Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MARCH 13, 2018

Does your work at a nonprofit include facilitating meetings or trainings? Looking for new techniques to add to your facilitator’s toolbox? I’ll be sharing tips and techniques on how to generate ideas or “brainstorming” techniques. All ideas are as valid as each other. What is Brainstorming? .

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sgEngage

MARCH 17, 2022

When smaller, place-based foundations collaborate and align their work, they provide unique value to local communities and nonprofits. Funder collaboration need not be burdensome, nor does it require perfect alignment. These informal collaborations usually consist of two to six foundations but can encompass a dozen or more.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

AUGUST 20, 2014

Over the last 25 years I’ve been doing training, I’ve learned different and applied different methods from either being a “student” in a training facilitated by someone using a method, being trained in the method, co-designing with others, and designing and facilitating my own sessions. Networked Facilitation.

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.orgSource

DECEMBER 4, 2023

Be Intentional What can we do to facilitate more deliberate mentoring relationships? values or a growth mindset, continuous feedback, and open communication, you will foster an environment that encourages employees to support one another. The idea that the employer holds all the cards is changing. The success is shared.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

APRIL 1, 2014

Last month I had the pleasure of taking the Luma Institute Train the Trainers workshop where I got a chance to immerse in practicing facilitation techniques based on human centered design principles. The workshop instructor Peter Maher is founder and CEO, of Luma Institute , and a Jedi Master. ” What is Human Centered Design?

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.orgSource

MAY 1, 2023

To become a digital business everyone in the organization must use their IT tools to collaborate. Executives who defer this responsibility convey the idea that digital thinking and collaboration are not a priority. To be successful,” he notes, “you have to be open to lifelong learning. It’s a choice.”

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

APRIL 30, 2020

In the virtual workplace, being on video conference meetings and communicating via online collaboration platforms takes more energy than working face-to-face. Need so more ideas for energizers, check out this list from Dancing With Markers. Simulate the Office Water Cooler or Open Door Policy. see the photo at the top).

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Forum One

MAY 23, 2024

This fosters a culture of open communication and empathy within the team. While I was at the Philadelphia Museum of Art working on a website redesign, we recognized the need to be transparent with our internal audiences and started hosting a series of monthly open forum presentations called “Website Wednesdays.”

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MARCH 21, 2017

The session is designed to answer three questions: Why does collaborative technology overload lead to loss of nonprofit workplace productivity and what are the best practices to avoid it? What is Collaborative Overload? While there are many positive aspects to increased collaboration, there is also downside.

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The NonProfit Times

SEPTEMBER 10, 2024

For this reason, intermediaries can play a valuable role in facilitating these needs between the recipients and the originating funders. These include nonprofits that act as regrantors, donor collaboratives, and other structures. This competency, however, is not universal.

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sgEngage

APRIL 1, 2024

Inspired by more than 40 years of collaboration with private school leaders, Blackbaud has created a track of sessions for ATLIS 2024 , the Association of Technology Leaders in Independent Schools’ annual conference. Every manual process is an opening for human error, data loss, or outright theft. Where do you start?

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sgEngage

SEPTEMBER 13, 2022

Participants can benefit from leadership development, knowledge sharing, network building, collaborations or partnerships, and/or compensation. . This means that staff—as well as those with wealth—move back to listen and implement the ideas and knowledge brought into the room by these participants.

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The MatrixFiles

FEBRUARY 23, 2024

Organizations are having to remind members that discourse should always be civil and open-minded. Many execs reinforced the idea that communications should be clear and transparent. Collaborate with other associations in your field. Many execs say you always need to circle back to your mission. Track trends in your industry.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

AUGUST 17, 2021

The hybrid workplace will have a huge impact on the way we design and facilitate meetings, the primary method of how many organizations get stuff done. Our new normal will most likely be more complex to design and facilitate. Here are some considerations for designing and facilitating pandemic-era hybrid meetings.

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ASU Lodestar Center

SEPTEMBER 4, 2013

Cultivating this discipline of planning can be greatly eased and enhanced by engaging your stakeholders in collaborative inquiry, defined by Jennifer Donahoo as a process that offers participants a systematic way to explore issues and determine resolutions through shared inquiry, reflection, and dialogue. Collecting the data. One of the most.

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Gyrus

MARCH 4, 2024

However, its prowess extends beyond storage—it’s a dynamic space facilitating discussions, tracking progress, and comprehensive assessments while boasting an array of engaging features tailored to enhance the learning experience. They are unlike open-source learning management systems, where the inner workings are like an open book.

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Saleforce Nonprofit

OCTOBER 24, 2022

For example, our first Impact Lab cohort designed Service Match , an open-source app designed for case managers who connect people experiencing homelessness to vital human services. Getting to zero hunger will require unprecedented collaboration and a multi-pronged approach that gets to the numerous causes. “ Jennifer Thall.

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Greater Giving

JUNE 15, 2023

Event Budgeting : Collaborating with the committee and nonprofit leadership to establish a realistic budget that encompasses all necessary expenses, while maximizing revenue generation. Serving for a limited time period provides continuity and stability while allowing fresh perspectives and ideas to be introduced.

