The first webinar in See3's diversity series discusses how to create inclusion strategies within your organization. Joined by Desiree Adaway of The Adaway Group.
This document discusses how nonprofits can use YouTube to raise money. It begins by introducing Michael Hoffman, CEO of See3, a digital agency that works with nonprofits. It then discusses how video is an effective fundraising tool, citing statistics about increased engagement and conversions when video is used. The rest of the document focuses on the donation card feature on YouTube, which allows viewers to donate to a nonprofit directly from a video. It highlights the benefits of the donation card in reducing friction between viewing emotional content and donating. The document concludes by providing resources for nonprofits on how to use and promote the donation card.
A winning website - Small charities communications conference, 11 July 2018CharityComms
The document discusses what makes a good charity website and provides examples. It establishes that websites should have clear goals for both the organization and users. These goals need to be balanced through user testing. Metrics should be used to measure performance and drive continuous evolution. Case studies are presented on how charities like the Lullaby Trust, Holocaust Memorial Day Trust, National Churches Trust, and Brain & Spine Foundation optimized their websites based on analytics. The presentation concludes with a question and answer session.
Communications for advocacy and campaigns - Small charities communications co...CharityComms
Jane Cox, director, Principle Consulting
Visit the CharityComms website to view slides from past events, see what events we have coming up and to check out what else we do: www.charitycomms.org.uk
How to Become a Social Good Volunteer Champion for #GivingTuesdayVolunteerMatch
It may come right after Black Friday and Cyber Monday, but #GivingTuesday is all about giving back to the causes we care about most. And volunteering can be a great way to do that.
As someone who cares enough to learn about #GivingTuesday, you can make even more of a difference by becoming a champion for your cause and gathering support. Join speakers from #GivingTuesday, Salesforce Foundation and VolunteerMatch for a special webinar to talk about ways you can organize your networks of family, friends, or even coworkers to make a big difference for your cause on #GivingTuesday.
You are more powerful than you realize – and by becoming a volunteer champion, you can harness that power to help the causes you care about most. Join us to learn how – and tell your friends!
Nonprofit Insights: Stories & Solutions Shaping the Future of Volunteer Scree...VolunteerMatch
It’s undeniable: vetting volunteers is essential in securing your nonprofit’s work.
The way in which you vet volunteers is equally as important. It could make all the difference as to whether a volunteer is mistakenly screened or not. It’s one reason why we’re sharing positive volunteer screening experiences and other stories of how crises happened or were averted from peers in the field.
How to Make Volunteering Work for All Your EmployeesVolunteerMatch
On June 13, 2017, VolunteerMatch and Bright Funds teamed up to discuss how to create a multi-faceted corporate volunteer program to engage all employees.
Leveraging Volunteer Talent for Organizational ChangeVolunteerMatch
Beth Steinhorn of JFFixler Group for VolunteerMatch
Organizations are recognizing that the old ways of doing business don’t work in this changing world. The good news is that today’s volunteers are interested in opportunities to help organizations innovate and pilot new ways of doing business. This webinar will explore how to engage volunteers as leaders of change. Learn where your organization is in its lifecycle and gain an appreciation for the importance of innovation in organizational sustainability. The webinar will also feature strategies for supporting volunteers and holding them accountable for change.
This document discusses how nonprofits can use YouTube to raise money. It begins by introducing Michael Hoffman, CEO of See3, a digital agency that works with nonprofits. It then discusses how video is an effective fundraising tool, citing statistics about increased engagement and conversions when video is used. The rest of the document focuses on the donation card feature on YouTube, which allows viewers to donate to a nonprofit directly from a video. It highlights the benefits of the donation card in reducing friction between viewing emotional content and donating. The document concludes by providing resources for nonprofits on how to use and promote the donation card.
A winning website - Small charities communications conference, 11 July 2018CharityComms
The document discusses what makes a good charity website and provides examples. It establishes that websites should have clear goals for both the organization and users. These goals need to be balanced through user testing. Metrics should be used to measure performance and drive continuous evolution. Case studies are presented on how charities like the Lullaby Trust, Holocaust Memorial Day Trust, National Churches Trust, and Brain & Spine Foundation optimized their websites based on analytics. The presentation concludes with a question and answer session.
Communications for advocacy and campaigns - Small charities communications co...CharityComms
Jane Cox, director, Principle Consulting
Visit the CharityComms website to view slides from past events, see what events we have coming up and to check out what else we do: www.charitycomms.org.uk
How to Become a Social Good Volunteer Champion for #GivingTuesdayVolunteerMatch
It may come right after Black Friday and Cyber Monday, but #GivingTuesday is all about giving back to the causes we care about most. And volunteering can be a great way to do that.
As someone who cares enough to learn about #GivingTuesday, you can make even more of a difference by becoming a champion for your cause and gathering support. Join speakers from #GivingTuesday, Salesforce Foundation and VolunteerMatch for a special webinar to talk about ways you can organize your networks of family, friends, or even coworkers to make a big difference for your cause on #GivingTuesday.
You are more powerful than you realize – and by becoming a volunteer champion, you can harness that power to help the causes you care about most. Join us to learn how – and tell your friends!
Nonprofit Insights: Stories & Solutions Shaping the Future of Volunteer Scree...VolunteerMatch
It’s undeniable: vetting volunteers is essential in securing your nonprofit’s work.
The way in which you vet volunteers is equally as important. It could make all the difference as to whether a volunteer is mistakenly screened or not. It’s one reason why we’re sharing positive volunteer screening experiences and other stories of how crises happened or were averted from peers in the field.
How to Make Volunteering Work for All Your EmployeesVolunteerMatch
On June 13, 2017, VolunteerMatch and Bright Funds teamed up to discuss how to create a multi-faceted corporate volunteer program to engage all employees.
