Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JANUARY 5, 2012

A few days ago I opened the door on a new learning journey. 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. Illustration by Beth Kanter.

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Saleforce Nonprofit

OCTOBER 11, 2021

From creating digital learning opportunities and initiatives to protect girls’ mental well-being to securing national funding for education — the Champions we support are driving solutions to girls’ education challenges in their communities. . Tabshoura is an award-winning e-learning platform that helps.

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Saleforce Nonprofit

DECEMBER 29, 2021

And we helped equip educators to better engage with thousands of students when classrooms had to become virtual. I seek to learn from those around me: amazing individuals working every day to make an impact, both personally and professionally. It has been a year of challenge and change. About the Author. CEO at Salesforce.org. .

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Tech Soup

JULY 15, 2015

In part 1 of this series, we introduced MathAndCoding , a nonprofit that offers teen-led programming classes for children in public libraries in the Silicon Valley area. As the MathAndCoding founders refined their processes and logistics, Bricker grew more confident in letting them move on to offer more advanced classes.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MAY 17, 2011

If you deliver training on webinar platforms, you need to understand how people learn. This post summarizes some learning research and offers some tips for delivering effective webinars. His research shows that professional development learning experiences need to be as interactive as possible to boost retention.

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AFP Blog

APRIL 1, 2013

In other words, shooting and uploading video to YouTube alone does not a videographer make, at least not in my class of sixty undergraduates who come from any major on campus.

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Top Nonprofits

AUGUST 3, 2021

I was reminded of this recently, at the first evening of the online course in Grant Proposal Writing: Our fifteen working adult students logged in to Zoom and were welcomed into our shared virtual classroom. I was just meeting some of these students, I was just setting the tone for class. 4) Keep learning and adapting with each group.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

SEPTEMBER 8, 2017

The photo was my classroom. They also teach yoga and meditation classes in this room. I joked that class was over! A News Meditation: This is the practice of cultivating awareness of the emotions and thoughts that surface while learning about the latest catastrophic weather event or presidential tweet.

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Amy Sample Ward

DECEMBER 24, 2012

It makes me feel like I’m giving of myself and still giving “something” But, one thing I’ve learned through the process is that I actually end up spending at least as much money and certainly a ton of time putting those gifts together.

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Tech Soup

JUNE 24, 2015

More than 2,000 donated and refurbished tablet PCs with Microsoft OneNote have helped Ordyslexie to create a cost-effective way to provide dyslexic children an easier way to learn. These students have to cope with a seven-hour school day and sit through 10 subjects, despite their learning difficulties.

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Tech Soup

DECEMBER 1, 2014

Brian Westerman and his wife Pepper created the Kosch-Westerman Foundation over two decades ago with the mission of connecting terminally ill children to their classrooms through technology. Their project began with just one or two kids attending classes with the help of a camera and a clunky laptop. He was wrong.

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AccelEvents

NOVEMBER 12, 2020

With the new school year in full swing all over the world, many are still trying to navigate COVID-19 pandemic physical distancing precautions, hybrid school events, and online learning. You can shorten the class earlier that day to make things easier for the families. Your current parents will be eager to meet other parents. .

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AccelEvents

NOVEMBER 12, 2020

With the new school year in full swing all over the world, many are still trying to navigate COVID-19 pandemic physical distancing precautions, hybrid school events, and online learning. You can shorten the class earlier that day to make things easier for the families. Your current parents will be eager to meet other parents. .

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Classy

JULY 20, 2021

I’m fully invested in the fact that we are the best-in-class platform in the market, which allows me to sell with conviction. Our conversations are quite consultative about the software; we can work with and learn about these organizations in order to match our software to what they need. We try to look at learning in different ways.

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Tech Soup

DECEMBER 1, 2014

Brian Westerman and his wife Pepper created the Kosch-Westerman Foundation over two decades ago with the mission of connecting terminally ill children to their classrooms through technology. Their project began with just one or two kids attending classes with the help of a camera and a clunky laptop. He was wrong.

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Amy Sample Ward

NOVEMBER 16, 2009

Learn more and show your gratitude! Last year, funds from TweetsGiving helped build a classroom in Tanzania. The students of Class Five at the school are now on Twitter and Tumblr and you can follow them all by clicking their pictures in this blog post. Why TweetsGiving?

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ASU Lodestar Center

FEBRUARY 16, 2012

Regardless of whether or not your organization has a formal training program, there are things nonprofit leaders can do to ensure staff and volunteers are appropriately oriented to the organization and able to continue to learn and develop professionally. She develops and delivers classroom and online training.

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Tech Soup

JANUARY 22, 2013

CFY was founded by Elisabeth Stock in 1999 with the mission of helping low-income students do better in school by improving their learning environments at home. Since then, the organization has partnered with hundreds of schools and provided digital learning resources to 50,000 families in five cities. Kellogg Foundation. How It Works.

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Top Nonprofits

JULY 21, 2021

All changes should be rooted in knowledge and learning, so that’s the first step. Allow leadership to learn about diversity, equity, and inclusion. Attending workshops where leadership can learn about recognizing bias, DEI terms, and more. Identify opportunities for improvement at the organization.

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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. Pick a day and ask for donations to wear PJs and slippers to classes all day. Kids can pay to skip a class or two and participate in a creative project or a field day.

