Get Fully Funded

APRIL 23, 2023

In fact, here’s my list of 7 ‘must do’s’ when thanking donors, so the donor feels warm and fuzzy about the donation they just made and is receptive to giving the next time you ask. Take your time. Writing a meaningful thank-you note that will touch the donor’s heart takes time. And they wonder if you have your act together.

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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. It was delivered in two sessions.

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Design Effective Experiment Learning 107

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JANUARY 27, 2014

Many times, it means both the “doer” and the “decision maker.”. In addition, I do a little real-time assessment in the room by doing “raise your hand” polls or in a webinar by using the polling feature. This can help you adjust in real-time to the audience needs or what I call a real-time pivot.

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Instructional Design Instruction Instructional Training 111

Have Fun - Do Good

APRIL 7, 2011

Just wanted to let you know that I'll be teaching my Blogging for Writers workshop May 15th from 10 AM-4 PM in the cozy Writing Salon classroom at the Strawberry Creek Design Center in Berkeley. The workshop is great for newbies, and for folks who want to breathe new life into an old blog. You can register on the Writing Salon website.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JANUARY 5, 2012

Content delivery is less important then the skill to making sense of it and that needs to be what “classroom time” is about. He expects students to read the assignment before they come to class so that instructional time can be spent helping them make sense of it and apply to their work. Begin Connections.

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Experiment Learning Create Exercise 116

Gyrus

NOVEMBER 1, 2016

The Greek Philosopher, Heraclitus, was recorded multiple times for saying “Change is the only constant in life.” Organizations are most effective when they grow organically, with this growth, comes a new wealth of knowledge, which can make for a timely addition to the learning mix. Effectiveness of Content.

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Process Business Learning Blended 61

Qgiv

AUGUST 29, 2022

Finding time to sit down and read isn’t always easy in people’s busy lives. A read-a-thon is a type of peer-to-peer fundraiser where participants are challenged to read as many books as they can in a specified period of time. What is a read-a-thon fundraiser? Spread the word.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

DECEMBER 23, 2009

And it gets you way from your computer - you can get exercise! There is a scaling system for Karma points - for example supporting a classroom is five points while sending a book to a library in a developing country is 100. The design seems to encourage me to translate my Karma to donations every time I earn them.

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Application Mobile Philanthropy Sudan 97

Gyrus

JULY 12, 2016

Elearnings as a whole are very attractive, as they offer an inexpensive alternative to classroom training. When building eLearnings it is necessary to consult people who teach and record their methodologies in making sure a message maintains its pertinence over time. Interactive. I like to refer to this as the Sesame Street Rule.

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eLearning Learning Instruction Instructional 63

Have Fun - Do Good

FEBRUARY 9, 2011

Space matters Example: Kindergarten classrooms where you can sit on the floor, move things around, be messy, work with others easily, and have space to move, encourage creativity. Time Too much pressure can inhibit creativity, but a little, like when you're trying to reach a goal, can stimulate it.

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Attitude Student Classroom Problem 105

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

FEBRUARY 19, 2015

meetings per week and estimates that half of these sessions are a huge waste of time! Many times meetings fail because there is not a clear reason to have a meeting – so Andrea suggested, “Consider not meeting.” Another point that Andrea made was “Start on time, end on time.”

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Work Culture Classroom Product 50

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MARCH 17, 2017

I facilitated a number of openings, but we also got to experience a few opening exercises they use at the Starfish School. The challenge is getting people’s attention when time is up because the noise level goes up. ” And I walked through the middle of line with the noisemakers telling them it was time to change.

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Open Guatemala Tips Training 70

Museum 2.0

SEPTEMBER 17, 2019

After the International Committee on Museums spent some time debating the definition of museums, many folks took up the charge on social media to give their own definitions. I don’t enjoy swimming in pools or anything that seems like exercise; I have definitely never done a flip off the high dive. We need new #MuseumVerbs.

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Amy Sample Ward

JUNE 21, 2011

But what that means is that you’ve created a space where you’re unlikely to fail and you’ve also capped the upside opportunity for dramatic improvement, but youv’e also taken the system and created something that doesn’t let professionals exercise judgement. I think we will see a lot more of it.

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Game Education Change Classroom 132

Forj

JULY 8, 2021

Perhaps it was a multiple-choice final exam or an essay-style test printed in double-spaced Times New Roman. Assessments are closely tied to learning objectives, or what you want members to have learned by the time they complete the course. What did the last assessment that you took look like? Fill in the Blank.

