The Modern Nonprofit

MAY 1, 2024

Reach out to Asian American student groups on college campuses as well. Be sure to recruit knowledgeable facilitators. Others may prefer moderated discussions or interviews. Effective outreach strategies should focus on connecting with local AAPI groups, leaders, and community centers. Their fame attracts interest.

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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. They gave the students tests based on content and scored them. They gave the students tests based on content and scored them. And the resulting graph is the analysis of 1200 students.

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Qgiv

OCTOBER 27, 2021

They walk dogs at your animal shelter, ask for donations on your behalf, and spend their Saturday afternoons tutoring students. You could even ask volunteers to facilitate a warm introduction for you instead of just giving you a list of names. Students make great volunteers! Volunteers help nonprofits connect with the community.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MARCH 17, 2017

My role in the project is to the facilitate the training sessions, design the overall training, facilitate openers and closings, help prep the curriculum, and deliver modules on digital strategy and social media. Working with Wake is also a wonderful professional development experience to hone training and facilitation trade craft.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JULY 29, 2013

Note from Beth: I first learned about this project last year, when Shiree Teng, the project leader, interviewed me as part of some research on capacity building consultants that lead to the design of ImpactRising. Broke and living in community housing, I came home one evening to find my room burgled, my laptop and cash savings gone.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

NOVEMBER 24, 2014

I have been tracking this giving day since its first Giving Day back in 2009 and every year do a debrief post or interview. The principals brought their students to celebrate the moment and show their school spirit. This year, we asked school principals to don super hero costumes and ride the new indoor zip line at the Mall of America.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

SEPTEMBER 16, 2008

Since I was a first year college student at UC Berkeley, I have been working with students and schools in low-income communities and have grown increasingly aware of how educational disparities keep children from reaching their potential. That lead me to Jennifer Rauch, the co-founder of The Generation Project.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

APRIL 24, 2011

At SXSW and facilitating a panel called A Global Discussion About Networked Nonprofits and Free Agents , I introduced myself with this photo of me and Lena, the master trainer from Yemen for the E-Mediat Project. Flickr Photo by SMEXbeirut. The photo shows us modeling “shoulder to shoulder&# learning.

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Bloomerang

MAY 24, 2021

Do this via survey, focus group, or one-to-one interviews. Do you have necessary facilitating internal systems, policies and procedures and controls? How do you imagine your constituents will feel and behave over the next umpteen months? And how will you find out so you don’t have to assume? . Ask your supporters directly.

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Museum 2.0

MARCH 18, 2015

Over 30% of our staff statewide are either former Workshop students or parent volunteers. Part of this is practical: you can''t facilitate making and tinkering for 30 kids if you have to hand them everything they need. Whereas formal organizations have a harder time facilitating a shared sense of space and events.

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Museum 2.0

MARCH 3, 2011

In 2009 , students built a participatory exhibit from scratch. Thirteen students produced three projects that layered participatory activities onto an exhibition of artwork from the permanent collection of the Henry Art Gallery. When activities were not facilitated, people were often too timid to interact.

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Have Fun - Do Good

JUNE 19, 2009

After meeting her at the Global Engagement Summer last spring, I knew I wanted to grab her for an interview before she became too famous. 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. You started very young.

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Museum 2.0

OCTOBER 3, 2012

We are finally leaving behind the 18th century model of education where groups of students are expected to learn at a standard pace. Students around the world want to understand the history of art, not necessarily the history of a particular collection. We wrote about that in a recent blog post, Why the Google Art Project is Important.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

NOVEMBER 7, 2008

Yesterday, I facilitated a hot topic workshop at the Healthy Communities Annual Conference hosted by the Search Institute in Minneapolis. As much as I could, if I got asked a question, I invited the younger folks in the room to answer and facilitated an inter-generational dialog. This week I put that into practice.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

SEPTEMBER 4, 2007

Viirak interviewed her during the video blogging workshop) She presented in the morning of the first day about why blogging has been useful to her. s democracy - it was just about showing the beauty of her country, sharing her experiences in school, and learning from her peers and fellow students. Good how to resource here ).

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Gyrus

APRIL 5, 2018

An analysis through an in-depth survey accompanied by a few short one-on-one interviews with the projected user base and decision makers within the organization can aid tremendously. Ask your instructors and facilitators their honest feedback about your current training strategy. Get feedback.

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Have Fun - Do Good

AUGUST 2, 2006

This week's Solutionary woman is Viet-Ly Nguyen, a former co-worker from Streetside Stories , who I interviewed for my Big Vision Podcast last winter. I work with a co-facilitator and we visit sixth grade language arts and social studies classes for two-week writing workshops.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

APRIL 12, 2007

I attended a session about OS Online Communities facilitated by the Joomla! The questions that emerged from this group were not different from those that are asked when we talk about online facilitation and online communities. These folks would be perfect participants for Nancy White's Online Facilitation Workhop.

