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The Triple Bottom Line in India: Software, Quality Education, and Early Learning

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After I finished teaching an intensive Networked NGO workshop for Packard family planning grantees in Delhi, I headed to Bangalore to visit my friend and colleague, Rufina Fernandes where I conducted a social media workshop for staff and teachers and got see a start up education company and its CSR program, close up.

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Trainer’s Notebook: The Art of Good Openings and Closings

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

The workshop started with a welcoming ceremony. We sat in the hall – two rows – the guests and the Maori. I couldn’t have asked for a more authentic, culturally appropriate start to a workshop. The spiritual nature of the welcoming ceremony set the tone for a day of reflective practice for participants.

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How to Use Design Thinking to Improve Your Nonprofit’s Digital Strategy

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We received copies of his Luma’s book and cards, “Innovation for People,” which is a synthesis of landscape analysis of design-thinking and human centered design methods. He told a story that someone in one of his workshops to teach these methods asked him, “So what are the skills that we need to practice for 10,000 hours?

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7 Spring Fundraisers to Delight Your Donors

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All you need are some plastic eggs, candy to fill them with and an open green space—and don’t forget to acquire the proper permits if you’re holding it at a park! Nothing says spring quite like flowers, so host a workshop that teaches donors the basics of floral design. Make sure the winner of the round gets a cool prize!

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60+ Spring Fundraising Ideas for Every Nonprofit

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Local gardening experts can have the chance to demonstrate their green thumb and teach others in workshops that cover topics such as organic gardening, composting, or urban gardening. You can also use pies to help teach kids in your community more about math for the day!

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11 Highlights from BlogHer '11

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Photo by Green LA Girl ) 2. Teaching The Essential Blog Content Development Workshop I loved co-facilitating the Essential Blog Content Development Workshop with Elizabeth Soutter of Da Momma: Motherhood is Not for Wimps , and Julie Weckerlein of Julie and Martin. Hanging out with Siel/Green LA Girl.

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Lisa Sonora Beam, The Creative Entrepreneur: How I Have Fun, Do Good

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In 2000, she realized that she could use her marketing and advertising superpowers for good, and founded Digital Hive EcoLogical Design , the first communications firm to specialize in promoting green and social products and enterprises. Very often, someone attending my workshop is going abroad for the very first time.

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