VQ Strategies

NOVEMBER 22, 2022

When training nonprofit leaders, I often share that volunteers want to make a difference. Understanding their internal drivers and the skills they bring to a project may inspire additional ways that they can serve. Training : Engage volunteers in training other volunteers.

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Tech Soup

SEPTEMBER 24, 2012

There are new skills and experiences. graduate without having acquired basic skills. skills” and lack more enterprising “life skills” needed for the jobs of. 40% of private sector employers believe low workforce skills are constraining economic growth. outcome is the same everywhere. poor health.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

SEPTEMBER 7, 2016

The Skills Platform and Zoe Amar have created the Social Media Toolkit to aid professionals within the charity and third sectors. I’m thrilled to have contributed a chapter. But, Dave Evans, the Skills Platform’s product manager and Zoe felt that something was missing – a toolkit that helps pull everything together.

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Eric Jacobsen Blog

FEBRUARY 25, 2021

Storytelling is a skill. A skill like any other skills needed for successful selling. Paul's Sell with a Story book includes : Model stories Skill-building exercises Enlightening examples from Microsoft, Costco, Xerox, Abercombie & Fitch, Hewlett Packard, and other top companies.

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Qgiv

MARCH 30, 2022

Do you need a lot of training, or just the basics? Q: What if one I have only basic office skills? Prior to college, I had also taken typing courses to hone my office skills, and this made me a valuable employee. Many readers asked How do you become a grant writer? What classes are best? Would volunteering help?

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EveryAction

JULY 11, 2016

Members of our team will be speaking on panels, conducting trainings, and hanging out in the Town Square all week so make sure to say hello! Young nonprofit pros are headed to Portland as the local chapter hosts YNPN’s annual conference. 2016 New York Nonprofit Conference. Big Apple nonprofits: this one’s for you. The Activate!

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Eric Jacobsen Blog

OCTOBER 11, 2020

Storytelling is a skill. A skill like any other skills needed for successful selling. Paul's Sell with a Story book includes : Model stories Skill-building exercises Enlightening examples from Microsoft, Costco, Xerox, Abercombie & Fitch, Hewlett Packard, and other top companies.

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Eric Jacobsen Blog

DECEMBER 8, 2020

Most important, via the book, Sofer provides us the skill necessary to transform communication into a vehicle for greater intimacy, honesty, and compassion to bring us to greater equity and peace. Sofer provides stories, well-researched examples and end-of-chapter practical suggestions to guide you along the way.

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NonProfit Hub

OCTOBER 15, 2020

These programs help your staff members develop skills that can be applied at your organization for more efficient processes and a productive work environment. . We’ve written this guide on professional development programs to help nonprofit executives like you empower employees to develop skills and hone their craft.

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Eric Jacobsen Blog

OCTOBER 10, 2020

Most important, via the book, Sofer provides us the skill necessary to transform communication into a vehicle for greater intimacy, honesty, and compassion to bring us to greater equity and peace. Sofer provides stories, well-researched examples and end-of-chapter practical suggestions to guide you along the way.

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Tech Soup

FEBRUARY 3, 2015

This is just a taste of the events being held this month by NetSquared chapters. We're a global movement with chapters in 20 countries. Seattle, Washington: Salesforce Essentials — Training for Nonprofit Organizations. Need help finding the right WordPress plugin for your website? Don't be shy — come join us!

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Eric Jacobsen Blog

JUNE 13, 2020

Most important, via the book, Sofer provides us the skill necessary to transform communication into a vehicle for greater intimacy, honesty, and compassion to bring us to greater equity and peace. Sofer provides stories, well-researched examples and end-of-chapter practical suggestions to guide you along the way.

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NonProfit Hub

JULY 27, 2021

It all started twenty years ago when esteemed members of the Lincoln chapter of the American Marketing Association created a community project in 2001. The event is seen as a low-cost, high-value training and we wish to keep that reputation,” the creative brief instructed. Nine scholarships for attendees were awarded.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

OCTOBER 30, 2013

Kathy Reich, Director of Organizational Effectiveness Grantmaking at the David and Lucile Packard Foundation, write up this summary of the session. I am looking forward to the next chapter of work which will continue to focus on networks, but how they can be used by nonprofit for learning that leads to greater impact. Stay tuned.

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Forj

JULY 25, 2017

In our interview, Dr. Hicken and I prompted Dr. Turco to discuss editorial decisions and specific chapters she felt deserved special call out for the readers of this blog. Mary Turco envisions instructors assigning chapters in a curriculum for training CPD professionals. Chapter 4, by Ginny Jacobs-Halsey and David A.

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Neon CRM

AUGUST 10, 2023

Nonprofit conferences are a great opportunity for industry professionals to hone their skills, network with their peers, and learn innovative new strategies to help their organizations thrive. Nonprofit conferences can feature a variety of topics, like fundraising, marketing, nonprofit tech, and leadership.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

APRIL 30, 2012

The Network Weaver Handbook is designed to give you skills and resources you need to build effective and innovative networks. If you are need to understand how networks work and grow – and need to develop and hone network weaving skills – this amazing handbook will give you what you need! Order it here.

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Eric Jacobsen Blog

JANUARY 1, 2018

Storytelling is a skill. A skill like any other skills needed for successful selling. Paul's Sell with a Story book includes : Model stories Skill-building exercises Enlightening examples from Microsoft, Costco, Xerox, Abercombie & Fitch, Hewlett Packard, and other top companies.

