Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JUNE 27, 2018

I co-lead a workshop on digital transformation, co-facilitated a master class on digital fundraising campaigns, co-hosted a learning breakfast for scholarship participants, co-designed a Big Room session on Technology for Good, and in between attended some amazing sessions. Facilitator Guide: [link]. The Process Steps in Detail.

Practice 108

Practice Thailand Reflection Nonprofit 108

Bloomerang

JANUARY 15, 2025

This guide reviews best practices for sending these memorial notification letters. Memorial donation letters differ slightly from other donation acknowledgments, so lets explore a few best practices for writing them. They connect families with an individual at your organization they can reach out to with any questions.

Donation 102

Donation Template Gift Donor 102

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JULY 23, 2014

If you want to a chance to win, leave a comment on this post sharing something that you’d like to learn about Impact Leadership or some wisdom from your experience about practicing impact leadership! Our first session will set the stage and context for the practices of “Impact Leadership.”

Registration 130

Registration Leadership Impact Change 130

AccelEvents

JUNE 12, 2020

So we have put together this list of virtual conference best practices to help you hit the ground running and host the best conference possible! Best Practices for Running a Virtual Conference. Facilitate Networking. The good news is that facilitating networking at your virtual event is not that difficult.

Conference 93

Conference Virtual Practice Facilitation 93

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. What follows below is a synthesis of the many excellent nonprofit crowd funding best practices resources. Click to download worksheet. How would you describe them?

Campaign 132

Campaign Fund Practice Giving 132

Fast Company Tech

MARCH 12, 2025

The practice of aging in place aligns with preferences for familiar places and routines and preserves our sense of independence. These preferences, though, raise questions about what support seniors want and need in their current homes. Most of us want to remain in our existing homes as we grow older.

Module 95

Module Digital Interaction Alexa 95

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

DECEMBER 5, 2016

Back then, not many nonprofits were talking or practicing the use of measurement and data to improve nonprofit results. The guide is organized by four key questions and includes a mix of practical tips and case studies featuring Jewish organizations and others. The four key questions are: What data to collect?

Resource 107

Resource Practice Data Work 107

Bloomerang

JANUARY 14, 2025

Mobile giving trends Best practices for raising more through mobile giving How mobile giving technology can help What is mobile giving? QR code donations Another effective way to facilitate mobile giving, especially when donors interact with physical marketing materials, is through QR code donations. Well cover: What is mobile giving?

Mobile 105

Mobile Giving Guide Nonprofit 105

.orgSource

OCTOBER 17, 2023

While the practice seems to be on the rise, these statistics indicate that regular temperature checks are not the status quo. Launch the Conversation Sometimes an outside facilitator can move the group forward more quickly. Sometimes an outside facilitator can move members forward more quickly. An annual survey is a good start.

Evaluation 193

Evaluation Director Government Leadership 193

AccelEvents

JUNE 15, 2020

Best Practices for Running a Virtual Trade Show. Live chat tools at virtual booths allow attendees to ask questions related to products or services and have those questions answered in real-time. Facilitate Networking. The post Best Practices for Running a Virtual Trade Show appeared first on Accelevents.

Virtual 96

Virtual Practice Avatar Registration 96

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

APRIL 8, 2020

If participants are working through an exercise or set of discussion questions, create a google document with your prompts and include space for taking notes. 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.

Exercise 177

Exercise Reflection Consultant Discussion 177

Nonprofit Tech for Good

JULY 16, 2023

It’s the deliberate practice of designing, building, and evolving the positive perception and experience of everyone inside and outside of your ecosystem. To ensure alignment, the first step is to consider simple but surprisingly vexing brand questions such as: Who are we? Ignore Brand Leadership at your peril. What do we do?

Leadership 200

Leadership Strategy Nonprofit Collaboration 200

Towards Data Science

JANUARY 5, 2024

Data Science Better Practices, Part 2 — Work Together You can’t just throw more data scientists at this model and expect the accuracy to magically increase. The common practice I witnessed in various places is that each member in the team tries their own “thing”. The main point is not the specific abstraction we’ll come up with.

