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Methods for Facilitating Innovation in Nonprofits

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Last month I had the pleasure of taking the Luma Institute Train the Trainers workshop where I got a chance to immerse in practicing facilitation techniques based on human centered design principles. The workshop instructor Peter Maher is founder and CEO, of Luma Institute , and a Jedi Master. ” What is Human Centered Design?

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Visual Meeting Facilitation Workshop with David Sibbet

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About a year ago, I came across David Sibbet’s book, “ Visual Meetings ” I have known of his work for years, but always thought graphic recording was for “real artists who can draw.’ Rachel, a virtuoso technologist and artist, used a drawing tablet and Sketchbook pro.

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Designing Transformative Communications Capacity Building Programs for Nonprofits

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Whether the model your foundation is using to help its grantees is a one-day master class or extended program, in the end, success is about having participants apply what they’ve learned and make these new skills an organizational habit. The tactics can include workshops , master classes , coaching , expert consultants or peer learning.

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Virtual Meeting Check-Ins & Icebreakers During A Pandemic

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My first remote job was to work with a virtual team to manage an online network for artists, called Artswire. Since those days, I have continued to hone my virtual facilitation skills to design and deliver effective virtual meetings and trainings. This post is #2 in a series I’ll be publishing on virtual meeting facilitation.

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Six Steps On The Leadership Journey Of Development Professionals

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Creates an environment that facilitates fundraising Regardless of whether you do face-to-face fundraising, ensuring that the organization is prepared to fundraise is the development professional’s main priority. The forward-thinking development professional performs the following six practices: 1. Do you serve K-12 students? Senior citizens?

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The Zoetica Salon: A Peer Learning Community for Nonprofits and Social Media

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Freely sharing and facilitating community knowledge is part of my DNA as it for many colleagues in the nonprofit technology field. I then modeled this support on the online community — and we quickly had a village of practitioners supporting one of another. Why am I excited about this project?

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What’s Your Calling?

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

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. The photo shows us modeling “shoulder to shoulder&# learning. Flickr Photo by SMEXbeirut.

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