John Kenyon

MARCH 24, 2017

I created this handout on Facilitation Methods to highlight some of the most popular techniques, along with a brief explanation of each method. Also included below is the slide deck from the Nonprofit Technology Conference session Supercharge Your Technology Training, where the handout was used.

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Blue Fox

OCTOBER 1, 2021

Many nonprofits (most?) nonprofits raised $2.47 So often, nonprofit fundraising efforts are facilitated and driven by staff members. To get you started, we’ve compiled a list of 40+ ideas, broken down into categories, to help you get the job done! Grab your pumpkin spice latte! Fall is in the air.

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Nonprofit Tech for Good

OCTOBER 30, 2021

By Brian Greenwald , Nonprofit Superfan at Generate_Impact – a human-centered technology services company focused solely on celebrating and serving humanitarian, social impact, sustainability and for-profit-for-good organizations and causes. Will reconfiguration, data cleanup or training on our current tech be just as impactful?

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JULY 25, 2017

Recently, a colleague asked me a wonderful question: How did you learn to become a good facilitator and trainer? I answered yes to all, but more importantly I think these two methods helped me the most: Carve out time for reflection after each training and do an after-action review with yourself. Here’s what I learned.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JANUARY 3, 2024

Update & Review My Work-Life Harmony Plan : In my workshops on personal and organizational wellbeing, I help nonprofits improve their personal resilience. In 2023, I continued to present keynotes, deliver practical workshops using generative AI for nonprofit productivity, and write articles. I just received my 2023 email.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JANUARY 9, 2020

3) Update & Review My Personal Resilience Plan: In my workshops on resilience, I help nonprofits improve their personal resilience through life-work balance and self-care. The book was well received and was #1 on Amazon’s Nonprofit Books many times. I wrote guest posts for many nonprofit publications and blogs.

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Nonprofit Tech for Good

MAY 23, 2019

Endurance events have always been a mainstay in the nonprofit fundraising world. With so many online platforms available to help enhance your event, an online presence is a must have for the modern nonprofit event. Leverage all that training. Many endurance events have training periods leading up to the big day.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MARCH 5, 2014

At this year’s Nonprofit Technology Conference, I’m thrilled to be doing a panel on nonprofit technology training and it has a bit of a star wars theme, “ Learn You Will.” When I’m training other trainers, I often get asked “What books should I read?” By Dave Meier.

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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! There are two different methods to evaluate your training. Use Learning Theory.

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Nonprofits Source

OCTOBER 6, 2023

In this guide, we’ll cover the following essentials: Employee Engagement FAQs Employee Engagement Dos and Don’ts Employee Engagement Program Ideas Employee Engagement Plan Template Let’s explore why employee engagement is so critical and how you can promote it on an everyday basis. We’ll go over some ideas later! Remote workplaces.

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NTEN

JUNE 5, 2014

That''s why we''re doing our best to recruit a remarkable group of facilitators to help shape your experience. Each track will have two Lead Facilitators and several additional Facilitators who will design spaces and lead small group conversations to make sure that every participant has the chance to both learn and share.

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Qgiv

SEPTEMBER 15, 2021

of Greater Indianapolis is a nonprofit whose mission is to inspire all girls to be strong, smart, and bold. Through carefully curated programs hosted by trained volunteer facilitators at various schools and community centers, they’re able to create a curriculum that features courses on common issues many girls face.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

APRIL 24, 2014

Generate new ideas. Thinking Hats: To generate new ideas. Has your nonprofit used design thinking for strategy, problem solving, or new idea generation? ” It is a social innovation toolkit for those who work in the development sector. Know the people I’m working with. Test and improve. Sustain and implement.

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ASU Lodestar Center

JUNE 8, 2022

posted by Laura Taylor Fall 2021 Alumna, ASU Master of Nonprofit Leadership and Management. Having a welcoming culture is vital for a nonprofit organization to be a part of a strong and healthy community. It also takes training. Significant resources have been invested in diversity training. Illustration by Yuxin Qin.

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Qgiv

SEPTEMBER 8, 2021

She has tremendous knowledge on managing the day-to-day challenges of fundraising and enjoys facilitating the decision-making process with clients. She is also BoardSource certified, which has given her greater insight into how nonprofit boards can best support their organizations. Which of these roles are they willing to take on?

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Achieve

MARCH 24, 2022

Community nonprofits, PTA fundraising groups, and thousands of other small fundraising teams struggle with the same issue: finding easy yet effective fundraisers to power their mission without breaking the bank. . fundraising ideas. is that there’s already a pipeline in place to facilitate donations. unique (and easy!)

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

AUGUST 13, 2019

As part of my work with nonprofit organizations to help them build a culture of resilience that I wrote about in the Happy Healthy Nonprofit , I have facilitated retreats where staff brainstorm ideas and identify simple ways that they can make working at their organization more enjoyable. Do they feel appreciated?

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JANUARY 27, 2014

Join me for a FREE Webinar: Training Tips that Work for Nonprofits on Jan.29th I’ll be sharing my best tips and secrets for designing and delivering training for nonprofit professionals that get results. 29th at 1:00 PM EST/10:00 AM PST. I use a simple structure to design: before, during, and after.

