Get Fully Funded

JUNE 25, 2023

At its most basic level, storytelling is a way to convey facts, information, history and experience from one person, the teller, to another, the listener, but it goes deeper than that. Nonprofit storytelling is so important to your fundraising that you need to spend the time to practice and get it right. What’s Your Nonprofit’s Story

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NonProfit Hub

JULY 17, 2019

It provides strategies, techniques, and an approach to recognizing and confronting any threat faced by an organization in fulfilling its mission.” . The responsibility to protect donors’ contributions of time and money is even harder to control under a constrained budget. It’s about time to get serious about cybersecurity.

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NonProfit Hub

JULY 17, 2019

It provides strategies, techniques, and an approach to recognizing and confronting any threat faced by an organization in fulfilling its mission.” . The responsibility to protect donors’ contributions of time and money is even harder to control under a constrained budget. It’s about time to get serious about cybersecurity.

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Gyrus

OCTOBER 11, 2016

In modern times we expect a lot from our training and development programs, and it safe to assume that progression in our industry is strictly relational to a number of additional learning aspects we can obtain from our Learning Programs themselves. Problem Solving. Time Management. Presentation Skills.

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Eric Jacobsen Blog

OCTOBER 9, 2023

Spending most of your time trying to minimize mistakes. Among the many techniques Briceño teaches, the book also offers four tips for helping your team continuously advance their skills, even when it feels like there’s no time to problem solve: Why most managers often misuse praise—and what you should do instead to help your team improve.

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Gyrus

MAY 12, 2016

Today’s tech-savvy, social and mobile learners are no longer interested in traditional classroom training and demand learning techniques that blends best with their current working style and outlook. Employees with busy schedules or the ones who are always on-move have the luxury to access training resources at any time, from any place.

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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. You, as the instructor, will learn along with them because you are not the one talking the whole time.

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Qgiv

JUNE 23, 2021

As your nonprofit organization continues to grow, it’s time to consider investing in an effective fundraising platform that truly accommodates your nonprofit’s size, financial needs, and developing fundraising strategies. Once you have that part in place, it’s time to find fundraising tools that will help you meet those goals.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JANUARY 30, 2012

Here are my slides and curated resources materials for a talk called “ What Can Nonprofits Learn from Robin Good, the Best Content Curator on the Planet? Content curation is the organizing, filtering and making sense of information on the web and sharing the very best content with your network. Content Curation for Nonprofits.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

FEBRUARY 27, 2014

E-learning is using internet technology and your networks to learn in real-time – either as an individual, within your organization, or a network and learning is applied to get results. This e-mail exchange with a dozen or so colleagues evolved into a guest post about one aspect of the topic. Peer learning is an important concept.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

NOVEMBER 18, 2014

The workshop used design-thinking based on Luma methodology to help participants develop a communications strategy for measuring impact. The process took participants through an assessment of the problems facing them, collective brainstorming, and prototyping. The hot button issue was capacity, skills, and lack of resources.

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ASU Lodestar Center

MAY 20, 2016

Every marketer understands the challenge of competing for attention among a sea of content with limited resources. The problem is even more acute for nonprofits, which typically experience stricter budgets and more mission-related limits on what they can do when they market. Nevertheless, great marketing is possible for nonprofits.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

DECEMBER 9, 2013

It isn’t a pharmacy metaphor of finding a pill to solve the problem. Real-Time Feedback/Evaluation is different from development evaluation which is directed towards a purpose to do something. Police use real-time evaluation to allocate their resources. Key Informant/Stakeholder Surveys and Interviews.

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Bloomerang

JUNE 11, 2021

But bottom line is we want to hear from you because we’re going to save a little bit of time at the end for Q&A. What have I learned over my time, but especially over the last year of doing this podcast? And maybe not take everything so seriously because life is serious and life is hard, but we should be having a good time.

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Tech Soup

AUGUST 21, 2013

Not only is coming up with questions without a plan more demanding, but a researcher who does not use caution when creating their list of questions may collect information that will later be proven unnecessary or misleading for their organization’s needs. Defining the Problem. Creating the Research Purpose and Objectives.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

OCTOBER 28, 2013

She said the workshop gave her the time to get started working on it and was confident that she’d be putting it into practice immediately. Design for Different Levels of Capacity and Skills: Adapt in Real Time. This means that you can’t be in the front of the room delivering content all the time!

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

FEBRUARY 4, 2015

When I mentioned this to a colleague, he asked me, “How the heck do you make the time to do this? ” I have cut out non-productive work time where I sit at my desk and can’t concentrate! The benefits of walking to “clear your brain” or build relationships is not a new leadership technique.

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.orgSource

DECEMBER 11, 2023

No matter how much marketing techniques evolve, that equation doesn’t change. Customers can become emotional when you solve a problem that’s causing stress. We wanted to create shorter assessments of specific content that could be administered over time. Every member experience with your brand is a plus or a minus.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

APRIL 1, 2015

I’m always on the look out for useful and thought provoking resources on how nonprofits can use data to make better decisions that lead to greater impact. It was designed to complement existing technical assistance resources through tip sheets, examples, and links to multiple resources.

