Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MAY 8, 2018

Last month, I was honored to present and facilitate an all-day workshop for nonprofit leaders at the Oregon Nonprofit Leadership Conference on how to activate a culture of well being in the nonprofit workplace, based on my book, The Happy Healthy Nonprofit: Strategies for Impact without Burnout.

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Bloomerang

JUNE 5, 2024

By evaluating factors like donation history, engagement levels, and specific interests, you can pinpoint individuals who are not only passionate about your cause but also likely to bring valuable skills and commitment to your board. Clear, actionable goals keep your board focused and drive collective efforts toward measurable outcomes.

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sgEngage

DECEMBER 18, 2023

Sadly, many current change efforts that try to incorporate knowledge work for social good end up with disjointed or burdensome lists of isolated activities that really aren’t very engaging or valuable. It is about actively making meaning in interaction with a social context. Whether knowledge is spoken or not, it is public.

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Qgiv

JULY 24, 2024

By taking action and refining your board’s operations, you can maximize the positive impact you have in your community. An effective nonprofit board helps with planning your fundraising strategy, properly allocating resources, and evaluating your strategy’s performance. What’s a nonprofit board’s primary function?

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Forum One

OCTOBER 17, 2023

Product-focused websites actively deliver on the organization’s mission: the functionality to match volunteers to workdays for a service-oriented nonprofit, for example, may live on the organization’s website, but like a product, it’s delivering on a specific focus that target populations can use directly.

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sgEngage

APRIL 2, 2024

Update Assigned Tasks One major pitfall to avoid during periods of staff turnover at your grantmaking organization is leaving ongoing activities or requests assigned to people who no longer work there. Action items not assigned to an active team member can lead to phone calls, meetings, and other crucial tasks not being completed.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JUNE 27, 2018

A structured reflection process generates insights about what worked and what could be improved. More importantly, it can avoid replicating mistakes or activities that don’t work and are a waste of resources. One of the simplest ways to practice continuous improvement is to incorporate a process evaluation.

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Gyrus

NOVEMBER 27, 2023

Create a Training Action Plan This step involves creating a detailed training action plan that includes methodologies, resources, and dates for optimal execution – as this plan acts as a roadmap for stakeholders as they go through the training process.

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Gyrus

NOVEMBER 27, 2023

Create a Training Action Plan This step involves creating a detailed training action plan that includes methodologies, resources, and dates for optimal execution – as this plan acts as a roadmap for stakeholders as they go through the training process.

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Train Training Program Skills 52

Gyrus

NOVEMBER 27, 2023

Create a Training Action Plan This step involves creating a detailed training action plan that includes methodologies, resources, and dates for optimal execution – as this plan acts as a roadmap for stakeholders as they go through the training process.

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Train Training Program Skills 52

Wild Apricot

DECEMBER 21, 2017

Sales operations refers to the unit, role, activities and processes within a sales organization that support, enable, and drive front line sales teams to sell better, faster, and more efficiently. Evaluation of Sales Team Training Needs. Sales Activities. The Structure of an Agile Sales Operations Unit. Lead Generation.

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Achieve

JUNE 17, 2024

Look at the goals you’ve set for your nonprofit and structure your ask strategy around them. Offer mobile fundraising activities. Here are five easy steps you can use to start a mobile giving campaign: Evaluate your mobile fundraising logistics. To get started, try answering the following questions: Who is my audience?

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

OCTOBER 30, 2020

Organizations need to have structures and policies to support and enhance an individuals work/life balance and enable healthy technology use habits including a right to disconnect from the workplace. Priority should be given to retaining and emphasizing human characteristics in decision making processes and evaluations. .

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Neon CRM

JANUARY 19, 2024

Outline engaging activities and events that align with your mission but also provide opportunities for members to actively participate and contribute their skills. Start by outlining your organizational structures. Clearly define roles, responsibilities, and reporting lines to ensure transparency and accountability.

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Bloomerang

JUNE 5, 2024

Consider using scoring rubrics or structured interview protocols to standardize evaluations and minimize bias to keep things equitable. Host engaging events: Arrange meet-ups that let potential board members see your work in action. Encourage active participation. Welcome them aboard. Foster a collaborative culture.

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CauseVox

JULY 18, 2023

Evaluate your progress and determine whether you are on track to meet your targets. However, it’s always a good rule to try to avoid taking actions out of panic, and instead be methodical. Optimize existing strategies: Fine-tune your existing fundraising strategies by incorporating lessons learned from your evaluation.

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Bloomerang

APRIL 26, 2021

When charities made their case, donors answered the calls to action with remarkable generosity. You must proactively practice the craft of fundraising to reap active participation in philanthropy. It’s a good time to evaluate where you may have gaps in your technology. ACTION: Conduct a website self-audit. and +11.9%).

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Candid

NOVEMBER 17, 2021

Corporate Delegation and Oversight, Organizational Structure (5 percent). Data Handling, Overview, Measurement, Evaluation and Reporting (4 percent). Activating our values in 2022. Miscellaneous (3 percent). Project Demographics/Orientation/Status (2 percent). Alternative Supports (<1 percent). If you are a grantmaker.

