Bloomerang

JULY 29, 2024

Nonprofit membership models are all around us. Lots of household nonprofit brands, like the AARP, ACLU, Girl Scouts, Human Rights Campaign, and the YMCA, use a membership model. What is a membership model? Expand your horizons with partnerships and collaborations Why go it alone when you can join forces?

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.orgSource

JULY 10, 2023

Our books “Positioning for Success in an Era of Disruption” and “An Entrepreneurial Approach to Risk, Courage, and Transformation,” summarize those conversations. Better yet, set the example of being agile, innovative and forward-thinking—don’t wait to respond to change. Resist the temptation to model the competition.

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Nonprofit Tech for Good

APRIL 23, 2023

To help you dive right in, this posts provides an overview of the tools available, best practices, and examples to make your chosen AI writing tool work for you. Google’s Bard is a generative language model from Google AI, trained on a massive dataset of text and code. The drawings will take place via Instagram Live on 11/1.

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Nonprofit Tech for Good

OCTOBER 9, 2020

This is something Classy can speak to personally, as we made the decision to pivot our annual conference, the Collaborative, into a fully virtual event this year. The Collaborative: Virtual Sessions drew in over 10,000 registrants and was, in many ways, just as successful as our in-person event. There’s never been a larger demand.

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Eric Jacobsen Blog

FEBRUARY 20, 2024

Conducting meetings that take conversations down rabbit holes that cause widespread frustration amongst the members of your group. Organization Fitness : Ability to create the appropriate business structure, evolve the business model, develop talent while planning for succession, and innovate.

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ASU Lodestar Center

JUNE 1, 2022

For example, Barack Obama reaches over 100 million people with each tweet. For example, Gretchen Buhlig, CEO of the ASU Foundation, made the following comment in a recent interview with me related to technology deployment at the foundation, “We have 1.2 In digital communication, an individual can reach a much broader audience.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MAY 15, 2020

Breakout rooms are a feature in Zoom that allows you to put people in smaller rooms for more intimate conversations. We’ve modeled them as part of the session and it allowed us to brainstorm in smaller teams on how to be more engaging in our meetings from now on. Robin Good’s Mega List of Online Collaboration Tools.

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CauseVox

MARCH 1, 2023

I’m referring to ChatGPT , a revolutionary language model developed by OpenAI that’s changing the game in every industry. With the ability to continuously learn and adapt to new information, ChatGPT can remember past conversations and constantly iterate based on user prompts. Here’s an example for a targeted email campaign.

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Candid

MARCH 1, 2023

We then kicked off a conversation with early Demographics via Candid partners Satonya Fair of PEAK Grantmaking , Grant Elliot of Foundant Technologies , Dawn Stone of Center for Nonprofit Management , and Michael Wright of Charles Stewart Mott Foundation to discuss their first-hand experiences collaborating with Candid on this initiative.

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Eric Jacobsen Blog

NOVEMBER 6, 2023

Conducting meetings that take conversations down rabbit holes that cause widespread frustration amongst the members of your group. Organization Fitness : Ability to create the appropriate business structure, evolve the business model, develop talent while planning for succession, and innovate.

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The NonProfit Times

MAY 6, 2024

This way of thinking is reflected in your actions and demeanor, modeling behavior for those around you. Meaningful, substantive conversations are one of the most effective ways to learn and grow. Much like the Socratic method, when we have discussions and conversations, new ideas emerge and our understanding is deepened and magnified.

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Tech Soup

FEBRUARY 21, 2012

This updated blog post from the campaign explores some ways to increase online collaboration and also reduce travel and work efficiency. Online collaboration is one of these generic terms that seems to lose meaning the more people use it. Why Is Online Collaboration Green? Cloud Services for Collaborating.

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Eric Jacobsen Blog

JANUARY 4, 2021

Fred Dust -- Author of Making Conversation: Seven Elements of Meaningful Communication “There’s been a surprisingly joyful outcome of 2020—quite simply, leaders are seeing those they lead as humans. The converse is also true. For example, not all employees will want to return to a 40-hour office job. It's the same with stress.

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Candid

JANUARY 10, 2023

This means they also require plenty of clear communication and collaboration. Kicking off the conversation. Just remember to set a hard time limit on the kickoff portion of the meeting to avoid having it overtake the entire conversation. Capital campaigns require input from many stakeholders, both internal and external.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

FEBRUARY 14, 2024

Join me on February 22nd at 9:00 am PT for a LinkedIn Live with Zoe Amar for a conversation about taking the first step for responsible AI adoption.We’ll discuss the challenges, tips, and practical resources available. Applying AI to basic collaboration workflows can offer a dividend of time (and brain space).

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sgEngage

JULY 24, 2023

The ongoing conversation about student debt and the value of a college credential exacerbates the issue for higher education institutions. Here are some ideas to rejuvenate a shrinking pipeline: Collaborate. For example, the U.S. Expand online education, corporate partnerships, and research collaborations.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

DECEMBER 17, 2020

Take for example, the mundane and time-consuming task of culling the donor database to create a prospect list. For instance, NeonMoves, a mobile application, is designed to help fundraisers spend less time trying to figure out whom to contact and more time in conversation with donors. Using all of this data, Quilt.AI

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

SEPTEMBER 25, 2009

I asked if I could live tweet to bring others into the conversation which I did using the tag #packfound. . Eugene Eric Kim is an expert in online culture and collaboration, particularly with new tools. His focus is on emergent collaboration and understanding what the how to create the conditions to inspire action and learning.

