The Modern Nonprofit

MAY 16, 2023

We all know those magical events that not only raise funds but also leave a lasting impression on everyone present. The Power of Events in Nonprofit Fundraising Events are a game-changer for nonprofits, and here’s why: Raise funds : Events help you generate funds through ticket sales, sponsorships, auctions, and donations.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JANUARY 5, 2022

Update & Review My Work-Life Balance Plan: In my workshops on personal and organizational wellbeing, I help nonprofits improve their personal resilience through life-work balance and self-care. In the first half of 2021, Allison Fine and I gave many presentations on our report, AI4Giving , funded by the Gates Foundation.

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Greater Giving

JUNE 1, 2023

Here are some ways in which philanthropy can make a meaningful impact: Funding LGBTQIA+ Nonprofits : Donating to LGBTQIA+ nonprofits provides essential resources for initiatives aimed at supporting the community. Volunteerism and Skills-Based Support: Volunteering time and expertise can be invaluable to LGBTQIA+ nonprofits.

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Bloomerang

JULY 19, 2023

Due to this collective mastery, your work offers an invaluable skill set that uniquely positions development professionals for leadership at nonprofit and philanthropic agencies. Do the necessary market research to learn which foundations—local, regional and national—are funding nonprofits like yours.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JANUARY 2, 2022

Update & Review My Work-Life Balance Plan: In my workshops on personal and organizational wellbeing, I help nonprofits improve their personal resilience through life-work balance and self-care. In the first half of 2021, Allison Fine and I gave many presentations on our report, AI4Giving , funded by the Gates Foundation.

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Professional Facilitation Reflection Journal 96

Qgiv

FEBRUARY 26, 2024

Bake sale Bake sales are always a delightful way to raise funds for your organization. Your participants get the chance to showcase their unique skills–whether it’s singing, dancing, or any other talent they’d like to show off. You can also bid off the best looks to boost your funds from the event.

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NTEN

MAY 23, 2013

However, through the community contributions to the NTC Scholarship Fund, Amy was able to attend this year and came back bursting with information to share: Congratulations on an amazing conference! So much is experienced in such a short amount of time.

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Get Fully Funded

FEBRUARY 9, 2021

These funds are often depleted quickly, so act immediately when opportunities are announced. About the Author A grant writing expert, executive and development coach, fundraising consultant, and national fundraising trainer, Mandy Pearce, launched Funding for Good, Inc. Funding For Good, Inc. Learn more, visit [link].

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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. Professional development plans/funds.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

NOVEMBER 6, 2014

The learning objectives for the workshop were two fold: Participants understand best practices and how to apply. Develop a first draft of a crowd funding strategy for their organization. This was the first 90 minutes of the workshop, and while content and interaction kept in active learning mode — the next step was a synthesis.

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Blue Avocado

FEBRUARY 6, 2024

The final third might be the bane of a productive, accountable board: they simply won’t do much at all, except (hopefully) donate funds. Although not bad behavior per se, it’s at least gauche to ask others to financially support a cause that you don’t—and part of being a board member means generating funds through networking.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JANUARY 4, 2017

This past year took me to London to teach nonprofit leaders at workshops on digital strategy hosted by LinkedIn and Social Misfits, and to Cambodia to teach a series of workshops for Women’s Rights NGOs hosted by Wake International.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

DECEMBER 14, 2011

A true public/private partnership, the funding partners include Microsoft and craiglist Charitable Fund. The curriculum is based on the ideas in the Networked Nonprofit and includes social media strategy development as well as practical skills training. Flickr Photo by SMEX Beirut. I’d like to share some of these below.

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EveryAction

FEBRUARY 23, 2016

Why we like it: beside the more than 70 Idea Labs, two Keynote speakers, Snap Learning sessions, and Ignite sessions, early risers will also love Sunrise Sessions , which include a "photography safari," early morning yoga, and an experiential dance workshop. Nonprofit Technology Conference (16NTC). Where: San Jose, CA. Cause Camp.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

SEPTEMBER 1, 2015

I’m giving my support as well as sharing my teaching and technology skills with Women’s Rights organizations in Ukraine. We need to raise an additional $10,000 through this crowd funding campaign to help bring as many women’s organizations as we can to training in Kiev in October.

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Whole Whale

NOVEMBER 8, 2022

ICA Fund Good Jobs. There are two fundamental things we love about ICA Fund Good Job’s annual report : The table of contents and the graphics. Yout Build’s mission is to provide underserved young adults with the education, training and life skills necessary to become gainfully employed and build a better future.

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Qgiv

JANUARY 4, 2022

Have people register for your event, then livestream the class to your participants so they can learn some new skills and recipes from the comfort of their own homes. Check out how Big Brothers Big Sisters of the Bluegrass put their supporters’ hunting skills to the test with their Scavenger Hunt for Kids’ Sake fundraiser.

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Get Fully Funded

JULY 19, 2023

For example, if you’ve learned that your members are interested in professional development opportunities, you can host more workshops and networking events. Member-led workshops: These events are an opportunity for your members to develop their skills while learning from others in your nonprofit.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JANUARY 4, 2016

In addition to the Emerging Leaders Peer Learning project, I continued to serve as the facilitator for a learning network of community foundations who are hosting Giving Days, funded by the Knight Foundation. I also taught networked leadership workshops as part of a larger team working with different social change networks.

