Bloomerang

SEPTEMBER 14, 2022

I had the pleasure recently of teaming up with my fundraising bestie and copywriting guru Julie Cooper to host an “ End of Year Appeal Writing Made Easy ” workshop. Even better still, put several stamps of different denominations, adding up to first-class postage. Your burning end-of-year fundraising questions answered!

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Tech Soup

JUNE 1, 2017

Bellevue, Washington: Microsoft Azure IoT Workshop. Boston, Massachusetts: Monthly Pitch Night | BostonSpeaks/Impact Hub Open Project Night. Detroit, Michigan: SeeClickFix Summer Workshop. Detroit, Michigan: SeeClickFix Summer Workshop. Ottawa, Ontario: Review Progress on Data Analysis Projects. How Do You Use It?

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EveryAction

AUGUST 3, 2023

This is is often something tangible or material, like a new building, renovation project, or equipment purchase⁠, and it’s often primarily funded through major gifts. Check out this expert workshop from EveryAction, which is part of Bonterra, about streamlining and simplifying major giving. Want to learn more about major giving?

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JANUARY 5, 2018

” I create a few pages in the beginning to write about my themes, what makes me happy, what to improve, and major projects for the year. I also facilitated a number of nonprofit staff workshops building on the curriculum. 3) Start A New Journal: I use a large Moleskine (8 x 11.5)

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JUNE 27, 2018

I co-lead a workshop on digital transformation, co-facilitated a master class on digital fundraising campaigns, co-hosted a learning breakfast for scholarship participants, co-designed a Big Room session on Technology for Good, and in between attended some amazing sessions. After Action Review Guide – [link].

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Classy

APRIL 9, 2021

Scholarship funding for two spots in your annual writing workshop. Most grantmakers want to fund specific projects and costs, so ensure you’re tailoring your grant proposal message to those needs by using effective storytelling. Consider Taking a Class to Practice. Costs to contract for website development services.

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The Storytelling Non-profit

OCTOBER 5, 2021

For me, that feels far less daunting and helps me find momentum in writing projects. Develop a project brief ( more on the magic of project briefs here ). Get client approval for the project brief. If you want to dive deeper into the word of fundraising writing, I teach a 10-lesson course called The Writer’s Workshop.

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Eric Jacobsen Blog

OCTOBER 9, 2023

For example, a world-class, professional basketball player will spend several hours each day devoted to the Learning Zone, such as by practicing specific moves, increasing their strength, or analyzing film. Do our processes include after-action or mid-action project reviews? Briceño : This depends on the situation. When and how?

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MARCH 22, 2013

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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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

DECEMBER 31, 2013

International Training Work: Most of my work is designing and delivering capacity building projects for nonprofits literally all over the world. This past year I had the honor of facilitating an intense training in Tunisia in January for Women Entrepreneurs that included leadership, entrepreneurship, business planning, and communications.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

OCTOBER 7, 2013

She will be working with the Foundation’s multiple grantmaking programs on myriad projects. As a Visiting Scholar, Bernholz will advance the Foundation’s literacy on a range of issues, particularly digital civil society, open data, and social good. In 2011, Bernholz sold her consulting firm, Blueprint Research & Design, Inc.

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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

OCTOBER 2, 2014

Over the past two decades of teaching workshops to nonprofits on the use of technology for mission-driven work and more recently on the use of online networks and data, people come workshops with different degrees of organizational readiness to embrace change that is needed to be successful.

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Have Fun - Do Good

AUGUST 31, 2006

In early July, I posted about a Basic Blogging for Women Workshop I'd be teaching this fall, but after talking to some prospective students, I decided that it was important to find a space where everyone could be on a computer, so I changed the date and the venue so that we can be in a computer lab. 125 if received after October 9th.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JANUARY 4, 2016

These include a review of the year’s accomplishments and focus setting: Peter Bregman’s theme for the year , and Chris Brogan’s “ My Three Words .” This year, I’m adding a technique from Gretchen Rubin, author of the Happiness Project to establish and track good habits on a monthly basis.

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Museum 2.0

MARCH 18, 2015

In a Community Science Workshop. A couple months ago, I visited a Community Science Workshop for the first time in Watsonville, CA. I sat down with Emilyn Green, Executive Director of the Community Science Workshop Network , to learn more about their history, design, and engagement strategy. How are Workshop locations selected?

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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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Saleforce Nonprofit

APRIL 12, 2021

UMass Amherst also boasts an efficient recycling program and one of New England’s largest solar panel projects. With a new asset class and a confluence of technologies enabling our software platform, we can now achieve the mission of retrofitting buildings in underserved communities,” said Donnel Baird, CEO. About the Author.

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Have Fun - Do Good

JULY 3, 2011

She's known for the Pop-Up General Store , Tartine Afterhours dinners , Home Ec Cooking Classes , and the nationwide Bakesale for Japan that raised $140,000. Her newest project is organizing Chez Panisse Foundation's Eating for Education , a grassroots effort to create national awareness about school kitchen/garden programs.

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The Science Behind Engaging your Supporters

OCTOBER 9, 2018

By working your network and projecting your values, you can get people excited about your campaign and grow the volunteer base that you need. You can do a background check, research their online presence, and even require volunteers to take an intensive workshop or class before coming into contact with your clients.

