Nonprofit Tech for Good

OCTOBER 17, 2021

2) Training. Fundraising software training is essential to maximizing your investment. No matter how intuitive a system may be, there are always a few questions, tips, and tricks that a training professional can help you with so you get started on a solid foundation. In-person training. 3) Support.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JANUARY 27, 2014

Join me for a FREE Webinar: Training Tips that Work for Nonprofits on Jan.29th I’ll be sharing my best tips and secrets for designing and delivering training for nonprofit professionals that get results. 29th at 1:00 PM EST/10:00 AM PST. I use a simple structure to design: before, during, and after.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

FEBRUARY 8, 2013

Keeping nonprofit audiences engaged during training can improve your outcomes. There are many creative ways to engage participants at a training - both face-to-face and online. One technique is to incorporate movement – from mini-stretch breaks, to self-assessment exercises to switches in the delivery model.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

OCTOBER 28, 2013

These can help you predict whether participants will act on the training after the workshop: More than one person from an organization should participate so the ideas can be transferred to the whole organization. The secret is in the structure and design of the small group exercises. Design for Participants To Apply.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MAY 15, 2012

My role was to deliver components of the Networked NGO curriculum – sessions on network mapping, challenges assumptions about networked ways of working, as well as training on how to use the online collaboration platform for their together moving forward. Needless to say, I learned a lot!

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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.” Our session will change the way you design and deliver technology trainings. 8 Tips for Designing Powerful Nonprofit Training Workshops. Design Labs.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JULY 19, 2016

Designing and facilitating training (not matter the topic) is one of my passions and why I blog about it on a regular basis. I also love sharing techniques and tips with other trainers and often do “train the trainers” sessions as part of my practice. Of course the training room has to accommodate this.)

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Candid

JANUARY 10, 2024

Just then, angel-in-training Clarence intervenes. Think of 3 good things One of the simplest—and most effective—positive psychology practices is the “ Three Good Things ” exercise. This exercise is powerful for two reasons. Write down three things that went well today, why it went well, and your role in making it happen.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MARCH 25, 2014

Earlier this month, I presented on a panel called “ Learn, You Will ” with Cindy Leonard, John Kenyon, and Andrea Berry on the topic of designing effective nonprofit technology training at the Nonprofit Technology Conference hosted by NTEN. Even harder to incorporate “going meta.”

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

NOVEMBER 3, 2015

I’ve just returned from an inspiring week in Kiev, Ukraine where I got to facilitate a training for women’s organizations organized by Wake , an amazing start up founded by two respected colleagues Trish Tierney and Heather Ramsey. You have to think of your interpreters as extensions of your facilitation techniques.

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Eric Jacobsen Blog

FEBRUARY 7, 2024

The evidence-based exercises will give you a firsthand look at the tendency of external negativity to create internal turmoil and stress and exactly how to reduce those feelings. How to Stop Complaining : To feel better more of the time, train yourself to stop complaining. Empathy and How to Lie to Yourself.

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Bloomerang

MAY 16, 2023

It’s essential to identify knowledge gaps and provide regular training sessions to help develop these skills. One way to do this is to incorporate training into board meetings. In conclusion, getting board members to fundraise requires a multi-faceted approach that includes education, mindset, engagement, and recognition.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

OCTOBER 7, 2019

We will be doing early morning sessions to engage participants in some mindful moment and movement exercises. I’m going to share different techniques for weaving mindful moment and exercises into your workday. You can practice these exercises alone or with your team. I also use them a lot when I doing full-day trainings.

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Association Analytics

SEPTEMBER 13, 2023

This refers to the feelings, attitudes, and opinions of the individuals participating in your programs, courses, or training. Assessing Learner Sentiment Another important part of measuring the effectiveness of education programs is assessing learning sentiment.

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Allegiance Group

APRIL 9, 2024

We’ll also discuss taking DEIAB from a one-off training to a sustainable part of your culture. Cherry and Dr. Renee Rubin Ross are nonprofit consultants who often work together to conduct DEIAB training and workshops. They start by meeting with the nonprofit’s executive director and board chair to understand why the training is needed.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JANUARY 30, 2010

I just finished doing a training for Open Society Institute media and information coordinators on social media with colleague, David Sasaki , from Global Voices. It made me think of the metaphor of the Dance Floor and the Balcony a phrase and exercise that I learned from a session that Eric Eugene Kim facilitated. .

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MARCH 24, 2020

Since those days, I have continued to hone my virtual facilitation skills to design and deliver effective virtual meetings and trainings. This post takes a deeper dive into meeting and training icebreakers and check-ins. This post takes a deeper dive into meeting and training icebreakers and check-ins. Hat tip/ Jen Bokoff ).

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

APRIL 8, 2020

As with face-to-face training, how many participants per breakout room depends on the task they will do together, how much time is needed to complete the task, and time for a full group report out. See the small group exercises timing charts in this document ). Show & Tell: I learn this one from Andy Robinson, Train Your Board.

