Allegiance Group

SEPTEMBER 18, 2024

Social media, emails, texts, digital ads, videos, and even printed mailers offer opportunities to connect in more personal and customized ways. It requires a mindset shift and a commitment from your organization to make structural and programmatic changes to do it well. Your budget should reflect this shift.

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Channel Build Structure Mail 52

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

APRIL 8, 2020

Breakout Rooms are a feature on Zoom meetings (it has to be turned on in your zoom profile/account ) that allows the meeting host to put people into small groups for more intimate discussions or activities. . See the small group exercises timing charts in this document ). Which one you select depends on the activity and group dynamics.

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Exercise Reflection Google Structure 177

.orgSource

MAY 15, 2023

Is your marketing team hanging out at the North Pole while the membership group chills in Antarctica? To align your mission with your brand and reflect that symmetry through products and services, you need to bring membership and marketing to the Equator. When you want to give validity and structure to ideas, put them in writing.

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Collaboration Marketing Team Integration 221

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

SEPTEMBER 8, 2014

Who is the lead singer, guitarist, bass, and drums. Here’s how that translates to team facilitation: Facilitator Lead: The person who is facilitating the discussion or exercise. These could done by one person or could be shared if mapped out in advance. Scribe: The role of the scribe is to capture ideas and build group memory.

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Reflection NTEN Change Facilitation 127

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JANUARY 5, 2021

Many successful nonprofit professionals use rituals, either for personal productivity or team productivity. These rituals also help me set-up systems for consistent reflection and positive habit change throughout the new year. To reflect, you need to incorporate experimentation, creativity, and learning into the way you work.

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Journal Reflection Facilitation Technique 148

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JANUARY 2, 2023

Leaving for my first in-person event in 2022 after two years of pandemic shut down. Rituals can also be used by professionals to boost personal productivity because rituals capitalize on our brains’ ability to direct our behavior on autopilot, allowing us to reach our goals even when we are distracted or preoccupied with other things.

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Professional San Jose Journal Facilitation 92

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JANUARY 5, 2022

Rituals can also be used by professionals to boost personal productivity because rituals capitalize on our brains’ ability to direct our behavior on autopilot, allowing us to reach our goals even when we are distracted or preoccupied with other things. I call it my “ To Do, To Done, Don’t Do, Reflection List.

Professional 114

Professional Facilitation Reflection Journal 114

Nonprofit Tech for Good

AUGUST 9, 2021

In the last few years, Microsoft has rebuilt LinkedIn working out many of the kinks and bugs that made it frustrating to use, and has launched a suite of new tools and functionality for LinkedIn Pages , Profiles , and Groups. 9) Join and participate in LinkedIn Groups. Strangely, nonprofits have been slow to embrace LinkedIn.

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Linkedin Practice Social Media Sponsor 357

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JANUARY 2, 2022

Rituals can also be used by professionals to boost personal productivity because rituals capitalize on our brains’ ability to direct our behavior on autopilot, allowing us to reach our goals even when we are distracted or preoccupied with other things. I call it my “ To Do, To Done, Don’t Do, Reflection List.

Professional 100

Professional Facilitation Reflection Journal 100

Media Cause

JUNE 29, 2024

Real-Life Uses of AI for Nonprofits Donor Engagement : AI can personalize communications and predict future donations by analyzing donor data. Bloomerang: This tool helps nonprofits retain donors by analyzing engagement patterns and suggesting personalized communication strategies.

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Practice Nonprofit Proposal Advocacy 105

EveryAction

JUNE 8, 2023

Welcome to another installment of Thursday Thoughts, a dedicated space for our friends in nonprofit sector leadership to reflect on reports, statistics, and other trends—because when our community shares knowledge, we can all do more good. Find out what other groups they support to better target future online acquisition efforts.

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Advocacy Local Poll Audience 143

Blue Avocado

JANUARY 23, 2024

Often, this means conducting periodic focus groups, needs assessments, or surveys. Often, this means conducting periodic focus groups, needs assessments, or surveys. Create structure. Structure is crucial to developing and sustaining an effective advisory committee. However, structure does not have to mean rigidity.

