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The Key to Great Year-End Fundraising? Your Brand.
Note from Beth: We are in the "dog days of summer," that quiet time of year when a lot of people are on vacation and we might catch a glimpse of the Perseid meteor shower lighting up the night skies. It is not only a time for rest and relaxation, it is also an important time to start thinking about your nonprofit's year-end fundraising campaign. This guest post from Big Duck reminds us why Branding is so important to the success of fundraising and some options to help you be successful. … [Read more...]
Giving Days and Beyond the Dollars: What Have We Learned?
For the past three years, I have had the honor of serving as the facilitator for the Knight Foundation Peer Learning Exchange for the Giving Day Initiative. Today, the Foundation has released a new report: “Beyond the Dollars: The Long-Term Value of Giving Days for Community Foundations," written by Third Plateau Social Impact Strategies. The findings of the report will be discussed during a virtual roundtable, Beyond the Dollars: Giving Days & Digital Data, in partnership with … [Read more...]
Designing Professional Development for the Distracted Learner
Bersin by Deloitte’s infographic “Meet the Modern Learner” is an excellent summary of the challenges facing trainers who need to design and deliver professional development for nonprofit professionals. Instructional design is knowing how to organize your content and shape exercises based on brain and learning research. This infographic is an insightful profile of the way people learn in the modern workplace. If you are designing and leading any type of training, take into account the current … [Read more...]
Taking a Break from Work: It Is Called A Vacation!
That's me on a Kayak on Monterrey Bay on the Coast of California getting eye level with some otters and harbor seals during my recent summer vacation, I literally contacted obx rentals a few days before leaving and I was able to get one of the nicest house aorund. As Aliza Sherman and I write in the Happy Healthy Nonprofit: Impact Without Burnout due out in the fall, taking breaks is critical to working at your optimal levels of focus and attention, productivity, and creative thinking as well as … [Read more...]
How To Incorporate More Movement Into Your Nonprofit Training
Designing and facilitating training (not matter the topic) is one of my passions and why I blog about it on a regular basis. I also love sharing techniques and tips with other trainers and often do "train the trainers" sessions as part of my practice. I recently submitted a proposal for NTEN's 2017 Nonprofit Technology Conference with colleagues Cindy Leonard, John Kenyon and Jeanne Allen called "Supercharge Your Technology Training," so please take a minute to vote for it. Good … [Read more...]
Pokemon Go and Nonprofits
Pokemon Go, the latest installment in the best-selling Pokémon video game series, launched as a smartphone app using augmented reality. It became an overnight viral sensation and cultural phenomena. Perhaps its appeal is an escape from all the bad things that are happening the world right now. Rather than chaining game players to their computer screens inside their houses, it sends players roaming their neighborhoods and communities to play the game. On the plus side, they are avoiding death … [Read more...]
Curiosity Kills Bad Work Habits
The topic of habit change is something that Aliza Sherman and I researched and experimented with as we wrote "The Happy Healthy Nonprofit: Impact without Burnout" over the last year. Habit change research was one of our favorite rabbit holes to explore. It lead us to discover the works of Gretchen Rubin, Charles Duhigg, BJ Fogg, and others. As we wrote chapters on the book, we examined our own unhealthy habits and experimented applying some of the methods. This recent article on INC by Emily … [Read more...]
New and Improved Data Visualization Tool: Maps for Media Funding
Nonprofit data nerds will love this new resource from Media Impact Funders and Foundation Center called "Foundation Maps for Media Funding," a free, interactive mapping and research tool that shows the full scope of philanthropically funded media projects worldwide since 2009. This version of the tool is a significant upgrade to the tool launched previously by Media Impact Funders. The tool is designed for funders, nonprofits, mission-driven media makers, journalists and philanthropic … [Read more...]
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