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Introducing our Book Group Facilitation Guide!

VQ Strategies

In response to many requests, we have developed a facilitation guide for formal and informal book groups. How did your experience of “community” change in recent years, and how did that experience apply to your efforts to engage volunteers or serve clients? The post Introducing our Book Group Facilitation Guide!

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Culture, Community, and Technology—A Successful 2022 Convergence

.orgSource

The motivation to build stronger relationships, both remote and in-person, resonated across the association community. Teri Carden, Founder and CEO of 100 Reviews , facilitated a panel discussion on how to turn your next great idea into gold. Sharon will facilitate a 360-degree discussion about trust. Creating Community.

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6 Reasons Why You Should Broaden Your Search For Your Next Nonprofit Board Retreat Facilitator

Bloomerang

This is all the more reason to hire a high-quality nonprofit board retreat facilitator. And though you may feel it’s risky to hire a facilitator from outside your region, they may also provide a unique perspective and even greater results. More than 80 percent of board retreat facilitators have never run an organization.

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People Want To Belong To Your Nonprofit’s Community

Bloomerang

A wise boss once told me: “ A community is defined by caring for its members. One of the things you are responsible for as a development professional is building and nurturing community. Let’s focus, head-on, on the impact you have on the philanthropists who choose to commune with you. Otherwise, it’s just a zip code.”

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Become the Association Your Members Want

As the pandemic advanced, we were keenly aware of the apprehension and pain throughout our community. The sessions were facilitated by Elizabeth Engel, Chief Strategist, Spark Consulting. When we seek input on critical issues, members of.orgCommunity, our networking and education organization, are an invaluable resource.

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3 Design Thinking Facilitation Resources for Nonprofits

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

The design lab was facilitated by Pete Maher, founder of Luma Institute. I learned so much about the taxonomy of innovation and really practical techniques, that I took the facilitation training. I started incorporating facilitating design labs as well as the techniques into my training practice ever since. I admit it.

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New (Free) E-Book: Leading Systems Change Will Supercharge Your Facilitation Skills

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

But this is more than a simple report on a highly successful leadership program that takes a systems approach to serving an underserved community, it is the authors playbook of how to design and implement a program, including facilitation recipes for designing meetings. The facilitation methods are participatory.