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Trainer’s Notebook: Facilitating Brainstorming Sessions for Nonprofit Work

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

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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Empowering Community Voices: The Strategic Advantage of Nonprofit Advisory Committees

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Alternately, you might be thinking about building an advisory committee around advocacy. Create structure. Structure is crucial to developing and sustaining an effective advisory committee. However, structure does not have to mean rigidity. Work in Collaboration, Not Competition When done well, maintaining one (or more!)

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Nonprofit Innovation Toolkits: Methods To Invent, Adopt, and Adapt Ideas to Deliver Better Results

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The toolkit was designed through a collaboration between a European agency ( STBY ) and an Indian agency ( Quicksand ), it was commissioned by Nesta and the Rockefeller Foundation , who together saw a gap in the support for innovation provided to the development community. Imagine scenarios of use, and provoke and inspire alternatives.

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How To Think Like An Instructional Designer for Your Nonprofit Trainings

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

I use a simple structure to design: before, during, and after. For the networked nonprofit workshops I facilitate, I’ve developed a maturity of practice assessment called “ Crawl, Walk, Run, Fly ” which gives me a detailed understanding of where the organization is in its practice.

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Print Access for All: Anna Reid in Chennai

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Over 90% of these people live in third world countries, where books and newspapers in Braille or other alternative formats are very difficult to acquire. As an intern, I was working for Bookshare in Chennai, India, as their "on-the-ground" person, doing outreach and helping to establish a structure that will support their service there.

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Nonprofit Consulting Firms: 26 Leaders in Their Spaces

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Speak candidly with any prospective consultant partners to develop a clear understanding of their fee structure. They understand that strong compensation structures are essential for building a scalable, sustainable organization that retains its talent and grows year over year. Top Nonprofit Consulting Firms by Specialty.

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Visitor Studies Association Replaces Keynotes with Dialogue

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The VSA has replaced their keynotes with structured group dialogue. But the VSA has taken an intentional approach to these structured conversations with the goal of putting the (arguably) best part of conferences—the side conversations and hallway discussions—front and center. My first reaction was skepticism.

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