Philanthropy Facilitators Make It Easy for People to Give
NonProfit PRO
MAY 28, 2024
When you don’t make it easy for donors to choose to support your charity, they'll choose not to. Here's how to encourage their support.
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NonProfit PRO
MAY 28, 2024
When you don’t make it easy for donors to choose to support your charity, they'll choose not to. Here's how to encourage their support.
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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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media
MARCH 4, 2020
It’s time to up your virtual facilitation and convening skills. 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.
Candid
FEBRUARY 19, 2025
However, the positive impact of these contributions can be undermined when organizations fail to prioritize the safety and well-being of the people they serve. The role of philanthropy in keeping people safe appeared first on Candid insights. Philanthropy invests billions of dollars annually to address pressing social issues.
Fast Company Tech
APRIL 14, 2025
She asked, What if your job is not to be the expert up there, but to facilitate the expertise in the room? Instead of being the expert, I had to rebrand myself as a leader who could facilitate, promote, and grow the expertise around her, whether it be in a training room, on my team, or even now leading my own coaching and speaking practice.
Bloomerang
JANUARY 22, 2025
Comprehensive pre-work The best strategic planning sessions arent rushed; theyre carefully developed through input from board members, staff, and facilitators. Select a top-notch facilitator. Work with the facilitator to ensure their processes sync with your expected outcomes. The team should be no more than five people.
sgEngage
DECEMBER 5, 2023
Raise your hand if you’ve ever had a bad experience working with a group of people to make a decision. And things go wrong: roles aren’t clear, timelines extend, or people disagree. Most groups of people do not self-manage well. These facilitators identify bias and skillfully call the group’s attention to it.
Fast Company Tech
APRIL 8, 2025
Daffy , a platform that facilitates charitable giving, is rolling out a suite of new AI-powered tools thats making it easier than ever to donate to charity. but from there, you can simply say to the application make a donation to the ACLU, or something similar, to facilitate the donation.
The Fundraising Authority
AUGUST 17, 2022
NXUnite connects leaders in the mission-driven space with the resources and people they need for their organization to thrive. Gain insight, share knowledge, and connect with the people you need to accomplish your mission. Gain insight, share knowledge, and connect with the people you need to accomplish your mission.
Bloomerang
FEBRUARY 21, 2023
Let’s Define Your Community Since your mission is to facilitate philanthropy in order to move your mission forward, let’s talk about your philanthropic community – the donors, volunteers, advocates and ambassadors who fuel your work, making your impact the greatest it can be. Why do people choose to give their hard-earned money to your cause?
Bloomerang
OCTOBER 6, 2023
This is all the more reason to hire a high-quality nonprofit board retreat facilitator. And though you may feel it’s risky to hire a facilitator from outside your region, they may also provide a unique perspective and even greater results. More than 80 percent of board retreat facilitators have never run an organization.
Nonprofit Tech for Good
JUNE 4, 2022
Nonprofits now have a range of remote and hybrid events to choose between, and they can make the most of them thanks to platforms like PayBee that facilitate streaming and other digital tools. More than ever, people want to get out there and have real social experiences with other people. 9 Modern Nonprofit Fundraising Methods.
Bloomerang
JANUARY 10, 2022
Think of yourself, instead, as a “ philanthropy facilitator.” You have an opportunity –a privilege – to open people up to the joy of giving. MRI studies show people get a warm jolt of ‘feel good’ dopamine when they contemplate giving. You have an opportunity –a privilege – to open people up to the joy of giving.
Nonprofit Tech for Good
OCTOBER 30, 2021
The reality is that skipping or neglecting the discovery phase is the most common cause of budget and timeline overruns, low adoption and ROI, and misalignment to people and processes. It’s about people. After all, these tools exist to help people do their jobs better, right? Why is that? Here are our top 3 reasons: 1.
Mashable Tech
FEBRUARY 12, 2025
The goal is to help young people learn about personal boundaries, safe relationships, and how to ask for help. While sextortion can happen on any platform, and between people who know each other in person, criminals and scammers have used Meta to target victims.
