Blue Avocado

JANUARY 23, 2024

Alternately, you might be thinking about building an advisory committee around advocacy. These questions should help you make sure you are recruiting people with the right skill sets who can represent experiences and voices that you may not have on your staff. Scope—What is the focus of the committee’s work (see principle #1)?

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MARCH 4, 2020

It’s time to up your virtual facilitation and convening skills. This word cloud is from a virtual workshop I facilitated asking participants what the barriers to effective virtual meetings are: technology, engagement, connectivity, and participation. Roles may include: Facilitator: Designs and Facilitates Meeting.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

FEBRUARY 18, 2014

I’m co-facilitating a session on Nonprofit Training Design and Delivery with colleagues John Kenyon, Andrea Berry, and Cindy Leonard at the NTEN Nonprofit Technology Conference on Friday March 14th at 10:30 am! Can participants apply the skills?” Alternately, you may feel so good about it and say my job is done.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

DECEMBER 17, 2013

On December 17 at 6:30 pm, I am facilitating a discussion and presenting at one of Scoop.It’s “ Lean Content ” events in San Francisco. Sense-making is the ability to determine the deeper meaning or significance of what is being expressed – and in a world with so much information, it is a critical workplace skill.

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Connection Cafe

DECEMBER 11, 2020

With the popularity of online experiences and the abundance of software to help facilitate them, this article can even help you recruit volunteers in a post-COVID-19 world. For instance, create a specific group for those who are skilled in coding and web design. Take your onboarding online. Keep your volunteers engaged.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

SEPTEMBER 8, 2016

Nina Simon, the executive director of the museum, is an expert in participatory design and fantastic facilitator. It was great to watch her in action facilitating the creative, interactive, and fun program. I like this alternative to sticky dot voting! Here’s a quick video. A mature employee knows how to manage up.

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Classy

APRIL 16, 2021

CELI does this work by equipping emerging leaders and professionals with the skills and expertise to lead the transition to a clean energy economy. The organization serves as a collective voice to develop an alternative agenda for environmental, social, and economic justice that brings fundamental changes to economic and social institutions.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

FEBRUARY 8, 2013

Later in the morning, I facilitated a large group discussion hour-long discussion right before lunch with Greg and Laura Efurd from ZeroDivide. Listening to the conversation and watching the audience for signs of energy drop, I inserted some movement into the discussion related to the topic by asking them to do the ” failure bow.”

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Qgiv

OCTOBER 12, 2021

An app-based scavenger hunt can also facilitate a hybrid event if you have participants who are more comfortable virtually attending. Promote the event on all of your social media platforms and find an event registration and management system that facilitates donations and makes signing up for occasions like this simple and painless.

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Ideas Fundraising Movie Contest 98

Eric Jacobsen Blog

FEBRUARY 9, 2015

That expedited route includes fostering entrepreneurship by facilitating the introduction of product and service “ rough drafts ” to customers, and then, based on feedback, swiftly adjusting—or dumping—them. Schroeder calls this The LeanModel Framework.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

APRIL 8, 2015

This post follows yesterday’s post about networked leadership skills. I had the honor of being a guest facilitator at a transformative leadership retreat with colleagues Heather McLeod Grant, Chris Block, Lance Fors, and David Havens – I got to teach but more importantly got to learn from amazing people.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JANUARY 27, 2014

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. It is also important to target the right level of authority. Development. I do this all the time.

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Forj

JULY 8, 2021

These exercises can measure knowledge gained, skills learned, or even attitudes or mindsets changed. Or, individuals in a business course could complete an open-ended case study-based assessment to test how well they can apply the information presented, effectively testing skills acquired. Group Collaboration with Feedback.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

APRIL 1, 2015

It outlines the practices and skills needed to create a learning culture. Senior leaders model the skill that Edgar H. Alternatively, there may bean emphasis on collecting more data than is necessary, but no one relates it to decision making. Here’s what I learned: Definition: A culture of continuous improvement.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

APRIL 24, 2011

At SXSW and facilitating a panel called A Global Discussion About Networked Nonprofits and Free Agents , I introduced myself with this photo of me and Lena, the master trainer from Yemen for the E-Mediat Project. He described the method as an alternative to technology lab classroom skills-based trainings.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

SEPTEMBER 19, 2017

Workplace flexibility creates a need for better skills in facilitating virtual meetings and hybrid meetings where some participants are in the room and others participate are using audio-only or video conferencing platform. That’s why I’ve added a new workshop on running and facilitating effective virtual meetings.

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Eric Jacobsen Blog

JULY 5, 2015

That expedited route includes fostering entrepreneurship by facilitating the introduction of product and service “ rough drafts ” to customers, and then, based on feedback, swiftly adjusting—or dumping—them. Schroeder calls this The Lean Model Framework.

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ASU Lodestar Center

JULY 31, 2013

Our Effective, Motivated, Board Governance - Facilitated Training program will help build the knowledge and skills of your entire board in just one day. directors as alternate members of any committee, to act as a substitute. Did you know that the ASU Lodestar Center offers board governance training? when necessary. committee.

