Candid

JUNE 16, 2022

It’s not a binary question of whether your guidelines state you are or are not a climate or justice funder. Our new guide provides helpful and instructive case studies to illustrate how other funders have taken such steps. . A separate Facilitator’s toolkit is available to support this activity at your foundation. .

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

FEBRUARY 8, 2018

As a long-time trainer, professor, and teacher, I feel strongly that interactive learning activities – going beyond the death by Powerpoint Lecture – is the key to retention and application for participants. Your room set up can support your instructional activities that engage participants or get in the way.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

APRIL 8, 2020

If participants are working through an exercise or set of discussion questions, create a google document with your prompts and include space for taking notes. As the facilitator or meeting host, you can also judge whether you have allowed for enough time by watching the note-taking process in the google document.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

SEPTEMBER 8, 2014

Last week I facilitated the “ Impact Leadership Track ” at the NTEN Leading Change Summit with John Kenyon, Elissa Perry, and Londell Jackson. Here’s what I learned: Facilitation Teams. Often, facilitation teams are brought together by an event host. Photo by Trav Williams. Do you have a preferred method?

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

FEBRUARY 18, 2014

I’m co-facilitating a session on Nonprofit Training Design and Delivery with colleagues John Kenyon, Andrea Berry, and Cindy Leonard at the NTEN Nonprofit Technology Conference on Friday March 14th at 10:30 am! Evaluation is one of my favorite parts of the instructional design or training process. The four levels are: Reaction.

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Nonprofits Source

MAY 25, 2023

Treatment: The healthcare system prescribes treatment and follow-up instructions. Post-visit behavioral and lifestyle adjustment: The patient follows treatment instructions and makes lifestyle adjustments to facilitate healing and well-being. Care: The patient is assessed by the medical faculty. Respond to negative reviews.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

AUGUST 17, 2021

The hybrid workplace will have a huge impact on the way we design and facilitate meetings, the primary method of how many organizations get stuff done. Our new normal will most likely be more complex to design and facilitate. Here are some considerations for designing and facilitating pandemic-era hybrid meetings.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MARCH 1, 2016

In a couple of weeks, one of the sessions I’m facilitating at the Nonprofit Technology Conference in San Jose is called “ How To Be A Wizard at Tech Training.” Instructional Design. Co-Designing and Working with Other Facilitators and Trainers. Creating a Network Map. Facilitation Methods and Techniques.

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NonProfit Hub

APRIL 17, 2024

This guide will explore best practices for creating a blogging and content strategy that drives audience engagement, encourages donations, and makes readers feel like part of your nonprofit’s community. One of the most important steps in building a productive blogging strategy is creating content that engages and appeals to your audience.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MARCH 5, 2014

I love all aspects instructional design and facilitation , but being a good trainer also means being a good content curator and resource librarian. ” So, I like to share a few of my favorites that I have inspired me in my instructional/training practice. ” Plus many more provocative questions.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JUNE 28, 2018

Last week at the IFC-Asia , I co-designed and facilitated a 90 minute workshop with Marco Kuntze titled “ The Digital NGO: The Journey from Paper to Screen.” ” Jo Wolfe, Aseem Thakur, Gillian Tan, Cherisse Beh, Katie Bengaard, and Toral Cowieson joined our session as small group facilitators.

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Participatory Digital Facilitation Exercise 76

Forj

JULY 8, 2021

At Web Courseworks, we specialize in both learning management systems (LMSs) equipped with assessment authoring tools and providing consulting services to help professional, medical, and trade associations create top-tier eLearning experiences for their members. For example, you could ask learners to: Create a timeline. Sequencing.

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eLearning Course Test Knowledge 69

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JANUARY 5, 2018

This year I used a new tool recommended by colleague Alexandra Samuel, the “ Year Compass, a free downloadable booklet that provides a set of structured reflection questions. My colleague, Wendy Harman , was also inspired by Chris Brogan’s technique, but she takes it deeper and includes daily reflection questions.

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Professional Finland Journal Reflection 0

ASU Lodestar Center

OCTOBER 16, 2020

ECB involves a series of steps taken by an evaluator (internal or external) to build evaluative knowledge and skills, create a culture of continuous learning and accountability, and make resources readily available. Then create an advisory group to steer the process. Create a written plan. Guide to building evaluation capacity.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

OCTOBER 17, 2017

Micro-learning online courses consist of a video, an info-graphic or list of tips, and a set of instructional or assessment questions that help us think differently about the topic and find something bite size to apply immediately. All of this modes work together to create a distributed learning ecosystem at work.

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Professional Learning Develop Course 77

AccelEvents

AUGUST 25, 2020

They provide access to a wider audience, can allow for more diverse content, can create better sponsorship opportunities, keep attendees safe from coronavirus risks, and provide a much greater return on investment. Similar to creating a guide, consider inviting each virtual attendee to a pre-event meetup or networking session. .

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MARCH 14, 2013

I was honored to be involved with the instructional design and delivery of two workshops specifically for nonprofits. I enjoyed designing and facilitating this session because I had five awesome presenters who have a depth of knowledge about the topics we discussed. I created a storify of the tweets. rachelannyes #npsmpeer.

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Social Media Management Instructional Design Media 101

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

NOVEMBER 6, 2014

As a trainer and subject matter expert, I fight a big battle when designing a workshop. While I did a pretty thorough participant assessment survey before finalizing the content, the instructional design and creating materials, I always like to get a group understanding of the learning goals and get people ready to learn.