Bloomerang
NOVEMBER 1, 2024
The wrong message to the right people? The right message to the wrong people? Technology facilitates much greater drilling down today, and you’re in danger of malpractice if you don’t use some of the new tools available. People are different, but in predictable ways. Both are crimes. Stop doing what you did 10 years ago.
VQ Strategies
NOVEMBER 11, 2024
Support Groups are facilitated by trained volunteers, Peer Support Group Leaders, who plan and lead not only the support groups but also events to engage and build connections with warriors and their families. We support people in different stages of recovery and they may not all be comfortable meeting in person.
.orgSource
MAY 23, 2023
Yes, you can get people to put down their phones and pay attention. Meeting new colleagues is easier when someone facilitates introductions. Create a casual atmosphere that makes it easy for people to feel comfortable discussing what they don’t know and asking about what they don’t understand. Is that even possible?
.orgSource
SEPTEMBER 10, 2024
Viewing technology through the lens of human qualities like empathy, collaboration, and compassion ensures that instead of replacing people, our inventions lead to discovering deeper value and creating more resilient organizations. Focus on People The IT Department is the home of logic and facts.
Fast Company Tech
APRIL 22, 2025
“Sometimes you need hands, or you need other people to do stuff for you, to facilitate even the most trivial things, like organizing buckets or helping with sampling. Rob McCallum, who helps facilitate these matchmaking arrangements through Yachts for Science, describes his organization as “the Tinder of the seas.”
Charity Village
SEPTEMBER 7, 2023
The Conseil des arts et des lettres du Québec announced the launch of an aid program for people with disabilities to produce a grant application.
The NonProfit Times
OCTOBER 29, 2024
In 2022, the International committee of the Red Cross (ICRC), a NetHope member, discovered a sophisticated cyber-attack on their services hosting personal data of more than 515,000 vulnerable conflict-affected people using family reunification services.
TechCrunch
AUGUST 18, 2023
In a new class action lawsuit filed in the Northern District of California this week, two parents accuse Roblox of illegally facilitating child gambling. For the people unaware it’s a Roblox robux gambling site. Heard a lot about rblxflip today. It is ILLEGAL for anyone not an adult to gamble.
Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media
MAY 15, 2020
Recently I facilitated an online session about how to get better at online meetings for Lightful in the UK where I am a Senior Advisor at Lightful, among other activities, facilitate online master classes for their BRIDGE programme. An online meeting is more effective when you have at least two facilitators. Don’t wing it alone.
Bloomerang
OCTOBER 25, 2024
Not if you want to meet people where they are. Remember, your goal ( why you do what you do ) must encompass building community, facilitating human connection, and creating opportunities for people to find meaning. People today are used to a subscription economy. Or maybe you thought this was a presumptuous ask.
Mashable Tech
APRIL 1, 2025
She's worked with people who've experienced assault, trafficking, and terrorism, among other horrific crimes. Among those victims, two in five people were robbed of their money. The AARP Fraud Victim Support Group program tries to offer this by hosting free virtual meetings run by trained facilitators.
Nonprofit Tech for Good
JULY 1, 2020
Social media is powerful because it leverages social influence – people trust information from those within their networks. They are more likely to donate to a cause, attend a virtual event, or volunteer when they are invited by people they know and trust. One of these ways is live streaming events on social media.
.orgSource
DECEMBER 4, 2023
It’s hard to deny the fact that we are drawn to people like us. Be Intentional What can we do to facilitate more deliberate mentoring relationships? How can we support women, people of color, and other minorities in achieving leadership roles? But my customers won’t increase their spend with me unless I’ve got the right people.”
Nonprofit Tech for Good
AUGUST 21, 2024
Today, text messaging platforms enable instant, direct interaction with wider audiences, facilitating greater fundraising, awareness campaigns, volunteer coordination, and real-time updates during crises. These stories can be about the people they help, the progress they’ve made, or the challenges they face.
Engadget
MARCH 12, 2025
" The first, Gemini Robotics, was designed by Deepmind to facilitate direct control of robots. Interactivity, meanwhile, encapsulates a robot's ability to respond to people and the environment. According to the company, AI systems for robots need to excel at three qualities: generality, interactivity and dexterity.
