sgEngage

FEBRUARY 8, 2024

To successfully implement changes to your grantmaking application, you need to communicate the benefits of data-driven and user-centered design to your leadership, tie the benefits to your organization’s overall goals, and involve your leadership in the decision-making process. Does your application align with your vision?

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Classy

MAY 7, 2021

The Collaborative: Virtual Sessions , hosted by Classy , is an online conference designed exclusively for nonprofit and social sector professionals. Sample Session Topics to Expect: Resilience and mental health. Design and branding. Leadership, management, and culture. Data trends. Virtual events. Future of fundraising.

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Bloomerang

OCTOBER 30, 2023

Aaron and his team have designed a donor thank you process that’s an ongoing practice integrated into the fundraising culture at Feeding America. Make use of a New Donor Welcome Kit that contains sample content. For example, he recently visited the San Antonio Food Bank located in San Antonio, TX. It’s popular ,” Aaron shared.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JULY 7, 2009

Submitted by Amy Sample Ward, publisher of Amy Sample Ward’s Version of NPTech Hildy Gottlieb’s new book The Pollyanna Principles is a handbook for starting a revolution in social benefit organization design and practice, but it isn’t the revolution. Can we move to the Culture of Can? What’s the catch? Are we ready?

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Connection Cafe

SEPTEMBER 15, 2013

In Marc Koenig’s most recent contribution to nonprofit hub, he dives into what culture really means and what your organization must do to foster it. Why Designing Your Nonprofit Culture is Do or Die is about sharing values, a defined mission and vision, and valuing your people. Or free sodas. Have a listen.

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Achieve

NOVEMBER 19, 2015

For example, one of our clients – a Fortune 500 company – wanted to know how their employees understood their cause-related engagement initiatives, and further, whether this culture has impacted employee recruitment and retention. Culture alone is a complex concept and requires qualitative methods and quantitative methods. Finally, a.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

DECEMBER 5, 2014

I particularly like the sections about how to create a culture of storytelling and measurement. Stories with purpose don’t just materialize—they’re strategically planned, they’re creatively crafted, and designed to achieve measurable outcomes. Here’s just a sampling of what you’ll find: How to Make the Case to Invest in Story.

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NTEN

JANUARY 28, 2013

The workshop was designed for the Communications and IT Staff who have the task of collecting and distributing data in effective and meaningful ways. In 2012, NTEN was able to survey a sample of US nonprofits to find out how they were doing when it comes to being data-driven: were they collecting data and tracking metrics?

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

APRIL 1, 2013

Colleagues Allyson Kapin who founded a web agency called Rad Campaign (they designed my blog) and Amy Sample Ward, who the NTEN Membership Director (and I’ve known since 2007 ) have published a new how to book called “ Social Change Any Time Every Where.” The book offers some recipes for culture change.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

APRIL 2, 2013

I have the honor of designing and facilitating three sessions, including a plenary on my favorite topic – learning from failure. This highly interactive and engaging community conversation will look at how nonprofits can create a culture of experimenting, testing, learning and correcting. April 13, 2013 – 8:30-10:00.

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Saleforce Nonprofit

AUGUST 30, 2021

Sometimes, third-party evaluation, which includes rigorous study design and statistical analysis, is required to properly understand a program’s impact. Other times, programs can achieve rigor in collecting evidence with simpler methods, such as discussing learning questions that will lead to insights on one part of an intervention.

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NTEN

JUNE 21, 2011

NTEN's Amy Sample Ward shares from her experiences at the Games for Change Festival. Learning Science by Design The opportunities for engagement now include exhibitions, digital space, and education. Questions and Discussion Tracy : When we speak about cultureal spaces, we are really talking about caging and preserving culture.

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Amy Sample Ward

JULY 28, 2010

Amplified Leicester is a city-wide experiment designed to grow the innovation capacity of Leicester by networking key connectors across the city’s disparate and diverse communities in an incentivised participatory project enabled by social media. View more presentations from Amy Sample Ward. Be sure to watch their space for more!

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

AUGUST 10, 2011

Today, NTEN’s Amy Sample Ward shared this fabulous video on Facebook. One of the chapters is on organizational culture – what’s in the DNA of a “data-driven&# nonprofit and what are the incremental steps for change? Organizational Culture. A streamlined and well designed dashboard.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MARCH 14, 2013

I was honored to be involved with the instructional design and delivery of two workshops specifically for nonprofits. I enjoyed designing and facilitating this session because I had five awesome presenters who have a depth of knowledge about the topics we discussed. “You have to break the rules.”

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JANUARY 28, 2014

Use human centered design principles, not your arrogance of thinking you know what works for your audience without testing. Use Scientific Methods: These include having a significant sample size, randomly selected groups and some split testing. It’s a subjective and culturally influenced unconscious and involuntary response.

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.orgSource

MAY 14, 2024

The HEART framework provides insight into how to improve performance by implementing innovative technologies and by leveraging those skills to create a human culture that advances us as association professionals and, ultimately, as a society. “AI We can do this in a context that makes us stronger as a culture. AI is a superpower.

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ASU Lodestar Center

APRIL 28, 2016

I was selected as one of 50 network delegates from around the globe to convene in New York on April 4 and 5 to participate in a variety of workshops and panel discussions designed to enhance alumni relationships and vital leadership skills. Do you feel Cultural Intelligence (CQ) should be a core competency incorporated in hiring practices?

