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JANUARY 17, 2012

The book is written for staff and board members. While the advice in the book does not replace an attorney, having this on your reference desk can help you be more efficient your attorney’s time because you’ll come to meetings educated. What kinds of political activity must a 501c3 organization avoid altogether?

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FEBRUARY 6, 2018

If gaming and a higher purpose doesn’t work in curbing your addiction, then maybe try adding apps on your phone that can enrich your life versus wasting time. I just learned about turning my phone to grayscale because the brightly colored icons give your brain a shiny reward every time we open up our phone.

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FEBRUARY 27, 2014

E-learning is using internet technology and your networks to learn in real-time – either as an individual, within your organization, or a network and learning is applied to get results. This e-mail exchange with a dozen or so colleagues evolved into a guest post about one aspect of the topic.

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NOVEMBER 17, 2015

Perhaps because some people feel guilty about practicing self-care or there are unspoken rules that if you take time for yourself you are not serious about work. It means changing the way we think about self-care in the first place. Nonprofits know the importance of self-care , yet the scarcity mindset keeps them from actually doing it.

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SEPTEMBER 26, 2017

It is important to understand that an influencer strategy takes time and effort and you must be thoughtful. Interest: The nonprofit works with the influencer to co-create or share educational content that helps the influencer’s network understand how to use the program or build skills. Step 4: Activate.

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JUNE 13, 2018

The American Institute of Stress , a nonprofit that aims to educate the public, found that job stress costs U.S. Working excessive hours during the year, but not taking paid time off. Over the last 25 years, we’ve shifted from leisure time as status to busy and stressed out as a badge of honor. Working when sick.

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JUNE 29, 2016

In the first portion of the training, Jeanne and Cindy modeled four great practices for designing training content, including: Spend a little time researching adult learning theory, or. Provide experiential education, giving learners the opportunity for reflection, abstract conceptualization, active experimentation, and concrete experience.

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DECEMBER 13, 2018

A great place to start is with our free educational resources on the AI Impact Challenge website. Thorn use AI to analyze the content of online ads to identify clusters of suspicious activity. If you are new to AI, we recommend starting with the self-study Introduction to Machine Learning Problem Framing course.

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OCTOBER 2, 2014

One thing I realized is that training social workers receive as part of their education is also very relevant for change makers inside of nonprofits, consultants, and trainers. It typically involves a substantial commitment of time, energy, and emotion. or “On what social channel can I find my audience?”.

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JUNE 6, 2017

NGOs, activists, and even governments have used bots to automate positive social change activities: Pregnancy and newborn care education. The potential for an army of bot trolls to disrupt an activism campaign. Grassroots organizing. Poverty Reduction. A policy for how to respond to negative comments or social media workflow.

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JULY 24, 2018

Allison Fine and I have been actively researching and writing about the Age of Automation. They create pipelines for underrepresented talent through education and mentorship programs around the U.S. More in this Op-Ed in the NY Times, “ How To Make AI That’s Good for People.” “AI is no exception.”

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APRIL 22, 2014

It is about discovering great stuff amid the noise, annotating it, organizing it, and adding your wisdom or perspective and sharing a collection of curated links in a context or time that adds value. It good to take the time to think thoughtfully about your sources and organize a way to follow them systematically. Content Curation'

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FEBRUARY 4, 2015

When I mentioned this to a colleague, he asked me, “How the heck do you make the time to do this? ” I have cut out non-productive work time where I sit at my desk and can’t concentrate! You need to allow time for stretching and bio breaks. Also, allow time to capture notes after the meeting.

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DECEMBER 1, 2014

I’ll be talking about how individuals and NGOS can have a great impact by building relationships online and inspiring their networks to take action – whether volunteering, giving money,or educating others. Given that I am in Brasil, I wanted to participate and experience local activities. No problem.

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OCTOBER 18, 2011

I really appreciated all the small group time, and next we had time to explore 3 of 10 or so topics of interest such as, Leadership in Networks, Network Weaving, Assessing Network Effectiveness and so on. A big shout out to Scott! In the afternoon we focused on specific tools – social media, mapping, strategy and assessment tools.

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JUNE 19, 2015

I think Adora Svitak, a 16 year-old education activist, whose 2012 Ted Talk, “ What Adults Can Learn from Kids , has almost 4 million views said it best when describing the impact that these “kids” will have and why we should pay attention to them: “New generations grow and develop and become better than the previous ones.

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MARCH 8, 2013

Every time you share a relay post on Facebook, Twitter, or email or donate $5 or more as part of the relay, a $5 donation (up to $8,000 per day) will be donated by Johnson & Johnson and the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation to one of four initiatives that are helping women and children lead healthy and happy lives.

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MARCH 31, 2014

In Education. GlassLab ( [link] ) explores the potential for existing, commercially successful digital games to serve both as potent learning environments and real-time assessments of student learning. Don’t run to play Mario just yet though — the game has to be specially designed to fill in lapses in brain activity from the start!

