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Thought Leaders Blaze Trails of Discovery and Engagement

.orgSource

Passion plus knowledge is a powerful hook, making people who were about to swipe stay for a while. And our most ardent volunteers are typically people who love sharing knowledge. Evaluate Expertise Who exactly are the members of your new brain trust and where will you find them? For one compelling reason.

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Does Extreme Content Delivery = Learning?

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

When you want to acquire a new skill or apply some new knowledge, do you learn by passively sitting and listening to an expert lecture for 90 minutes without a break and 150 PPT slides? Now that could be hard reading, but Sharon Bowman’s “ Using Brain Science To Make Science Stick ” has been a terrific resource.

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How To Get Insight From Data Visualization: SHUT UP and SLOW DOWN!

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

As a trainer, I always do a participant assessment to understand their experience, knowledge, and attitudes related to the topic – for the most part social media and networked nonprofits. I use survey monkey and grab the visual chart for each question and dumping each chart into its own Powerpoint slide. Map the data.

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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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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 facilitator understand who is the room at the beginning (demographics, experience, attitudes, knowledge about the topic) – a quick and dirty participant assessment. Support a fun icebreake r.

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Introducing the 2021 Classy Awards Leadership Council

Classy

The collective knowledge of our Leadership Council makes the Classy Awards a distinction unlike any other. Designs and launches new initiatives, drives organizational strategy, and helps chart the future of Feeding America. Data and Knowledge Centers. Ami McReynolds. Chief Equity and Programs Officer. Feeding America.

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Navigate Change Management: Set Your Nonprofit Up For Success

Bloomerang

Sometimes they are huge, like switching CRM systems or restructuring your organizational chart. Try to brainstorm with your team about what knowledge and skills will be needed to make the change a success and be sure to include such trainings in your timeline. Sometimes changes are simple, like moving the coffee station in the office.