Leveraging Volunteer Talent for Organizational ChangeVolunteerMatch
Beth Steinhorn of JFFixler Group for VolunteerMatch
Organizations are recognizing that the old ways of doing business don’t work in this changing world. The good news is that today’s volunteers are interested in opportunities to help organizations innovate and pilot new ways of doing business. This webinar will explore how to engage volunteers as leaders of change. Learn where your organization is in its lifecycle and gain an appreciation for the importance of innovation in organizational sustainability. The webinar will also feature strategies for supporting volunteers and holding them accountable for change.
This document provides guidance on writing effective fundraising appeals. It discusses individual giving in the US and strategies for crafting appeals that incorporate the principles of simplicity, unexpectedness, concreteness, credibility, emotion, stories, and success. These principles include keeping messages short and focused, surprising donors with new information, tying donations to tangible impacts, backing claims with data, eliciting emotion through stories, and highlighting past successes. The document also stresses the importance of thanking donors for their contributions.
The document provides information about Valley Gives, a fundraising campaign that raises money for nonprofits in the Pioneer Valley region. It discusses the goals of expanding philanthropy and helping organizations raise funds. Since 2012, Valley Gives has raised over $5.8 million from 24,000 donors for 559 nonprofits. The document then gives instructions for nonprofits to register and manage their organizational pages on the Valley Gives website. It provides tips for organizations to engage donors through stories, images, fundraising goals, and matching grants.
Social Media & Creating Impactful Recruitment MessagesVolunteerMatch
Social media is a great way to recruit volunteers, but you want to make sure you're creating great opportunities, and telling the whole story of volunteer engagement in your organization.
This document outlines strategies for nonprofit organizations to better segment their donor data to improve engagement. It discusses:
1. Segmenting donors based on giving history, including total lifetime giving, number of gifts, and whether they gave during a past campaign.
2. Actions organizations can take now to segment data for personalized outreach, such as sorting by total giving, number of gifts, and demographic information.
3. Longer-term strategies for improved data segmentation, like ensuring all relevant constituent groups are included in the database, cleaning the data, tracking important metrics, establishing standards, and training staff.
The goal is to leverage segmentation to better understand donors and strengthen relationships.
How nonprofits win with word of mouth marketing Darren Barefoot
If you only engage in ordinary outreach activities – petition asks, email marketing and Google AdWord buys – you won't get noticed in a busy landscape where every nonprofit is vying for attention and support. Why? When everyone does the same thing, no one organization shines.
Truly remarkable organizations get their marketing done for them – for free – by their most excited, committed, passionate and devoted fans. They earn it by providing exceptional member experiences, by being unique, bold and creative. Word-of-mouth isn't just about one-off gimmicks or "viral" campaigns. It's an overall approach to movement building based on a new online reality where everyday people have become the most powerful marketing department on the planet.
In this session, we'll discuss how nonprofits and charities are creating remarkable online campaigns based on the theory and philosophy of movement marketing. You'll learn from experienced practitioners how to augment limited budgets with creativity and technology that will help your nonprofit get talked about.
Nonprofit Insights: A 360-Degree View of Corporate-Nonprofit Partnerships - P...VolunteerMatch
In September, 2013, VolunteerMatch hosted a webinar that covered the key ingredients for a successful corporate-nonprofit volunteer partnership. The session was so popular, we've brought you back for round two! In this special session dive into how nonprofits and businesses can increase both the breadth and depth of these cross-sector relationships.
Join VolunteerMatch for a special joint edition of the Nonprofit Insights and Best Practice Network webinar series, as we welcome back three experts in corporate-nonprofit partnerships who present from multiple perspectives: Nonprofit consultant Mazarine Treyz represents the small nonprofit viewpoint, Desiree Adaway of The Adaway Group provides the voice of large organizations, and Amanda Lenaghan from the Charles Schwab Foundation presents the corporate angle.
Viewers walk away with new knowledge, practical strategies and tactics, as well as concrete resources and handouts. Whether you work at a nonprofit or a corporation, this webinar will enable you to move your program to the next level through successful partnerships.
Creating Virtual Opportunities & Engaging Remote Volunteers - Part 1VolunteerMatch
Beginning to incorporate virtual volunteer opportunities into your volunteer engagement program can be tricky. But, by thinking creatively, embracing technology, and creating screening, training and retention plans built specifically for remote volunteers, you can engage volunteers with the talents you need even if they're on the other side of the state, the country or the world! Join Jennifer Bennett and Deanna Cole as they discuss best practices for creating successful virtual opportunities, and building and managing relationships with remote volunteers. Part II will build on these concepts and discuss in more detail managing remote volunteers. Sample position descriptions and recruitment messages will be provided. While it is strongly encouraged and extremely beneficial to attend both Part I and Part II of this series, attending both is not required.
The Power of WHY: The Key to Uniting Employees Around Your Company Vision [Ma...VolunteerMatch
What separates successful, innovative corporate responsibility programs from the status quo? The answer may be simpler than you think.
On March 18th, 2016, Stephanie Staidle, founder of The Right Brain Entrepreneur joined VolunteerMatch to explore The Power of Why: The Key to Uniting Employees Around Your Company Vision. In this complimentary webinar, attendees learned how to unite employees around your company vision and inspire them to take part in your cause work. How? By understanding and using your company's "why".
This document outlines a two-pronged digital engagement strategy consisting of "Heartbeats" and "Remarkables".
Heartbeats are regular, foundational engagement activities like website content, email marketing, and social media updates that connect a brand to its community. Remarkables are attention-grabbing initiatives that inspire action and connect with influencers through novel mediums and user contributions.
When used together, Heartbeats and Remarkables can strengthen a brand's online presence, increase word-of-mouth marketing, and engage customers at different levels of an "Engagement Pyramid" from core fans to casual audiences. The strategy requires great shareable content, some budget, engaged community members, and staff resources
Purpose Driven Corporate Social Responsibility is Not a Myth (+ Proof!)!VolunteerMatch
How do you balance purpose and corporate responsibility? And how do directives from leadership fit into your employee volunteer program goals? Last (but certainly not least), how do you create a program that’s inclusive of employee wants? If this feels like a lot to juggle, you’re not alone.
