Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JANUARY 19, 2017

As a long-time trainer, professor, and teacher, I feel strongly that interactive learning activities – going beyond the death by Powerpoint Lecture – is the key to retention and application for participants. Your room set up can support your instructional activities that engage participants or get in the way.

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Bloomerang

MARCH 4, 2024

Drawing from my extensive background as a senior fundraising counsel and coach and having interacted with countless nonprofits, it’s clear that the quality of reporting can vary significantly across different price points. While this post focuses on donor reports, see this link to learn more about reports on volunteer activities.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

FEBRUARY 8, 2018

As a long-time trainer, professor, and teacher, I feel strongly that interactive learning activities – going beyond the death by Powerpoint Lecture – is the key to retention and application for participants. Your room set up can support your instructional activities that engage participants or get in the way.

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ASU Lodestar Center

SEPTEMBER 22, 2021

Nonprofit Business Advisor suggests that training helps people understand their day-to-day peer interactions, and also raises awareness of different belief systems, perspectives and cultures. In her free time Jen enjoys any and all outdoor activities, gardening and visiting the local farmers market.

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Qgiv

JULY 25, 2022

You’ll need an active and passionate donor base to ensure that your campaign gets shared online to reach a wider audience. For schools and classrooms, DonorsChoose is the best crowdfunding option. Teachers can start fundraising campaigns on the DonorsChoose platform to raise money for any classroom project that needs extra support.

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Greater Giving

SEPTEMBER 26, 2023

Pierre, the Client Success Manager at Greater Giving, Matt Gibson, the Premier Accounts Manager, and John Chase, Senior Manager of Client Success discussed strategies for success in this educational webinar for anyone heading back to the classroom this fall. You could close it earlier or the next day.

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AccelEvents

NOVEMBER 12, 2020

Consider playing an ice breaker game , introducing everyone, and showing the family your “virtual” classroom. . You can consider spicing up the virtual with a Bitmoji virtual classroom , which can be fun and relatively easy to make. Try to find something that all ages could interact with.

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AccelEvents

NOVEMBER 12, 2020

Consider playing an ice breaker game , introducing everyone, and showing the family your “virtual” classroom. . You can consider spicing up the virtual with a Bitmoji virtual classroom , which can be fun and relatively easy to make. Try to find something that all ages could interact with.

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Connection Cafe

MARCH 11, 2019

My daughter’s school has engaged her from day one using technology and face-to-face interactions. It took a lot more work to re-engage her than keeping her engaged would have , but Martha ’s now a n active alumni and sustaining donor. She will be one of the 26.3% B ut years later , they righted the ir wrongs.

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Saleforce Nonprofit

MAY 25, 2022

In the future, we will make full use of social networking services to spread the data and findings of our Climate Action Lab activity. This hasn’t just been a one-off classroom project—it’s something that the students took to heart and want to move forward, because they see the role they have to play in improving the state of the world.

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Museum 2.0

JULY 23, 2019

Lumin at Detroit Institute of Art Now on to the interactives…I’ve been thinking a great deal about the function of interactives in museums. But, while adjacent, museums differ from formal classrooms in numerous ways. Those feelings developed over hours of classroom time with a human. I watched people do this interactive.

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NTEN

SEPTEMBER 9, 2013

Our master classes are day-long interactive workshops that will help you develop a personalized plan for a project or issue you''re working on that you can take back to your organization. Rather, master classes are meant to be a flipped classroom experience.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JANUARY 27, 2014

I have learned the feng shui of how classroom setup impacts interaction and learning. For webinars, the platform is your classroom setup, so it important to understand how the Q/A and chat features, whether everyone can see everyone else’s chats or just the presenter. Talking and hearing (Auditory).

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AccelEvents

APRIL 23, 2021

Think of the ways that attendees will be interacting with your event and try to improve them. Whether you go with a theatre-style set-up, classroom, or perhaps a cabaret, you want to make sure that the venue will support it and that it makes sense for the event goals. Tell them how much you appreciate their attendance.

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Saleforce Nonprofit

OCTOBER 11, 2021

Inspired by Malala and Ziauddin Yousafzai’s early activism, Malala Fund launched the Education Champions Network to identify and scale the work of local educators and advocates. This allows us to record important donor interactions and move supporters seamlessly through the funnel from initial contact to donation.

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Everyaction

APRIL 25, 2018

First up, we're covering the Student Activities office - stay tuned to hear about Admissions, Alumni Engagement, and more! The Student Activities office plays a vital role on college campuses, empowering students to cultivate connections within their community and creating a sense of investment and belonging on campus.

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AccelEvents

APRIL 23, 2021

Think of the ways that attendees will be interacting with your event and try to improve them. Whether you go with a theatre-style set-up, classroom, or perhaps a cabaret, you want to make sure that the venue will support it and that it makes sense for the event goals. Tell them how much you appreciate their attendance.

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Museum 2.0

FEBRUARY 5, 2008

But last year, over Thanksgiving, I sat next to a man who was working on his laptop (not an activity that invites conversation), creating a presentation on elementary education and technology. To many of these folks, Bob's wired classrooms seem threatening. Do you talk to people sitting next to you on planes?