Association Analytics
DECEMBER 1, 2022
The people on the front lines hardly have access to any information that they need to do their jobs.That keeps me up at night: Data democratization,” Reggie said. I don’t want to assume what people need to do their jobs better, I want to make sure they have everything they need to do their jobs better,” he said. ’”. “If
.orgSource
MARCH 11, 2024
A mission team—like any team, anywhere—needs competent people who work well together,” Bell advises. “In Building a great team starts with hiring the right people. This process ensures that we hire the right people.” What’s tricky is how well individuals combine.” Trust me, it’s worth it.
.orgSource
FEBRUARY 19, 2024
But without the human perspective, numbers and statistics have limited meaning, especially in organizations that revolve around people. Stronger Facilitators Even the most junior members of the IT team may be called on to be trainers and facilitators. Coaching is not a skill that comes naturally to most people.
Fast Company Tech
APRIL 1, 2025
While the Three Cs of meaningful workcommunity, contribution, and challengeare important for everyone, different people will value different sources of meaning more highly. Young people want to be challenged. To most people in our society, this seems like a dream come true and the secret to happiness.
Nonprofit Tech for Good
MAY 13, 2023
Without an agenda, it’s also very easy for one or two people to dominate the meeting, which means that not everyone will get a chance to share their ideas. It facilitates straightforward communication between board members, helps you keep documents organized, and more, similar to a traditional board books.
.orgSource
DECEMBER 26, 2022
With the introduction of culture to a digital environment, we saw interpersonal dynamics in a new light.orgCommunity , our professional development and networking organization, was thrilled to host two in-person events that brought people together to explore those themes and discuss significant issues that emerged from our post-pandemic experience.
Fast Company Tech
MARCH 17, 2025
Encouraging vulnerability In my work as a facilitator of the Stanford Graduate School of Businesss popular organizational behavior elective, Interpersonal Dynamics (nicknamed touchy feely) we encourage MBA students to experiment with sharing vulnerability in small groups of peers. Pause before sharing and choose your words carefully.
The NonProfit Times
OCTOBER 28, 2024
Its key findings include: * Nonprofits play a vital role in representing people and communities. These findings call for additional research to understand the dynamic relationship between nonprofit advocacy and political environments, exploring how different contexts can either facilitate or hinder advocacy efforts, according to the authors.
Nonprofit Tech for Good
NOVEMBER 10, 2021
And they motivate people to give more — either through monetary contributions or volunteering. Since everyone needed to interact through video chat or Zoom calls in 2020, virtual fatigue set in and people became reluctant about attending virtual galas. People love the excitement of being able to bid on vacations or gift packages.
The MatrixFiles
DECEMBER 22, 2021
I slept badly on Sunday, got tested on Monday and I’m thankfully negative BUT I know scores of people who have tested positive. Last Friday, for the first part of the Matrix Group holiday celebration, I hired a facilitator to run a group discussion about the year we’ve just had. To make matters worse, I started feeling sick on Sunday.
Fast Company Tech
MARCH 12, 2025
This framework distinguishes between digital and physical AIs and outlines the key ways theyre meant to help people in their homes. This will mean providing actionable support with emotional concerns, especially social isolation, by surfacing and facilitating a seniors human connections.
Nonprofit Tech for Good
JANUARY 29, 2022
We are here to educate, facilitate and communicate,” he said. “We People donate much more in stock than they would have in cash,” Latham said. “In 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
sgEngage
OCTOBER 15, 2024
I encourage you to think expansively about your data—every donor interaction is an opportunity to learn more about what inspires people to give so that we can reach donors with the right messages at the right time. Empowering The Next Generation of Givers and Volunteers I’m especially passionate about engaging young people in philanthropy.
Nonprofit Tech for Good
MAY 23, 2019
Facilitate this natural phenomenon by encouraging team fundraising within your event. You’ll want people to make donations on the fly, send campaign updates, and be able to manage their campaigns easily through their mobile devices. Encourage team fundraising. Another good idea is to incorporate text-to-donate at your event.
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