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Have Fun - Do Good

JANUARY 17, 2011

I have two blogging workshops coming up, one online and one in San Francisco, that I thought might interest you. 207 (between 19th and 20th streets) San Francisco, CA Investment $95 for members/$110 for non-members To register, go to writingsalons.com Testimonials from Blogging for Writers Students “Britt’s class exceeded my expectations.

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ASU Lodestar Center

JANUARY 27, 2016

posted by Maureen West Project Manager, Social Impact Measurement ASU Lodestar Center. The Arizona nonprofit, Lost Our Home Pet Rescue, is providing the pet care expertise for Sojourner’s project. We have a new certificate program in social impact measurement, with the next class starting in April.

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ASU Lodestar Center

JANUARY 27, 2016

posted by Maureen West Project Manager, Social Impact Measurement ASU Lodestar Center. The Arizona nonprofit, Lost Our Home Pet Rescue, is providing the pet care expertise for Sojourner’s project. We have a new certificate program in social impact measurement, with the next class starting in April.

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Tech Soup

OCTOBER 17, 2012

As part of the Transforming Communities project, we had the opportunity to explore apps targeted toward youth as well as apps developed by youth. Transforming Communities is a Microsoft-funded initiative that builds on what TechSoup and Microsoft already learned through the first App It Up project.

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Beneblog: Technology Meets Society

OCTOBER 19, 2008

For me, it was a chance to meet practitioners using our Miradi conservation project management software. Right before I went to the conference I received a copy of the Proceedings of the Appalachian Salamander Conservation Workshop, held this past May. And sprinkled throughout the report were graphics clearly from our Miradi software!

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Have Fun - Do Good

MARCH 7, 2011

I had gone to classes on and off before coming to California but regularly left before savasana, the rest period at the end of class where the mind is invited to be still. Soon after, I had the opportunity to write about a Bay Area non-profit, the Art of Yoga Project , that brings yoga, writing, and arts to girls in juvenile hall.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JANUARY 2, 2015

Facilitator for Learning Network: Most of my work is designing and delivering capacity building projects for nonprofits literally all over the world and here in the US. In the US, I keynoted and gave workshops at nonprofit conferences in Pittsburgh , North Carolina , Buffalo , and Omaha. Year in Review. My Three Words.

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ASU Lodestar Center

JULY 9, 2014

The second year allies led us in two service projects this year. This event also provided a workshop for parents about Be a Leader’s resources to help their children go on to college. We’re Public Allies Arizona Class of 2014 and we all are going to keep getting things done for America. This is just the beginning.

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ASU Lodestar Center

FEBRUARY 16, 2016

posted by Maureen West Project Manager, Social Impact Measurement ASU Lodestar Center. We have a new certificate program in social impact measurement, with the next class starting in April. Through a cohort workshop process, organizations prepare to develop and execute effective evaluations. Photo by Nick Henry).

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Museum 2.0

DECEMBER 11, 2007

This is not an analytical post (primarily); it's an announcement and invitation to join the new project I've been working on with The Tech Museum of Innovation in San Jose, CA. The Tech Virtual is a project that allows people to conceptualize and prototype exhibits online. I don't see Second Life as the meat of this project.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MAY 17, 2011

Mayer’s research is from the 1990s, but the finders were recently validated again in a study from Carl Wieman that college students learn more, attend class at higher rates and are more engaged in their education when teachers take a more interactive approach in the classroom. This mirrors what you might do in a face-to-face workshop.

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Museum 2.0

NOVEMBER 18, 2014

While informal involvement or input for a specific project is always useful, there''s also value to more sustained participation--and the relationships and accountability that comes with it. CON: can make people feel like second-class board members instead of equal leaders in the organization. Meet them here.

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Have Fun - Do Good

SEPTEMBER 25, 2012

My in-box was so full of have fun, do good books, films, events and classes to share with you I decided to gather them all into one post. The Art of Leadership is a, "retreat workshop for social change leaders from the nonprofit, philanthropic, labor and socially responsible business sectors." I'm completely biased!

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

AUGUST 5, 2007

About a month ago, Globels announced the first five citizen media outreach projects to receive Rising s microgrants. This video blogging workshop in Columbia caught my eye: ??lvaro originally submitted two separate project proposals both focused on working class neighborhoods in Medell??n lvaro Ramirez and Mauricio M??nera

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

NOVEMBER 13, 2012

It was the last keynote of the day and it was a long day, so I improvised a movement exercise that involved some Samba movements to keep them engaged (see my post over at the Chronicle ). Now, I can’t wait for my international projects in 2013! Teens As Free Agents. ” Philantroteens.

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Tech Soup

APRIL 23, 2014

Many nonprofit employees don't have time to sit through a day-long class. "When training is done well online, you get the same quality you get in the in-person interactive workshops," said Berry. How can you make it the very best class for you and your staff? Online training allows participants to pace themselves.

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Have Fun - Do Good

FEBRUARY 22, 2012

It was a natural choice for me, as an artist, to begin holding workshops for women and girls using creativity as a way for my own self expression and dreams to emerge. During these workshops I felt a peace that seemed to resonate around the room. Traveling Postcards workshops are easy and fun for everyone.

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