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We’re 39 percent similar; how can we be exponentially better?

Candid

Thanks to the generosity of these funders, we were able to identify 13 groups where duplicative questions are present using several human-guided machine learning techniques. Corporate Delegation and Oversight, Organizational Structure (5 percent). Alternative Supports (<1 percent). Miscellaneous (3 percent).

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Surviving As A New Nonprofit: 12 Focus Areas For Nonprofit Leaders

Bloomerang

Mission overlap isn’t always a bad thing, as nonprofits can collaborate well, but you’re starting an uphill battle if another local organization already does the job you hope to do. If you wish to make a difference that may mean looking at an alternative place to affect change than the one you first envisioned.

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

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

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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Trainer’s Notebook: Facilitating Brainstorming Sessions for Nonprofit Work

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

Looking for new techniques to add to your facilitator’s toolbox? This is the focus of a session called “ The Big Bang Theory: Creative Facilitation and Training Techniques, ” that I’m co-facilitating at the Nonprofit Technology Conference with Cindy Leonard and Jeanne Allen. What is Brainstorming? .

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Does Extreme Content Delivery = Learning?

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

Despite what people may say in an evaluation, brain science suggests that the longer people sit the less they learn. The book offers some techniques to incorporate movement with the goal of improved retention and learning: 1. It is a more structured body break and incorporates more in-depth debrief on content.

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Print Access for All: Anna Reid in Chennai

Beneblog: Technology Meets Society

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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Getting the Most out of your Social Learning Program

Gyrus

It is important to establish a clear direction as to what you want these new structures to accomplish. This, in itself, is a great habit forming technique. Get feedback on what you post, find out if there may be an alternative perception that furthers the agenda of that reading or topic. Clear Direction. Assign Group Work.

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