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From Prospective Student to Active Alum—Engagement Fosters Lifelong Support

sgEngage

Faculty engaged her both inside and outside the classroom by providing feedback on assignments, encouraging her to step outside her comfort zone to acquire new skills, recommending extracurricular activities, and checking in on the progress she’s making towards her goals. She was able to engage with prospects and recent alums. What changed?

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Build Online Experiences that Spark Community Engagement

Forum One

These experiences offer lessons for organizations of any size to re-imagine what it means to build community online. Finally, in its work for social justice, the church has an active grantmaking program and draws participants from its congregation and beyond for community service, lectures, days of action, and more. .

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Recognition and the Power of Connecting

VQ Strategies

The topic was Recognition, wisely timed to inspire new ideas in advance of the upcoming spring National Volunteer Week. While this was timed in anticipation of April’s National Volunteer Week, the table-by-table report outs revealed clear agreement across all discussions that recognition is, in fact, a year-round activity.

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Trainer’s Tip: Your Room Set Up Can Make or Break the Learning Experience

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

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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Build Online Experiences that Spark Community Engagement

Forum One

These experiences offer lessons for organizations of any size to re-imagine what it means to build community online. Finally, in its work for social justice, the church has an active grantmaking program and draws participants from its congregation and beyond for community service, lectures, days of action, and more.

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How I learned to stop yawning and love the Zoom Room

Candid

So do everything you can to recognize the attendees as they join: say their names, ask them to share where they’re from, have an interesting icebreaker , play music—whatever makes them feel welcomed and human, not just a square box there to receive a lecture. . So, make time, pour yourself some coffee, and arrive ready to engage. .

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Trainer’s Notebook: Integrating Thinking and Feedback Activities

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

Instructional design is more than just delivering the content, so this post shares some of the thinking that went into designing a learning experience where people will apply what they learned. Always good to leave time for Q/A at the end for those). I got some fantastic ideas for modifying the content and exercises and timings.