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Trainer’s Notebook: The Digital Nonprofit: A Participatory Workshop

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There are different ways to design a participatory workshop. The session kicked off with a Spectragram exercise involving the full group. I learned this technique from Allen Gunn from Aspiration over ten years ago at 2007 Penguin Day. Others have also documented and used the technique or taught others how to do it.

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New Year’s Rituals for Nonprofits To Improve Resilience in 2021

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These rituals also help me set-up systems for consistent reflection and positive habit change throughout the new year. There are many approaches to journaling and types of notebooks, but I have settled in on using a variation of the bullet journal technique and the one-sentence five-year journal.

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3 New Year’s Rituals for Nonprofit Professionals To Begin 2018 with Clarity

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1) Review the Year: For as long as I can remember, I have kept an annual professional journal, using a variation of bullet journal technique. I call it my “ To Do, To Done, Don’t Do, Reflection List.” ” I use it for planning and goal setting as well as to reflect along the way.

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Explore Impact Leadership at NTEN’s Leading Change Summit: Free Registration Giveaway

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As you can see from the schedule overview , this is more of a participatory event versus the traditional conference with powerpoints and panelists. ” The brainstorming techniques from the previous day will yield many, many insights and ideas. The magic will happen based on who is in the room and the conversation.

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Balancing Engagement: Adventures in Participatory Exhibit Labels

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In our quest to make the public areas of the museum more reflective of Santa Cruz culture, we moved these boards from a comprehensive display in the history gallery into a main stairwell, prominently visible from the lobby and throughout the building. We decided to approach the label-writing for these boards in a participatory way.

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The Participatory Nonprofit?

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The book includes a "Connected Quiz, a set of reflective questions that can help an activist think about how well they or their organization is connecting with others -- something to think about before jumping into the tools. Some argue that young people acquire these key skills by interacting with popular culture. Performance ???

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Some Reflections About Civil Society 2.0 and Why I’m Not On A Plane To Tunisia Right Now

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I am asking myself and colleagues who do networked NGO training and social media skill building outside the of US – the question about building resilient networks and how to incorporate non-violent techniques. [ here and here ]. We don’t have any answers, but we all feel that our work is all the important as is a conversation.

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