Nonprofits Source

OCTOBER 6, 2023

Fortunately, there are many formal and informal changes you can implement into your organization’s structure to keep your employees motivated. Recruiting and onboarding new employees is far more costly than retaining existing trained employees. Increased retention. Talent attraction. Lack of leadership support. Set it and forget it.

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sgEngage

MAY 25, 2023

The Funder’s Role in Risk Funders—by which I mean donors, foundations, impact investors, and government agencies that grant financial support—disincentivize risk in a few ways. Nonprofits show and share what worked, usually with tidy stories and charts. One story I encountered on my journey will forever make me sick to my stomach.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MAY 30, 2018

Note from Beth: Digital storytelling is key to fundraising success, but using a storytelling lens in your organization can have further benefit of busting organizational silos. How and Why Stories Can Bust Nonprofit Silos – Guest Post by Miriam Brosseau and Stephanie Corleto . Stories are for people. Silos are for corn.

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Bloomerang

APRIL 9, 2021

We are here to talk about the board’s role in fundraising and resource development, one of my favorite topics, and we got one of my favorite people also here to talk about it. But she’s been in your shoes, like I said, being a leader of an organization and also raising a ton of money and does a lot of these trainings.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

OCTOBER 7, 2014

Like all good training sessions, this workshop started off with an opening conversation that allowed us to get to know others in the room and connect to what we already know. Heather facilitated this exercise as a series of share pairs where we discussed each question with a different partner for a few minutes.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

APRIL 30, 2012

It is also packed with resource lists and stories. ” And that as networks evolve and grow, you experiment with different tools and then spread the knowledge of how to use the tools to the rest of the network. To me, this creates the perfect book to help guide your practice of building and working within a network.

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Whole Whale

MARCH 22, 2023

For example, you can start your prompt with “Write a heartfelt story for an 8-yr old about…” or “Provide a never-heard-before solution for boomers about…” Add personality : Don’t be afraid to give the AI an attitude or tone. Build large training guides on a given topic.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MARCH 30, 2012

Both conference marked the end of an 18-month capacity building program that trained more than 220 NGOs in Jordan, Lebanon, Morocco and Tunisia on how to use social media effectively to advance civil society goals. See the above video, created by team in Tunisia, which summarizes the program.) Design for Flexibility.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

AUGUST 17, 2011

Not all nonprofits are born with the spreadsheet gene. And it isn’t simply a technical problem that can be solved through training or purchasing analytics software. There not is a reflection process for analyzing success or failure to take into next use or campaign. DoSomething.Org: A Data-Driven Nonprofit In Action.

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Bloomerang

FEBRUARY 1, 2022

Elizabeth Abel will explore the role of the board in elevating fundraising activity and discuss effective strategies to recruit, engage, and deploy diverse board members as fundraising ambassadors. First is to understand the role of the board specifically in elevating an organization’s fundraising program. Elizabeth: Yes.

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Forj

MAY 18, 2021

Gone are the phone screens where one knows two minutes in the candidate is not a good fit for the open role. with some regularity, but never had a structured tool that we used team-wide. We’ve all heard horror stories about technical failures on video chat services, and even video conferencing services aren’t much better.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JULY 13, 2010

As Visiting Scholar in Nonprofits and Social Media at the David and Lucile Packard Foundation, I am coaching grantee organizations and leading workshops and peer trainings on how to become a Networked Nonprofit. They do not frame them as success or failure but as learning. Participants go off and work on their experiments.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

DECEMBER 2, 2010

When we talk about the social organization, we start with exploring individual behaviors and skill sets; then internal processes such as community management, establishing good social media policies, the role of staff; and then cultural issues of openness, collaboration, and decentralization. Second, simplify complex structures and processes.

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Connection Cafe

JANUARY 29, 2020

Just as your organization’s story — its mission, community, history, constituents, partners, everything that makes it unique — should guide your organization’s engagement strategies , your underlying tech foundations should be guided by a similar roadmap, as well. Recruit a team and define roles. What’s the best way to get started?

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Connection Cafe

FEBRUARY 25, 2020

If NO, but it is important to your employees, is large scale, or peripheral to your supply chain or impacts some of your customers, you will need to consider what role you want to fill. These are in charge of planning and supporting the economic and structural rebuilding of disaster response. Public Sector.

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sgEngage

MAY 23, 2024

Sustainability – what needs to be built in now for long-term success? Think, “What if my organization’s name showed up in a story in the Washington Post about this?” Who might be a suitable partner to support the project? Program Analysis – what will happen to the program to accommodate the growth?

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Connection Cafe

SEPTEMBER 5, 2017

A volunteer who has been trained how to cut through the niceties that lawmakers prefer to let dominate a meeting (where do you eat, who’s your kin, etc.), tell her personal story and make a clear, specific legislative ask. In smaller organizations, responsibilities for both roles could fall on the shoulders of the same person.

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Bloomerang

JUNE 11, 2021

I’m going to weave in stories that are connected to … oops, there we go. Weave in stories that are connected to the podcast and I’m going to share some model language for you. . This is what we need you to do, so roles and responsibilities, those were sent out in advance before anybody then ultimately committed. .

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Get Fully Funded

SEPTEMBER 13, 2022

No matter how large or small, every fundraiser or fundraising activity requires structure and planning to be successful. So, let me share the exact steps you need to take to plan a successful fundraiser. How in the world are you going to be successful if you have no goal? Where do you even begin? But, you’re smart.

