Bloomerang

JANUARY 13, 2023

1 lesson; 3 lessons, is this restricted or unrestricted?) for that 2-hour learning period; lesson preparation time; supplies, etc. Both fundraising and finance staff need to be using the same chart of accounts structure for the fund designations to align. and FASB rules. and FASB rules. — Charity Clairity.

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Gift Lesson Skills Training 82

.orgSource

MARCH 14, 2023

Not only do they worry about their communities and their business interests, but they each have a team who depends on those jobs to support their families. Now we’ve moved to a hybrid work structure, requiring that everyone be in office at least two days per week. But COVID reinforced that lesson. Our plan isn’t perfect.

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Milwaukee Story Share Wisconsin 221

Eric Jacobsen Blog

DECEMBER 4, 2022

The book is divided into three sections: The first section includes: A focus on how and why women tend to build strong companies, staring with the structural challenges they must overcome to raise venture capital and scale their businesses. An Impetus for women to structure their businesses in a more purpose-drive way.

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Eric Jacobsen Blog

FEBRUARY 28, 2023

The book is divided into three sections: The first section includes: A focus on how and why women tend to build strong companies, staring with the structural challenges they must overcome to raise venture capital and scale their businesses. An Impetus for women to structure their businesses in a more purpose-drive way.

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Learning Leadership Benchmark Story 52

Bloomerang

OCTOBER 5, 2022

All About Change. Structural change – this include teams, departments, and job structure. Technological change – new software and systems. Sometimes they are huge, like switching CRM systems or restructuring your organizational chart. I’m glad you asked! Let’s dive in. Changes may be made for several reasons.

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Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

FEBRUARY 13, 2011

For those of you that don’t know about IP addresses, here’s a very quick lesson. Human beings suck at remembering numbers, so a system of connecting names to numbers exists (called the Domain Name System , or DNS.) This system is called IPv4, or Internet Protocol Version 4. to 255.255.255.255.

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Internet Laptop Phone Lesson 160

Eric Jacobsen Blog

FEBRUARY 16, 2021

Authors Jeff Kavanaugh’s and Rafee Tarafdar’s new book, The Live Enterprise , is all about how to create a continuously evolving and learning organization. The way we think about experience has changed. IT systems are evolving from static processing engines to agents of change. Value chains have changed.

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Model Lesson Business Authoring 52

sgEngage

MAY 25, 2023

Yes, we must steward our investments responsibly and ethically, but what is responsible and ethical about potentially wasting massive amounts of resources, using outdated problem-solving skills, and getting minimal impact for our efforts? I like to explain the expectation of perfection and denial of failure by talking about science.

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Problem Skills Proposal Grant 80

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

NOVEMBER 15, 2010

Last week, I got to BoardSource at 8 am just so I could hear Marnie Webb and Rebecca Masisak, CO-CEOs of TechSoup Global share their lessons learned in developing, weaving, and stewarding two very different types of networks. It required more structure, planning because of the risk associated with failure. Photo by Idea Constructor.

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Global Difference Network Develop 95

Amy Sample Ward

NOVEMBER 26, 2009

What is it about the health community that’s different? It’s about death. The amazing thing about the web is what we can do with those impulses, stories, and gifts. Decreasing return systems are tightly coupled: Prize consistency and coordination. Increasing return systems are: digital. loosely coupled.

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Gift Wikipedia Case Study Facilitation 108

The Science Behind Engaging your Supporters

FEBRUARY 15, 2018

From recruiting, developing and sustaining Black teachers for schools, BTP works to develop recruitment strategies, create support structures and even conduct research to ensure long term sustainability for Black teachers. This Black History Month, they're undertaking a social media campaign on the best part about being a Black teacher.

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History Support Organization Portland 51

Everyaction

JULY 2, 2018

We’re at the beginning of the “windfall years” While many nonprofit leaders are concerned about their aging donor bases, fundraisers should be preparing for what the. They found that donors had no problem being approached about planned giving after their initial gift to the organization, without the previously utilized waiting period.

