Nonprofit Tech for Good

DECEMBER 13, 2021

A website build or redesign has technical but also design and execution aspects. Below is a list of processes and procedures you can take to prepare yourself and your organization to start your website build or redesign on a solid footing. Step 2: Organize a Planning Team and Create a Project Charter.

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Nonprofit Tech for Good

SEPTEMBER 5, 2023

Measure Impact : Use the framework’s impact measurement techniques to assess the effectiveness of your ChatGPT-powered strategies. By inputting relevant data, the AI can generate nuanced insights that supplement your team’s analysis, thereby informing more holistic decisions.

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Qgiv

JULY 17, 2023

Your team may be grappling with questions like, “How do we transform words on the page into reality?” Your team may be thinking, “equity work is hard. With that, here are three starting points for activating DEI in your organization: Provide the tools Normalize feedback Evaluate and Reevaluate 1.

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Bloomerang

NOVEMBER 15, 2023

Whether you’re part of a nonprofit, a dynamic team, or an individual on a mission, having a well-defined strategy for quickly creating and sharing fresh ideas is a must-have in our times. This might sound easy, but sharing an idea with your board, boss, or team can be tricky, even nerve-wracking. Do you have one in place? Well, almost.

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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. By streamlining how your team submits expenses and how you approve them, you can save time, minimize manual data entry, and have an audit trail for all your payables.

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Gyrus

AUGUST 23, 2024

The training primarily focuses on developing the individual’s communication skills, active listening techniques and adapting the communication styles according to different situations. ECT can be pivotal in resolving conflicts, improving collaboration, nurturing leadership skills, and building trust among team members.

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Gyrus

AUGUST 23, 2024

The training primarily focuses on developing the individual’s communication skills, active listening techniques, and adapting the communication styles according to different situations. ECT can be pivotal in resolving conflicts, improving collaboration, nurturing leadership skills, and building trust among team members.

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Gyrus

AUGUST 23, 2024

The training primarily focuses on developing the individual’s communication skills, active listening techniques, and adapting the communication styles according to different situations. ECT can be pivotal in resolving conflicts, improving collaboration, nurturing leadership skills, and building trust among team members.

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Skills Leadership Communication Develop 52

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MARCH 13, 2018

Looking for new techniques to add to your facilitator’s toolbox? 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. What is Brainstorming? .

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

NOVEMBER 6, 2013

This is a design aspect called “ Transformative Capacity Building ,” where a cohort of peer organizations come together to practice a skill and get better results. The skill, of course, is hosting a Giving Day and we are now looking at processes, techniques, and ideas for follow up and assessment.

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Gyrus

MARCH 14, 2024

Innovative techniques like gamification and microlearning can help drive the learner’s engagement. This can improve team engagement and learning experience. Siloed Systems Modern enterprises have access to a host of communication tools like Zoom, Slack, and Microsoft Teams that can improve team collaboration among remote workers.

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Gyrus

MARCH 14, 2024

Innovative techniques like gamification and microlearning can help drive the learner’s engagement. This can improve team engagement and learning experience. Siloed Systems Modern enterprises have access to a host of communication tools like Zoom, Slack, and Microsoft Teams that can improve team collaboration among remote workers.

Professional 52

Professional Challenge Learning Train 52

Gyrus

MARCH 14, 2024

Innovative techniques like gamification and microlearning can help drive the learner’s engagement. This can improve team engagement and learning experience. Siloed Systems Modern enterprises have access to a host of communication tools like Zoom, Slack, and Microsoft Teams that can improve team collaboration among remote workers.

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Professional Challenge Learning Train 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. Building Sales Ops. Evaluation of Sales Team Training Needs. What are the key functions of a sales operations group?

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Candid

JULY 5, 2023

Here are five tips to build more engaged remote teams. This offers another structured way to build awareness of preferences and how teammates can best work together. Align on team norms Building awareness of individual styles and preferences sets the stage for team alignment on shared norms and behaviors.

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CauseVox

APRIL 29, 2021

Starting to fundraise without a plan is like building a house without a draft – you need a plan to know where you’re going, and to keep you on that track. Between all the events , phone calls and mailings your plan can bring you and your team back to the most important activities. Prioritize Using a Fundraising Plan.

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Gyrus

MARCH 14, 2024

This feature is useful in corporate training where the learners are in similar roles and teams and need to excel in a certain subject. It offers a way to build on what is already learned by presenting information linearly. A learning path allows multiple users to register for the course at once.

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Gyrus

MARCH 14, 2024

This feature is useful in corporate training where the learners are in similar roles and teams and need to excel in a certain subject. It offers a way to build on what is already learned by presenting information linearly. A learning path allows multiple users to register for the course at once.

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Gyrus

MARCH 14, 2024

This feature is useful in corporate training where the learners are in similar roles and teams and need to excel in a certain subject. It offers a way to build on what is already learned by presenting information linearly. A learning path allows multiple users to register for the course at once.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

DECEMBER 23, 2011

I’ve been curating resources on training techniques and capacity building over at scoop.it Visual Teams: Graphic Tools for Commitment, Innovation, and High Performance by David Sibbet. Developmental Evaluation: Applying Complexity Concepts to Enhance Innovation and Use by Michael Quinn Patton. This book will help.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

NOVEMBER 16, 2011

The project includes face-to-face training , webinar , as well as one-on-one coaching provided by the expert team at SpitFire. When you are building ties between nodes in a network or connections between peers, you need to build in networking time. Friending the Finish Line. View more presentations from Beth Kanter.