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Voice Community Structure Nonprofit 89

Bloomerang

JUNE 5, 2024

Consider using scoring rubrics or structured interview protocols to standardize evaluations and minimize bias to keep things equitable. Dive into your personal and professional networks. Collaborate with professional associations, industry groups, and affinity networks relevant to your organization’s mission and sector.

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Director Guide Metrics Nonprofit 83

sgEngage

OCTOBER 9, 2023

You cannot have empowerment without participation: empowerment is not something we ‘do’ to other people, but is itself a participatory process that engages people in reflection and inquiry to understand the power they have, and to take action for change as they define it.”

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Participatory Evaluation Empowerment Grant 93

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

OCTOBER 28, 2013

These can help you predict whether participants will act on the training after the workshop: More than one person from an organization should participate so the ideas can be transferred to the whole organization. Participants should be encouraged to bring more than one person. Reflection. So, you have to design for that.

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Training Train Reflection Design 98

sgEngage

DECEMBER 18, 2023

We can learn through reflection and come to deeper understandings. However, in the push towards impact, philanthropy has adopted a laundry list of activities—landscape scans, focus groups, case studies, logic models—to help in figuring out what is important to know to “do good” better. Learning, we do naturally. Fast forward to today….

Knowledge 76

Knowledge Philanthropy Change Work 76

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MARCH 24, 2020

In the past, people have given side-eyes to using icebreakers or check-ins, one person even calling is “hippy touchy-feely s**t.” I am not suggesting that you make every meeting into a group therapy session. If you have a larger group, this can be done through the chat – asking folks to type in their introductions.

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Virtual Facilitation Exercise Train 132

Bloomerang

OCTOBER 30, 2023

Reflect and analyze Review your results from GivingTuesday , including the total amount raised, donor demographics, and the success of your different approaches and social media channels. Send personalized thank-you messages, emails, or letters to acknowledge their support—even if you have an automated email acknowledgement message.

Gift 81

Gift Mobile Phone Demographics 81

Candid

NOVEMBER 17, 2021

We reflected. At times those voices were passionately personal, at others they were mandates delivered through data. These grant forms enabled TAG to not only determine the level of overlap between questions (39 percent) but also to identify groups of shared questions. Within each group are form fields (i.e., We adapted.

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Grant Analysis Application Contact 98

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

AUGUST 27, 2010

The morning had two segments, beginning with content and small group exercises on several themes from the Networked Nonprofit including culture change , transparency , and simplicity. Geoff Livingston did a great job at live blogging the first section in the morning. Some Reflections. The Colorado Trust blog has notes here.).

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Reflection People Network Colorado 104

.orgSource

MARCH 14, 2023

Our members were privileged to hear their reflections on a unique time in their organizations’ history and how the pandemic’s impact reshaped their future. ENA members met exceptional challenges to their personal health and safety daily while being on the frontlines caring for patients of this indescribable pandemic.

Milwaukee 221

Milwaukee Story Share Wisconsin 221

Allegiance Group

OCTOBER 16, 2023

A great listener An experienced fundraiser Excells at setting and tracking metrics/ goals So, while your personal preferences may vary, the top qualities of a major gifts officer are pretty consistent. How do you ensure that your major donor communications are personalized and relevant?

Gift 52

Gift Interview Question Articulate 52

Get Fully Funded

FEBRUARY 1, 2022

If you’re reading this, you’re the kind of person who understands the importance of taking the right steps from the very beginning. Your local United Way or similar organization may have a bank of qualified people seeking Board roles, saving you some time and work to find the right person. Raise Awareness and Build Support.

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Nonprofit gMail Money Foundation 111

Neon CRM

JANUARY 19, 2024

Start by developing personalized communication strategies that resonate with your members. Your strategic plan should outline the issues that matter most to your members while also position your group as a credible and influential force. Start by outlining your organizational structures. Don’t stop there!

Associations 52

Associations Practice Strategy Leadership 52

Saleforce Nonprofit

NOVEMBER 22, 2022

The drivers of hunger include conflict, climate collapse, and chronic structural inequality that systematically excludes vulnerable communities from decision-making and benefits some to the detriment of most. Ending hunger requires changing political, economic, and social power structures. Hunger is not inevitable.