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Amy Sample Ward

APRIL 5, 2011

One of the participants was Ericha Hager, the Regional Collaborative Coordinator for Community Media Access Partnership. After the session, she asked to reuse the game locally and I asked her to just let me know how it went: I recently facilitated a day long meeting with a group of 7 different community media centers in California.

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Candid

JANUARY 10, 2023

This means they also require plenty of clear communication and collaboration. Confirm that everyone is on the same page by restating the meeting’s purpose, expected outcomes, agenda items, and the roles that individuals will play (such as facilitator or note-taker). The nature of capital campaign committee structures.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JULY 11, 2017

The subject matter, of course, the effective use of digital and networks that is holistic and that incorporates on culture change, innovation, and collaboration skills. Lack of platforms/resources to facilitate innovations. Funder misalignment on movement needs. Lack of platforms through which to network laterally.

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Gyrus

MARCH 4, 2024

However, its prowess extends beyond storage—it’s a dynamic space facilitating discussions, tracking progress, and comprehensive assessments while boasting an array of engaging features tailored to enhance the learning experience. They are unlike open-source learning management systems, where the inner workings are like an open book.

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Gyrus

MARCH 4, 2024

However, its prowess extends beyond storage—it’s a dynamic space facilitating discussions, tracking progress, and comprehensive assessments while boasting an array of engaging features tailored to enhance the learning experience. They are unlike open-source learning management systems, where the inner workings are like an open book.

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Qgiv

JULY 24, 2024

Your board should also help foster collaboration between board members and staff. This collaboration helps create a unified front that drives your organization forward. In this model, your board members would work collaboratively with your staff, blurring the lines between governance and management.

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Tech Soup

FEBRUARY 27, 2015

The foundation plans to fund 20 plus projects with new ideas on how to increase participation in U.S. It has been five years now since the Supreme Court Citizens United ruling that opened the door to 501(c)(4) nonprofits and massive anonymous "dark money" political contributions for political ads.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

SEPTEMBER 8, 2014

Last week I facilitated the “ Impact Leadership Track ” at the NTEN Leading Change Summit with John Kenyon, Elissa Perry, and Londell Jackson. Here’s what I learned: Facilitation Teams. Often, facilitation teams are brought together by an event host. Photo by Trav Williams. Do you have a preferred method?

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Forum One

DECEMBER 16, 2008

This gets us at Forum One pretty jazzed - we've been evangelizing a long while about using online services to expand public access to information, enable new forms of collaboration, and build online communities.). add your own ideas!). That's pretty wide participation.

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Gyrus

MARCH 18, 2024

Additionally, different cultural conventions, attitudes, and communication patterns may make collaborating and transferring knowledge difficult. Reliable technology guarantees continuous access to learning resources, increases engagement, and enables in-person collaboration. This encourages consistent training for multinational teams.

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Gyrus

MARCH 18, 2024

Additionally, different cultural conventions, attitudes, and communication patterns may make collaborating and transferring knowledge difficult. Reliable technology guarantees continuous access to learning resources, increases engagement, and enables in-person collaboration. This encourages consistent training for multinational teams.

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Gyrus

MARCH 18, 2024

Additionally, different cultural conventions, attitudes, and communication patterns may make collaborating and transferring knowledge difficult. Reliable technology guarantees continuous access to learning resources, increases engagement, and enables in-person collaboration. This encourages consistent training for multinational teams.

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sgEngage

JANUARY 10, 2024

The Creative Power of Datamaking Focusing on the action of datamaking opens a world of possibilities for developing knowledge. It can support funder and cross-sector collaborations and the processes of decision-making. It can contribute to exchanges and interactions that are at the heart of nonprofit network building.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

SEPTEMBER 10, 2019

Last week I facilitated a workshop in Detroit hosed by Co-Act , a nonprofit collaboration space in Detroit. Co-Act is a unique organization, a hub for accelerating collaborative action in Southeast Michigan’s nonprofit community. It is a work in process and as a trainer you have to be open to learning and adapting.

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Bloomerang

JULY 19, 2023

Creates an environment that facilitates fundraising Regardless of whether you do face-to-face fundraising, ensuring that the organization is prepared to fundraise is the development professional’s main priority. Share your ideas with relevant staff before committing in a proposal to a new or different take on a program.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JANUARY 4, 2017

When you have worked in a field a long time (for me it has been over 3 decades), you have to keep an open mind about remembering and reflecting on what you have heard before — looking at as if it was new. The themes are less about exploring something new, but to commit to continuous learning and improvement.

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Forum One

JULY 19, 2010

This is the third in a series on online collaboration for grantmakers posts. In part one, we looked at determing the value of creating a collaboration community. The second part explored challenges in facilitating collaboration. How open can the community be? Tags: Influence Collaboration.

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NTEN

MAY 20, 2014

Instead of a traditional conference with concurrent sessions and a line-up of speakers, Leading Change Summit (LCS) is designed around the idea that the best ideas can emerge through facilitated workshops and driven conversations. Fun fact: this is not just for Executive Directors! Is LCS for you? Is LCS for you?

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MARCH 7, 2008

My colleagues in the UK David Wilcox and Dave Briggs have started an open process to develop some tool kits for organizations and social media. A facilitated workshop. It came from this open project: [link]. and to our ideas of belonging in an increasingly networked society. through an open, collaborative process."

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