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Amy Sample Ward

APRIL 27, 2009

Themes that people want to learn: new metrics structures can bubble up. success stories. Sarah - a lot of resistance to social media in political groups, the key is biting off small pieces and educating people one at a time, finding someone to train and working with them so that they can educate another person.

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Saleforce Nonprofit

SEPTEMBER 15, 2021

By: Nicole Hedges, Principal Customer Success Architect, Salesforce.org; Marquetta Drakes, Principal Functional Consultant, Salesforce.org. That being said, we are still learning a lot about how to make virtual go-lives more successful every day. What were the different channels, mediums, and levels of training and go-live support?

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Non Profit Quarterly

AUGUST 25, 2022

We build networks, connecting our users with one another and mentors to accelerate their success and use intelligent matching to curate career opportunities for our fellows in partnership with tech companies.” Several recent studies have shown that technology can exacerbate bias and discrimination. Helping Immigrant Communities of Color.

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Have Fun - Do Good

DECEMBER 28, 2006

So many of these women are local leaders, and Women's Global Green Action Network is attempting to provide a space for women to step into roles of being global advocates, and to really have a more prevalent platform for the messages and the work that they are doing. We also take part in trainings that are relevant to most of their work.

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Cloud 4 Good

AUGUST 5, 2021

In part one of our Support and Maintenance of Your University’s Salesforce Org blog series, we explored long-term maintenance and success strategies, starting with best practices related to staffing your Salesforce instance. Organizational Strategy: Design, structure, and vision for your Salesforce org(s). Why Does Governance Matter?

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Blue Avocado

APRIL 23, 2024

At Connected Lane County, we have experienced a growing trend, supported by data, in funders being more willing to invest in succession planning, capacity building, and general operating support. Rather than telling the story of dire things, approach a conversation with how the funder can further help your organization succeed.

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Non Profit Quarterly

JULY 27, 2021

And Karen’s role is Director of Education and Outreach at Tech Impact. So, the question here is, “What is your role in your organization?” More than one of these things might be true of you, but maybe pick the one that you most identify with when you think about your technology role in your organization. Next slide, please.)

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CauseVox

SEPTEMBER 13, 2021

Peer-to-peer fundraising catapults your supporters and donors into your organization’s narrative; it is powerful and increasingly popular because the fundraisers become the heroes of the story. As they do, they’ll spread the word and share your story. What Are The Benefits Of Peer to Peer Fundraising?

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EveryAction

APRIL 1, 2016

We've scoured the nonprofit-sphere for high-quality conferences and forums, informal trainings, and more that will be taking place all over the world, focusing on essential topics like: Nonprofit management. Structuring Major Gifts Conference. Structuring Major Gifts Conference. Fundraising. Donor relations. Accounting.

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Qgiv

MARCH 26, 2024

Software and toolkits can play a crucial role in streamlining the donation process and creating a more convenient and engaging experience for potential donors looking to contribute to your cause. This podcast, hosted by Leila Adnani, helps nonprofits share their impact stories to promote the work that they do for potential donors.

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CauseVox

JULY 18, 2022

Peer-to-peer fundraising catapults your supporters and donors into your organization’s narrative; it is compelling and increasingly popular because the fundraisers become the heroes of the story. As they do, they’ll spread the word and share your story. Peer-to-Peer Fundraising Statistics: The Benefits.

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CauseVox

JULY 31, 2022

Peer-to-peer fundraising catapults your supporters and donors into your organization’s narrative; it is compelling and increasingly popular because the fundraisers become the heroes of the story. As they do, they’ll spread the word and share your story. Peer-to-Peer Fundraising Statistics: The Benefits.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

SEPTEMBER 29, 2010

Rather than comparing Woolworth sit-ins to the much-hyped Twitter Revolution, finding the latter coming up wanting, and stopping there, Gladwell might have given some space in the New Yorker to dig a little deeper to find examples of folks using technology to organize in intriguing, successful ways. The examples are there, too.

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Have Fun - Do Good

JULY 3, 2006

Steve Williams: One of the interesting things that we have seen historically is that women's labor, and particularly women of color, have played a central role of supporting the economy. Initially, after conversations with a lot of domestic workers, we realized that the women really wanted to have negotiation training.

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Bloomerang

JULY 17, 2021

And so I’ve been so grateful to be able to help thousands of folks through my classes, through my courses, through one-on-one work, through training, conferences. When I started in the sector right after grad school, I realized that there weren’t a lot of folks who I thought looked like me who were in leadership roles.

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Bloomerang

JUNE 25, 2021

Steven: because of the pandemic, true story. Robin: True story. How do you structure your database? I look at how is it structured, the big internal structure. So there is a way to structure your database so that it is organized and consistent. And last time we had you, you were stuck in Australia.

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NTEN

OCTOBER 14, 2011

Working for a large nonprofit focused on programs and services that have impact on peoples’ lives, we often find ourselves with great stories of inspiration to tell. The challenge is identifying ways for the staff, who are responsible for implementing programs of impact every day, to tell the organization’s stories. Remove barriers.

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Bloomerang

OCTOBER 8, 2021

And I really wanted to do this session because grants can feel so mysterious to so many nonprofit leaders, even ones that have some degree of grant success. . In my work, I’m constantly fielding questions about grants from busy executive directors without formal grants training. A nice mix of roles. What a great group.

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