Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

FEBRUARY 18, 2014

If you ask open-ended questions, you typically only get criticism. Jane Bozarth’s “ From Analysis to Evaluation: Tools, Tips, and Techniques for Trainers ” includes some excellent templates and examples for training evaluation surveys. This book is a must-have for any serious trainer. Trainer Reflection.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

APRIL 1, 2014

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.

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Facilitation Method Technique Exercise 132

Get Fully Funded

FEBRUARY 9, 2021

You may feel stress about keeping your organization’s doors open during the COVID-19 pandemic. While they may not fill your bank account, these tips for cutting costs at a nonprofit may keep your lights on, doors open, and sustainability closer and closer. As a result, you will have more dollars to pay staff and keep your doors open.

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Money Nonprofit United States Fund 98

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

OCTOBER 8, 2019

In my work as a trainer and facilitator, I make workshops and master classes as interactive as possible, incorporating peer discussion, movement, and creativity. Most people can’t draw, so this activity levels the playing field and it positively reinforces group dynamics and builds a more open environment.

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Online Technique Training Train 107

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JUNE 11, 2013

The idea is simple – by open sourcing her materials, she hopes to inspire more colleges to incorporate courses on philanthropy in their curriculum. As a trainer who designs and delivers trainings on topics related to these courses, releasing these materials to all to use and adapt is a gift. 3) Giving 2.0:

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Giving Philanthropy Teach Student 98

Bloomerang

MARCH 17, 2023

After a fundraising career of making solicitations for three different institutions of higher education and now serving as a trainer/consultant for a wide range of nonprofits, I’d like to share several fundraising lessons on what to do after your major gift ask is turned down. If possible, always leave doors open.

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Lesson Donor Fundraising Gift 111

Beneblog: Technology Meets Society

MARCH 14, 2012

Martus is Benetech's free and open source software package designed for human rights activists to collect stories and data about human rights abuses. And, support from the Open Society Foundation made this event possible! For me personally, the meeting was a rare experience. This is a truly unique moment in Martus’ history.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JULY 11, 2017

The reports defines many challenges, but through the research and interviews, there was critical alignment around this all familiar problem: “Capacity builders and trainers in the global progressive space are too few and too disconnected to fulfill current demand in supporting social change leaders, practitioners, and activists.

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Global Network Change Create 91

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JANUARY 4, 2017

When you have worked in a field a long time (for me it has been over 3 decades), you have to keep an open mind about remembering and reflecting on what you have heard before — looking at as if it was new. The themes are less about exploring something new, but to commit to continuous learning and improvement.

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Professional Facilitation Journal San Jose 103

sgEngage

OCTOBER 9, 2023

Imagine empowering a teacher with generative AI to improve question-building workflows for online assessments and open-book evaluations. While our upcoming session at bbcon 2023 will focus on where the tools are, we also hope to help shape conversations about where generative AIs are headed.

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Generation Education Blackbaud Model 94

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MARCH 24, 2020

Meico Whitlock (Mindful Techie) leads the NTEN Board in a meditation meeting opener. An engaging meeting or training should always starts with a great opening. Most people can’t draw, so this activity levels the playing field and it positively reinforces group dynamics and builds a more open environment.

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Virtual Facilitation Exercise Training 130

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MARCH 17, 2017

My role in the project is to the facilitate the training sessions, design the overall training, facilitate openers and closings, help prep the curriculum, and deliver modules on digital strategy and social media. I facilitated a number of openings, but we also got to experience a few opening exercises they use at the Starfish School.

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Open Guatemala Tips Training 70

Bloomerang

OCTOBER 20, 2021

The Engagement Meter looks at giving history (recency, years given, upgraded gifts), interactions (event attendance, volunteering, communication preferences, website visits), and e-mail (subscribes, opens, clicks) to give you a temperature reading on each donor in your database. . Woah, check out the cross trainers!” .

