Qgiv

JULY 17, 2023

Provide the tools Offer folks training to increase their skills so they can hold conversations about DEI. Those in positions of power can invite traditionally excluded people to the table, but to sustain meaningful dialogue, everyone must have some skills to hold these important and often difficult conversations.

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Activities Active Activism Organization 97

Greater Giving

SEPTEMBER 12, 2023

To mitigate this, work as a group to evaluate AI outputs across different demographic groups and address disparities. Impact measurement: Have open discussions about the effectiveness of AI and decide how you will monitor its success. This will help your organization stay on the cutting edge of the latest trends.

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Team Tips Fundraising Training 98

Bloomerang

NOVEMBER 15, 2023

Strategies for effective and collaborative idea generation How can you ensure that your ideas not only get heard, but also gain traction within a brainstorming group? We’ll follow with 10 minutes to group ideas around common themes. The participants focus on the group memory, which becomes a living record of everyone’s contributions.

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Generation Ideas Arts Share 97

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MARCH 24, 2020

Meico Whitlock (Mindful Techie) leads the NTEN Board in a meditation meeting opener. As nonprofits are impacted by the CoronaVirus and need more virtual meeting skills, I’d like to share what I have learned. An engaging meeting or training should always starts with a great opening. ” . Here’s a few ideas.

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Virtual Facilitation Exercise Training 130

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

SEPTEMBER 16, 2015

The fun part of the instructional design is selecting good assessments, creating applied “homework” assignments where emerging leaders get to practice their skills at work, and providing guides for their mentors to support the emerging leaders. The specific practice skills include these three: Ask empowering questions.

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Skills Build Technique Language 50

Nonprofits Source

MAY 6, 2024

As we review these techniques, keep your nonprofit’s current recruitment approach in mind and consider how these strategies can help achieve your recruiting goals. Depending on the size of your nonprofit, you might have numerous roles open at any given time. Use automated personalization tools. Highlight value proposition.

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email Tools Strategy Application 52

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

APRIL 1, 2014

Last month I had the pleasure of taking the Luma Institute Train the Trainers workshop where I got a chance to immerse in practicing facilitation techniques based on human centered design principles. The workshop instructor Peter Maher is founder and CEO, of Luma Institute , and a Jedi Master. ” What is Human Centered Design?

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Facilitation Method Technique Exercise 132

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

OCTOBER 22, 2013

We used some Human Centered Design techniques from their “ Innovating for People ” design methods recipe book. It was the most stimulating web platform strategy session that I have ever experienced! Is it only used by people with artistic talents and graphic design skills? Anyone can be a designer! Technique 2: Affinity Mapping.

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Design Strategy Digital Technique 128

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MARCH 13, 2018

Looking for new techniques to add to your facilitator’s toolbox? 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. What is Brainstorming? .

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Facilitation Work Chart Technique 106

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JUNE 28, 2018

” Jo Wolfe, Aseem Thakur, Gillian Tan, Cherisse Beh, Katie Bengaard, and Toral Cowieson joined our session as small group facilitators. Opening Exercise. My colleague, Dirk Slater , has written about how he applies the Spectragram technique in his technology/activist trainings. Just A Little Content To Get Started .

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Participatory Digital Facilitation Exercise 76

Neon CRM

AUGUST 10, 2023

Nonprofit conferences are a great opportunity for industry professionals to hone their skills, network with their peers, and learn innovative new strategies to help their organizations thrive. Cost: Passes are currently listed on the Cause Camp website at $375 for one person and $1,200 for a group of four.

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Get Fully Funded

FEBRUARY 22, 2023

Clearly Identify Roles and Responsibilities The Difference Between Skills, Qualifications and Experience How Should Soft Skills and Personal Characteristics Be Incorporated? A job posting is the external communication about the open vacancy for which a job description was written. What is the Purpose of the Role?

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Job Roles Skills Nonprofit 59

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

FEBRUARY 18, 2014

Can participants apply the skills?” Here are six tips that will help you deliver highly successful technology training workshops by using effective evaluation techniques. If you ask open-ended questions, you typically only get criticism. Group Photo. Use Learning Theory. Documentation. Closing Circle.

