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

Connection Cafe

SEPTEMBER 4, 2020

Skills-based volunteering or Pro Bono support – We are seeing companies sharing the unique skills of employees in two ways: filling specific request for help from non-profit organizations or making skills-based help known to non-profits.

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Canada Volunteer Virtual Companies 27

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

Museum 2.0

MARCH 4, 2015

I thought the pinnacle of participatory practice was an exhibit that could inspire collective visitor action without facilitation. A black box with people crowded around, talking and sharing and making and doing. But almost ALL of those opportunities are facilitated by people. Empowerment? Humans empower each other.

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Participatory Museum Empowerment Facilitation 20

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

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

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

NTEN

SEPTEMBER 12, 2014

Right now, though, we want to share the 21 other fresh ideas that were pitched. 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. Want to learn more?

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Ideas North Carolina Map Children 94

Museum 2.0

JUNE 11, 2014

Imagine a potluck in which instead of a dish, everyone brings an object and/or story to share with others. We choose themes and venues in collaboration with a community partner. People are invited to bring something on topic to share. What does this look like? This bridges institutional and community-created content.

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Museum Grant Lesson History 49

Have Fun - Do Good

JUNE 29, 2006

They come up with an entire CD of music and poetry and we perform them on the last day of camp, so it gives people a real opportunity, hands-on, to really get out there and share what they've learned. It's all about collaboration. I don't think we learn very much about collaboration in our culture. How to have relationships.

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Arts Podcast Action Interview 40