Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

OCTOBER 2, 2014

I love teaching (and learning) and it was a pleasure to work with students, nonprofits, and faculty. One thing I realized is that training social workers receive as part of their education is also very relevant for change makers inside of nonprofits, consultants, and trainers. Training Design'

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Qgiv

FEBRUARY 1, 2023

About Black History Month Black History Month began when Harvard-trained historian Carter G. They help hundreds of students every year and 96% of their classes consist of students who are people of color and 67% of their students identify as women. Donate to support their mission here.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MARCH 22, 2013

All of my work these days is focused on designing and delivering effective training for nonprofits -primarily on the topics of social media, strategy, networks, and measurement. I’m also doing a lot of training of other trainers. The event kicks off a semester long internship for students working with nonprofits.

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Qgiv

FEBRUARY 17, 2022

Byte Back is a nonprofit computer skills and career training center located in Washington, D.C. In the mid-1990s, Glenn met with his friend Barbara Altman to share his idea of opening a computer and career training center in Honduras. They expanded classes to Baltimore in 2019 after winning CAD $1 million in the TD Ready Challenge.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

OCTOBER 6, 2014

The MOOC , is a Stanford University-sponsored FREE online course intended to teach givers of all ages, backgrounds, incomes and experiences to give more effectively. Participants will do a real-time grantmaking process during which up to $100,000 of Learning By Giving Foundation capital will be allocated to student-selected nonprofits.

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Eric Jacobsen Blog

FEBRUARY 5, 2024

This book is the result of what we have learned teaching leadership and business acumen classes to rising and senior leaders at Fortune 500 companies for twenty years,” share authors Nathan Kracklauer and Bjorn Billhardt. In addition, the book provides an excellent glossary of most used terms within business.

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Media Cause

SEPTEMBER 30, 2021

We pivoted from in-person body alignment corrections and preparing for national tours and performances to ensuring all educators and students had the appropriate platforms and technology to just attend one class. teaching artists who directly interacted with students. These changes did not happen overnight.

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Saleforce Nonprofit

OCTOBER 7, 2021

Thanks to global entertainers like Lady Gaga and Dwayne “The Rock” Johnson, and world-class athletes like Kevin Love and Simone Biles, there’s already a shift toward candid public conversations, making mental health far less stigmatized than ever.

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Eric Jacobsen Blog

APRIL 24, 2021

For Students , adapted from Brian Tracy ’s time-management bestseller, Eat That Frog , which has sold more than 2.4 This new edition addresses the specific needs of high school and college students , teaching them readily actionable time-management methods, techniques and strategies. A student’s life is completely different.

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NTEN

NOVEMBER 3, 2011

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. It's a class about marketing, right? By Lindsay Bealko, Principal, Toolkit Consulting.

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MARCH 29, 2023

Student Many students are required to volunteer for a certain number of hours to fulfill requirements for their classes or clubs. In addition, many high school and college students participate in service-learning projects, which combine elements of education and volunteerism. Teaching volunteers valuable life skills.

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Tech Soup

JANUARY 14, 2013

For nonprofits, libraries, and their constituents, training is esse ntial to keep knowledge and skills up to date. Whether your organization is training its own staff in nonprofit management, or teaching others technical skills, TechSoup can help you get started. Train on Over 150 Products with Atomic Training.

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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. They gave the students tests based on content and scored them. They gave the students tests based on content and scored them. And the resulting graph is the analysis of 1200 students.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MAY 16, 2012

After the ACE leadership training, I had the opportunity to spend a day in Kigali. I volunteered to do a Social Media and Professional Networking workshop for second year students at the Akilah Institute for Women. I got an opportunity to do a workshop with second year students during their IT class. Akilah workshop.

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ASU Lodestar Center

JUNE 12, 2013

For the past six months I have worked with YWCA Maricopa County , expanding its Own It Financial Education program , which provides low-income women and families a free education teaching them how to become financially stable and independent. One of the first classes I organized at the YW was for a group of young teenage mothers.

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Have Fun - Do Good

DECEMBER 8, 2013

Learning After working as a communications consultant since May for Rockwood Leadership Institute , I finally had the opportunity to participate in their signature personal leadership development training, The Art of Leadership. If you''re a fan of children''s lit, I''d love to hear your suggestions.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

DECEMBER 31, 2013

Since were are on the Mediterranean Sea, I did the final reflective exercise as a walk on the beach. I got to perfect it when I taught master classes and workshops for NGOs and activists in New Zealand and Australia. But, it isn’t just about learning new techniques or ideas. Learn: Learning is not just for kids or students.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JANUARY 4, 2016

Innovation Lab Facilitation : For the past few years, I’ve trained in and designed and facilitated innovation labs using the Luma Institute Methods. I was honored to lead a featured season at the United Way Leadership Conference on Networked Leadership and teach many workshops networked leadership skills.

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Connection Cafe

JUNE 24, 2013

One of my favorite assignments, though, is what we call “Train the Trainer” (T3), where I will work with a group of folks who will later put on a different hat and train their colleagues on new software. Not just for training. The glow of pride in these presenters would make my day every time. Back to the basics. You bet it is.

