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5 Reasons Why You Should Make Mentoring A Priority

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

Your Efforts Could Change Lives Immediately. She shared, “The experience with the teens was amazing. You could see it change the way they were thinking – about themselves, their creativity, possibilities, and about their place in the world. Jade Barcley, a therapist and consultant was also at the ECHS event.

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Co-Creating Exhibits with Teens and Volunteers: The Importance of Criteria

Museum 2.0

They want articulated goals and expectations. This summer, I worked with the Chabot Space & Science Center on a design institute in which eleven teens from their Galaxy Explorers program designed media pieces for an upcoming Smithsonian exhibition on black holes. At first, we didn't understand what they were talking about.

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Creating Buy-In for a Data Culture at Your Nonprofit

Tech Soup

To be effective, you need some more information from your co-workers, but something has changed since that initial meeting. Creating an overlap of between your goals and the organizational change you are trying to implement is key in creating successful buy-in. All these methods can create a fun atmosphere around your new data culture.

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Let's Stop Talking about What People Need

Museum 2.0

It''s really important to be able to articulate what we need to achieve our institutional missions. I don''t hear this phrase accompanied by evidence-based articulation of "needs" of audiences. Instead, I hear this phrase used to defend traditional formats and content in the face of change. But what do they need?

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Unlease Your Organizations Knowledge Sharing Processes

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

As Wyman’s Teen Outreach Program® began to be replicated across the nation, the need to capture learning in a more sophisticated way grew right along with the growth of replication. To alleviate any concerns or tension, explicitly articulate to your team that their jobs are not at stake.

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4 bbcon Takeaways for Philanthropic Organizations to Power 2019 Planning

Connection Cafe

Technology is dramatically changing the way we work and live our lives, and the social good community needs to account for this digital transformation that demands increased transparency and also opens new doors.

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Six Steps to Making Risky Projects Possible

Museum 2.0

How do you overcome institutional resistance to change and uncertainty to do something wild and hopeful? I worked on one project in which the client institution thought they wanted unfettered teen expression. In the end, this generated a substandard product for the client, and disappointment for the teens. It takes six steps.

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