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Saleforce Nonprofit

NOVEMBER 22, 2021

As the pandemic accelerated the adoption of technology for nonprofits, the murder of George Floyd in 2020 gave new urgency to organizational prioritization around diversity and mental health in their workplace structures. Additionally, nine in 10 respondents evaluated their organization’s use of technology as excellent/good across all areas.

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NetWits

JUNE 23, 2011

As of now we have four active generations (Traditionalists, Boomers, Gen-X, Millenials) making contributions. The results were astounding – the 2010 Race for the Cure® brought in more than $3 million through an evaluation by a third-party returned positive feedback on the frequency and quality of messaging.

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Get Fully Funded

FEBRUARY 1, 2022

A nonprofit is passion in action. The story of that passion in action brings in the donations that pay for your programs and services, which have an impact and change lives. How will you evaluate your results and measure impact? You also need to build a structure that will enable you to bring in the money you need to operate.

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sgEngage

AUGUST 12, 2024

Nonprofit financial management also includes the structures and workflows that enable your finance team to operate efficiently and effectively. Depending on your organization’s focus and activities, you may have different types of funding, such as grants, contracts, donations, program fees, sponsorships, or merchandise sales.

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Forum One

OCTOBER 13, 2022

Who you speak to and how you structure your research has a big impact on the findings you gather and insights you can take action on. During this session, you will have the opportunity to put what you’ve learned into practice through case studies and activities. What does it mean to conduct this research in an inclusive way?

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Bloomerang

FEBRUARY 1, 2023

Structural barriers to success The nonprofit sector is highly competitive, with organizations often competing for the same limited resources. However, we can actively try to build cross-community bridges in an attempt to understand our own locality from other points of view.

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DNL OmniMedia

APRIL 1, 2024

This also makes it easier for more team members to actively use your data, improving efficiency and productivity. Difficulties with data transformation: Data transformation is the process data from different sources will need to undergo in order for you to view it all in the same format or structure, thus streamlining your analysis tasks.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

OCTOBER 23, 2014

Peter and Madeleine were the among the pioneers in writing about, designing, facilitating, and evaluating networks in the social impact space. The definition is a group of people who voluntarily organize themselves for collective action to solve a large, complex social problem. They co-create the agenda and identify the priorities.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JANUARY 27, 2014

I use a simple structure to design: before, during, and after. ” ADDIE is an instructional design method that stands for Analysis, Design, Development, Implementation, and Evaluation. As part of the design process, I focus on “ real world application ” for the material I’m going to cover.

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ASU Lodestar Center

NOVEMBER 18, 2015

The science aspect refers to the comprehension of the technical structure upon which those words are arranged” (Blanchard & Bullock, 2010). Poorly developed evaluation plans. So what actions should nonprofits take to improve in these areas prior to pursuing grant funding? Vague or poorly developed budget. & Bullock, C.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MARCH 13, 2018

Brainstorming can be done as a solo activity or group or collaborative brainstorming. The most critical thing that distinguishes brainstorming from other types of facilitated group activity is the absence negative feedback. I’ll be sharing tips and techniques on how to generate ideas or “brainstorming” techniques.

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NonProfit Hub

APRIL 18, 2024

Your nonprofit will receive flexible funding to support various activities. If a “donor” requests specific actions, it probably won’t qualify as a charitable gift. Similar to traditional sponsorship agreements, they provide a structured avenue for companies to demonstrate their CSR commitment.

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Nonprofits Source

OCTOBER 6, 2023

And you’re far from the only one; studies report that 85% of employees are not engaged or actively disengaged at work. Fortunately, there are many formal and informal changes you can implement into your organization’s structure to keep your employees motivated. Tech stack. Why is employee engagement important? Roadblocks.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

APRIL 8, 2011

The report opens with a look at current practices of using networks for citizen-centered social action that are promising for the future. Listening to and consulting the crowds: Actively listening to online conversations and openly asking for advice. Don’t use conventional evaluation criteria to assessing network impact.

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BoardAssist

MAY 27, 2014

Adhere to Structure. Self Evaluation Process. They have a board self-evaluation each year and they discuss it frankly. Bias Towards Action. They are action-oriented. Individual Action. Committees all have a specific reason for being, specific deliverables and action items. Monitoring Progress.

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Qgiv

APRIL 9, 2024

Your organization’s social media strategy should be a carefully structured plan with SMART goals, posting frequency, key dates (like an awareness month tied to your mission), and content guidelines for posts. Tracking these actions helps you measure the success of specific campaigns and overall engagement efforts. Interactions.

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NonProfit Hub

JULY 21, 2014

One point of view wanted the new person to be active in the day-to-day operations, while the opposite side favored someone who was not as active, but may have been previously. Active Involvement: The Board Members are Known by a Large Portion of the Organization. Reward Active Members.

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Allegiance Group

MAY 1, 2024

Stay tuned to discover actionable insights that can truly make a difference. Identifying your organization’s unique value proposition is key to structuring your year-end campaign narrative. If you haven’t already, consider inviting volunteers, clients, and other staff members to help with this activity as well.

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Campaign Guide Fundraising Storytelling 52

Tech Soup

SEPTEMBER 21, 2011

The cornerstone of their presentation rested in the necessity for nonprofits to think strategically about communications plans, working with a definition of strategy by David La Piana: "Strategy is a coordinated set of actions designed to create and sustain a competitive advantage in achieving a nonprofit's mission."

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