Nonprofits Source

JUNE 14, 2024

Your nonprofit staff may already have experience running a storefront or selling items through product fundraisers , which include bake sales, cookie dough sales, candy grams, and more. This means that if customers make purchases online, they will be reflected in your overall inventory database. Most profitable times.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JUNE 28, 2018

Last week at the IFC-Asia , I co-designed and facilitated a 90 minute workshop with Marco Kuntze titled “ The Digital NGO: The Journey from Paper to Screen.” ” Jo Wolfe, Aseem Thakur, Gillian Tan, Cherisse Beh, Katie Bengaard, and Toral Cowieson joined our session as small group facilitators. We opted for the latter.

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Qgiv

JUNE 23, 2021

As your nonprofit organization continues to grow, it’s time to consider investing in an effective fundraising platform that truly accommodates your nonprofit’s size, financial needs, and developing fundraising strategies. Why is fundraising important for nonprofits? Leverage Nonprofit Fundraising Best Practices.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

SEPTEMBER 13, 2012

” This post shares my notes from that session along with a reflection about my session and some resources. ” This post shares my notes from that session along with a reflection about my session and some resources. The New Social Economy. Let’s start with a definition first.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

AUGUST 27, 2010

Some Reflections. I’ve using the technique to deliver conversational keynotes at conferences. That is one reason why I always incorporate a reflection at the end that helps participates identify one small action step. The Colorado Trust blog has notes here.).

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

OCTOBER 20, 2016

Yesterday, I honored to fill in as MC and interviewer for Darian Rodriguez Heyman at the Nonprofit Fundraising Masters event. (Darian was welcoming his first child, a boy, into the world!). In addition, facilitated a peer learning exchange called “Solution Salon.”

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JANUARY 2, 2015

These include a review of the year’s accomplishments and two techniques that help you focus on your goals: Peter Bregman’s theme for the year , and Chris Brogan’s “ My Three Words.” I also throughout the month of January review my work routines and systems and redesign or tweak to improve productivity. Year in Review.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JANUARY 4, 2016

I had a wonderful break – filled with fun, family, walking, hiking, reading, quiet, and reflection. One annual ritual is to create “To Do/Not To Do/Reflection” notebook where I use modified bullet journaling to track my progress. I also designed and facilitated a six month peer learning cohort with colleague Stephanie Rudat.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

APRIL 4, 2010

Here are some reflections on the instructional design: 1. Most importantly, I need a good facilitator for each table. I have been using human spectra gram , a technique I learned from colleague Allen Gunn from Aspiration. Both organizations have demonstrated leadership in embracing social media. Somethings to improve.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MAY 11, 2010

Photo by HeyDee Almost a year ago, Allison Fine and I finished a reflection paper on the lessons learned from the first America's Giving Challenge from the Case Foundation. This year, we are experimenting with incorporating social media techniques as part of the evaluation process for the second America’s Giving Challenge.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

AUGUST 28, 2013

Note From Beth: A few weeks ago, I was lucky enough to participate in a meeting with other capacity builders who work with networks. I wrote a quick reflection on some of the techniques used to facilitate the meeting. just strategy, or just process facilitation, or just fundraising).

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

FEBRUARY 12, 2014

You can expect to continue to see more blog posts from me on the topic of peer learning design and training techniques as I continue to do this work. Bahia Ramos wrote this post as part of a learning culmination process where we reflected on the design and what was learned as we moved into another round of giving days.

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Neon CRM

JANUARY 23, 2024

Due to their size, major gifts can be game-changers for fundraising teams. One major gift-size donation can be the difference between meeting your fundraising goal and not. of all donated income comes from major gifts fundraising—that’s a substantial chunk of revenue! They’re substantial funding for a nonprofit.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JANUARY 30, 2010

Our charge was to teach back-to-back simultaneous workshops covering social media strategy for NGOs and social media tools. It made me think of the metaphor of the Dance Floor and the Balcony a phrase and exercise that I learned from a session that Eric Eugene Kim facilitated. . David Sasaki has a terrific reflection on that here.