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Evaluation Training Train Tips 128

Eric Jacobsen Blog

OCTOBER 1, 2023

The other is not taking a risk to apply for a new job or opportunity, believing that they do not have enough experience or skills sets,” according to Christie Hunter Arscott , author of the book, Begin Boldly. Do they have an open-door policy only for some people? In Begin Boldly , Hunter Arscott turns this thinking on its head.

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Voice Exercise Chapter Script 80

Neon CRM

OCTOBER 31, 2023

That will make them more likely to open and read other messages in the future. Find Ways to Be Valuable to Donors Is there a brand whose emails you always open? If you’re like most people, you open those emails because they include something of value. You could also try teaching them a fun new skill.

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Donor Strategy Nonprofit Phone 98

Beneblog: Technology Meets Society

MARCH 18, 2012

We're Benetech's Human Rights Data Analysis Group, and we're hiring right now ! What we do: Benetech's Human Rights Data Analysis Group (HRDAG) develops database software, data collection strategies, and statistical techniques to measure human rights atrocities. Please use open file formats (PDF is fine).

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Analysis Statistics Chart Language 150

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

NOVEMBER 4, 2014

Note From Beth: Having good openers (and closers) are essential to the success of your training workshop. Take a group selfie. Group selfie ice breakers in our facilitation meeting! Share a skill you have that you’re proud of. Icebreakers Can Be Fun! Guest Post by Jen Bokoff. Selfie time: Share your name.

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Fun Training Train Facilitation 129

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

APRIL 3, 2018

It is open, participatory, and peer-driven. Connectivity helps facilitate highly distributed groups of people to work on a campaign, project, or share ideas that spread with unprecedented velocity and reach. We, in the social good sector, especially need to keep honing our skills in unleashing new power for good causes.

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Participatory Leadership Model Skills 116

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JANUARY 5, 2012

A few days ago I opened the door on a new learning journey. On New Year’s Day, I heard a story on NPR about some research on instructional techniques used by many college professors – the lecture and how it is less effective in an age information abundance. Photo by Beth Kanter, Net Funders Conference, October, 2011.

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Experiment Learning Create Exercise 116

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

NOVEMBER 6, 2014

While I did a pretty thorough participant assessment survey before finalizing the content, the instructional design and creating materials, I always like to get a group understanding of the learning goals and get people ready to learn. This where design thinking methods and innovation lab facilitation techniques can be helpful.

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Activities Active Activism Integration 105

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

OCTOBER 2, 2013

Descriptions of key digital measurement concepts, terminology and analysis techniques. For more about the techniques, see the Peer Instruction Blog: Turn to Your Neighbor is written by Julie Schell , a researcher for Eric Mazur. Guidance on how to build an effective measurement plan. Best practices for collecting actionable data.

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Analytics Google Digital Free 106

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MAY 23, 2013

When you want to acquire a new skill or apply some new knowledge, do you learn by passively sitting and listening to an expert lecture for 90 minutes without a break and 150 PPT slides? One technique described that I use often is “share pairs,” it makes people get it up, take that body break, and check in with someone.

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Content Learning Brain PPT 130

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

SEPTEMBER 8, 2014

Are there facilitation skills/techniques that you enjoy and are great at doing? Are there facilitation skills/techniques that you want to improve or work on? Scribe: The role of the scribe is to capture ideas and build group memory. The scribe should only interact with the lead facilitator, not the group.

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Reflection NTEN Change Facilitation 124

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

APRIL 27, 2012

It marked the start of a six month peer learning exchange where I, along with colleague Stephanie Rudat will work remotely with grantees as they implement an action learning project to put techniques into practice and facilitate organizational change from the inside out. 2. Design for Organizational Reluctance.

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Pakistan NGO Network Exercise 111

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JUNE 25, 2012

This was the launch of a peer learning group called “ The Networked NGO ,” based on the ideas in my book, The Networked Nonprofit. The four-day intensive face-to-face training was for senior level staff and their social media staffers. We are working very closely with V.S.

