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Trainer’s Notebook: The Feng Shui of Good Teaching and Learning

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

So, expect to see regular reflections on good instructional design and delivery for any topic, but especially technology related. How does the room set up support or fight your instructional design? Feng Shui is an ancient art and science developed many years ago in China.

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Mastercard’s Girls4Tech™: Utilizing Employees’ Skills to Inspire Youth

Connection Cafe

Make it better than any program you’ve done before, make it global and make it for girls,” those were the instructions from Mastercard’s CEO Ajay Banga to Susan Warner, VP Global Volunteerism, in 2014. Girls Just Want to Have… STEM! During a session, girls will crack codes, listen for potential fraud, solve problems using big data and more.

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Microsoft's YouthSpark Initiative Seeks to Close the Opportunity Divide

Tech Soup

While her internship could be tough at times, Mackey's mentors at Year Up pushed her to move forward in her career. Year Up is just one of the five nonprofit organizations Microsoft has partnered with along with the Boys & Girls Clubs of America, City Year, Junior Achievement USA (JA), and Network for Teaching Entrepreneurship.

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Virtual Volunteer Mobilization Strategies That Can Solve Nonprofits’ Challenges During COVID-19

Connection Cafe

– Plan a weekly “teach in” series about COVID facts and advice. Facilitate a virtual gathering for supporters to make masks together, with instructions on material to buy. Facilitate virtual mentoring, college application review, or interview skills workshop, like Mission Graduates is doing. HEALTH & DISASTER RESPONSE.

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ASU Lodestar Center Blog: Fear not, nonprofit professionals!

ASU Lodestar Center

The ASU Lodestar Center , the Alliance of Arizona Nonprofits , YNPN Phoenix, my fellow MNpS graduates, my coworkers, boss, friends, and professional mentors are all resources I access to get me unstuck on my quest to improve the common good. Can You Teach a Watchdog New Tricks? Facing a challenging situation at work? Access resources!

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Learning To Lead

Eric Jacobsen Blog

Inspiring, humbling, motivating and instructional is how I describe the leadership book by Ron Williams , called, Learning To Lead: The Journey To Leading Yourself, Leading Others, And, Leading An Organization. Question : Why is mentorship important and how do you find a mentor? And, how do you find a mentor?

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Why Tech Nonprofits Are Building Digital Tools for Racial Equity and Justice

Non Profit Quarterly

Most prisons are rurally located, limiting the opportunities for in-person instruction,” the founders say. Empowr creates a school-to-career pipeline for students of color by offering a learning platform that teaches software development to Black high school students. Using Tech to Reduce Barriers to Education.

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