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Nonprofit Tech for Good

APRIL 10, 2022

Embrace a writing style known as plain language which is becoming an increasingly important skill for social media managers. So, be sure to regularly retweet partners, chapters, staff, activists, donors, and sponsors. A reader needs to be able to easily and quickly comprehend the message in your tweet.

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Eric Jacobsen Blog

OCTOBER 22, 2019

Most important, via the book, Sofer provides us the skill necessary to transform communication into a vehicle for greater intimacy, honesty, and compassion to bring us to greater equity and peace. Sofer provides stories, well-researched examples and end-of-chapter practical suggestions to guide you along the way.

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Eric Jacobsen Blog

JANUARY 1, 2019

Most important, via the book, Sofer provides us the skill necessary to transform communication into a vehicle for greater intimacy, honesty, and compassion to bring us to greater equity and peace. Sofer provides stories, well-researched examples and end-of-chapter practical suggestions to guide you along the way.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JUNE 25, 2012

This year a lot of my work as Visiting Scholar at the David and Lucile Packard Foundation is working with grantees outside of the US. I’ve just returned from leading a training for Population and Reproductive Health grantees from India. Program Design. Participants Own Their Learning.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MAY 24, 2013

It is a simple, elegant way to train your attention while working online to keep mindful how you are spending your time. Her work was the inspiration for Rheingold’s book (the mindfulness chapter). These can wetware ( training our minds ) or software/hardware as the Pang advocates.

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Eric Jacobsen Blog

APRIL 23, 2019

Most important, via the book, Sofer provides us the skill necessary to transform communication into a vehicle for greater intimacy, honesty, and compassion to bring us to greater equity and peace. Sofer provides stories, well-researched examples and end-of-chapter practical suggestions to guide you along the way.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JANUARY 22, 2015

It could also be used as a professional networking exercise at a conference or as an icebreaker for a training, especially if the training was focused on networks or professional networking skills. Have you been to event or training recently where the organizer did a fun and effective networking activity?

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Qgiv

OCTOBER 27, 2021

These volunteers should have the time, skills, and interests to help you provide programming and services to your beneficiaries. This will influence how many volunteers you’ll need to recruit and train. This is a great way to find volunteers with skills that can benefit your organization in a variety of ways.

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ASU Lodestar Center

MAY 1, 2013

Working in pharmaceutical sales, I was fortunate to receive extensive in-company training, yet I continued to seek out external workshops, along with networking with both in-company and out-of-company peers. Don''t miss the 2013 YNPN Leaders Conference, “21st Century Leaders for the Common Good”.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JULY 24, 2009

I just finished up the Social Media Strategy Game workshop with EPIP Chapter leaders. I had a chance to listen in on other trainings, which included some techniques for creating a recruitment culture - where chapters can reach out to new members and draw them in - face-to-face networking. Tags: training materials.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

NOVEMBER 2, 2016

Over the past six months, I have been developing and piloting workshops on self-care and we-care as part of the leadership development training I do. Erika Atkins, Director of Operations at Opening Act , a theatre program that teaches theatre skills to students from New York City’s most underserved schools to help them succeed in life.

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NonProfit Hub

JULY 27, 2021

It all started twenty years ago when esteemed members of the Lincoln chapter of the American Marketing Association created a community project in 2001. The event is seen as a low-cost, high-value training and we wish to keep that reputation,” the creative brief instructed. Nine scholarships for attendees were awarded.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

FEBRUARY 28, 2011

I’m the lead for Zoetica where my role is to deliver training, advise on the curriculum and coaching methods, model transparency, and serve as meta network weaver. I have the honor of co-training with some of the best folks doing work in this part of the world. February 27, 2011. This first day’s three learning objectives: 1.

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Eric Jacobsen Blog

OCTOBER 10, 2016

Storytelling is a skill. A skill like any other skills needed for successful selling. Paul's new book includes : Model stories Skill-building exercises Enlightening examples from Microsoft, Costco, Xerox, Abercombie & Fitch, Hewlett Packard, and other top companies.

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Eric Jacobsen Blog

SEPTEMBER 5, 2016

Storytelling is a skill. A skill like any other skills needed for successful selling. Paul's new book includes : Model stories Skill-building exercises Enlightening examples from Microsoft, Costco, Xerox, Abercombie & Fitch, Hewlett Packard, and other top companies.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

NOVEMBER 4, 2010

The site matches skills-based volunteers with nonprofits to do just in time projects like logo or business card design, marketing help, and other small volunteering tasks. It also requires management sometimes training from nonprofit staffers, which can be burdensome.

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Tech Soup

NOVEMBER 1, 2010

The Bay Area Chapter of the Young Nonprofit Professionals Network recently announced the winners of its 2010 Young Nonprofit Leader Awards , and TechSoup's own Kami Griffiths was one of the honorees. As TechSoup's training and outreach manager, Kami manages TechSoup Talks! and various other training initiatives. read more.

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Tech Soup

JUNE 2, 2015

TechHire spans the corporate, nonprofit, government, and educational sectors and has the ambitious goal to "give Americans the opportunity they deserve, and the skills they need to be competitive in a global economy." I first learned about Year Up's local Bay Area chapter through a Microsoft YouthSpark initiative event.

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Eric Jacobsen Blog

OCTOBER 13, 2013

Managers new in their leadership role typically have had little to no training on how to deal with conflict. Leadership Books Leadership Eric Jacobson on Leadership and Management General Management Skills Susan H. In fact, research shows that 42 percent of a manager''s time is spent addressing conflict. Fortunately, in Susan H.

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