In July 2015, LinkedIn reached an important milestone: more than 25 million members had added the Volunteer and Causes section to their LinkedIn profiles. This is a reflection of the extraordinary appetite of professionals – partly driven by the Millennial generation - to use their skills to impact the world. In this session at the 2015 VolunteerMatch Summit, Meg Garlinghouse, Head of LinkedIn for Good, shared trends and insights on and related to skills based volunteering.
How to Market Your Nonprofit's Impact to Maximize Your Fundraising ROIHubSpot
This document summarizes a presentation about marketing nonprofit impact to maximize fundraising returns. It discusses why people give (emotionally or as informed investors), retaining donors through the donor funnel, and case studies of charities that effectively communicate impact. The presentation emphasizes telling a compelling story that appeals to emotion and intellect, highlighting tangible impact through metrics, building community, and using a narrative arc in communications. Key tactics include email marketing, video, social media, and online fundraising.
Wild Apricot Expert Webinar Series: How to Build an Amazing Volunteer Recruit...Wild Apricot
Barry Altland, author and volunteer recruitment expert, reveals powerful everyday techniques for building an organization of passionate, dedicated and motivated volunteers.
How to integrate social media with PR, communications, and crisis management,...SocialMedia.org
In her presentation, Ariba's Senior Manager of Social & Community, Debbie Curtis-Magley, teaches a class on how to use social channels to complement your core communications functions.
She goes into detail about how social media can help you react and respond to critical crisis, employees misbehaving, and customer chaos.
Stories from the Frontline Tourism - 2015Kemp Edmonds
Kemp Edmonds gave a presentation on social media marketing tactics and tools. He began with an introduction and background. The presentation covered the state of social media including growth in networks, participants, and content. It discussed how social media is becoming the new front door for businesses and how marketers face new challenges in reaching audiences and driving business objectives through social. The presentation provided examples of social media marketing tactics and highlighted features of the Hootsuite platform for social media management, including offerings for different maturity levels and a hands-on demo.
Solving the Two-Sided Challenge of "Going Beyond the Check"VolunteerMatch
The document summarizes a presentation given at the VolunteerMatch Summit on December 1-2, 2015. The presentation focused on ConAgra Foods' Hunger Volunteer Connection initiative, which aims to strengthen nonprofit capacity and engage 500,000 volunteer hours by 2018 to fight hunger. The initiative will develop tools and resources, conduct outreach, and build collaboration between partners. A key part is the hungervolunteer.org website to connect volunteers with opportunities. The VolunteerMatch Program Improvement Tool was spotlighted to help nonprofits benchmark and improve their volunteer programs. Feedback indicated the tool is useful for identifying areas of growth.
Changing Corporate Perspectives: Workplace Volunteer Programs - June 2015 BPN...VolunteerMatch
Are you eager to start a Workplace Volunteer Program, but wonder how you’ll get the rest of your company on board? Luckily, the notion of corporate social responsibility (CSR) is changing, and it’s becoming an easier sell to do good. Not only are nonprofit organizations becoming more savvy corporate partners, but companies are beginning to see a shared purpose in volunteer partnerships.
In this month’s Best Practice Network (BPN) Webinar, we’ll hear from Angela Parker and Chris Jarvis, co-founders of Realized Worth. Their years of experience in the corporate volunteerism field will lend to their discussion of the trends and challenges they’re seeing, recommendations on how to inspire employees to volunteer, and the corporation’s role in a higher calling. Their stories will energize you to launch the perfect workplace volunteer program for your company.
How Top Nonprofits Drive Traffic to Their Websites [WEBINAR]WeDidIt
Learn how organizations like AARP, Wikipedia, and WWF drive traffic to their sites and appeal pages.
Struggling to get traffic to your nonprofit’s website? Does it feel like no one is listening or reading when you publish new material?
You’re not alone! Plenty of nonprofits struggle with grabbing a share of attention in a very crowded online world.
So how do you rise above the noise and drive traffic to your org’s content and online fundraising appeals?
You need the right plan!
Join us for a free webinar, “How Top Nonprofits Drive Traffic To Their Websites” and learn the how and why of getting your organization’s web content in front of a bigger audience.
See3 Chicago Philanthropy Club: Social Media Storytelling for NonprofitsSee3 Communications
Social media is a growing channel for nonprofit engagement and fundraising. It allows organizations to tell their story, create conversations with supporters, and empower advocates to share the cause. Effective social media use involves listening to supporters, building relationships, and driving traffic to donation forms and other calls to action. Key platforms like Facebook, Twitter, and YouTube can be leveraged through video, custom tabs, events, and paid advertising to engage new audiences and increase fundraising. Nonprofits should develop social media policies and integrate social strategies with broader campaigns.
Put Your Audience First: How to Build an Effective PersonaSee3 Communications
Does your nonprofit understand its target audience? Whether you're looking to connect with potential donors, rally supporters behind your cause, or persuade lawmakers on Capitol Hill, your organization needs to deliver messages and content that prompt the recipient to take action. Yet, all too often, we produce content that sounds like it's produced for ourselves, rather than the people we're looking to reach.
Join See3 and former Chronicle of Philanthropy managing editor Peter Panepento for a lively webinar that will help your organization identify, profile, and reach its target audience. We will walk you through the process of creating effective audience personas that will guide your messaging and inspire action.
This document provides guidance on writing effective fundraising appeals. It discusses individual giving in the US and strategies for crafting appeals that incorporate the principles of simplicity, unexpectedness, concreteness, credibility, emotion, stories, and success. These principles include keeping messages short and focused, surprising donors with new information, tying donations to tangible impacts, backing claims with data, eliciting emotion through stories, and highlighting past successes. The document also stresses the importance of thanking donors for their contributions.
The document provides information about Valley Gives, a fundraising campaign that raises money for nonprofits in the Pioneer Valley region. It discusses the goals of expanding philanthropy and helping organizations raise funds. Since 2012, Valley Gives has raised over $5.8 million from 24,000 donors for 559 nonprofits. The document then gives instructions for nonprofits to register and manage their organizational pages on the Valley Gives website. It provides tips for organizations to engage donors through stories, images, fundraising goals, and matching grants.
