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Learning in the White Space: 5 Unintended Lessons from a Marketing Class

NTEN

A couple of weeks ago, I stepped into my first marketing class excited to learn and meet some new people in my still-smells-like-new home base in New Jersey. I discovered there were rich lessons in the "white space" of class. Unintended) Lesson #1: Marketing means making friends. It's a class about marketing, right?

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Arts Organizations Digital Strategies Master Class and Train the Trainers

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

I’m teaching a master class today in San Francisco for arts organizations for Theatre Bay Area. The third year now expands the program into a “train the trainer” model. The master class is part of a, NEA-funded experiment being conducted by arts service organizations like Theatre Bay Area all across the country.

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Trainer’s Notebook: The Importance of Hands-On Learning

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

For the past five years, I’ve been an adjunct professor at Middlebury College in Monterey teaching a graduate course called “ Networked International Organizations ” for students pursuing an advanced degree in International Development. That’s why I always enjoy teaching in flexible classroom spaces.

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Trainer’s Notebook: The Feng Shui of Good Teaching and Learning

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

This is a very important concept for instructional design -the way the room is set up effects how people learn. I strongly believe that a workshop, panel, master class, or even a keynote that is interactive is more engaging, people pay attention, they make connections to what they already know and are far more likely to apply it.

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Writing for Fundraising: Fundraising Appeal Writing Tips for Non-Profit Professionals

The Storytelling Non-profit

If you want to dive deeper into the word of fundraising writing, I teach a 10-lesson course called The Writer’s Workshop. This class will teach you the nuts and bolts of copywriting that raises money. More Resources for Fundraising Writing.

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Can Recurring Giving Save Nonprofits?

Allegiance Group

Drawing on her experience as a successful businesswoman, Greer is now out to “save giving” by teaching nonprofits how to improve the ways they interact with donors. Fundraisers should take these lessons and adapt them to the nonprofit sector. It’s also an opportunity to reach younger donors in a way that they’re comfortable with.

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The Triple Bottom Line in India: Software, Quality Education, and Early Learning

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

After I finished teaching an intensive Networked NGO workshop for Packard family planning grantees in Delhi, I headed to Bangalore to visit my friend and colleague, Rufina Fernandes where I conducted a social media workshop for staff and teachers and got see a start up education company and its CSR program, close up.

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