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What We Can Learn from Finnish NGOS About Resilience
Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media
AUGUST 17, 2017
I had an exciting and busy week of teaching public workshops, facilitating informal staff workshops, and meetings at the Embassy mostly on the topic of Networked Nonprofit, digital strategy, and leading on social media. Before I left for Finland, I read Timothy Walker’s Teach Like Finland: 33 Simple Strategies for Joyful Classrooms.
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How I learned to stop yawning and love the Zoom Room
Candid
MARCH 23, 2022
After two years of teaching online in a variety of formats and structures, one thing that I’ve realized is that when the camera is off, people may be long gone—or at least disengaged. . In a classroom, everyone knows who walks through the door—but sometimes in Zoom, that’s not clear. So, how does that translate to the Zoom Room?
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Training on your new database
Robert Weiner
DECEMBER 21, 2012
The trainer needs to understand the database, present technical concepts clearly and without jargon, teach at the students' level, and be incredibly patient. Also train the team that will be making decisions about the system's configuration at the start of the implementation project. Train them again just before going live.
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Flexible Space: The Secret To Designing Powerful Training
Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media
JANUARY 23, 2014
Graduate Students at MIIS Class Doing Group Exercise in Flexible Classroom Space. Research about the physical space can impact learning, can be found here. The course is about how to leverage networks and social media for learning and impact. The flexible classroom is a large open space.
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Trainer’s Tip: Your Room Set Up Can Make or Break the Learning Experience
Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media
JANUARY 19, 2017
I’ve spent a lot of time trying to understand how the feng shui of a classroom impacts learning. Circles without tables, just chairs helps promote group discussion. Having a large enough space so people can move around and self-organize into small groups also promotes learning.
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Trainer’s Notebook: The Importance of Hands-On Learning
Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media
FEBRUARY 8, 2018
For the past five years, I’ve been an adjunct professor at Middlebury College in Monterey teaching a graduate course called “ Networked International Organizations ” for students pursuing an advanced degree in International Development. That’s why I always enjoy teaching in flexible classroom spaces.
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An Interview with Jessica Rauch about The Generation Project: Passionate about Teaching Young People
Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media
SEPTEMBER 16, 2008
This got me curious about the young people blogging about education or doing projects. Tell me about you Education is my passion. I taught in the Bronx for two years through Teach For America while working toward my M.A. Why are you passionate about teaching young people?
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Mindful News Consumption Tips for Nonprofit Professionals
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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Thursday Thoughts: engaging advocates all year round
EveryAction
JUNE 8, 2023
For example, an action alert message to legislators doesn’t have to be about a specific piece of legislation—it could be educating them or sharing a resource. So, working with our community to define our short-term campaign goals as well as our long-term vision is critical. This can be done through education as well as action.
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Top 2021 Fundraising Strategies: Mastering Relevant Content Marketing
Bloomerang
AUGUST 2, 2021
A story that compels includes a protagonist your audience cares about, important problems that must be overcome, a solution that overcomes the problem (something to root for), and (4) an ending—hopefully a happy one. . Music Lessons and Activities for Your Digital Classroom. What You Need to Know about Critical Race Theory.
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The Triple Bottom Line in India: Software, Quality Education, and Early Learning
Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media
JULY 2, 2012
After I finished teaching an intensive Networked NGO workshop for Packard family planning grantees in Delhi, I headed to Bangalore to visit my friend and colleague, Rufina Fernandes where I conducted a social media workshop for staff and teachers and got see a start up education company and its CSR program, close up. www.enteef.com.
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104 Peeragogy: Self Organized Peer Learning in Networks
Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media
JANUARY 26, 2012
As a trainer, I’m intensely interested in creating learning experiences that integrate or about how to use the technology for nonprofits that engage and inspire people to put the ideas into practice. I’ve been obsessed with peer learning and self-directed learning models in my own learning and the trainings I design and facilitate.
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Leveraging Technology to Respond to Global Crises
Cloud 4 Good
NOVEMBER 9, 2022
In countries with high populations of Ukrainian refugees, CARE launched classrooms with Ukrainian-speaking teachers, so children can have a sense of normalcy and so mothers, grandmothers, and relatives receive a needed break from the children. Success Story: Creating an Omnichannel Marketing Experience with Teach For America.
