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Thursday Thoughts: engaging advocates all year round

EveryAction

Surveys: Learn more about your advocates and potentially identify grasstops advocates in your ranks by sending short surveys asking about their grassroots advocacy experience, connections, and more. Find out what other groups they support to better target future online acquisition efforts.

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How to Keep Your Virtual Meetings on Track, Inclusive, and Engaging

Top Nonprofits

I was reminded of this recently, at the first evening of the online course in Grant Proposal Writing: Our fifteen working adult students logged in to Zoom and were welcomed into our shared virtual classroom. At the end of every planning process, I send out a feedback survey to participants. Reading these comments, I felt terrible.

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How To Think Like An Instructional Designer for Your Nonprofit Trainings

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

I use a simple structure to design: before, during, and after. It takes several iterations of your survey to develop one that works, but you really gain a good understanding of the level of your audience. I have learned the feng shui of how classroom setup impacts interaction and learning. This is evaluation.

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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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What is the Current State of Grantseeking? Education

Tech Soup

Education organizations, both institutions and those organizations focused on education, comprise a little over 15% of nonprofit organizations in the United States and represented over 13% of participants in the State of Grantseeking survey published by GrantStation and PhilanTech in November 2011.

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How To Make A Back Channel Light Up Like Clark Griswald's House

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

It integrates online community discussion forums, structured learning like webinars, content, with participants' social profiles. In the presentation, I showed folks how to easily survey the audience using google forms. I was able to find some research and pieces about laptops in the classroom. Know of any?

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[VIDEO] Power Of Community In Strategic Planning

Bloomerang

We had surveyed an alternative high school and half the kids had said, “There’s no adult that I can talk to but I need to talk to somebody.” In the survey and interviews process, that is the primary way to reach everyone. So I do the survey early in the process. We may have a survey.