Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JANUARY 3, 2019

Rituals can also be used by professionals to boost personal productivity because rituals capitalize on our brains’ ability to direct our behavior on autopilot, allowing us to reach our goals even when we are distracted or preoccupied with other things. I use the themes to guide my professional work and writing. What gave me joy?

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sgEngage

DECEMBER 18, 2023

Whether you are working within a funding organization or on the ground in social change, developing an effective knowledge practice will help to advance strategic missions and goals. It helps us to adapt, adjust, and evolve amidst complexity. Learning and knowledge are intimately connected but are actually different.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JANUARY 5, 2018

During the first week of January , I use the quiet time for three New Year’s rituals that help me prepare for the year ahead and identify professional growth areas. I’ve used these rituals for over a decade and found them helpful. These help guide my professional learning and improvement and maintaining good habits.

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Bloomerang

JULY 10, 2023

When asking for a legacy gift from a donor to your nonprofit, it’s important to approach the conversation with sensitivity and professionalism. Here are ten practical steps to help you navigate the process: 1. Also, seek out professional fundraising networks you can join that usually are quite extraordinary learning venues.

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The Storytelling Non-profit

JANUARY 12, 2022

Telling great stories helps your non-profit get its message out into the world, connect with new audiences and motivate people to take action like making a donation. But so many non-profit professionals get discouraged by storytelling because they think it’s going to require the unparalleled writing skills of a Pulitzer Prize winner.

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Saleforce Nonprofit

JUNE 10, 2022

The techniques help to grease the wheels of any organizational change. When making a technology change, change management is a process of applying a structured approach to transition from the old system to the new system. Sustainability – Proactively managing change through one project helps set the stage for future projects.

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Eric Jacobsen Blog

DECEMBER 13, 2021

Gorick Ng is a career adviser at Harvard Collage and during the last four years, he’s interviewed more than five hundred interns, early career professionals, managers, and executives, across the globe. During his research, Ng identified the most universal problems early-career professionals face. How do I need to do it?

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Eric Jacobsen Blog

NOVEMBER 7, 2021

Gorick Ng is a career adviser at Harvard Collage and during the last four years, he’s interviewed more than five hundred interns, early career professionals, managers, and executives, across the globe. During his research, Ng identified the most universal problems early-career professionals face. How do I need to do it?

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Eric Jacobsen Blog

APRIL 26, 2021

Gorick Ng is a career adviser at Harvard Collage and during the last four years, he’s interviewed more than five hundred interns, early career professionals, managers, and executives, across the globe. During his research, Ng identified the most universal problems early-career professionals face. How do I need to do it?

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Get Fully Funded

JUNE 18, 2023

They can help the organization set and achieve goals. It can attract a lot of support, with donors and volunteers lining up to help. Good leadership helps everyone understand what the impact goal is, makes sure they have what they need to do their job, provides encouragement, and monitors progress as the team moves forward.

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Bloomerang

JANUARY 22, 2024

Can you clearly articulate the issue you’re hoping to solve? Consider whether your community has a wide range of potential giving sources willing to help out, including individual donors , corporate sponsors, foundations, and government agencies. Is it one distinct problem or multiple issues? Look into: Your primary audience.

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Bloomerang

APRIL 26, 2021

No matter what happens in the economy or world, be it war, recession or natural disaster, people who can help DO. But people are generous, and generally want to help. . Big hearts will respond to big-hearted, authentic, clearly-articulated, specific and resonant appeals. Your job is to help them do so. Philanthropically.

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Top Nonprofits

JULY 20, 2022

In this section, we’ll cover tips for structuring information about your fundraiser on your flyer so that your viewers are satisfied. The positioning and size of the text immediately draw the viewer’s focus to the call to action, planting the seed in their brain for taking action and helping your cause.

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ASU Lodestar Center

JULY 8, 2011

Leaders are proponents of professional development, and the vast majority of them value shared leadership — meaning an approach that is both inclusive and collaborative, and shares decision making and authority with others throughout the organization. In the words of one executive, personnel management is a "sucking bog.".

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DNL OmniMedia

DECEMBER 15, 2020

As you can see, email marketing is a powerful tool for nonprofit professionals and fundraisers alike. An articulated reason for why you’re holding the event. Your event email campaigns will likely be structured as a drip series ( learn more below ), with the goal of securing new participants in your event. Gratitude Campaigns.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

AUGUST 17, 2011

It is helpful to look at making the switch as an evolutionary process. Provides training and professional development for staff to learn how to use measurement tools. identifying the new ways of working you want to see or articulating a new set of beliefs and values associated with them.

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Connection Cafe

SEPTEMBER 18, 2019

On Wednesday, August 8, over 300 museum professionals joined CFM director Elizabeth Merritt and Seema Rao, principal of Brilliant Idea Studio , to explore self-care in the museum workplace. My director and I sat down and talked about how they could help me reconcile my identity as an out woman with having to be “closeted” in the workplace.

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Tech Soup

JULY 14, 2016

It involves many contributors — each with a different area of interest, expertise, and professional vocabulary — and typically spans months and countless decisions. This approach is called the 4 Strategic Foundations of Effective Websites™ and has helped many clients achieve these results. Content Strategy.

