Beneblog: Technology Meets Society

JULY 9, 2018

However, as a technology, printed books come with serious challenges for some communities (like blind people) that technology can unlock. Those that are published don’t actually reach many of the people who might want to read them because of affordability. It made me who I am. I’m a big fan of the printed book and always have been.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

NOVEMBER 3, 2015

I’ve just returned from an inspiring week in Kiev, Ukraine where I got to facilitate a training for women’s organizations organized by Wake , an amazing start up founded by two respected colleagues Trish Tierney and Heather Ramsey. You have to think of your interpreters as extensions of your facilitation techniques.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JANUARY 3, 2019

I’ve continued to do conference keynotes, workshops and facilitate staff retreats about activating a culture of wellbeing. All in all, I presented or facilitated over 50 keynotes, workshops, and webinars on the topic. The book was well received and was #1 on Amazon’s Nonprofit Books many times.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

FEBRUARY 8, 2018

As part of the class , we look at different examples of networked strategies and digital platforms and tools and how they can be used to advance civil society goals. Having a large enough space so people can move around and self-organize into small groups also promotes peer learning. Here’s how they combined the videos.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

OCTOBER 8, 2019

In my work as a trainer and facilitator, I make workshops and master classes as interactive as possible, incorporating peer discussion, movement, and creativity. But it isn’t impossible, if you follow best practices for virtual facilitation for meetings. The next step is to facilitate a discussion.

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Nonprofit Tech for Good

MAY 23, 2019

Facilitate this natural phenomenon by encouraging team fundraising within your event. You’ll want people to make donations on the fly, send campaign updates, and be able to manage their campaigns easily through their mobile devices. Encourage team fundraising. Another good idea is to incorporate text-to-donate at your event.

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Top Nonprofits

AUGUST 3, 2021

I was just meeting some of these students, I was just setting the tone for class. It can empower people across locations to share their individual ideas and build on others’ ideas. What do we do when technology (or the people using the technology) do something unexpected? And now the tone was…#TechFail! And guess what?

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Saleforce Nonprofit

JANUARY 20, 2022

As a result, educators have an important opportunity to harness and facilitate this passion by connecting students to the global citizen science community. STEM Classes Leading to Tangible Action. Yet, often they do not know where to turn.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JANUARY 5, 2018

I also facilitated a number of nonprofit staff workshops building on the curriculum. I know that might seem old fashioned, but being a trainer and facilitator and in the room with social change leaders is what inspires and energizes me. This past year was my 4th year as an adjunct professor at Middlebury College.

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Eric Jacobsen Blog

OCTOBER 9, 2023

Keep in mind that learning organizations are those that prioritize the development of – people – everyone comes to work every day in part to grow, and to support one another in doing so. The dreaded F-word: How to make sure your team doesn’t fear (or rely on) feedback. Common habits that suppress individuals and teams from improving.

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Saleforce Nonprofit

OCTOBER 29, 2021

That blog grew into Outdoor Afro , a nationwide leadership network helping Black people engage with the outdoors, learn about the Black history of public spaces, and support conservation efforts. The first post I wrote in 2009 was about a perspective-shifting trip I had taken with a local bike group of people who mostly looked like me.

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Blue Avocado

JANUARY 23, 2024

Perhaps you want a committee comprised solely of people with lived experience related to your nonprofit’s mission—i.e. people who have experienced houselessness or survivors of domestic and/or sexual violence. After all, general announcements may not reach the people and organizations that are important to your work.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JANUARY 23, 2014

Graduate Students at MIIS Class Doing Group Exercise in Flexible Classroom Space. This month I’ve been teaching graduate class at the Monterey Institute of International Studies based on my books, The Networked Nonprofit and Measuring the Networked Nonprofit. 29th at 1:00 PM EST/10:00 AM PST.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MARCH 22, 2013

The practices are intended to balance the energies of any given space to assure health and good fortune for people inhabiting it. I designed and facilitated a peer learning workshop at SXSW last week. Certain room set ups encourage interaction between the participants and the workshop leader, others do not.

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Qgiv

JUNE 1, 2021

If you only accept cash or checks during your Sunday services, you’re likely missing out on tithes from people who’d be more than willing to give. Your t-shirt designs should include your church name and logo so people who see your shirts know about your church. All you need to do is partner with a shoe drive fundraiser facilitator.

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Tech Soup

DECEMBER 3, 2014

ABCS, with offices across the state and operations in Mexico, offers counseling and pregnancy services, classes on budgeting and personal finance, and foster care services, and also works with the state of Arizona to facilitate adoptions, among other things. A parenting class offered by ABCS, by Debbie Gillmore.

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Qgiv

OCTOBER 12, 2021

An app-based scavenger hunt can also facilitate a hybrid event if you have participants who are more comfortable virtually attending. Setting goals with some sort of reward for their donors is another way to get people engaged. Halloween baking class. Haunted Hike.

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Twenty Hats

JANUARY 12, 2021

Smithsonian Associates (SA) , which annually presents 700+ classes and other educational and entertaining programs, made a hard fast pivot in June 2020, when it began to present all of its lectures and art courses as livestreamed programs on Zoom. The best way I thought to keep in touch was to facilitate weekly 45-minute video calls on Zoom.