Social Media & Creating Impactful Recruitment MessagesVolunteerMatch
Social media is a great way to recruit volunteers, but you want to make sure you're creating great opportunities, and telling the whole story of volunteer engagement in your organization.
This document outlines strategies for nonprofit organizations to better segment their donor data to improve engagement. It discusses:
1. Segmenting donors based on giving history, including total lifetime giving, number of gifts, and whether they gave during a past campaign.
2. Actions organizations can take now to segment data for personalized outreach, such as sorting by total giving, number of gifts, and demographic information.
3. Longer-term strategies for improved data segmentation, like ensuring all relevant constituent groups are included in the database, cleaning the data, tracking important metrics, establishing standards, and training staff.
The goal is to leverage segmentation to better understand donors and strengthen relationships.
How nonprofits win with word of mouth marketing Darren Barefoot
If you only engage in ordinary outreach activities – petition asks, email marketing and Google AdWord buys – you won't get noticed in a busy landscape where every nonprofit is vying for attention and support. Why? When everyone does the same thing, no one organization shines.
Truly remarkable organizations get their marketing done for them – for free – by their most excited, committed, passionate and devoted fans. They earn it by providing exceptional member experiences, by being unique, bold and creative. Word-of-mouth isn't just about one-off gimmicks or "viral" campaigns. It's an overall approach to movement building based on a new online reality where everyday people have become the most powerful marketing department on the planet.
In this session, we'll discuss how nonprofits and charities are creating remarkable online campaigns based on the theory and philosophy of movement marketing. You'll learn from experienced practitioners how to augment limited budgets with creativity and technology that will help your nonprofit get talked about.
Nonprofit Insights: A 360-Degree View of Corporate-Nonprofit Partnerships - P...VolunteerMatch
In September, 2013, VolunteerMatch hosted a webinar that covered the key ingredients for a successful corporate-nonprofit volunteer partnership. The session was so popular, we've brought you back for round two! In this special session dive into how nonprofits and businesses can increase both the breadth and depth of these cross-sector relationships.
Join VolunteerMatch for a special joint edition of the Nonprofit Insights and Best Practice Network webinar series, as we welcome back three experts in corporate-nonprofit partnerships who present from multiple perspectives: Nonprofit consultant Mazarine Treyz represents the small nonprofit viewpoint, Desiree Adaway of The Adaway Group provides the voice of large organizations, and Amanda Lenaghan from the Charles Schwab Foundation presents the corporate angle.
Viewers walk away with new knowledge, practical strategies and tactics, as well as concrete resources and handouts. Whether you work at a nonprofit or a corporation, this webinar will enable you to move your program to the next level through successful partnerships.
Creating Virtual Opportunities & Engaging Remote Volunteers - Part 1VolunteerMatch
Beginning to incorporate virtual volunteer opportunities into your volunteer engagement program can be tricky. But, by thinking creatively, embracing technology, and creating screening, training and retention plans built specifically for remote volunteers, you can engage volunteers with the talents you need even if they're on the other side of the state, the country or the world! Join Jennifer Bennett and Deanna Cole as they discuss best practices for creating successful virtual opportunities, and building and managing relationships with remote volunteers. Part II will build on these concepts and discuss in more detail managing remote volunteers. Sample position descriptions and recruitment messages will be provided. While it is strongly encouraged and extremely beneficial to attend both Part I and Part II of this series, attending both is not required.
The Power of WHY: The Key to Uniting Employees Around Your Company Vision [Ma...VolunteerMatch
What separates successful, innovative corporate responsibility programs from the status quo? The answer may be simpler than you think.
On March 18th, 2016, Stephanie Staidle, founder of The Right Brain Entrepreneur joined VolunteerMatch to explore The Power of Why: The Key to Uniting Employees Around Your Company Vision. In this complimentary webinar, attendees learned how to unite employees around your company vision and inspire them to take part in your cause work. How? By understanding and using your company's "why".
This document outlines a two-pronged digital engagement strategy consisting of "Heartbeats" and "Remarkables".
Heartbeats are regular, foundational engagement activities like website content, email marketing, and social media updates that connect a brand to its community. Remarkables are attention-grabbing initiatives that inspire action and connect with influencers through novel mediums and user contributions.
When used together, Heartbeats and Remarkables can strengthen a brand's online presence, increase word-of-mouth marketing, and engage customers at different levels of an "Engagement Pyramid" from core fans to casual audiences. The strategy requires great shareable content, some budget, engaged community members, and staff resources
Purpose Driven Corporate Social Responsibility is Not a Myth (+ Proof!)!VolunteerMatch
How do you balance purpose and corporate responsibility? And how do directives from leadership fit into your employee volunteer program goals? Last (but certainly not least), how do you create a program that’s inclusive of employee wants? If this feels like a lot to juggle, you’re not alone.
In July 2015, LinkedIn reached an important milestone: more than 25 million members had added the Volunteer and Causes section to their LinkedIn profiles. This is a reflection of the extraordinary appetite of professionals – partly driven by the Millennial generation - to use their skills to impact the world. In this session at the 2015 VolunteerMatch Summit, Meg Garlinghouse, Head of LinkedIn for Good, shared trends and insights on and related to skills based volunteering.
How to Market Your Nonprofit's Impact to Maximize Your Fundraising ROIHubSpot
This document summarizes a presentation about marketing nonprofit impact to maximize fundraising returns. It discusses why people give (emotionally or as informed investors), retaining donors through the donor funnel, and case studies of charities that effectively communicate impact. The presentation emphasizes telling a compelling story that appeals to emotion and intellect, highlighting tangible impact through metrics, building community, and using a narrative arc in communications. Key tactics include email marketing, video, social media, and online fundraising.
Wild Apricot Expert Webinar Series: How to Build an Amazing Volunteer Recruit...Wild Apricot
Barry Altland, author and volunteer recruitment expert, reveals powerful everyday techniques for building an organization of passionate, dedicated and motivated volunteers.