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Qgiv

SEPTEMBER 2, 2024

Managing a nonprofit takes patience, hard work, and a lot of organization. Luckily, there are many nonprofit software solutions designed to meet the unique needs of your organization and help keep you and your staff from getting overwhelmed! How to use nonprofit software Top nonprofit software solutions What is nonprofit software?

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Qgiv

JUNE 4, 2021

Now that we’re entering a new post-COVID era, nonprofit leaders need to think about what virtual fundraising will look like in the future. In our 2020 Navigating the Unknown Report , we found that over 50% of nonprofits pivoted to virtual events last year. 25+ Virtual Fundraising Ideas. Let’s get started.

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NTEN

JUNE 6, 2014

That''s why we''re doing our best to recruit a remarkable group of facilitators to help shape your experience. Each track will have two Lead Facilitators and several additional Facilitators who will design spaces and lead small group conversations to make sure that every participant has the chance to both learn and share.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JANUARY 3, 2019

Here’s what I learned from looking over my 2018 professional journal: The Happy Healthy Nonprofit: I published “ The Happy Healthy Nonprofit: Strategies for Impact without Burnout ,” with co-author Aliza Sherman in 2016. The book was well received and was #1 on Amazon’s Nonprofit Books many times.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MAY 8, 2018

Last month, I was honored to present and facilitate an all-day workshop for nonprofit leaders at the Oregon Nonprofit Leadership Conference on how to activate a culture of well being in the nonprofit workplace, based on my book, The Happy Healthy Nonprofit: Strategies for Impact without Burnout.

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Bloomerang

JUNE 22, 2023

Nonprofit organizations rely on the commitment and active engagement of their board members to make a significant impact in their communities. In this blog, we will explore the signs of a successful nonprofit board by examining the specific areas where board members can contribute their time.

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Qgiv

MARCH 21, 2022

In this post, we’ll be covering strategies to engage hospital employees, drive awareness in your community, and get creative with hospital fundraising ideas that can be held in a variety of formats that don’t require a lot of time to execute. Hospital Foundation Fundraising Ideas. How Do Hospitals Raise Funds?

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

OCTOBER 28, 2013

Participants from a nonprofit work on their network map during the workshop. Last week was a busy week, after keynoting the Nonprofit Solutions Conference in Kansas City , I facilitated a one-day workshop for the Center for Nonprofits on developing and measuring a sustainable integrated social media strategy.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

FEBRUARY 12, 2019

. Much of my training and facilitation work lately has been centered around the ideas in my recent book, The Happy Healthy Nonprofit. The nonprofit organizations I’m working with are are seeking out ways to create collective resilience in their workplaces.

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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.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

OCTOBER 8, 2019

In my work as a trainer and facilitator, I make workshops and master classes as interactive as possible, incorporating peer discussion, movement, and creativity. But it isn’t impossible, if you follow best practices for virtual facilitation for meetings. The next step is to facilitate a discussion. Icebreakers that Rock.

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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. One thing I realized is that training social workers receive as part of their education is also very relevant for change makers inside of nonprofits, consultants, and trainers. I introduced a framework from Dr.

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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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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MAY 26, 2015

I also wanted to experiment with translating some facilitation techniques I use for face-to-face meetings (like sticky note facilitation ) to virtual meetings. In a face-to-face training, I might do an exercise with sticky notes where I get participants to write down answers to a question or two related to the content on sticky notes.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JANUARY 4, 2017

Published Book Three: In 2016, I published “ The Happy Healthy Nonprofit: Strategies for Impact without Burnout ,” with co-author Aliza Sherman. Stay tuned for more information in 2017, but I will be very busy writing facilitator process guides based on my decades of experience as a trainer and sharing that on this blog.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MARCH 24, 2020

Since those days, I have continued to hone my virtual facilitation skills to design and deliver effective virtual meetings and trainings. As nonprofits are impacted by the CoronaVirus and need more virtual meeting skills, I’d like to share what I have learned. The first post was an overview of 9 virtual facilitation tips.

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Whole Whale

APRIL 24, 2024

Given this competitive landscape it can make a lot of sense to look for fundraising consultants and firms to help your nonprofit. Fundraising Consultants The following are some of the trusted nonprofit consulting network Nonprofit.ist. Our key services are: Full Service Grant Writing, Grant Coaching, Training and Workshops.

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ASU Lodestar Center

DECEMBER 1, 2020

posted by Tosha Russock Spring 2020 Alumna, ASU Master of Nonprofit Leadership & Management. Is your executive leadership team not responsible for idea generation? Nonprofit leaders understand the importance of continuously innovating, so what is holding them back? Illustration by Jocelyn Ruiz. Decision-making.

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Get Fully Funded

JUNE 18, 2023

Growing a nonprofit takes more than just passion: you also need creativity, persistence, and a handful of nonprofit leadership skills to guide your organization through the growth years and fulfill your mission. Without leadership, a small nonprofit may never reach its full potential. Facilitator.

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