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ASU Lodestar Center

OCTOBER 19, 2022

According to Independent Sector , increased competition among nonprofits and a perceived increase in the scarcity of donors and available funding make it difficult to raise money consistently. Conferences, retreats, and workshops. Fundraiser talent investment interventions. Pay and compensation: Increase base salaries.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MARCH 8, 2016

We need more better policies to address gender parity and more programs that build the capacity of nonprofits and the tech skills of women and girls in the development world. Noel is has a crowd funding campaign to help raise money to rebuild after the devastating fire. The Tech Girls of Dharavi. You can make a donation here.

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Bloomerang

AUGUST 11, 2021

If you realize that you need more funds to offer an equitable fee, you may want to seek sponsorship outside of your organization to supplement the project budget. . Example criteria include: Demonstrates a commitment to JEDI practices in their skills and experience. Broaden your reach. . This is a short-term and long-term strategy. .

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MAY 31, 2016

But for now, Listening and feedback loops are important skills for nonprofit leaders and for organizations to get better results. In my training work with emerging nonprofit leaders , teaching how to ask powerful questions and hone your listening skills is part of the leadership development curriculum and workshops.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JANUARY 23, 2012

I’ve been curating resources and teaching workshops on the topic of information coping skills for a couple of years. His chapter on “Data Literacy” describes what sounds a lot of good content curation skills minus the social sharing part. He suggests these goals: 1. Now, that’s inspiring!

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Amy Sample Ward

MARCH 1, 2012

don’t embark on fundraising without a plan for using the funds, we can’t adopt a new fundraising approach without proper training. For me, the key to this report is that we can’t determine the success of a major fundraising initiative solely by the amount of funds it raises. Just as organizations (usually!)

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Qgiv

SEPTEMBER 28, 2022

Often, your organization will spend more time and funds on donor acquisition than on donor cultivation or retention. Thank them for helping you raise funds to carry out your mission and share what their support will allow your nonprofit to do in the coming year. Why is year-end donor cultivation so important?

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JANUARY 2, 2015

One of my main projects this past year, and continuing into 2015 was to serve as the facilitator for a learning network of community foundations who are hosting Giving Days, funded by the Knight Foundation. To be successful as a facilitator in a peer learning isn’t about subject matter expertise, although having that knowledge helps.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MAY 22, 2018

Note from Beth: In my recent book, The Happy, Healthy Nonprofit and leading workshops for nonprofits all over the world on this topic, I continue to be passionate about the need to build resilient and sustainable nonprofit leaders and organizations. strategies, adaptive leadership, organizational wellness, unrestricted funding,?

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MARCH 21, 2012

I also developed the curriculum for the 15 workshops that were localized and delivered by the in-country trainers to over 220 NGOs over 9-month period. 83% of participants are applying their social media skills to engage local and global communities. The program accomplished the following: 220 organizations participated.

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NTEN

NOVEMBER 21, 2014

We have specific skills needs for WordPress and Salesforce projects in Taproot''s flagship Service Grant Program and have larger initiatives in this period of growth in the pro bono movement. The summit was a great avenue to workshop this topic and design some ideas we can test.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

FEBRUARY 28, 2011

A true public/private partnership, the funding partners include Microsoft and craiglist Charitable Fund. Today in Beirut there were peaceful protests , but in another part of the city the E-Mediat project participants gathered for the first day of the Train the Trainers eight-day workshop. February 27, 2011. Working with NGOs.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MAY 7, 2013

The camp was organized by Thai Fund Foundation in partnership with Opendream , , Thai Netizen Network , Frontier Foundation and Tactical Technology Collective. I was invited to present a key note at the Mekong ICT Camp in Thailand about nonprofits, social media, and measurement. The camp took place in Cha-am, Petchburi, Thailand.

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Have Fun - Do Good

APRIL 15, 2009

During the capacity building conference, students took "core curriculum" workshops that covered asset-based community development, grantwriting, impact assessment and metrics, and mission and vision development. and business skills. Patrick O'Heffernan also blogged from the event on his Social Edge blog, Dr. O on Funding.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MARCH 31, 2014

A study ( [link] ) funded by the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation and MacArthur Foundation has found “when digital games were compared to other instruction conditions without digital games, there was a moderate to strong effect in favor of digital games in terms of broad cognitive competencies.”. Around Gender.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

OCTOBER 20, 2009

This includes leadership, social innovation, communications, branding, graphic facilitation, financial and funding models. I taught a very brief workshop in strategic social media using the social media strategy game. Having graphic notes during the workshop was an asset. All of the instruction is aligned to a network frame.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MAY 31, 2012

” I often used the video at social media workshops back then to generate discussion about how our world is changing. We have witnessed the Twitter powered Arab Spring and more recently the intense backlash at the Susan Komens Foundation for withdrawing funding from Planned Parenthood and the uproar.

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Eric Jacobsen Blog

NOVEMBER 11, 2021

We were also teaching business students, leading innovation and entrepreneurship workshops, and it suddenly hit us that this was something extraordinary, a larger story. The Maker has the skill and confidence to pivot, to do what we call The Shift, to find demand and zero in on the target customer. Storytelling is key.

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