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5 Design Techniques That Will Increase the Lifespan of Your Nonprofit’s Website

Nonprofit Tech for Good

While these techniques can’t change the past, here are some design ideas to help your organization adjust and optimize your website in the future. Knowing who visits your site might not seem like a design technique at first glance. How they use this technique : They anticipate the visitor’s emotional journey.

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Trainer’s Notebook: Just A Few Participatory Facilitation Techniques

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

Conferences are a great opportunity to take workshops and observe the facilitator’s techniques. Many of us do this and take content notes, but it is also great to take notes about instructional design and facilitation techniques. Others have also documented and used the technique or taught others how to do it.

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How to Use Design Thinking to Improve Your Nonprofit’s Digital Strategy

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

We used some Human Centered Design techniques from their “ Innovating for People ” design methods recipe book. It was the most stimulating web platform strategy session that I have ever experienced! I love being exposed to new ways of working, taking process notes, observing techniques, and thinking about how to apply to my own work.

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10 GivingTuesday Statistics for 2023 Every Fundraiser Should Know

Neon CRM

Americans who donate on GivingTuesday are slightly more common than Americans with green eyes , and that means there are millions of opportunities to reach new and existing supporters. People are drawn to the idea of the collective impact they can make together. gave money, 20% donated goods, and 18% volunteered.

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Trainer’s Notebook: The Digital Nonprofit: A Participatory Workshop

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

The session kicked off with a Spectragram exercise involving the full group. I learned this technique from Allen Gunn from Aspiration over ten years ago at 2007 Penguin Day. My colleague, Dirk Slater , has written about how he applies the Spectragram technique in his technology/activist trainings. Opening Exercise.

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Fore! 7 Top Charity Golf Outing Games [Updated for 2021]

OneCause

This popular golf tournament fundraising idea works great for best ball golf outings. ” Whichever golfer can put their ball on the green closest to the hole wins. Only one golfer can take a shot to the green a the time, so give the other players something to do while they wait for their turn! Closest to the Pin.

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Majora Carter’s Eco-Entrepreneurship

Beneblog: Technology Meets Society

Majora realized that creating green projects and jobs empowers communities to see themselves in a different light, and that beautiful things happen in neighborhoods where people feel invested in their own economic and environmental well being.

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