Have Fun - Do Good

APRIL 21, 2010

Hello Have Fun Do Gooders! Those of you who are regular readers know that I've been experimenting with supporting two of my pals' work by being a part of their affiliate programs: Jenn's Right Brain Business Plan , and Kimberly's eco-fashion line, TranquiliT. Jenn is teaching her Right Brain Business Plan e-course May 17-July 9th.

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Get Fully Funded

JULY 13, 2021

Manage Your Time Ok, tools are great, but the discipline of using your time wisely is where your nonprofit productivity will skyrocket, lowering your stress and making work more fun. It’s not fun. But it is a good task to schedule after blocking off time to work on a complex grant or other task that requires a lot of brain power.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MARCH 8, 2019

Before I get to the topic of using posters to make your workshops or meeting more interactive (and fun), I want to wish you a Happy International Women’s Day! This was much more fun than writing it down on a worksheet! This helps with increasing attention spans and retention as well as make the session more fun.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JANUARY 19, 2017

That’s why I always enjoy teaching in flexible classroom spaces. I had requested 6 person rounds because part of the exercises included some fun brainstorming processes and exercises. It also provided a nice transition between sections, giving people a little brain break to digest the information.

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Cloud 4 Good

APRIL 14, 2022

In all, there were over 30 overlapping sessions, plus breakout rooms, allowing inquisitive minds to pick the brains of developers, configurators, architects, and anyone responsible for building on Salesforce. DevOps Sessions + Speakers. Melissa Hill Dees and Sandi Zellner’s conversational session, “Have You Considered the Consequences?”,

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NonProfit Hub

APRIL 14, 2017

Volunteering goes beyond just being something fun to do; it decreases stress, too. When you assist others, your body releases dopamine in the brain, which has a positive effect on how you feel. Volunteering as a family is a great way to teach important lessons to your children. Teaches new skills. Combats stress.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

NOVEMBER 12, 2015

Support a fun icebreake r. Instead having people sit and interview each other, I had them write down the interview questions on 3×5 card and go for 20 minute walk around the hotel and do a walking interview, ten minutes teach. Help participants unpack a lot of potential topics to address.

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Have Fun - Do Good

JUNE 29, 2011

Opportunities to Make Your Blog Juicy Bay Area folks • I'm teaching a Jumpstart Your Blog! I'll be one of the Write Brain | Essential Content Development workshop leaders at BlogHer '11 on August 5th. • workshop at the Writing Salon in Berkeley on July 9th Everyone! My next Juicy Blogging E-Course runs from September 21-October 12.

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AUGUST 29, 2022

However, with a read-a-thon fundraiser, you can give your supporters the opportunity to slow down and crack open a book while also teaching young students the value of reading and escaping into exciting stories. Unlike a fun run or a 5K fundraiser, you don’t need to map out a racecourse or organize volunteers to man your event.

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Get Fully Funded

DECEMBER 31, 2009

Being in Moscow in October and participating in a brain storming session for a Russian professional fundraising organization. Teaching a reluctant client how to write grants; helping him with his first grant; and hearing him 6 months later talk like a seasoned grantwriting pro! Riding my horse in my first cattle roundup.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JANUARY 27, 2014

I was introduced to lesson planning from veteran teachers and have written “lesson plans” or now that I’m an adjunct professor a syllabus for everything I teach. When participants move, oxygen to the brain increases, thereby enhancing both learning and memory. Talking and hearing (Auditory).

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

APRIL 5, 2011

1. Deep Analysis of Your Audience: I always (try) to do a thorough participant assessment before I teach any workshop or do a presentation. All in all, a great learning experience for me and it was fun! Some reflections: Health Organizations: Social Media. View more presentations from Beth Kanter.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JUNE 25, 2012

Moving gets blood to the brain, getting blood brain helps people take in new ideas. We also did fun and creative after lunch energizers. On the first day, in honor of being in India, I played a YouTube video of a well-loved Bollywood number called “ Chaya, Chaya.”

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

APRIL 27, 2012

On Day 3, when it was time to focus on more time on teaching the tools, we started with an opening exercise designed to help identify those in the room who had knowledge. Make It Fun, Celebrate. I believe strongly that professional learning can be fun and it can be more effective that way.

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NTEN

FEBRUARY 10, 2015

Discover how the power of social sharing can shine a light on a serious issue and poke fun at the inanity of discrimination. Having worked in the technology department for a diverse and rapidly expanding nonprofit focused on the inclusion of people with disabilities, Jeff has been a part of his share of poor decisions and “teaching moments.”

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Museum 2.0

JULY 6, 2007

These days, it's not just about improving your reflexes; experts have expanded the concept of "valuable" play to include MMOs like World of Warcraft (which teach teamwork, social leadership, and may help you get a job ), and many corporations are turning to game companies to develop educational games for training and recruiting.

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MARCH 12, 2009

April 5 is the first day of a class I’m teaching called Social Technology, in which we are focusing on designing an exhibition that features social objects , that is, exhibits or artifacts that inspire interpersonal dialogue. There are three reasons you might value this activity: It will be fun and kind of unusual.

