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MCON13: Working with Millennials

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Gen X is not large enough demographic to fill leadership roles. It''s important to equip them to learn leadership skills and hear what they are thinking. In addition, Fifth Third Foundation decided to focus on financial literacy teaching kids in classrooms about money management. How are you working with millennials?

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Trainer’s Notebook: Tips for Good Openings

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

My role in the project is to the facilitate the training sessions, design the overall training, facilitate openers and closings, help prep the curriculum, and deliver modules on digital strategy and social media. Learning is about connecting the dots to existing knowledge and skills so participants can build on it during the training. (3)

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Creating Learning Experiences That Connect, Inspire, and Engage

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

Content delivery is less important then the skill to making sense of it and that needs to be what “classroom time” is about. The instructor’s role should be to facilitate this understanding for their students, not dump content on them. Illustration by Beth Kanter. What is unclear?

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The 2019 Best Nonprofit Conferences Calendar

The Science Behind Engaging your Supporters

Our institute is designed to advance the skills and knowledge of nonprofit professionals, volunteers, board members, and community leaders. Our institute is designed to advance the skills and knowledge of nonprofit professionals, volunteers, board members, and community leaders. NTEN / Portland, OR / $899. Nonprofit Management.

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Case Study: Transforming A National Network Culture Through Technology

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All Parent Centers have the same mission: to help families of children with disabilities succeed in life, find tools and resources, and develop advocacy strategies despite the many barriers including segregated classrooms, inaccessible communities, and old cultural belief systems about disability.

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Six New Games for Change: Check Out the Future of Gaming for Good

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Fusing current and historical human trafficking tales, players of SOS_Slaves will take on the roles of both victims and social activists. Since most educational games struggle to find logical ways to be integrated into a classroom, Ovos took a different approach by creating a game based solely on curriculum-based material.

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Another Gold Star, FTW: A Look at Achievement Systems

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As educators we strive to facilitate experiences where the content is so rich, the activity so engaging, and/or the skill so problem solving that students are motivated internally to continue to learn. We want students to engage in learning because the learning itself was motivating to the student.

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