NTEN

JUNE 6, 2023

Outlook) and video conferencing platforms, use a spreadsheet, create slides, and use tools that are specific to your organization, such as a timekeeping system or an expense reporting system. If you don’t wish to pay for an assessment tool, see if you can borrow one. Or take advantage of free tools.

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Bloomerang

MAY 4, 2021

Where is the lesson learned? Stories teach us what has worked for others in the past, and what to avoid like the plague. Stories are a powerful tool in shattering judgement, preconceptions, and bias. . Imagine a story where someone was born, everything went perfectly from beginning to end, and then the story was over.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MAY 2, 2012

As a parent of wired kids, I think teaching digital literacy is very important for parents to do. It’s all about teaching digital literacy and citizenship: the knowledge and skills necessary to think critically, behave safely, and interact responsibly in a digital world. Teaching them to use creative tools responsibly?

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Eric Jacobsen Blog

FEBRUARY 16, 2022

“Very few of us ever learned how to be present with another person, to ignore internal and external noise and distractions, and to connect and converse with others in useful or collaborative ways,” affirm the authors of the new book, Bridge The Gap: Breakthrough Communication Tools To Transform Work Relationships From Challenging To Collaborative.

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Nonprofits Source

NOVEMBER 7, 2023

Transparency about your beliefs can also be used as a tool to minister to others. Their involvement with your nonprofit will teach them valuable lessons and help them put their faith into practice. For example, you can subtly make your beliefs known by adding a Bible verse reference to your email signature.

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NTEN

MARCH 30, 2011

By Steve Backman, President, Database Designs To close out our month-long look at some of the best tools for nonprofits, Steve Backman tells you about some of his favorite day-to-day software. Favorite software tools are all about managing processes fluidly. Central Deskop has also added a tool.

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Bloomerang

APRIL 12, 2024

The human tool to unlock philanthropy: empathy. When you can unleash the veritable biological orchestra working in the background of activating the emotionally rich tool of empathy , why wouldn’t you do this in your work of attracting, building, and maintaining donor relationships? The post Your Top-Secret Fundraising Tool?

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Greater Giving

JANUARY 30, 2024

Nonprofit Fundraising Support One of my favorite pieces of Greater Giving is that they have a robust Help section with a plethora of articles, instructions, and tutorial videos to teach new and experienced users alike the correct way to set up each of the elements in the software to best support your unique event. It was a nightmare!

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MARCH 8, 2019

The workshop was part of the three-day program where participants were learning both strategy and how to use tools from women who work in the tech industry here in San Francisco. Even if you have a short amount of time to teach (and set up), you can make your trainings (and meetings) interactive.

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Amy Sample Ward

JANUARY 15, 2010

7 Things I learned From #Beth53 Fundraiser and PoST Class – Beth's Blog: How Nonprofit Organizations Can Use Social Media to Power Social Networks for Change – Beth shares some great lessons from the fundraising campaign she recently ran for her birthday. "This " My favorite lesson?

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Allegiance Group

MARCH 14, 2024

Rosterfy is an end-to-end volunteer management and reporting tool that helps organizations — including the National Football League (NFL) — onboard, engage, and track their volunteers. By contrast, modern tools like GivingDNA can track volunteer details and pull the data into a single, easy-to-read report.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JANUARY 26, 2012

” Although “paragogy” is a more rationally derived word that extends “pedagogy” (teaching children) and “androgogy” (teaching adults), I’ve started calling it peeragogy because many people get the point as soon as I use the word.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MAY 6, 2013

I’m teaching a master class today in San Francisco for arts organizations for Theatre Bay Area. My master class here in San Francisco will be video taped and shared in other cities by a local facilitator using a lesson plan that I have developed. The first phase was an intensive “ Digi-Strat ” boot camp last month.

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Allegiance Group

OCTOBER 16, 2023

What was your worst fundraising experience, and what did it teach you? Which fundraising tools have you used in the past? What lessons did you take away from the experience? Which trends are you/have you been most excited about in the last year or two? What makes you nervous? How does data inform your fundraising strategies?

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

OCTOBER 2, 2013

For many nonprofits, Google Analytics is the tool of choice for measuring traffic, reach, engagement, and action primarily because it is free. While it is somewhat easy to use, some of the more valuable features may require a little tutoring to understand and use. It sounds like they have adapted the Khan Academy model.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JANUARY 21, 2010

I've been involved with teaching and learning technology for nonprofits since 1993 when I worked for the New York Foundation for the Arts' online network for artists, Arts Wire. I was immediately thrown into a situation of dynamic teaching and learning. Social Media Trainer's Bag of Tricks View more presentations from Beth Kanter.

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ASU Lodestar Center

APRIL 26, 2013

Alex Flores , Teach For America. Often, nonprofit leaders look at brands as just a “simple visual trigger from which to develop communication campaigns rather than a strategic tool for focusing the organization.” suggest that nonprofit branding, specifically brand personality, can be used as a strategic marketing tool.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

NOVEMBER 29, 2010

That all seems like ancient history now but this started a journey of experimenting with personal fundraising campaigns using social media to raise money for kids in Cambodia and share lessons learned with other nonprofits. I shared my lessons learned from my first campaign in 2006 in this case study , with best practices work today.

