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Trainer’s Notebook: Facilitating Brainstorming Sessions for Nonprofit Work

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Does your work at a nonprofit include facilitating meetings or trainings? Looking for new techniques to add to your facilitator’s toolbox? Brainstorming can be done as a solo activity or group or collaborative brainstorming. Osborn outlines the essential rules of a successful group brainstorming session.

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Data as Decision in Grantmaking

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Datamaking can enhance capacity building efforts through group questioning and analysis. We are taught to create an organizational chart or a program activity graphic or a network diagram of organizations needed to address an issue like homelessness or educational equity. These are opportunities for meaning making.

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Icebreakers for Online Meetings That Introverts Will Love

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In my work as a trainer and facilitator, I make workshops and master classes as interactive as possible, incorporating peer discussion, movement, and creativity. But it isn’t impossible, if you follow best practices for virtual facilitation for meetings. The next step is to facilitate a discussion.

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New Resource for Nonprofits: The Data Playbook – Practices for Purpose-Driven Work

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It also important to think about to development skills internally regardless and the Playbook offers a good list: Being “data-minded”: Someone who currently has or can build skills for creating charts, graphs, pivot tables and Excel formulas; someone who is interested in building surveys, exploring data and helping to make meaning out of numbers.

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Configuring QuickBooks for Use in a Nonprofit: Setting Up the Chart of Accounts

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In my first blog post , I mentioned that the very first step in configuring QuickBooks is to have a QuickBooks implementation meeting, and I recommended using a questionnaire to facilitate the meeting and act as a centerpiece. Building Your Chart of Accounts. So What Exactly Is a Chart of Accounts?

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Walking During Board Retreats: A Few Tips

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Last week, we had a board retreat to dive into identifying core results as part of results-based accountability work , facilitated by an excellent outside consultant. There are serious health risks to a sedentary work style, but it also impacts our minds as well. The facilitator told us a specific time to be back.

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Why Movement Is the Killer Learning App for Nonprofits

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As a trainer and facilitator who works with nonprofit organizations and staffers, you have to be obsessed with learning theory to design and deliver effective instruction, have productive meetings, or embark on your own self-directed learning path. Internal: These theories take into account our minds and bodies.