Tech Soup

SEPTEMBER 8, 2017

But what really makes a story shine is a strong, concise message, told in a way only your unique perspective and voice can. Are you telling a personal story, creating a fundraising pitch, inspiring others to care about a cause , or teaching potential customers about your business? Now comes the fun part.

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NetWits

NOVEMBER 5, 2010

Material like this requires a level of pre-existing expertise or a person with a great deal of time to commit to teaching him/herself a complex new skills set. You can see the fun part here—we’re building something with so many potential uses and such diverse audiences. And you can see the challenge here (see previous sentence).

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Tech Soup

JUNE 27, 2016

Then imagine how this teaching can impact children's lives, transforming their journey through life. Best Use of Humor — The World Is Fun: Do 1 Thing. The nonprofit The World is Fun shows us a great option: make volunteering fun and easy. Story of Tomorrow Winner — SEEDS final. This is a powerful idea.

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Have Fun - Do Good

SEPTEMBER 13, 2011

It helped me find my blogging voice. I love teaching this class, and think it's super fun. You’ve presented resources for the science, and great tips for the art.” “So So sad the class is over! THANK YOU. I loved it.” Britt’s e-course was great. It provided me with solid ideas and steps to improve my blogging practice.

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NTEN

DECEMBER 14, 2021

I was named to the inaugural class of Distinguished Fellows of the Association of Fundraising Professionals (AFP) in 2017, became a Certified Fundraising Executive (CFRE) in 2001, and have traveled all over North America teaching fundraising and nonprofit management. What do you look forward to the most in this role?

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Have Fun - Do Good

OCTOBER 5, 2011

Two deeply traumatic experiences called her to listen to a stirring intuitive voice. If you live in the Bay Area, Julie will be teaching The Art of Being Unabashedly Female at Teahouse Studio October 6-November 10. ** Writing this post has been an illuminating process. Some might call it passion.

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NonProfit Hub

OCTOBER 27, 2017

Set up a way to donate online, create a social media campaign and promote it on a national scale and give the campaign a little extra something: whether that be a fundraising goal by a certain date, a fun competition between donors or asking for a specific item on your wishlist. This gave them greater voice in the government.

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Have Fun - Do Good

OCTOBER 3, 2012

Teaching the Playing Big women’s leadership program is now the focus of my work. Creating and leading Playing Big has allowed me to have my own “have fun, do good” journey. Where are you betraying your voice, your gifts? More than 250 women have been through the program. What does playing big look like for you?

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

APRIL 27, 2012

100% of participants implement an action learning project that uses measurement to help improve their practice, share insights with peers, and identify opportunities to amplify each other’s voices through social media. It almost always naturally leads to discussion about how to amplify each other’s voices using social media.

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Pakistan NGO Network Exercise 111

ASU Lodestar Center

AUGUST 3, 2016

Also, the importance of telling your own story with your own voice. When they leave here, I want my students to continue to question, learn, teach, and continue to use their education to change the world. A lot of what we existed were drop-in projects—people coming in to teach one activity or work on a project and then leave.

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ASU Lodestar Center

MARCH 16, 2011

.&# I agreed with him and thanked him, with a hoarse voice, a handshake and a nod. I hope to teach my own children, someday, all that I’ve learned about service and citizenship. Keeping the Volunteering Torch Lit Research Friday: Take our fun quiz on the Arizona. Can You Teach a Watchdog New Tricks?

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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. Now is when the fun really starts.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JANUARY 5, 2012

The class typically erupts in a cacophony of voices, as it did that first time he told students to talk to each other because he couldn’t figure out what else to do. It’s more fun to teach this way and more fun to learn this. This is important for both online and offline instructional delivery.

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Tech Soup

SEPTEMBER 7, 2011

Whether you're educating yourself or your staff, or teaching others technical skills, we can help you stay up-to-date on the latest technology, fundraising tools, or development strategies. Learning to type is made fun and easy with UltraKey 5 (admin fee: $15) by Bytes of Learning. Enroll in Online Courses from easyLearning.

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ASU Lodestar Center

MAY 27, 2011

"Convergence" makes the following assertion: "To have a credible voice in this [technologically advanced] environment, nonprofits need to empower everyone in their organization to be a spokesperson." The report emphasizes moving away from one stylized corporate message to a natural, multi-voiced approach to connecting with the public.

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Eric Jacobsen Blog

JANUARY 31, 2016

Drawing on extensive research, including a comprehensive, original workplace survey and in-depth interviews with Millennial managers, Millennials Who Manage , offers teaches Millennial readers how to overcome workplace perceptions and become great leaders. It is not fun but it will not last long.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MARCH 3, 2011

The national anthem from Tunisia brought tears to my eyes – in part – because feeling in which they sang it – and the team leader, Chema, has a beautiful singing voice. Honor the more advanced participants and make them teaching assistants. In the above video, Naeema Zarif. explains the how and why.

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Forum One

AUGUST 17, 2009

Part of the fun of using online tools during an event is the way in which technology decentralizes communication and conversation across participants and presenters. Help people use the tools you've chosen - don't do it for them, but teach them how to be successful on their own. You can't do it all yourself, and you shouldn't!

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Bloomerang

DECEMBER 16, 2021

You teach people how to relate to you. The moment that they get your communication, whether that’s over email, if it’s a phone call, if it’s a text message, if it’s a voice memo, if it’s a personalized video, whatever it is, this is a chance for you. It’s just the most fun ever. ” Boom.

