Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JANUARY 5, 2022

Review the Year: I use tool called the “ Year Compass, a free downloadable booklet that provides a set of structured reflection questions that help you look back and ahead. I call it my “ To Do, To Done, Don’t Do, Reflection List. also use it as a reflection as the year progresses.

Professional 111

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JANUARY 5, 2021

Many successful nonprofit professionals use rituals, either for personal productivity or team productivity. These rituals also help me set-up systems for consistent reflection and positive habit change throughout the new year. Not traveling to be able to work face-to-face with nonprofit leaders has been a great loss for me.

Journal 148

Journal Reflection Facilitation Technique 148

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JANUARY 2, 2022

Review the Year: I use tool called the “ Year Compass, a free downloadable booklet that provides a set of structured reflection questions that help you look back and ahead. I call it my “ To Do, To Done, Don’t Do, Reflection List. also use it as a reflection as the year progresses.

Professional 96

Professional Facilitation Reflection Journal 96

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JANUARY 2, 2023

Review the Year: I use a tool called the “ Year Compass, a free downloadable booklet that provides a set of structured reflection questions that help you look back and ahead. I call it my “To Do, To Done, Don’t Do, Reflection List.“ also use it as a reflection as the year progresses. Year in Review.

Professional 89

Professional San Jose Journal Facilitation 89

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

APRIL 8, 2020

If participants are working through an exercise or set of discussion questions, create a google document with your prompts and include space for taking notes. If you have more than 10 people in a meeting, having everyone introduce themselves verbally and answer an icebreaker question can take up a lot of time and can be tedious.

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Exercise Reflection Structure Google 177

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

SEPTEMBER 8, 2014

The Leading Change Summit was drastically different from the Nonprofit Technology Conference, NTEN’s flagship event that has over 2,000 attendees, dozens of tracks and hundreds of panels, big parties, a trade show, and all the things you would expect from a traditional conference. Here’s what I learned: Facilitation Teams.

Reflection 124

Reflection NTEN Change Facilitation 124

Blue Avocado

MARCH 5, 2024

Stepping away is part of the nonprofit circle of life. But for those toiling away in young nonprofits, it is often grueling and sometimes even cruel. And after all the difficulties of starting a nonprofit, the end of the beginning rarely goes well. It is a stage of development in the nonprofit life cycle. Not all survive.

Nonprofit 85

Nonprofit Children Problem Phase 85

CauseVox

MAY 9, 2023

As nonprofit professionals, we often wear many hats, having to fill the roles of copywriter, editor, marketer, and more. With Open AI’s ChatGPT , nonprofits can generate high-quality emails in a fraction of the time it would usually take to write them. If this sounds familiar, then we’ve got some good news. What is ChatGPT?

Examples 83

Examples email Communication Language 83

EveryAction

JULY 3, 2023

This week, our friends at Cornershop Creative are dropping in to talk about the best ways for nonprofits of all sizes to improve their website performance, increase user engagement, and ultimately boost digital fundraising. The answer to that last question is almost certainly your website. Make full use of your blog content.

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Virtual Site Support Fundraising 190

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JUNE 27, 2018

Rather than start at the beginning, I’m starting at the end by sharing some tips for a formal reflection process that can lead to improving results of a project or event. A structured reflection process generates insights about what worked and what could be improved. Ask team members to reflect on their lessons learned.

Practice 105

Practice Thailand Asia Reflection 105

Neon CRM

JANUARY 19, 2024

The specifics of your strategy are going to vary depending on your industry or your members’ interests or any one of a hundred other factors—but there are certain best practices that pretty much all successful nonprofit association strategies have in common. Get all of your nonprofit’s stakeholders involved in this process.

Associations 52

Associations Practice Strategy Leadership 52

ASU Lodestar Center

OCTOBER 6, 2021

posted by Rosario Espinoza Fall 2020 Alumna, ASU Master of Nonprofit Leadership & Management. Ask yourself: Has there ever been a time when you sought the services of a nonprofit organization but something just didn’t feel right? This is a positive and important step for nonprofits, but it isn’t enough. Why does DEI matter?

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JANUARY 9, 2020

1) Review the Year: I use tool called the “ Year Compass, a free downloadable booklet that provides a set of structured reflection questions that help you look back and ahead. I call it my “ To Do, To Done, Don’t Do, Reflection List.” I also use it as a reflection as the year progresses.

