ASU Lodestar Center

SEPTEMBER 18, 2019

But I had a unique consultant skill set which could be used in the nonprofit world. Consulting and strategic planning skills have a critical place in the nonprofit sector. My journey began with a nonprofit called TechnoServe where I began utilizing my consulting skills as a volunteer consultant in East Africa.

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VQ Strategies

SEPTEMBER 24, 2020

Not only do volunteers build capacity through their people power, skills, and networks, but volunteers are more likely to make charitable donations and, among high net worth donors , 84% give to all, most, or some of the organizations where they volunteer. Know your own Engagement and Impact. Hours alone won’t cut it. Make the Case.

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Saleforce Nonprofit

JUNE 10, 2022

Change management is a set of tools and techniques your nonprofit can use to build buy-in and support staff members as you lead an organizational change. The techniques help to grease the wheels of any organizational change. Change management relies on a wide variety of tools and techniques. A “Why” Statement.

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sgEngage

OCTOBER 12, 2021

As you work to implement your fundraising vision, its likely gift officers play a vital role. In fact, even our titles as “fundraisers” highlight the transactional element of our work instead of the impact of our work. I think our titles should be “Director of Impacting Mission” or “Impact Officer.”

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Bloomerang

JULY 28, 2021

Your nonprofit feels ready or has a clear need to bring in a skilled consultant, but how do you find the right one? . By partnering with a skilled practitioner who understands your needs and is familiar with the field, the proposal you ultimately create has a greater chance of success. What stage is the financing in (Secured?

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Neon CRM

AUGUST 10, 2023

Nonprofit conferences are a great opportunity for industry professionals to hone their skills, network with their peers, and learn innovative new strategies to help their organizations thrive. Nonprofit conferences can feature a variety of topics, like fundraising, marketing, nonprofit tech, and leadership. Cost: General admission is free.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JUNE 28, 2016

Earlier this month I was in Boston for the annual convention for Americans for the Arts where I facilitated a leadership development pre-conference workshop, “Impact without Burnout: Resilient Arts Leaders from the Inside/Out.” The first session focused on self-awareness skills. You can find the resources here.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

SEPTEMBER 8, 2014

Last week I facilitated the “ Impact Leadership Track ” at the NTEN Leading Change Summit with John Kenyon, Elissa Perry, and Londell Jackson. So, it is important for the host to hold a call with the facilitation team to clarify expectations for the session outcomes and team authority/decision-making roles.

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Gyrus

OCTOBER 11, 2016

By instilling basic business skills courses within your program employees can quickly obtain the business skills they do not know they require to succeed in their roles. With the importance of email correspondence in modern business, writing and grammar skills are more important and meaningful than ever. Problem Solving.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JANUARY 27, 2017

Becoming certified as an orange hat is recognition of commitment and skill–it’s a real accomplishment. More than a hundred hand-selected volunteers are highly trained in interview techniques, media relations and public speaking to become Greenpeace spokespeople. They offer direction, supervision and make outings fun.

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Wild Apricot

DECEMBER 21, 2017

Sales operations refers to the unit, role, activities and processes within a sales organization that support, enable, and drive front line sales teams to sell better, faster, and more efficiently. Understandably, this is where the number-crunching prowess of sales ops analysts has the most significant impact. What is Sales Operations?

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

AUGUST 28, 2013

Note From Beth: A few weeks ago, I was lucky enough to participate in a meeting with other capacity builders who work with networks. I wrote a quick reflection on some of the techniques used to facilitate the meeting. Two oft-cited examples are the Strive network in Cincinnati, and the ReAmp network in the Midwest. So what to do?

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The Modern Nonprofit

JANUARY 9, 2024

Estimated Reading Time: 8 minutes Maximizing Nonprofit Impact: A Roadmap to Sustainable Fundraising In an era where resources are stretched thin and the need for positive change is greater than ever, nonprofits face the critical challenge of not just making an impact, but ensuring their efforts are sustainable in the long run.

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Top Nonprofits

NOVEMBER 3, 2021

Remember that each volunteer is unique, and paying attention to their different engagement histories, work experiences, skills, and program needs will ensure that everyone has a positive experience in your program. Skills and experience. Volunteer impact over time. Personal interests. Volunteer hours and hour distribution.

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Gyrus

JULY 21, 2016

Continuous learning is an established persistent learning process, designed for bolstering the knowledge and skills of your workforce over time, and presents itself in many forms. The best way to ready ourselves for this shifting environment is Continuous Learning.

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Eric Jacobsen Blog

MAY 12, 2019

And, if you've been a leader for a long time, how about taking a few minutes to run through the list and scoring yourself on how well you carry out each leadership skill? Be a good role model 46. Tailor your motivation techniques 61. Don't micromanage 2. Don't be a bottleneck 3. Focus on outcomes, not minutiae 4. Be humble 47.

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Eric Jacobsen Blog

AUGUST 6, 2018

And, if you've been a leader for a long time, how about taking a few minutes to run through the list and scoring yourself on how well you carry out each leadership skill? Be a good role model 46. Tailor your motivation techniques 61. Don't micromanage 2. Don't be a bottleneck 3. Focus on outcomes, not minutiae 4. Be humble 47.

