Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

SEPTEMBER 8, 2017

This week I was honored to teach a Happy Healthy Nonprofit Workshop at the 1440 Multiversity Nonprofit Service Week. This past week they opened up the campus to nonprofits and I was lucky enough to be part of the faculty to teach a workshop. The photo was my classroom. They also teach yoga and meditation classes in this room.

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JULY 18, 2013

New employees were given a variety of simulations to see how they''d respond and work together in different scenarios. They discovered three things: Millennials focused on individual strengths to determine how to divvy up the work. As a whole, millennials embodied the notion of bringing one''s "whole self" to work.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JANUARY 4, 2017

” I use it for planning my work flow for the day, week, month, and quarter and to reflect along the way. I don’t set goals, but use the themes to guide the type of work I will take on, what I want to write about on my blog as well as my professional reading and professional development. Year in Review.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

OCTOBER 2, 2013

They are also working on software that uses this approach in the classroom and takes the passivity and lectures out of classroom instruction. In the 60 minutes piece, it is referred to the flipped classroom or peer instruction a mindset that directs attention away from teachers and puts it squarely on the students and their learning.

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JULY 12, 2016

As we become increasingly dependent on our technology, it only makes sense that it teach us as well. Elearnings as a whole are very attractive, as they offer an inexpensive alternative to classroom training. If there is an opportunity to aid the teachings with text, then, by all means, include it as an option. Learning Styles.

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Bloomerang

MAY 6, 2022

Similar to the funders in my previous post on education , the organizations listed below focus their efforts on activities inside and outside of the classroom. These are given on a no-strings-attached basis to people and groups working on “awesome projects.” . Digitunity is working to ensure everyone who needs a computer has one. .

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Museum 2.0

SEPTEMBER 17, 2019

But I think the big difference in sports is that people know what to look for. Fostering these engagements with ideas and collections is key to our work. Teach is a big one. We love when we teach with a capital T, like exhibitions and university classes. Teaching is a core. Our visitors see and do in our galleries.

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Kindful

AUGUST 9, 2021

Foundations in the United States focus their funding priorities on many different issues. Grant research tip : As you look over the list and peruse potential funders, take notes of those who best align with your work. Education is one of the more popular issues that many foundations focus on. Mellon Foundation. The Andrew W.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JULY 27, 2008

For the past two weeks, he has been teaching ??? " The course had no existing curriculum and it provided a real life laboratory for him to have the curriculum come out of the community interactions that were happening in the classroom. The learners found that they could work together and rely on each other. the sense of ???competition???

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JANUARY 4, 2016

During January, I review my work routines, systems, and rituals to redesign or tweak them to improve productivity. Rituals and routines have many benefits for your personal effectiveness. I also taught networked leadership workshops as part of a larger team working with different social change networks.

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Tech Soup

OCTOBER 10, 2013

Jay said that they support 30 PC in offices, classroom, and a school computer lab. In the school there are two PCs in each classroom, and the 12-station computer lab is used mostly for research. The First Christian Church’s IT system is not much different than any nonprofit school environment. It also has a large Cargill.

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Non Profit Quarterly

DECEMBER 14, 2021

They solicit community members to volunteer, bring them into mission activities, and broadcast their work to the public. Pre-COVID, we could have 10,000 volunteers across the entire city and all the different departments,” she said. And…they know technology, so they’re also an asset to help teach other volunteers.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

APRIL 24, 2011

His comment made me reflect over the past 32 years of working in the nonprofit sector. I had not planned to work in the nonprofit sector. They hired me and it turned into a decade of learning and teaching others (artists, arts organizations, and arts educators) how to integrate this technology into their work and organizations.

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Amy Sample Ward

JUNE 21, 2011

That’s teaching. Fundamentally that’s what teaching should be. I think about innovation and the work about innovation in education in two ways: first, if you have something that is significantly better than the status quo and you are doing it with a few kids, that’s an invention. The long tail is very real.

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Gyrus

AUGUST 17, 2016

Social learning, relied solely on what one could obtain in a classroom setting, working with direct peers, or what could be conveyed back in forth on a phone. Social Learning can best be defined as working with others to understand ideas, concepts, and procedures. Those days are now extraordinarily a thing of the past.

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Have Fun - Do Good

FEBRUARY 9, 2011

Reframe the Problem Example: If you were asked to design a new version of a name tag (like the ones you wear at conferences) you'd probably get versions that were different, but ultimately similar. Keep what works. Seelig is working on a book around these 9 ideas and asked us to tell her which ones resonated with us the most. #6

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Top Nonprofits

JULY 21, 2021

Then, take concrete steps to start making a difference at your organization. Implementing policies and prioritizing DEI best practices will help you start seeing a difference in your own organization. Even after going through training themselves, your leadership probably isn’t qualified to teach the rest of the staff.

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ASU Lodestar Center

AUGUST 3, 2016

When they leave here, I want my students to continue to question, learn, teach, and continue to use their education to change the world. How do all these other people that I engage with also see this place, how do we coexist, and how can we work together to make it more fun, effective, and just for everybody? Any secondary interests?

