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Trainer’s Notebook: Just A Few Participatory Facilitation Techniques

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

If time is available, also do a plus/delta exercise with participants as a close out to the session. Measure, evaluate, reflect, and improve. I also had an opportunity to attend a couple of sessions that used participatory facilitation techniques. a) Green: Great things you’ve heard of, or done yourself. Spectragram.

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Equitable and Inclusive Messaging: Retaining Donors in a New Age of Storytelling

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Whether your donors are transactional or high value (including mid-level and recurring donors) or participatory (like event participants and volunteers), building healthy relationships with them today—and retaining them—recognizes the responsibility we all have to our constituents, our communities, and, ultimately, to ourselves.

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Have Fun Do Good Link Love: Echoing Green, Jobs for Change, Julia Cameron and 29 Gifts

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NEWS This week, Echoing Green partnered with Jobs for Change on a new Be Bold Podcast. Green Blogger Convention To Kick Off In Los Angeles Next Month on Eco razzi. Interesting WorldChanging post, Just Launched: Journal of Participatory Medicine. Early registration deadline is Nov. nonprofit (valued up to $75,000 ).

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Community Science Workshops and Shared Authorship of Space: Interview with Emilyn Green

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I sat down with Emilyn Green, Executive Director of the Community Science Workshop Network , to learn more about their history, design, and engagement strategy. Several Community Science Workshops also get Measure S grants - gang prevention grants - through their cities. I knew I could learn a lot from it. It''s powerful.

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Using Design Thinking for A Foundation’s Investment Strategy

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

In some ways, a design lab can be thought of as “participatory research and testing.”. It is called “Rose, Bud, Thorn.” Participants reviewed their notes from the expert sessions, and wrote down challenges on blue sticky notes, strengths on pink sticky notes, and opportunities on green sticky notes. Concept 4: 21st Century Enquirer.

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Lean Impact Series: 10 Changemakers Using Lean Startup Methods For Greater Social Impact

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

” After spending five years living and breathing networks and measurement and designing and delivering many, many nonprofit capacity building programs, my focus is going to be on how nonprofits can apply measurement and their networks to learn for impact. Linda Robinson, Gateway Green (Board Chair).

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The Networked Nonprofit in Kenya

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

I favor a participatory approach with full room discussion. Identify specific, measurable outcomes for how we want to use social media to support our mission. Ethan Zuckerman, fellow board members, shares his impressions here. iHub one of the best ever co-working technology spaces I've been in. I don’t teach that way.

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