to make a new recipe from items found at your food bank. Teach kids how to make a craft using common materials they likely have at home. Know what you plan to discuss, when you plan to ask questions, what you plan to encourage people to do, etc. Dog Training/Grooming 101.

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Qgiv

MARCH 31, 2021

If you’ve never hosted your own peer-to-peer campaign or you just want some general tips on how to make your next one better, this guide is here to answer any questions you have. Provide resources, 4. To start off, ask these questions about your peer-to-peer campaign: Will this be a purely virtual, in-person, or hybrid event ?

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JANUARY 5, 2012

It is a great opportunity to ponder the question: How to design and deliver learning experiences for nonprofits that connect, inspire, and engage? What are the best practices? The questions were keyed to when the content was explained. The last question asks students to tell Mazur what confused them.

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Get Fully Funded

NOVEMBER 11, 2021

Your training plan needs to have three basic elements, as described in the following questions: What is the problem or issue that’s currently facing your team? What did they learn by trial and error that would be great to get formal training in? Where are the roadblocks to efficiency? What training would help address that problem, and why?

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Qgiv

OCTOBER 27, 2021

Here are a few tasks you might want to turn over to volunteers or recruit more volunteers for: Day-to-day office work or cleaning Door greeter roles Docent positions Event committee positions Event registration and ticketing Event set-up and clean-up In-kind donations collection Marketing and promotion tasks Fundraising tasks Teaching or tutoring.

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Top Nonprofits

FEBRUARY 2, 2021

When it comes to training, your staff has new questions. Now to tie things back to e-learning: we know that the purpose of an e-learning course is to teach staff members how to do their jobs better. Use examples, questions, and scenarios that are representative of what team members will encounter.

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Bloomerang

OCTOBER 25, 2021

Another way to think about this is to ask this question: If your organization ceased to exist , how upset would your board members, volunteers, and supporters be? There are ways to take the wonderful work you’re doing and expand your reach to teach more people, heal more people, and enrich more lives. The answer to both questions?

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Qgiv

JUNE 22, 2021

To host a virtual peer-to-peer event successfully, you’re going to need the right tools and resources at your disposal. Their friends and family will love supporting a loved one while also watching a fun movie in the comforts of their own home. Using a mix of social media and email communications, more than 9.4

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Connection Cafe

DECEMBER 9, 2019

Pulling from years and years (and years) of teaching and training on change management and Bucknell’s recent move from its legacy CRM system after 14 years, we’ve mapped out some strategies for successfully onboarding teams and maintaining engaged and empowered users with ongoing education. Create a resources web page.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JUNE 27, 2008

The Be The Media Project is a community of people from nonprofits who are interested in learning and teaching about how social media strategies and tools can enable nonprofit organizations to create, compile, and distribute their stories and change the world. Tomorrow we want to know the key questions nonprofits should be asking, etc.

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Bloomerang

DECEMBER 10, 2021

The key to successful fundraising is asking smarter questions. We’re here to talk about “Raising More Money By Asking and Answering Better Questions.” There’s also a Q&A box specifically, your questions might be a little more visible there if you use that one. We’ll take questions at the end.

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NTEN

JUNE 10, 2011

By Laura Norvig, Special Librarian, the Resource Center. A robust knowledge sharing network might involve people sharing resources, best practices, worst practices, just-in-time information, quick tips, and deep thinking, all focused on a specific topic. Nptech resources can be found on delicious , flickr , slideshare , and Twitter.

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Have Fun - Do Good

OCTOBER 3, 2012

My hope is that Tara will be a resource for you either through her Playing Big program, her blog , her videos , or her Twitter feed. What I’ve found in people is a wise knowing that they are holding back their boldest ideas and most radical questions, that they are still playing the skeptic in relation to their own big callings to serve.

