Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JANUARY 5, 2022

Remote and Hybrid Facilitation Workshops : During the pandemic, interested soared in learning how facilitate better virtual meetings. I’ve also facilitated many nonprofit staff retreats and convening and provided training for other facilitators. What are your hopes and dreams for 2022?

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

APRIL 25, 2017

People are so busy doing the work that they don’t have time to go off-site to take a class or sign up for an online course. Gain tips on how to facilitate sessions that will strengthen professional development across your teams and organization. The Emerging Leaders Playbook was curated with this in mind.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MARCH 5, 2014

At this year’s Nonprofit Technology Conference, I’m thrilled to be doing a panel on nonprofit technology training and it has a bit of a star wars theme, “ Learn You Will.” I read a lot of educational technology, training, and teaching blogs, follow those people on Twitter, curate on Scoop.It, etc to keep up.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JANUARY 2, 2022

Remote and Hybrid Facilitation Workshops : During the pandemic, interested soared in learning how facilitate better virtual meetings. I’ve also facilitated many nonprofit staff retreats and convening and provided training for other facilitators. What are your hopes and dreams for 2022?

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Professional Facilitation Reflection Journal 96

NTEN

JUNE 16, 2014

That''s why we''re doing our best to recruit a remarkable group of facilitators to help shape your experience. Each track will have two Lead Facilitators and several additional Facilitators who will design spaces and lead small group conversations to make sure that every participant has the chance to both learn and share.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

OCTOBER 8, 2019

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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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JANUARY 3, 2019

I’ve continued to do conference keynotes, workshops and facilitate staff retreats about activating a culture of wellbeing. All in all, I presented or facilitated over 50 keynotes, workshops, and webinars on the topic. A great deal of my training work is done face-to-face.

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Professional Build Journal Facilitation 114

Nonprofit Tech for Good

MAY 23, 2019

Leverage all that training. Many endurance events have training periods leading up to the big day. Boost your fundraising efforts by encouraging participants to start fundraising far in advance and rally their supporters throughout their training journey. Encourage team fundraising.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

FEBRUARY 8, 2018

As part of the class , we look at different examples of networked strategies and digital platforms and tools and how they can be used to advance civil society goals. As part of our class, students composed a question and recorded a video related to their area of study and sent it off to Davos.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

OCTOBER 28, 2013

Last week was a busy week, after keynoting the Nonprofit Solutions Conference in Kansas City , I facilitated a one-day workshop for the Center for Nonprofits on developing and measuring a sustainable integrated social media strategy. Participants from a nonprofit work on their network map during the workshop.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

OCTOBER 2, 2014

One thing I realized is that training social workers receive as part of their education is also very relevant for change makers inside of nonprofits, consultants, and trainers. During the class, Dean Nancy Smyth related the idea to a social work technique called “ Motivational Interviewing ,” using in addiction interventions.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JANUARY 5, 2018

I also facilitated a number of nonprofit staff workshops building on the curriculum. A great deal of my training work is done face-to-face. I know that might seem old fashioned, but being a trainer and facilitator and in the room with social change leaders is what inspires and energizes me.

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ASU Lodestar Center

FEBRUARY 16, 2012

Kate Elliott, Training Administrator, Planned Parenthood Arizona. Providing formal training to staff and volunteers has obvious benefits for an organization, individual staff members and volunteers. For staff members and volunteers, training is a means of professional development many are eager to receive.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

OCTOBER 10, 2013

In addition, I was lucky enough to be the online facilitator for a virtual leadership program for arts administrators co-hosted by the Cornell University School of Management where I learned and practiced a range of instructional techniques for teaching adults. Training Design'

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JUNE 27, 2018

I co-lead a workshop on digital transformation, co-facilitated a master class on digital fundraising campaigns, co-hosted a learning breakfast for scholarship participants, co-designed a Big Room session on Technology for Good, and in between attended some amazing sessions. Facilitator Guide: [link]. … Read More

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Practice Thailand Asia Reflection 105

Top Nonprofits

AUGUST 3, 2021

I was just meeting some of these students, I was just setting the tone for class. In past days of in-person training, I presented a slide deck in front of the class and distributed a paper course reader that students could hold in their hands and take notes on. We weren’t sure. It didn’t matter! And now the tone was…#TechFail!

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Tech Soup

DECEMBER 20, 2011

If you were one of the many people who attended our webinar Training an Invisible Audience: Delivering Effective Webinars , I'd like to thank you for being such an eager and inquisitive audience. To find out more about these products, read Webinar and Online Training Tools and GoToWebinar vs. GoToTraining.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MAY 8, 2013

I’m headed to New Zealand and Australia to facilitate workshops in both countries and to keynote the ConnectingUp Conference (Australia’s version of the Nonprofit Technology Conference). Stephen is an expert in many training methods so this will be an excellent co-learning experience. Training Design'

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

DECEMBER 31, 2013

Since were are on the Mediterranean Sea, I did the final reflective exercise as a walk on the beach. I got to perfect it when I taught master classes and workshops for NGOs and activists in New Zealand and Australia. I also designed and facilitated a nonprofit leadership institute at Pepperdine University. Year in Review.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MARCH 22, 2013

All of my work these days is focused on designing and delivering effective training for nonprofits -primarily on the topics of social media, strategy, networks, and measurement. I’m also doing a lot of training of other trainers. I designed and facilitated a peer learning workshop at SXSW last week.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JANUARY 5, 2012

The instructor’s role should be to facilitate this understanding for their students, not dump content on them. He expects students to read the assignment before they come to class so that instructional time can be spent helping them make sense of it and apply to their work. Illustration by Beth Kanter.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MAY 20, 2013

One thing I have learned working mostly outside of the US is to start a training by honoring a local tradition. Connecting Up Master Class. I used it for my master class at Connecting Up in Australia as I have used it for almost every training I’ve done over the past twenty years. Here’s how it works.