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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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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JUNE 25, 2012

100% of participants implement an action learning project that uses measurement to help improve their practice, share insights with peers, and identify opportunities to amplify each other’s voices through social media. 100% of participants implement a process and write a social media policy that addresses organizational adoption issues.

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NTEN

FEBRUARY 10, 2015

Discover how the power of social sharing can shine a light on a serious issue and poke fun at the inanity of discrimination. Having worked in the technology department for a diverse and rapidly expanding nonprofit focused on the inclusion of people with disabilities, Jeff has been a part of his share of poor decisions and “teaching moments.”

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ASU Lodestar Center

FEBRUARY 25, 2011

Or, how about this one: "Make sure these kids stay busy and have fun; but what we really need is for them to be successful in school, contribute at home, and work effectively with people from different cultures towards a better world." And those of you who are nonprofit CEOs are sure to find some kindred voices there!

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The Modern Nonprofit

MAY 30, 2023

Fun and Creative Ways to Show Support for Pride Month Supporting Pride Month can be important for your nonprofit organization, even if it isn’t specifically focused on human rights. As a nonprofit leader, you can show your support for the LGBTQ+ community in many different ways during Pride Month and beyond.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

SEPTEMBER 29, 2015

The next morning participants gathered to make individual and collective sense of the ideas that were shared by experts. The techniques that help you get at understanding are not always fun or easy to do. It requires stepping back and seeing the big picture. We finished with a group photo and fun co-creation reflection.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

DECEMBER 31, 2008

Social Networking: Part of Your Job or Just for Fun? Organizational Versus Personal Voice on A Blog. Be A Voice for Darfur: Great Example of A Multi-Channel Campaign. Teaching Your Kids About Philanthropy. New Year's Resolution: Do Something About That Pile of E-Waste. Micro Fundraising and Trust.

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ASU Lodestar Center

FEBRUARY 17, 2011

The Finalists are: Adoption Coalition of Texas , Austin, Texas Community Voice Mail Federation , Seattle, Washington Feed More, Inc. Keeping the Volunteering Torch Lit Research Friday: Take our fun quiz on the Arizona. Can You Teach a Watchdog New Tricks? Kellogg Foundation. Richmond, Virginia Graduate! All You Need is Love.

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Have Fun - Do Good

DECEMBER 7, 2010

A big thanks to the Big Vision podcast listener/Have Fun, Do Good reader, Terez Williamson , who suggested that I interview Laura for this show. She said, "You know, Laura, I think that birthdays aren't any fun, and I don't like them. This is fun." This is so fun. It's very fun. So, that was really, really fun.

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ASU Lodestar Center

JUNE 10, 2011

I didnt follow the voice prompts to a real person, but Id guess that the founders abandoned their nonprofit and maintained their for-profit consulting gig instead. Keeping the Volunteering Torch Lit Research Friday: Take our fun quiz on the Arizona. Can You Teach a Watchdog New Tricks? Fear not, nonprofit professionals!

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Museum 2.0

JUNE 24, 2010

She made it clear from the start that we were expected to address each other by name and have fun with each other. This brought other voices into the tour, but more importantly, it modeled a potential interaction that we could have. Passion, confidence, and personal connections to the content--those are the hard things to teach.

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Tech Soup

FEBRUARY 12, 2016

Remember that most content is consumed and discarded, and so use content as a teaching moment, and a way to engage and involve your audience in your work. She has created a community around making fitness fun and also a little bit crazy. And giving them a way to have their voice heard and make a difference is essential.

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Have Fun - Do Good

SEPTEMBER 16, 2009

Next week I'll be teaching a session about blogging during a nonprofit social media webinar, We Are Media, presented by NTEN. Example: The Environmental Defense Fund's blog, Climate 411 , "is the voice of the experts at Environmental Defense Fund, providing plain-English explanations of climate change science, technology, policy, and news."

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ASU Lodestar Center

MARCH 25, 2011

21% can voice cash flow concerns with funders. Keeping the Volunteering Torch Lit Research Friday: Take our fun quiz on the Arizona. Can You Teach a Watchdog New Tricks? But can we talk candidly about our options to support that growth financially? 5% feel able to discuss their debt burden. Fear not, nonprofit professionals!

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Have Fun - Do Good

MAY 31, 2010

In other words, we can think about investing in agricultural development, agricultural knowledge, and agricultural education where we are working with community based groups in developing countries to help support those groups' teaching farmers how to adopt some of the most sophisticated organic methods, and agri-ecological methods.

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Bloomerang

SEPTEMBER 12, 2021

It’s going to be a fun one. But a lot of fun. I that’s what I do for a living or aren’t you teaching us about fundraising today, Jesse?” And we won actually a lot of awards for that and it was really fun to see that come in. And it was really fun to experience that. Thanks for joining us.

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Care2

MARCH 4, 2009

” 10) Find Your Voice And Know Your Audiences: While it’s important to determine the kind of voice you want your website content to project it’s also critical that you tailor each web section to your target audience. Having external voice to share with kitchen sinkers about managing the web is invaluable. (I

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Have Fun - Do Good

JUNE 24, 2009

Give voice to new and alternative actors. teaching credentials, MSW's) Curse of professionalism: A bunch of smart people get in a room and decide that they have a solution to a problem when the answer actually lies somewhere between that room and the people affected by the problem. Engage people who are closest to the problem.

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