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Neon CRM

JANUARY 23, 2024

Due to their size, major gifts can be game-changers for fundraising teams. Major donor prospecting is a research technique used by fundraisers to uncover donor data that will help determine giving capacity and willingness to donate. Why Are Major Gifts Important? They’re substantial funding for a nonprofit. In the United States, 13.9%

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MAY 10, 2011

The Foundation has teamed up with an evaluation consultant, TCC Group, to figure out if working wikily can enhance the quality of learning as the OE Goldmine Research project and the Foundation’s OE program review move forward. Maybe it takes the form of collaboratively interupting the results of the evaluation.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MARCH 3, 2011

Beirut Diary: I’m in Beirut for the week as part of The E-Mediat project , a capacity building project that leverages a networked approach. Day 4 of the Train the Trainers E-Mediat was designed and facilitated by the capable SMEXbeirut Team – including Jessica Dheere , Mohamad Najem , and Naeema Zarif. explains the how and why.

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Qgiv

JUNE 23, 2021

A good CRM will help you track your donors’ giving history, document their engagement with your organization, and help you identify opportunities to build strong donor relationships that will last for years. They’ll also help you build profiles on your donors that include their contact information and communicatino preferences.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MAY 27, 2015

The Network Impact team spent 18 months consulting with civic tech thought leaders and offering technical assistance to Knight Foundation grantees focused on assessing the impact of their technologies. When we asked Code for America team to summarize the need they see in the field, they responded, “The civic tech field is growing rapidly.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

SEPTEMBER 29, 2015

I was thrilled to work with the Brainerd Foundation staff to help design and facilitate a design lab using techniques based on Luma Institute methods earlier this month. The process for the one and half day lab used techniques that fall into these categories: Looking and Observing: Unpacking the Context for 21 st Century Advocacy.

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Nonprofit Tech for Good

JULY 16, 2023

Nonprofit, business, people, team, board, community, tech, emergent, servant, etc. It’s the deliberate practice of designing, building, and evolving the positive perception and experience of everyone inside and outside of your ecosystem. No one has more impact on brand health than the leadership team. When not done well?

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Bloomerang

JUNE 11, 2021

By understanding core motivations, intentions, perspectives reflected in this webinar, you will be able to build a stronger case for support, increase the impact you have, and gain strategies for creating and preserving community. You’re building trust, you’re building relationship, maybe even friendship.

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Museum 2.0

SEPTEMBER 18, 2013

In the past year, I''ve seen the conversation shift to talking about impact and sustainability of these projects--how we evaluate audience participation and how we can shift from experimental pilots to more day-to-day implementation. Are there certain kinds of institutions that are more well-suited for participatory techniques than others?

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JANUARY 4, 2016

These include a review of the year’s accomplishments and focus setting: Peter Bregman’s theme for the year , and Chris Brogan’s “ My Three Words .” This year, I’m adding a technique from Gretchen Rubin, author of the Happiness Project to establish and track good habits on a monthly basis.

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Museum 2.0

APRIL 25, 2011

In the past year, I've seen the conversation shift to talking about impact and sustainability of these projects--how we evaluate audience participation and how we can shift from experimental pilots to more day-to-day implementation. Are there certain kinds of institutions that are more well-suited for participatory techniques than others?

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Museum 2.0

SEPTEMBER 11, 2013

Years ago, I was running a workshop at a conference introducing a creativity technique to museum professionals. This is a comment I’ve heard a lot over the years, and have wondered about what it takes to introduce or build more creativity into institutions. But it would never work in my museum because my boss would never go for it.”

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The Science Behind Engaging your Supporters

NOVEMBER 27, 2018

And like those other core functions, we must examine our technology and data strategies to properly evaluate and prioritize our needs and successfully build our digital capacity. This event continues and builds on the legacy of the COOL National Conference and the Idealist Campus Conference, spanning an incredible 32+ year history.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MARCH 4, 2020

My first remote job was to work with a virtual team to manage an online network for artists, called Artswire. Here are some best practices for Virtual Meetings to get past that pain: 1-Co-Create Your Team’s Rules of Engagement or Virtual Meeting Norms. It’s time to up your virtual facilitation and convening skills.

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Museum 2.0

JANUARY 2, 2013

Program staff invent guerrilla marketing techniques, run the photobooths and program evaluations, and send out the follow-up emails. As director, I post, tweet, and talk with visitors along with the rest of my team. Curators and front desk staff blog about their interactions with objects and visitors. They call it advocacy.

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DNL OmniMedia

FEBRUARY 16, 2022

Your organization already understands the importance of having updated and adaptive techniques for all its digital tools and marketing outlets. What your team might not realize, however, is that each of your separate digital marketing efforts should actively support the others. It all comes full circle. Phase 2: The Planning Stage.

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