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Report Giving Case Study Conservancy 44

Amy Sample Ward

SEPTEMBER 9, 2009

Though many orgs flaunt their “lessons learned” they are not all written down, distributed, or accessible depending on the enterprise architecture. Too often, these lessons end up on individuals’ computers, shared drives or locked away in portals and are not shared in order to prevent repeated mistakes. lack of success.

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Change Case Study Org Lesson 102

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MAY 18, 2012

Last month the OE Team at the Packard Foundation shared this guest post about the next steps in their public learning journey as part of program review. Have you evaluated your work with intermediaries, and if so, what lessons have you learned? Not too jazzed about sharing in a public forum? Learning in Public: To What End?

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Strategy Public Evaluation Foundation 98

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JULY 23, 2012

Note from Beth : This is an ongoing series from the Organizational Effectiveness Program team at the Packard Foundation about developing their program funding strategy in an open way or what has been dubbed “Learning In Public.” We have set up a Web site, [link] , to share information and conversation about the ongoing review.

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Effective Program Work Review 96

NTEN

APRIL 30, 2010

It allows Philadelphia-area residents to enter their address to get information about their local elected officials and their polling location. Kathi Apostolidis , one of our newest members, who happens to work in Greece, gave us a heads-up about HCSMEU Camp , which stands for Healthcare Social Media Europe. Scariest part?

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Neon CRM

SEPTEMBER 1, 2023

Organizational Overview: Background information on the nonprofit’s history, structure, and key personnel. Operations & Leadership How To Write A Nonprofit Mission Statement in 7 Steps (Plus 4 Great Examples) 14 min read Read Now That’s a lesson you can apply to your own board communications.

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Guide Business Support Metrics 52

Gyrus

AUGUST 17, 2016

This is important because it allows insights into the daily work lives of like individuals, their processes, and lessons learned on the job that can positively impact the learning community as a whole. Social Learning can best be defined as working with others to understand ideas, concepts, and procedures.

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Learning Social Learning Environment Classroom 54

NTEN

SEPTEMBER 14, 2009

Flickr Photo: Peat Bakke Sharing and lessons learned is what the NTEN Affinity Group Discuss list is all about. used the group for last week, asking about his project to evaluate and implement an organization-wide document management system. Gavin goes on to share other high points about SharePoint.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JULY 13, 2010

Think about those 4th grade science experiments where huddled over your experiment you all learn together. The instruction not only included the content – all the best practices and how-tos, but also took an approach that encouraged and developed reflection. There is also a social learning component. They were all amazing.

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Social Media Network Media California 99

Museum 2.0

JUNE 6, 2008

Now that the dust has cleared and the kids are banging on the exhibits (and showing us what we have to change next), I have the time to step back and share some of the lessons learned from this experience. Here are my top ten lessons from The Tech Virtual experiment with regard to design exhibits with a community of amateurs.

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Virtual Tech Lesson Develop 21

Museum 2.0

OCTOBER 1, 2014

Recently, we''ve been talking at our museum about techniques for capturing compelling audio/video content with visitors. It made me dig up this 2011 interview with Tina Olsen (then at the Portland Art Museum) about their extraordinary Object Stories project. Lots of inspiring and practical tips below - enjoy!

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Museum Story Project Design 43

Bloomerang

OCTOBER 8, 2021

We are here to talk about “Demystifying the Grants Lifecycle.” So we’ve got a true grant expert here to talk about some tips for you. . We do these webinars just about every Thursday throughout the year. This is one where Rachel and I had been talking about this session for. ” Oh, yeah.

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Grant Lesson Tips Video 76

Connection Cafe

JULY 10, 2018

I was soon to learn all the lessons about what not to do by email the hard way. We can use what we know about the people who do make big gifts to create models that identify those we never thought of as major gift prospects, but who match our model. The Internet barely existed; we navigated it with tools like Gopher and TelNet.

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Model Fundraising Gift Database 26

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

FEBRUARY 3, 2009

Last week, I wrote about Twestival , the most recent example of fundraising on Twitter and a networked fundraiser of a scale we haven't seen before. This event combines the lessons learned from previous fundraising activities on Twitter: A local, face-to-face component based on the popular "Tweet Ups" or " Net2Tuesday " meetups.