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Whole Whale

MARCH 30, 2023

For example, donors who have given multiple times may be more likely to respond to a recurring donation campaign. For example, donors who have given multiple times may be more likely to respond to a recurring donation campaign. Creating donor personas is a process that involves research, data analysis, and collaboration.

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Blue Avocado

JULY 16, 2024

Let’s take a look at an unfortunate (but potentially all-too-familiar) example: Have you ever worked in an organization where meetings never start or end on time? An employee, for example, might have it as a goal to be more efficient in their work. Much of the time, we state values in aspirational language.

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Amy Sample Ward

JULY 28, 2010

Project objectives: • To develop a transferable model for amplifying a diverse city’s grassroots innovation capacity through connecting diverse communities through key individuals. • To provide practical examples of how collaborative technologies can be exploited in a city context. You Examples. Presentation. Roles cards.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

AUGUST 28, 2013

These new collaborative initiatives pull together various players (often government, private sector and nonprofits) within an ecosystem, defined by issue and/or place, to coordinate and align their action to drive greater impact. Two oft-cited examples are the Strive network in Cincinnati, and the ReAmp network in the Midwest.

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Classy

APRIL 27, 2021

It’s important to know what causes burnout, the signs to look for in individual employees, and the responsibility of leaders to set an example. May is Mental Health Awareness Month, but mental health in the nonprofit workplace is a topic that calls for an honest conversation all year long. Get Registered Now for Free.

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Amy Sample Ward

JULY 19, 2010

I come across so many great conversations, ideas, and resources all over the web every day. You can join the conversations in the comments, or click through to the original posts to find what others are saying. As she notes, her example has luck but it is an example of a growing model of a changing world.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MAY 10, 2011

Since networked learning happens in the context of an ecosystem, perhaps Gary Hayes Transmedia Storytelling model or Lini Srivastava’s Transmedia Activism model. . Engage: This is the process of having a conversation around the insights that are being shared. Maybe it leads to other collaborative creation.

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CauseVox

JULY 10, 2024

This “end-to-end model” means they handle everything from the initial data collection to the build out of the water systems to the final reporting in a seamless way. On CauseVox, it literally only took two days,” Dani shared in our post-campaign conversation with a big grin.

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Amy Sample Ward

FEBRUARY 10, 2011

Here’s my latest contribution to the Stanford Social Innovation Review – you can read the post and join the conversation on the SSIR Blog or below. If you share feedback or examples that make their way, I’ll certainly give you credit. Communities As A Model.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MAY 8, 2018

If we lack the skills to avoid collaborative overload, manage difficult conversations, learn from failure, the resulting physical, emotional, and mental strain gets in the way of a nonprofit organization’s success. Building basic processes for getting work done, for example collaborative calendar planning.

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Amy Sample Ward

JUNE 6, 2011

Let’s start at the most fundamental place for this conversation. For this conversation, and those to have over the course of the next two days together at least, let’s work from the place that a movement is larger than coalitions. And everything was shareable, collaborative, contagious. What is a movement? Or engagement?

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sgEngage

SEPTEMBER 7, 2022

For example, you may want to measure total visits, the number of proposals submitted, the dollars raised, and first-time or qualification visits. Here is one recommended cadence: Do not wait for the end of a campaign or fiscal year to have these conversations. Measure the most important goals that lead to results.

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Amy Sample Ward

FEBRUARY 3, 2010

I come across so many great conversations, ideas, and resources all over the web every day. You can join the conversations in the comments, or click through to the original posts to find what others are saying. Here are some of the most interesting things I’ve found recently (as of February 3rd).

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Amy Sample Ward

JUNE 8, 2009

" A conceptual model of value for social media | Juice Digital - Check ou thte "4 Cs" model developed by Gaurav Mishra: Content, Collaboration, Community and Collective Intelligence, as an example of the progression of what kind of value you can create online for your organization and the larger community.

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ASU Lodestar Center

MARCH 18, 2020

For example, donations to food banks in 40 cities increased by 2.2 First, meet with your board finance committee as soon as possible and begin the conversation. Second, model out and scenario plan for revenue declines of 5, 10 and 15 percent. This is a time to make informed and collaborative decisions.

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Connection Cafe

MAY 1, 2020

Throughout the COVID-19 pandemic, higher education and industry leaders have been collaborating to respond and change course through this time of uncertainty. Part of that conversation was the role international students play around the world. We have seen wonderful and creative examples of outreach across our membership.

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Amy Sample Ward

MAY 7, 2010

Lead by example. Seeing you leave a comment, or share a resource, will model the desired behavior so others can see what to do (especially if they are new to social media or new to your community) and how to do it (especially if they are new to your tool or platform). you are interested in collaborating (not dictating).

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MARCH 1, 2011

I’m the lead for Zoetica where my role is to deliver training, advise on the curriculum and coaching methods, model transparency, and serve as meta network weaver. It was inspired by a conversation we had during the planning sessions in San Francisco in January about whether or not there was an Arabic word for Nerd (there isn’t).

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

SEPTEMBER 19, 2013

The transcript is here ) The online conversation about how to host successful giving days continues today with an online chat at the Chronicle of Philanthropy. With attention being given to this model of inspiring community-wide giving, it is important to think in a networked way and don’t reinvent the wheel.

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