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Reflections from 2021, Thoughts for 2022

The MatrixFiles

Brian Tarallo from Lizard Brain led us through a two-hour reflection and asked us questions like: What has been your overarching mood in 2021? If you have reflections on your 2021 and predictions for 2022, please share. The post Reflections from 2021, Thoughts for 2022 appeared first on The MatriX Files. Reading a lot.

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Reflections on TrailblazerDX 2022

Cloud 4 Good

The post Reflections on TrailblazerDX 2022 appeared first on Cloud for Good. You May Also Enjoy: Blog: The Salesforce Nonprofit Summit: What to Know Before You Go. Blog: 3 Key Takeaways from Gearset’s DevOps Dreamin’ Blog: Crafting Clear Marketing Communication with Pardot Email Preference Centers.

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How to Drive Great Partnerships: Reflecting on $20M for America’s Youth

NonProfit PRO

At Boys & Girls Clubs of America, we are grateful to have many outstanding corporate partners. Through the years, we have found that the foundation of a strong partnership is twofold: engagement and long-term commitment.

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Improve your communications through research and reflection

Big Duck

The post Improve your communications through research and reflection appeared first on Big Duck.

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Power in Solidarity: Reflections from AAPIP and NAP’s joint convening

Candid

In a world where we’re always quick to “get down to business,” I appreciated the space to reflect on my own cultures and values and how they have influenced my professional journey. Grounding our work in culture and values : Almost every session I attended brought attendees back to who we are and what values we hold.

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How Your Nonprofit Can Routinize Reflection

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

Reflection is a critical step in assessing individual and team performance at your nonprofit. A reflective process, whether it is a structured process for individuals or groups, can give us insights about what worked and what could be improved. Reflection requires hitting the pause button and asking and answering questions.

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Why Your Donation Payment Process Reflects Your Brand

Achieve

As an organization, you must reflect the value of transparency in every decision you make. Having a transparent, user-friendly nonprofit payment processor reflects well on your nonprofit brands. Each step of the donation process should reflect authenticity to your donors to establish rapport. Millennial donors. About the Author.

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25 Years of VolunteerHub – Employees Reflect on the Company and Culture

Volunteer Hub

The post 25 Years of VolunteerHub – Employees Reflect on the Company and Culture appeared first on VolunteerHub. If you are searching for a rewarding career with unlimited potential VolunteerHub may be a great fit. View Job Openings.

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How to Celebrate AAPI Heritage Month: Listen, Reflect & Connect

Saleforce Nonprofit

To help us personally reflect and connect with these stories, I’ve included questions from Terri Givens’ book, Radical Empathy: Finding a Path to Bridging Racial Divides. Reflect on the way that thinking about these stories makes you feel. Through empathy and identifying shared values, we can bridge racial divides. What is your story?

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Reflecting on the National Philanthropic Trust’s 2020 DAF Report

Givinga

The post Reflecting on the National Philanthropic Trust’s 2020 DAF Report first appeared on Givinga. The recently released NPT 2020 Donor-Advised Fund Report offers some eye-opening takeaways and trends that show how charitable giving and donor-advised funds (DAFs) are becoming more accessible to everyone.

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Observations and Reflections on #TakeBackThePink

Amy Sample Ward

You can read the summary of how the free agent community came together to self-organize and create a public action as well as a full report of the lessons learned and reflections on the #TakeBackThePink campaign in this public google doc. Observations & Reflections. 10 Lessons from Community-Driven Organizing. But how did she know?

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New Blog: Observations and Reflections

Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

But I felt like I wanted a place to write a bit more deeply, to delve into the issues of the day in a balanced, reflective, and sometimes spiritual way. I retired the ministry blog when I left seminary, and retired the technology blog last year, and replaced it with an author blog, which I write in now and again.

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First Reflections on Jumo

Amy Sample Ward

As you may have heard , Jumo is now open in beta. What is Jumo? As Mashable reports, “Jumo was designed to let users find, follow and support the causes important to them, and with 3,500 organizations on board at launch, would-be philanthropists should be able to find and follow something of interest upon joining.