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Eric Jacobsen Blog

NOVEMBER 26, 2012

And, if you've been a leader for a long time, how about taking a few minutes to run through the list and scoring yourself on how well you carry out each leadership skill? Be a good role model 46. Tailor your motivation techniques 61. Don't micromanage 2. Don't be a bottleneck 3. Focus on outcomes, not minutiae 4. Be humble 47.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MAY 15, 2012

The design for this project was very different than my accustomed way of designing and delivering the Networked NGO trainings and social media skills. Here’s a few facilitation techniques that I learned from documenting the session. The photo above shows the “Fish Bowl” technique. Fish Bowl Exericse.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

SEPTEMBER 14, 2012

Many of you know that I have had the honor of working with IIE on some amazing Networked NGO and social media skills capacity building and train the trainer projects in the Middle East over the last 2-3 years. But, not just skills training, but learning to understand the impact of connected society and transformation.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

NOVEMBER 19, 2013

Explores the ecosystem of data for social problem solving and the role philanthropy can play. The convening used participatory methods to identify topics for small group conversations related to the theme and was expertly facilitated by Allen Gunn from Aspiration. ( I wrote a reflection last week about the facilitation techniques here ).

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

FEBRUARY 27, 2014

Many of the techniques are now possible and within the next decade, just-in-time learning will likely become a cultural norm in nonprofits and elsewhere. This report and the advice for getting started goes right to the heart and soul of what I’m currently working in my training and consulting practice. .” Learning'

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Eric Jacobsen Blog

JUNE 27, 2013

And, if you''ve been a leader for a long time, how about taking a few minutes to run through the list and scoring yourself on how well you carry out each leadership skill? Be a good role model 46. Tailor your motivation techniques 61. Don''t micromanage 2. Don''t be a bottleneck 3. Focus on outcomes, not minutiae 4.

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ASU Lodestar Center

OCTOBER 9, 2013

The key to maximizing community impact is making sure everyone in the organization is pulling in the same direction. We assign roles, divide the work and get started. This is not simply a new technique applied to the old concept of assembly line production. 4-18 High Impact Leadership Certificate.

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Eric Jacobsen Blog

APRIL 29, 2017

And, if you've been a leader for a long time, how about taking a few minutes to run through the list and scoring yourself on how well you carry out each leadership skill? Be a good role model 46. Tailor your motivation techniques 61. Don't micromanage 2. Don't be a bottleneck 3. Focus on outcomes, not minutiae 4. Be humble 47.

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Connection Cafe

JUNE 12, 2017

To do so, they need to be skilled collaborators, adept at bringing diverse perspectives together, and confident in their abilities to collaboratively steward supporters at every touchpoint along the ladder of engagement with other teams, departments, and senior leadership. One useful technique is called “walk-a-mile-immersion.”

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Eric Jacobsen Blog

SEPTEMBER 24, 2013

And, if you''ve been a leader for a long time, how about taking a few minutes to run through the list and scoring yourself on how well you carry out each leadership skill? Be a good role model 46. Tailor your motivation techniques 61. Don''t micromanage 2. Don''t be a bottleneck 3. Focus on outcomes, not minutiae 4.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JANUARY 23, 2012

I’ve been curating resources and teaching workshops on the topic of information coping skills for a couple of years. If you’ve been through weight watchers, you’ll immediately make a connection to some of the techniques he suggests. There is also a social change role. He suggests these goals: 1.

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Everyaction

DECEMBER 12, 2017

Learn about new and proposed accounting and auditing standards and how they will impact not-for-profit entities and their auditors. Our institute is designed to advance the skills and knowledge of nonprofit professionals, volunteers, board members, and community leaders. The IMPACT Conference. The IMPACT Conference.

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The Science Behind Engaging your Supporters

NOVEMBER 27, 2018

Learn about new and proposed accounting and auditing standards and how they will impact not-for-profit entities and their auditors. Our institute is designed to advance the skills and knowledge of nonprofit professionals, volunteers, board members, and community leaders. The IMPACT Conference. The IMPACT Conference.

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Eric Jacobsen Blog

MARCH 17, 2016

And, if you've been a leader for a long time, how about taking a few minutes to run through the list and scoring yourself on how well you carry out each leadership skill? Be a good role model 46. Tailor your motivation techniques 61. Don't micromanage 2. Don't be a bottleneck 3. Focus on outcomes, not minutiae 4. Be humble 47.

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Everyaction

JULY 18, 2018

Share your organization’s mission, who you serve, the influence your organization has on its audience(s), and the role it plays in the larger conversation around your issue area. Your fundraising team should bring together a mix of nonprofit pros with complementary skills and align them around your strategic plan. Choosing your team.

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Eric Jacobsen Blog

NOVEMBER 5, 2011

And, if you've been a leader for a long time, how about taking a few minutes to run through the list and scoring yourself on how well you carry out each leadership skill? Be a good role model 46. Tailor your motivation techniques 61. Don't micromanage 2. Don't be a bottleneck 3. Focus on outcomes, not minutiae 4. Be humble 47.

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Eric Jacobsen Blog

JULY 27, 2013

Be a good role model 46. Tailor your motivation techniques 61. Explain how a change will impact employees'' feelings before, during and after the change is implemented 70. Eric Jacobson on Leadership and Management General Management Skills Leadership' Encourage peer coaching 42. Be willing to change your decisions 45.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

APRIL 28, 2011

Their impact is to make the world a better place. The organization integrates simple measurement techniques and learning as an organizational habit that helps improve practice and documents results from the beginning of every networked approach. T This board is also using social media as part of its governance role.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JANUARY 6, 2014

Measuring the Networked Nonprofit describes techniques for measuring engagement and networks and I’ll be presenting some of that material. Individual Behavior Change: Impact on users behaviors, purchase decisions, and daily lives that are in line with sustainability. Engagement: Readers engage with their content.

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Bloomerang

JUNE 11, 2021

Lindsay Simonds will decode the top five most impactful ways people contribute to communities. By understanding core motivations, intentions, perspectives reflected in this webinar, you will be able to build a stronger case for support, increase the impact you have, and gain strategies for creating and preserving community.

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