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Build a Digital Ecology–Promote IT Collaboration Across Your Organization

.orgSource

Understanding how other departments operate and empathizing with their needs is fundamental to making systems work effectively and creating buy-in. Strategists are visionaries, facilitators, and problem-solvers. I suggest starting small with the goal of learning. Create Capacity I can’t over-emphasize the importance of training.

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How To Focus When You Work in An Open Office Space

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

In the Happy Healthy Nonprofit: Strategies for Impact without Burnout , my co-author Aliza Sherman and I share a framework to think more broadly about creating a culture of wellbeing in the workplace. The Gensler study suggests that employees need four different work areas to be productive: focus, collaborate, learn, and socialize.

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Digital Analytics Basics: Free Online Academy from Google

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

Taking self-directed and collaborative learning a step further is peeragogy. This form of peer learning is at the intersection of digital media/networks with self-directed learners and collaborative learning methods.

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Peeragogy: Self Organized Peer Learning in Networks

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

As a trainer, I’m intensely interested in creating learning experiences that integrate or about how to use the technology for nonprofits that engage and inspire people to put the ideas into practice. I’ve been obsessed with peer learning and self-directed learning models in my own learning and the trainings I design and facilitate.

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Share Files and Collaborate Online with Box

Tech Soup

It also provides tools that facilitate program management, funding development, and global collaboration. Create a folder structure that categorizes your daily fundraising responsibilities. Use Box’s collaboration features like commenting and task management to manage the completion of a grant application.

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A Blueprint to Building a New Model of Community Care

Saleforce Nonprofit

Yet, we have found the strength of our team sits beyond our domain expertise of community feeding, and into our ability to serve as a facilitator and mediator between diverse stakeholders in San Francisco. We created a job board to connect underemployed community members with jobs at small businesses.

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Harnessing Philanthropy to Promote Diversity, Equity & Inclusion in the Nonprofit Sector

ASU Lodestar Center

Research shows people from diverse groups create novel solutions, introduce different thinking patterns and increase performance, creativity and innovation within an organization (Chandler, 2016). Philanthropy cannot overlook the power dynamics created by unequal representation nor diminish the importance of advancing DEI within the sector.