How to integrate social media with PR, communications, and crisis management,...SocialMedia.org
In her presentation, Ariba's Senior Manager of Social & Community, Debbie Curtis-Magley, teaches a class on how to use social channels to complement your core communications functions.
She goes into detail about how social media can help you react and respond to critical crisis, employees misbehaving, and customer chaos.
Stories from the Frontline Tourism - 2015Kemp Edmonds
Kemp Edmonds gave a presentation on social media marketing tactics and tools. He began with an introduction and background. The presentation covered the state of social media including growth in networks, participants, and content. It discussed how social media is becoming the new front door for businesses and how marketers face new challenges in reaching audiences and driving business objectives through social. The presentation provided examples of social media marketing tactics and highlighted features of the Hootsuite platform for social media management, including offerings for different maturity levels and a hands-on demo.
Solving the Two-Sided Challenge of "Going Beyond the Check"VolunteerMatch
The document summarizes a presentation given at the VolunteerMatch Summit on December 1-2, 2015. The presentation focused on ConAgra Foods' Hunger Volunteer Connection initiative, which aims to strengthen nonprofit capacity and engage 500,000 volunteer hours by 2018 to fight hunger. The initiative will develop tools and resources, conduct outreach, and build collaboration between partners. A key part is the hungervolunteer.org website to connect volunteers with opportunities. The VolunteerMatch Program Improvement Tool was spotlighted to help nonprofits benchmark and improve their volunteer programs. Feedback indicated the tool is useful for identifying areas of growth.
Changing Corporate Perspectives: Workplace Volunteer Programs - June 2015 BPN...VolunteerMatch
Are you eager to start a Workplace Volunteer Program, but wonder how you’ll get the rest of your company on board? Luckily, the notion of corporate social responsibility (CSR) is changing, and it’s becoming an easier sell to do good. Not only are nonprofit organizations becoming more savvy corporate partners, but companies are beginning to see a shared purpose in volunteer partnerships.
In this month’s Best Practice Network (BPN) Webinar, we’ll hear from Angela Parker and Chris Jarvis, co-founders of Realized Worth. Their years of experience in the corporate volunteerism field will lend to their discussion of the trends and challenges they’re seeing, recommendations on how to inspire employees to volunteer, and the corporation’s role in a higher calling. Their stories will energize you to launch the perfect workplace volunteer program for your company.
How Top Nonprofits Drive Traffic to Their Websites [WEBINAR]WeDidIt
Learn how organizations like AARP, Wikipedia, and WWF drive traffic to their sites and appeal pages.
Struggling to get traffic to your nonprofit’s website? Does it feel like no one is listening or reading when you publish new material?
You’re not alone! Plenty of nonprofits struggle with grabbing a share of attention in a very crowded online world.
So how do you rise above the noise and drive traffic to your org’s content and online fundraising appeals?
You need the right plan!
Join us for a free webinar, “How Top Nonprofits Drive Traffic To Their Websites” and learn the how and why of getting your organization’s web content in front of a bigger audience.
See3 Chicago Philanthropy Club: Social Media Storytelling for NonprofitsSee3 Communications
Social media is a growing channel for nonprofit engagement and fundraising. It allows organizations to tell their story, create conversations with supporters, and empower advocates to share the cause. Effective social media use involves listening to supporters, building relationships, and driving traffic to donation forms and other calls to action. Key platforms like Facebook, Twitter, and YouTube can be leveraged through video, custom tabs, events, and paid advertising to engage new audiences and increase fundraising. Nonprofits should develop social media policies and integrate social strategies with broader campaigns.
Put Your Audience First: How to Build an Effective PersonaSee3 Communications
Does your nonprofit understand its target audience? Whether you're looking to connect with potential donors, rally supporters behind your cause, or persuade lawmakers on Capitol Hill, your organization needs to deliver messages and content that prompt the recipient to take action. Yet, all too often, we produce content that sounds like it's produced for ourselves, rather than the people we're looking to reach.
Join See3 and former Chronicle of Philanthropy managing editor Peter Panepento for a lively webinar that will help your organization identify, profile, and reach its target audience. We will walk you through the process of creating effective audience personas that will guide your messaging and inspire action.
This document introduces a model for creating anti-oppressive and racially equitable organizational change. It provides biographies of the two facilitators, Joy Bailey and Derrick Dawson, who have extensive experience in education, community organizing, and anti-racism work. It then outlines four approaches to social change and defines racism as the combination of race prejudice and the misuse of power by systems and institutions. Finally, it lists seven organizing principles for transforming an institution into an anti-racist, multicultural organization through long-term, systemic change led from within by trained leadership teams.
At See3, we know making your constituents feel like their voices are heard is crucial to moving your mission forward. Ten years into the social media revolution, people are using social media to speak, but organizations aren’t listening.
In this webinar, Allison Fine will discuss her new book, Matterness: What Fearless Leaders Know About the Power and Promise of Social Media, which focuses on how to make people on the inside and outside matter more to your efforts. Those organizations that continue to work and talk at, rather than with, their constituents will find themselves increasingly irrelevant. Organizational leaders need all of the great energy, know-how, creativity, and networks of their people in their ecosystems to be successful.
Key Takeaways:
- Clear and easy steps for increasing the Matterness in your organization
- A demystification of common and outsized fears that organizations have about the world
- An understanding and need to switch the organizational lens from fear to abundance and from the inside-out to the outside-in
Picking someone to collaborate with your organization on important projects shouldn't boil down to single proposal. In this webinar, See3 gives you a strategy to help define your organization's needs, develop relationships with potential partners, and pick the best vendor to assist with your next project.
Brandraising: How to Create Relationship-Building CommunicationsSee3 Communications
This document summarizes a presentation about branding and fundraising for nonprofits called "Brandraising". It discusses how branding can help nonprofits achieve their goals like fundraising, advocacy, and awareness. Brandraising is using branding to drive fundraising results. If done effectively, branding and rebranding through elements like positioning, personality, visual identity, and messaging can help nonprofits move donors up a ladder of engagement and achieve results like increased donations.