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Digital Analytics Basics: Free Online Academy from Google
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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3 New Year’s Rituals for Nonprofits That Can Boost Professional Success
Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media
JANUARY 4, 2017
How about you? In early January, I read through the year’s journal and think about accomplishments:What gave me a sense of purpose and feeling of professional fulfillment? The themes are less about exploring something new, but to commit to continuous learning and improvement. I also use it as a year in review tool.
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The 990: From Compliance to Communication
sgEngage
DECEMBER 5, 2022
Demographics data—what do grant recipient and grant descriptions reveal about who benefits from the foundation’s grants? Information about the people leading the foundation. Sometimes that omission tells an inaccurate story about your foundation. Learn more about sharing your data with Candid. In 2017, Martha S.
Ask Britt: Using Twitter to Answer, "What Tools Can I Use to Teach Classes Online?"
Have Fun - Do Good
AUGUST 28, 2008
This week 's question comes from a writing teacher, and client, who wants to know: "What Tools Can I Use to Teach Classes Online?" You can email your question (please keep it to 50 words) about the do-good, or artistic work you are doing, or want to do, to britt@brittbravo.com. I actually didn't know, so I asked my Twitter network.
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Creating Equity in Education With Teach For America + Salesforce Marketing Cloud
Cloud 4 Good
JULY 27, 2021
Teach For America (TFA) is an education nonprofit operating in support of a vision that one day all children in the United States will have the opportunity to attain an equitable and excellent education. The post Creating Equity in Education With Teach For America + Salesforce Marketing Cloud appeared first on Cloud for Good.
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116 Museum Verbs and Defining Who are We.
Museum 2.0
SEPTEMBER 17, 2019
Just looking at things” is a common complaint about museums, often being paired “it’s boring.” I also think about diving at the Olympics. On a recentish trip to the American Museum of Natural History, I watched a group of unrelated people learn about the parts of a T Rex by putting together a puzzle. Teach is a big one.
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36 TechSoup for Libraries Spotlight: Amber Slaven of Bellevue Library
Tech Soup
AUGUST 31, 2011
This one's about Amber Slaven, a librarian who got her start at Bellevue Library with a pretty great gig: driving a Winnebago outfitted as a mobile computer classroom. She also managed up to 100 volunteers at a time to help teach classes in her library system and offered some tips on ensuring a smooth volunteer experience.
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Strengthening program evaluation in your nonprofit
ASU Lodestar Center
OCTOBER 16, 2020
So the evaluator has to consider if they are going to: Teach. Drawing from adult learning theories, ECB utilizes a variety of strategies such as: Vehicle of instruction: face-to-face meetings, teleconferences, classroom style learning, web-based mechanisms, manuals, etc. But the key to success in ECB is participation.
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Happy, Healthy 2016: What’s Your Theme for the Year?
Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media
JANUARY 4, 2016
How about you? I was honored to lead a featured season at the United Way Leadership Conference on Networked Leadership and teach many workshops networked leadership skills. Happy New Year ! I had a wonderful break – filled with fun, family, walking, hiking, reading, quiet, and reflection.
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50 Games for Change Keynote: James Shelton, US Department of Education
Amy Sample Ward
JUNE 21, 2011
This morning we talked about creating clusters of innovation, bringing in various communities, etc. But before we got there, we talked abit about the problem. I want to frame first the opportunity: we often talk about the competitiveness frame in education, that the US used to be number one, and now we are “falling behind.&#
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Blogging for Writers in Berkeley
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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What’s Your Calling?
Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media
APRIL 24, 2011
At SXSW and facilitating a panel called A Global Discussion About Networked Nonprofits and Free Agents , I introduced myself with this photo of me and Lena, the master trainer from Yemen for the E-Mediat Project. It was always peer learning – I’d share about the technology and they’d teach me about their work.
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Tech Soup
OCTOBER 10, 2013
It has a population of about 6,000 people. 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. It strives to teach students responsibility for others. It also has a large Cargill.
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Some Really Insightful Writing About Virtual Environments and Education
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. There was yet a second post today about 3d web. If we do not advocate for effective classroom measures in second life, we will have to take it as it is. Henry Jenkins [link].
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Happy New Year: What’s Your Theme for the Year?
Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media
JANUARY 2, 2015
One of my main projects this past year, and continuing into 2015 was to serve as the facilitator for a learning network of community foundations who are hosting Giving Days, funded by the Knight Foundation. To be successful as a facilitator in a peer learning isn’t about subject matter expertise, although having that knowledge helps.
