Nonprofit Tech for Good

NOVEMBER 10, 2021

This can be challenging, but with the right support structure, nonprofits can thrive in this environment. Fortunately, thanks to online fundraising platforms like PayBee , nonprofits didn’t have to cancel their fundraising events — although they did have to modify them for a virtual environment.

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.orgSource

FEBRUARY 27, 2024

It’s a shift that many groups struggle to implement. A board needs to be continuously sensing and receiving the signals about what’s going on in the environment. We’ve incorporated the structure that many groups say they want. How do you push the reset button and start exploring other directions?

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Amy Sample Ward

JUNE 22, 2011

I just had the honor of being part of a new leaders group studying how different generations were leading in the work force and we found there were lots of differences between where people were in life. When you take on a job in a nonprofit, you’re normally doing a lot more than you signed for without a lot of structure.

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.orgSource

OCTOBER 9, 2023

Today, in Milwaukee, the group has gone on to consider public safety, another issue that’s critical for restaurants. I can’t remember a time when the cultural, political, and economic environment was fraught with so much uncertainty. With this kind of structure, there are limited sources of revenue.

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.orgSource

DECEMBER 4, 2023

In fairness, so many groups operate with minimal staff that this type of program can seem like a luxury. If mentoring is a new concept for your group, baby steps may be needed to create buy-in. To change that, we came up with a structure that allows for on-demand project work in blended, cross-functional teams.

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.orgSource

JULY 10, 2023

Success belongs to organizations that adapt to a shifting environment. Does your governance structure help or hinder your progress towards goals? What activities would make your association better prepared to respond to changes in your members’ needs and the business environment? Business is Darwinian. To the organization?

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Candid

SEPTEMBER 19, 2024

Seeing how systems and structures can favor some and disadvantage others Growing up in a predominantly Black country, surrounded by successful, multifaceted people who looked like me, self-advocacy felt instinctive. I began to see how systems and structures were designed to favor some and disadvantage others.

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Judi Sohn

SEPTEMBER 5, 2011

The class was structured with lessons, followed by 20 minutes or so to complete an exercise. Nonprofits typically work in a mixed environment where it has a relationship with companies, but often the relationship is solely with an individual having nothing to do with where they work. I’ve always had a fear of learning Apex/code.

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sgEngage

SEPTEMBER 13, 2022

Kelly Buhles outlines some of the ways to structure participation in her article, “A Primer for Participatory Grantmaking,” and divides them into two main groupings: participatory committees and collective groups. Committees tend to be smaller groups of selected representatives who review and decide on grants.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JUNE 2, 2010

The principal task of preparing organizational leaders is to provide them with the language and tools they need to be able to discern and describe network activity, the insights they need to understand network structure, and an appreciation for the vital yet often subtle tasks of managing a network’s context.

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ASU Lodestar Center

JULY 13, 2022

The combined disruptions of these phenomena are affecting business structures, organizational cultures, and processes. Leadership styles conducive to authentic engagement, providing clear guidance and building integrated processes and structures that foster collaboration and team cohesion is essential. Authentic engagement.

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Qgiv

FEBRUARY 3, 2022

Meet one of Qgiv’s newest partners, The Alford Group. Their mission is to strengthen the philanthropic community by helping nonprofit organizations thrive in today’s dynamic, competitive environment. Since their founding in 1979, The Alford Group has focused on serving more than 3,0000 mission-based organizations.

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EveryAction

JUNE 8, 2023

It is great when we get wins and can celebrate them, and it’s tough when we take a loss and have to re-group and press onward. Protecting the environment or cutting taxes for billionaires?” Find out what other groups they support to better target future online acquisition efforts. Advocacy is a long-term calling.

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Candid

MARCH 23, 2022

After two years of teaching online in a variety of formats and structures, one thing that I’ve realized is that when the camera is off, people may be long gone—or at least disengaged. . Even worse, sometimes they stay connected and just get bored—fatigued by the static environment. So, how does that translate to the Zoom Room?

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.orgSource

JULY 17, 2023

Keep the limitations of that structure in mind. If you have sensitive or proprietary business content, it’s always best to exercise caution and avoid sharing it in a public or unsecure environment.” “I’d If you are using it, tread lightly. AI has the potential to take marketing in new directions. “As

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MARCH 24, 2020

I am not suggesting that you make every meeting into a group therapy session. Group check-ins or icebreakers allow us to become more connected as humans as well as name, claim and move on from distractions and focus on the meeting at hand. I’ve done this with small groups of ten and also on larger calls with several hundred.

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ASU Lodestar Center

OCTOBER 6, 2021

Unfortunately, this is a common dilemma for minority groups and various ethnic populations. Implementing these five strategies into your current nonprofit organizations DEI initiatives will ensure that your organization is critically thinking about and including the community you serve into all layers of your organizational structure.

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Candid

APRIL 11, 2024

In an environment fraught with fear mongering and skeptical potential allies, Candid persisted in enhancing Demographics via Candid. They sought diverse perspectives in focus groups and made structural changes to address outdated language, power dynamics, and privacy concerns.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

DECEMBER 15, 2006

danah boyd has a post called " On Being Virtual " (be sure to read the comments) As Kevin Gamble on the SLED list notes, what she seems to be saying is that if you look at the rise of social tech amongst young people, it's not about divorcing the physical social structures to live virtually. Now that Clay???s whenever i???ve

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The NonProfit Times

OCTOBER 15, 2024

CSO leaders must create structured guidelines for AI integration to address risks and ensure ethical deployment. Policy frameworks provide a necessary structure to mitigate these risks and ensure ethical AI deployment. Foundational efforts in these areas are underway. UNICEF has developed guidelines for AI use.

