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JUNE 11, 2013

Stanford University lecturer Laura Arrillaga-Andreessen teaches students at Stanford about how to master philanthropy. To pave the way for philanthropy to become a required course for college students and to make it as easy as possible for colleges and universities to integrate it into their curricula. The goals for the Giving 2.0

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OCTOBER 2, 2014

I love teaching (and learning) and it was a pleasure to work with students, nonprofits, and faculty. The students, who would also be going out on field internships where they would conduct or assist with an evaluation project at a social service nonprofit, asked fantastic questions.

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NOVEMBER 18, 2014

In fact, some participants in the group mentioned using MBA students from local universities to assist with data collection. They are teaching digital measurement best practices by connecting great causes with experienced mentors and motivated students. The people with skills are out there.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MAY 19, 2011

Yesterday, Holly Ross at NTEN , mentioned that a common question she gets after talking about Social Media with nonprofits is from organizations that work with students or young people and are concerned about liability issues surrounding what students who “like&# their page may post on their page, or on their own walls.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MAY 16, 2012

After the ACE leadership training, I had the opportunity to spend a day in Kigali. I volunteered to do a Social Media and Professional Networking workshop for second year students at the Akilah Institute for Women. I got an opportunity to do a workshop with second year students during their IT class. Everyone was using Facebook.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JULY 9, 2012

For one nonprofit, the programmatic feedback of reviews on GreatNonprofits.org helped them better serve their students. Communities In Schools of Pittsburgh-Allegheny County, heard from one of its students about its school day schedule. “We

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JANUARY 26, 2012

On Monday, Rheingold delivered the UC’s Regents Lecture , “Social Media and Peer Learning: From Mediated Pedagogy to Peeragogy” prior to working with a group of students in a seminar and launching a process to co-construct a peeragogy handbook/sourcebook. Rheingold published this post as a backdrop to his Monday evening talk.

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MAY 2, 2012

How does turning wired students into digital citizens fit with your organization’s existing mission? Is it about keeping students safe? There’s no going back now. Three tips for teaching digital literacy and citizenship: Start with a clear vision. What do you think it means to be a good digital citizen?

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SEPTEMBER 12, 2013

Learning analytics is an emergent field of research that aspires to use data analysis to inform decisions made on every area education, from understanding student data to build better pedagogies, target at-risk students, and to assess whether programs designed have been effective and should be sustained.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JANUARY 5, 2012

The instructor’s role should be to facilitate this understanding for their students, not dump content on them. They gave the students tests based on content and scored them. They gave the students tests based on content and scored them. And the resulting graph is the analysis of 1200 students.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

OCTOBER 29, 2014

GivingTuesday is done it again with its K-12 Philanthropy Curriculum , a set of lesson plans that teachers can use to help their students participate in GivingTuesday by raising money for a local nonprofit. ” This generation is loosely defined as those born after 1995 and who are now 18 and under. The Giving 2.0

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

OCTOBER 2, 2013

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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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

NOVEMBER 29, 2012

.” They provide free web analytics consulting to non-profits and NGOs around the world by matching analytics professionals, students, and charities. They are teaching digital measurement best practices by connecting great causes with experienced mentors and motivated students.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

AUGUST 20, 2014

Take for example, #GivingTuesday, a global day dedicated to giving back that will take place on Tuesday, December 2, 2014, a day for charities, families, businesses, community centers, and students around the world will come together for one common purpose: to celebrate generosity and to give.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MARCH 8, 2011

Keo Savon graduated from the local high school, steadily holding #3 and #5 in her class of 65 students. She will study chemistry, math, physics, biology, and Khmer literature at the University where she hopes to major in architecture. But it is more than the money, sponsors and students also write letters to one another for support.

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MARCH 22, 2013

The event kicks off a semester long internship for students working with nonprofits. Last week I designed and facilitated a day and half session for the Nonprofit Leadership Institute co-sponsored every year by Pepperdine University Nonprofit Management program and Ventura County Community Foundation.

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SEPTEMBER 27, 2012

She is second year engineering student and by supporting her education she will have better economic opportunities. By purchasing a book , you will not only help your nonprofit improve its program impact, but you will changing the lives for young people in Cambodia. My family is sponsoring Keo Savon , who we met this summer in Cambodia.

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JANUARY 19, 2017

Classroom style with desks puts a barrier between the students and the instruction, especially when people are using laptops or tablets to take notes. Circles without tables, just chairs helps promote group discussion. Having a large enough space so people can move around and self-organize into small groups also promotes learning.

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APRIL 6, 2005

Doing research right now to develop a simple blogging project as an afterschool project for grades 3-5. There is an interesting conversation going on in the nonprofit technology community about the benefits and barriers to blogging in the nonprofit organization setting.

