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The Art of Facilitating Meetings with Sticky Notes

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Post-It Note Facilitation of A Network Map - 2012 Pakistan NGOs. What’s in your facilitation toolkit? Mine includes markers , sticky notes , index cards, and flip chart paper. But wait, paper??? And, I’m not alone. Project Planning: Includes two methods, one for agile planning and the other for complex projects.

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Six Tips for Evaluating Your Nonprofit Training Session

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To do this analysis, you need to ask for both positive and constructive criticism. The technique is called Plus/Delta. Jane Bozarth’s “ From Analysis to Evaluation: Tools, Tips, and Techniques for Trainers ” includes some excellent templates and examples for training evaluation surveys. 3. The Evaluation Survey.

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The Power of Our Collective Professional Networks and Transdisciplinarity Learning

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I have found it especially useful to do this to kick off a longer-term peer learning experience as in the example below illustrating the knowledge and expertise of a cohort of NGOs from Pakistan that I worked with during my time as Visiting Scholar at the Packard Foundation. There are two different lens to think about network mapping.

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Network for Good Study of Disaster Giving

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This study is based on analysis of $24.5 million in charitable giving online through Network for Good in response to three major crises: the December 2004 tsunamis, Hurricane Katrina in August 2005 and the Pakistan earthquake of October 2005. ?? Tsunami relief: 82,000 donations totaling $11 million for 124 charities ??

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How To Think Like An Instructional Designer for Your Nonprofit Trainings

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” ADDIE is an instructional design method that stands for Analysis, Design, Development, Implementation, and Evaluation. When I taught Networked Nonprofit workshops for NGOs from India and Pakistan , all the examples and even the icebreakers were relevant.

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Creating Learning Experiences That Connect, Inspire, and Engage

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I am very excited about upcoming peer learning projects that I’m working on in 2012, including several for Packard grantees in India, Pakistan, and Africa as well as the e-Mediat project in the Middle East. And the resulting graph is the analysis of 1200 students. A few days ago I opened the door on a new learning journey.

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400 More Email Subject Lines from End of Year Fundraising

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Subject Line Analysis. Bears in Pakistan need your help this Christmas. And the best way to find the right number is to test. My experience over the years tells me that most nonprofits still don’t send as much email as they should be. This word cloud was generated based on all 445 fundraising email subject lines.

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