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Drones, Robots, and Farmers—Prepare Your Association to Meet Fast-Moving Technology Trends

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To make a point about technology and its impact on the future of work, Hugh Lee, Co-Founder of Fusion Productions, told me this story: “Several years ago, we invited some young presenters who were developing cutting edge farming technology to digitalNow. It opens services and activities to ongoing evaluation and adjustment.

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9 Nonprofit Leadership Skills Every Founder & Director Must Master

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Facilitator. Surprises are few and opportunities are easily evaluated and leveraged. You need to articulately describe the need you’re addressing in a way that moves listeners’ hearts. Passion, clarity, and confidence are key to telling your story. You must be able to tell your nonprofit’s story through numbers.

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Trainer’s Notebook: Integrating Thinking and Feedback Activities

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

The content focused on telling a couple of ”campfire” stories with insights about best practices. This where design thinking methods and innovation lab facilitation techniques can be helpful. While evaluation surveys are great, they are only one form of feedback. Share your story in the comments.

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How Do We Balance Measuring Outcomes with Measuring to Learn and Improve? (#SM_RE)

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

I’m very excited for this learning experience because over the two years my work as Visiting Scholar at the David and Lucile Packard Foundation has focused on going deep on facilitating peer learning for grantees on measuring outcomes for their networks with social media while balancing and upholding the principles of being networked.

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Nonprofit Giving Trends and Future Fundraising Strategy

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Big hearts will respond to big-hearted, authentic, clearly-articulated, specific and resonant appeals. Because, my friends, delivering happiness is the job of a true philanthropy (translated from the Greek as “love of humanity”) facilitator. It’s a good time to evaluate where you may have gaps in your technology.

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Happy, Healthy 2016: What’s Your Theme for the Year?

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

The book is about self-care for individuals who work for nonprofits and how it scales within nonprofit organizations. If your organization has a story to share for our book, let us know. I also designed and facilitated a six month peer learning cohort with colleague Stephanie Rudat.

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Help! My Nonprofit Needs A Data Nerd

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

Last week, I facilitated a mini-innovation lab on measuring impact for grantees of the Google Nonprofit program at the Impact Hub. It was articulated as: “We don’t have the skills to analyze, slice and dice, and make sense of our data, so it is hard to do it well.” I hear this too often from nonprofits.

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