Professional 140

Professional Personal Croatia Build 140

sgEngage

DECEMBER 18, 2023

Today, knowledge work is coming into fashion in foundations and the nonprofit sector. We can learn through reflection and come to deeper understandings. Once we embrace knowledge work, not as a technical task but as social construction, we then start to ask exciting questions about relationships, purpose, and movement.

Knowledge 67

Knowledge Philanthropy Change Work 67

Neon CRM

NOVEMBER 16, 2023

Your nonprofit’s mission is the foundation of everything you do. Your nonprofit mission statement is how you communicate your organization’s impact to supporters, clients, and the community at large. What Is a Nonprofit Mission Statement? Why does your nonprofit exist? All right, let’s get started.

Examples 95

Examples Language Iowa Nonprofit 95

Saleforce Nonprofit

AUGUST 20, 2021

The same historical and cultural structures that have held back diversity, equity, and inclusion (DEI) in so many aspects of our lives are also mirrored in much of the nonprofit sector. Workstream priorities should reflect this knowledge. Johnson, Founder of WOC, Women of Color in Fundraising and Philanthropy.

Strategy 82

Strategy Fundraising Philanthropy Nonprofit 82

Get Fully Funded

FEBRUARY 1, 2022

There’s nothing more exciting than making the decision to start a nonprofit! But first, you need to build a solid foundation so your nonprofit will thrive, not struggle. Seriously, about half of all new nonprofits don’t make it through the first year or so. Everyone starts a nonprofit to make a difference.

Nonprofit 111

Nonprofit gMail Money Foundation 111

Saleforce Nonprofit

NOVEMBER 22, 2021

It was seemingly a year and forever ago when we last wrote about nonprofit trends reports. Our latest 4th edition of the Nonprofit Trends Report reflects a set of organizations struggling with this imbalance while navigating a rapidly-changing future. How nonprofits are traversing the extreme shifts in the workforce.

Trend 111

Trend Report United Kingdom Australia 111

Blue Fox

NOVEMBER 21, 2019

Nonprofits, take note. Nonprofits, take note. Over the past month, we’ve answered these questions a lot: How will changes to the federal overtime law will affect my organization? But first, if you are new to the nonprofit HR or management game, you may want to brush up on exempt verses non-exempt employee status.

Law 96

Law Minnesota Nonprofit Industry 96

Candid

NOVEMBER 17, 2021

We reflected. Recent evidence from the Technology Association of Grantmakers (TAG) indicates that grantmakers are asking the same questions with slight differences across funders, wasting a significant amount of a nonprofit's time during the application process. questions) that are similar and shared by many funders.

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Grant Analysis Application Contact 111

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JANUARY 3, 2019

I call it my “ To Do, To Done, Don’t Do, Reflection List.” ” I use it for planning and goal setting as well as to reflect along the way. for my journal or my “ To Do, To Done, Don’t Do, Reflection List.” As the part of my monthly review, I reflect on my themes and habits to improve.

Professional 114

Professional Build Journal Facilitation 114

Media Cause

JULY 20, 2022

Do you work for or have a 501(c)(3) nonprofit? These are just a few of the questions that will help paint a picture for us paid search professionals here at Media Cause who want to help support your nonprofit with Google Ad Grants. It is important that your website clearly reflects the mission of your nonprofit.

Grant 52

Grant Google Help Search 52

Achieve

MARCH 6, 2023

Start by reflecting on past auctions. Reflect on these questions as a starting point: What went wrong during previous silent auctions? Speak with past organizers if you can, and ask these questions to your volunteers or event staff. Consider the questions attendees tend to ask, or put yourself in their shoes.

Tips 52

Tips Guidelines Colorado Software 52

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

SEPTEMBER 13, 2012

” This post shares my notes from that session along with a reflection about my session and some resources. ” This post shares my notes from that session along with a reflection about my session and some resources. The New Social Economy. They want to combine both. That they have a “Do good where ever attitude.”

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Skills Reflection Management Aggregator 96

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

AUGUST 27, 2010

I feel that my technology training for nonprofits work is more like a calling for me than simply a job or career. For the past 15 years, I have been excited about nonprofit technology training design and delivery and it is what I will continue to focus on as part of my role at Zoetica over the coming years. Some Reflections.