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Reflecting on the National Philanthropic Trust’s 2020 DAF Report

Givinga

The post Reflecting on the National Philanthropic Trust’s 2020 DAF Report appeared first on Givinga. We invite you to take a look at the report to further examine this positive trend for workplace and charitable giving. We’d love to hear your thoughts as well as your creative ideas on how to rethink DAFs.

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New Blog: Observations and Reflections

Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

But I felt like I wanted a place to write a bit more deeply, to delve into the issues of the day in a balanced, reflective, and sometimes spiritual way. I retired the ministry blog when I left seminary, and retired the technology blog last year, and replaced it with an author blog, which I write in now and again.

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NTEN Leading Change Summit #14lcs: Reflection

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

Overnight Reflection. What I think is the magic is the use of “overnight reflection.” So, being able to “sleep on an idea” and share a reflection is great. So, one of the things I highly value about instructional design is the time and space to reflect on what worked and what didn’t work.

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Reflection and Evaluation

Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

Home About Me Subscribe Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology Thoughtful and sometimes snarky perspectives on nonprofit technology Reflection and Evaluation March 10, 2008 Michele Martin, one of my fave bloggers, has a great post today on Reflective Practice. Unfortunately, none of them had an answer to that question.

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Go Beyond Board Recruitment With the Theory of Change

NonProfit PRO

Throughout the nonprofit sector, there is significant activity around building a board that is inclusive and reflects the constituency of each nonprofit. The end result: more effective services. But recruitment is just the first step in achieving these outcomes. One tool that can help: The Theory of Change. .

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Keep Calm and Write It Down: How Reflective Practice Leads To Better Results for Nonprofits

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

It also includes an excellent set of terrific questions to discover impact, but there are many different methods for this type of reflective learning after completing an event, communications strategy, or program. Ask team members to reflect on their lessons learned. Does your organization encourage staff to use reflective practice?

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Nearly 30% of Cloud 100 are Leveraging Assets for Social Impact Through Pledge 1%

NonProfit PRO

Of the 100 companies on the list, nearly 30% are Pledge 1% members, reflecting a more engaged business culture. Pledge 1% announces that a growing number of top cloud companies on the Cloud 100 list have committed to leveraging their assets for good.

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Reflections on a Decade of Designing and Facilitating Interactive Webinars

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

I thought I’d take this opportunity to reflect again on a decade of experience of designing and delivering interactive webinars. This can be as simple as a poll or having participants type a reflective question in the chat at the beginning.

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The Importance of Reunions for Education Fundraising

NonProfit PRO

An institution’s alumni are a reflection of its past, a representation of its present, and a link to its future. An alumni reunion is a memorable event where attendees can reminisce about the good old days with former classmates. It can also provide tremendous increases in alumni giving to their alma mater. .

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High Holidays Lessons for Everyone: Using Reflection to Move Forward

See3

Transitions are always a time for reflection, regrouping, and looking forward. Fall is always a time of transition when vacations are over, school years are starting, and the weather changes. When a leader retires, the organization must take stock of where they are at, and what they need for the next era. When a child […]. strategy'

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How We Closed Our Capital Campaign More Than 200% Ahead of Goal

NonProfit PRO

As I reflect on the successes of our campaign — my first as Healing Transitions’ executive director and the organization’s third in its history — I’d like to share several lessons I learned that may help you as you consider leading your organization into a major fundraising campaign.

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Leading Boldly Series Highlights Four Leaders Working Toward Equitable Society

NonProfit PRO

Four remarkable leaders, whose life experiences give them inspiration and strength, share their personal stories and reflect on their leadership journeys in conversations with Fred Ali, the retired President and CEO of the Weingart Foundation, and a former nonprofit leader.

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Reflections on 2020

Museum 2.0

But here are some of my reflections from this year in museum work: Camp Life: I came to camping late and through my children. So, if you’re not quite ready to learn from 2020, that’s fine. Also, if you have quite got it into your mind to think about The After, that’s okay. What I thought of as dirty and cold often turned out to be that way.

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A reflection from two talks

NCE Social Media

In the past week I’ve given two talks to two different groups on the same subject – social media and fundraising. The first group was a group of 32 professionals who work or volunteer for nonprofit organizations through the Foundation Center located at the Carnegie Library of Pittsburgh.