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India NGO Network Exercise 102

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

APRIL 8, 2015

This post follows yesterday’s post about networked leadership skills. The retreat curriculum is built around the a framework called “I-WE-IT” that covers mindsets and practical skills that today’s social change leaders of all generations need as we move towards more collective approaches.

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Teach Change Exercise Social 50

Eric Jacobsen Blog

MAY 12, 2019

And, if you've been a leader for a long time, how about taking a few minutes to run through the list and scoring yourself on how well you carry out each leadership skill? Summarize group consensus after each decision point during a meeting 18. Tailor your motivation techniques 61. Have an open door policy 66.

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Mentoring Leadership Policy Technique 40

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

FEBRUARY 12, 2014

You can expect to continue to see more blog posts from me on the topic of peer learning design and training techniques as I continue to do this work. So I thought I’d share some details on how the exchange worked, and some insights the group learned that helped them increase their impact. a hat tip to one of the local area codes.

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Knowledge Goal Share Giving 100

Eric Jacobsen Blog

NOVEMBER 26, 2012

And, if you've been a leader for a long time, how about taking a few minutes to run through the list and scoring yourself on how well you carry out each leadership skill? Summarize group consensus after each decision point during a meeting 18. Tailor your motivation techniques 61. Have an open door policy 66.

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Mentoring Leadership Policy Technique 84

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JANUARY 27, 2014

They focus on the content, not the design of learning activities. Learning activities might include full group discussion, spectragrams , or interactive lectures , sticky note facilitation , small group exercises or games , share pairs, or independent work (reading, working on an assessment, or poster). I do this all the time.

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Instructional Design Instruction Instructional Training 111

Eric Jacobsen Blog

AUGUST 6, 2018

And, if you've been a leader for a long time, how about taking a few minutes to run through the list and scoring yourself on how well you carry out each leadership skill? Summarize group consensus after each decision point during a meeting 18. Tailor your motivation techniques 61. Have an open door policy 66.

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Mentoring Leadership Policy Technique 40

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

NOVEMBER 19, 2013

Also, check out Lucy’s Digital Civil Society wiki for examples of open data used for the social good. Patricia Patrizi, Elizabeth Heidi Thompson, Julia Coffman, and Tanya Beer, “ Eyes Wide Open: Learning as Strategy Under Conditions of Complexity and Uncertainty.” Alliance Magazine, September 2012. Beth Kanter, “ Data Informed.

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Social Media Channel Data Media 100

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MAY 10, 2011

You can learn in public in different ways – self-directed individual learning, with a peer group or in an organization, or as a network or entire field practice. . What are the techniques and methods for moving people up the ladder? Maybe it takes the form of collaboratively interupting the results of the evaluation.

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Public Learning Wiki Taxonomy 103

Eric Jacobsen Blog

JUNE 27, 2013

And, if you''ve been a leader for a long time, how about taking a few minutes to run through the list and scoring yourself on how well you carry out each leadership skill? Summarize group consensus after each decision point during a meeting 18. Tailor your motivation techniques 61. Have an open door policy 66.

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Tips Mentoring Policy Leadership 79

Eric Jacobsen Blog

APRIL 29, 2017

And, if you've been a leader for a long time, how about taking a few minutes to run through the list and scoring yourself on how well you carry out each leadership skill? Summarize group consensus after each decision point during a meeting 18. Tailor your motivation techniques 61. Have an open door policy 66.

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Mentoring Leadership Policy Technique 40

Bloomerang

JUNE 11, 2021

So do you feel that you have found a community in any or all of these groups? . Hobbies or groups, charitable organizations, so that’s what the rest of America is saying. I want the best for you, this is a little bit more interpersonal skills, of course. Perhaps it’s not.

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People Community Video Podcast 79

Eric Jacobsen Blog

SEPTEMBER 24, 2013

And, if you''ve been a leader for a long time, how about taking a few minutes to run through the list and scoring yourself on how well you carry out each leadership skill? Summarize group consensus after each decision point during a meeting 18. Tailor your motivation techniques 61. Have an open door policy 66.

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Tips Mentoring Leadership Policy 69