Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JANUARY 5, 2012

The instructor’s role should be to facilitate this understanding for their students, not dump content on them. This gave me an excuse to look at different types of peer learning exercises and facilitation techniques. Allan Gunn from Aspiration and his legendary facilitation skills and knowledge.

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Experiment Learning Create Exercise 116

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. We did this on Day 1.

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Pakistan NGO Network Exercise 111

Beneblog: Technology Meets Society

JULY 9, 2018

Literacy and access to knowledge underpins just about every social good, from education, to economic development, to health, to women’s empowerment, democracy and respect for human rights. That is not a particularly radical belief among librarians, but I hope to make you believe even more in the power of books.

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Accessibility eBook People Copyright 135

Tech Soup

JULY 8, 2011

most fundamental problems that people in less favourable environments. should enable power in members and facilitate a global impact of highly local activity.” Being a novice in the Third Sector, my interest in this conference was mainly about. face and how we could help solve them. However, the surprise was that. projects.

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Activities Active Activism Review 47

Museum 2.0

NOVEMBER 18, 2014

But there was a problem: it wasn''t a consistent body. Our topics are broad, including Creative Spaces, Youth Empowerment, and Economic Opportunity. We asked people to make a voluntary donation of up to $150 to help support the facilitation of C3, and snacks. It was fairly lightweight, and it provided valuable input.

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Community Story Museum Map 39

Have Fun - Do Good

JUNE 19, 2009

Erickson founded FORGE (Facilitating Opportunities for Refugee Growth and Empowerment) in 2003 when she was a 20 year-old junior studying public policy at Stanford University. We bring communities together to identify their top problems, needs, and priorities, and solve them internally. They can create the change makers.

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Interview Sudan Africa Congo 40

Museum 2.0

JUNE 25, 2007

The museum presented tour/programs for corporate and community groups around race (Courage), gender ( Purses, Platforms, and Power ), and religion ( Families of Abraham ), enlisting professional facilitators to lead discussions around the issues raised in the exhibitions.

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Model Action Congo Museum 26

Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

APRIL 24, 2007

As I move out of doing implementation, and into more evaluation, planning and facilitation of technology change within organizations, I wanted to spend some time articulating what I have tried my best to practice when I’ve been in a place of providing technology support. Second, Empowerment. Where is this client, now ?

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Teach Support Technology Empowerment 100

Have Fun - Do Good

SEPTEMBER 9, 2009

The other thing is that a lot of inner cities are part of empowerment zones or enterprise zones where companies that are at a certain scale and profitable can benefit from tax credits, both from the payroll side, if you hire from the inner city, but also if you locate in the enterprise zones. They want to do good. It's a big challenge.

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Oakland San Francisco Companies Business 61

Have Fun - Do Good

DECEMBER 28, 2006

From her Berkeley-based office, Melinda Kramer facilitates an international network of women leaders. I spent a number of years traveling and working in communities throughout China and Russia and Alaska, working with communities where the problems were right in their face. Britt: What brought you to this work?

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