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Tech Soup

MAY 17, 2010

Kami Griffiths, my co-worker and training facilitator par excellence organized a Meetup last Friday at the San Francisco LightHouse for the Blind , which I was fortunate enough to attend. People with macular degeneration, cataracts, glaucoma, or other conditions that leave them with partial vision may prefer screen magnification programs.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JANUARY 5, 2012

The instructor’s role should be to facilitate this understanding for their students, not dump content on them. If your true goal is inspire people to learn, then you need to incorporate techniques so people can process the information every ten minutes. Illustration by Beth Kanter. That’s the theory at least.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

OCTOBER 24, 2011

Social Media Master Class. The overall goal was to provide participants with a combination of insights and practical tips to help them be effective. This face-to-face master class and mini-workshops will be followed with a smaller peer learning group that will meet regularly to compare notes as they put the ideas into practice.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MAY 20, 2013

Effective learning that creates results and transfers to action over time starts with unleashing people’s existing knowledge – they need to pull forward pre-existing information. Connecting Up Master Class. Sunrise on Sacred Maori Land outside of Auckland, NZ. New Zealand Workshop: Burning Questions.

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Qgiv

JUNE 4, 2021

With online fundraising, people can give in more ways than a written check or cash. Offering multiple options for people to support your organization is key to maintaining your fundraising and filling any gaps in your revenue. They might not even know you’re still running. Allows flexible payment options.

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Saleforce Nonprofit

MAY 26, 2022

Then we set off down the mountain to learn more about the climate action that students at Davos Middle School had undertaken over the past few years as part of Davos Codes , a year-round program designed to engage youth in Davos through a series of STEM classes and workshops that promote the UN’s Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs).

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JULY 19, 2017

So, it was really a great honor to co-teach a master class on digital strategy and two crowdfunding workshops. Not only is the content superb, but I also observed and took notes about some excellent participatory facilitation techniques. As a trainer, one way to learn is to observe and take process notes.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

OCTOBER 9, 2018

Facilitated by Lucy Bernholz, the panelists discussed how data mining, policy algorithms, and predictive risk models affect poor and working-class people in America. California Passes New Law That Bans Bots From Pretending to Real People: California Gov. You can watch the YouTube presentation or read the takeaways here.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MAY 22, 2019

I am very grateful to Valerio Melandri who is the director of the festival for inviting me to participate as well as facilitate a maser class on modern wellbeing based on my book. We need to look at how the technology is impacting our organizations and the people we serve. And, also to Marcele Iniarra for his creativity.

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Socialbrite

MARCH 8, 2020

The fundraising software facilitates tracking your donors, accepting online donations, creating social campaigns around your fundraising activities and more. The school enrolls 12 girls and 12 boys (at age 4) each year for its entry-level preschool class. The organization runs a pre-K-12 residential school in Baliganapalli, Tamil Nadu.

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Saleforce Nonprofit

OCTOBER 24, 2022

For example, our first Impact Lab cohort designed Service Match , an open-source app designed for case managers who connect people experiencing homelessness to vital human services. His areas of expertise include policy analysis and development, group facilitation, benefits enrollment, and workforce development. Melanie Calhoun.

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Bloomerang

JULY 21, 2021

Here are a few mistakes people make when starting a nonprofit. Want to get started with an affordable, world-class donor database? She has facilitated numerous workshops with hundreds of nonprofit professionals. Procure health benefits for employees. . Establish a retirement plan for employees. .

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Qgiv

JUNE 1, 2021

If you only accept cash or checks during your Sunday services, you’re likely missing out on tithes from people who’d be more than willing to give. Your t-shirt designs should include your church name and logo so people who see your shirts know about your church. All you need to do is partner with a shoe drive fundraiser facilitator.

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Have Fun - Do Good

JANUARY 24, 2012

A couple weekends ago I facilitated a 3-hour Tea, Cupcakes and Creative Bloggers workshop at Teahouse Studio. Britt was an amazing teacher, and one of the greatest things about the class was all the incredible women that were there!" "The The class was great! Thanks again for the class yesterday.

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Beneblog: Technology Meets Society

JUNE 12, 2014

As a non-lawyer, let me explain from the point of view of a technologist who cares passionately about accessibility for people with disabilities. As the parent nonprofit organization of the Bookshare online library, a leading provider of accessible books to people with print disabilities in the U.S.,

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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. Innovation Lab Facilitation : For the past few years, I’ve trained in and designed and facilitated innovation labs using the Luma Institute Methods. Facilitation, Curriculum Development and Train the Trainers.

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Nimble AMS

MAY 20, 2019

Fortune 500-class CRM for associations. Using Nimble AMS, built on the Salesforce platform, associations have access to Fortune 500-class CRM, allowing them to interact with their data in ways that were unimaginable in the past. Salesforce offers Chatter functionality, which facilitates collaboration among your staff.

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Forum One

APRIL 1, 2021

Clubhouse—the invite-only, audio-based social application that’s been drawing in celebrities and expert thought leaders—facilitates widespread collaboration on global topics by allowing users to participate in different conversations on different topics in real-time. As one might guess, Clubhouse was one that floated to the top.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

APRIL 15, 2014

What was most exciting for me was to finally meet three people in person after following their writing, blogs, and books for almost a decade. YES YES YES YES YES @davegray “People don’t learn from spreadsheets, predictions, and plans, they learn from making things” #NeXConf. Diversity correlates with innovation?

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