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Zero-cost, maximum-impact professional development for fundraisers

Candid

However, if in-person learning is more your style, visit your nearest Candid community location —libraries and nonprofit resource centers that partner with Candid to offer our tools and services at no charge to their communities. These locations provide some of Candid’s in-person trainings, along with access to tools and resources.

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How To Focus When You Work in An Open Office Space

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

The Gensler study suggests that employees need four different work areas to be productive: focus, collaborate, learn, and socialize. Such spaces offer great benefits for collaboration, transparency, knowledge sharing, learning, creativity, and team building. Based on what I observed and heard, yes!

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Peeragogy: Self Organized Peer Learning in Networks

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

Peeragogy comes from Howard Rheingold via his Social Media Classroom and he explains it here: When I participated in the Change: Education, Learning, and Technology MOOC , I grew even more interested in the intersection of digital media/networks with self-directed learners and collaborative learning methods.

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Great reads from around the web on April 28th

Amy Sample Ward

We hope to establish a collaborative learning community — with plenty of space for ideas and wisdom of the field. We aim to work together to create a vision for meeting the education and learning needs of people in our field. Name-calling is never nice — that much most of us learned in kindergarten.

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Thank You Fernanda Ibarra: She's Number 7!

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

I am a multiplayer giving a lot of focus into the Web (online communities, socialnetworks, collaborative learning). Contribute to my latest personal fundraising campaign to support Leng Sopharath , an orphan from Cambodia, for her junior year at college. Over the summer, I had an opportunity to meet her in person.

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Why You Need To Keep Fundraising Technology Skills Current

Greater Giving

It wasn’t just learning how to use Zoom or work collaboratively from home that hindered nonprofits in pandemic times. In the absence of in-person events, fundraising was challenging, particularly engaging donors without face-to-face meetings and stewardship events. Adapting to a tech-driven future has been one of the biggest.

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NpTech Tag Roundup: Election Day, NPTech Blog Chatter, and Tool Talk

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

The Knowledge-at-Work blog writes about when learning and knowledge collide -- and the importance of collaborative learning networks. executive summary here ) ContinuousProgress: Better Advocacy Through Evaluation is an online guide to more effective foreign policy advocacy and evaluation.

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