Beneblog: Technology Meets Society

FEBRUARY 20, 2011

Elaina Todd, an environmental planner who develops social marketing campaigns with the nonprofit conservation group Rare, is profiled in our most recent case study for Benetech’s Miradi software. Miradi, is used by nature conservation practitioners around the world to design, manage, monitor and learn from their projects.

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Have Fun - Do Good

SEPTEMBER 9, 2011

One Mango Tree uses a fair trade model to provide income-generating opportunities for women in impoverished and conflict areas around the globe. If you have suggestions for people I should interview, please email me at britt AT brittbravo DOT com. Connect with Kenya through CD Baby and Source Consulting Group.

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ASU Lodestar Center

JULY 23, 2018

The Lean Startup method teaches you how to drive a startup: how to steer, when to turn, and when to persevere and grow a business with maximum acceleration. The implementation of innovation and adaptability is a business model that should not only be accepted but embraced by the third sector and its donors (members).

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Museum 2.0

OCTOBER 3, 2012

She was a free agent for a long time, until the beginning of 2012, when she joined the teaching staff of Khan Academy. These instructors aren't teaching you the equivalent of a high school course in math or art history. Every day we read about ways that teaching, learning and accreditation are being unbundled.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

APRIL 5, 2011

Deep Analysis of Your Audience: I always (try) to do a thorough participant assessment before I teach any workshop or do a presentation. I conduct a survey that collects information that I can analyze against a maturity of practice model I’ve created called “ Crawl, Walk, Run, Fly.&#. I play a little PowerPoint Karoke.

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ASU Lodestar Center

OCTOBER 11, 2013

1 The report was based on 310 survey responses and 30 in-depth interviews with people identified as next gen donors. Impact is first This group wants to be "strategic." Will the next generation really create new institutions and models? Teaching philanthropy to children: why, how, what. Only time will tell. Stay tuned!

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

AUGUST 14, 2015

Try to avoid the content-driven model of an expert presenting for 50 minutes with a rushed Q/Q at the end. Recent research and teaching practice shows that the lecture is a less effective teaching tool. It is important to think about different delivery options – individual, small group, and large group activities.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JANUARY 5, 2012

It’s more fun to teach this way and more fun to learn this. We will use the time to debrief and experiment with a few of these techniques — some of which would have been modeled during the conference. Spectra Gram: This is a full group exercise that you can use to bring out ideas or different views on the topic.

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Non Profit Quarterly

DECEMBER 14, 2021

So, we assembled a research team at Arizona State University and set off on an ambitious research project to survey and interview volunteer managers across the U.S. In the spring and summer of 2021, with funding from AmeriCorps, our research team held focus groups with volunteer administrators about their technology use in the pandemic.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

APRIL 27, 2012

Peer Synergy is also important — and for the next six months we will have two tracks for the peer groups. In addition, we will be using a wiki to showcase learning and a private Facebook group for daily contact and “just in time” support. 3. Create A World Fusion Curriculum.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

AUGUST 12, 2015

Disruptive Model: School Project Crowdfunding. Why DonorsChoose.org is a Fundraising Game Changer: Charles Best started Donorschoose.org in 2000 out of his own frustrations of being a teacher in the Bronx who didn’t have the supplies he needed to teach effectively. Disruptive Model: Social Network. Disruptor: DonorsChoose.org.

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Have Fun - Do Good

JUNE 20, 2006

As I mentioned in yesterday's post, I splurged and got the interviews I've been doing for my podcast transcribed by CastingWords, so I'll be posting an interview each day this week. Yesterday I posted the transcript from my interview with Ilyse Hogue of the Rainforest Action Network. I like CastingWords overall. Britt Bravo: Hi!

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JANUARY 8, 2014

You might also consider setting up a Facebook Group just for alumni and encourage them to share this information. 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. Engage Alumni in Professional Conversations Related To Their Careers.

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Have Fun - Do Good

AUGUST 1, 2007

This summer I've been interviewing the innovators behind the 21 Projects that went to the NetSquared Conference (N2Y2) this year (I'm the Community Builder for NetSquared). I was particularly touched by my interview with Deron Beal, the Executive Director and founder of the Freecycle Network , so I thought I'd share it here.

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Amy Sample Ward

JUNE 6, 2011

We have community groups, schools, local leaders and people at every age, interest, and skill level. All those people and groups have just as many different goals, small and large. Some of the goals your organizations has for the community and the future are shared by that same community and other groups.

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Nonprofit Tech for Good

DECEMBER 14, 2022

They can be a video interview with the donor about the mission. Membership cards: Some people like being card-carrying members of a group. If you are with a job training program, maybe you make a bookmark that is focused on job interview tips. Observe your community research as it happens (polling, focus groups, town halls).

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Have Fun - Do Good

JUNE 22, 2006

Today's transcript is from my interview with the founders of Back to Earth , an organic catering and outdoor adventure company. One of the things I've enjoyed the most about interviewing people for this podcast is seeing the similarities and connections that arise between people. I hope that you enjoy their interview.

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Connection Cafe

OCTOBER 31, 2011

As someone interviewing for a top job, how can you detect warning signs of organizational system decay *before* your professional credibility is on the line? It doesn’t have to be a “buyer beware” situation, after all. I knew my brand – both mine personally, and my employer’s - would be blamed for any failures.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

APRIL 20, 2007

VTVigils VT Vigils VTvigils.org is a project of a diverse group of national campaigns and organizations not affiliated with Virginia Tech. Laura Quinn in her introductory post on the Open Content for Nonprofits NTEN Affinity group points to an article. For more on the topic, read this interview from the Six Degrees of Seperation.

