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Trainer’s Notebook: Facilitating Brainstorming Sessions for Nonprofit Work

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Does your work at a nonprofit include facilitating meetings or trainings? Looking for new techniques to add to your facilitator’s toolbox? Brainstorming can be done as a solo activity or group or collaborative brainstorming. There are two basic ways to facilitate a group brainstorming session. Basic Approaches.

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Are Associations Losing Their Members’ Trust?—The Leadership ColLAB Explores This Critical Question

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Trust isn’t a challenge that is currently top of mind for association leaders. All of the association’s activities and initiatives are grounded in the ideals that are outlined below. Working on culture isn’t a finite activity. The problem might be something you’ve never considered. Could the issue be trust?

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Four Tips To Boost Your Personal Resilience While Doing Nonprofit Work

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We will be doing early morning sessions to engage participants in some mindful moment and movement exercises. I’m going to share different techniques for weaving mindful moment and exercises into your workday. It helps center and refocus our brains which is important for learning.

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Donate Your Brain! Microvolunteering at TechSoup

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Thier ideas, unique points of view, and diverse talents provide us with critical information and expertise, and greatly enhance our program activities. TechSoup involves online volunteers as subject matter experts, moderators, and facilitators for our community forum. Simple, right? For volunteers, yes, it's quite simple.

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Why Movement Is the Killer Learning App for Nonprofits

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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. Internal: These theories take into account our minds and bodies.

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Why and How Rituals Build Resilience in the Nonprofit Workplace

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Last week I presented a session at the Nonprofit Technology Conference called “ Activating A Culture of Resilience for Sustainable Impact ,” with fellow NTEN board members, Ananda Leeke & Meico Whitlock as well as Carrie Rice. I presented and facilitated a small group activity on rituals.

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Walking During Board Retreats: A Few Tips

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Last week, we had a board retreat to dive into identifying core results as part of results-based accountability work , facilitated by an excellent outside consultant. There are serious health risks to a sedentary work style, but it also impacts our minds as well. Moving around at work helps get our brains to re-engage.

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