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.orgSource

MARCH 14, 2023

Now we’ve moved to a hybrid work structure, requiring that everyone be in office at least two days per week. Today, in Milwaukee, the group has gone on to consider public safety, another issue that’s critical for restaurants. Exploring new strategies tied to market demands and the ever-changing environment is critical.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MARCH 31, 2014

GlassLab ( [link] ) explores the potential for existing, commercially successful digital games to serve both as potent learning environments and real-time assessments of student learning. One infamous example is Foldit , a protein-folding puzzle game that crowdsources potential real-world protein structures and solutions. In Education.

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Saleforce Nonprofit

APRIL 12, 2021

As Salesforce has deepened our commitment to the environment, we’ve also been inspired by our customers who have made sustainability fundamental to their missions with innovative approaches. org’s Climate Justice Action map , which connects people with local groups and other activists. From nonprofits like 350.org

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JULY 28, 2009

We are asked to do it in controlled environments. Creating open communities with old siloed corporate structures. And yes nonprofits mimic their corporate brethren with siloed structures. As you go into your sessions today, I ask you to think not about how to get 1000 people into your Facebook groups.

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Beneblog: Technology Meets Society

JUNE 25, 2014

Because it inverts the power structure and pushes innovation to the edges. Every area—whether health, poverty, education, human rights or the environment—is now information technology and thus can be improved with the right technology tools. The solutions that catch fire with their intended users would then be scaled up.

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Volunteer Hub

AUGUST 30, 2021

Whether it’s something structured like a weekly sales meeting or casual like trivia or happy-hour, time is always taken to get to know one another on a personal level. I can’t imagine a better work environment,” said Noah Orr, Software Developer for VolunteerHub. Great company culture doesn’t happen on its own.

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ASU Lodestar Center

OCTOBER 9, 2013

The problem is the organizational structure in most nonprofits prevents it. This structure is derived from the industrial age when mass production transformed the workplace. It has been the foundation of organizational structure for the last 100 years. The short time frame brings focus to the group.

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Candid

JULY 5, 2023

Three years later, we are finding better ways to work in remote environments. Encourage awareness of working styles Getting to know colleagues in a remote environment is tough. This offers another structured way to build awareness of preferences and how teammates can best work together.

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Non Profit Quarterly

DECEMBER 15, 2021

Open Collective launched in 2015 to offer solutions to a basic need: informal groups, like collectives, have few places to put their shared money. Combining a tech platform with fiscal sponsorship, Open Collective can take on the compliance side—like dealing with the Internal Revenue Service—so that groups can focus on their work.

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Bloomerang

NOVEMBER 15, 2023

Strategies for effective and collaborative idea generation How can you ensure that your ideas not only get heard, but also gain traction within a brainstorming group? We’ll follow with 10 minutes to group ideas around common themes. Taking a few minutes to establish these rules ensures a productive and respectful environment.

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The NonProfit Times

DECEMBER 6, 2024

But research ([link] tells us the training, configuration, and resources necessary to ensure products can be used in a nonprofit environment also serve as persistent hurdles in this arena. Thinking about a framework is, so far, based on the structure defined in Tara Dawson McGuinness and Hana Schanks Power to the Public ([link].

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Candid

OCTOBER 30, 2024

Mission-driven organizations often assume their values naturally translate to an inclusive workplace environment. To better understand what caused this, we included DEI-related questions in exit interviews and staff surveys, analyzing the data by identity group to spot trends. We set the living wage as the minimum for our U.S.

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AccelEvents

SEPTEMBER 4, 2020

Here are our suggestions for navigating this virtual environment: . It is easy for online conversations to descend into chaos, so if you add structure to the event, you can avoid some of the wasted and time and energy that comes with having to constantly refocus the group. . How to Host a Virtual Networking Event.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

SEPTEMBER 8, 2014

The lead facilitator tasks might include: introducing a section or activity and why it important, offering instructions on how to complete the activity, facilitating full group instruction, and offering a synthesis of the discussion. Scribe: The role of the scribe is to capture ideas and build group memory. Orienting the Group.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JANUARY 5, 2021

Here are some rituals that I have consistently used over the past few decades: Review the Past Year: I use a tool called the “ Year Compass, a free downloadable booklet that provides a set of structured reflection questions that help you look back and ahead.

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ASU Lodestar Center

JULY 6, 2012

The ideal social network structure, as well as organizational structure, would contain a mixture of both types of ties between individuals in the network. First of all, a structure must be put into place for mentorship. New York, NY: Hachette Book Group. Sources: 1. Christakis, N. & Fowler, J. Granovetter, Mark S.

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ASU Lodestar Center

OCTOBER 16, 2013

Bolman and Deal assert that every organization has four coexisting ways of being: their structure, their human resources, their political environment and their symbolic meaning. The metaphor for the structural frame is ‘the organization as a factory’. The metaphor for the political frame is ‘the organization as a jungle’.

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