Nonprofit Tech for Good

NOVEMBER 13, 2023

Tip: It’s important that your online silent auction platform is simple to use and requires minimal instruction for participants. This can work particularly well for local non-profits with a strong community support base. Provide instructions on your online silent auction website, or through emails and social media.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

FEBRUARY 18, 2014

I’m co-facilitating a session on Nonprofit Training Design and Delivery with colleagues John Kenyon, Andrea Berry, and Cindy Leonard at the NTEN Nonprofit Technology Conference on Friday March 14th at 10:30 am! There are two different methods to evaluate your training. to define the four levels of training evaluation.

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Whole Whale

OCTOBER 28, 2022

Here is a sample of an AI trained on the best nonprofit fundraising emails that will help write a draft of the type of email appeal you’re looking for. The AI will take your instruction like it was a freelancer working on the email. WARNING: This is a trained AI and will respond based on the inputs given.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

OCTOBER 9, 2014

Note from Beth: Last January, I put together a train the trainers session for nonprofit trainers. You can find the presentation here and accompanying blog post, How To Think Like A Nonprofit Instructional Designer. 8 Reasons Why Bad Trainings Happen to Good Nonprofits by Salsa Labs.

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Top Nonprofits

FEBRUARY 2, 2021

So, it’s no surprise that your nonprofit’s staff and the training they receive is also evolving because of the pandemic. When it comes to training, your staff has new questions. They also have new barriers to completing the training. How do we complete work, training, and more on one strained WiFi connection?

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

OCTOBER 7, 2019

I am thrilled to be presenting with my colleague, Ananda Leeke in Boston next week at the Resilience at Work Conference. I also use them a lot when I doing full-day trainings. Here’s some step-by-step or eye-by-eye instructions. How do you incorporate mindful moments or movement into your work day?

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MARCH 1, 2016

In a couple of weeks, one of the sessions I’m facilitating at the Nonprofit Technology Conference in San Jose is called “ How To Be A Wizard at Tech Training.” Our session will change the way you design and deliver technology trainings. Instructional Design. Feng Shui of Good Training. Learning Styles.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

NOVEMBER 3, 2015

I’ve just returned from an inspiring week in Kiev, Ukraine where I got to facilitate a training for women’s organizations organized by Wake , an amazing start up founded by two respected colleagues Trish Tierney and Heather Ramsey. You have to think of your interpreters as extensions of your facilitation techniques.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MARCH 25, 2014

Earlier this month, I presented on a panel called “ Learn, You Will ” with Cindy Leonard, John Kenyon, and Andrea Berry on the topic of designing effective nonprofit technology training at the Nonprofit Technology Conference hosted by NTEN. The room setup fought with our design, but we managed to make it work.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

FEBRUARY 8, 2013

Keeping nonprofit audiences engaged during training can improve your outcomes. There are many creative ways to engage participants at a training - both face-to-face and online. One technique is to incorporate movement – from mini-stretch breaks, to self-assessment exercises to switches in the delivery model.

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The Nerdy NonProfit

NOVEMBER 13, 2020

Many nonprofits are interested in using e-learning to train staff members and volunteers. It can reach a larger number of people in a shorter amount of time than in-person training. Staff and volunteers can access the training anytime and anywhere. Amy started with Artisan as a contract writer/instructional designer.

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.orgSource

JULY 29, 2023

Documenting the steps that you will take in a leadership challenge is a good way to begin training yourself to act with intention in a situation filled with extreme emotional distractions. Review the instructions you wrote to yourself. Bad situations call for qualities that are difficult to muster when your pulse is soaring over 120.

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John Kenyon

APRIL 11, 2024

The Bias Issue AI systems like LLMs are trained on vast datasets of text, primarily from the internet. This training data reflects the racial biases, stereotypes, and disproportionate perspectives of the world where the data comes from. Feed the system explicit instructions and examples displaying equitable behavior.

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Bloomerang

JUNE 6, 2023

Start communications at the pre-event stage Weeks before the event starts, email all volunteers check-in instructions. Important items to include are: volunteer roles and duties, introductions to leadership, schedules, maps, parking instructions, and safety tips.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

SEPTEMBER 9, 2010

As part of my work as Visiting Scholar for Social Media and Nonprofits, I’ve been working with grantees on a variety of capacity building projects – from coaching to workshops to peer trainings. Some of their challenges – working with affiliates or showing ROI. I learned a lot !

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Gyrus

APRIL 14, 2015

I love working on cars. But before I got into working on my own car, I was somewhat naïve on the inner workings of those magnificent mechanical horseless carriages. But before I got into working on my own car, I was somewhat naïve on the inner workings of those magnificent mechanical horseless carriages.

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Bloomerang

OCTOBER 18, 2023

After a while, your stomach rumbling and your head starting to hurt from caffeine withdrawal, you’re led into a room and told to “prepare goodie bags” and handed some bags and flyers, without any clear process or instruction. The email includes some great candid photos of you with the other volunteers and staff working.