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FEBRUARY 24, 2011

On March 2nd, one of the highlights of the agenda is a keynote conversation with David Brooks , New York Times Columnist and Lois Salisbury , Director of Children, Families and Communities Program, The David and Lucile Packard Foundation. They had a one-month window to actively promote participation.

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SEPTEMBER 3, 2012

They just marked their 150th first-person story on their blog , so in the 150 hours leading up to Labor Day, @GoodwillIntl is tweeting out one of these success story per hour under the hashtag #150job to spotlight someone who has found work, education or volunteer opportunities with support from Goodwill. What advice do you have for others?

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APRIL 18, 2013

The annual conference helps inform, enable and enhance the strategic nature of their work. This year’s conference, “The Future We Make” had four themes – strategic philanthropy, modern day slavery, agriculture and nutrition, and education, learning, and employment. He compared nonprofits to the business sector.

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SEPTEMBER 30, 2015

They tested 38 interventions and what doesn’t work is framing it as physical activity. Here’s what worked: Educating people about the benefits of less sitting time. Monitoring sitting or walking time. Restructuring office environments such as adding adjustable or standing desks.

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SEPTEMBER 2, 2015

But many meetings end up being a complete waste of time. Try scheduling them for 30, or 15 minutes. What happens is that you stay focused and waste less time. Probably because a lot of meeting isn’t relevant for them – so why make people stay on the call the whole time? It forces us to do better active listening.

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OCTOBER 23, 2014

The members of these networks are intentional about building, strengthening, and maintaining relationships with one another that generates collaborative activities together. Networks don’t automatically become generative and sustain that high level of member engagement, activity, and adaptation. What’s the secret sauce?

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JANUARY 25, 2010

This is not the first time Drew Olanoff has taken to the social web to fundraise for cancer. Post it to your Facebook Fanpage and any other social networks your organization is active on. textPlus, a mobile app, offers users free texting with group text capability. Leverage social networks. Tweet the “text to donate” campaign.

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OCTOBER 28, 2010

In recent years, there have been great strides in government transparency, due in large part to the activities of the Sunlight Foundation to pry open the hidden vaults of government data. The first thing any charity can do is to exercise its own rights to engage in nonpartisan electoral education activities.

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JULY 26, 2017

In most cultures, philanthropy existed a long time ago. It was her first time to attend such a large conference. Our aim is to promote the psychological well-being of young children in Hong Kong through parent-child activities using media such as art, music, drama and story-telling. 3T stands for Time, Talents and Treasure.

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SEPTEMBER 20, 2012

The campaign will encourage philanthropic activities that support nonprofit organizations. These individuals undertook organizing, fundraising, and advocacy – activities that were once only in the control of nonprofits – outside the “control” of nonprofits. by Laura Arrillaga-Andreessen.

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APRIL 5, 2010

The format, the physical space, and network weaving activities were extraordinary. It was the first time I ever gave a talk on a cat walk stage. Mark Horvath shared how he searches on Twitter for the words "homeless" and either educates or empowers. I wish I could have stayed for the whole conference, but alas.

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JULY 19, 2009

Educate general public, local leaders, supporters, donors and volunteers. Demonstrate progress and success of active projects. Do you have funds and time to invest in figuring it out? Build loyalty – Spend time every month writing about and highlighting your donors. Build awareness. Generate buzz. Keep people informed.

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APRIL 8, 2015

David comes to this work from a background in the education and educational technology field and he’s on fire! The next exercise was to teach us empathy and active listening. We had to pair up with a person and each share a story of direct impact. The second person had to repeat the story back in the first person.

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JANUARY 23, 2012

I love the chapter on “The Symptoms of Information Obesity” where he shares a persona based on his wife, Rosalyn Lemieux , that illustrates how too much information can warp our sense of time and other ways it can be toxic to our lives. His methods make use of some of the online software that helps you keep track of time.

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SEPTEMBER 8, 2016

Each year they bring together diverse, passionate people for a sleep-away camp for adults where they learn together through active, creative workshops and activities. The assessment helps educate people about the symptoms of burnout before it becomes too late. This means there is little down time for reflection and thinking.

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MAY 17, 2011

Mayer’s research is from the 1990s, but the finders were recently validated again in a study from Carl Wieman that college students learn more, attend class at higher rates and are more engaged in their education when teachers take a more interactive approach in the classroom. This mirrors what you might do in a face-to-face workshop.

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OCTOBER 11, 2009

Peter is a president and co-founder of nuPOLIS is the Internet presence of the Innovation Network for Communities (INC), a national non-profit helping to develop and spread scalable innovations that transform the performance of community systems such as education, energy, land use, transportation and workforce development.

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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. He expects students to read the assignment before they come to class so that instructional time can be spent helping them make sense of it and apply to their work. Illustration by Beth Kanter.

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MAY 9, 2013

The digital tools we have at our disposal are limitless — allowing great stories to reach more and more people, and providing new opportunities for recruiting advocates, changing policy, public education, and creating real change on the ground.

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