Pamela Grow

OCTOBER 30, 2023

Keep in mind that you can grow your program in two main ways: by increasing the amount your current monthly donors give and by recruiting new monthly donors to join the program. Analyze which types of content, stories, and communication techniques resonate most with your donors. Engagement with content.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

FEBRUARY 18, 2014

Here are six tips that will help you deliver highly successful technology training workshops by using effective evaluation techniques. Bear in mind that the model isn’t practical in all situations. To do this analysis, you need to ask for both positive and constructive criticism. The technique is called Plus/Delta.

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Connection Cafe

APRIL 19, 2016

This quadrennial cycle is the subject of much scrutiny, but let’s take a look at the nonprofit lessons gleaned from political campaigns: . Lesson One: Online Organizing and Fundraising. Lesson Two: Social Networking. Lesson Three: Ease of Donations. The first Obama campaign also set the bar higher with online fundraising.

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Amy Sample Ward

JANUARY 12, 2010

Here are some reflections about how we used crowdsourcing techniques for a very fast-moving campaign and lessons learned that may apply to your work. Lesson #1: Design an action and invitation that’s doable and interesting – while focused on your goal. Lesson #4: Create easy ways to track and follow the campaign.

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Connection Cafe

JULY 8, 2015

In previous articles, my colleagues at Cathexis Partners and I have given you some proven tips and techniques for planning and launching a successful peer-to-peer (P2P) fundraising campaign: Mark Becker, Founding Partner, wrote about four things you should know before starting a peer-to-peer fundraising campaign. Ask for Feedback.

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Eric Jacobsen Blog

OCTOBER 9, 2023

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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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JANUARY 27, 2014

My early experience in doing technology training was collaborating with teachers to deliver professional development on how to integrate technology. I was introduced to lesson planning from veteran teachers and have written “lesson plans” or now that I’m an adjunct professor a syllabus for everything I teach.

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Top Nonprofits

DECEMBER 23, 2021

You should also continue to be mindful that supporters who may have contributed ongoing support to your mission in the past may not be able to sustain that level of support right now. The lessons nonprofits have learned since the start of the pandemic are bound to stick around for years to come.

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Tech Soup

FEBRUARY 19, 2015

Inward Bound Mindfulness Education (iBme) is dedicated to improving the lives of teens through mindfulness retreats. The organization offers weekend and weeklong residential mindfulness retreats for teens, including poor youth and those with major emotional issues. Mindfulness Retreats for Poor Teens.

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Museum 2.0

FEBRUARY 2, 2010

But doing exercises like these helps people learn rules of thumb (like "personal questions are good questions") through doing , and that makes the lesson more likely to stick. Now, you could argue that of course the second question was better because it was more personal. I'm learning things from this exercise all the time.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

SEPTEMBER 8, 2014

A good facilitator knows how to shift or tweak the lesson plan in real time if it isn’t working as planned. Are there facilitation skills/techniques that you enjoy and are great at doing? Are there facilitation skills/techniques that you want to improve or work on? I’ve written about these techniques here ).

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Amy Sample Ward

FEBRUARY 4, 2010

The lessons in social media are especially important for organizations working with the public, whether it’s public service or opinion. Joining the conversation is incredibly important if these organizations expect to change policy and change minds. Joining the conversation really means conversations. What do you think?

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

OCTOBER 20, 2016

” While their answers and anecdotes were different, one simple technique or theme came across: “Stay connected to the source of your work.” ” What this means is being able to see and experience first hand the impact of your organization’s programs and how those programs transform people.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

FEBRUARY 1, 2010

Note from Beth: I've been writing about online contests that use social media and crowdsourcing techniques. Our theory of social change is that new ideas are born from optimism, a curious mind and a creative spirit. I called Pepsi out in a post called " What can Pepsi Learn About Crowdourcing for Social Good?

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

APRIL 8, 2015

When I did the exercise, it was a different sort of listening because I had to focus and mindful of every word and not ask clarifying questions. How many times do this type of active listening to the people we work with? The take home lesson was about how we can shift making a mistake into a teachable moment.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

SEPTEMBER 29, 2015

I was thrilled to work with the Brainerd Foundation staff to help design and facilitate a design lab using techniques based on Luma Institute methods earlier this month. The process for the one and half day lab used techniques that fall into these categories: Looking and Observing: Unpacking the Context for 21 st Century Advocacy.

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Forum One

APRIL 29, 2009

On Sunday I hosted a Flickr Bootcamp, where I worked with non profit, "accidental techies," and helped them learn about better online photo sharing techniques. Stories stick in our minds, get us energized and poised to take action, and provide a memorable framework that help us transfer messages to others.

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Forum One

APRIL 29, 2009

On Sunday I hosted a Flickr Bootcamp, where I worked with non profit, "accidental techies," and helped them learn about better online photo sharing techniques. Stories stick in our minds, get us energized and poised to take action, and provide a memorable framework that help us transfer messages to others.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MARCH 1, 2011

Rami Al-Karmi , Founder and CEO of Shabakat , Al Ordon (JordanNet) and is serving as the E-Mediat Strategic Adviser for the Jordan In-Country Team shared some lessons about working as networked ngo. We also covered some of the basic techniques for listening and engaging. Transparency and “ Arab NGOs” can they go together?

