Neon CRM

SEPTEMBER 11, 2024

The good news is that there are numerous cost-effective strategies that can help your staff develop new skills, stay motivated, and bring fresh ideas to your mission. Encourage open dialogue by having different team members lead the discussion each time, ensuring diverse perspectives are heard. We can’t wait to see you there!

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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? Evaluate your content, facilitation, and logistical skills against participant evaluations. Conferences are a great opportunity to take workshops and observe the facilitator’s techniques. Spectragram.

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.orgSource

DECEMBER 4, 2023

Be Intentional What can we do to facilitate more deliberate mentoring relationships? values or a growth mindset, continuous feedback, and open communication, you will foster an environment that encourages employees to support one another. The idea that the employer holds all the cards is changing.

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.orgSource

APRIL 22, 2024

The idea is to prevent you from investing precious resources in merchandise or services that people don’t want. The idea is that what you build gets validated by the marketplace and you invest resources where there is evidence of a return. It opens services and activities to ongoing evaluation and adjustment.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JULY 24, 2013

I enjoy meetings when there has been a lot given to the design and you have expert facilitators in the room because I not only learn about the content, but also learn some new facilitation techniques. By the end of the day, she was able to summarize ideas and takeaways that we discussed.

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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. Lack of inclusivity and openness. Lack of resources.

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Qgiv

OCTOBER 12, 2021

And if you commit to joining in on the spooky festivities, you can also develop some frighteningly fun fundraiser ideas your horror buff donors will love. Make the most of this spine-chilling time of year with these 18 Halloween fundraising ideas. Halloween Fundraising Ideas. Not sure where to start? Spooky scavenger hunt.

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Qgiv

JUNE 4, 2021

To set your organization up for success, we’ve put together this guide with the basics of virtual fundraising and some event ideas to get the gears rolling: What is Virtual Fundraising? 25+ Virtual Fundraising Ideas to Try Out Best Virtual Fundraising Strategies Virtual Fundraising Software: Our Top Picks. Call Your Donors.

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.orgSource

FEBRUARY 12, 2024

When you want to give validity and structure to ideas, put them in writing. During the early stages of this relationship, teams may require assistance from a skilled facilitator to develop trust and discover a common language. A facilitator can help sort through obstacles and guide people toward effective interaction.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MARCH 17, 2017

My role in the project is to the facilitate the training sessions, design the overall training, facilitate openers and closings, help prep the curriculum, and deliver modules on digital strategy and social media. A Good Training Starts with A Good Opening.

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.orgSource

MAY 15, 2023

When you want to give validity and structure to ideas, put them in writing. During the early stages of this relationship, teams may require assistance from a skilled facilitator to develop trust and discover a common language. A facilitator can help sort through obstacles and guide people toward effective interaction.

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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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The NonProfit Times

AUGUST 13, 2024

Even though these steps are written for donors seeking to gain insight into their own reluctance to make contributions, those responsible for crafting messaging should readily be able to incorporate the ideas presented into their outreach material. These barriers include: ** Too many choices.

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Tech Soup

DECEMBER 16, 2014

More and more organizations are embracing the idea that collecting and measuring data and acting on what they learn from it can improve their work and better their services. But surprisingly few nonprofits are talking about open data. According to the Open Data Institute, open data saved Canada $3.2 Here in the U.S.,

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Forum One

MAY 23, 2024

This fosters a culture of open communication and empathy within the team. While I was at the Philadelphia Museum of Art working on a website redesign, we recognized the need to be transparent with our internal audiences and started hosting a series of monthly open forum presentations called “Website Wednesdays.”

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

APRIL 30, 2020

Social anxiety for some because we are opening up our homes, our personal spaces, in professional contexts (although this can be mitigated with the use of background images or being off camera) ( Axios ). Need so more ideas for energizers, check out this list from Dancing With Markers. see the photo at the top).

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MARCH 24, 2020

Meico Whitlock (Mindful Techie) leads the NTEN Board in a meditation meeting opener. Since those days, I have continued to hone my virtual facilitation skills to design and deliver effective virtual meetings and trainings. This post is #2 in a series I’ll be publishing on virtual meeting facilitation.

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The NonProfit Times

SEPTEMBER 10, 2024

For this reason, intermediaries can play a valuable role in facilitating these needs between the recipients and the originating funders. Intermediaries were more likely to shine when it came to developing deep relationships with communities and understanding their needs. This competency, however, is not universal.