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ASU Lodestar Center

JANUARY 19, 2016

The internet has become a vital tool in our nonprofit fundraising arsenal, and as such we must move forward with gusto in this area. He spent the next several years teaching dance, choreographing, and running a small nonprofit dance company. He received a BFA in Dance from the University of Arizona in 2003.

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Amy Sample Ward

JUNE 22, 2011

Millennials come to the work place more prepared to teach than previous generations. The ability to teach, with patience, is essential. And I think where Millennials make the greatest impact is when they realize their capabilities to teach and that there’s an audience that wants to teach.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JUNE 9, 2010

is a national non-profit dedicated to saving play through engaging communities; creating dialogue; and providing tools, training and resources to build playgrounds across the United States.). Through a suite of online tools—including a social networking site, online training, do-it-yourself content, and a Google-map mashup—KaBOOM!

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Tech Soup

NOVEMBER 19, 2012

Whether your organization is training its staff and volunteers to use Windows 8 or FileMaker, or teaching others technical programs like Excel, the new Atomic Training Donation Program at TechSoup can help you get started. You can use Atomic Training to help your organization maximize its tech tools and software products.

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Connection Cafe

SEPTEMBER 17, 2014

The tools and technologies that are now available are drivers of this channel of fundraising and now enable non-profits to take advantage of earning smaller donations efficiently on a larger scale. It is this enthusiasm and creativity combined with the reach that today’s communication tools provide that have changed the equation.

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Eric Jacobsen Blog

NOVEMBER 26, 2014

Top Books About Leadership. Best Leadership Books Eric Jacobson on Leadership and Management Leadership Leadership Books'

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NTEN

MARCH 26, 2014

What are some of the lessons you''ve learned as a 501 Tech Club organizer? Don’t focus on tools! We teach this. I used to help teach social media classes at Portland’s tech reuse and education nonprofit, Free Geek. And, co-organizer Ivan Boothe is an excellent role model and all-around Awesome Dude. We know this.

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Tech Soup

OCTOBER 8, 2012

Bonus tip) Teach a lesson. Throughout time storytellers have used the tools available to them to help transmit their stories. Social media and technology are the newest tools available to us for storytelling. Having a clear beginning, middle, and end helps the viewer follow the narrative and message. Keep It Simple.

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Connection Cafe

DECEMBER 9, 2019

Pulling from years and years (and years) of teaching and training on change management and Bucknell’s recent move from its legacy CRM system after 14 years, we’ve mapped out some strategies for successfully onboarding teams and maintaining engaged and empowered users with ongoing education. What tools do you have?

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Museum 2.0

JANUARY 25, 2018

I've learned a lot from attending and teaching workshops this year. Gain new community participation tools you can take home and adapt to your organization. Get inspired, laugh out loud, and share honest lessons from the messy, joyful world of community participation.

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Nonprofit Tech for Good

JANUARY 19, 2021

In addition, you can give “door prizes” which are awarded in real-time during the event using your mass messaging tools. 6) Teach your viewers how to bid. Explain that the only way to see the live program is to buy a ticket for the one-time presentation. 2) Make a communications plan to promote your event.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

NOVEMBER 3, 2006

It includes case studies, tools, and how-tos. tools to capture and share knowledge from nonprofit gatherings. tools into your PR messaging? Something to read before jumping into using the tools. There is a fairly large educator community on Second Life and the lessons learned are starting to appear in the blogosphere.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

SEPTEMBER 24, 2012

Note from Beth: Last week, I wrote about the launch of LinkedIn’s Board Connect tool that helps nonprofit identify potential board candidates through searching the networks of their board members on LinkedIn. This was my chance to put my teachings to work for Praxis. We also wanted to increase the diversity of the board.

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ASU Lodestar Center

AUGUST 3, 2016

Education as a tool to extend one’s understanding, build on shared and individual experiences, and think critically about the world. When they leave here, I want my students to continue to question, learn, teach, and continue to use their education to change the world. I’m very grateful to those young people for teaching me so much.

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Eric Jacobsen Blog

AUGUST 4, 2015

In his book, Paul demonstrates how storytelling is a powerful business tool that can mean the difference between mediocre results and phenomenal success. Since the book was published about three years ago, my admiration for Paul's passion for storytelling and helping to teach people how to effectively tell stories has only but grown.

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Forum One

JUNE 11, 2010

This post is the first in a series in which we distill some of the lessons Forum One has learned from our work over the years and apply them to the particular needs and circumstances of the philanthropic sector. Use the right tools. Understand your community. Get the timing right. Step One: Define the problem collaboration will solve.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JANUARY 31, 2007

I was teaching Web1.0 I wonder what lessons or techniques can be learned from her practice that can be applied with the next generation of tools? I met her like ten years ago when I leading training workshops for arts educators, artists, and arts organizations throughout New York State on how to use the Internet.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

AUGUST 27, 2010

The day was designed as a one-day interactive strategy session in the morning and intensive mini-workshops on tools and tactics in the afternoon lead by a cadre of local social media specialists and experts. My Zoetica colleague, Kami Huyse , suggested a tool called rowfeeder. The Colorado Trust blog has notes here.).

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Museum 2.0

OCTOBER 3, 2012

She was a free agent for a long time, until the beginning of 2012, when she joined the teaching staff of Khan Academy. These instructors aren't teaching you the equivalent of a high school course in math or art history. Every day we read about ways that teaching, learning and accreditation are being unbundled.

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