Weaving the Web Into Teaching and Learning
Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media
MAY 5, 2005
Emily at Emily's World offers her thoughts about "Integrating Web Sites into Teaching." Have you ever taught a topic and thought "I wish I could find a great website about this topic"? " She asks: "As a web designer, I am very interested in the future of educational websites.
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Higher Education Funding & Grant Resources
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. Visit Grantli to learn more about how I do my grant research and writing and how your organization can find even more funders and funding opportunities. The Awesome Foundation.
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Funding & Grant Resources For Nonprofits Focused On Education
Kindful
AUGUST 9, 2021
The educational goals for the funders in this list include increasing postsecondary and higher learning opportunities, advancing innovation inside the classroom, engaging more students in the arts, and enhancing early childhood development, just to name a few. Education is one of the more popular issues that many foundations focus on.
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111 10 Ways Board Members Can Fundraise WITHOUT Asking for Money
NonProfit Hub
MARCH 29, 2016
She is Vice President of Training at Pursuant where she transforms individuals into confident, successful fundraisers through classroom, custom and online training. In every webinar, classroom training or custom training I lead, I get an earful about lackluster boards. She wanted to say, “Sure! Board members are scared.
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What Makes Social Learning so Interesting?
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. In a classroom setting, this is most clearly present in projects in which group work is assigned. Those days are now extraordinarily a thing of the past.
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54 Tina Seelig's 9 Ways to Unlock Your Creativity Quotient
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. She did an exercise Seelig teaches to her students: Pick a random object in your space and figure out how it can help you solve your problem.
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Applying DEI Best Practices for Your Nonprofit
Top Nonprofits
JULY 21, 2021
If you’re new to the topic and how it affects the social good sector or simply have your interest sparked, we highly recommend doing some additional research about DEI for nonprofits. Allow leadership to learn about diversity, equity, and inclusion. Then, take concrete steps to start making a difference at your organization.
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Get to Know the Lodestar Center: Anne Kotleba
ASU Lodestar Center
AUGUST 3, 2016
Education as a tool to extend one’s understanding, build on shared and individual experiences, and think critically about the world. When they leave here, I want my students to continue to question, learn, teach, and continue to use their education to change the world. I’m very grateful to those young people for teaching me so much.
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Remote Technology in the Pandemic: Rebalancing Toward Equity and Access
Non Profit Quarterly
DECEMBER 14, 2021
We like to think that most nonprofits are concerned about their reach toward individuals who might struggle to connect with their offerings, at least in the best of times. and Canada about their technology use. They had a lot to say, both positive and negative, about their technology adaptations in the pandemic.
Your NetSquared Holiday Gift!
Tech Soup
DECEMBER 6, 2013
NetSquared holds free or low cost educational events for people and organizations who want to learn more about using technology for social good. Guatemala City: Teach an Hour of Code in your classroom. Net2Local organizers plan events because they have skills to share, want to give back and want to make the world a better place.
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How to Host a Read-a-thon Fundraiser
Qgiv
AUGUST 29, 2022
And that’s not to mention the hassle that sometimes comes with trying to get young children excited about reading. 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.
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An Interview with Silvia Tolisano of Langwitches Blog
Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media
AUGUST 16, 2006
Silvia Tolisano, Langwitches Blog Tell me about your background? The past five years I have been teaching Spanish at an Elementary School and serve as the school???s I wanted to combine my two passions in teaching: Foreign Languages and Technology. s webmaster. Why did you start Langwitches blog? This Blog is an experiment.
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How To Think Like An Instructional Designer for Your Nonprofit Trainings
Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media
JANUARY 27, 2014
I have learned the feng shui of how classroom setup impacts interaction and learning. For webinars, the platform is your classroom setup, so it important to understand how the Q/A and chat features, whether everyone can see everyone else’s chats or just the presenter. Your design is not just about content. Development.
49 Simple & Successful Fundraising Ideas for Kids
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. Get kids excited about a fundraiser by hosting a pajama day at school. Pick a day and ask for donations to wear PJs and slippers to classes all day.
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Make Your Nonprofit Board Meetings Magical
BoardAssist
JUNE 7, 2016
A regular vehicle for feedback about the meeting. This might include a ten- to fifteen-minute mission moment, or another opportunity for the board to learn about its job. Ideas include financial literacy training, fundraising discussions, or a presentation about a political or economic issue that affects your organization.
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