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New Zealand Arts Australia Open 96

Bloomerang

OCTOBER 31, 2023

Here’s how a platform like this can modernize your operations: Streamlined donor management A best-in-class DMS for faith-based organizations provides interactive dashboards that give you a comprehensive view of your organization’s performance metrics, including recurring giving campaigns, campaign effectiveness, and donation tracking.

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Classes System Management Donor 99

Deborah Elizabeth Finn

JANUARY 28, 2018

World class facilitation and guidance was provided by Essential Partners, with the revered Dave Joseph serving as facilitator-in-chief. These dollar amounts might be for staff time, technology, training, an external consultant, or even for office supplies. What is the heart of the matter for grantors and grantees?

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Saleforce Nonprofit

OCTOBER 29, 2021

Our participants were hungry for leadership experiences, so we formalized a network to train people to become welcoming outdoor leaders in their own community. I hope we can continue to deepen our community engagement while facilitating high-quality experiences.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JANUARY 4, 2016

I also designed and facilitated a six month peer learning cohort with colleague Stephanie Rudat. Innovation Lab Facilitation : For the past few years, I’ve trained in and designed and facilitated innovation labs using the Luma Institute Methods.

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Iowa Facilitation Teach San Antonio 50

Twenty Hats

JANUARY 12, 2021

Smithsonian Associates (SA) , which annually presents 700+ classes and other educational and entertaining programs, made a hard fast pivot in June 2020, when it began to present all of its lectures and art courses as livestreamed programs on Zoom. The best way I thought to keep in touch was to facilitate weekly 45-minute video calls on Zoom.

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Saleforce Nonprofit

APRIL 12, 2021

We are committed to actively advocating for clear and consistent science-based climate policies that facilitate a just and equitable global transition to a 1.5°C org for a three-day online event featuring interactive workshops, cultural sessions, and hands-on training, bringing together climate movement champions. About the Author.

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Connection Cafe

JUNE 24, 2013

One of my favorite assignments, though, is what we call “Train the Trainer” (T3), where I will work with a group of folks who will later put on a different hat and train their colleagues on new software. Not just for training. Or even standing up for something you believe in at your children’s school? Back to the basics.

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ASU Lodestar Center

JUNE 18, 2018

posted by Taylor Polen Class 11 and class 12 Public Ally. I have worked with my fellow second-year Allies to develop and facilitate numerous presentations and activities for our group training days, community service events and staff support by assisting with other program logistics.

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Public Story Arizona Impact 40

ASU Lodestar Center

MAY 21, 2018

posted by Taylor Polen Class 11 and class 12 Public Ally. I have worked with my fellow second-year Allies to develop and facilitate numerous presentations and activities for our group training days, community service events and staff support by assisting with other program logistics.

Public 40

Public Story Arizona Impact 40

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JANUARY 2, 2015

Facilitator for Learning Network: Most of my work is designing and delivering capacity building projects for nonprofits literally all over the world and here in the US. In addition, I presented a webinar on training design and facilitated a session on nonprofit technology training design at NTC. Year in Review.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

OCTOBER 24, 2011

Social Media Master Class. The overall goal was to provide participants with a combination of insights and practical tips to help them be effective. This face-to-face master class and mini-workshops will be followed with a smaller peer learning group that will meet regularly to compare notes as they put the ideas into practice.

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Social Media Effective Media Social 100

Blue Avocado

JANUARY 23, 2024

Because we offer expert training and technical assistance across the continuum of sexual violence prevention and response (as well as to a wide variety of professions in both nonprofit and public service systems), having so many advisory committees ensures that we are collaborating with people working in all aspects of the sexual violence field.

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Connection Cafe

APRIL 28, 2020

sign up) to ask for donations (see our “No Money, More Problems” webinar for how), or host fundraising-specific events like multi-day virtual galas with different speakers, trainings on best virtual fundraising practices and webinars with donor special guests. Shortage of healthy, trained medical staff. Urgent issues. Urgent issues.

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Tech Soup

FEBRUARY 2, 2011

Eastern) for this free webinar to find out how to make your training job easier, more fun, and an even better learning experience for your participants. Learn to use a lesson plan to organize your workshops and facilitate sharing with your co-workers and other organizations. Space is limited so reigster today! read more.

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Nimble AMS

MAY 20, 2019

Fortune 500-class CRM for associations. Using Nimble AMS, built on the Salesforce platform, associations have access to Fortune 500-class CRM, allowing them to interact with their data in ways that were unimaginable in the past. Fun and easy product training. World-class reliability. Investment in innovation.

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