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MARCH 31, 2014

Several nonprofits have successfully interacted with, and more importantly, seen impact from, these engaged new audiences. Its strategic partnership with Electronic Arts has enabled GlassLab to develop SimCityEDU, a game-based classroom tool that uses the beloved SimCity franchise to engage students in real-world challenges.

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Gyrus

MAY 12, 2016

Today’s tech-savvy, social and mobile learners are no longer interested in traditional classroom training and demand learning techniques that blends best with their current working style and outlook. Mobile learning. This is why gamification in e-Learning is fast emerging as an effective technique to engage learners.

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Gyrus

MAY 31, 2016

Virtual Environment and Avatars: Virtual learning environments bring the social interaction part of traditional classroom training into the e-learning world. HTML5 is adaptable and faster, providing the ability to design interactive and engaging learning experiences, without leaving the mobile users behind.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

OCTOBER 28, 2013

It is important to evolve your presentation style so it is more interactive, engaging, and a lean forward experience. is done by students during class hours, with a teacher’s supervision and hands-on input; and what was once the core of the classroom experience (teacher lectures) is now absorbed at home via online resources.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MAY 17, 2011

His research shows that professional development learning experiences need to be as interactive as possible to boost retention. Peer Assist brings together a group of peers to elicit feedback on a problem, project, or activity, and uses insights from the participants’ knowledge and experience. It was delivered in two sessions.

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Gyrus

JULY 12, 2016

Elearnings as a whole are very attractive, as they offer an inexpensive alternative to classroom training. Interactive. As we become increasingly dependent on our technology, it only makes sense that it teach us as well. These touches will only increase the drive to accomplish the entirety of the learning exercise, as well as aid in.

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NTEN

JULY 15, 2011

Interact – FB Live Stream, Hashtag (Tweet Chat), Comments. Categories : show, share, interact. The map pinpoints where the referrals were made throughout the United States, with the goal of showcasing individual activity collectively to illustrate the social impact of volunteerism. Authenticate. Open source.

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Tech Soup

JUNE 24, 2015

Each tablet PC comes with Microsoft OneNote , which makes the learning experience more interactive. Fill-in color maps, text recognition, and interactive math and science programs help the students improve their schoolwork by approaching assignments in different ways. Air France gladly donated 2,000 tablet PCs with styluses.

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Qgiv

NOVEMBER 10, 2021

With a youth-oriented fundraiser, you can raise money for educational trips, sports equipment, classroom supplies, art supplies, musical instruments, or any other cause. Just don’t forget to have parents sign a waiver before having their kids participate in any fundraising activities. Christmas tree/wreath sales. Host a sports camp.

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Tech Soup

OCTOBER 17, 2012

Political Engagement and Activism. As more tablets and smartphones are making their way into the classroom, it makes sense that there are a number of apps aimed at helping young people with their education and job preparedness. These apps encourage young people to get involved in civic and political issues. iStudiez Pro.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JANUARY 5, 2012

Content delivery is less important then the skill to making sense of it and that needs to be what “classroom time” is about. The instructor’s role should be to facilitate this understanding for their students, not dump content on them. Illustration by Beth Kanter.

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Forj

JULY 8, 2021

When it comes to eLearning assessments, there is a wide range of possibilities when it comes to interactivity and engagement. These assessments are more traditional, less interactive, and held to strict standards. Group Collaboration with Feedback. Assess learners before, during, and after courses.

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NonProfit Hub

DECEMBER 15, 2016

To our delight, there are several nonprofit conferences designed to get us out of the desk chair and into the same room as the best of the best, in and out of the sector – to learn, interact and reignite our fires. Lectures are left for the classroom. Technology and activism keynotes. Newest tech product demos.

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The Science Behind Engaging your Supporters

NOVEMBER 27, 2018

The IMPACT Conference is historically the largest national gathering of student leaders, administrators, faculty, and nonprofit staff committed to engaging students in service, activism, politics, advocacy, and other socially responsible work. InterAction Forum 2019. InterAction Forum 2019. InterAction / Washington, DC / TBD.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JANUARY 29, 2006

I've created a book with lots of photos and will do circle style on the rug - the interactive lecture. Activity Centers (divide into small groups, set up activity at each table and have them rotate). Other options: I've collected some great links to many other resources and activities and will need this in the future.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

SEPTEMBER 16, 2008

I left the classroom in 2007 to join Teach For America staff where I pioneered graduate school recruitment for the organization through May of this year. Donors will be able to discuss gifts and interactively engage with one another. I taught in the Bronx for two years through Teach For America while working toward my M.A.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

AUGUST 4, 2008

Although it is a slow time of year and the busy fundraising season is still several months away, there's been lots of activity in the social fundraising judging by these roundups of links from Peter Deitz and Tom Watson (not to mention all the items tagged in the nptech tag stream ). possibly related classroom projects???

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

AUGUST 29, 2006

These programs involved cultural, educational and training efforts that used interactive theater and storytelling. I figured out that I could offer teaching, training, consulting activities online. I interviewed ten online educators in five countries about how they planned and organized collaborative learning activities.

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Michael Stein's Non-profit Technology Blog

JUNE 3, 2007

Eventually, we found that traditional classroom training was rarely the solution. Training needs to be active and interactive. Training sessions need to actively engage the user from the first minute. We've led some awful sessions and some great ones. Here are some of the things we learned: 1.

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