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Make Space—Lighten the Load for Your Heavy Lifters

.orgSource

To maximize that potential, it’s important to open space for newly acquired skills to grow and develop. Learn where their strategy is taking them and what new projects are on their horizons. If you receive the green light to delegate responsibility, then it’s time to give your team license to help.

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5 Essential Free Online Courses for Nonprofit Professionals

Nonprofit Tech for Good

By Alec Green , Chief Marketing Evangelist at NonprofitReady.org , an online hub of 400+ free online courses in topics ranging from fundraising to grant writing, leadership to program management. Today, a wide variety of organizations have made engaging learning opportunities available online. Many of these resources are 100% free.

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Getting Insight from Facebook Insight Requires Sense Making Skills

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

Sense-making is an essential workplace skill along with several others. Robin Good curated this article about research on future workplace skills. The skills are: Sense-making: ability to determine the deeper meaning or significance of what is being expressed. The green represents people talking about. How do you do it?

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Wiring the Green Movement for Earth Day

Amy Sample Ward

I wanted to use today to focus in on a question recently posed by my good friend Joe Solomon on Twitter : What are the nonprofit/orgs that are working 2 wire the green movement, like what @ netsquared does 4 nonprofits, @ sunfoundation for politics; which orgs are working to expose data, leverage soc media, connect the orgs together?

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Shadowing To Learn Web Video: DoGooder Awards Voting

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

” Shadowing means that a person accompanies somebody for a defined period of time to observe him/her during work and learn from this observation. Shadowing allows the person who shadows someone to: Observe and learn from an experienced practitioner/leader. One the techniques they teach and apply is called “ Shadowing.”

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Start 2017 by Building Your Tech Skills and Community

Tech Soup

To learn how I can apply technology to my cause or organization. To learn about specific topics of interest. We also learned that. Saint Paul, Minnesota: Skill Extension: Maps (on the Green Line) | Sponsors: Maptime MSP Meetup, CARTO. The top options were. To be a part of a larger nonprofit community/networking.

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Following Through on Climate Commitments After COP26

Saleforce Nonprofit

During the COP26 meetings, the Malala Fund presented its Gender-Equal Green Learning Agenda , which recommends leaders use education as a powerful tool to address the climate crisis by adding climate issues to all school curriculums and vocational training. University of Maryland. The Rockefeller Foundation. About the Author.