Bloomerang

SEPTEMBER 23, 2024

Worse yet, the facilitator is boring, the content is useless, board members are texting, and the food is stale! The best facilitators will address these issues in a sensitive, thoughtful, and helpful manner so the board can snip the ropes that tie these touchy anchors. If you’re in the process of planning a retreat, don’t settle!

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Develop Create Tips Exercise 68

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

AUGUST 14, 2015

I’ve had the honor of facilitating an online peer learning exchange of Knight Grantees that are hosting Giving Days, applying and iterating on the Giving Day Playbook since 2013. Yesterday, I facilitated the first webinar in a series hosted by the Knight Foundation on taking the practice of Giving Days to the next level.

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Nonprofit Tech for Good

JANUARY 29, 2022

It was this experience that gave Latham the idea to launch DonateStock , modernizing these transactions making it easier for donors to give and non-profits to receive. “We We are here to educate, facilitate and communicate,” he said. “We “It was such a pain, I never did it again,” Latham said.

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Gift Profit Nonprofit Donation 305

Get Fully Funded

JULY 2, 2024

Empowering donors to give instantly ensures they follow through with the donation while giving is still top-of-mind. QR codes facilitate a seamless giving experience by directing supporters to a mobile-friendly donation page where they can give securely using their preferred payment method.

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Raise Donation Registration Instruction 59

sgEngage

MAY 30, 2023

This gives them immediate access to scholarship-specific information and enables them to explore the various opportunities across campus. This streamlined approach enhances the user experience and facilitates efficient scholarship navigation for applicants. Proactively communicate with potential candidates.

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Application Challenge Award Student 84

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

AUGUST 17, 2021

Give your remote participants a seat at the table. 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. Center Inclusion.

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Candid

JUNE 16, 2022

The guide cites ClimateWorks’ data that less than 2% of giving flows to climate mitigation efforts. Our new guide provides helpful and instructive case studies to illustrate how other funders have taken such steps. . A separate Facilitator’s toolkit is available to support this activity at your foundation. .

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Guidelines Participatory Case Study Philanthropy 101

Candid

FEBRUARY 14, 2024

Giving ChatGPT the prompt “Tell me why arts are important for youth development” generates two pages of text. You can also learn about how Candid plans to leverage AI to enhance data organization, streamline search processes, and facilitate intelligent funding connections. Read more about AI on Candid insights here.

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Generation Artist Arts Proposal 110

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

FEBRUARY 8, 2018

As a long-time trainer, professor, and teacher, I feel strongly that interactive learning activities – going beyond the death by Powerpoint Lecture – is the key to retention and application for participants. Your room set up can support your instructional activities that engage participants or get in the way.

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Learning Classroom Classes Student 85

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JANUARY 4, 2017

Emerging Leaders Playbook: With the generous support of the Packard Foundation and in collaboration with Third Plateau Social Impact Strategies, we wrote and published the Emerging Leaders Playbook last year, along with facilitating a peer learning cohort with colleague Stephanie Rudat.

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Professional Facilitation San Jose Journal 105

CauseVox

OCTOBER 25, 2023

As Giving Tuesday and end-of-year giving approach, the connections you’ve worked so diligently to foster become more important than ever. Building a culture of giving is paramount, and one way to achieve this is by providing donors with opportunities to honor someone special through a tribute donation.

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Gift Donation Celebrate Donor 69

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MARCH 1, 2016

In a couple of weeks, one of the sessions I’m facilitating at the Nonprofit Technology Conference in San Jose is called “ How To Be A Wizard at Tech Training.” Instructional Design. Co-Designing and Working with Other Facilitators and Trainers. Reflection from #NTC2014 on Instructional Design.

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Train Training San Jose Instructional Design 50

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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Reflection NTEN Change Exercise 127

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

FEBRUARY 18, 2014

I’m co-facilitating a session on Nonprofit Training Design and Delivery with colleagues John Kenyon, Andrea Berry, and Cindy Leonard at the NTEN Nonprofit Technology Conference on Friday March 14th at 10:30 am! But disciplining yourself to reflect afterwards always gives the reward of improvement. Formative Evaluation.

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Evaluation Train Training Tips 131

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

APRIL 8, 2020

As the facilitator or meeting host, you can also judge whether you have allowed for enough time by watching the note-taking process in the google document. Brainstorm Ideas: Put 3-6 people in different breakout rooms and give them a brainstorming question prompt – something like “How might we …?” Small Group Activities.

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Exercise Reflection Google Consultant 177

Qgiv

SEPTEMBER 11, 2024

Ask a major donor to serve as one of the speakers and talk about why they give. You can still facilitate direct interactions between donors and beneficiaries at a secondary location, upcoming event, or virtual meeting. Fostering a personal connection to the cause will give your donors even more reason to give back.

Gift 52

Gift Relationship Ideas Donor 52

Nonprofits Source

MAY 25, 2023

It gives an inside look into your patient experience and can help your team identify potential areas to improve overall patient satisfaction rates. Treatment: The healthcare system prescribes treatment and follow-up instructions. Care: The patient is assessed by the medical faculty. Respond to negative reviews.

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Goal Tips Review Map 52

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JANUARY 19, 2017

Yesterday, I spent a day facilitating leadership workshops for arts leaders attending the Art House Convergence Conference near Park City, Utah. Classroom style with desks puts a barrier between the students and the instruction, especially when people are using laptops or tablets to take notes. Have you ever had to do a room hack?

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Lecture Classroom Experiment Utah 93

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

OCTOBER 7, 2019

Above all, silence facilitates clear and creative thinking and quiets negative thoughts. You just give a few minutes to quiet breathing and allow everyone to get centered and focused before jumping in. Here’s some step-by-step or eye-by-eye instructions. This technique is simple.