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Reflections on Movember

Steve Bridger

I reflected on all this while out walking in the Somerset countryside with my family on Sunday. Dad had open-heart surgery (twice) on that day. It was unexpected, and I parked the Movember thought for a while (but didn’t shave) until Dad recovered sufficiently to be moved out of intensive care. One of the best I can remember.

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Reflections from Networked Nonprofit Workshop for Latin American NGOs

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

I always like to start with an icebreaker that allows participants to reflect and identify burning questions. I encouraged them to use gestures to ask me to slow down or rephrase if they didn’t understand. The workshop was a tango dance between English and Spanish — and it worked!

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Reflections from Arts Leaders Workshop: Resilient Leaders from the Inside/Out

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

Participants reflected on their style strength and how it has helped them be successful in different situations. We had some fun doing role plays with a partner to figure out their style and some reflection on how we needed to adapt. Reflection questions : “Why did this work?”. ask, “How have sales been going?”.

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New on SSIR: Reflections on Jumo & Need for Co-Creation

Amy Sample Ward

—– I recently posted about Jumo with reflections, notes from my experience using the new platform, and questions – this post has also generated a great deal of valuable conversation in the comments (over 70 thoughtful comments so far). On & Offline Engagement. Online is great for organizing.

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America’s Giving Challenge 2009 Assessment and Reflection Paper

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

Allison Fine and I have completed the assessment and reflection paper for 2009 America’s Giving Challenge for the Case Foundation. Allison and I wrote the reflection paper for the first challenge.

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A Reflection on Networked Professional Learning

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

It gave me some reflection time away from the daily fast-paced, always moving forward world of social media. It gave me space to give social media use some mindful attention. There was a slowness to it that we don’t have with digital photography (perhaps because the slide film was expensive and we didn’t want to waste film).

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Revenue Grew 3.5% Among Top 30 Peer-to-Peer Fundraising Programs in 2021

NonProfit PRO

The $922 million dollar revenue figure reflected growth from the previous year’s efforts for the first time since 2008. According to a study released by Peer-to-Peer Professional Forum, nonprofits producing America’s top 30 peer-to-peer fundraising programs collectively increased fundraising revenue 3.5%

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Self-Reflection: 4 Questions To Ask Yourself Each Day

Eric Jacobsen Blog

Akradi tackles self-reflection in this month''s issue. Leadership Eric Jacobson on Leadership and Management Self-Reflection Life Time Fitness' I''m a big fan of the magazine, Experience Life. Particularly the monthly Perspective column by Bahram Akradi , the founder and CEO of Life Time Fitness. Thanks Bahram for this great advice.

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Trainer’s Notebook: Reflections on Designing and Delivering Training To Get Results

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

There are many ways to do this, but try to avoid the “Q/A of the Expert at the End,” and facilitate discussion that is more reflective. Reflection. It is important to evolve your presentation style so it is more interactive, engaging, and a lean forward experience.

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Reflections from #15ntc Session Walking As Work and 20/8/2 Rule

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

This year I designed and facilitated a highly interactive session called “ Walking is Work: Don’t Call It A Break ” with Ritu Sharma. I also lead a conference networking walk following the session. This post summarizes some thoughts and reflections. The slides and resources from the session can be found here.

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Reflections and Notes from Personal Democracy Forum 2013

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

Reflections and Notes from Personal Democracy Forum 2013. The next best thing is to have colleagues who have attended amazing conferences like Personal Democracy Forum and share what they learned. I’m grateful that Kate Wing has offered up this guest post about her experience at PDF 2013. The 50% conference rule.

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Community Voices at Digital Engagement Event: Reflections on the Conversation

Amy Sample Ward

You can check out the Community Voices group on the Social by Social community for videos, notes and other reflections from the event. Were you there, and have ideas to add to this reflection? Digital inclusion is not about cool social media tools, or even fancy hardware. It starts with people and stays with people. What do you think?

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Community Voices at Digital Engagement Event: Reflections on the Conversation

Amy Sample Ward

You can check out the Community Voices group on the Social by Social community for videos, notes and other reflections from the event. Were you there, and have ideas to add to this reflection? Digital inclusion is not about cool social media tools, or even fancy hardware. It starts with people and stays with people. What do you think?

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