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eLearning Course Test Knowledge 69

BoardAssist

MARCH 1, 2016

Tip: Try this mingle exercise with your board — or simply go around the table and ask people to share their stories. Alas, so many board meetings are stuck in dry business discussions — far away from the urgent, tough work in the field, on the stage, in the lab, in the classroom. Feel that their time is used wisely.

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Tips PowerPoint Classroom Attitude 40

Museum 2.0

OCTOBER 12, 2017

It's 8am in the classroom; 5am in my body. Don't take your pen off the paper until the time is up. We took 30 minutes for the exercise. A cheerful curly-haired deli owner stands in front of 30 of us and shares a quote he loves: "Artists live in the present and write detailed histories of the future."

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History Pennsylvania Michigan Indiana 26

NTEN

JUNE 21, 2011

But what that means is that you've created a space where you're unlikely to fail and you've also capped the upside opportunity for dramatic improvement, but you've also taken the system and created something that doesn't let professionals exercise judgement. Spending more time on the same old thing hasn't shown to make that impact.

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Game Education Change Classroom 60

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JUNE 27, 2006

The cycles get closer together until the thinking while doing happen at the same time. Audience exercise: Asked us to think about a shameful experience in the last 3-5 years and get in touch with the that feeling. Someone who takes action and reflect on it. We can create a game based on these concepts and build epistemic games.

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Education Mobile Game Exercise 50

Museum 2.0

JULY 6, 2016

For the last time this summer, I'm sharing a chapter from my new book The Art of Relevance to celebrate its release. Today, there are thirty kids fidgeting in a classroom, talking to their friends, messing with their phones. Come work in the fields, grow organic vegetables, do leadership exercises, and eat healthy food.

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Teen Arts Classroom Student 25

Nonprofit Tech for Good

MARCH 25, 2022

They offer a chance to dress up, get together with others, and have a good time — while also raising money for a good cause. Maybe you could even send out dinner packages to all of your guests ahead of time so they get the full dining experience as well. Events are many people’s favorite thing about charity fundraising.

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Virtual Ideas Fundraising Stream 346

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

APRIL 18, 2007

Discovery Exercise (from 23 things ). Discovery Exercise. When you take the time to comment on a post, you become part of the blogger's community and if you are writing a blog, they will most definitely read your post and perhaps become a reader of your blog. Discover Exercise. Here's how to search on Technorati.

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Remix Professional Technorati Wiki 50

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. Lifelab is a group that has been doing this for a long time. So [that] kind of kept me energized.

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Interview San Francisco Classroom Classes 40

Bloomerang

NOVEMBER 13, 2021

You should have it by dinner time, that’s my promise to you. We’re going to try to save a little bit of time for Q&A at the end, but don’t be shy about that. dang, this is a great topic, this is so timely as people are, you know, perhaps getting annual reports together. So how do we know what to track?

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Report Measure Impact Process 80

Gyrus

APRIL 3, 2018

The Greek Philosopher, Heraclitus, was recorded multiple times for saying “Change is the only constant in life.” Organizations are most effective when they grow organically, with this growth, comes a new wealth of knowledge, which can make a timely addition to the learning mix. Effectiveness of Content.

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Process Business Learning Training 49

Bloomerang

SEPTEMBER 24, 2021

Community engagement, though at times unwieldy and time-consuming, is critical to truly propel all variables towards a common goal. We’re going to save some time at the end for Q&A so don’t be shy, don’t sit on those hands. They want to invest more time, more resources. I’ve got 1:00 Eastern.

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Community Video Slides Survey 78

Museum 2.0

DECEMBER 19, 2008

Outreach Let’s say you run your museum's education department, and you have two vans that go out to schools to do in-classroom programs exposing students to museum content. It might be worth going through an exercise where your team says, "Making a PBS half hour program would cost X. Let's look at these one by one.

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Virtual Museum North Carolina Evaluation 20

Non Profit Quarterly

OCTOBER 7, 2021

Rob Reich: Big philanthropy is an exercise of power, and wherever there is concentrated power in a democratic society, the civic attitude toward it should be scrutiny, not gratitude. We have all kinds of rules that make driving safer for everyone, while at the same time expecting people to take safety seriously on a personal level.

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