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Thursday Thoughts: engaging advocates all year round

EveryAction

Proclamation requests: It’s easy to generate proclamations from cities, counties, and states declaring a specific day or month in honor of a cause or group. Ask advocates to send proclamation requests to their local leaders. In calmer periods, spinning the wheels can be just as detrimental.

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Exploring the Role of Apprenticeship in Today’s Economy with Tal Frankfurt + Robert Lerman

Cloud 4 Good

Additionally, apprenticeships are more structured and skill-specific than internships. Salesforce is a perfect example of a platform that’s powering business, but is very rarely taught in college classrooms. It’s important to note that an apprenticeship differs from an internship in a few key ways.

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Issues with Crowdsourced Data Part 2

Beneblog: Technology Meets Society

We’re reacting to the following claim: “Data collected using unbounded crowdsourcing (non-representative sampling) largely in the form of SMS from the disaster affected population in Port-au-Prince can predict, with surprisingly high accuracy and statistical significance, the location and extent of structural damage post-earthquake.”

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Strengthening program evaluation in your nonprofit

ASU Lodestar Center

What does the decision making and organizational structure look like? Drawing from adult learning theories, ECB utilizes a variety of strategies such as: Vehicle of instruction: face-to-face meetings, teleconferences, classroom style learning, web-based mechanisms, manuals, etc. Identify champions and people to work with.

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What Makes Social Learning so Interesting?

Gyrus

Social learning, relied solely on what one could obtain in a classroom setting, working with direct peers, or what could be conveyed back in forth on a phone. In a classroom setting, this is most clearly present in projects in which group work is assigned. Those days are now extraordinarily a thing of the past.

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Applying DEI Best Practices for Your Nonprofit

Top Nonprofits

Ultimately, you want to be sure you’re taking action that will structurally change the organization, an action that can only be taken from the top down. Workshops and courses on DEI subject matter can be a good start, but sitting in a classroom environment is not necessarily something that your staff members will want to do all of the time.

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Transmedia Storytelling and Co-Creation Networks

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

At first glance, it sounds like user-generated content strategy but with a more disciplined story telling structure and intentional networked approach than getting your supporters to share your messaging points in their own words or activating the activists with social media or cause-related marketing.