This document discusses best practices for nonprofit organizations to engage with the U.S. Hispanic market through digital marketing. It emphasizes that the Hispanic market values family, loyalty and religion. To effectively reach this audience, a nonprofit must have credible and authentic narrators, culturally relevant content focused on emotion and experience, and engage the audience through appropriate digital platforms and nuanced language. The document provides tips like focusing on culture, targeting the right segments, embracing digital, and consistently measuring efforts. It challenges nonprofits to reflect on how they can authentically engage the Hispanic community.
Content Marketing for Social Good will help you create a strategy for your nonprofit or social cause that uses great content to drive your supporters to action. We'll help you identify your mission, audience, content themes and give you tips for assembling a content creation framework within your organization.
This document discusses using crowd funding and social media for nonprofit fundraising. It provides tips on launching a crowdfunding campaign, including defining clear goals and deadlines, telling compelling stories, being creative with images and videos, promoting through various channels, actively engaging on social media, and thanking donors. Specific examples are given of successful crowdfunding campaigns and how to leverage social networks, influencers, and multichannel efforts to maximize fundraising results through crowd funding and social media.
As YouTube continues to release new features for the nonprofit community, it’s becoming clear that every organization must develop a YouTube strategy.
Michael Hoffman discusses the technical, the strategic, and the creative sides of YouTube for Nonprofits.
For more than a decade, Brent Royer led video marketing strategy and media production for ALSAC/St. Jude Children’s Research Hospital, the nation’s second-largest healthcare charity.
In this webinar, he'll tell you how to create and distribute video that will help your organization increase donors, spread awareness and make an impact.
Everyone loves a good nonprofit video, but a video is meaningless if it doesn't help you meet your organizational goals - build awareness, reach new supporters, raise money. While we know there's no magic formula to turn a good video into dollars, we'll demonstrate examples and best practices in video fundraising. In this session, you'll walk away understanding how video fits into your overall fundraising program and how nonprofits have successfully leveraged video to fundraise for their cause.
More info: http://www.see3.net/event/how-nonprofits-can-use-video-fundraise-webinar
Diversity & Inclusion- Lets Not make it Another Empty PhraseGladys Carrillo, MPA
Did you know that diverse and inclusive teams make better business decisions? Well, if you didn't, now you do! Furthermore, studies show that the decisions made and executed by diverse teams deliver 60% better results.
So if you're not only looking for ways to capitalize on diversity in the workplace, but also a ways to show that honoring diversity is a foundational value for your organization, I invite you to read on. In this article I share a few steps to ensure inclusion success in the workplace.
Human Resources: Insights from the Field (Jeff Kiely)nado-web
Jeff Kiely shares insights from his 29 years of experience leading regional development organizations. He discusses the importance of human resources as an organization's top asset and emphasizes selecting talented and motivated employees. Kiely also stresses developing employees through onboarding, managing, and ongoing training to polish this valuable asset. Some key lessons include focusing on personal connections with employees, nurturing a supportive work environment, prioritizing the organization's mission, and ensuring clear and considerate communication.
Hear from Nexus' new CEO, Dr. Michelle K. Murray, on her leadership style and what the organization can expect in the years to come. This issue also includes articles on how to be heard at work, budgeting, Nexus COA re-accreditation process, the upcoming legislative session, and Nexus' 7th Annual Conference.
This document discusses inclusive leadership and defines what it means. It provides three key points:
1. Inclusive leaders get the best from all their people by building diverse teams, which increases performance, innovation, and engagement.
2. Leading inclusively across differences is essential for organizations to succeed today. Unless leaders can work effectively with diverse groups, organizations will not achieve their full potential.
3. There are three core competencies of inclusive leaders - adaptability, developing diverse talent, and building inclusive relationships. The document describes each competency in further detail.
The document discusses finding and using one's voice to inspire and lead others. It begins by outlining the pain of people feeling unfulfilled at work, and proposes the solution is transcending negative mindsets like ego and competitiveness. It then discusses discovering one's voice through gifts like free will and different types of intelligence. Expressing one's voice involves developing energy into vision, discipline, passion and conscience. The leadership challenge is enabling people to realize their potential by contributing their talents and passion. Leaders must model the four intelligences and empower others while holding them accountable. The document emphasizes the importance of trustworthiness, communication, and blending voices to find third alternatives. It discusses pathfinding a shared vision and executing through alignment,
Octalysis Level 1 Certificate - Colin Hahn - Association for Talent DevelopmentYu-kai Chou
This document provides an analysis of the Southeastern Wisconsin chapter of the Association for Talent Development (SEWI-ATD). It summarizes the chapter's background, current experience, key business metrics, player types, and desired actions. It then identifies gaps in engaging the top priority player type of "Old Hats" and brainstorms potential new features to close those gaps, focusing on drives like curiosity, relationships, and achievement. The goal is to provide world-class professional development for the talent development community in the greater Milwaukee area.
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This document provides information about an upcoming meeting of the ICF Colorado chapter on February 7, 2013. The meeting will feature a presentation on Appreciative Inquiry by Amanda Trosten-Bloom. Special Interest Group meetings will be held before the general meeting. Opportunities are also listed to get involved with the ICF Colorado Board of Directors or Meetup Groups. Details are provided about the speaker, meeting registration, and contact information.
This document discusses diversity in organizations. It defines diversity as differences among people in both observable characteristics like race, gender, and age, as well as unobservable deep-level characteristics like values and personalities. It outlines the types of diversity as surface-level, including physical attributes, and deep-level, including goals and decision-making styles. Benefits of workforce diversity include increased productivity, creativity, and market share, while negatives can include conflicts and disunity. Managing diversity requires addressing generation gaps, gender differences, disability access, sexual orientation, intellectual abilities, and individual values through training, policies, infrastructure, and giving freedom to individuals.
Executive Director Essentials: Effective Team DevelopmentAH
Whether you are tasked with building a management team for your organization or filling seats on a volunteer board, the tips presented in this webinar will guide you through the process to make sure that you’re making sound decisions based on knowledge and experience, rather than timing and costs.