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Have Fun - Do Good

AUGUST 28, 2008

This week 's question comes from a writing teacher, and client, who wants to know: "What Tools Can I Use to Teach Classes Online?" santhonys of AShowalter.com suggested using the haiku Learning Management System , which on first glance looks pretty easy to use and ranges in price from free-$30/month.

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Saleforce Nonprofit

JUNE 30, 2022

Students may use offensive language or slurs without fully knowing the potentially damaging impact their words might have on other students — make sure it’s clear that this is not tolerated in or outside the classroom. Why not take it to the next level and organise a workshop for your school? Advice for Parents and Guardians.

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Museum 2.0

FEBRUARY 5, 2008

Apple calls this program “one to one” learning, meaning not one instructor but one computer per child. To many of these folks, Bob's wired classrooms seem threatening. But the more I learned, the more I wondered where the real threat is, and why children's museums have been so resistant to change.

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Tech Soup

AUGUST 31, 2011

We've got a new spotlight up at TechSoup for Libraries that nonprofits might learn from, as well. This one's about Amber Slaven, a librarian who got her start at Bellevue Library with a pretty great gig: driving a Winnebago outfitted as a mobile computer classroom. Read the whole spotlight at TechSoup for Libraries.

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Tech Soup

DECEMBER 1, 2014

Brian Westerman and his wife Pepper created the Kosch-Westerman Foundation over two decades ago with the mission of connecting terminally ill children to their classrooms through technology. Their project began with just one or two kids attending classes with the help of a camera and a clunky laptop. He was wrong.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

OCTOBER 28, 2013

” Workshop curriculum should include time for participants to synthesize what they learned into some ”reporting out and up” takeaways to share with their organization. .” She said the workshop gave her the time to get started working on it and was confident that she’d be putting it into practice immediately.

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Qgiv

AUGUST 29, 2022

With a read-a-thon, you can help foster a love for reading in elementary school students learning how to read and give other community members an excuse to take some time to escape into a good story or two. Make sure your readers are fully aware of the incentives for reading the most or raising the most money. Thank your donors and readers.

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Eric Jacobsen Blog

JULY 28, 2015

That's why I find the new book, Light A Fire Under Your Business: How to Build a Class 1 Corporate Culture Through Inspirational Leadership , so interesting. More specifically, they learned and applied these lessons over nearly 50 combined years of fire service careers, and used them successfully in nearly 30 combined years in business.

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NTEN

SEPTEMBER 6, 2013

You can also learn more by downloading a copy of the Mission Driven Volunteer White Paper. Check out the slideshow of their sand creations and learn more about Mercy Corps'' work with the Syrian refugees. Sign up for NTEN''s Workshop-Technology Champion Master Class in San Francisco on September 19! Not in San Francisco?

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ASU Lodestar Center

AUGUST 17, 2016

I am excited about working with an amazing leadership team in the Nonprofit Leadership Alliance Student Association (NLASA) and the ideas that they have started with, and then being able to further those ideas and see what the NLASA members would like to learn and explore further. What events do you have planned this year?

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NTEN

SEPTEMBER 6, 2013

You can also learn more by downloading a copy of the Mission Driven Volunteer White Paper. Check out the slideshow of their sand creations and learn more about Mercy Corps'' work with the Syrian refugees. Sign up for NTEN''s Workshop-Technology Champion Master Class in San Francisco on September 19! Not in San Francisco?

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Non Profit Quarterly

DECEMBER 14, 2021

And so, we kind of scrambled to learn things like Zoom. For them it’s really easy to take a class on Zoom, shut that window down, open up another Zoom link, and volunteer. Between language barriers and economic barriers…we’ve learned a lot about the inequities when it comes to the digital world these last months.”.

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Tech Soup

OCTOBER 17, 2012

Transforming Communities is a Microsoft-funded initiative that builds on what TechSoup and Microsoft already learned through the first App It Up project. iPad, iPhone, MacOS) is a student planner that helps you keep track of your class schedule, track your grades and GPA, manage homework assignments, and create an interactive calendar.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JANUARY 26, 2008

Robin Yap left a comment that he was leaving for Manila to teach social media to educational technology students, so I decided to part with my cherished copy of Dave Warlock 's Classroom Blogging. My ultimate dream would be to send Dave Warlock 's Classroom Blogging over to the Sharing Foundation's fledging computer school. (The

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Museum 2.0

JULY 23, 2019

We often use them to add in extra content we couldn’t get into the label or assess people’s learning. But, while adjacent, museums differ from formal classrooms in numerous ways. But, to me, the biggest difference is about how learning is connected to feelings. Think of the classes where you learned the most.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JANUARY 4, 2016

I also designed and facilitated a six month peer learning cohort with colleague Stephanie Rudat. I joined the advisory board of the Leadership Learning Community as part of my continued work in the area of teaching networked leadership skills to nonprofit leaders, especially emerging leaders.

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Nonprofit Tech for Good

MARCH 25, 2022

3) Cooking classes. Cooking classes have a broad appeal because they attract not just gourmet food, but also individuals who want to learn new skills. As an added benefit these types of classes are often easy to broadcast live. As an added benefit these types of classes are often easy to broadcast live.

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