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Volunteer Week: Orientation for Your Leadership

Greater Giving

Equipping them with volunteer orientation knowledge ensures they understand the value proposition of volunteers and can champion: Effective Volunteer Recruitment: Board members and committee members can leverage their networks to attract skilled volunteers. Volunteer Retention: Positive volunteer experiences lead to long-term engagement.

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How to get your educational nonprofit into classrooms, without leaving the office

The Nerdy NonProfit

Teachers can work with students on a particular subject and have live video lectures bookend the units. Remote classroom learning helps students acquire digital citizenship skills and enables them to make smart, safe and ethical decisions online. The future of remote classroom learning.

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Receiving the 2011 CASE Award for Enterprising Social Innovation

Beneblog: Technology Meets Society

As part of receiving the ESI Award, I was thrilled to deliver the 2011 Annual ESI Lecture and to meet the Fuqua School’s community. CASE offers a tremendous program for MBA students and alumni interested in applying their business skills for social purposes.

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Helpful Ways to Measure and Optimize Your Nonprofit’s Performance

sgEngage

For instance, a well-connected, extroverted donor might like the opportunity to sponsor a lecture series or a group tour. Outcomes” is often used interchangeably with impact, but it’s most helpful to think of outcomes as a change in skill, knowledge, attitude, behavior, condition, or status.

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Back to School: New Tech for the Classroom of the Future

Byte Technology

Online resource EdSurge has even compiled a five-point list for educators to help understand and begin merging VR into their lectures and lab exercises as well as how to create their own custom-made videos as supplements to their normal teaching routines.

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Digital Analytics Basics: Free Online Academy from Google

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

They are also working on software that uses this approach in the classroom and takes the passivity and lectures out of classroom instruction. In the 60 minutes piece, it is referred to the flipped classroom or peer instruction a mindset that directs attention away from teachers and puts it squarely on the students and their learning.

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Flexible Space: The Secret To Designing Powerful Training

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

Certain room set ups encourage interaction between the participants and the workshop leader, others do not. The ability to “shift” delivery formats – from say an interactive lecture to small group activities helps students pay more attention. If you are trying to do an interactive lecture, it dampens interaction.

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