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Grow the Human Skills: Critical Thinking, Creativity, Collaboration, and Communication

.orgSource

Although this explanation sounds more like it belongs in the classroom than the office, my takeaway is the focus on uniquely human skills. Set the example by modeling the behavior you would like to see. Welcome every proposal. Don’t waste valuable brain power. Intimidation is Roundup for creativity.

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Games for Change Keynote: James Shelton, US Department of Education

Amy Sample Ward

They can’t build the schools and they can’t train the teachers fast enough to replicate our model. For example, we just closed an RFP to solicit proposals to build a game for kids k-3 to better understand STEM. How can you pursue innovation with games when teachers have the kinds of tests and classroom requirements now?

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Games for Change Keynote: James Shelton, US Department of Education

NTEN

They can't build the schools and they can't train the teachers fast enough to replicate our model. For example, we just closed an RFP to solicit proposals to build a game for kids k-3 to better understand STEM. How can you pursue innovation with games when teachers have the kinds of tests and classroom requirements now?

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Panda Nation is DIY Done Right: An Interview with WWF’s Jonathan Cass

Connection Cafe

Supporters can create their personal fundraising page in one of six categories: Athletic Event, Community Event, Favorite Animal, Honor/Memorial, Special Event and Classroom fundraising. Please give our session proposal for the 2015 Nonprofit Technology Conference a vote: Is Crowdfunding Changing Fundraising As We Know It? .

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Educating To Mobilize the Masses

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

They use a model where they can change the zoning based on the issues they learned about. They produce a model that shows the consequences of the proposed change. The toolkit has three pieces: Web site Classroom curriculum - game intended to be used in the class for roleplaying exercise.

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NpTech Summary: VTvigils Online, Netsquared Announces 21 Featured Projects, and Happiness Hacking

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

So how do we propose to pay for it? She notes, "It doesn't specifically talk about open content, but discusses online and offline content income models in depth, with numbers." Open Content for Nonprofits Open Content discussion continues with some comments from Michael Stein (east coast) about Laura Quinn's post last friday.

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[VIDEO] Measure Of Success: Creating Tools And Process To Report Impact

Bloomerang

Do they like those one-time projects, those capital projects where you can build that outdoor classroom or,” you know, “purchase that mobile mammogram unit for your hospital and be able to create impact for years to come?” So look at the fact, are you creating and using an evidence-based program model?

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