Beneblog: Technology Meets Society

MARCH 14, 2012

Guest Beneblog by Vijaya Tripathi The first ever Martus users group meeting took place earlier this month in Chiang Mai, the capital of Northern Thailand. Martus is Benetech's free and open source software package designed for human rights activists to collect stories and data about human rights abuses.

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sgEngage

JANUARY 10, 2024

To learn more about knowledge work and its role in grantmaking, check out the post Beyond the Newest Philanthropy Buzzword: Knowledge Work is Core to Equitable Change. Datamaking can enhance capacity building efforts through group questioning and analysis. Successful datamaking helps us put equity and dialectics into practice.

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Get Fully Funded

JUNE 18, 2023

So, if leadership is the difference between a nonprofit’s success or failure, what does it take to be a good leader? What Nonprofit Leadership Really Is By definition, a leader is someone in a position of authority with the responsibility to guide a group. Success doesn’t happen by accident. Not sure of your leadership style?

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Cloud 4 Good

SEPTEMBER 22, 2021

At the time, the Salesforce Admin certification had only just been introduced and was beginning to gain momentum, there wasn’t a Trailblazer Community (we had a few “community boards” and Google groups), and it was nearly impossible to find training materials. Why aren’t we training new workers on it?”

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Bloomerang

SEPTEMBER 11, 2023

This means sending out regular emails each week that are specially made to say “thank you” and recognize the board members for taking an active role. These emails work as reminders, pointing out their important role in meetings, how they represent the organization well, and how they help the CEO.

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sgEngage

OCTOBER 19, 2021

If your organization is large, be sure to include representation from a variety of internal departments and roles in addition to your group of board members and supporters. Share with your committee the impactful stories you’ve collected over the year. Ask them for feedback on ways to improve how the stories are told.

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Kindful

JUNE 8, 2021

You want board members who are able to successfully function in the role of financial stewardship of your nonprofit. This is time wasted on so many levels and a clear signal that this board lacks a clear understanding of their role in financial stewardship. Their roles and responsibilities have greater weight.

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Saleforce Nonprofit

NOVEMBER 2, 2021

Established in Yorkshire in 1986 by a group of parents concerned about what the future might hold for their children, Autism Plus has since grown into one of the region’s leading nonprofits for young people with autism, learning disabilities, and other neurodiverse conditions. Supporting the Individual Through Person-Centred Care.

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DipJar

DECEMBER 21, 2021

It provides recreation, resources, and training to parents and caregivers, educators, first responders, clinicians, and others. Pathfinders for Autism started in 2000 when a group of parents of children with autism sought information and support following their child’s diagnosis.

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Bloomerang

NOVEMBER 15, 2023

Today’s volunteers are not a monolithic group; they come from diverse backgrounds—with varying motivations, skills, and availability. Craft a compelling narrative Your organization’s story is your most powerful tool to attract volunteers. Personalization plays a critical role in retention.

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Bloomerang

FEBRUARY 1, 2023

Structural barriers to success The nonprofit sector is highly competitive, with organizations often competing for the same limited resources. BIPOC leaders may face additional barriers to success, such as discrimination, bias, and lack of support from within the sector. Unfortunately, it’s the same in the nonprofit sector.

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Candid

MARCH 5, 2024

They’re more comfortable partnering with nonprofits that have a substantial track record of success, which takes time to establish. Start by planning for success Before asking for money, you need to lay some essential groundwork. Given this disadvantage, new nonprofits are typically advised to start with individual donors.

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The Modern Nonprofit

JUNE 13, 2023

As we come together to honor their stories, your nonprofit has a fantastic opportunity to foster unity and support immigrant communities. By partnering with other nonprofits, government agencies, and community groups, you can pool resources and expertise to better support immigrant communities. Ready to make a difference?

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Saleforce Nonprofit

AUGUST 24, 2022

Whether it’s community services, donor relations, governance, volunteer management, or communications, data plays a critical role in telling the story and uncovering the insights required to develop a response. . Nonprofit Success Pack (NPSP) Compatibility – DLRS is now TDTM-aware! We hope that you enjoy DLRS version 2.17

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Saleforce Nonprofit

OCTOBER 29, 2021

The first post I wrote in 2009 was about a perspective-shifting trip I had taken with a local bike group of people who mostly looked like me. I was inspired to share the possibility of groups of people who can recreate around a common background and outdoor enthusiasm. RM: Technology has been instrumental in our growth.

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Volunteer Hub

JUNE 28, 2022

Your volunteer onboarding process should include standardized training, help cultivate meaningful connections, and reinforce why your organization does what it does through its mission. Share success stories and create social connectedness. Offer group volunteer opportunities. First impressions are crucial.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

NOVEMBER 16, 2011

The project includes face-to-face training , webinar , as well as one-on-one coaching provided by the expert team at SpitFire. But because this group of organizations is working in a networked way, it means that not everyone has to do content curation at the degree as Bruce. Friending the Finish Line.

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DipJar

APRIL 14, 2022

The story of that day, the movement it spawned, and its lasting impact are told at the International Civil Rights Center and Museum. Tyler reinforced the importance of historical integrity for the Center, explaining that it takes more than three months to train docents, and outside guides, no matter their background, are not permitted.

