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Six Tips for Evaluating Your Nonprofit Training Session

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

But, if you use reflection, documentation,pilot tests, and iteration, it is like tasting your soup while there’s still time to make adjustments. I use both. Use Learning Theory. If you think of your training as making a soup, your participant survey is like the food critic’s review of the soup.

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Strengthening program evaluation in your nonprofit

ASU Lodestar Center

Some things to consider include: What resources (technology, space, materials, time, finances, etc.) What level of interest and incentives to learn and implement evaluation are present? After “talking the talk,” it’s time for evaluators to also “walk the walk” by evaluating the ECB process itself. are available?

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How To Think Like An Instructional Designer for Your Nonprofit Trainings

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

Designing and delivering a training to a nonprofit audience is not about extreme content delivery or putting together a PowerPoint and answering questions. If you want to get results, you need to think about instructional design and learning theory. And, there is no shortage of learning theories and research.

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The Future of Social: Gen Z

NonProfit Hub

Beth is an expert in facilitating online and offline peer learning, curriculum development based on traditional adult learning theory and other instructional approaches. And there is Jack Andraka , a high school student who got obsessed with finding a cure for cancer and created a test that can detect pancreatic cancer.

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Guest Post: Community and Civic Engagement in Museum Programs

Museum 2.0

There were times when coordinating a fire art festival while researching social capital theory made me want to burn my computer. An example of this is The Portland Art Museum’s partnership with the faculty and students in Portland State University’s Art and Social Practice Department for their annual Shine a Light program.

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