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Exercise Work Personal Tips 107

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JANUARY 23, 2014

So, expect to see regular reflections on good instructional design and delivery for any topic, but especially technology related. I am not always lucky to be teaching in a classroom that is designed as a flexible space to be molded into a learning environment by the instructor guided by the instructional design.

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Train Training Design Classroom 126

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MARCH 5, 2014

John Kenyon and I wrote guest posts on the NTEN blog that will give you a flavor of what the session is about. I love all aspects instructional design and facilitation , but being a good trainer also means being a good content curator and resource librarian. This six-step instructional model is called “ENGAGE.”

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Train Training Technology Instructional Design 116

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

OCTOBER 7, 2014

The lab was facilitated by Heather Mcleod-Grant and Justin Ferrell , Director of Fellowships at the Stanford d-School. The session was an introduction to design thinking methods and to generate ideas for instructional modules for networked leadership development. The questions: What do you hope to learn today?

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Design Course Leadership Network 107

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

DECEMBER 31, 2013

International Training Work: Most of my work is designing and delivering capacity building projects for nonprofits literally all over the world. This past year I had the honor of facilitating an intense training in Tunisia in January for Women Entrepreneurs that included leadership, entrepreneurship, business planning, and communications.

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Tunisia Facilitation New Zealand Technique 127

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 chose the latter.

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Participatory Digital Facilitation Exercise 78

.orgSource

MAY 1, 2023

Bill Bruce, CEO of the American College of Occupational and Environmental Medicine, gives this advice. “I Identify staffers who can be your IT ambassadors and fill these significant roles: Strategists Strategists are the visionaries, facilitators, and problem-solvers who inspire curiosity throughout the organization.

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Collaboration Digital Build Organization 44

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JANUARY 5, 2018

I also facilitated a number of nonprofit staff workshops building on the curriculum. I wrote guest posts for many nonprofit publications, including the Stanford Innovation Review, Asian NGO, NPEngage, Guidestar, Giving Compass and others. This past year was my 4th year as an adjunct professor at Middlebury College.

Professional 0

Professional Finland Journal Reflection 0

Twenty Hats

AUGUST 18, 2020

Before each session, Circle members would read an assignment on a relevant topic, such as giving feedback or making decisions. The practical volunteer management skills – the supervision, the policies, the strategies – it’s easier to find instruction in these areas. Factor in about 20 minutes per person, give or take.

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Professional Leadership Skills Facilitation 61

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JANUARY 2, 2015

Facilitator for Learning Network: Most of my work is designing and delivering capacity building projects for nonprofits literally all over the world and here in the US. 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.

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Instructional Design San Antonio Facilitation North Carolina 50

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MARCH 8, 2019

The next facilitation challenge was to break them into small groups to work on the personas using a poster-sized version of the persona worksheet. Breaking a large group into small groups for an exercise is also instructional design challenge. If you know me, sticky notes and marker were also involved.

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Learning Exercise San Francisco Instruction 88

Allegiance Group

NOVEMBER 2, 2023

In today’s digital landscape, integrating social media buttons on your nonprofit website signifies a commitment to fostering engagement, driving awareness, and facilitating convenient avenues for supporters to contribute. Similarly, provide clear instructions for individuals interested in volunteering or getting involved.

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Websites Calendar Registration Social Media 52

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JANUARY 4, 2016

I also designed and facilitated a six month peer learning cohort with colleague Stephanie Rudat. I produced four “ Advanced Practices Webinars ” for the Knight Foundation for Giving Days hosts. This year I facilitated several labs, including one for the Brainerd Foundation to rethink 21 st Century Advocacy.

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Iowa Facilitation Teach San Antonio 50

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JANUARY 5, 2012

On New Year’s Day, I heard a story on NPR about some research on instructional techniques used by many college professors – the lecture and how it is less effective in an age information abundance. The instructor’s role should be to facilitate this understanding for their students, not dump content on them.

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Experiment Learning Create Exercise 119

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MARCH 30, 2012

The conference in Morocco was a “tri-lingual event” and was translated into French, English, and Arabic, although the content and instructional design were identical to the event in Jordan. This blog post is a summary of reflections about the instructional design and how NGOs in these countries are becoming Networked NGOs.

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Morocco Tunisia Reflection Conference 102

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MAY 17, 2011

The content is important, but it is only half of the instructional design task. This would require clear instructions on the outcome of the peer coaching and to provide some instructions on the right balance between listening and telling. This can be handled by telling participants the facilitator will be checking in the group.

Design 109

Design Effective Experiment Learning 109

sgEngage

JUNE 9, 2023

These instructions provide prospective grant recipients with an overview of what is expected and how to apply. They review grant agreements and may advise on legal matters, such as compliance with tax laws and regulations related to philanthropic giving. Legal Advisor: Ensure that all grantmaking activities comply with the law.

Grant 52

Grant Management Award Guidelines 52

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

DECEMBER 7, 2015

Last week, we had a board retreat to dive into identifying core results as part of results-based accountability work , facilitated by an excellent outside consultant. Give Everyone at the Meeting Permission to Stand Up. The facilitator told us a specific time to be back. However, this was far from it.

Tips 50

Tips Brain Facilitation Chart 50

Blue Avocado

AUGUST 20, 2024

Five things that nonprofits should consider doing to facilitate donations. Heck, you’ve even made giving easy by signing an agreement with an online payment processing center to accept most credit cards. My goal is to encourage organizations to look at giving from the donor’s perspective. Imagine also that I’m on your list.

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Money Giving Charity Gift 77