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Have Fun - Do Good

APRIL 4, 2008

Last week I had the pleasure of facilitating a career counseling session for a group of Stanford students who were spending their "alternative spring break" meeting with social entrepreneurs in the Bay Area. skills and tasks they enjoy doing. Generation Y spring break alternative social entrepreneurship

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JUNE 28, 2006

Katie Salen Parsons (She co-wrote the book Rules of Play ) We're facilitating a process of games versus making games. Subvert the rules explore the limits of system propose alternate responses Great skills for social change. How can we facilitate change? Games are made of up of rules - what you can or can't do in a game.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MARCH 6, 2007

I met a lot of fantastic videobloggers as well as learned a lot through the discussion on production values facilitated by David Tames. Requires a mic, recorder, and some more skills with editing. Shoot for the edit, shot in a way that makes it easy to cut things together, for example, get coverage (alternative angles) of what you???re

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Bloomerang

AUGUST 2, 2022

Writing is a skill learned early in life, and most of us disliked writing and grammar classes as much as we disliked eating vegetables. During the hiring process, make the skill of writing a top requirement for all positions. At many nonprofits, the skill of writing is an afterthought in the hiring process. That won’t cut it.

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Connection Cafe

JULY 23, 2013

Set the expectation with stakeholders that undocumented requirements won’t be considered to facilitate a thorough analysis of the actual business process and outcomes to be supported. Be sure to double check, and consider alternatives such as changing business processes. Consider the Standard Product.

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Bloomerang

APRIL 12, 2024

To arrive at a place where you’re able to do this takes commitment, courage, active curiosity, and lots of practice using energetic listening skills. Then, you can offer an alternative way to think about the situation. Don’t assume why donors give to you; find out! Tell me a bit about what you’re finding now. What would your dream be?

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Museum 2.0

MARCH 8, 2011

For example, on Monday afternoon Inspectors were asked to make more interesting alternatives to all the signs and rules in the building. positioning them as experts whose skills and assistance were urgently required. However, once we got going there was a real buzz as the activities started permeating the whole building.

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CauseVox

DECEMBER 18, 2023

Grant writing is a skill, and it’s also a full time job. Employee engagement programs are also a great opportunity to invite businesses to involve their workforce in volunteering, fundraising, or skill-sharing initiatives. Employ both and don’t be afraid to let your passion shine through. Again, remember to follow the guidelines!

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VisionLink

MAY 17, 2013

Alternately, if you can foresee circumstances where you would want to support crisis calls, homeless intake, elderly services, disaster relief, and other family service programs (through your own offices or through partner agencies), then you are looking for a software solution that is designed to support multi-purpose, multi-partner use.

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Have Fun - Do Good

MAY 10, 2006

We focus on political education and organizer skills trainings, and we definitely think it is critical to see the fusion of those two things. We just recently moved to downtown Oakland, and we talk about ourselves as a school to build a movement. We place ourselves in the social justice work here in the Bay Area as a training center.

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Qgiv

DECEMBER 2, 2021

Or, with renewed interest in old school hobbies like gardening, breadmaking, and woodworking, do you have members who could donate their time to teach these skills? As a virtual alternative , have each of your congregants set up a personal fundraising webpage. All you need to do is partner with a shoe drive fundraiser facilitator.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JULY 10, 2008

provocative questions, offers an alternative view, and helps facilitate fresh insights or alternative sources of information or expertise." My big question is when, as the facilitator, to get out of the way? There are different ways that people are organizing to work together - facilitated and spontaneous.

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Bloomerang

SEPTEMBER 24, 2021

Sometimes, you have too many ideas so you need a strong facilitator who can make sure we hear from everyone, but are able to put these ideas through a funnel and find those common threads. That facilitator has to be able to manage many different personalities, the different cultures, different experiences. What experience do I bring?

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Museum 2.0

DECEMBER 28, 2007

I was struck recently by the description of players in an alternate reality game, SF0 , in which people go on cultural “missions” around the Bay Area. Your character will have all the same skills and attributes as you, and even the same memories and feelings. The text reads: What does it mean to create a new character in SFZero?

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Bloomerang

NOVEMBER 13, 2021

She’s also certified by the Institute of Cultural Affairs, in the USA, for facilitation. ” You can also speak to the skills and the talents and the successes of those leading the program. I personally love using bookmark-type magnet postcard-type, I guess, handouts or alternative needs lists.

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Nonprofits Source

OCTOBER 11, 2017

Your ability to add value to the conversation, whether by facilitating a thoughtful discussion or by presenting industry changing data, is what gives your content meaning. Looking at the headline of this article, in particular, the word “better” implies an alternative way of doing something that you may not have tried before.

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Have Fun - Do Good

JUNE 29, 2006

Kind of like what brought you here, what skills and things like that? And then we're also giving a ton of art skills: dance and hip hop and banner painting and we record a CD every year in a ten-day period. Alli: Interesting question, like what is the road that gets us anywhere, I think they're always somewhat circuitous and unplanned.

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