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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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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

AUGUST 17, 2021

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. Here are some considerations for designing and facilitating pandemic-era hybrid meetings.

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sgEngage

APRIL 1, 2024

This curated track features members of Blackbaud’s K–12 Executive Advisory Board and our internal experts discussing how technology in schools has evolved, new best practices, and fresh ideas. Every manual process is an opening for human error, data loss, or outright theft. Where do you start?

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Qgiv

OCTOBER 19, 2021

Yes, you’ll need an efficient way to process donations and facilitate the collection of food drive items. Here are a few ideas to make designing your drive a breeze. Tie your campaign together with food drive theme ideas. The post Designing a Drive: 10 Food Drive Ideas to Fill Your Donation Boxes appeared first on Qgiv Blog.

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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.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

AUGUST 18, 2010

You’ll notice that the application they’re using allows them to pull out the moderator’s tweets on the side. A couple of Twitter moderator techniques I used to try to get some deeper insights from the discussion: I had a search open on #sm73 the whole time. I was watching for answers to the questions.

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The MatrixFiles

FEBRUARY 23, 2024

Organizations are having to remind members that discourse should always be civil and open-minded. Many execs reinforced the idea that communications should be clear and transparent. Many execs say you always need to circle back to your mission.

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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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Tech Soup

FEBRUARY 27, 2015

The foundation plans to fund 20 plus projects with new ideas on how to increase participation in U.S. It has been five years now since the Supreme Court Citizens United ruling that opened the door to 501(c)(4) nonprofits and massive anonymous "dark money" political contributions for political ads.

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sgEngage

SEPTEMBER 13, 2022

This means that staff—as well as those with wealth—move back to listen and implement the ideas and knowledge brought into the room by these participants. For staff, this often involves careful planning and facilitation, and playing a backend organizing role to ensure participants are easily able to engage in the tasks at hand.

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sgEngage

OCTOBER 17, 2022

After you’ve considered your foundation’s readiness and decided this approach makes sense, here are some practical, actionable ideas for developing participatory grantmaking in your funding institution. Perhaps you’ll start by reading about other models , watching webinars, or developing ideas. Is this you?

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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. Opening Exercise.

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ASU Lodestar Center

DECEMBER 1, 2020

Is your executive leadership team not responsible for idea generation? Create cycles of adaptation within the organization that enable staff to experiment with need ideas in a structured way. Partner with corporations, nonprofits, and government entities to facilitate external job swaps. Illustration by Jocelyn Ruiz.

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ASU Lodestar Center

JANUARY 26, 2022

Woodford and Preston list four main outcomes to validate stakeholder participation: helping organizations make informed decisions, facilitating stakeholder commitment and support, stakeholder education about the organization, and successful program implementation. Where to begin. Collaborate through field work and participatory practice.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

OCTOBER 22, 2013

Last week, I was lucky enough to participate in a brainstorming meeting at a foundation that was developing a strategy for its digital platforms (web, social, mobile, etc). The process was facilitated byPeter Maher, founder and CEO, of Luma Institute. It can also help generate many ideas. Our group generated 100 ideas!

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Candid

MARCH 12, 2024

His words also echoed my opening remarks at our 2023 convening: “I’ve been looking for a beacon on the hill to guide philanthropy forward, and I realize that the beacon on the hill is me. The journey of advancing racial equity requires opening oneself up to a continuous process of learning, sharing, and evolving—publicly and vocally.

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Forum One

DECEMBER 16, 2008

The incoming administration provides a very cool "Open for Questions " feature which allows people to submit and vote for questions that are then answered by the transition team. add your own ideas!). They reported getting "600,000 votes from more than 10,000 people on more than 7,300 questions" on December 10-11.

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Bloomerang

JULY 26, 2021

Mastering personalized, customer-centered philanthropy facilitation, especially mid-level and major donors, to increase donor lifetime value. If you’re doing this on your own, it’s a good idea to ask a few friends or volunteers who know nothing about your organization to serve as user guinea pigs. . Here are some questions to ask: .

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NTEN

JULY 16, 2014

When nonprofit leaders and changemakers get together in one room, big things can happen: Ideas, shared learning, partnerships – the opportunities are endless. But how can you tap the potential and move your ideas forward when it’s over? Our track facilitators & keynote speakers are truly remarkable. It ends with a bang.

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