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Why Movement Is the Killer Learning App for Nonprofits

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

As a trainer and facilitator who works with nonprofit organizations and staffers, you have to be obsessed with learning theory to design and deliver effective instruction, have productive meetings, or embark on your own self-directed learning path.

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Strengthening program evaluation in your nonprofit

ASU Lodestar Center

As nonprofits attempt to tackle some of our communities' most difficult problems; funders, government agencies and the general public are actively calling for accountability, transparency and proof that a program is producing change. These are the people who will get the ECB ball rolling and actively manage the ECB process.

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How to Be a Wizard at Tech Training Design and Delivery

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

In the first portion of the training, Jeanne and Cindy modeled four great practices for designing training content, including: Spend a little time researching adult learning theory, or. Incorporate the three learning styles: visual, audio, and somatic.

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How To Think Like An Instructional Designer for Your Nonprofit Trainings

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

Designing and delivering a training to a nonprofit audience is not about extreme content delivery or putting together a PowerPoint and answering questions. If you want to get results, you need to think about instructional design and learning theory. And, there is no shortage of learning theories and research.

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Guest Post: Community and Civic Engagement in Museum Programs

Museum 2.0

For the purpose of this blog post I’ll discuss three key ingredients from my thesis that can activate community engagement in museum programs and how we apply this to programs at the MAH: assessing and responding to community assets and needs, building social capital, and inviting active participation.

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The Future of Social: Gen Z

NonProfit Hub

Beth is an expert in facilitating online and offline peer learning, curriculum development based on traditional adult learning theory and other instructional approaches. Dosomething.Org , an organization focused on activating young people in social good campaigns, is an expert at engaging and activating Gen Z donors.

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More on Collaborative Knowledge Capture for Conferences Using Social Media Tools

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

Loretta, doe it depend on which learning theory you buy into? But, as such, it's just grist for the learning mill - it's not yet learning. Loretta wrote a follow up post where she says: The content of blogs, podcasts, IMs, etc. can be offered up to an interested and engaged public.