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International Leadership, Women’s Issues, and Branding—A Conversation With Allison K. Summers, CAE

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By this year, the program projects reaching more than 14 million adolescent girls across 12 countries in Africa, the Middle East, and South Asia with direct services. As a new entrepreneur, I urged her to take advantage of the opportunity to meet people who might become customers. People enjoy talking about themselves and their work.

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How Leaders Use Four Workarounds To Tackle Complex Problems

Eric Jacobsen Blog

In Part 1 of this fascinating and instructional book, author and Oxford University professor, Paulo Savaget , explains what workarounds are and how to come up with them. They can be a temporary patch to allow people to achieve goals more quickly, provide the opportunity to explore options outside the mainstream, or create a new precedent.

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Elements of A Successful Fund-A-Need Appeal

Greater Giving

The more people know about the organization they’re contributing to and how those organizations are making a difference in the community, the more likely they’ll be willing and excited participants at future events! You don’t want people thinking “ Well if my friend gave money last year, then I should too.

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PopTech Fellows Program: Reflections

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

PopTech is an amazing blend of people, ideas, and projects. I learned a lot about how to begin to adapt the game process for people with a program orientation. Here are some thoughts about tweaking the instructional design: Game Length and Instructional Context. All of the instruction is aligned to a network frame. .

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Creating Learning Experiences That Connect, Inspire, and Engage

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

I am very excited about upcoming peer learning projects that I’m working on in 2012, including several for Packard grantees in India, Pakistan, and Africa as well as the e-Mediat project in the Middle East. This is important for both online and offline instructional delivery. Content Delivery Is Not Learning.

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The Networked NGO: Translating the Networked Nonprofit and 1-11-11 Club

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

I’ve had the opportunity to work in Canada, Australia, Cambodia, Romania, India, UK, and Africa and enjoy the extra dimension of understanding different cultures as part of the instructional and learning process. So, stay tuned as I explore internationally training models and networked approaches to capacity building.

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Empowering Young Children through Philanthropy

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

Note from Beth: One of the things that I enjoyed most about IFCAsia was the networking opportunities to connect with other people in the region who share interests. We know that young people like Generation Z are future donors, so programs that help introduce philanthropy at a young age will a big pay off down the road.