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Trainer’s Notebook: Group Polling Techniques and Tools and Incorporating Movement

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

It does close-ended questions and displays a bar chart or can also create a word cloud. Help the participants narrow down topics to discuss or work in small group exercises (replaces sticky dot voting and visualize the vote technique). Incorporating Movement Into Icebreakers and Small Group Exercises.

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Why Movement Is the Killer Learning App for Nonprofits

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

Learning theory is an attempt to describe how people learn. There are many learning theories and can be categorized in different ways: External: These theories take into account self-learning and learning in groups. This includes behaviorism and social learning or peer learning, communities of practice, and connectivism.

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14+ Excellent Nonprofit Annual Reports

Whole Whale

However, throwing a million charts and graphs together or writing a 10,000-word essay on why your nonprofit is the best isn’t going to be so effective (or worth anyone’s time). In a traditional PDF, this would take 5 separate charts and even then we wouldn’t get the same effect of watching this program grow on a national level.

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15 Inspiring Nonprofit Annual Reports | With Bonus Template

Whole Whale

However, throwing a million charts and graphs together or writing a 10,000-word essay on why your nonprofit is the best isn’t going to be so effective (or worth anyone’s time). In a traditional PDF, this would take 5 separate charts and even then we wouldn’t get the same effect of watching this program grow on a national level.

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How To Incorporate More Movement Into Your Nonprofit Training

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

Good instructional design and delivery engages people’s brains, eyes, ears, and bodies. People pay attention more, they learn something, they retain it better, and there is a better chance of them applying what they learned. Which brain do you think is more open to learning, retaining, and applying the content during a training?

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[VIDEO] 5 Must-Do’s of Year-End Fundraising Success

Bloomerang

I think our days and our brains can sometimes feel like this calculation. . When you match our first half million,” notice the language there, “we will make another grant of a half million.” So my longest time group of people that I’ve worked with is called Volunteers of America North Louisiana.

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Philanthropic Leadership: Engaging Board Members As Fundraising Ambassadors

Bloomerang

And if you think about this pie chart, what I really want to call out is that bequests, which are about 9%, are gifts made by individuals. But only 70% of that group is. or actually 70% of that group is dissatisfied with the board’s racial composition. It’s how my brain works. But it’s really powerful.