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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. Wrangle all of your creative kids together and ask them to put their art skills to work creating one-of-a-kind holiday cards. Peer-to-Peer Fundraisers for Kids.

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Qgiv

AUGUST 29, 2022

However, with a read-a-thon fundraiser, you can give your supporters the opportunity to slow down and crack open a book while also teaching young students the value of reading and escaping into exciting stories. Explain how their fundraising efforts will have an impact on the work your organization does. Thank your donors and readers.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JANUARY 27, 2014

Join me for a FREE Webinar: Training Tips that Work for Nonprofits on Jan.29th 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. The physical space you are working in will also help inform your design.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JANUARY 5, 2012

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. It is far less work to slap together a powerpoint presentation and prepare the content. Illustration by Beth Kanter.

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BoardAssist

FEBRUARY 2, 2016

You’re not likely to find much about this responsibility in board job descriptions, but it can make the difference between a nonprofit that flourishes and one that languishes. The board works as a group—and with the ED—to foster communication, transparency, trust, and excitement over a shared vision. Provide balanced feedback.

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BoardAssist

JUNE 7, 2016

Things are no different for board meetings, with one exception: Regular connection to the mission, or “mission moments” are also critical. Susan’s practical approach to fundraising and board development has made her a frequent presenter at conferences and in classrooms, including a course she teaches at Johns Hopkins University.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

AUGUST 16, 2006

I immediately saw the potential of being able to connect to my friends and family across distances and being able to read news and research in my other languages and from different perspectives than the media in the US provided. The past five years I have been teaching Spanish at an Elementary School and serve as the school???s

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NTEN

JUNE 21, 2011

That's teaching. Fundamentally that's what teaching should be. I think about innovation and the work about innovation in education in two ways: first, if you have something that is significantly better than the status quo and you are doing it with a few kids, that's an invention. So how do you do that?

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Forj

JULY 8, 2021

Either way, we’d guess it looked quite different from the eLearning assessment types we’re going to discuss today. Through that work, we’ve seen firsthand the various types of assessments that can be included in an eLearning course. What are the different types of online assessment? Detail a process.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MARCH 2, 2007

I was attempting to summarize a three-way dialogue about Second Life from three brilliant thinkers with differing views about the value of SL. I've been meaning to come back and give these a closer read to see what new ideas emerged and how it different from the thinking/writing back in December. Henry Jenkins [link].

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JANUARY 27, 2010

One participant described this as the "strawberry jam" problem that if the training is trying to cover too much content and too many different levels, than it gets spread too thin. By having the whole group understand at the beginning that there are different levels and how they might react to the material. Know of any?

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Bloomerang

DECEMBER 16, 2021

So if you have to leave early or maybe you get interrupted by a co-worker or a toddler, if you’re working at home or something, don’t worry, we will get all those good things in your hands later on today. And now my clients who I work with regularly raise 10k, six figures and seven-figure gifts unrestricted from individuals.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

AUGUST 29, 2006

I met Janet Salmons many years ago while I working on various arts and technology projects in New York State for the New York Foundation for the Arts. Tell me a little about your professional background, particularly the work you do with nonprofits? I figured out that I could offer teaching, training, consulting activities online.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

AUGUST 4, 2008

It is a story about a grasshopper who has spent the warm months singing away while the ant worked hard to store up food for winter. The story is used to teach the virtues of hard work and preparation. Which one worked best? possibly related classroom projects??? And if you???re

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Connection Cafe

JULY 20, 2015

you realize there isn’t a pot of gold at the end of the DIY rainbow unless you work hard for it. Launched in spring of 2014, Panda Nation was built to empower our supporters to make a difference for wildlife and wild places in whatever way is most meaningful for them. Together, we make up the 1.5

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Have Fun - Do Good

JUNE 20, 2006

Urban Sprouts teaches youth to grow, harvest, prepare, and eat vegetables from the school garden in order to help them to become more engaged in school, eat better, exercise more, and connect with the environment and each other.

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Have Fun - Do Good

AUGUST 2, 2006

Here is a partial transcript from my interview with Viet-Ly: Viet-Ly: Streetside Stories is a nonprofit literacy arts program based in San Francisco and we work with the middle schools -- the public middle schools -- of the San Francisco Unified School District. Britt: What are some of the biggest challenges of the work that you do?

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JUNE 13, 2007

That the old metrics aren't working. If you use web site metrics to evaluate the success of your blog, they don't work for a lot of reasons. There was some push back from someone in the audience "How can we measure virtual worlds when we really haven't yet figured out what works and what doesn't. Two years ago.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

APRIL 24, 2007

The purpose is to promote wider scale discussion and pursuit of collaborative projects among the K12 classrooms. There are approximately 50-60 students in five different countries working together to peer into the future of learning based upon the Horizon Project Report 2007 Edition by the New Media Consortium and Educause (pdf).

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