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Get Fully Funded

MAY 1, 2023

Maybe they don’t know what a nonprofit business plan can do to help them. Why You Need a Nonprofit Business Plan No matter where your nonprofit is in its growth or what you’re trying to accomplish, a plan will help you reach your goals faster than if you are trying to operate without one. Who can help you achieve your goals?

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Bloomerang

FEBRUARY 1, 2022

So today, we are going to talk about a few key strategies to help you educate, engage, and empower your board members to amplify your fundraising activity. So we have three questions that will help anchor our conversation. And then unpacking some case studies that can articulate some of these strategies in action.

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sgEngage

AUGUST 15, 2024

How can grants professionals who are doing knowledge work focus on tech alignment in this vast arena of titles, approaches, and methodologies? Focusing on Tech Alignment If you are a grants professional with knowledge responsibilities, it is important to be able to articulate the purpose or framing of your knowledge approach or activity.

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Michael Stein's Non-profit Technology Blog

APRIL 1, 2007

They want the journals and publications, the professional seminars, the reduced prices on publications or classes. This subspecies includes trade associations and professional societies. Museums and cultural organization tend to be organizations of this sort; many advocacy and political groups also structure themselves in this way.

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sgEngage

AUGUST 25, 2023

Everyone has some ideas about what a capital campaign is—how it’s structured, what it accomplishes, how long it should take, who it should involve, and more. They proved particularly helpful for organizations facing crises at the height of the COVID pandemic; we saw some nonprofits raise over $100,000 in 8 weeks.

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Neon CRM

SEPTEMBER 25, 2023

Two well-known examples are the American Medical Association (AMA), which advocates for healthcare professionals and patient care and the American Bar Association (ABA), which represents the legal profession. Have you heard of the Association of Fundraising Professionals , also known as AFP?

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Qgiv

AUGUST 27, 2021

The good news is, you’re a fundraising professional and if anyone can pull it off, it’s you! It’s helpful to be present at the venue and to go through a visualization exercise with key staff or volunteers. Keep in mind that some venues may not allow you to stake anything into the ground or even tie things to existing structures.

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Gyrus

MARCH 15, 2024

Employee performance review is a formal regulated process of assessing the employee’s work performance and articulating future work expectations. The purpose is to provide constructive performance feedback and assist in goal setting for professional and personal development. How to Conduct Performance Reviews Effectively?

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Gyrus

MARCH 15, 2024

Employee performance review is a formal regulated process of assessing the employee’s work performance and articulating future work expectations. The purpose is to provide constructive performance feedback and assist in goal setting for professional and personal development. How to Conduct Performance Reviews Effectively?

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Gyrus

MARCH 15, 2024

Employee performance review is a formal regulated process of assessing the employee’s work performance and articulating future work expectations. The purpose is to provide constructive performance feedback and assist in goal setting for professional and personal development. How to Conduct Performance Reviews Effectively?

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sgEngage

DECEMBER 12, 2022

However, Danny McCall beautifully articulates the challenge of defining this dyad in his whitepaper, The Durable Relationship : Although “relationship” is a commonly used word, having an actionable comprehension of a relationship’s dimensions and forces isn’t a trivial matter. Who helped facilitate the introduction to the individual?

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Museum 2.0

SEPTEMBER 2, 2008

What's the biggest mistake people make when involving non-professionals in exhibition design? They want articulated goals and expectations. There was no initial design, no graphics, and no idea of where the teen' work would fit into an overall structure. Find a way to control the structure, even if it's artificial.

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CauseVox

NOVEMBER 26, 2023

Below we’ll explore four things to consider in nonprofit storytelling: The narrative structure The content The medium The donor experience Managing all of the moving pieces of your nonprofit can be tough; sharing your authentic story as a change-maker doesn’t have to be. We are constantly seeking purpose and significance in the world.

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Museum 2.0

AUGUST 20, 2019

I tell the story of the one-man band because I think many museum professionals feel like him. But, most importantly, few museum professionals have a free hand or moment. We might think of structural racism or the classism inherent in our funding structures. Work practices can be a boon, helping you do more better.

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Museum 2.0

JUNE 6, 2008

Our job was to provide a structured environment in which to develop ideas and the expertise to build the best of them. People who work with non-professionals on participatory projects often talk about finding "neutral" sites for meetings or meeting on their (the non-professionals') territory.

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Get Fully Funded

APRIL 29, 2021

We react positively when we find a website with strong, well-structured design, but it can be difficult to articulate what made the design strong. Plus, the right web design experts can become a long-term partner in helping you craft a successful website. Accessibility Features. Interactive Media. Recurring Donor Options.

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Bloomerang

JULY 17, 2021

My house that I loved so much that I’m sure that I overpaid and was a fundraiser at Big Brothers Big Sisters at that time and really had to learn to navigate some really choppy waters around what it meant to help folks understand investing in their community in trying times, investing in young people, investing in our staff.

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Have Fun - Do Good

JULY 3, 2006

I think that the way it is actually going to wind up taking place is for working class people of color to come together in unity and really begin shifting the structures that impact all of our lives. Almost never do they receive healthcare benefits or vacation time and oftentimes, have to work in incredibly oppressive environments.

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Bloomerang

JUNE 19, 2021

As young professionals who have served both as members and staff managers of these groups, Sarah Willey and Corinne Austin will lead you through the research on Next Gen supporters, challenges to anticipate, and steps your organization can take to start a new young friends board from scratch OR to maximize the potential of your existing group.

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