Bloomerang

JUNE 11, 2021

Lindsay Simonds will decode the top five most impactful ways people contribute to communities. If you’re watching the recording, hope you’re having a good day because we are here to talk about some creative ways that people are contributing to the community. Full Transcript: – [Lindsay] Okay. . I’m Steven.

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People Community Video Podcast 81

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JULY 6, 2012

Note from Beth: Facebook Groups can be used to help build communities and for deeper engagement and learning with your audience or peers. My staff and I invited many people in our networks and our professional communities who we felt were “ripe” for the conversation. We dropped the formal book club structure (Week 2: Question 3 ….”)

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Forum One

AUGUST 9, 2023

Once the website is built—the scaffolding, structure, and design—your content is what brings it to life. But when you start adding up all the pages and posts and images and assets on your website, this might feel like a daunting project. How many people on the content team need to look at each piece of content?

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.orgSource

JULY 10, 2023

We began this project because, as early adopters of digital solutions, we could see that technology was creating waves and that a rogue tsunami was not out of the question. We thought we could help our colleagues prepare for that disruption by gathering advice from people who greet change as an unexpected advantage.

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sgEngage

APRIL 17, 2024

For organizational leaders, deputizing—and supporting—the right person at your organization will return huge dividends in the form of clean, organized, and well-documented data structures. The Association for Institutional Research ( AIR ) provides resources and connections for those “working at the intersection of people and data.”

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Qgiv

JULY 17, 2023

Most people are yearning for and want to provide inclusion. Those in positions of power can invite traditionally excluded people to the table, but to sustain meaningful dialogue, everyone must have some skills to hold these important and often difficult conversations. We need to meet people where they are and not “other” people.

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Activities Active Activism Organization 97

Candid

APRIL 13, 2021

The $126 million grant, to Easterseals, is an outlier in size and structure—it actually represents an aggregation of grants to a set of individual Easterseals chapters. Grant coding by issue area and beneficiary group. The patterns behind Scott’s grantmaking are much clearer when it comes to issue area and beneficiary group.

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Forum One

MAY 23, 2024

Passing the design ball” on projects similarly builds skills amongst team members. Here are some ways to practice that effort: Active Listening Sessions I encourage structured listening sessions where team members take turns sharing their thoughts and concerns, while others actively listen without interruption.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

AUGUST 1, 2017

A reflective process, whether it is a structured process for individuals or groups, can give us insights about what worked and what could be improved. It is asking the simple question of how to improve a process, project, or even the meeting itself. It can also be used mid-way through a project or strategy or at the end.

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Achieve

AUGUST 25, 2022

such as weekly check-ins with the people you manage. to deliver all the information team members require to take on a new project or plan effectively. You might use these presentations to announce new initiatives, projects, or programs. . Research these groups and craft presentations that resonate with them. According to.

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Skills Public Help Grant 96

sgEngage

APRIL 2, 2024

Update Assigned Tasks One major pitfall to avoid during periods of staff turnover at your grantmaking organization is leaving ongoing activities or requests assigned to people who no longer work there. Some solutions like Blackbaud Grantmaking even have a batch update tool that enables users to make global changes to a group of records.

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Data Blackbaud Policy Database 80

Bloomerang

APRIL 7, 2022

These organizations are currently offering grant and funding opportunities and/or accepting letters of inquiry or project ideas. . They support artist-driven film and new media storytelling projects (documentary films) that explore aspects of inequality, as well as the organizations and networks that support these documentary projects.

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Arts Culture Grant Fund 109

Beneblog: Technology Meets Society

FEBRUARY 19, 2014

The context We’ve been supporting the World Blind Union and other groups in the pursuit of a Treaty for the Visually Impaired for the last five or six years. The Stakeholders Platform and the TIGAR project were time-limited and needed to be replaced by a new structure. I had a sinking feeling in my stomach.

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Saleforce Nonprofit

JUNE 10, 2022

When making a technology change, change management is a process of applying a structured approach to transition from the old system to the new system. Change management also helps you get buy-in so that your staff will support the project and gives them a clear reason why they are going through the change. A “Why” Statement.

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Bloomerang

OCTOBER 30, 2023

Less than one in five new donors who donated on GivingTuesday will give a second gift, according to the Fundraising Effectiveness Project. Plus, you customized your messaging for each group to increase relevance and impact, correct? You may inspire more people to donate, knowing their contribution will be doubled.

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Saleforce Nonprofit

OCTOBER 25, 2021

In addition to bringing together people from across these sectors, Open Source Commons equips volunteers with the spaces, tools, and training they need to collaborate and create apps, content, and programs that benefit the greater Salesforce.org community. This project has also really elevated my Salesforce knowledge and experience.”.

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Education Collaboration Open Source Module 73

Candid

NOVEMBER 17, 2021

We listened to the "rising voices of the people we serve" as a foundation staffer framed it recently. These grant forms enabled TAG to not only determine the level of overlap between questions (39 percent) but also to identify groups of shared questions. Corporate Delegation and Oversight, Organizational Structure (5 percent).

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Get Fully Funded

JULY 9, 2023

Unlike your standard fundraiser, a capital campaign focuses on JUST the project at hand, and the impact that project will have on those you serve. Money raised during a capital campaign can only be used for that project. Many people make their first gift through a capital campaign. New major donors. It won’t work.

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AccelEvents

SEPTEMBER 4, 2020

It allows people to meet face-to-face and encourages an easy exchange. How can you bring people together through meaningful interaction when you cannot get them into the same room? Are you trying to connect local business leaders for a particular project? An online event does not present these same opportunities. .