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Qgiv

OCTOBER 27, 2021

Retention is everything your organization does to keep the volunteers you recruit, like providing proper training and management , aligning volunteer assignments with individual volunteers’ interests, or working hard to create personal relationships with your volunteers. Connect with civic groups.

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Greater Giving

AUGUST 24, 2022

Thank you for allowing us the opportunity to share some of your stories and insights with our audience at this years fundraising conference. A Focused Group at the Fundraising Conference. Training is the most important part of fundraising conferences like this one.

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The NonProfit Times

APRIL 18, 2024

Note: See all the Best Nonprofits To Work For stories in the 4/1 digital edition … [link] ** There are some surprises in the data from 2023 for this year’s The NonProfit Times ’ “Best Nonprofits To Work For.” When people feel their day is spent on mission-related activities, they’re going to be more satisfied in those roles.”

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Beneblog: Technology Meets Society

NOVEMBER 25, 2013

It wasn’t until 1993, when a reconstruction of these events by American journalist Mark Danner first appeared in The New Yorker , that the full story of the El Mozote massacre was brought to light and sent shock waves through the international community. Being geeks, we thought of ways to address this challenge with technology.

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NTEN

DECEMBER 14, 2021

Please join NTEN in welcoming our new Lead Organizers, Dave Tinker (Pittsburgh, PA) and James Porter (Denver, CO) for Tech Clubs and Dar Veverka (Baltimore, MD), and Jonea Agwa (Burlington, Ontario, Canada) for online groups. I am starting to train to run a half-marathon next. What do you look forward to the most in this role?

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Bloomerang

APRIL 9, 2021

We are here to talk about the board’s role in fundraising and resource development, one of my favorite topics, and we got one of my favorite people also here to talk about it. But she’s been in your shoes, like I said, being a leader of an organization and also raising a ton of money and does a lot of these trainings.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JANUARY 27, 2017

One of those insights was that when organisations like the Washington Trail Association treat volunteers like staff, involve them in high-level work and track their performance, volunteers become more invested in their own and the organisation’s success. But with the right training, that lens will shifts to collective success,” says Pandey.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

OCTOBER 7, 2014

Like all good training sessions, this workshop started off with an opening conversation that allowed us to get to know others in the room and connect to what we already know. Heather facilitated this exercise as a series of share pairs where we discussed each question with a different partner for a few minutes. It was followed by this: 4.

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sgEngage

AUGUST 25, 2021

In development, you broker relationships with benefactors that enable your hospital to achieve the extraordinary; your community benefit manager partners, often through grantmaking , with other nonprofits, government agencies, and community group leaders to bring extraordinary change to your community. Amplifying community voices.

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Volunteer Hub

APRIL 30, 2021

The Students Association of MacEwan University (SAMU) switched from another volunteer management solution to VolunteerHub in order to leverage VolunteerHub’s reward and recognition, user groups, and kiosk features. If you are ready to become VolunteerHub’s next success story, request a demo today.

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Qgiv

MARCH 30, 2022

She’s known for tackling seemingly impossible fundraising efforts and turning them into success stories. Do you need a lot of training, or just the basics? They were an intelligent and sophisticated group, and I learned a lot from them. You can tell the story about your nonprofit’s work through its budget.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JANUARY 5, 2012

On New Year’s Day, I heard a story on NPR about some research on instructional techniques used by many college professors – the lecture and how it is less effective in an age information abundance. The instructor’s role should be to facilitate this understanding for their students, not dump content on them.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

APRIL 30, 2012

It is also packed with resource lists and stories. ” And that as networks evolve and grow, you experiment with different tools and then spread the knowledge of how to use the tools to the rest of the network. To me, this creates the perfect book to help guide your practice of building and working within a network.

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sgEngage

APRIL 6, 2022

What must the campaign do to be viewed as successful? What role does this campaign play in your overall fundraising program? What do the campaign’s goal and role in the fundraising program tell you about what the tone of the campaign’s communications should be? The group . “My Motivation . What they might say .

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Bloomerang

MAY 17, 2021

We’ve been trained in our society that it’s not polite to talk about money. Why Successful Leaders Frame Culture As a Management System , Jason Korman, Gapingvoid Culture Design Group. Program staff must be willing to share stories about how donor dollars make an impact. And that definitely includes all your staff.

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ASU Lodestar Center

AUGUST 6, 2018

Ransom, MBA President & CEO, The Rayvan Group. We want your nonprofit to be successful in its mission. Honestly, whether you’re in nonprofit or for-profit work, remembering the reason you’re serving a particular group is vital to moving the organization forward. posted by Jarrett R. What will you do differently this year?

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Bloomerang

MARCH 29, 2023

This is why volunteerism has played such a major role throughout history. How to incentivize volunteerism At its core, volunteerism is the engagement and mobilization of groups of people to support others or fight for a worthwhile cause. In this guide, we’ll take a broad look at volunteerism to explore its history and benefits.

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Whole Whale

MARCH 22, 2023

This is what can happen if your team is using general AI prompts on GPT4, the output will seem unique but it will be an average response that many other groups may get. Create a donor persona chatbot and then have a conversation with it and test what it thinks about marketing messages in a role-playing game.

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Classy

APRIL 27, 2021

A: With many nonprofit leaders holding multiple hats and roles in their organizations, we constantly hear that they are exhausted. There still is a personal responsibility today but I see successful companies stepping up. Invest in your people: Provide training to invest in employee wellbeing, not just a day off or a pizza party.

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