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Meeting the Geeks of Arabia at N2Vlabs Talks in Amman, Jordan

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

E-Mediat is working with more than 220 NGOs in Jordan, Lebanon, Morocco, Tunisia, and Yemen. I’m looking out my hotel window at the Dead Sea in Jordan. He founded Shabakat Al Ordon , the first networked nonprofit that I discovered in the Middle East and that provides youth ICT training 300 communities in Jordan.

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Creating Learning Experiences That Connect, Inspire, and Engage

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

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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Strengthening program evaluation in your nonprofit

ASU Lodestar Center

The evaluator takes on many roles: facilitator, technical expert, and sometimes a shoulder to cry. Consider reaching out to local universities to tap into departments, professors, and students for consulting, resources, and education. The ultimate goal is not for program evaluation to be punitive, but empowering” - Jordan Lim.

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Where are the twenty-something or GEN-Y Bloggers Who Are Writing About Social Change and Nonprofits?

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

Zandria did a fabulous job of facilitating the session. ConnectionCafe : Connection Cafe has a quite a few Gen Y bloggers - Taylor Shanklin, Misty McLaughlin, Brandy Reppy, Lacey Kruger and Jordan Viator. So, having this opportunity listen was very valuable. Tim Davis is working as a freelance consultant on youth participation.

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Why You Should Never Feel Bad About Asking Someone To Give

Bloomerang

2006 study by Jorge Moll, Jordan Grafman and colleagues at the National Institutes of Health : After MRI brain scanning of volunteers as they were asked to think about a scenario involving either donating a sum of money to charity or keeping it for themselves, researchers found giving won out. Giving will protect you your whole life long.”

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