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Zero-cost, maximum-impact professional development for fundraisers

Candid

For example, you can either attend a webinar or enroll in a self-paced online course on finding grants to learn about different types of foundations, what motivates them to give, and how you can start researching funders who are likely to be interested in your nonprofit’s mission and work.

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Digital Analytics Basics: Free Online Academy from Google

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

In the 60 minutes piece, it is referred to the flipped classroom or peer instruction a mindset that directs attention away from teachers and puts it squarely on the students and their learning. For more about the techniques, see the Peer Instruction Blog: Turn to Your Neighbor is written by Julie Schell , a researcher for Eric Mazur.

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Get to Know the Lodestar Center: Lili Wang

ASU Lodestar Center

My main research interest is in individual and institutional philanthropy. I am also interested in the intersection of the government and the nonprofit sectors, which includes cross-sector collaboration, nonprofit provision of public services, etc. My professional role includes three aspects: teaching, research, and service.

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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.

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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.

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Share Files and Collaborate Online with Box

Tech Soup

Leukemia & Lymphoma Society : This organization used Box to more effectively raise funds for blood cancer research. Its employees use Box to share digital asset libraries and collaborate with third-party vendors. Teach for America , The International Rescue Committee , and Kiva all use Box for content management and collaboration.

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From Community Arts To Community of Online Learners: Janet Salmons, Ph.D

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

Can you tell me what your doctoral research focused on? It focused on collaborative e-learning. I interviewed ten online educators in five countries about how they planned and organized collaborative learning activities. The research was conducted entirely online, using a multi-media platform and over Internet.

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