Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

NOVEMBER 3, 2015

I’ve just returned from an inspiring week in Kiev, Ukraine where I got to facilitate a training for women’s organizations organized by Wake , an amazing start up founded by two respected colleagues Trish Tierney and Heather Ramsey. You have to think of your interpreters as extensions of your facilitation techniques.

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Facilitation Training Train International 50

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MARCH 17, 2017

Wake’s Tech2Empower program organizes delegations of volunteer Technology Advisors, women who work for Silicon Valley companies like Google, Salesforce, Mozilla, YouTube, GE Digital and IRC, to provide training for women’s rights and girls empowerment NGOs in developing countries and here in the United States.

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Open Guatemala Tips Training 70

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MAY 23, 2017

My co-presenter for the plenary was the amazing Marcelo Iniarra , who is a digital mobilization pioneer and fantastic presenter/facilitator. The challenges: Explosion of online media channels. I facilitated a brief interactive exercise with the audience to better understand the process. Empowerment. A multi-screen world.

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Learning Donor Online Fundraising 86

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JANUARY 5, 2012

The instructor’s role should be to facilitate this understanding for their students, not dump content on them. They will be more likely to apply what they learned or what we call the “challenge of transfer” because they’re inspired. Allan Gunn from Aspiration and his legendary facilitation skills and knowledge.

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Experiment Learning Create Exercise 116

Connection Cafe

SEPTEMBER 4, 2020

We got the opportunity to sit down for an interview with Elizabeth Dove, the Director of Corporate Citizenship for Volunteer Canada. In a socially distanced world, virtual tours of non-profits, lunch and learns with community leaders, book clubs, or movies with facilitated discussion can strengthen that foundation. We’re here to help!

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Canada Volunteer Virtual Companies 27

Have Fun - Do Good

JUNE 19, 2009

After meeting her at the Global Engagement Summer last spring, I knew I wanted to grab her for an interview before she became too famous. Erickson founded FORGE (Facilitating Opportunities for Refugee Growth and Empowerment) in 2003 when she was a 20 year-old junior studying public policy at Stanford University.

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Interview Sudan Africa Congo 40

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

APRIL 27, 2012

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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Pakistan NGO Network Exercise 111