Cloud 4 Good

OCTOBER 28, 2021

A good fit with employers, especially the training employer, is a solid combination of work-based learning and some academic learning, as well as certification that demonstrates that expertise. What’s not working? Salesforce is a perfect example of a platform that’s powering business, but is very rarely taught in college classrooms.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JULY 2, 2012

One of the first schools was launched in Bangalore, catering to working parents in its technology industry who are seeking high quality pre-school. The profits from the daycare support the school. There are computers and large monitors in each classroom, Internet access, and of course, the software development. www.enteef.com.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

FEBRUARY 19, 2015

Like the flipped classroom model in education, you ask participants to read the reports ahead of time so you can spend more time on discussion versus presentation. Then you are ready to tackle confirming the topic before combustion, which is the discussion and work around meaning-making and decisions. You can read more here.

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Get Fully Funded

APRIL 23, 2023

Your goal should be to write a power-packed thank-you letter that makes the donor think “I love this nonprofit – they do such good work.” a mother of three who works in childcare. Work with your staff and volunteers who work directly with the people you serve to capture stories like this one for sharing in thank-you notes.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

SEPTEMBER 8, 2017

The photo was my classroom. One of the first exercises I do in the workshop is have participants take the “ Nonprofit Passion Fatigue Burnout Assessment.” This beautiful retreat center is located in the Santa Cruz Mountains and offers professional development on a wide range of leadership, wellness, and other topics.

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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

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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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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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

DECEMBER 23, 2009

Today, TechCrunch wrote about a new mobile application called CauseWorld Here's how it works: CauseWorld app users earn “karma points” when they walk into stores and check in with their cell phone. And it gets you way from your computer - you can get exercise! Looks like my observation of fundraising 2.0

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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. 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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Gyrus

NOVEMBER 1, 2016

It appears that the work of a learning professional is never done. Outside of E-Learnings as a newer platform to maximize user buy-in, a variety of efforts are starting to be included into a well-blended mix, such as Social Learning, Gamification, and Micro Learning exercise. Aligning Learning Needs with Business Process.

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Gyrus

JULY 12, 2016

Elearnings as a whole are very attractive, as they offer an inexpensive alternative to classroom training. The benefit of starting from a long time instruction-led situation is that these same instructors know your target demographic, what works for them, and what seems to get swept under the rug. Interactive.

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Amy Sample Ward

JUNE 21, 2011

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. If you have something that everyone is doing but it isn’t really working, that isn’t great either.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MARCH 17, 2017

Wake’s Tech2Empower program organizes delegations of volunteer Technology Advisors, women who work for Silicon Valley companies like Google, Salesforce, Mozilla, YouTube, GE Digital and IRC, to provide training for women’s rights and girls empowerment NGOs in developing countries and here in the United States.

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Qgiv

AUGUST 29, 2022

Not only does reading exercise the brain and improve concentration, but it also helps children develop more advanced language skills and engage their imagination. Explain how their fundraising efforts will have an impact on the work your organization does. Reading boasts a wide range of benefits for both children and adults alike.

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Museum 2.0

SEPTEMBER 17, 2019

I don’t enjoy swimming in pools or anything that seems like exercise; I have definitely never done a flip off the high dive. Fostering these engagements with ideas and collections is key to our work. We often think of our teachers as being less than classroom teachers and our gallery staff as “just” teaching little kids.

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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. Tip: Once you help them understand the urgent work and why it needs to happen — then they might be dashing out the door to ask everyone they know to help. Connect Them to Your Real Work. Data is a lovely thing.

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Forj

JULY 8, 2021

Through that work, we’ve seen firsthand the various types of assessments that can be included in an eLearning course. These exercises can measure knowledge gained, skills learned, or even attitudes or mindsets changed. This is another quick assessment type that works well when embedded within modules. Gamification.

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NTEN

JUNE 21, 2011

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. If you have something that everyone is doing but it isn't really working, that isn't great either.

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Museum 2.0

OCTOBER 12, 2017

It's 8am in the classroom; 5am in my body. What's different about your life, your work? We took 30 minutes for the exercise. Here's what we did: We reconnected about a year-long (already-established) goal to improve our work experience individually and collectively. What does the world look like in that future?

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JUNE 27, 2006

Audience exercise: Asked us to think about a shameful experience in the last 3-5 years and get in touch with the that feeling. The toolkit has three pieces: Web site Classroom curriculum - game intended to be used in the class for roleplaying exercise. If it doesn't work, revise it. Not Sim Doorknocker.

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Museum 2.0

JULY 6, 2016

I firmly believe that all people have something meaningful to contribute to our communities, cultural work, and society at large--including youth. FoodWhat reminds me that it takes real work to unlock that meaning and invite teenagers to step into their own power. Doron doesn’t work with A students or B students. Hanging out.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

APRIL 18, 2007

I'm having to quiet some inner Gollums while working on the presentation materials. An excellent first small step is to just identify the blogs that are hosting those conversations on the topics that interest you or inform your work. Discovery Exercise (from 23 things ). Discovery Exercise. Discover Exercise.

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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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Nonprofit Tech for Good

MARCH 25, 2022

Anything people might want to learn, from hands-on activities such as painting to more classroom-type settings such as Spanish lessons. These types of events also work well alone or in small groups. Be sure to check into the latest exercising apps which make it easy to track your routes and number of calories burned.

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Bloomerang

NOVEMBER 13, 2021

one of my favorite things about our guests is she’s been in her shoes, right, she’s been an ED, she’s been not just a consultant but also has worked for and with nonprofits directly, which is great, over two decades. We have been working together for over 20 years, and love traveling across the country.

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Bloomerang

SEPTEMBER 24, 2021

So if you have to leave early, no worries, if you get interrupted, maybe a kid barges into your room while you’re working from home, no problem, maybe your boss bothers you, don’t worry, we’re going to get all that good stuff in your hands. Julie: Great. Steven: Julie, you’re awesome. And what’s difficult?

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Gyrus

APRIL 3, 2018

It appears that the work of a learning professional is never done. Outside of E-Learnings as a newer platform to maximize user buy-in, a variety of efforts are starting to be included in a well-blended mix, such as Social Learning, Gamification, and Micro Learning exercise. Aligning Learning Needs with Business Process.

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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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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. Today, computer science-types who are solely interested in bettering humanity are certainly around and working hard on a range of initiatives.

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