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Collaboration Challenge Hunger Kenya 75

sgEngage

OCTOBER 21, 2021

In the past I have been guilty of launching into end of year fundraising without reflecting upon the previous year. According to GivingTuesday’s survey of 2020 donors one in three people gave directly to a person in need rather than a charity ( “Giving in Unprecedented Times, GivingTuesday, 2020 ).

Lesson 101

Lesson Fundraising Attitude Celebrate 101

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

FEBRUARY 13, 2012

The After Action Review is a reflective practice that can be used for anything, but I find it especially valuable for social media pilots and experiments. The After Action Review (AAR) is a structured way to capture the lessons learned from any project, with the intent of improving future performance. What actually happened?

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Review Social Media Action Strategy 97

Bloomerang

AUGUST 21, 2023

Subsequent action steps are grouped according to your level of fundraising development: Getting Started, Advancement (somewhere further along), and Going from Good to Great. Embrace personalization : With the changes in donor expectations outlined in the report, prioritize the individualized touch in your fundraising communications.

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Action Report Practice Fundraising 75

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MARCH 13, 2018

Brainstorming can be done as a solo activity or group or collaborative brainstorming. Osborn outlines the essential rules of a successful group brainstorming session. The most critical thing that distinguishes brainstorming from other types of facilitated group activity is the absence negative feedback. What is Brainstorming?

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Facilitation Work Chart Technique 109

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JUNE 22, 2009

Of note, I wanted to let you know that the reflection paper about America's Giving Challenge from the Case Foundation has been published ( Allison Fine and I were the co-authors.) The winners had an inner circle of volunteers who outworked less successful groups not by a few but by hundreds of hours.

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America Social Network Challenge Reflection 91

CauseVox

JUNE 16, 2023

You know, a place that reflects who you are, where lifelong memories will be made, and where your bond as brothers and sisters will grow even stronger. These levels provide a clear structure for donors to understand how their contributions make a difference and encourage them to give at a level that feels meaningful to them.

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Pledge Fundraising Chapter Classes 79

CauseVox

JULY 18, 2023

Sample SMART fundraising goals Reflect on Your Focus Areas Begin by asking yourself some key questions related to your goals and focus areas. As you reflect on these questions, feel free to update the answers accordingly in your fundraising plan. Personalize Donor Communication No one wants an impersonal generic email.

Develop 81

Develop Fundraising Pledge Track 81

CauseVox

JULY 11, 2022

Once verified, the match was immediately reflected in their donation total. Sometimes, a company may have an in-kind request form that you can submit but it never hurts to personally reach out to local businesses. Peer-to-Peer Fundraising Structure. Example of a personal fundraising page tied to a team fundraising page).

Tips 77

Tips Fundraising Sponsor Org 77

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MAY 7, 2008

Last week was the first week of our workshop as laboratory and Brownyn offered her meta reflections here and Sus Nyrop shared her thoughts here and Nancy White here. The participants will write up some more formal reflections towards the end of this week. I followed to lead trip into the NpTech Tag Community.

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Reflection Nptech Tag Community 50

Bloomerang

JULY 24, 2021

For these people working in faith-based organizations , regardless of denomination, this work can also take on a highly personal meaning, not only for themselves, but also for the donors they work alongside. Faith-based giving can be deeply reflective of a person’s belief.

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Fund Raise Money Organization 122

sgEngage

JUNE 28, 2023

Like many diversity efforts, including women’s voices in grantmaking decisions—particularly women from historically marginalized groups—doesn’t often happen organically. So, G4CG set out to identify organizations that the group did trust and move money out to those organizations. It was about whether they trusted us.”

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Voice Strategy Mississippi Boston 73

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

OCTOBER 7, 2014

After finishing the share pairs, we did a quick full group “popcorn” of the ideas that bubbled up. How do we help individuals and organizations make that internal shift in mindset as well as structure for working to be effective? This allowed us to experience the whole design process – design a new wallet – and reflect on it.

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Design Course Leadership Network 107