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Organization Synchronous Fundraising Social Media 70

Museum 2.0

MAY 4, 2007

It combines a job bank with news about developments in the gaming world and, my favorite, an impressive collection of feature articles on the art, business, and production of games. Two of the articles that most influenced me were written by Don Carson, Disney imagineer turned video game designer, about "environmental storytelling." (You

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Game Storytelling Lesson Museum 20

VisionLink

MAY 17, 2013

Here are some lessons learned about selecting a new solution and transferring your existing data to that new platform. In other words, what percentage of the time will the system be online and ready for use? At 99%, the system can be down 7 hours a month! You need to be assured of at least 99% uptime, 99.9%

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Platform Software System Facilitation 186

Museum 2.0

JANUARY 24, 2011

This is the third in a series of posts about Paul Light's book Sustaining Innovation: Creating Nonprofit and Government Organizations that Innovate Naturally. As a long-time employee of the Walker, how do you react to Paul Light's observations about what makes an institution innovate? It's inherent in what we do.

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Arts Interview Teen Artist 46

Bloomerang

SEPTEMBER 18, 2021

We are here to talk about capital campaigns, specifically counting the costs where capital campaigns often miss the mark. We do these webinars just about every Thursday. And if you’re shopping before the end of the year or want to make a switch, you can visit our website, learn all about us. Going to be a good one.

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Campaign Video Project Process 92

Have Fun - Do Good

JUNE 19, 2009

FORGE uses a collaborative, rather than top-down model, to serve refugees' needs, and much has been written in the blogosphere and media about Erickson's "radical transparency" around the organization's financial challenges. We work with about 60,000 refugees from across the continent. They're walking away with skills.

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Interview Sudan Africa Congo 40

CauseVox

DECEMBER 8, 2023

As we embark on the fundraising journey in 2024, the significance of a well-structured nonprofit annual development plan cannot be overstated. This evaluation isn’t just about numbers; it’s a vital step in determining your ROI , and helping you make informed decisions about repeating or refining strategies.

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Develop Calendar Nonprofit Retention 72

Nonprofit Tech for Good

DECEMBER 14, 2022

One way to create a major donor program or donor perks system is to replicate one from another organization. Every tactic here is as much about retention and appreciation as it is about perks. A dedicated blog post about the sponsorship. A dedicated blog post about a donor’s journey toward supporting the organization.

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Saleforce Nonprofit

SEPTEMBER 15, 2021

Most of us in the industry have been through a system implementation or two — or twenty — by now. That being said, we are still learning a lot about how to make virtual go-lives more successful every day. Was there anything else particularly unique about this go-live? NH: This was not a rinse-and-repeat type of implementation.

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Virtual Global Tips Test 65

Get Fully Funded

SEPTEMBER 13, 2022

No matter how large or small, every fundraiser or fundraising activity requires structure and planning to be successful. Again, be specific about what you’re going to ask for. Don’t forget about your Board members. How do you plan to market your fundraiser and spread the word about it? Where do you even begin?

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Fundraising Nonprofit Measure Goal 111

Museum 2.0

MAY 7, 2007

Last week, I spoke with Jim Spadaccini ( Ideum ) and Wendy Pollock ( ASTC ) about their experiences creating this site. I spoke to them on different days, so I've taken some liberty with structure here, but their words are maintained intact. which was a series of case studies about the exhibit design process.

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NSF Interview Case Study Museum 20

EveryAction

APRIL 1, 2016

Its 45 workshops, seminars and lectures explore internal and external strategies, systems, methods, best practices and successful examples. Learn about new and proposed accounting and auditing standards and how they will impact not-for-profit entities and their auditors. Structuring Major Gifts Conference. Accounting / @nysscpa.

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Calendar Conference San Diego DC 177

Bloomerang

SEPTEMBER 24, 2021

We are here to talk about strategic planning, specifically how to involve the community and how the community will be a driver of that. We do these webinars just about every single week, usually on Thursday but tomorrow is Yom Kippur so we’re keeping that day free. Good afternoon, good morning if you’re on the West Coast.

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