Following this webinar, attendees will:
•Understand how to create an accountability chart
•Know how to fill the seats you have with the right talent
•Understand how to conduct meaningful meetings and deal with healthy conflict
•Learn how to incorporate culture into the team building process
•Measure success
Anna Taylor (Speaker) West Coast DEI Lead, VMLY&R
Demographic transference within organizations is shifting and there will continue to be an upsurge of more diverse and inclusive organizations as they outperform homogeneous organizations. But this is a slow progression, where can we start making organizational transformation now? We can start from the bottom; employees have more power than they may realize, to affect change. And although this may seem like a daunting call-to-action, employees have the power irrespective of budget or team size, to make an indelible impact on organizational change. Like many effectual grassroots movements, employees have the ability to create a new model that renders the existing model obsolete and lead the evolution of organizational transformation.
Rosalee Laws has extensive experience as an instructor, consultant, and leader across many industries. Her resume details her work providing online courses and private instruction, as well as consulting for organizations on communications, project management, and business strategy. She has expertise developing curriculum, training staff, and helping clients achieve their goals.
This document contains a self-assessment for a board member to evaluate their competencies, attributes, knowledge of their role, and expertise to serve on the board. It includes sections to rate skills like communication, problem solving, and leadership. It also has the board member describe their experience, location, interests and availability. Finally, it includes a "Board Skills Matrix" for the member to rate their expertise in areas like finance, operations, and stakeholder management to identify strengths and gaps. The self-assessment aims to help the board member understand how they can best contribute and identify areas for development.
Affirming and enabling diversity, equity, and inclusioneph-hr
Many people assume that workplace diversity is only about increasing racial, national, gender, or class representation in our workforce. A diverse workforce embodies varied perspectives and approaches to work that members of different identity groups bring. At this program, we’ll discuss how to create a diverse, equitable, and inclusive workplace as well as some of the legal parameters that guide our work.
Research demonstrates that we all harbor unconscious biases. The good news is that enhanced awareness and training can create an inclusive culture that identifies and helps eliminate these hidden biases.
Managing Conflict During (and After) Non-profit Mergers and Collaborations4Good.org
This document summarizes a webinar on managing conflict during and after nonprofit mergers and collaborations. The webinar addressed the top three causes of conflict as underestimating complexity, differences in organizational culture, and poor communication. It provided tips for managing conflict constructively, including listening without judgment, understanding multiple perspectives, and addressing the interrelated issues of organizational culture, communication, and conflict management. The goal is to create a new, stronger combined culture through open discussion of challenges and differences.
The document is a presentation on leadership skills by Shamsuddin Bolatito for the Council For Young Africans in Khartoum, Sudan. It discusses what leadership skills are, including the abilities to inspire others through integrity, vision, courage and loyalty. It also examines the difference between managers and leaders, different leadership styles, the importance of delegation, and concludes with advice on how to be a transformational leader.
This document provides a self-assessment tool to help nonprofits evaluate their progress towards diversity and inclusivity. It addresses key questions like who the community served is, how the organization reflects that community, and actions to reduce barriers. Nonprofits are encouraged to use the tool to spark conversations and identify action steps. The tool contains questions on defining diversity, serving diverse communities, examining reasons for seeking diversity, and aligning policies and practices with diversity goals. Organizations should review the tool carefully, seek legal advice, and maintain anonymity regarding protected classes. The goal is for nonprofits to gain insight and commit to priorities and timelines for increasing their commitment to diversity.
This document outlines a 3-session board development course that covers the cycle of board recruitment and management. It discusses developing a board development committee and conducting a needs assessment. It also covers identifying and cultivating potential board members, orienting and engaging new members, providing training, evaluating performance, and planning for board member rotation.
This document discusses strategies for engaging boomer volunteers and adapting volunteer programs. It notes that boomers expect to work past 65 and see retirement as a time for renewal rather than rest. To attract boomers, volunteer opportunities should offer flexibility, a variety of options, engage skills and expertise, and show impact. Meeting structures should move from committees to task forces and project teams. Leadership teams are recommended over boards to provide strategic planning and action. The document provides examples of developing project teams for a membership drive and author event fundraising. It stresses evaluating projects, continuous support for volunteers, and database management.
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Looking for a proven way to boost your organization's fundraising, donor retention, email signups, and more? With Personalized Video, one compelling video becomes thousands of personalized ones - leading to greater viewer engagement.
Join See3 and the Alzheimer’s Association to learn the science behind why personalization markedly increases donations and engagement through individual viewer connection. We also take a look at how the Alzheimer's Association successfully uses Personalized Video for two annual events, the Walk to End Alzheimer’s and The Longest Day, leading to substantial increases in fundraising success.
Featuring:
- See3 CEO Michael Hoffman
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Stories Matter: Equity in Storytelling for the Digital AgeSee3 Communications
Video and other digital storytelling are critical tools for nonprofits as they seek to communicate, educate, and fundraise. But storytelling also represent a minefield for organizations seeking to promote racial equity and diversity. Organizational stories can reinforce existing biases or become critical tools in the fight for inclusion.
How do we manage these challenges? How does our storytelling relate to our overall work in promoting equity and diversity?
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In this session from the University of Chicago's 2017 OnBoard conference, you will learn how to move beyond a typical mission statement to crafting a powerful mission that drives your organization's brand. With your mission and brand in place, you can leverage the power of content strategy to create a communications-centric culture. You'll leave this session equipped with content strategy tools and insights you can start implementing at your next board meeting.
Presented by:
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The document discusses how adding captions to online videos can increase views and engagement. It begins with an introduction of the presenter and his company See3 Communications, which helps non-profits improve their digital strategies. The presentation then covers the growth of online video, how search engines prioritize human-readable content like captions, and how services can automatically add captions to videos for $10-20 per minute, helping the videos reach wider audiences.
Too often nonprofits are scrambling to post on Twitter and Facebook, without thinking through how digital tools should be part of your organization's strategic goals.