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Activities Active Activism Integration 105

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

OCTOBER 14, 2013

You need to shape it and that means thinking through some design questions. What are your session’s learning objectives and who is the audience? Who will facilitate? Here’s How to Create a Buzzworthy Conference Session -by Lori Jean Mantooth, Points of Light’s director of training programs. We’ve all been there.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JUNE 28, 2016

Earlier this month I was in Boston for the annual convention for Americans for the Arts where I facilitated a leadership development pre-conference workshop, “Impact without Burnout: Resilient Arts Leaders from the Inside/Out.” Analytical Style people control their emotions but tend to ask questions rather than give orders.

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Reflection Arts Exercise Facilitation 64

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MARCH 30, 2012

See the above video, created by team in Tunisia, which summarizes the program.) The networking conference was an opportunity for participants from different countries to share their lessons learned and network with one another. 1. Facilitating Tri-Lingual Events: Not Lost in Translation. Group Photo with Certificates.

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Morocco Tunisia Reflection Conference 100

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

NOVEMBER 12, 2015

Jennifer made use of an app called “ Answer Qwik ” that allows participants to answer polling questions on their mobile phones and have the aggregate results shown on the screen. It does close-ended questions and displays a bar chart or can also create a word cloud. In other words, to what end?

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Neon CRM

MAY 12, 2023

You can jog your members’ memories of their interest in your organization by answering two general questions: What did the organization do for members this year? Let’s break these questions down a bit. Perhaps they have a lingering question or would like to speak with someone at your organization who can give them more information.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JANUARY 26, 2012

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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Learning Network Organization Classroom 102

Qgiv

NOVEMBER 16, 2021

She is passionate about creating engaging content, writing, and graphic design to help viewers easily retain information. Create a P2P social page – LinkedIn and Facebook are great places to create group pages to share information with all fundraising participants. It allows you to stand out.

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Volunteer Tips Fundraising Social Media 52

Forj

APRIL 22, 2021

An eLearning consultant can help you answer this question and more. Through that work, we’ve seen the common questions that associations face when it comes to hiring an eLearning consultant— and now, we’re here to answer them: What is an eLearning consultant? Creating a content development strategy. That’s great! Final Report.

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eLearning Consultant Guide Associations 69

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MARCH 3, 2011

The E-Mediat project is sponsored by MEPI, US Department of State’s Middle East Partnership Initiative and was created in response to Secretary Clinton’s announcement of Civil Society 2.0. The ways tables and chairs and the screen are placed in the room can work against your instructional style or support it. explains the how and why.

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Social Media Media Technique Tunisia 93

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

FEBRUARY 8, 2013

Keeping nonprofit audiences engaged during training can improve your outcomes. I used this exercise right after lunch to avoid the after lunch energy drop and use the time for instruction. I was in India this past summer to facilitate an intensive four-day training for Packard Foundation grantees working on family-planning issues.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MARCH 25, 2014

We also had to create new content for the session and a unified theme, luckily Star Wars was easy to play with. During the session, we had to pull out some tricks of the trade to adjust in real-time when we behind our plan because of too much content. .” How To Think Like An Instructional Designer.

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Training Train Reflection Resource 100

AccelEvents

AUGUST 25, 2020

They provide access to a wider audience, can allow for more diverse content, can create better sponsorship opportunities, keep attendees safe from coronavirus risks, and provide a much greater return on investment. Similar to creating a guide, consider inviting each virtual attendee to a pre-event meetup or networking session. .

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Virtual Network Avatar Interaction 59

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

NOVEMBER 9, 2009

Last week, I had the opportunity facilitate a " Social Media Strategy Map " workshop for over 100 Bay Area nonprofits. One of the things that is essential to good instruction (or presentation) is knowing your audience. It's a shift from sage on the stage instruction to honoring the learners for what they know.

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Forj

MAY 25, 2021

These reports need to include: Information about specific activities, including the date of accredited activities, hours of instruction, type of activity, learners that completed the activity, and much more. It doesn’t empower you to create new content and keep up with the latest developments in your field.

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Associations eLearning Module Course 36

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

SEPTEMBER 16, 2015

For the past few months, I’ve been facilitating a Nonprofit Emerging Leaders online peer learning project with Third Plateau Impact Strategies. We created The Emerging Leaders Playbook which served as the “text book” or content for the training. The specific practice skills include these three: Ask empowering questions.

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Connection Cafe

APRIL 28, 2020

However, before we get specific, there are some general guidelines for creating highly effective virtual actions and events: Start with the problem (not the solution): Organizations get accustomed to the events/actions they typically run in person. – Host virtual “office hours” where people can drop in to ask questions.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

APRIL 27, 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. organizational change, and technology. Program Design.

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Pakistan NGO Network Exercise 111

Achieve

JUNE 30, 2022

We’ll dive into four questions nonprofits are likely to have about shopping fundraisers: What are shopping fundraisers? Your partner will manage relationships with participating retailers and facilitate payments to your organization. Nonprofit shopping fundraisers allow supporters to. when they make everyday purchases online.

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Fundraising Nonprofit Generation Program 52

NTEN

AUGUST 15, 2013

Amy saw that members of the nonprofit tech community were itching to dive more deeply and regularly into topics of online community building, but she didn’t want to create a space if there weren’t willing co-facilitators and a good deal of buy-in. Whoever’s hosting facilitates the discussion using the @CommBuild account.

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