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Care2

MAY 11, 2011

Facilitating face-time and team building for your regional staff. org, and five Unity College students embarked on a bio-diesel powered road trip to encourage President Obama to restore solar paneling to the White House roof. Building buzz and press for an advocacy action. Raising funds. Creating meaningful volunteer opportunities.

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Have Fun - Do Good

MAY 3, 2006

Shortly after I posted my first Solutionary Women profile , I got an email from a young woman named Tiara who was a student with Up with People last year. She is an alumna of Up With People and traveled as an Applied Education facilitator with Up with People last fall. before coming to Up with People. While in D.C.,

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Connection Cafe

OCTOBER 31, 2011

As someone interviewing for a top job, how can you detect warning signs of organizational system decay *before* your professional credibility is on the line? Modern systems facilitate automation of the moves you will make while doing the delicate courtship dance of recruitment with in-demand board members. The Seven Questions.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

AUGUST 3, 2008

Zandria did a fabulous job of facilitating the session. Nonprofit Leadership, Innovation and Change: Christopher Scott is a nonprofit leader who founded A Day of Hope , a student based organization that delivers baskets of food and turkeys to families for Thanksgiving. An Interview With Matthew Zachary, Founder I???m

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Nonprofits Source

MAY 8, 2024

Prepare compelling stories or interviews that resonate with the local audience, and provide high-quality images or videos that these outlets can use in their reporting. You could gather and share stories from teachers and students who have benefited from the whiteboards. Incorporate QR codes that link directly to your auction page.

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Have Fun - Do Good

JANUARY 25, 2007

When the WorldChanging SF bloggers had their first face-to-face meeting there, I asked Chris if he would do an e-interview with me about how he started the cafe, what makes it green and how other people can start their own green cafes. Well, Chris Waters of the Nomad Cafe in Oakland not only thought about it, he made it happen.

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Bloomerang

SEPTEMBER 24, 2021

Sometimes, you have too many ideas so you need a strong facilitator who can make sure we hear from everyone, but are able to put these ideas through a funnel and find those common threads. ” We were floored that half the students were raising their hands. If it goes a year or a year and a half, it can lose momentum.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MARCH 16, 2010

I was honored to design and facilitate a panel at SXSW on Sunday called " Crowd Sourcing Innovative Social Change." Seattle Free School , suggested by Amy Sample Ward, uses social media to organize classes and teach students. Invisible People uses crowd sourcing to select the best stories and interviews.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JUNE 23, 2015

I also facilitated several workshops for London-based nonprofit CEOs and communications directors on developing a strategy for their leadership profiles on social and internal champions (board, staff, and volunteers). If you want to dig in, you can learn more here: Interview in the Guardian. My blog post with slides and links.

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Have Fun - Do Good

NOVEMBER 12, 2008

The Engage Network is a nonprofit social venture that facilitates the power of small community groups to create social change. On October 21, 2008, I interviewed Marianne Manilov, the National Team Leader at The Engage Network, about their work. She engages students at a concert level. His name is Ori Brafman. We locked down.

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Museum 2.0

SEPTEMBER 4, 2013

In the summer, they spend 8 weeks working full-time at the Taylor Center learning and facilitating public programs. What started with 15 students in 1997 has grown to support 200 students per year. YES students defy expectations. Many of them don''t have the clothes required to go to a job interview.

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Bloomerang

NOVEMBER 13, 2021

She’s also certified by the Institute of Cultural Affairs, in the USA, for facilitation. So, for example, if I provide an after-school program, I just use that a lot because I ran an after-school program for over a decade, but if I’m delivering academic programs, then I’m going to be looking at the number of students served.

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Museum 2.0

JULY 28, 2010

In the summer, they spend 8 weeks working full-time at the Taylor Center learning and facilitating public programs. What started with 15 students in 1997 has grown to support 200 students per year. YES students defy expectations. Many of them don't have the clothes required to go to a job interview.

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Bloomerang

MAY 21, 2021

I have actually one of my students on the on this call which is fabulous. For anyone who’s been my student or come to my trainings, I’m really focused on usable knowledge. It may be that, for some organizations, a really large strategic planning process would include hiring an outside facilitator, doing a.

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Bloomerang

NOVEMBER 5, 2021

And is a really great and pretty highly esteemed trainer and facilitator. In fact, he was named one of the 10 best retreat facilitators in America. What could you do and I want you to write in the chat and it’d be great if Steve you could help me kind of facilitate some of this. Student, thank-yous, yes, oh, my god.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

NOVEMBER 26, 2012

Note from Beth: As part of my work at the Packard Foundation, I’ve had the honor of designing and facilitating a “networked capacity building project” for a cluster of grantees, state-based groups, to be more effective in engaging their networks toward covering uninsured children. effective use of social media.

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Have Fun - Do Good

JUNE 29, 2006

Today's Big Vision Podcast transcript is from an interview with arts activist, Alli Chagi-Starr. And what I always tell the students that I work with is, number one, stay in community. You can hear the orginal podcast on Gcast , Odeo or iTunes. We never saw it in action before we started doing it. Do not isolate. It's so easy.

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