Practice 98

Practice Data Work Classes 98

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JANUARY 9, 2020

1) Review the Year: I use tool called the “ Year Compass, a free downloadable booklet that provides a set of structured reflection questions that help you look back and ahead. I’ve continued to do conference keynotes, workshops and facilitate staff retreats about activating a culture of wellbeing. Here they are: Rituals.

Professional 143

Professional Personal Build Nonprofit 143

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?

Reflection 127

Reflection NTEN Change Facilitation 127

Nonprofit Tech for Good

NOVEMBER 30, 2014

To engage effectively is to respond genuinely to questions and comments and facilitate the discussions that your followers are having with each other. For example, many nonprofits mass thank their Twitterfollowers for retweets and their Facebook fans for every comment posted on their Facebook Page.

Communication 263

Communication Online Nonprofit Social Media 263

.orgSource

DECEMBER 26, 2022

Teri Carden, Founder and CEO of 100 Reviews , facilitated a panel discussion on how to turn your next great idea into gold. Sharon will facilitate a 360-degree discussion about trust. This format uses informal conversations to explore key questions and weave thoughts and ideas into a collective tapestry of knowledge. Leadership.

Culture 221

Culture Community Technology Professional 221

.orgSource

JANUARY 30, 2024

A facilitated workshop will put the five EI competencies on everyone’s radar. Walk in my shoes—Create a series of questions about various emotions like “How does it feel to be afraid of public speaking?” Each participant draws a question and answers it from the perspective of another person in the group.

Virtual 221

Virtual Work Skills Culture 221

VisionLink

MAY 17, 2013

Next time you consider moving to a more capable software platform, consider these 10 questions to help ensure that your decision will be the correct one, and your selection will not fail. The key question is whether you are looking to support a singularly focused or a multi-focused operation. Click here to download full White Paper.

Software 186

Software Platform System Facilitation 186

Qgiv

NOVEMBER 1, 2024

This guide covers what you need to know to expertly manage volunteers through the following sections: Volunteer management: FAQs Volunteer management best practices How volunteer management software can help Volunteer management: FAQs What is volunteer management? You can also create a volunteer management calendar to help you stay organized.

Volunteer 69

Volunteer Management Guide Nonprofit 69

Bloomerang

AUGUST 21, 2023

Multiple, practical action steps are presented below to advance your fundraising based on the survey results. General guidance for fundraisers Here is general guidance on actions fundraisers can take based on fundraising trends and best practices drawn from the report. Your own careful review of the report is encouraged.

Fundraising 98

Fundraising Action Practice Report 98

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JANUARY 5, 2021

Here are some rituals that I have consistently used over the past few decades: Review the Past Year: I use a tool called the “ Year Compass, a free downloadable booklet that provides a set of structured reflection questions that help you look back and ahead.

Nonprofit 148

Nonprofit Journal Facilitation Reflection 148

Bloomerang

NOVEMBER 15, 2023

Let’s begin with some practical strategies, including ground rules, defined roles, supplies, and tools. Today, Claire will be the facilitator. Ask if anyone has any questions. Be sure you’ve done the prep work to establish roles and responsibilities, prepare supplies, and bring in tools to facilitate your brainstorming session.

Ideas 123

Ideas Generation Arts Share 123

Bloomerang

JANUARY 4, 2022

Our Ask An Expert series features real questions answered by Claire Axelrad, J.D., Today’s question comes from a nonprofit employee who wants advice on best practices around sharing tax information with donors. Have a question for our Fundraising Coach? Please submit your question here. Not a Tax Lawyer.

Kansas City 136

Kansas City Donor Share Kansas 136

Bloomerang

NOVEMBER 19, 2024

When board members bypass the executive director to give direct instructions to staff, or question staff decisions, it breeds confusion and resentment, and can turn into destructive disagreements and passive aggressive behavior. Overworked and underfunded staff rely on a clear, decisive leadership structure to keep them motivated.

