ASU Lodestar Center

OCTOBER 16, 2020

Identify champions and people to work with. These are the people who will get the ECB ball rolling and actively manage the ECB process. People who understand or intuitively value evaluation. Staff who know the program, the people, and the culture well. What does the decision making and organizational structure look like?

Evaluation 52

Evaluation Program Attitude Nonprofit 52

Beneblog: Technology Meets Society

JUNE 23, 2014

How can our existing successful programs reach ten times more people? How can we use technology in a new way to improve people’s lives that is an order of magnitude better? The next 10X opportunity is to go global, by ramping up Bookshare International to serve the millions of people with print disabilities worldwide.

Literacy 158

Literacy eBook United Kingdom Accessibility 158

Have Fun - Do Good

NOVEMBER 13, 2011

In conjunction with Aulas en Paz (Peaceable Classrooms), a multi-component pedagogical project designed to promote social and civic competencies and conflict resolution among primary-school students, Dance 4 Peace was designed, implemented, and evaluted in public schools in the outskirts of Bogotá.

Podcast 69

Podcast Colombia New York City Kenya 69

ASU Lodestar Center

JANUARY 29, 2014

Student seeking the Certified Nonprofit Professional (CNP) credential from over 40 campuses across the country attend workshops, hear from national leaders and provide the host community with opportunities to learn from student case studies. The people I learned the most from were Don Lindner and Dr. Robert Ashcraft.

Leadership 49

Leadership Reflection Arizona Student 49

Tech Soup

OCTOBER 17, 2012

Additionally, Microsoft recently announced its YouthSpark initiative, which aims to create opportunities for 300 million young people over the next three years. These apps encourage young people to get involved in civic and political issues. The app was a finalist in Microsoft's 2011 Imagine Cup, a student technology competition.

Teen 65

Teen Netsquared Student Library 65

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JANUARY 27, 2014

This is where you identify the learning goals, audience needs, existing knowledge, and other background by doing audience research. Ideally, audience research should be done before you design your workshop or course. I have learned the feng shui of how classroom setup impacts interaction and learning.

Instructional Design 111

Instructional Design Instruction Instructional Training 111

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MAY 17, 2011

If you deliver training on webinar platforms, you need to understand how people learn. This mirrors what you might do in a face-to-face workshop. Present a concept for 15 minutes, break people into small groups with a particular exercise to apply the material, and then come back as a full group for a report out.

Design 107

Design Effective Experiment Learning 107

Neon CRM

SEPTEMBER 21, 2023

Cyclists sign up for the ride and seek out people in their network to sponsor their participation. One of the reasons that challenge events work so well is something called the “martyrdom effect” which finds people feel better about a thing if they have to undergo adversity to achieve it. Use that to your advantage! Yes, they are!

Ideas 52

Ideas People Local Classes 52

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JANUARY 4, 2016

I also taught networked leadership workshops as part of a larger team working with different social change networks. In the US, I gave workshops at nonprofit conferences in Iowa, San Antonio, Iowa, Tahoe, Palm Beach, Miami, and San Francisco on networked leadership skills.

Iowa 50

Iowa Facilitation Teach San Antonio 50

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. 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.

Experiment 116

Experiment Learning Create Exercise 116

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MARCH 17, 2017

Even if your group consists of a team of people who work together regularly, it is still a good idea to ease them into the training with a good opener. (2) It maximizes the opportunity for people to connect and be comfortable. We kept doing this until people had a chance to have conversations with about dozen people in the group.

Open 70

Open Guatemala Tips Training 70

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

FEBRUARY 14, 2008

Last week, I did a workshop for a board of a secondary school interested in taking the first steps into social media. While I was there, I got a tour, visited some classrooms, and talked to a few students. In one classroom, I queried the students about their social media use. No surprise there. s surveillance.???

RSS 50

RSS Twitter Digital Classroom 50

The Science Behind Engaging your Supporters

NOVEMBER 27, 2018

The Alliance Management Institute (AMI) is a capstone experience for students seeking the Certified Nonprofit Professional (CNP) credential. ACCP: The Conference features General Sessions, Learning Labs, Workshops, and The Masters’ Series. Alliance Management Institute (AMI). Nonprofit Leadership Alliance / Orlando, FL/ $625.

Calendar 111

Calendar Conference Las Vegas San Diego 111

Have Fun - Do Good

AUGUST 2, 2006

I work with a co-facilitator and we visit sixth grade language arts and social studies classes for two-week writing workshops. Our writing workshops focus on autobiographical writing and storytelling, and we actually do a lot of storytelling performance and theater with the students.

San Francisco 40

San Francisco Classroom Student Language 40

Museum 2.0

APRIL 23, 2007

Okay, they don't eat people's brains. Heck, many of them are intelligent, sincere, interesting people. Following a standardized curriculum to prepare for work in the museum field homogenizes the perspectives and skills people bring to museum jobs. The students designed and fabricated prototype pieces of an upcoming exhibition.

Museum 51

Museum Program Student Skills 51

Museum 2.0

JUNE 8, 2010

Our visitors range from local church families, Schwenkfelder descendants, homeschoolers, charter and private school students, local historians, special interest groups such as the Questers, lifelong learning groups, and more. These young students submitted illustrated storybooks to a student art exhibit at the SLHC last year.

Place 27

Place Museum Discussion Pennsylvania 27

Museum 2.0

AUGUST 8, 2010

I was fascinated by the project’s innovative approach to collecting, sharing, and connecting people through locally-produced media. When we have a critical mass of new people, anywhere from 3-7 a month, I try to explain the project as briefly as possible. Nell will be responding to comments on this blog and can also be reached here.

Chicago 48

Chicago Library Public Culture 48

Museum 2.0

MARCH 18, 2008

In the museum world, we often talk about lowering barriers to entry, helping people get through the door. Instead of classrooms or mission statements, first time visitors enter 826 Valencia through the storefront Pirate Supply Store. Put it in their neighborhood, pattern it after its neighbors, and people will come.

Education 21

Education Museum Audience Design 21

Kindful

NOVEMBER 26, 2022

For example, it’s much more compelling to say that making a $25 monthly donation would allow your nonprofit to provide school supplies to 50 students than just asking your supporters to sign up to donate $25 every month. You can even workshop the name among staff members or long-time supporters to gather input. Source: charity: water.

Examples 67

Examples Program Giving Conservancy 67

Bloomerang

NOVEMBER 13, 2021

dang, this is a great topic, this is so timely as people are, you know, perhaps getting annual reports together. So I know that question is going to pop up a lot in the chat as people continue to join throughout the hour but we’re going to jump right in. Steven: That’s good, it’s beautiful. We welcome your questions.

Report 81

Report Measure Impact Process 81

Museum 2.0

DECEMBER 19, 2008

It's very simple to calculate: you take the total operating expenses for your public-facing efforts and divide by the number of people who walk through the door. Or is it worth more because the museum content is reaching people in distant lands who would otherwise never have engaged with the institution?

Virtual 20

Virtual Museum North Carolina Evaluation 20