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Eric Jacobsen Blog

MARCH 21, 2010

Sunday, March 21, 2010 Do Exit Interviews Knowing why an employee leaves your company can help you to reduce your employee turnover rate. So, do an exit interview whenever possible with each departing employee. The book is a quick and handy resource for any leader, manager or Human Resource professional.

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ASU Lodestar Center

MARCH 18, 2011

In contrast, the Current Population Survey is a government-sponsored telephone survey that interviewed 57,000 households in 2008. So, the ASU Lodestar Center survey, modeled on the Indiana University Center on Philanthropy Panel Study , emphasizes several major prompts. Can You Teach a Watchdog New Tricks? Prompts really matter.

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Eric Jacobsen Blog

OCTOBER 23, 2010

Saturday, October 23, 2010 Key Interviewing Questions To Ask To Identify Leaders The next time you are interviewing a candidate and you want to access their leadership skills, consider asking the candidate these questions: What personal qualities define you as a leader? Describe a situation when these qualities helped you lead others.

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Have Fun - Do Good

SEPTEMBER 9, 2009

Below is an edited transcript of my Big Vision Podcast interview with Jose in late August. What we do here in Oakland, and throughout the Bay Area, is we work with inner city companies that not only have a scalable model, but also have a social responsibility aspect built into their business model. We interview the teams.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JULY 6, 2006

As you'll note from that article, Nedra has also been exploring Second Life and we bumped into each other at the TechSoup space there where we completed our interview. ve been teaching a course on social marketing at the UCLA School of Public Health, which has been a fun experience for me. Why did you start blogging?

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Bloomerang

NOVEMBER 13, 2021

And, as I was sharing earlier, we usually teach this in person over a period of two to three hours, so, you all are getting the, what we’ll call, the boot-camp version of “Measure of Success.” Maybe I am teaching computer classes, or English as a second language classes, maybe I’m teaching those and I have 10 students.

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Care2

MARCH 13, 2009

60) Search « 5 Quick Steps to Better SEO | Main | Tech & Style Tips for Conducting Blog Interviews » Tuesday Mar 10 2009 Top 10 SXSW Interactive Panels Your Nonprofit Should Attend Tuesday, March 10, 2009 at 05:27PM | by Allyson Kapin Are you planning to check out SXSW Interactive this year?

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The Modern Nonprofit

OCTOBER 26, 2021

We’re talking about putting together a core group of people that you can have reach out to their friends. But the closer you can get to that model, the better. Set up face-to-face meetings with a very small group of people that can write relatively large checks. The fundamental key for effective crowdfunding is engagement.

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Bloomerang

SEPTEMBER 24, 2021

It’s a good group. I could practically teaching this class. We may go through rough patches, but because we’re working together, because it’s not just dictated by a small group of people what the plan is going to be or a top-down approach, folks have worked together. Steven: Yeah. I’m telling you.

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Bloomerang

NOVEMBER 26, 2021

Now, I have a whole nother talk I can give you on the nonprofit business model, but let me just tell you, nonprofits as businesses are more complex than for-profits. One is that we tend to do all this research in the traditional strategic planning model. So today, I’m going to teach you a bit about how to actually do that.

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Have Fun - Do Good

JUNE 21, 2006

Today I am posting the transcript from my interview with Brahm Ahmadi, the Executive Director of People's Grocery. If you are inspired by the interview and live in the Bay Area, People's Grocery is launching its 2-acre farm in Sunol this weekend and they are looking for volunteers. But we wanted to do it.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

FEBRUARY 24, 2011

I’ll leading several workshops on The Networked Nonprofit. I’ll be co-teaching with Mary Joyce, Jessica Dheere and Mohamad Najem and working with an amazing group of people from six Arab countries. When you have a group of people working together in a network-culture and are facile with the tools, it can be unstoppable.

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ASU Lodestar Center

SEPTEMBER 7, 2011

By this time, there was an official California Condor Recovery Program that included many groups: government agencies managing the program under the Endangered Species Act , environmental organizations, Native American groups, scientists, and zoos. The number of birds increased quickly. A puppet feeds a condor chick. This is success.

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Bloomerang

APRIL 9, 2021

Here’s the industry that we’re trying to fill, and now here’s a list of potential candidates, let’s interview these candidates.” ” And when you’re interviewing those candidates, of course, you’re going to ask some questions. This is the model where you’re moving to.

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Eric Jacobsen Blog

JANUARY 15, 2011

Saturday, January 15, 2011 Reach Communications & Leadership Expert David Grossman Via His New App If you havent engaged with David Grossmans website, Blog and incredibly useful eBooks, make a point of checking them all out at his website for The Grossman Group. David just launched his new App, called " Ask David."

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Eric Jacobsen Blog

DECEMBER 14, 2010

Tuesday, December 14, 2010 Ask Your Customers To Help You Write Your Strategic Plan Mike Brown, the founder of the Kansas City company called, The Brainzooming Group, encourages business leaders to solicit feedback from their customers when creating a strategic plan. How To Improve Customer Service With The Telephone.

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Eric Jacobsen Blog

SEPTEMBER 7, 2010

To do that, you need to ask specific questions that may not be ones you currently include in your exit interviews. Fortunately, Richard Finnegan, shares in his new book, Rethinking Retention in Good Times and Bad , four key questions you should include in your exit interviews: Why did you decide to leave us?

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Eric Jacobsen Blog

DECEMBER 30, 2010

Summarize group consensus after each decision point during a meeting 18. Teach something new to your team 24. Be a good role model 46. View every problem as an opportunity to grow 17. Praise when compliments are earned 19. Be decisive 20. Say "thank you" and sincerely mean it 21. Send written thank you notes 22. Be humble 47.

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