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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. If two minds are better than one, what about 100? The wiki and our hashtag helps bring in other people into our learning and enrich it.

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Museum 2.0

OCTOBER 30, 2013

My biggest question for these social psychologists is this: how do we apply their lessons to our work? We often invite visitors to collaborate on activities comparable to making a music video--but we could be more mindful and strategic about the themes and content of these activities.

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NTEN

OCTOBER 29, 2008

There are several key techniques for dispersing information effectively. The tools have changed, but the need for knowing your audience, having an end goal, testing theories, and acting on lessons learned remains the same. Know Your Goals. She started seeing the pay-off, too. " Form Mutual Relationships.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MARCH 6, 2007

Some techniques that I learned about that I want to put into practice in future work: Capturing secondary audio with an external mic and recorder and then synching them during the editing process. (I Now that I know how to incorporate this technique into the editing, I need to keep this in the back of mind when in the field shooting.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MAY 29, 2009

This is an area of tools and techniques that I have wanted to explore in further depth, but haven't. . One of the questions that also came up in my mind was: What's the difference between a community of practice and a network? The paper discusses network weaving techniques to help evolve a more effective network.

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Museum 2.0

MARCH 3, 2011

These nontraditional audience engagement techniques helped make complex goals and visions explicit and understandable to visitors. It also proved necessary from a practical perspective in a security-minded institution where craft materials in the galleries had to be carefully controlled. Dirty Laundry had buttons.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

FEBRUARY 7, 2006

All the technique, training, and "PowerPoint" tricks are useless if the talk doesn't come from your gut, from your heart and soul. My process is analog, but I have to start with a mind map of the ideas (sometimes several versions of it), then do a linear outline, and finally sketch out a storyboard with image ideas.

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Museum 2.0

MAY 4, 2007

When I read this list, my mind leaps to fantasy. But incorporating good environmental storytelling techniques from the game world doesn't mean you have to put on mouse ears (or a trenchcoat). Here are some lessons I've learned from Carson. Lets me be someone I could never be. Lets me do things I could never do!

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NTEN

FEBRUARY 22, 2011

Trying to follow the example set by a commercial company, just in a nonprofit way, probably won't work, but there are lessons to be learned. Too many systems have been delivered over the years, to the underwhelming response, "Well, it's good, but that's not what I had in mind." Even that simple blog is not so simple.

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The Science Behind Engaging your Supporters

NOVEMBER 27, 2018

The purpose of the Annual Nonprofit Governance Symposium is to highlight current best practices, lessons learned from the field, and trends in effective nonprofit and philanthropic board leadership, as well as board recruitment and retention. USD School of Leadership and Education Sciences / San Diego, CA / TBD.

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EveryAction

APRIL 1, 2016

Get ready to learn from some of the best analytics minds out there. It will bring together the practitioners, scientists and creative minds of behavior change to discuss the science and technology of change. Fundraising. 2016 Analytics with Purpose Conference. 2016 Analytics with Purpose Conference. Agents of Change Summit.

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Have Fun - Do Good

MARCH 26, 2010

When I was a teenager, it blew my mind when I found out about veganism. It's more of a technique thing than a pure ingredient thing. CW: We all had a meeting and talked about the different things we had in mind. Lessons learned, what worked, what didn't work? Isn't that always the tricky part of the pie?

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

NOVEMBER 5, 2014

The next day, I facilitated a workshop on Best Practices for Crowd Funding that blended traditional instruction with innovation lab facilitation techniques. When nonprofits marry tried-and-true fundraising techniques with social media and online networks, they are able to tap into the power of crowd funding. Objective.

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Everyaction

OCTOBER 5, 2016

Learn best practices and the latest techniques and technologies to meet your greatest challenges. Through inspiring keynotes, innovative talks, educational breakouts, hands-on lessons, and tons of networking, you will learn how the INBOUND experience, and especially our content, is truly remarkable. Mexico / SOLD OUT. frank 2017.

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Bloomerang

JULY 17, 2021

Ben, isn’t the popcorn thing blowing your mind? And so one of the things that has been such a big lesson, and an aha, and also a gift is when I started putting people first and then getting to the goal once I understood how to get my folks motivated, activated, interested, and owning the work that they did, like the sky opened up.

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NTEN

MAY 27, 2010

We used this technique for DIGG, forums, Twitter, Bing, and Google and then set up various searches along with monitoring of certain Twitter feeds. The measurement techniques by Beth Kanter of Zoetica In covering measurement recipes, my points were simple: Measuring Cup : Identify the right results and pick the right metrics to measure it.

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Eric Jacobsen Blog

JUNE 8, 2010

The answer to that question is likely going to be based on the valuable lessons you shared with those you led. Former employees quoted in the newspaper article remember Mr. Kauffman as a leader who shared these lessons with them: "You can do anything you want if you set your mind to it and if you study your competition." "You

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Eric Jacobsen Blog

AUGUST 11, 2010

Do You Really Need To Read Leadership Books?

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