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Doing good, wrong? The role of philanthropy in keeping people safe

Candid

Addressing power imbalances and structural inequities A critical aspect of promoting safeguarding is acknowledging and addressing the power imbalances within the philanthropic sector as well as the structural inequities that often place marginalized populations at greater risk of harm.

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Trainer’s Notebook: Facilitating Brainstorming Sessions for Nonprofit Work

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

Does your work at a nonprofit include facilitating meetings or trainings? Looking for new techniques to add to your facilitator’s toolbox? The most critical thing that distinguishes brainstorming from other types of facilitated group activity is the absence negative feedback. Basic Approaches. Before the Session.

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Equitable intermediary organizations are building roads and bridges

Candid

Intermediaries provide the means to an end : facilitating the disbursement of funding for coordinating efforts to meet social needs, organizing communities to address injustice, and in some cases redistributing wealth to advance equity. Equitable intermediaries prioritize relationship building, empathetic communication, and adaptability.

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5 New Year’s Rituals for Nonprofit Professionals to Build Personal Resilience

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

1) Review the Year: I use tool called the “ Year Compass, a free downloadable booklet that provides a set of structured reflection questions that help you look back and ahead. I’ve continued to do conference keynotes, workshops and facilitate staff retreats about activating a culture of wellbeing. Here they are: Rituals.

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New (Free) E-Book: Leading Systems Change Will Supercharge Your Facilitation Skills

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

But this is more than a simple report on a highly successful leadership program that takes a systems approach to serving an underserved community, it is the authors playbook of how to design and implement a program, including facilitation recipes for designing meetings. The facilitation methods are participatory.

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How much does it cost to build the world’s hottest startups?

The Next Web

How much does it really take to build a product like Twitter or Instagram? With mobile development agencies and product incubators on the rise and more corporate “labs” spinning out each day, there’s no shortage of talent to help you build the next great Web or mobile app. 1) Twitter. But a good developer could make it quicker.”.

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Building Capacity for Social Change 2.0

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

I wrote a quick reflection on some of the techniques used to facilitate the meeting. Building Capacity for Social Change 2.0 Consequently, traditional frameworks and tools focused on organizational branding, production models, capacity-building, and competitive strategy don’t work as well in this new paradigm.

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