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How To Be A Wizard at Tech Training: NTC 2016 Session

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

Group Polling Techniques and Tools. Facilitation Methods and Techniques. Participatory Facilitation Techniques. How To Design Transformative Capacity Building for Nonprofits. How To Get Started Designing Peer Learning That Works. Peer Learning As A Prelude to Collective Action. I cebreakers and Closers. Creating a Network Map.

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How grant makers and nonprofit grant recipients can do great things together with data and evaluation

Deborah Elizabeth Finn

Studying (and implementing) community-based participatory research methods. __. And now, because I can insert a poll here, I’m going to. __. Sharing responsibility for building the relationship. Speaking with each other on a regular basis. And now, because I can insert a contact form here, I’m going to.

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The Art of Facilitating Virtual Meetings with Sticky Notes

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

Designing A Participatory Hook for a Virtual Meeting. It is between the two methods. Design must comes first. You need an agenda, time, location, background reading, and participants. Then you are ready to tackle confirming the topic before combustion, which is the discussion and work around meaning-making and decisions.

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"Press 2 for Chickens": Innovating African Radio Stations

NTEN

The participatory radio campaign approach was used to enhance existing systems, not add new content or processes to the farm radio stations. At Radio Maria, the group also used the IVR system to establish an SMS poll, asking listeners what they wanted to hear more about on the program. What’s ahead for Freedom Fone.

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Joitske Hulsebosch: Blogs, NGOs, and Developing Countries

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

" Later, her work brought her to Mali, where she advised on participatory methods. I'm too shy to do an online poll. She notes, "I started in Kenya working with a water users association, living in a thatched hut!" In Ethiopia, she did organizational capacity building work for a local network of NGOs. Technology.

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How to Make Better Decisions Online

Non Profit Quarterly

We each have experience running participatory grantmaking and decision-making processes online using different platforms. People Powered is a global hub for participatory democracy that aims “to expand people’s power to make government decisions.” It’s time for nonprofits and foundations to upgrade our digital decision-making tools.

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