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Sustainable Jobs Training Fund: Supporting training projects to help workers upgrade or gain new skills

Charity Village

Employment and Social Development Canada launched the Sustainable Jobs Training Fund. The Fund aims to support a series of training projects to help workers upgrade or develop new skills for jobs in the low-carbon economy.

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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. Too often, nonprofit professionals don’t receive the training they need. Justifying the price for a paid training course is never easy.

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Trainer’s Notebook: Reflections on Designing and Delivering Training To Get Results

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

These can help you predict whether participants will act on the training after the workshop: More than one person from an organization should participate so the ideas can be transferred to the whole organization. Design for Different Levels of Capacity and Skills: Adapt in Real Time. Design for Participants To Apply.

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Mattering: The Growing Volunteer Motivator

VQ Strategies

Now, at some point every day, I catch sight of this little green square of paper that shares such a profound message. When training nonprofit leaders, I often share that volunteers want to make a difference. Understanding their internal drivers and the skills they bring to a project may inspire additional ways that they can serve.

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20+ Nonprofit Tools You Need to Get Your New Nonprofit Up and Running

Get Fully Funded

How much tech skill is required? Online training courses abound, and your bookkeeper or board treasurer will likely be familiar with Quickbooks. It can also give you a false sense of your own design skills. Little Green Light is one of the most popular platforms in the marketplace for small nonprofits. Some cost a little.

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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. The Rockefeller Foundation.

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Trainer’s Notebook: Just A Few Participatory Facilitation Techniques

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

I answered yes to all, but more importantly I think these two methods helped me the most: Carve out time for reflection after each training and do an after-action review with yourself. Evaluate your content, facilitation, and logistical skills against participant evaluations. Be a participant in other people’s training sessions.