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BoardAssist

MAY 16, 2017

” In this week’s guest post Natalie McKeon of the Environmental Defense Fund offers a great answer to that question – help your nonprofit become more energy efficient and save them money at the same time. Guided by science and economics, they find practical and lasting solutions to the most serious environmental problems.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

NOVEMBER 9, 2009

I don't get an opportunity to do this workshop with a large group, so this was fabulous learning experience to work out some techniques to make it scale. Every time I present or facilitate a workshop, I review the web sites and social media ant trails (social media properties) of participants. . Ant Trails As Learning Opportunities.

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Tech Soup

JUNE 13, 2017

This problem doesn't only impact fundraising campaigns. This new technique will reduce the age-old problem of people not remembering how and why they're receiving email communications. Explore why bounces are occurring and contact your ESP to get more information if needed. Key Email Deliverability Resources.

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Achieve

JANUARY 17, 2016

That’s because surveys are often not well-constructed; they only provide self-report data; and they often are only capturing data from one point in time. Often times you can negotiate a comfortable price that also provides the services your project requires. Others yet are capable of either or both techniques.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JULY 28, 2015

Learning is the ultimate result of being “ data informed ” that is using feedback data to improve results. Alison Carlman, Senior Manager, Marketing and Communications, has written this guest post about how to use some tools and techniques for using feedback. Organize your program data so it is accessible.

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Tech Soup

OCTOBER 22, 2013

So I wasn't surprised when Sam had a lot of good information to share. Availability : This is the percentage of time that the cloud service will be available. Keep in mind that every technology runs into problems and no cloud vendor can guarantee 100% availability for their services. What surprised me was what he said.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JANUARY 30, 2010

I just finished doing a training for Open Society Institute media and information coordinators on social media with colleague, David Sasaki , from Global Voices. I've known since 2005 and I realized that the last time I had seen him was in 2007 in Cambodia at the blogging conference and over an interesting dinner served by our hosts.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

SEPTEMBER 29, 2015

What if a funder got real-time input from its grantees and other partners to develop its investment strategy? It is a useful technique for creating a more responsive, flexible organizational culture as well as coming up with more innovative ideas for programs and grants that are a good fit. Technology : Cheryl Contee, Fission Strategy.

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Tech Soup

SEPTEMBER 15, 2011

Malhan’s approach to developing accessibility is informed by his experience in a developing country, namely India, where advanced technologies, like smartphones, are not as readily available or affordable. According to Malhan, the biggest challenge in the developing world for the disabled is a lack access to resources and information.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

FEBRUARY 8, 2011

It was great to see long-time colleague from NPower Seattle Peg Giffels who I met ten years ago when she first joined the staff. I used a brief pre-survey where I was able to collect information about success stories, challenges, and current social media usage. It’s a design challenge. It directly increased ticket sales.

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Tech Soup

AUGUST 18, 2017

They want serious social problems addressed, and want to be involved in these causes — as employees, as donors, as volunteers, and as clients. More advanced techniques can make it fully accessible. We'll also provide even more information about OpenAIR (Accessibility Internet Rally) and how you can get involved.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JANUARY 29, 2015

If you deploy these two approaches, you will be able to make connections that can help you solve problems, learn, move forward on a professional or organizational goal, or what ever it is need you need to succeed. Many times we don’t value serendipity because we don’t see an immediate ROI. It is time to tune your network.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MAY 29, 2009

Information flows. So, it is important to define what you need to know, what actions you'll take once you have the information before you rush out generate diagrams of your network. This is an area of tools and techniques that I have wanted to explore in further depth, but haven't. . Organizational reporting.

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Connection Cafe

JUNE 12, 2017

It also creates a problem internally where turf wars and a noncollaborative environment lead to frustration, burnout, and staff turnover. Shifting the organization’s culture is a process, and it takes time. Here are some more resources about the process of organizational culture change. What does this look like in practice?

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DNL OmniMedia

FEBRUARY 9, 2022

The most effective nonprofit consulting projects will address immediate problems and provide long-term strategic value that helps you grow. Clearly outlining these answers now will save time down the line and keep your team focused on the task at hand. RealHR Solutions – Human Resources. Discuss the project with your board.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JANUARY 27, 2014

Many times, it means both the “doer” and the “decision maker.”. I obtain a list of participants with their organizational contact information and do a scan and audit of their digital presences if I’m leading a session on digital marketing. The physical space you are working in will also help inform your design.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MARCH 30, 2010

It is also a good technique to explore the possibilities of new tools and techniques before investing more time and energy in something that isn't right for our organizations. There is one problem with this design: Many of us find experimenting difficult. This is the gift of time. Learning Together Over Time.

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Judi Sohn

JANUARY 10, 2009

As of right now, the site has 258,711 users and counting, with thousands online at the same time. As you enter details about the projects you’re working on, the information is automatically linked with what other people are doing with the same yarns and patterns. that solves a problem that no one had. Love the yarn?

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