Nonprofit 104

Nonprofit Director Government Leadership 104

.orgSource

JUNE 5, 2023

As the executive director, you facilitate an International group that is service-oriented and driven by women. Networking takes practice. Asking questions is another great way to make connections. Allison captioned her LinkedIn photo like this, “The start of amazing begins with the right question.”

International 221

International Conversation Leadership Issue 221

Nonprofit Tech for Good

FEBRUARY 23, 2017

To engage effectively is to respond genuinely to questions and comments and facilitate the discussions that your followers are having with each other. to every comment posted on their Facebook Page, neither of which is effective or a good investment of time.

Communication 224

Communication Online Nonprofit Social Media 224

.orgSource

SEPTEMBER 4, 2024

We’ve convened a panel of techies who’ve been studying AI Strategies and Best Practices since long before ChatGPT and Gemini blew into town. Interactive Workshop Facilitator Jennifer Proctor, Senior Consultant, ,orgSource will guide a discussion centered on Collaborative Activities to Discover AI-driven Solutions.

Ideas 221

Ideas Sponsor Associations Director 221

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.

Online 110

Online Train Training Technique 110

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JANUARY 5, 2022

Review the Year: I use tool called the “ Year Compass, a free downloadable booklet that provides a set of structured reflection questions that help you look back and ahead. Remote and Hybrid Facilitation Workshops : During the pandemic, interested soared in learning how facilitate better virtual meetings.

Professional 114

Professional Nonprofit Facilitation Reflection 114

Forum One

JUNE 22, 2022

The first step is to facilitate ideation. Yet facilitating workshops, ideation sessions, or other conversations with the goal to encourage creativity and discourse can be challenging. Yet facilitating workshops, ideation sessions, or other conversations with the goal to encourage creativity and discourse can be challenging.

Facilitation 46

Facilitation Structure Conversation Goal 46

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

FEBRUARY 11, 2014

As a trainer and facilitator who works with nonprofit organizations and staffers, you have to be obsessed with learning theory to design and deliver effective instruction, have productive meetings, or embark on your own self-directed learning path. Internal: These theories take into account our minds and bodies.

Learning 139

Learning Learning Theory Brain Nonprofit 139

Bloomerang

SEPTEMBER 23, 2024

Worse yet, the facilitator is boring, the content is useless, board members are texting, and the food is stale! The root of a unified board is its culture, so the best board retreats address the fundamental culture questions, “What should it mean to be part of this board?” Have members pick a partner and practice reciting the mission.

Create 105

Create Develop Tips Fun 105

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

OCTOBER 2, 2014

If they do, they are typically “resistant” learners, often questioning the value of the technology. This is where content that breaks down the practice into small steps is very useful to participants. How are you incorporating learning from adjacent practices or fields into your professional learning?

Technique 129

Technique Train Training Learning 129

Gyrus

DECEMBER 9, 2024

Choosing the right LMS not only facilitates training but also ensures alignment with life sciences regulatory compliance frameworks. GxP (Good Practices) : Guidelines that ensure quality and compliance in production and testing environments. FAQ: Addressing Key Questions Q: What compliance features are non-negotiable in an LMS?

Life 52

Life Train Training Evaluation 52

sgEngage

FEBRUARY 11, 2025

Even when that’s our intention, our practices of extractive, time-consuming, unnecessary grant applications, reports, meetings, and inflexible grant awards achieve the opposite. Let’s examine our practices through the experiences of our grant partners and hold ourselves responsible for doing better by them.”

Impact 53

Impact Grant North Carolina Philanthropy 53

Gyrus

JANUARY 3, 2025

In the context of compliance training, it involves equipping employees with the necessary skills and knowledge to understand and comply with regulatory standards and industry best practices. Encourage employees to share their experiences, insights, and best practices with one another. Frequently Asked Questions 1.

Roles 52

Roles Train Training Learning 52