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Museum 2.0

APRIL 6, 2007

I used to teach gadget workshops for kids in museums. I planted in their brains the possibility that this might not be easy, might not be hygienic, that they might lose. However, failure isn’t always fun. There are some games out there with failure modes so “fun” that people try to attain them again and again.

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Bloomerang

AUGUST 2, 2022

They may have grown up in a grade school that didn’t emphasize writ­ing, or perhaps they were simply left-brained, science and math types. These are fun and gradual ways to improve writing skills. Another option is to pay your star writers small bonuses for editing copy or teaching staff how to edit and polish writing.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JULY 6, 2006

ve been teaching a course on social marketing at the UCLA School of Public Health, which has been a fun experience for me. People generally know what it is that they SHOULD be doing, but what they ACTUALLY do is often related to things beyond the rational side of their brain. Successful social marketers tap into people???s

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Bloomerang

JANUARY 14, 2022

But we’re going to start with something just a little fun. Actually, the whole thing is going to be fun. We need to have a little bit of fun. But let’s just start with something fun. They’re always looked so, so fun. Because it’s 2022, things are crazy. So I really need you to hear this.

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Bloomerang

JANUARY 30, 2022

But we’re going to start with something just a little fun. Actually, the whole thing is going to be fun. We need to have a little bit of fun. But let’s just start with something fun. They’re always looked so, so fun. Everything that I’m going to be teaching you today comes straight from this formula.

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Bloomerang

NOVEMBER 26, 2021

So today, I’m going to teach you a bit about how to actually do that. In fact, there are two types of goals, which I’m going to teach you next. And you have to always keep your impact growing, scaling activities in balance with your capacity, because, you know, it’s no fun. . Those are not easy to update. .

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JUNE 17, 2015

Rachel Calderon, Marketing and Communications Manager, Central Florida Foundation was a workshop participant and after the workshop we brainstormed a design for training her board members to be champions. She agreed to write up her process and experience – and especially grateful as I’m in London now teaching the same topic.

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Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

JUNE 3, 2012

The Amygdala is a small part of your brain that is the center of emotions. It's part of what is often called the "Reptilian Brain" because it's very primitive, and has been around for a long time. Encourage it to sit down with you, and teach you about itself. . In particular, a little part of your flesh called the Amygdala.

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Bloomerang

NOVEMBER 20, 2021

I think our days and our brains can sometimes feel like this calculation. . So I’m going to teach you what works so you don’t have to make the mistakes that I did. Paul to teach them a bit about what goes on in Ethiopia, or Uganda, or wherever their camps are. I’ve made a ton of mistakes. ” .

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

NOVEMBER 29, 2009

Philanthropy doesn't have to be an adults only activity, giving can be part of your family fun. Teach Your Kids About Charities: YouthGive. And this year, Harry sent some of his birthday loot to the Sharing Foundation , making me proud that he is following my tradition of giving to celebrate a birthday. .

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Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

JUNE 3, 2012

The Amygdala is a small part of your brain that is the center of emotions. It's part of what is often called the "Reptilian Brain" because it's very primitive, and has been around for a long time. Encourage it to sit down with you, and teach you about itself. . In particular, a little part of your flesh called the Amygdala.

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Bloomerang

JULY 17, 2021

I mean, she’s a CFRE and she even teaches a CFRE class. And for all of us who are parents who had privilege of teaching these children, just be glad you’re still like those little people. Secrets aren’t fun. And I don’t know how she has time for all this stuff. And Rose, you had to go remote overnight.

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Bloomerang

JUNE 25, 2021

Tell us how the weather is, what your organization does, anything fun you want to tell us. Well, your database, I’ve said this, your database is like your brain, right? Like your fundraising brain. Leeann is saying, “Do you have a successful procedure to teach finance and [inaudible 00:46:13] pledges count?”

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Bloomerang

AUGUST 21, 2021

In addition to being super active in her San Francisco nonprofit community, she also does a lot, including teaching a CFRE class. It lights up the pleasure centers of their brains, it gives them what is called a warm-glow feeling. Claire: It was fun, Steven. And is just all over the place. So thanks, Claire. This was awesome.

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Bloomerang

DECEMBER 10, 2021

” So we have in our brains, the amygdala, the fear center, where you have flight, fright, and freeze as the emotional reactions to things that’s scare you. I’m all in favor of intellectuals, and reading, and learning, and teaching. Going to be a fun one. Third question, “Do I respect you?”

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Have Fun - Do Good

FEBRUARY 13, 2008

According to the Washington Post article, If It Feels Good to Be Good, It Might Only Be Natural , another study found that when, "volunteers placed the interests of others before their own, the generosity activated a primitive part of the brain that usually lights up in response to food or sex. A Candy-Colored Life.

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Bloomerang

MAY 28, 2021

In our brains, in the back of our brain here is our instinct, that fight or flight. ” And so when we pitch ideas, people tend to go into the back of their brain and now they’re kind of poking holes at your idea. Our prefrontal cortex of our brain is where. remember I talked about the brain?

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