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Connection Cafe

JUNE 12, 2017

The nature of today’s nonprofit workplace——face-paced and heavy workloads—makes it difficult to find the reflective time to put together a learning plan and implement it consistently. The Playbook features a highly practical toolkit that consists of facilitator agendas and worksheets for nonprofit staff to apply the ideas and frameworks.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JUNE 2, 2009

The book will take a look at how social media is facilitating a shift from organization to working in a more networked way. And because listening and learning more techniques versus outcomes - and techniques that you need to use continuosly, those became the dotted links knitting the outcomes together. .

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ASU Lodestar Center

MARCH 28, 2012

People like to be connectors, they like to be of importance and they love to see their facilitation yield fruition. There seems to be an event or fundraiser every week and these gatherings are full of people you want to know. Click here to read Angela Soliz's "Donning the Sweatshirt of Service: Reflections from a Second-Year Ally".

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MAY 20, 2010

This post summarizes the content I shared in my presentation and offers some reflection on the conversational keynote. Not only does this help me frame and tailor the talk I give to the audience, but facilitates Twitter conversations before. 2: Use listening techniques to develop a deep understanding of the audience.

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Everyaction

DECEMBER 12, 2017

We have everything from: Fundraising & Grants. Participants will acquire a foundational understanding of this increasingly important component of fundraising strategy and will be able to identify and distinguish between the most common planned giving vehicles. Fundraising & Grants/ @CASEAdvance. Fundraising& Grants.

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Get Fully Funded

JUNE 28, 2023

Think back to your team’s last fundraising campaign. Would you consider the fundraiser a success? Did you find it easy to juggle your team’s schedule along with fundraising activities? Or, were there fundraising tasks that took far longer than they should have? Limited pool of donors.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

AUGUST 11, 2009

I'm looking for guest posts, ideas, and examples of nonprofits using crowdsourcing for their programs, fundraising, and marketing. What are the best practices or techniques for crowdsourcing? conference in January 2009, in which he talked about how Flickr is a great tool to facilitate communities. at the Smithsonian 2.0

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Connection Cafe

JANUARY 13, 2020

Engaging supporters (and attracting new ones) with storytelling techniques. Facilitating online donations, sign-ups, pledges, and more. Hopefully, your year-end fundraising efforts have gone off without a hitch, but the best (and busiest) campaigns tend to reveal gaps or outdated parts of your toolkit.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

APRIL 8, 2009

The session provided an overview of networks, introduction to different network types and typologies, an overview on network mapping techniques, and a diagnostic that helps those leading networks identify areas of strength and improvement. I did a presentation on social media and nonprofits in the afternoon.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JUNE 23, 2015

I also facilitated several workshops for London-based nonprofit CEOs and communications directors on developing a strategy for their leadership profiles on social and internal champions (board, staff, and volunteers). This post is a roundup of what I learned from the speakers at the conference and some reflections on the workshops.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

FEBRUARY 18, 2010

I also had the opportunity to facilitate a large group session about whether CEOs should use social media or not and attended a tweet up with David Meerman Scott. You can find my materials and slides on the workshop wiki - CSR and NGO workshops, but always like to do a reflective wrap up post. No wonder I am still tired!

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

NOVEMBER 5, 2014

The next day, I facilitated a workshop on Best Practices for Crowd Funding that blended traditional instruction with innovation lab facilitation techniques. When nonprofits marry tried-and-true fundraising techniques with social media and online networks, they are able to tap into the power of crowd funding.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

APRIL 18, 2007

Personal learning and reflection on and about your instructional topic. A nonprofit organization that provides support for homeless in Northern, CA found references to homeless people on restaurant blogs and used what they learn for a fundraising campaign. Your first blog could even document your learnings and reflections about Web.20!

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Bloomerang

JULY 17, 2021

I know we’re all gifted fundraisers in the house for the most part. maybe not training, comradery time, you know, some facilitated group time together where y’all get back your rhythm. So I like to employ a lazy Susan management technique. And so their job is a reflection of that. Oh, my gosh.

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