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DECEMBER 24, 2011

Keo Savon graduated from the local high school, steadily holding #3 and #5 in her class of 65 students. She is studying chemistry, math, physics, biology, and Khmer literature at the University where she hopes to major in architecture. Her education was interrupted by a serious medical problem, but she recovered. She graduated in 2010.

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JUNE 19, 2015

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. Isadora Faber, 14-year-old Brazilian student who launched an online Classroom Diary on Facebook to discuss problems in her school, such as broken desks and bathrooms without toilet seats.

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DECEMBER 17, 2013

Paul published Critical Thinking: How to Prepare Students for a Rapidly World. In his book, he outlines six types of Socratic questions that can develop critical thinking skills in students. In 1993, noted American psychologist and expert on critical thinking R.W.

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AUGUST 20, 2012

We also got to meet Keo Savon , the second college student that our family is supporting through the Sharing Foundation’s college sponsorship program. My children also got to meet Leng Sopharath the first college student that our family sponsored for college through the Sharing Foundation.

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APRIL 24, 2011

His definition: A style in which the trainer acts as a peer to the student, physically sitting with the student and explaining technical concepts simply. Sticky Note from TechSoup Global Summit (click on image for wiki).

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

FEBRUARY 26, 2014

” (Photo captured by Renee Blodgett). The audience was primarily college students and after the event, several came up to me and thanked me for inspiring them to do a social good activity online. The talk is brief and you can view the video here.

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AUGUST 17, 2017

And, it pays off as students perform better on educational tests than their peers in other European countries. Before I left for Finland, I read Timothy Walker’s Teach Like Finland: 33 Simple Strategies for Joyful Classrooms. Taking brain breaks is an important work skill as well.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JULY 2, 2012

They start the day with a student posting an inspirational quote on the board. I observed a lesson nutrition and healthy eating. The teacher invited the students to quiz me on what I had eaten over the last couple of days and got feedback about whether I was eating from the right food groups! How deep is the Pacific Ocean?

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

AUGUST 9, 2013

She is second year engineering student and by supporting her education she will have better economic opportunities. By purchasing a book , you will not only help your nonprofit improve its program impact, but you will changing the lives for young people in Cambodia. My family is sponsoring Keo Savon, who we met this summer in Cambodia.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

AUGUST 21, 2008

The Sharing Foundation (and some friends) covered her medical expenses and she is recuperating in the student house that we rent for our college students. For her sophmore year, with the help of folks like Chris Brogan , we were able to raise enough money to cover Leng Sopharath and another college student! Any advice?)

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MAY 18, 2010

This case study explores how a small nonprofit, Students for a Free Tibet (SFT) , a contest winner in the first and second America’s Giving Challenges, is using social media effectively. As part of the process, we are facilitating “Conversational Case Studies” that explore some of the themes that have surfaced from surveys.

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DECEMBER 15, 2010

The book is a vital office resource for nonprofit leaders and employees, board members, volunteers, communications professionals, development consultants, professors, students, and anyone interested in helping an organization transform its brand meaning from an ordinary trademark to a strategic competitive advantage.

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MAY 19, 2008

Hannah is the Clubs and Student Development Manager at UNSW. She is interested using social media to connect with students. (I If we want to create a project with student blogging, are there examples of guidelines? Please leave a comment so I can share with her. What do we need to think about?

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MAY 1, 2013

More about the project and this opportunity to get free help with your data over at the GuideStar Blog. Is your organization working with a volunteer or consultant to improve its capacity to use and apply data?

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MARCH 3, 2011

Trainer becomes the student and has another participant guide them through the same steps. The trainer models being a uncomfortable student or one that makes a mistake or asks questions when something unexpected happens. Next, the other two participants take turns being the trainer or the student. Photo by SMEXbeirut.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

FEBRUARY 29, 2008

I've created a totally fictional nonprofit scenario: The " Seagulls Global Internship International " places college students in rural seaside villages around the world to learn about techniques to prevent seagulls from harassing local villagers while they eat al fresco. What do you do as the social networking manager?

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SEPTEMBER 17, 2019

This summer Communities in Schools is using Alexa to encourage donors to donate a backpack full of school supplies to students in need. This past spring, Red Nose Day, incorporated voiced activated giving into its strategy, although it is unclear exactly how many donors made contributions via Alexa compared to other channels.

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JULY 24, 2018

and Canada that give high school students early exposure to AI for social good. AI4ALL – AI4ALL is a nonprofit working to increase diversity and inclusion in artificial intelligence. They create pipelines for underrepresented talent through education and mentorship programs around the U.S.

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