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Methods for Facilitating Innovation in Nonprofits

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Last month I had the pleasure of taking the Luma Institute Train the Trainers workshop where I got a chance to immerse in practicing facilitation techniques based on human centered design principles. The workshop instructor Peter Maher is founder and CEO, of Luma Institute , and a Jedi Master. ” What is Human Centered Design?

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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. During the graduate course in evaluation and research methods, I gave an interactive lecture and lead discussion.

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The Seven GPT Objections to Consider

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GPT models, like GPT3 & 4, have garnered significant attention for their impressive capabilities in generating coherent, human-like text. In this article, we will discuss the seven most common objections to GPT models and offer rebuttals to them. However, they have also been subject to criticism and objections.

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My Notes from Next Generation Evaluation Meeting

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The conference was framed around the question: Given the convergence of networks and big data and the need for more innovation, what evaluation methods should be used to evaluate social change outcomes along side traditional methods? These methods included: Developmental Evaluation , Shared Measurement , and Big Data.

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Nonprofit Technology Training: Book List

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There are a wealth of theories, ideas, and methods covered, for example the “ SAVI ” model for designing exercises that help learners embrace learning in different styles. This six-step instructional model is called “ENGAGE.” From Analysis to Evaluation: Tools, Tips, and Techniques from Trainers.

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Digital Analytics Basics: Free Online Academy from Google

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Descriptions of key digital measurement concepts, terminology and analysis techniques. It sounds like they have adapted the Khan Academy model. Peer Instruction and the flipped classroom is a research-based, interactive teaching method developed by Eric Mazur at Harvard University in the 1990s.

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The Nonprofit Book We’ve Been Waiting Four Years To Read Is Finally Here: New Power

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This way of working requires a different, more participatory leadership model and mindset that Allison Fine and I first wrote about in The Networked Nonprofit and others have written about called “networked leadership.” New power is behind some of the most impactful movements (and business models) of the decade.