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Forj

APRIL 22, 2021

From investing in upgraded LMS technology to creating a learning business plan to instructional design, each task involves a specific skill set that the average association professional may not have. First and foremost, you’ll want to make sure any consultant you partner with is a good culture and personality fit for your team.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

OCTOBER 7, 2010

I talked about the change in workstyle that is needed before codifying a social culture through a social media policy. Sometimes it has worked swimmingly like this one with Amy Sample Ward in 2008, other times not. I talked about the change in workstyle that is needed before codifying a social culture [.].

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

APRIL 8, 2013

Sample survey. Instructional Design Notes. I facilitated a session in the afternoon which was designed for peer interaction given the topic. Mobile Organizational Culture social media policy Training Design' Her key points: Get started now or your audience will not grow and it will just be “older folks.”

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Have Fun - Do Good

NOVEMBER 10, 2010

In 2000, she realized that she could use her marketing and advertising superpowers for good, and founded Digital Hive EcoLogical Design , the first communications firm to specialize in promoting green and social products and enterprises. Many cultures still view art-making as an integral part of their spirituality, culture and traditions.

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ASU Lodestar Center

FEBRUARY 16, 2016

The program evaluations to date, however, largely seem to skip this aspect, usually because the number of students required for statistical significance are insufficient in the controlled samples. Looking to build a culture of evaluation within your organization? Learn more about our Social Impact Measurement Certificate.

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Amy Sample Ward

JUNE 6, 2011

View more presentations from Amy Sample Ward. What that translates to is that a movement is built on collaboration, incorporates co-design between individuals and organizations, and remains focused, even during an event or campaign, on lasting, real impact. Technology and Community: Strategic Options for Movement Building.

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Amy Sample Ward

MARCH 22, 2011

The room was packed with enthusiastic participants and this post is designed to be shared with others who couldn’t attend in person, as well as to all those who did and asked to have resources to share with their networks. View more presentations from Amy Sample Ward. View more documents from Amy Sample Ward. Presentation.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MARCH 15, 2013

Amy Sample Ward facilitated a lunch time conversation about impact measurement for nonprofits in the Beacon Lounge with Lynn Labieniec of Beaconfire and Robert Rosenthal of VolunteerMatch. .”

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MARCH 16, 2015

What I absolutely love, is that the book has a companion web site with worksheets and checklists from every chapter. As someone who designs and facilitates professional development projects for nonprofits, this is a trainer’s dream! There are also some great practical tips , sample mentor/mentee agreement , and plan.

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Have Fun - Do Good

MARCH 8, 2011

She uses her superpowers-her voice, sense of adventure and belief in the transformative power of community-to help organizations design programs that create unrestricted revenue, volunteers and advocates. It’s a great combination of all the things I love and adore—good food, good people-community-culture-travel – and fun!

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Museum 2.0

JULY 10, 2019

This week, I wanted to start with us, museum and cultural workers. My favorite, perhaps, was the prototype space at the Burke Museum of Natural History and Culture in Seattle. My children particularly loved watching a technician/ scientist work on processing an avian taxidermy sample. Different strokes, perhaps.

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Qgiv

FEBRUARY 26, 2024

Work with local clothing boutiques and designers to create runway looks and sell tickets for your community to get a look at upcoming items. Or let your community’s youth put their own designs on the runway for all the aspiring fashionistas. You can also bid off the best looks to boost your funds from the event.

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Museum 2.0

OCTOBER 30, 2013

Earlier this fall, I read this headline: "Stanford study: Participation in a cultural activity may reduce prejudice." When the music video was focused on Mexican culture, the researchers found that the white and Asian participants demonstrated a decrease in prejudice against Latinos, both immediately after the activity and six months later.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

APRIL 1, 2012

The panelists include: Amy Sample Ward – Amy is an author and speaker focused on the way social technologies can be used to support social impact by nonprofit organizations and community groups around the world. Some techniques and resources that the panelists shared: What is responsive web design? Why should you use it?

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NTEN

SEPTEMBER 23, 2013

In case you haven''t already grabbed a copy of Kivi Leroux Miller ''s new book, A Communications Map for Engaging Your Community, Becoming a Favorite Cause, and Raising More Money , it will guide you through designing and implementing a content marketing strategy that will bring in supporters. Have a funny cultural practice at your office?

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Tech Soup

JULY 14, 2011

In fact, there are organizations that build innovative discovery into their structured work day (think of Google's 20% rule that all staffers are encouraged to spend 20% of their work day doing a project that is of their design and choosing, without the approval of leadership.) Steep Your Organization in Vision.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JULY 13, 2010

So, I designed and have been testing a training program that embraces thoughtful do-it-yourself social media experiments and a peer learning process for sharing the learning. The best part of this design is that participants are the content – the community is the curriculum! Here’s quick sampling: LA Universal Preschool.

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Connection Cafe

AUGUST 4, 2016

While the above report is six years old and samples organizations in California, I am willing to bet that these statistics would still apply today and be generalized to communities-of- color-led organizations in other states. Giving is affected by history, culture, and traditions.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

SEPTEMBER 3, 2009

The panelists include Holly Ross, NTEN ; David Neff , American Cancer Society; Kari Dunn Saratovsky ; Case Foundation; Amy Sample Ward , Netsquared; and Joe Solomon. Submitted by Amy Sample Ward. Cultural institutions are increasingly developing APIs and linked-data repositories. Let's discuss: join us! Who are these for?

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