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Some Social Media Advice for Conan O'Brien: Be A Giver On #GivingTuesday
With this year's GivingTuesday less than a month away, there's lots of tips and best practices on how to leverage social media during the giving season both online and offline. Last night, Razoo, the social fundraising platform that is hosting a giving competition as part of Giving Tuesday hosted an event for SF nonprofits. After the event, a small group of ambassadors for Giving Tuesday met with Henry Timms who asked for our feedback and shared some wonderful stories about how this year's … [Read more...]
Trainer's Notebook: Finding Inspiration and New Ideas for Facilitation Techniques
Last week, during the Google hangout hosted by the Packard Foundation, someone asked me where I get all my ideas for designing and delivering training. Part of delivering instruction is being a good facilitation of people's learning and there is no better way to learn how to improve your own technique than watching world class facilitators in action. Yesterday, I had the pleasure of participating in a convening on "Data Informed Philanthropy" hosted by the Packard Foundation - not only was … [Read more...]
Keep Calm and Write It Down: How Reflective Practice Leads To Better Results for Nonprofit Giving Days
I'm facilitating a peer exchange for the Knight Foundation for a group of grantees that are hosting a Giving Days over the next year using its recently published Giving Day Playbook. The idea is not only for participants to acquire the skills and knowledge to host a successful giving day, but for them share and transform practices together. This is a design aspect called "Transformative Capacity Building," where a cohort of peer organizations come together to practice a skill and get better … [Read more...]
#GivingTuesday: How Sharing Best Practices Is Building A Global Philanthropic Movement
GivingTuesday, a day of giving at the start of the annual holiday season that celebrates and encourages charitable activities that support nonprofit organizations, will take place exactly 28 days or four more Tuesdays from today. GivingTuesday is building on the success of its first year -- moving from an grassroots-style event organized on a short time schedule to a global charity movement. Here's some indicators of the movement's growing success: Many Partners: GivingTuesday does not … [Read more...]
Lean Impact Series: 10 Changemakers Using Lean Startup Methods For Greater Social Impact
Note from Beth: Last week during the Google Hangout hosted by the Packard Foundation, someone asked me "What's Next?" After spending five years living and breathing networks and measurement and designing and delivering many, many nonprofit capacity building programs, my focus is going to be on how nonprofits can apply measurement and their networks to learn for impact. As part of this deep dive, I've been getting lots of inspiration from the start up and innovation movements here in … [Read more...]
Scary Nonprofit Contests, Social Media Content, and Campaigns: Happy Halloween!
Halloween offers a great hook for your nonprofit's content strategy, a campaign theme, or special fundraiser. You can also have some fun with your social media content. Judging by the data on this Infographic by HalloweenCostumes.com, people love to participate - from handing out candy, hosting parties, and dressing in costume. Here's a few examples of how nonprofits are scaring their supporters today! Every Halloween the Monterey Bay Aquarium offers these clever and fun cards for … [Read more...]
Guest Post: Celebrating Beth's Five Years As Visiting Scholar at the Packard Foundation
Click to See Larger Image and Scroll Note from Beth: Yesterday, I was the honored guest at a Google Hangout hosted by the Packard Foundation to celebrate the work that I have done over the last five years as Visiting Scholar at the Packard Foundation. It was wonderful to see colleagues in the room and online, reflect on the work, and talk about next steps. Kathy Reich, Director of Organizational Effectiveness Grantmaking at the David and Lucile Packard Foundation, write up this … [Read more...]
Ask Me Anything: Packard Foundation Hosting Google Hangout Today – Oct 29th at 3 PM PST
This is from a blog post by Luis Chabolla at the Community Foundation of Santa Cruz. I had the change to work with his organizations and many other Packard grantees during my four years as Visiting Scholar. I was only supposed to be there for nine months, but the interest from grantees and other capacity builders was strong. During my four years as Visiting Scholar with the Packard Foundation’s Organizational Effectiveness program I ended up writing two books with fabulous co-authors, Alison … [Read more...]
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