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Trainer’s Notebook: Facilitating Brainstorming Sessions for Nonprofit Work

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

Does your work at a nonprofit include facilitating meetings or trainings? Looking for new techniques to add to your facilitator’s toolbox? ” The nickname “brainstorm sessions” because participants were using their brains to storm a problem. There are two basic ways to facilitate a group brainstorming session.

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Trainer’s Notebook: Using Posters To Spark Learning

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

Write a target audience definition. Get together staff for half hour or 60 minutes, and do a “brain dump” of everything they know about their audience. The next facilitation challenge was to break them into small groups to work on the personas using a poster-sized version of the persona worksheet.

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Six Tips for Evaluating Your Nonprofit Training Session

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

I’m co-facilitating a session on Nonprofit Training Design and Delivery with colleagues John Kenyon, Andrea Berry, and Cindy Leonard at the NTEN Nonprofit Technology Conference on Friday March 14th at 10:30 am! Use Learning Theory. to define the four levels of training evaluation. Formative Evaluation.

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Reflections from Stanford Nonprofit Management Institute: New Skills for a Complex World

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In fact, Lucy has been terrific in finding new ways, like Branch , to use the social tools to facilitate a global brain around these ideas. Let’s start with a definition first. The new social economy includes all the ways we use our private resources to create social good.

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The Networked NGO in Pakistan

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It marked the start of a six month peer learning exchange where I, along with colleague Stephanie Rudat will work remotely with grantees as they implement an action learning project to put techniques into practice and facilitate organizational change from the inside out. organizational change, and technology. We did this on Day 1.

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Games and Cultural Spaces: Live Blog Notes from Games for Change

Amy Sample Ward

The Brain exhibition, for example, has a table where people can work together to put together the pieces of the brain neuron by neuron. There was a facilitator there that would play it and she played it all day. Within our exhibitions, we have a focus on creating very dynamic, interactive opportunities.

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What Improvisation Can Teach Social Change Leaders

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I had the honor of being a guest facilitator at a transformative leadership retreat with colleagues Heather McLeod Grant, Chris Block, Lance Fors, and David Havens – I got to teach but more importantly got to learn from amazing people. Bringing your brain to what you are doing. Some words and phrases that came up: Responding.

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