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Tech Soup

JULY 16, 2013

Libraries, nonprofits, and schools are already working hard to teach digital skills and competency, but they need support of the entire community to help people thrive in the technology age. Access to technology is important, but teaching computer and information technology skills is just as vital. The Role of Schools. A United Front.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

APRIL 1, 2014

Last month I had the pleasure of taking the Luma Institute Train the Trainers workshop where I got a chance to immerse in practicing facilitation techniques based on human centered design principles. The workshop instructor Peter Maher is founder and CEO, of Luma Institute , and a Jedi Master.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JANUARY 2, 2015

In addition, I presented a webinar on training design and facilitated a session on nonprofit technology training design at NTC. I wrote many posts on instructional design for nonprofit training , including this wrap up post from our NTEN NTC session on teaching and learning for nonprofits.

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Tech Soup

JULY 14, 2015

It has trained more than 470 students seventh grade and up in 13 libraries throughout Silicon Valley. Students bring their own laptops to a public library, and receive instruction from high school-aged instructors. The Power of Kids Teaching Kids. We also know how to make it fun for kids and keep them interested."

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Gyrus

JUNE 28, 2016

But even then, I often felt my mind drifting off in class, doodled on notes, or encountered moments where I was not motivated enough to attempt to process the course content. The best instructors and course developers are able to evaluate how their student’s learn and cater their offerings to get the best out of the situation.

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Tech Soup

MARCH 10, 2015

It was there that she discovered her passion for teaching others: "When I was working with kids with autism or ADHD, something happened within me where I identified with their experiences. Not every student can be reached in person. New Heights has used Citrix GoToMeeting to connect teachers and tutors with students.

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Gyrus

SEPTEMBER 30, 2016

Systems are capable of not only organizing Instructor-Led Training (ILT), but they now house E-Learnings, Gamification, Mobile Learnings, and alternative learning objects. In this moment of time, we as an industry are shifting focus, from ways to effectively deliver the highest quality training, towards a new vantage altogether.

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Tech Soup

MARCH 5, 2014

Purchasing Adobe Creative Suite 6 Design through TechSoup made it possible to offer training in Photoshop and Premier Pro. It is now more of a community center that offers training and facilitates events. They recruited a local volunteer to teach the kids Adobe InDesign to lay out the publication.

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Tech Soup

JULY 18, 2017

nonprofits like Teach for America take on the hard work of rebuilding and reinventing education in places where schools have failed or where dropout rates among low-income children are very high. They’re now to the point where each student has access to an individual computer workstation during classes. Even in the U.S.,

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Tech Soup

AUGUST 19, 2011

Yesterday, I had the pleasure of speaking with My PC program manager Todd Watts on the TechSoup webinar, Free Windows 7 Curriculum: Basic Computer Training at Your Library or Nonprofit. You could start off by downloading the curriculum on the My PC Program page , or you could take a look at the class handouts on the My PC Student page.

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Beneblog: Technology Meets Society

DECEMBER 11, 2006

To my delight, the Akshay Pratishthan school had a focus on teaching students with disabilities: roughly half the students had disabilities and were mainstreamed with students without disabilities. First of all, they provide training for school staff and teachers on using the computers in education.

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Have Fun - Do Good

JANUARY 18, 2008

The article profiles The Op-Ed Project, a training created by writer Catherine Orenstein to teach people how to write for the Op-Ed pages. Katie teaches her students how to push beyond that feeling so that we get our ideas out there. When she asks students, 'What are you an expert in?' writing women Op-Ed

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ASU Lodestar Center

MAY 17, 2011

But I think it fits the graduating class of American Humanics (AH) students, all 18 of them. The 18 students being recognized at the annual graduation celebration will have completed all requirements during the spring, summer, and fall semesters of 2011. Can You Teach a Watchdog New Tricks? Marine Corps. So, sue me!

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Tech Soup

SEPTEMBER 4, 2012

nonprofits like Teach for America take on the hard work of rebuilding and reinventing education in places where schools have failed or where dropout rates among low-income children are very high. They’re now to the point where each student has access to an individual computer workstation during classes. Even in the U.S.,

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ASU Lodestar Center

APRIL 15, 2011

NMI students agree; however, they additionally rank high their interest in learning about strategic planning, board governance, grant writing, marketing, program evaluation, and social entrepreneurship. Therefore, they prefer to hire experienced professionals—or those who have training in nonprofit leadership and management skills.

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Tech Soup

JUNE 22, 2015

Veterans Organic Garden is a visionary job training and rehabilitation program for disabled veterans developed by Lovay Wallace-Singleton. The project provides paid internships and organic gardening job skills training for unemployed and low-income veterans, as well as rehabilitation therapy through gardening.

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NTEN

APRIL 25, 2012

I often get the comment during a leadership seminar I teach that goes something like, "Well this is all well and good for large organizations, but what about my twelve-person NGO?" Training on a hoard of ICT topics is available on-line and in the classroom. Larger corporations have training departments and a multi-prong syllabus.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

DECEMBER 15, 2006

we will have witnesses and student-lawyers speak in text under disciplines of civility and rules of evidence, subject to objection by opponents and ruling by the judge, who will be me. This is most likely so far from the everyday training and professional development needs of most nonprofits.

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