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Six Tips for Evaluating Your Nonprofit Training Session

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Using the ADDIE for designing your workshop, you arrive at the “E” or evaluation. ” While a participant survey is an important piece of your evaluation, it is critical to incorporate a holistic reflection of your workshop. There are two different methods to evaluate your training. Click to Amazon.

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15 Tips for a Strong End-of-Year Giving Campaign

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Studies have repeatedly shown that the human brain responds positively to altruism and people are hard-wired to give because it produces feel-good emotions. Use a Variety of Methods You want your end-of-year giving campaign to reach far and wide and connect with donors where they are. would work best for each.

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Trainer’s Notebook: Facilitating Brainstorming Sessions for Nonprofit Work

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” The nickname “brainstorm sessions” because participants were using their brains to storm a problem. A second process is used to evaluate the ideas – clustering the ideas into themes and identifying the best ones. After people have reviewed the ideas, it is time to have a follow up meeting to evaluate the ideas.

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Nonprofit Technology Training: Book List

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This useful handbook summarizes and explains the brain science of how people learn and provides easy to use frameworks to help you design and deliver training where people learn. Brain-Based Learning: The New Science of Teaching and Training. From Analysis to Evaluation: Tools, Tips, and Techniques from Trainers. By Dave Meier.

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Can Stories Be Data?

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

When the issue of interest moves from measurement for accountability/compliance to #evaluation for learning from Karcsig. I like to use a combined method. This approach is not about counting dollar signs, but about feedback loops which is discussed in Michael Quinn Patton’s new book on Developmental Evaluation.

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Data and the Human Touch

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When Kevin was in kindergarten he had an organic brain injury, which forced him to have to relearn everything from walking to using the bathroom. In the words of Kevin Starr of the Mulago Foundation , “to find the impact jackpot, you need to immerse yourself deeply enough in context and methods to make a reasoned judgment.

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Introducing the 2021 Classy Awards Leadership Council

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Double-certified neurologist and preventive medicine specialist with a background in public health, working toward the transition to replace the use of animal experimentation with superior human-based testing methods. Army Traumatic Brain Injury Program, developing the Army’s brain injury prevention and treatment strategies for soldiers .

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