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Gift Teach Fundraising Donor 135

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

SEPTEMBER 10, 2019

Just added these to my trainer kit). It is a work in process and as a trainer you have to be open to learning and adapting. The workshop had seating in a U-shape, so people did not have a desk to write on and I had some worksheet exercises for people to do. You will learn as you go, sometimes by making mistakes.

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Detroit Instruction Instructional PPT 77

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

AUGUST 20, 2014

Open Space and Unconference Facilitation. ” - Drawing People Out: After you listen and paraphrase, you ask open-ended questions to draw people out. ”Tell me more …” is one of several identified in the book. Reflective Practice. Innovation / Generating New Ideas. Making Decisions and Getting Consensus.

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Facilitation Technique Chart Method 121

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MARCH 21, 2012

I have created the design and delivered an intensive Train the Trainers session in Beirut almost a year ago for master trainers and their teams from Jordan, Yemen, Lebanon, Morocco, and Tunisia. I also developed the curriculum for the 15 workshops that were localized and delivered by the in-country trainers to over 220 NGOs over 9-month period.

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Jordan Conference Lebanon Morocco 113

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JUNE 21, 2017

Nor am I talking about our group of new hires, although they are all very cool (and, BTW, we do have several current openings ). Here’s one of our ETR intrepid training teams (including colleague trainer Miguel Taveras, from Proceed, Inc.), No, I’m not talking about our new CEO (that would be me). I’m talking about walking.

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Colorado Culture Fun Group 81

Twenty Hats

OCTOBER 19, 2020

As a trainer, it’s rewarding to work with a group that’s warmed up, excited, and ready to dig into the presentation. The first quarter of the session was devoted to the warm-up, because I wanted the participants to experience and reflect on the upside of a strong opener.

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Online Facilitation Poll Group 75

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JULY 19, 2016

I also love sharing techniques and tips with other trainers and often do “train the trainers” sessions as part of my practice. The sitting brain is really disengaged. Which brain do you think is more open to learning, retaining, and applying the content during a training? It might include standing or walking.

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Training Train Brain Exercise 50

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JANUARY 5, 2021

My New Year’s rituals help me let go of things in my professional work that can open the door to positive change and growth. Reflection: As a trainer and facilitator, I am constantly learning and testing new facilitation and training techniques.

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Journal Reflection Facilitation Technique 148

Nonprofits Source

FEBRUARY 24, 2023

Here’s an example of how the process could work for a pet training business: A client uses Google to search for a pet trainer in their area and receives a paid ad from your small business. The client clicks through to your website and begins filling out the registration form. However, they abandon the page before pressing submit.

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Map Digital Business Marketing 52

Bloomerang

MARCH 17, 2023

After a fundraising career of making solicitations for three different institutions of higher education and now serving as a trainer/consultant for a wide range of nonprofits, I’d like to share several fundraising lessons on what to do after your major gift ask is turned down. If possible, always leave doors open.

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Lesson Donor Fundraising Gift 66

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

OCTOBER 7, 2013

As a Visiting Scholar, Bernholz will advance the Foundation’s literacy on a range of issues, particularly digital civil society, open data, and social good. She is working on her second book, tentatively titled, The Future of Good. She will be working with the Foundation’s multiple grantmaking programs on myriad projects. Philanthropy'

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Foundation Philanthropy Literacy Law 100

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JANUARY 5, 2018

When you have worked in a field a long time (for me it has been over 3 decades), you have to keep an open mind about remembering and reflecting on what you have heard before — looking at as if it was new. These help guide my professional learning and improvement and maintaining good habits.

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Professional Finland Journal Reflection 0

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MARCH 30, 2012

The project kicked off a year ago with a seven-day Train the Trainers intensive in Beirut, Lebanon for the in-country teams who would localize and implement the curriculum for five 3-day workshops that I designed. 11. What does it mean to be a “Master Trainer?” Advanced preparation is important. Showcase Panel.

