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Volunteer Training: Exceeding Expectations

Volunteer Hub

Hands on training is one of the best ways to introduce volunteers to a role and engage them at the same time. Here are a few additional benefits hands on training provides: Provides supporters with a safe learning environment. Offers supporters the opportunity to collaborate and learn from others.

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BIPOC Leadership Challenges: 26 Tips To Increase Accessibility Across The Nonprofit Sector

Bloomerang

Networking can be second nature to those raised in that environment, but completely alien to others. Limited representation in leadership roles Despite BIPOC communities making up a significant portion of the US population, they are underrepresented in leadership positions within the wider commercial sector.

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Building My Leadership Tribe in the American Express Leadership Academy

ASU Lodestar Center

Research from Harvard Business Review shows that learning happens best when learners collaborate and help one another. Emergenetics taught me how to strategically formulate teams where individuals are placed in roles that allow them to thrive. versus focusing on what they do well and what intrinsically motivates them.

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The Importance of Nonprofit Workplace Culture: How PENCIL Thrives by Writing Their Own Path

NonProfit Hub

They’re no stranger to a fun and engaging learning environment. The official mission statement says “PENCIL is the leader in creating innovative and impactful models of ongoing collaboration between business and public schools.”. And PENCIL, Inc. is full of those life-changing, one-of-a-kind people. See the difference?

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Interesting Uses of Technology: Virtual Libraries in Second Life

Tech Soup

"Second Life libraries are examples of immersive learning environments ," explained Dr. Hill. Success in Second Life. "Libraries in Second Life often put on digital exhibitions as part of their services. " Research on virtual worlds used for education, libraries, and museums continues to expand.

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The Birth of a Field: Digital Media and Learning

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

But it was pointed out that there is a lot known about the numbers and less is known about how they are using, the role it plays, and what it means to them. The environment for learning is no longer in the classroom and its online, and outside of school. There is no question that these are robust learning environments."

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New Models for Children's Museums: Wired Classrooms?

Museum 2.0

There’s a thriving debate about the role computers should play in children’s museums, with many professionals sounding the alarm about the negative impact of exchanging screen time for tactile environments. But the more I learned, the more I wondered where the real threat is, and why children's museums have been so resistant to change.