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Kindful

JUNE 8, 2021

The Governance Committee, responsible for ensuring the board can fulfill its fiduciary responsibilities, should work with the Finance and Fundraising Committees to create an Education and Training Plan with consistent opportunities for board members to learn about finances and fundraising. Onboard and educate new board members.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MARCH 13, 2018

Does your work at a nonprofit include facilitating meetings or trainings? This is the focus of a session called “ The Big Bang Theory: Creative Facilitation and Training Techniques, ” that I’m co-facilitating at the Nonprofit Technology Conference with Cindy Leonard and Jeanne Allen. Brainstorming Warm Up Exercise.

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Nonprofit Tech for Good

OCTOBER 30, 2021

Discoveries are essentially risk mitigation exercises, and they should be a separate contract from the build phase whenever possible. Will reconfiguration, data cleanup or training on our current tech be just as impactful? When done this way, they remove inefficiency from the build which almost ALWAYS lowers the overall investment.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MARCH 8, 2019

In 90 minutes, we did two exercises that helped participants identify their target audience and then build out a persona, a fictionalized character that described motivations, barriers and identifies the right content and channels to use. Then it was time for a simple exercise. Write a target audience definition.

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Eric Jacobsen Blog

DECEMBER 26, 2022

The coaching with compassion method is based on five steps for intentional change , which the authors teach in the book using rich, inspiring and real-life stories and science-based, heavily researched exercises. Train managers and executives to provide coaching to their direct reports and maybe even peers.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

AUGUST 11, 2009

I happen to agree with that, which gives me a different perspective on exercises like this exercise in crowdsourcing. The suggestion is that the wisdom of the crowd can somehow be orchestrated, or led, or managed like a trained seal. Was that crowd trained, facilitated, or orchestrated?

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.orgSource

JANUARY 9, 2023

To maximize the initiative, offer training on how to support mentees and advance your organizational values effectively. Exercises like the Myers Briggs Type Indicator will deliver a deeper level of insight. Mentors also can perform the very important function of providing background and color to the board’s activities. Create Synergy.

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Nonprofit Tech for Good

APRIL 23, 2023

It is trained on a massive dataset of text and code, and it can generate text, translate languages, write different kinds of creative content, and answer your questions in an informative way. Google’s Bard is a generative language model from Google AI, trained on a massive dataset of text and code.

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ASU Lodestar Center

DECEMBER 1, 2021

We must now address what kind of leadership style is expected, training plans, and organizational training, and include those factors into the new crisis management plan. She is passionate about staff training and development, storytelling and working toward creating a more diverse, equitable and inclusive sector.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MARCH 12, 2018

A writer, consultant, and coach, Maia Duerr draws on her decades of Zen practice and training in anthropology to create powerful tools for integrating mindfulness into the workplace and in the everyday lives of the people she works with. Some of these exercises are intended for you to do alone, but others can be done in groups.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

FEBRUARY 11, 2014

That’s when you can add a brief stretch break, energizer , or incorporate an exercise that requires getting up and moving around. Here are some techniques you can incorporate into your training and staff meetings that will help with learning and retention. Training Design' Here’s some examples.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MAY 8, 2018

One of the workshop exercises was to teach leaders a process they can facilitate back in their organizations to begin the discussion about how to activate a culture of well being. As part of the set-up to the exercise, I share some examples from the Happy Healthy Nonprofit: Strategies for Impact without Burnout. Promote from within.

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Volunteer Hub

AUGUST 18, 2022

Provide Volunteers with Training. Effective training is one of the most important components of any volunteer program. The most effective training programs set a welcoming atmosphere, reinforce mission, outline expectations, and communicate procedures. Check out these 7 elements of a successful volunteer training program.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

OCTOBER 24, 2014

As part of the workshops I have facilitated to teach nonprofits to become networked nonprofits, I created an exercise called “Creating the Me to We Network.” I’ve subsequently have used this exercise in many different contexts for different purposes. What are the opportunities for reciprocity?

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

NOVEMBER 7, 2013

For training where you are focusing on a skill, it allows for folks express their opinions (negative or positive) and not have get in the way of the instructional flow later on. My colleague, Dirk Slater , has written about how he applies Gunner’s techniques in his own technology/activist trainings.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JANUARY 19, 2017

I had designed the leadership workshop on resilience to include a lot of solo and peer reflection time and small group work and some small amounts of presentation and context to do the exercises. I had requested 6 person rounds because part of the exercises included some fun brainstorming processes and exercises.

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Eric Jacobsen Blog

NOVEMBER 10, 2023

The evidence-based exercises will give you a firsthand look at the tendency of external negativity to create internal turmoil and stress and exactly how to reduce those feelings. How to Stop Complaining : To feel better more of the time, train yourself to stop complaining. Empathy and How to Lie to Yourself.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

FEBRUARY 8, 2018

Then students complete exercises, either in small groups or solo. Designing training that is interactive, that goes beyond presenting takes upfront planning. I use this design checklist to identify interactive exercises. They also have to present their ideas to the whole class and do a brief write up.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

SEPTEMBER 10, 2019

I believe that interactive training makes for better learning and there is research to back that up. The workshop had seating in a U-shape, so people did not have a desk to write on and I had some worksheet exercises for people to do. Training is better when you content and instruction is as inclusive as possible.

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