Greater Giving

JANUARY 23, 2024

Having a CFRE certification shows you have proficiency in nonprofit fundraising at the highest possible level, and understand ethical best practices in the industry. Getting your CFRE certificate is a process through which you can learn even more critical skills to enhance your professional work.

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Bloomerang

DECEMBER 4, 2023

How to Audit Your Strategic Plan to Prepare for Annual Planning Nonprofit Mastermind Podcast Your strategic plan is your guiding star, helping you determine where to channel your energy, time, and resources. Build relationships, focus on cultivation, and practice time-blocking to navigate challenges with confidence and purpose.

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NonProfit Hub

OCTOBER 15, 2020

These programs help your staff members develop skills that can be applied at your organization for more efficient processes and a productive work environment. . We’ve written this guide on professional development programs to help nonprofit executives like you empower employees to develop skills and hone their craft.

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sgEngage

APRIL 12, 2024

As Louis Gump puts it in his new book, The Inside Innovator: A Practical Guide to Intrapreneurship , “an intrapreneur creates value through innovation and growth, inside a larger organization.” It also emphasizes recruitment and retention of top-tier talent. The path to fostering intrapreneurship is not without its challenges.

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Eric Jacobsen Blog

MAY 17, 2021

Some of my favorite parts of the book are where Detert teaches how to: Create the right conditions. I hope readers will accept that courage is required from us all, just like any other virtue, and that behaving competently in moments of courageous action comes through practice – just like success with any other skill does.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

OCTOBER 7, 2014

For the second short exercise, we were asked to jump into solving the design challenge, in this case, design the perfect wallet. That is a typical problem-solving approach, taking on a given problem, working using your own opinions and experience to guide you, and with a solution in mind to be designed. That is not design thinking.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JANUARY 9, 2020

I use the themes to guide my professional work and writing. I also continue to expand my practice to designing and facilitating internal meetings for nonprofits and foundations on a variety of topics, including activating a culture of wellbeing and innovation labs. Skills in this area I want to deepen are reflection and creativity.

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Forj

APRIL 22, 2021

This guide will help you decide whether partnering with a consultant is the right move for your association and how to choose the right team member when doing so. A consultant with advanced knowledge of learning technology, instructional design, and learning business best practices can inform that strategy. Let’s get started.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JANUARY 5, 2022

I use the themes to guide my professional work and writing. Write A FutureMe Email: I use a site called “ FutureMe ” to write an email to myself post-dated a year from now, a practice I’ve been doing for a few years now. My Three Themes: This year I’ve selected the following three words to guide me into 2022.

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Eric Jacobsen Blog

MAY 6, 2024

Fortunately, Wiggins’s new book, The New CEO , fills that educational gap by teaching you the 10 components that make for a successful CEO transition – whether you are a newly announced or newly appointed CEO. The state of change is so radical that many of your information networks and skills are temporarily blunted.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JANUARY 2, 2022

I use the themes to guide my professional work and writing. Write A FutureMe Email: I use a site called “ FutureMe ” to write an email to myself post-dated a year from now, a practice I’ve been doing for a few years now. My Three Themes: This year I’ve selected the following three words to guide me into 2022.

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Volunteer Hub

AUGUST 1, 2021

Here is a guide on how to engage volunteers that may help! Provide volunteers with valuable skills. One of the best ways to provide value to volunteers, in exchange for their commitment to your organization, is in the form of skill development. Learning new skills can be just as valuable to supporters as financial gains.

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Media Cause

OCTOBER 3, 2022

Feeling like an island, burned by management, with no growth opportunities to lean into any of my previous passions or skills (did I mention work-life balance is nonexistent when working two jobs to get by?) That is a loaded question so I’ll opt out for something with a little more structure—what did the RiseUP Fellowship teach me?

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

AUGUST 20, 2014

Reflective Practice. No matter what flavor of facilitation you put into your toolkit, there are some facilitator fundamentals and skills that facilitators need. No matter what flavor of facilitation you put into your toolkit, there are some facilitator fundamentals and skills that facilitators need. Peer Learning / Coaching.

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The Storytelling Non-profit

OCTOBER 5, 2021

But as I tell my students and clients regularly, writing to raise money is a learnable skill that you can master. Practice, patience and time are your friends if you want to improve your writing. Brainstorm hooks and key messaging ( Here’s an in-depth guide on creating messages for fundraising campaigns ). Source stories.

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fusionSpan

FEBRUARY 17, 2022

Projects – Projects give you hands-on practice with different Salesforce technologies with step-by-step instructions. This offers you the ability to learn a new skill and gives you the experience of completing this skill in an actual demo environment. How do I keep track of my progress? Reach out to our team of experts!!

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Volunteer Hub

DECEMBER 8, 2022

Here is a guide on how to engage volunteers that may help! Provide volunteers with valuable skills. Helping volunteers gain new skills is a great way to provide them with value in exchange for their time. Is your nonprofit teaching volunteer constituents skills that they can use outside of volunteerism?

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Eric Jacobsen Blog

SEPTEMBER 27, 2019

Then they put the plane on automatic pilot, then they eat their lunch and talk with passengers and do whatever else they do, and the autopilot is guiding that jet all the way to Maui. That plan guided my life. The number one skill you need to overcome challenges in life is commitment. For them, practice is the big game.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

OCTOBER 3, 2017

This conference is an opportunity for executive directors to build skills in resilience as part of a day-long seminar. I was invited to teach an interactive workshop based on The Happy Healthy Nonprofit on how to link self-care with well being in the workplace. ” This helps participants identify what to put into practice.