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ASU Lodestar Center

AUGUST 3, 2016

Anne Kotleba Lecturer/ Program Coordinator, Nonprofit Leadership Alliance Anne Kotleba is our newest staff member, joining us as a lecturer in the School of Community Resources & Development and coordinator of the Nonprofit Leadership Alliance and the Certified Nonprofit Professional Credential. Any secondary interests?

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JANUARY 27, 2010

I had sooo much fun creating and delivering it. I got an email from hosts Chris Uschan and Tony Veroeven who shared some numbers, "We had 190 attend and ask 140 questions in a back channel that looked like Clark Griswald 's House at Christmas!". After all, teaching others improves retention and helps consolidates one's own knowledge.

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Museum 2.0

OCTOBER 3, 2012

Her nerdy, entertaining videos about math evoke the power of free choice learning while poking gentle fun at the drudgery of how math is often taught in school. She was a free agent for a long time, until the beginning of 2012, when she joined the teaching staff of Khan Academy. We are reminded of how much fun learning can be.

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Tech Soup

APRIL 23, 2014

"For me, there's no one resource," she said. "It's a culmination or collaboration of those different resources – they help me make good decisions." Online training seemed like the best format for teaching technology planning. And Just for Fun. More Resources.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

APRIL 23, 2013

Here’s a curated transcript of the chat that I pulled together. But for this post, I’d like to dig into one of the questions, ”How do you measure your network so you know if it is growing stronger?” It is also a fun way to visualize your Twitter network – and there are some great free apps to do that.

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Have Fun - Do Good

FEBRUARY 28, 2006

What five resources - online or otherwise - would you point people to, if you wanted to give them an entry into your field of expertise?" Here are five resources I would recommend to someone who wanted to become a Manager Volunteers for a nonprofit: Cypbervpm list serv An international discussion group for volunteer managers.

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Achieve

DECEMBER 16, 2021

Using these resources, you can easily indulge your interests as a nonprofit professional, taking your career in directions you never imagined. Let’s look at five resources that can empower you to do so: . So, they’re a great opportunity for making professional connections for resource-seeking or career advancement purposes. .

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Qgiv

JUNE 1, 2021

We’ve created a ton of handy Giving Tuesday resources to help you get started! You can put together questions about your sermons, the church itself, or any other topics of interest to your congregation. You can teach a new craft and supply materials for a registration fee. Check out these additional resources!

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NTEN

JANUARY 19, 2012

We often say our greatest resource is our community; collectively, you have the knowledge, experience, and expertise to teach each other how to do your work better. We hope you will be able to take a break, see a little more of San Francisco, and have fun with your fellow nptechies.

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ASU Lodestar Center

MAY 11, 2011

With our CEOs support, this is my teams best opportunity to gain commitment from stakeholders on resourcing and supporting our programs priorities. Access resources! Remember, you are not alone and there are resources, tools and practices that you can access to help in your good work. Can You Teach a Watchdog New Tricks?

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ASU Lodestar Center

JUNE 1, 2011

Disclaimer Wednesday, June 1, 2011 How to Start a Nonprofit Organization: Questions to Ask Yourself Before You Make the Leap posted by Robert Duea , Professional in Residence ASU Lodestar Center and Pat Lewis , Senior Professional in Residence ASU Lodestar Center So, youre thinking about starting a nonprofit organization. Have questions?

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

SEPTEMBER 29, 2015

The purpose of the Design Lab was to answer two key questions to gather input for its strategy: How can the Brainerd Foundation and its philanthropic partners accelerate the transition to 21st Century advocacy for grantees? This concept responds to the question: “How do we develop a funding model that nourishes innovation and flexibility?”

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Have Fun - Do Good

APRIL 25, 2008

Anisha Desai is the Executive Director of the Women of Color Resource Center. Founded in 1990, the Women of Color Resource Center promotes the political, economic, social and cultural well-being of women and girls of color. Desai came to the Women of Color Resource Center from a Deputy Director role at United for a Fair Economy.

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