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Trainer's Notebook: The Digital Nonprofit: A Participatory Workshop
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. Just A Little Content To Get Started There are different ways to design a participatory workshop. It could be 100% in that participants provide the content by connecting with others and sharing experience and … [Read more...]
How Nonprofits Practice Continuous Improvement
I'm just back from spending a week in Bangkok, Thailand at the IFC-ASIA: Ecosystems for Good. 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. I also served on the program advisory committee. It was a lot of learning in a short time-period and I'll be unpacking and sharing … [Read more...]
Why Nonprofit Workplaces Are Stressful and What To Do About It
In light of the recent high profile suicides by Kate Spade and Anthony Bourdain, Vu Le wrote an excellent piece on what nonprofits need to know about mental illness. One of the points he brings up is the importance of creating an environment where life/work balance flourish. Overwork and stress can lead to burnout and depression and that can lead to even bigger problems. As a sector, we need to understand that working endlessly long hours is not productive. And here's a summary of the … [Read more...]
How to Design an Effective Nonprofit Staff Retreat: A Lesson from Life
Note from Beth: Blocking out time for your nonprofit's staff to do planning and work on areas like organizational culture is essential for success. Designing the meeting so it is effective and encourages team-building can be tricky. Here's some terrific advice from Sarah Axelson. How to Design an Effective Staff Retreat: A Lesson from Life - Guest Post by Sarah Axelson from ETR When is the last time your organization held a staff retreat? Did it help you accomplish your organizational … [Read more...]
How and Why Stories Can Bust Nonprofit Silos
Note from Beth: Digital storytelling is key to fundraising success, but using a storytelling lens in your organization can have further benefit of busting organizational silos. Miriam Brosseau and Stephanie Corleto share why. How and Why Stories Can Bust Nonprofit Silos - Guest Post by Miriam Brosseau and Stephanie Corleto Silos are for corn. Stories are for people. Fortunately, storytelling busts silos. Organizational silos are the bane of too many nonprofit communicators’ existences. … [Read more...]
A Culture of Wellbeing as a New Nonprofit Strength: Building Capacity During a Time of Disruption
Note from Beth: In my recent book, The Happy, Healthy Nonprofit and leading workshops for nonprofits all over the world on this topic, I continue to be passionate about the need to build resilient and sustainable nonprofit leaders and organizations. This is true now more than ever. And new report, The New Normal, spells out exactly why that is important A Culture of Wellbeing as a New Nonprofit Strength: Building Capacity During a Time of Disruption - guest post by Heather McLeod Grant, Adene … [Read more...]
Tips for Activating a Culture of Wellbeing in the Nonprofit Workplace
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. I also delivered a workshop to South Carolina nonprofits on the same topic hosted by Shine The Light, Nonprofit Forums. The participants were amazing and came up with some terrific strategies and action … [Read more...]
In Loving Memory of My Mom, Ruth D. Kanter (My Mom)
In Loving Memory of Ruth D. Kanter My mom passed away peacefully last month a few months shy of her 90th birthday. My mom was generous and supportive of everyone in her life and those less fortunate than her. Even though I lived 3,000 miles away, I was blessed to get to spend time with her in the last five years since my Dad died. Her memory is a blessing and my comfort is that she and my Dad (who were married for 60 years) are together again. To honor her memory, I'm raising money for NTEN to … [Read more...]
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