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How I learned to stop yawning and love the Zoom Room

Candid

So do everything you can to recognize the attendees as they join: say their names, ask them to share where they’re from, have an interesting icebreaker , play music—whatever makes them feel welcomed and human, not just a square box there to receive a lecture. . One of the best tips is to change what you’re doing every 10 minutes.

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Build Online Experiences that Spark Community Engagement

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The church also has popular music programming, making choral music accessible through performances. Finally, in its work for social justice, the church has an active grantmaking program and draws participants from its congregation and beyond for community service, lectures, days of action, and more. .

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Build Online Experiences that Spark Community Engagement

Forum One

The church also has popular music programming, making choral music accessible through performances. Finally, in its work for social justice, the church has an active grantmaking program and draws participants from its congregation and beyond for community service, lectures, days of action, and more.

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From Prospective Student to Active Alum—Engagement Fosters Lifelong Support

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He attended various alum lectures and could see the impact that donors made at the university. They send her a quarterly print magazine, and a regular publication that focuses on school alums who have published, recorded (music), and exhibited. He’d also get very excited when he heard talk of his alma mater—but he doesn’t anymore.

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Guest Post: Maintaining a connection with pandemic-inactive volunteers

Twenty Hats

Smithsonian Associates (SA) , which annually presents 700+ classes and other educational and entertaining programs, made a hard fast pivot in June 2020, when it began to present all of its lectures and art courses as livestreamed programs on Zoom. We decided to create another thank you video, this time using Zoom.

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Empowering Low-Income Families to Create Prosperity: Interview with Ben Mangan

Have Fun - Do Good

He is a regular blogger for the Huffington Post and SFGate , and serves as a lecturer on the faculty of the Haas School of Business at UC Berkeley. 11: Blogging for Writers (Berkeley, CA) Music: "Mango Delight," by Kenya Masala. 15: Tea and Cupcakes with Creative Bloggers (Berkeley, CA) Jan. 15: Juicy Blogging E-Course (Virtual) Feb.

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150+ Creative Ways to Show Donors Appreciation

Nonprofit Tech for Good

Creative stuff: Things unique to your organization including the ability to create art, music, poetry, dance, etc. Invitation to an intimate post-show, post-lecture, or post-keynote “talk-back.”. Throw in beer and pizza and music and it can be fun. Does anyone carve, knit, sew or create t-shirts… or fun food? It was super cool.

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