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Candid

FEBRUARY 14, 2024

Perhaps the question we should be asking instead is: How can we use these tools to create efficiencies and enhance our work? So rather than using a search engine to find data or content and assembling it, you can have generative AI do some of that assembly work for you. Adding sources: You can prompt the tool to enhance its own work.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

OCTOBER 8, 2019

In my work as a trainer and facilitator, I make workshops and master classes as interactive as possible, incorporating peer discussion, movement, and creativity. One design important instructional principle for trainings and meetings, whether online or face-to-face, is to start off with a fun way to ease into the work.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

OCTOBER 28, 2013

Participants from a nonprofit work on their network map during the workshop. She said the workshop gave her the time to get started working on it and was confident that she’d be putting it into practice immediately. It’s been great to discuss instructional design with other trainers that Deborah has brought together.

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ASU Lodestar Center

AUGUST 8, 2012

Some of these reasons are listed below: They desire to gain more work experience and build their resume. Organizations used to post ads in classifieds and work through employees using word of mouth. Organizations used to post ads in classifieds and work through employees using word of mouth. Training interns. Interns.org.

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Volunteer Hub

MAY 5, 2023

Nonprofits should provide all volunteers with information about their mission, vision, and impact, along with access to training resources, documented expectations, available channels for on-site and off-site communication, and ways to provide feedback about their overall experience. Use a variety of training methods. Transparency.

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VQ Strategies

FEBRUARY 10, 2021

Many people believe that engaging volunteer leaders means giving up control over the results of the work. Depending on the terms of the delegation, we may have to let go of how the work gets done (e.g., Intended results should be communicated in position descriptions, work plans, training, and support. But results?

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

SEPTEMBER 27, 2019

When I design and facilitate meeting for clients, board meetings, or as part of a workshop, webinar or other training, I’m always looking for new ideas for facilitation and interactive processes. Each method provides step-by-ste instructions, examples, templates, and additional reading links.

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Tech Soup

JANUARY 26, 2011

Successful technology training has less to do with technical knowledge than with other abilities such as communication skills, patience, interpersonal skills, flexibility, and empathy towards learners struggling with new technologies. It is more useful to know how to train than to just have technical expertise. Why Be a Tech Trainer?

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Qgiv

AUGUST 4, 2023

To keep your volunteers as effective as possible, develop a volunteer management process that helps you recruit, train, and steward volunteers for your organization. With any kind of work, management has a huge effect on staffing, and your supporters are less likely to offer their help if you seem disorganized.

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Candid

JULY 13, 2023

Nonprofit work means paperwork. While Candid is working to reduce that burden broadly, here is one specific way we are trying to help: by providing sample grant proposal documents. Before you begin, make sure to read and re-read the instructions from the funder. You can also check out our free live and on-demand trainings.

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Greater Giving

DECEMBER 14, 2021

And they made sure the virtual stream included specific instructions for using Greater Giving’s Online Bidding. Choose technology to suit your needs, and leave ample time for training and testing. Celebrity Waiters included clear instructions for bidding as a part of their pre-show. Great auctioneers make all the difference.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

FEBRUARY 8, 2018

As a long-time trainer, professor, and teacher, I feel strongly that interactive learning activities – going beyond the death by Powerpoint Lecture – is the key to retention and application for participants. Your room set up can support your instructional activities that engage participants or get in the way.

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Qgiv

MARCH 27, 2023

ChatGPT and fundraising may not be two things you’d think would go together, but the combination works better than you’d expect. The GPT of ChatGPT stands for generative pre-trained transformer, which is a group of language models trained to generate human-like text developed by OpenAI.

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NonProfit Hub

SEPTEMBER 21, 2021

Could your organization hire and train your replacement within two weeks? Onboarding and Training | 4-6 Weeks. Start by working on internal messaging and move outwardly toward the public relations messages. Work with the organization to make sure your exit is being portrayed in the best light. . Don’t Run for the Exit.

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sgEngage

APRIL 11, 2024

Throughout the lifecycle, I typically work with software architects, engineers, UX designers, business analysts, application security experts, and other stakeholders. The best way to start is to ensure that staff, especially those who have access to sensitive data, receive the appropriate cybersecurity and data security training.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

SEPTEMBER 10, 2019

I believe that interactive training makes for better learning and there is research to back that up. I modify instructions or make accommodations for physical disabilities. I made this part of the instructions. Training is better when you content and instruction is as inclusive as possible.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

SEPTEMBER 16, 2008

I'm preparing for a Social Media workshop next month called " Making Sense of and Success with Social Media " where the audience will be consultants who work with nonprofits in other areas (not technology). I have a chance to reflect now on the data I've collected and think about the instructional design. Comfort Levels.

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Saleforce Nonprofit

MARCH 10, 2022

At this year’s event you can connect with the global community in a few new ways: Community innovation chats, opportunities to ask a product expert for real-time answers to your questions, hands-on training, and learning labs. Reason #3: Learning Labs & Hands-On Training. You spoke and we listened. Reason #4: The Cloud.

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Candid

FEBRUARY 29, 2024

This includes on-demand training, onboarding calls, and step-by-step instructions on how to participate. Enthusiasm is quick; implementation takes time Momentum for this work continues to build, with most funders aligned with our vision. Essentially, are they feeling less of a burden?

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Saleforce Nonprofit

SEPTEMBER 8, 2021

Head over to the Week of Learning page to register for sessions in a time zone that works for you. Hands-on Training – More of a tactile learner? Join one of our hands-on training sessions to learn and practice new skills. These sessions are tailored for admins and business users at all levels.

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