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Whole Whale

MARCH 22, 2022

We also use some terms like “fiat” (Government-backed money), “getting rugged” (ripped off by a project), “mooning” (rapidly increasing in value) and others along the way, sorry for the jargon but don’t worry WAGMI (we’re all going to make it). Young people 4X more likely to hold cryptocurrency than older generations.

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Donor Difference Ukraine Podcast 52

Allegiance Group

AUGUST 22, 2022

When Progress Sitefinity 14 DX was announced, Allegiance Group was thrilled to learn it would be based on Microsoft.NET Core. Allegiance Group uses Docker Desktop for local development and containerizing applications for uniform deployment across different environments. We will go over that in a future blog post about deployments.

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Get Fully Funded

APRIL 6, 2021

For example, an organization that supports homeless families could have an Advisory Board made up of formerly and current homeless people. Assembling a group to travel to one of the organization’s work sites and volunteer. Advisory Boards Need Structure. People get involved in volunteerism to feel a sense of purpose.

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Roles Nonprofit Government Advice 111

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

AUGUST 27, 2010

Colorado Project. The morning had two segments, beginning with content and small group exercises on several themes from the Networked Nonprofit including culture change , transparency , and simplicity. Geoff Livingston did a great job at live blogging the first section in the morning. View more presentations from Beth Kanter.

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Bloomerang

JUNE 5, 2024

Consider using scoring rubrics or structured interview protocols to standardize evaluations and minimize bias to keep things equitable. The more people know about your cause, the wider your net. Collaborate with professional associations, industry groups, and affinity networks relevant to your organization’s mission and sector.

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fusionSpan

FEBRUARY 17, 2022

Trailhead is a learning platform built by Salesforce to allow seasoned Salesforce veterans and people new to the platform the ability to get hands-on Salesforce experience. Trailhead’s 4 different main options: Projects, Modules, Trails, and Trailmixes. You will earn Trailhead badges as you complete your modules, projects, and trails.

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Module Badge Organization Skills 52

sgEngage

DECEMBER 18, 2023

More people working in or with grantmaking organizations now have some term related to knowledge work in their titles or job descriptions. Professionals tasked with a knowledge role often organize what feels like chaos—to create structure and focus attention on the most important information. Fast forward to today….

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Knowledge Philanthropy Change Work 72

Bloomerang

FEBRUARY 26, 2024

For many it’s simply reading and writing, which is the way most of our schools are structured. There are plenty of books, articles, and research papers (see, e.g., here , here , and here for just a few) on the topic of how people learn, but the reality is there’s a continuum. Try out ChatGPT for a quick project (e.g.,

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Learning Change Strategy Journal 95

sgEngage

DECEMBER 29, 2023

As leaders in the nonprofit and social impact space, it’s so important for you to project a clear sense of trust into the world. With different levels and types of funding, different board and staff structures and capacities, many nonprofits are less inclined to be transparent with their financials and program metrics.

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Metrics Ratio Government Nonprofit 104

Bloomerang

OCTOBER 5, 2022

It is one thing to adopt certain principles for how you will navigate change personally, but things get even more complicated and interesting when you are navigating change management as a unit, group, family, or organization. People Change- this involves succession, leadership transitions , promotions, new hires, etc.

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Top Nonprofits

OCTOBER 18, 2021

When people are actively involved in your campaign, more of them will give to your campaign and they will give more generously. And ad hoc committees with meaningful assignments are great ways to get people involved. Alternately, you may worry that many of the people on that committee don’t have lots of connections to wealthy people.

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Gift Volunteer Campaign Phase 52

Cloud 4 Good

MAY 17, 2022

Louisiana State University Online and Continuing Education (LSU Online) is a part of the LSU family of institutions, a group of accredited, top-tier universities leading the charge toward innovations in distance learning. Investing in People, Processes, and Technology to Scale. We do almost everything via and through Salesforce.

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Louisiana University Education Student 59

Kindful

AUGUST 12, 2021

These organizations are currently offering grant and funding opportunities and/or accepting letters of inquiry or project ideas. . They support artist-driven film and new media storytelling projects (documentary films) that explore aspects of inequality, as well as the organizations and networks that support these documentary projects.

Arts 73

Arts Grant Culture Fund 73

Twenty Hats

FEBRUARY 8, 2021

I was more focused on my vision for programs than the people I was supposed to empower. The new leader’s fresh approach included revamping the operational structure of the program, dividing, and sharing leadership responsibilities with two additional volunteers. The result?

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Volunteer Americorp Leadership Maryland 75

Saleforce Nonprofit

APRIL 12, 2021

org is an international movement of people working to end the age of fossil fuels and build a world of community-led renewable energy for all. org’s Climate Justice Action map , which connects people with local groups and other activists.

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Forum One

DECEMBER 15, 2021

Within Forum One, and among the mission-driven organizations we work with, I sense that more people understand that accessibility isn’t a box to check, but rather an integrated part of project design and delivery. Maybe that made a whole new set of people more empathetic to the idea of accessibility. We can’t connect.

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Accessibility Goal Virginia Audience 70

Get Fully Funded

JANUARY 17, 2022

Often, fear of creating a less-than-perfect plan holds people back. If you’re smart and build revenue projections into your plan, you’ll have a good idea of cash flow for the year. Don’t repeat the 5K just because some people in your community love it. Or the search for the perfect template. Or enough data. Don’t do it that way!

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Non Profit Quarterly

FEBRUARY 14, 2020

Clarifying the specific role of the foundation, the statement continues, “We host Wikipedia, the free online encyclopedia, created, edited, and verified by volunteers around the world, as well as many other vital community projects.”. The website also highlights a plan to “ increase contributor diversity. ”.

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