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Morocco Tunisia Reflection Conference 100

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JANUARY 7, 2013

This first week of the new year, I will doing a week of training for NGOs and trainers in Tunisia for the Women’s Economic Sustainability Tunisia project with colleague Stephanie Rudat.

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Tunisia NGO Facilitation Calendar 99

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

SEPTEMBER 8, 2014

As a trainer, I create two agendas – a participant agenda which is a summary and a more detailed facilitator’s agenda. There is always a dance between too much detail and specific times vs less detail. Participants need to have a good sense of what is coming next, but as a trainer you need some flexibility with timings.

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Reflection NTEN Change Facilitation 124

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MAY 23, 2013

If you are a trainer, you are working with the human brain every day and you need to know as much as possible about how humans learn and how to teach a topic well. The same goes for small group and large group discussions. Give participants an opportunity to answer the questions as well as ask open-ended questions.

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Content Learning Brain PPT 130

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

NOVEMBER 2, 2016

As a trainer, one of the most exciting parts of working on a book is developing instructional materials based on the content and leading workshops to help put the ideas into practice. Over the past six months, I have been developing and piloting workshops on self-care and we-care as part of the leadership development training I do.

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Culture Create Chapter Director 50

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

FEBRUARY 28, 2011

Today in Beirut there were peaceful protests , but in another part of the city the E-Mediat project participants gathered for the first day of the Train the Trainers eight-day workshop. To understand networks and their value as a social media trainer’s tool. February 27, 2011. This first day’s three learning objectives: 1.

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Network Build Exercise Map 99

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

FEBRUARY 8, 2018

As a long-time trainer, professor, and teacher, I feel strongly that interactive learning activities – going beyond the death by Powerpoint Lecture – is the key to retention and application for participants. Here’s how they combined the videos. Then students complete exercises, either in small groups or solo.

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Learning Classroom Classes Student 84

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

AUGUST 22, 2017

During the summer, I’ve been designing workshops based on The Happy Healthy Nonprofit and Emerging Leaders Playbook. A great training always start with a great opening or icebreaker. Nonprofit blogger Vu Lee has some tips on what types of openers to avoid. Tips for Good Openings. You can always adapt or improvise.

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Training Train Exercise Fun 78

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JULY 19, 2017

The opening plenary was hosted by the renowned Usha Menon , past chair of the Resource Alliance and celebrated speaker, connector and consultant to the social impact sector. As a trainer, one way to learn is to observe and take process notes. The plenary and big sessions were thought-provoking as they were inspiring.

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Philanthropy Cambodia Impact Learning 75

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MAY 1, 2014

It’s also boosted by the increasing number of open-space offices , which give even top executives little privacy to speak candidly or have any alone time. Even in the nonprofit sector. Yesterday, I gave a breakfast keynote at the National Head Start Association Conference and as I walking into the convention center.

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Work Brain Exercise Conference 135

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

NOVEMBER 6, 2014

As a trainer and subject matter expert, I fight a big battle when designing a workshop. Balancing the amount of content delivery with exercises and right sizing given the available time for the workshop. The format of the concept poster was more open then the close-ended set of exercises and questions on the worksheet.

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Activities Active Activism Integration 105

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

FEBRUARY 20, 2019

Also, in a way, BuJo is an open source movement with its basics, many versions and user community. Ma’ayan Alexander, @maayanale , is a tech for social change professional and a web projects manager, consultant and trainer for nonprofit professionals, public servants, activists and students for over a decade.

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Journal Professional Nonprofit Reflection 104

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JULY 25, 2017

Recently, a colleague asked me a wonderful question: How did you learn to become a good facilitator and trainer? If you are new to participatory facilitation techniques, use the Spectagram as an opener and use it to better understand skill levels in the room. Did you read books, take classes, or have a coach? Share in the comments.

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Participatory Facilitation Technique Asia 76