Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JANUARY 5, 2012

The instructor’s role should be to facilitate this understanding for their students, not dump content on them. This gave me an excuse to look at different types of peer learning exercises and facilitation techniques. Allan Gunn from Aspiration and his legendary facilitation skills and knowledge.

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Experiment Learning Create Exercise 116

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

APRIL 6, 2008

s Technology Empowerment Centre (W.TEC) is looking for mentors to participate in its Networking for Success project. The project is aimed at demonstrating and guiding women to work more efficiently using tools that support more collaborative information building and sharing techniques. This can be a really rewarding experience.

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Mentoring Nigeria Project Network 50

Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

JUNE 19, 2008

From their website: Some of the features that distinguish Hampshire from more traditional liberal arts colleges include student-designed academic concentrations; an active, collaborative, inquiry-based pedagogy; an interdisciplinary curriculum; and a narrative evaluation system. Sounds a lot like Edupunk, doesn’t it? I learned a lot.

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Nptech Unconference Open Source Model 100

Museum 2.0

NOVEMBER 18, 2014

Our work would become more relevant, our collaborations more timely, our network more diverse. A year-long program with an intention to ignite new collaborations across the County to build a stronger, more connected community. Our topics are broad, including Creative Spaces, Youth Empowerment, and Economic Opportunity.

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Community Story Museum Map 39

Connection Cafe

SEPTEMBER 4, 2020

In a socially distanced world, virtual tours of non-profits, lunch and learns with community leaders, book clubs, or movies with facilitated discussion can strengthen that foundation. TD Bank has an internal learning hub that aims to help employees learn more about community issues and the non-profits who work on them.

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Canada Volunteer Virtual Companies 27

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JUNE 1, 2010

Microsoft researchers are collaborating with the academic community on environmental problems, such as aggregation and visualization of complex scientific data from many sources. Take for example deploying 200 sensors throughout the Brazilian rainforest to measure and visualize the effects of climate change. “ Unleashing Technology.

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Network Change Technology Social 103

Museum 2.0

MARCH 4, 2015

I thought the pinnacle of participatory practice was an exhibit that could inspire collective visitor action without facilitation. Our museum is highly participatory: plenty of opportunities for visitors to contribute, for artists to collaborate, for community members to co-create. Empowerment? Humans empower each other.

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Participatory Museum Empowerment Facilitation 20

Museum 2.0

AUGUST 17, 2016

The more my organization has become focused on community engagement, the more we've balanced being experience producers with being experience co-creators/facilitators. We need more empowerment in this world, and these institutions offer it. Is it more effective to produce X yourself or empower others to produce X in their own contexts?

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San Diego Work Museum Model 20

CauseVox

MARCH 13, 2024

Rooted in values such as equity, collaboration, resiliency, empowerment, and community, Spur Local actively promotes visibility, stimulates discussions, and serves as a catalyst for positive change in the region. Over the past two decades, Spur Local has evolved into the largest nonprofit capacity builder in the region.

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Local Campaign Raise Story 78

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JUNE 25, 2012

It marked the start of a six month peer learning exchange where I, along with colleague Stephanie Rudat will work remotely with grantees as they implement an action learning project to put techniques into practice and facilitate organizational change from the inside out. We are working very closely with V.S. Anupam Shukla and Ms.

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India NGO Network Exercise 102

Have Fun - Do Good

JUNE 19, 2009

Erickson founded FORGE (Facilitating Opportunities for Refugee Growth and Empowerment) in 2003 when she was a 20 year-old junior studying public policy at Stanford University. The projects can range from preschools, to libraries and computer training centers, to women empowerment programs. They can create the change makers.

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Have Fun - Do Good

DECEMBER 28, 2006

From her Berkeley-based office, Melinda Kramer facilitates an international network of women leaders. The most important way for people to collaborate is face to face, so we have a number of ways that we convene women who are doing this work on various different levels. We do it in a number of ways.

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Green Global Action Network 40

Saleforce Nonprofit

JUNE 12, 2022

Facilitating smallholder farmers’ access to financial markets enables them to hedge against risks they face so they can invest in more profitable entrepreneurial activities.

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Global United States Policy International 52

Have Fun - Do Good

SEPTEMBER 9, 2009

The other thing is that a lot of inner cities are part of empowerment zones or enterprise zones where companies that are at a certain scale and profitable can benefit from tax credits, both from the payroll side, if you hire from the inner city, but also if you locate in the enterprise zones. They want to do good. It's a big challenge.

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Oakland San Francisco Companies Business 61

NTEN

SEPTEMBER 12, 2014

Redefining Philanthropy - Dwayne Rice Build a Salesforce application to facilitate a culture of philanthropy around education reform by providing a platform to track constituent engagement to lead people up the engagement ladder. Design solutions for collaboration, empowerment, global views, and self awareness.

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Ideas North Carolina Map Children 94

Museum 2.0

JUNE 11, 2014

We choose themes and venues in collaboration with a community partner. Check it out if you’re curious about choosing a strong theme, working with a collaborator, designing a portable structure, or tips for implementation. What does this look like? People are invited to bring something on topic to share.

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Have Fun - Do Good

JUNE 29, 2006

It's all about collaboration. I don't think we learn very much about collaboration in our culture. So we're bringing a lot of elements together, the innerpersonal the activist. I think there should be whole semesters on how to work with other people. How to have relationships. We never saw it in action before we started doing it.

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Arts Podcast Action Interview 40