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Volunteer Hub

DECEMBER 13, 2021

Here is a guide on how to engage volunteers that may help! Provide volunteers with valuable skills. One of the best ways to provide value to volunteers, in exchange for their commitment to your organization, is in the form of skill development. Learning new skills can be just as valuable to supporters as financial gains.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MARCH 5, 2014

I read a lot of educational technology, training, and teaching blogs, follow those people on Twitter, curate on Scoop.It, etc to keep up. I usually draw from these sources to create “instructional resources” for any workshop or class I teach. Here’s an example from a recent webinar on training. By Dave Meier.

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Bloomerang

JANUARY 22, 2024

This guide will teach you what you need to know to get your new organization up and running. We’ll cover: Starting a Nonprofit: Basic FAQs How to Start a Nonprofit in 12 Steps No matter what type of nonprofit you’re looking to start, this guide will provide you with the common steps that all organizations need to follow.

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Eric Jacobsen Blog

DECEMBER 8, 2020

Published toward the end of 2018, Sofer’s book teaches you how to find your voice, speak your truth and listen deeply. Most important, via the book, Sofer provides us the skill necessary to transform communication into a vehicle for greater intimacy, honesty, and compassion to bring us to greater equity and peace.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JANUARY 3, 2019

I use the themes to guide my professional work and writing. I made it to the 1000K level for United, in part, due to too many International trips, including teaching a master class and workshop session at the IFC-Asia in Bangkok, teaching a workshop in Brasil for Ford Motor Company Leadership Fellowship Program, and Tech2Empower in Peru.

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The Nerdy NonProfit

NOVEMBER 13, 2020

Do staff members need to develop a skill, such as the ability to recognize and avoid common grammar mistakes? This could be practice, memorization, motivation, or something else. An activity where learners must demonstrate understanding of the steps followed by feedback about their choices can help change a practice.

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Eric Jacobsen Blog

OCTOBER 10, 2020

Published toward the end of 2018, Sofer’s book teaches you how to find your voice, speak your truth and listen deeply. Most important, via the book, Sofer provides us the skill necessary to transform communication into a vehicle for greater intimacy, honesty, and compassion to bring us to greater equity and peace.

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Leadership Chapter Conversation Attention 52

Eric Jacobsen Blog

OCTOBER 9, 2023

Being stuck in chronic performance can have a devastating impact on your skills, confidence, job, and personal life. No matter how hard we work, if we only do things as best we know how, trying to minimize mistakes, we get stuck at our current levels of understanding, skills, and capabilities.”

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Eric Jacobsen Blog

JUNE 13, 2020

Published toward the end of 2018, Sofer’s book teaches you how to find your voice, speak your truth and listen deeply. Most important, via the book, Sofer provides us the skill necessary to transform communication into a vehicle for greater intimacy, honesty, and compassion to bring us to greater equity and peace.

Leadership 52

Leadership Chapter Conversation Attention 52

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

NOVEMBER 1, 2018

Last week I was got to work on a week-long service trip in Cusco, Peru as part of Wake: Women’s Alliance for Knowledge Exchange #Tech2empower program where womwn in who work in technology volunteer to share their professional skills and knowledge with women-run business owners. The Llama Pack Project does more than provide income.

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Eric Jacobsen Blog

JUNE 19, 2020

Friedman teaches that there are seven steps , based on human virtues we all strive to achieve, that are key to unlocking the power of a people-first culture : Patience. Empowering employees to make decisions and guiding them in their personal goals for professional achievement. Not guiding the troops. Compassion. Complacency.

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NTEN

APRIL 6, 2021

However, infusing diversity and inclusion into your organization will likely require new practices to be put in place. Here are some key elements to consider when building an inclusive volunteer recruitment process: Don’t limit volunteers’ shifts with too many qualifications or skill requirements.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

APRIL 15, 2014

She is one of the leading voices of ”social learning practice” which is about self-directed and informal learning from your online networks. She explained that “learning or teaching the old” is about training, knowledge transfer, and structured, directed learning. Why is learning the new important?

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ASU Lodestar Center

OCTOBER 16, 2020

Guide to building evaluation capacity. ECB involves a series of steps taken by an evaluator (internal or external) to build evaluative knowledge and skills, create a culture of continuous learning and accountability, and make resources readily available. So the evaluator has to consider if they are going to: Teach.

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Get Fully Funded

NOVEMBER 11, 2021

But typically, the job someone had at the end of 2019 or the person doing it will have changed just enough that with some education and training in new skills, the organization and the person can thrive. According to Nonprofit.Courses’ guide to nonprofit professional develo pmen t , your volunteers and staff are assets.

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Connection Cafe

MARCH 15, 2021

And the most pressing task is to teach people how to learn.” – Peter Drucker. Often, they’re using this time to seek new learning opportunities to enhance their skills and become better versions of themselves. So how can you, in the words of Peter Drucker, “teach people how to learn?” Increased Fundraising ROI.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

NOVEMBER 18, 2014

We started off with an affinity clustering of the strengths, challenges, and opportunities for improving their organization’s practice of measuring impact and communicating about it. The hot button issue was capacity, skills, and lack of resources.

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Forj

JULY 8, 2021

What eLearning assessment best practices can strengthen your courses? Then, we’ll wrap up with a few best practices to take your assessments to the next level. These exercises can measure knowledge gained, skills learned, or even attitudes or mindsets changed. What are the different types of online assessment?

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