Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

FEBRUARY 8, 2018

For the past five years, I’ve been an adjunct professor at Middlebury College in Monterey teaching a graduate course called “ Networked International Organizations ” for students pursuing an advanced degree in International Development. That’s why I always enjoy teaching in flexible classroom spaces.

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Saleforce Nonprofit

SEPTEMBER 29, 2021

We envisioned six new solution line trails (trails are sets of related badges) to cover the signature Salesforce.org products at the time, Nonprofit Success Pack (NPSP) and Higher Education Data Architecture (HEDA). And more cool badge art for your collection, of course! The challenge was to meet the needs of multiple audiences.

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Neon CRM

DECEMBER 6, 2023

For most nonprofits, December is the busiest time of year. You’ll spend a great deal of time and resources reaching new supporters. A money-focused thank-you letter might say, “Thanks to your generous gift of $200, we’ll be able to equip two students with all the school supplies they need for their senior year of high school.”

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JANUARY 23, 2014

Graduate Students at MIIS Class Doing Group Exercise in Flexible Classroom Space. This month I’ve been teaching graduate class at the Monterey Institute of International Studies based on my books, The Networked Nonprofit and Measuring the Networked Nonprofit. 29th at 1:00 PM EST/10:00 AM PST.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

OCTOBER 2, 2014

I love teaching (and learning) and it was a pleasure to work with students, nonprofits, and faculty. It typically involves a substantial commitment of time, energy, and emotion. Oftentimes, they fail because the previous steps have not been given enough thought or time.

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Have Fun - Do Good

DECEMBER 8, 2013

Four years ago I wrote a post, 5 Tips for Finding Time to Cook , but I''m realizing now that it was written from the experience of someone who works from home and has a much more flexible schedule than I do now. I don''t know how in the world people who work full-time outside of their home do it.

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Bloomerang

OCTOBER 25, 2021

If you’re not “ all signs point to go ,” it may be time to either hang up your shingle or look around and see what other problems you might address. Here are signs your work may be in the danger (red) or caution (yellow) zone, rather than full speed ahead (green) zone: Your budget has stayed the same for quite some time, or it has shrunk.

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The Storytelling Non-profit

OCTOBER 5, 2021

But as I tell my students and clients regularly, writing to raise money is a learnable skill that you can master. Practice, patience and time are your friends if you want to improve your writing. All of these means that I produce my best writing work when I give myself ample time to edit. I do not and neither will you.

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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. Instructional Design and Facilitation: I love teaching and exploring different ways help nonprofit professionals learn.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

NOVEMBER 18, 2014

We spent a fair amount of time framing and reframing the problem and ended up with a question that focused on data collection. In fact, some participants in the group mentioned using MBA students from local universities to assist with data collection. My Nonprofit Needs A Data Nerd! The people with skills are out there.

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Bloomerang

MAY 8, 2021

Can you meet the conditions without incurring expenses you would not otherwise consider in the course of pursuing your mission? First carefully assess if: (1) this meshes with your college’s goals and objectives, and (2) you have a reasonable business plan suggesting you have a good chance of sustaining this new venture over time.

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Qgiv

FEBRUARY 4, 2022

Matt Hugg, President and Founder, Nonprofit.Courses – He’s the author of the Guide to Nonprofit Consulting, and teaches nonprofit management at several universities, via the web, and in-person in the United States, Africa, Asia and Europe. Now is also a good time to present them with a pledge card for their charitable gift.

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Bloomerang

MAY 6, 2022

They focus funding on organizations that work on financial literacy for elementary and high school students (established programs only). Our goal is to graduate more students who are ready to enter aerospace and advanced manufacturing careers and STEM-focused post-secondary education.” . They accept applications at any time.

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Bloomerang

MAY 8, 2021

Can you meet the conditions without incurring expenses you would not otherwise consider in the course of pursuing your mission? First carefully assess if: (1) this meshes with your college’s goals and objectives, and (2) you have a reasonable business plan suggesting you have a good chance of sustaining this new venture over time.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JULY 2, 2012

After I finished teaching an intensive Networked NGO workshop for Packard family planning grantees in Delhi, I headed to Bangalore to visit my friend and colleague, Rufina Fernandes where I conducted a social media workshop for staff and teachers and got see a start up education company and its CSR program, close up.

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Qgiv

APRIL 13, 2022

Have you seen high school students from athletics organizations or prom committees washing cars for cash? Of course you have. Kids have a lot of time and a lot of energy. This not only teaches children responsibility, it can be a great way to raise funds while beautifying your community. Car wash fundraiser.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JUNE 10, 2013

Mentors: Bobby Deleon and Michel Daniel and students from ECHS - Speed Networking. If you’re worried that you don’t have the time or bandwidth to mentor others, consider that even an hour or two of your time, can make a difference. Since the visit to the school I’ve already had students follow up with me.”.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

SEPTEMBER 16, 2008

Since I was a first year college student at UC Berkeley, I have been working with students and schools in low-income communities and have grown increasingly aware of how educational disparities keep children from reaching their potential. I taught in the Bronx for two years through Teach For America while working toward my M.A.

