Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JANUARY 23, 2014

Graduate Students at MIIS Class Doing Group Exercise in Flexible Classroom Space. This month I’ve been teaching graduate class at the Monterey Institute of International Studies based on my books, The Networked Nonprofit and Measuring the Networked Nonprofit. The flexible classroom is a large open space.

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EveryAction

JUNE 8, 2023

If your nonprofit does advocacy, you know that with this work, there are almost always consistent patterns of crisis management leading to later periods of denouement and down time. This will allow you to extend that advocacy campaign as long as possible without running the approval gauntlet multiple times.

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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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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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Bloomerang

AUGUST 2, 2021

The very best time to ask donors how they prefer to be connected with is at the time you onboard them. Music Lessons and Activities for Your Digital Classroom. Top 10 Ways to Help Your Child Readjust to Classroom Learning. Tip: Figure out how your donors prefer to get information and then share your stories that way.

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sgEngage

DECEMBER 5, 2022

All Form 990s had been released as TIFF image files making it both time-consuming and expensive to extract useful data from them. Though Candid does try to use the data you submit to the IRS via the 990-PF, the reality is that due to the limitations of the form and the processing time, it’s not always that helpful.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JANUARY 4, 2017

When you have worked in a field a long time (for me it has been over 3 decades), you have to keep an open mind about remembering and reflecting on what you have heard before — looking at as if it was new. Instructional Design and Facilitation: I love teaching and exploring different ways help nonprofit professionals learn.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

SEPTEMBER 16, 2008

I taught in the Bronx for two years through Teach For America while working toward my M.A. I left the classroom in 2007 to join Teach For America staff where I pioneered graduate school recruitment for the organization through May of this year. I am currently launching The Generation Project full-time.

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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. We just wrapped a fundraising campaign and for the first time ended without opt-out numbers that were abnormally high.”.

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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. But one time I watched the Olympics with a family member who dove for his college team. Teach is a big one. Teaching is a core.

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ASU Lodestar Center

OCTOBER 16, 2020

Some things to consider include: What resources (technology, space, materials, time, finances, etc.) So the evaluator has to consider if they are going to: Teach. After “talking the talk,” it’s time for evaluators to also “walk the walk” by evaluating the ECB process itself. Assess the organizational context. are available?

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Gyrus

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.

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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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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. They accept applications at any time. In this post, I’ll share funding and grant resources for nonprofits involved in the education sector. Whole Kids Foundation.

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Tech Soup

OCTOBER 10, 2013

For a very long time faith-based 501(c)(3) charitable organizations have been in a special category and were often barred from foundation grants and corporate donations even though there has never been a strictly legal reason for this. Jay said that they support 30 PC in offices, classroom, and a school computer lab.

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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. Bay Area Writers and Have Fun, Do Gooders! The workshop is great for newbies, and for folks who want to breathe new life into an old blog.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JANUARY 4, 2016

I was honored to lead a featured season at the United Way Leadership Conference on Networked Leadership and teach many workshops networked leadership skills. Adjunct Professor and Guest Teacher: This past year I enjoyed my second year of teaching a graduate course at Middlebury College/Monterrey Institute for International Education.

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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. 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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Qgiv

AUGUST 29, 2022

Finding time to sit down and read isn’t always easy in people’s busy lives. 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. What is a read-a-thon fundraiser?

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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." Note to self: Time to rethink the old 1998-99 version of " Zen and the Art of Internet Searching " to incorporate tags/blogs). " She asks: "As a web designer, I am very interested in the future of educational websites.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

APRIL 24, 2011

In my interview, I shared that I didn’t know a modem from microwave, but that I had the passion and curiosity to learn and teach others. 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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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JANUARY 2, 2015

This year I took off a full two weeks during the holiday, spending time with family on the Big Island on a coffee farm and mostly offline. I wrote many posts on instructional design for nonprofit training , including this wrap up post from our NTEN NTC session on teaching and learning for nonprofits. The Sun Sets on 2014.

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Amy Sample Ward

JUNE 21, 2011

That’s teaching. Fundamentally that’s what teaching should be. How can you pursue innovation with games when teachers have the kinds of tests and classroom requirements now? Spending more time on the same old thing hasn’t shown to make that impact. Young people should enjoy the educational process.

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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. 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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Top Nonprofits

JULY 21, 2021

Of course, other activities will likely take some additional time to get started at the organization. Even after going through training themselves, your leadership probably isn’t qualified to teach the rest of the staff. These types of events and activities tend to be more intriguing and entertaining for your staff members over time.

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Tech Soup

DECEMBER 6, 2013

So give your local organizer a hug next time you see them! Raleigh, NC: Time to get social! 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. Newest Net2Local Groups. Friday, December 6.

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ASU Lodestar Center

AUGUST 3, 2016

She joins us just in time to start a new school year and meet a new group of wonderful nonprofit students! 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. Meet Anne.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JANUARY 9, 2007

Over the weekend, the New York Times ran an article about education programs in Second Life. Father and daughter have been co-teaching a Harvard Law School course in Second Life this past semester, called CyberOne: Law in the Court of Public Opnion. If you think that Seocond Life is just about buying virtual houses, be sure read this.

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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. To make things easier for your supporters, set up an online registration form where they can pay ahead of time. Straw Draw. Handmade holiday card sales.

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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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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. If the pandemic forced us onto new and unfamiliar ground, now is the time to assess and balance how technologies have affected our reach, for better and for worse.

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BoardAssist

JUNE 7, 2016

No one likes a dull board meeting, or a long one, or one that doesn’t start on time. Chances are, they share these traits: Convenient, agreed-upon meeting time and location. Prompt start and end times. Consider including time estimates next to each subsequent item. Yet, it’s one worth investing some time.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

AUGUST 16, 2006

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. I am fascinated by the possibilities of blogging in the foreign language classroom. s webmaster. Why did you start Langwitches blog?

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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.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

AUGUST 12, 2015

I’ve taken a little break from blogging to enjoy some much needed family time. I’m lucky because my colleague, Joe Waters, offered me a guest post for your to read while I’m away from blogging. Things have just changed a lot in a short amount of time.”. However, the true genius of GoFundMe may have been its timing.

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NonProfit Hub

DECEMBER 15, 2016

The problem is that we can only get so far by teaching ourselves through YouTube videos and endlessly searching Google. Lectures are left for the classroom. It takes place in Chicago and teaches organizations how to get more supporters excited about your cause to raise more money. Topics covered include: Content marketing.

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NTEN

APRIL 25, 2012

I often get the comment during a leadership seminar I teach that goes something like, "Well this is all well and good for large organizations, but what about my twelve-person NGO?" Training on a hoard of ICT topics is available on-line and in the classroom. What can small nonprofits do to benefit from collaboration? Some are free.

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