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Reflection People Network Colorado 103

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JANUARY 5, 2018

I call it my “ To Do, To Done, Don’t Do, Reflection List.” ” I use it for planning and goal setting as well as to reflect along the way. My colleague, Wendy Harman , was also inspired by Chris Brogan’s technique, but she takes it deeper and includes daily reflection questions.

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Professional Finland Journal Reflection 0

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

OCTOBER 28, 2013

Participants from a nonprofit work on their network map during the workshop. Last week was a busy week, after keynoting the Nonprofit Solutions Conference in Kansas City , I facilitated a one-day workshop for the Center for Nonprofits on developing and measuring a sustainable integrated social media strategy. Reflection.

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Training Train Reflection Design 98

EveryAction

JUNE 8, 2023

Welcome to another installment of Thursday Thoughts, a dedicated space for our friends in nonprofit sector leadership to reflect on reports, statistics, and other trends—because when our community shares knowledge, we can all do more good.  Check out our last installment here! Learn more at MESG.marketing !

Advocacy 143

Advocacy Local Audience Poll 143

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MARCH 13, 2018

Does your work at a nonprofit include facilitating meetings or trainings? This is the focus of a session called “ The Big Bang Theory: Creative Facilitation and Training Techniques, ” that I’m co-facilitating at the Nonprofit Technology Conference with Cindy Leonard and Jeanne Allen. ” questions.

Facilitation 106

Facilitation Work Chart Technique 106

Global Giving

APRIL 25, 2020

While machine learning is increasingly used by companies across the private sector, few nonprofits have integrated this kind of technology into their operations to date. Consider the following questions. Do you have an appropriate question in mind? What is AI and why does it seem like it’s everywhere these days?

Learning 69

Learning Model Nigeria Spam 69

Deborah Elizabeth Finn

JANUARY 28, 2018

It took Tech Networks of Networks almost two years to organize and implement a series of candid dialogues about data and evaluation for grantors and nonprofit grantees, and now it’s complete. What you see here are a few notes that reflect my individual experience. Nonprofits can help by: . My Recommendations.

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Evaluation Grant Data Boston 52

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

SEPTEMBER 7, 2012

David gave a talk about his new book, The Nonprofit Business Plan , and mini-workshop about what makes a good business plan from a funder’s point of view. Some reflections from David here ). The missing piece was the economic and operational planning - the Nonprofit Business Plan.”

Review 106

Review Business Nonprofit Measure 106

Saleforce Nonprofit

NOVEMBER 22, 2022

The drivers of hunger include conflict, climate collapse, and chronic structural inequality that systematically excludes vulnerable communities from decision-making and benefits some to the detriment of most. Ending hunger requires changing political, economic, and social power structures. Hunger is not inevitable.

Collaboration 76

Collaboration Challenge Hunger Kenya 76

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MARCH 24, 2020

As nonprofits are impacted by the CoronaVirus and need more virtual meeting skills, I’d like to share what I have learned. This includes orientating participants to the agenda, introductions and a check-in or icebreaker, questions or activities used to help people ease people into a meeting or learning situation. .

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Virtual Facilitation Exercise Training 130

Qgiv

JUNE 14, 2021

As you conduct daily operations at your nonprofit, you’ll find that getting your nonprofit’s development strategy right is one of the most important pieces of the nonprofit management process. After all, nonprofits need gifts and donations to sustain them, no matter what their mission or goals might be.

Develop 98

Develop Calendar Chart Nonprofit 98

NTEN

FEBRUARY 24, 2021

In early 2020, several longstanding NTEN members and community leaders created the first iteration of the NTEN Equity Guide for Nonprofit Technology. A very clear point that the data use section of the guide makes involves data for nonprofits — ownership, control, location, privacy, and accessibility. Maybe this is OK.

Problem 62

Problem Data API Global 62

Bloomerang

AUGUST 21, 2023

1,071 fundraising professionals were surveyed at small and medium-sized nonprofits supporting a variety of causes. Current budget numbers reflect your existing program commitments, not your aspirational ones. sure also to include the overhead rate of staffing and running your nonprofit.

Action 72

Action Report Practice Fundraising 72