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The document summarizes key findings from a benchmark survey and report on nonprofit use of video. It finds that most nonprofits see video as important but invest little, and have difficulty measuring impact. While most use video for marketing and awareness, fewer use it for fundraising, membership, or advocacy. It also outlines trends in video consumption and distribution, finding that most views come from YouTube and other social media. The future will involve more professional and user-generated video distributed across more platforms and devices.
Social media expert Lisa Colton shares tips and strategies for using social media for your next nonprofit event — building participation, capturing special moments, and keeping momentum going after everyone heads home. Topics covered include: hashtags, live tweeting and Twitter walls, ideas for live coverage, and more.
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The findings in this report highlight some of the key factors shaping the experiences and vulnerabilities of young people on the move – particularly their proximity to border spaces and how this affects the risks that they face. The report describes strategies that young people on the move employ to remain below the radar of visibility to state and non-state actors due to fear of arrest, detention, and deportation while also trying to keep themselves safe and access support in border towns. These strategies of (in)visibility provide a way to protect themselves yet at the same time also heighten some of the risks young people face as their vulnerabilities are not always recognised by those who could offer support.
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2. Desiree Adaway
Founder, The Adaway Group
desiree@desireeadaway.com
Bridgett Colling
Director of Content Strategy, See3
bcolling@see3.com
3. The Adaway Group
The Adaway Group provides you with the tools and support you need to help your
organization adapt and thrive within periods of change.
■ Select specific resources to help you get your project or program launched more quickly and
efficiently
■ Increase employee retention by helping teams see the connections among their talents, actions and
missions
■ Identify and invest in the parts of your organization that are working well so you can grow your areas
of excellence
■ Lay the groundwork for future initiatives by clarifying core mission priorities and honing your
organization’s ability to pivot and adapt to emerging opportunities and challenges
■ Prepare your people to manage difficult individuals or situations
4. See3 is the digital agency for do-gooders.
We work with nonprofits and social causes, activating people to change
the world. We develop videos, websites and digital strategies to deliver
on goals like fundraising, advocacy, awareness, recruitment and more.
6. Diversity
The wide range of national, ethnic, racial and other backgrounds of U.
S. residents and immigrants as social groupings, co-existing in
American culture. The term is often used to include aspects of race,
ethnicity, gender, sexual orientation, class and much more. The term
simply describes the presence of individuals from various backgrounds
and/or with various identities.
7. Inclusion
Authentically brings the perspectives and contributions of all people to
the table, equitably distributes power, and incorporates their needs,
assets and perspectives into the design and implementation of
processes, policies, activities, and decision-making.
8. What drives people out the door?
“It is typically NOT the headline grabbing incidents that drive most workers,
people of color or LGBT folks out the door. Research shows that the last straw is
typically just another slight after an extended period of enduring daily micro-
insults against them.”
- Giving Notice, 2007
11. Organization wants:
● To hire a diverse and qualified staff
● Fill their talent pipeline
● Meet an organizational and societal goal
● Make their organization better by offering skills, perspectives that
strengthen the organization
12. Candidate wants:
● A job that uses their skills and offers opportunities to learn and grow
● Open commitment to diversity- leadership, coalitions/stakeholders,
staffing
● Subtle cues that the organization understands diversity and inclusion-
business case, statements, etc.
14. Accept that it is natural behavior to hire candidates that look,
believe, act like we do. It is safe and it is the default.
But when someone offers a different perspective, background,
etc. and considering if they are a “good fit” , ask:
When is being different bad and when it is just “different”?
What is the result that we need and are their different
paths to get there?
15. ● when someone raises an issue that causes discomfort, the response is to blame the
person for raising the issue rather than to look at the issue which is actually causing the
problem
● emphasis on being polite
● equating the raising of difficult issues with being impolite, rude, or out of line
● making a mistake is confused with being a mistake, doing wrong with being wrong
Ways being ‘different’ can be
equated with being ‘bad’ on teams
16. ● those with strong documentation and writing skills are more highly valued, even in
organizations where ability to relate to others is key to the mission antidotes
● little time, energy, or money put into reflection or identifying lessons learned that can
improve practice, in other words little or no learning from mistakes
● requiring people to think in a linear fashion and ignoring or invalidating those who
think in other ways
● impatience with any thinking that does not appear logical to those with power
Ways being ‘different’ can be
equated with being ‘bad’ on teams
17. ● continued sense of urgency that makes it difficult to take time to be inclusive,
encourage democratic and/or thoughtful decision-making, to think long-term, to
consider consequences
● frequently results in sacrificing potential allies for quick or highly visible results, for
example sacrificing interests of communities of color in order to win victories for white
people (seen as default or norm community)
● little, if any, value around sharing power
● power seen as limited, only so much to go around
● reinforced by funding proposals which promise too much work for too little money
and by funders who expect too much for too little
Ways this shows up in leadership
18. Pulse Check
Where do you see your team or orgs reflected in
the past two slides?
What is your organization losing by not doing this
work?
20. ● Understand that discomfort is at the root of all growth and learning
● Welcome discomfort as much as you can
● Create opportunities for staff and leadership to be uncomfortable together
● Deepen your political analysis of racism and oppression so you have a
strong understanding of how your personal experience and feelings fit into
a larger picture
● Don't take everything personally
● Understand the link between defensiveness and fear (of losing power,
losing face, losing comfort, losing privilege)
Get uncomfortable
21. ● Takes time to make sure that your staff work and efforts are
appreciated
● Develop a learning organization, where it is expected that
everyone will make mistakes and those mistakes offer
opportunities for learning
● Cultivate leadership which understands that things take longer
than anyone expects
Develop a culture of appreciation
22. ● Include power sharing in your organization’s values statement
● Discuss what good leadership looks like and make sure people
understand that a good leader develops the power and skills of
others
● Understand that change is inevitable and challenges to your
leadership can be healthy and productive
● Don't require nor expect those who raise hard issues to raise
them in ways you find acceptable, especially if you are using the
ways in which issues are raised as an excuse not to address the
issues being raised
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