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Basic Facilitation Techniques for Nonprofits

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There are a lot different styles, philosophies, and techniques for facilitating groups of people. Check out the International Association of Facilitator’s Method database which contains more than 500 entries. Facilitated listening is made up of a number of techniques described in more detail in the book. This includes: 1.

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Techniques and Tools: How To Visualize Your Network

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We had a wide ranging conversations about how to apply network mapping and visualization and debated about its use as a measurement technique vs strategy tool. Some questions to ask: What patterns do you see? Use network engagement techniques to support your learning or goals. The notes are here. What surprises you?

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Data as Decision in Grantmaking

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With one shift in our understanding about data, we can reclaim a sense of wonder, creative agency, and value in our data work: Recognizing that information does not equal data and data does not equal knowledge. More specifically, datamaking is an action whereby we transform information into data so that data can contribute to knowledge.

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What can nonprofit technology trainers learn from the social work field to improve their training techniques?

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Here’s a few frameworks and techniques I learned first hand from Nancy as she accompanied me to the sessions I was leading. It is about simply learning how to use a new tool or technique. I loved this question: “How do we encourage learning from nonprofits from their evaluation data when they might view it as a report card?”.

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[ASK AN EXPERT] What’s Better: Asking For Too Little Or Too Much?

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Our Ask An Expert series features real questions answered by Claire Axelrad, J.D., Today’s question comes from a major gift fundraiser who wants advice on whether it’s better to ask for too little or too much. . Anchoring works best when people lack solid evidence or knowledge about what is the appropriate or expected amount.

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Going for Goal: Shared Knowledge Inspires Successful Giving Days

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You can expect to continue to see more blog posts from me on the topic of peer learning design and training techniques as I continue to do this work. Going for Goal: Shared Knowledge Inspires Successful Giving Days. The post was also published on the Knight Foundation blog here.

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Trainer’s Notebook: Group Polling Techniques and Tools and Incorporating Movement

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Jennifer made use of an app called “ Answer Qwik ” that allows participants to answer polling questions on their mobile phones and have the aggregate results shown on the screen. It does close-ended questions and displays a bar chart or can also create a word cloud. Support a fun icebreake r.

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