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Museum 2.0

MAY 27, 2015

I've been getting a taste of what I'm missing by devouring Diane Ragsdale's terrific series of blog posts about the course she is teaching on Approaching Beauty for business students at UW-Madison. Start here , and get ready to spend a lot of time with each post. Diane's course is teaching me how to build a wall.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MAY 16, 2012

After the ACE leadership training, I had the opportunity to spend a day in Kigali. I volunteered to do a Social Media and Professional Networking workshop for second year students at the Akilah Institute for Women. I got an opportunity to do a workshop with second year students during their IT class. Everyone was using Facebook.

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Qgiv

AUGUST 29, 2022

Finding time to sit down and read isn’t always easy in people’s busy lives. However, with a read-a-thon fundraiser, you can give your supporters the opportunity to slow down and crack open a book while also teaching young students the value of reading and escaping into exciting stories. What is a read-a-thon fundraiser?

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Bloomerang

DECEMBER 9, 2021

If you ask them, most organization leaders, teachers, managers, and more would claim that they allow their employees, volunteers, and students room to fail without judgment. Promoting open communication about failure takes time. According to Harvard Business Review , “The wisdom of learning from failure is incontrovertible.

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ASU Lodestar Center

JUNE 12, 2013

For the past six months I have worked with YWCA Maricopa County , expanding its Own It Financial Education program , which provides low-income women and families a free education teaching them how to become financially stable and independent. There are no courses in our public school systems that teach students how to use a.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

NOVEMBER 29, 2012

charities with economists willing to donate their time. ” They provide free web analytics consulting to non-profits and NGOs around the world by matching analytics professionals, students, and charities. .” So along with a few friends he started Pro Bono Economics, a nonprofit that matches U.K.

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Qgiv

NOVEMBER 10, 2021

If you get kids in on the fundraising fun, you have a great opportunity to teach them important values like leadership, responsibility, goal-setting, team building, and community engagement. To make things easier for your supporters, set up an online registration form where they can pay ahead of time. Straw Draw.

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Bloomerang

AUGUST 2, 2021

The very best time to ask donors how they prefer to be connected with is at the time you onboard them. 8 Ways College Students Can Save the Environment Every Day. Commit to putting some time into learning more about them and then create a content strategy that will help you develop and share relevant content.

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ASU Lodestar Center

OCTOBER 4, 2016

She has taught undergraduate and graduate courses on such diverse subjects as Program Evaluation & Information Management, International NGOs, and Philanthropy. We're thrilled to have such accomplished faculty on board to help our nonprofit management students reach their full potential! Lili Wang, Ph.D., Meet Dr. Wang.

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The Storytelling Non-profit

JUNE 2, 2020

We are nearing the mid-point of 2020, which is kind of a natural time to take stock of our plans and adjust course. I thought this would be a great time to share my philosophy and process for planning so over the next few weeks you can expect to see a series of posts on this very topic.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

DECEMBER 31, 2013

When you’ve been doing what you do for a long time, it is also about unlearning (being mindful when bad habits creep in and changing them) and relearning what you have learned or updating it. Learn: Learning is not just for kids or students. Teach: This is my passion, my calling, and my professional work.

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Gyrus

JULY 12, 2016

As we become increasingly dependent on our technology, it only makes sense that it teach us as well. When building eLearnings it is necessary to consult people who teach and record their methodologies in making sure a message maintains its pertinence over time. Successful E-Learning – A Roadmap. Adaptability.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JANUARY 4, 2016

I was honored to lead a featured season at the United Way Leadership Conference on Networked Leadership and teach many workshops networked leadership skills. Adjunct Professor and Guest Teacher: This past year I enjoyed my second year of teaching a graduate course at Middlebury College/Monterrey Institute for International Education.

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Double the Donation

OCTOBER 25, 2021

Every dollar you donate will go to scholarships for students in financial need!” Spend significant time working with your organization’s communication director to put this resource together. During this time, they’ll read through the provided script and respond to a variety of different “donor personas.”

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Bloomerang

MAY 24, 2021

W e’re living in a new time of disruption , Solis argues, making old ways of doing things obsolete. And I think striving for mediocrity or settling for mediocrity is not okay in a time of both great disruption and also great opportunity for innovation.”. It may be time for an update or refresh. — Brian Solis.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JANUARY 2, 2015

This year I took off a full two weeks during the holiday, spending time with family on the Big Island on a coffee farm and mostly offline. I wrote many posts on instructional design for nonprofit training , including this wrap up post from our NTEN NTC session on teaching and learning for nonprofits. The Sun Sets on 2014.

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Beneblog: Technology Meets Society

MARCH 22, 2007

In 2005 the principal of Hadley-China, Rongqiang Xia, contacted Hadley students and staff who spoke native English to see if they would like to teach Chinese Hadley students English over the internet. Hadley-China students, support staff from Hadley-China, and native English speakers log onto a website at the same time.

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Tech Soup

JULY 14, 2015

With lines of code projected on a screen, these children listen intently in a conference room at the Mountain View Public Library, as part of a four-week course on programming. It has trained more than 470 students seventh grade and up in 13 libraries throughout Silicon Valley. The Power of Kids Teaching Kids.

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Tech Soup

JULY 28, 2014

Thanks to the Pi's low cost, simplicity, and extensibility, educators and do-it-yourselfers have been buying them up at times faster than the manufacturer can make them. Anyone buying a Raspberry Pi for the first time will also need to get extras like a case, power cord, and more. Programming with Raspberry Pi.

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