Nonprofit Tech for Good

OCTOBER 22, 2016

Known as the International City of Peace and Justice, there are more than 160 NGOs in Den Haag working to make the world a better place. Next, I stumbled across the Dutch office of the International Fund for Animal Welfare (IFAW) and though they were not expecting me, they were very welcoming and a pleasure to spend time with.

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Care2

APRIL 27, 2021

This trend has affected your donor relations and online fundraising , but also your internal operations, such as educating and training staff and volunteers. If 2020 (and the beginning of 2021) has shown nonprofits anything, it’s that online engagement is real and it’s not going away anytime soon.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JANUARY 23, 2014

Join me for a FREE Webinar: Training Tips that Work for Nonprofits on Jan.29th I’ll be sharing my best tips and secrets for designing and delivering training for nonprofit professionals that get results. The physical space where you deliver your training is just one piece of the instructional design puzzle.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MARCH 5, 2014

At this year’s Nonprofit Technology Conference, I’m thrilled to be doing a panel on nonprofit technology training and it has a bit of a star wars theme, “ Learn You Will.” I read a lot of educational technology, training, and teaching blogs, follow those people on Twitter, curate on Scoop.It, etc to keep up.

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Nonprofit Tech for Good

JANUARY 19, 2022

Digital marketing and fundraising trends are constantly evolving and conferences provide an essential training opportunity for nonprofit professionals to learn from their peers and spark their creativity. Most of the conferences listed are in the United States and Europe and we’d appreciate your help with building an international list.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

OCTOBER 9, 2014

Note from Beth: Last January, I put together a train the trainers session for nonprofit trainers. Over on the SalsaLabs blog, they are doing a series on designing nonprofit tech training and I discovered this excellent rewrite of my post. 8 Reasons Why Bad Trainings Happen to Good Nonprofits by Salsa Labs. Right audience.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MARCH 7, 2012

March 8, International Women’s Day , marks an occasion to celebrate the accomplishments of women worldwide. Another colleague, Shonali Burke , shared with me an amazing way to honor women you admire on March 8th as part of Oxfam America’s International Women’s Day (March campaign. The certificate above.

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Nonprofit Tech for Good

OCTOBER 12, 2022

If you need training in grant writing, a good place to start is with this free Introduction to Proposal Writing course and the best-selling book, How to Write a Grant. Devex features international funding opportunities from 850+ sources including USAID, World Bank, the European Union, and the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation.

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sgEngage

APRIL 26, 2024

Or possibly the organization is updating their internal controls and wants to make sure their changes are sufficient and reasonable. You can utilize your auditors to ensure your nonprofit is following its financial practices, has adequate and efficient internal controls, and has identified various potential risks.

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Association Analytics

APRIL 11, 2023

Designate Internal Champions Your association might consider choosing one staff person from each department to be part of the core group and report back to their respective department about the changes, updates, and next steps. For example, you might include a few questions based on the previous week’s training.

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Nonprofit Tech for Good

MARCH 16, 2016

Attended by over 4,000 fundraising professionals, the 2016 AFP International Fundraising Conference will be held March 20-22 in Boston, MA. If you can’t attend in person, thanks to social media and live streaming technology you can still participate in the conference online. Watch the live stream.

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Beneblog: Technology Meets Society

SEPTEMBER 20, 2009

A Guest Beneblog by Viji Dilip, This summer I visited the International Institute of Social Entrepreneurship (IISE). IISE is an institute that has been established to train participants (age 18+) who have the right initiative, motivation and potential to establish and run their own social projects.

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Association Analytics

AUGUST 14, 2023

The most popular model today is called a Large Language Model (LLM) , which is trained on massive text datasets. Keep in mind that the more specific the model gets and the more specific the training dataset, the better outcomes you’ll find. LLMs are meant to produce conversational human language responses.

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Nonprofit Tech for Good

DECEMBER 23, 2023

Additionally, nonprofits can create their own custom-trained GPT chatbot with their custom data. This enables the creation of a tailor-made AI assistant, specifically trained to understand and address your nonprofit’s unique needs. This pivot turned a potential flaw into a powerful tool for idea generation and content creation.

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ASU Lodestar Center

OCTOBER 17, 2012

I have since had the opportunity to work at multiple nonprofit organizations as an intern, where I learned what I was good at, improved on many of my skills, and learned what makes a good internship program. All of the organizations I interned with had faith in me. You can do it! It’s all about who you know. Like this article?

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Nonprofit Tech for Good

AUGUST 29, 2022

Onboard and Train Volunteers. Learning this type of information about your volunteers can help your organization best utilize each volunteer to further your mission and even extend your internal team’s work. For some volunteer positions, training may be short as a few minutes, while training for others can take weeks.

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Gyrus

APRIL 29, 2019

What is the meaning of training and development and why it is important in an organization? Learn the boundaries of your LMS cater to international learners.

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sgEngage

APRIL 2, 2024

Create a Policies and Procedures Manual Once a new employee joins your team, having a comprehensive document outlining standard procedures for data entry will make that transition much easier on both the individual and the staff members training them. Consider the level of database training the user has. Does everyone get full access?

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JANUARY 27, 2014

Join me for a FREE Webinar: Training Tips that Work for Nonprofits on Jan.29th I’ll be sharing my best tips and secrets for designing and delivering training for nonprofit professionals that get results. 29th at 1:00 PM EST/10:00 AM PST. I use a simple structure to design: before, during, and after.

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The MatrixFiles

JUNE 20, 2023

He expects us to advocate for more training, and decide the cadence of our journeys. The post Leadership Lessons from the Martial Arts appeared first on Matrix Group International. My master tells lower belts that he will define their journey, but once a student makes black belt (remember, there are 10 degrees in most martial arts!),

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The MatrixFiles

JUNE 20, 2023

He expects us to advocate for more training, and decide the cadence of our journeys. The post Leadership Lessons from the Martial Arts appeared first on Matrix Group International. My master tells lower belts that he will define their journey, but once a student makes black belt (remember, there are 10 degrees in most martial arts!),

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VQ Strategies

FEBRUARY 28, 2024

Denver International Airport. collections or exhibit tours at museums, a fire fighting training center for a city, and the control tower at the – you guessed it – the airport [by now, we were all ready to sign up to volunteer at the airport!) CREATIVE GRATITUDE MESSAGES Social media posts Kudos cards (i.e.,

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MAY 15, 2012

I was honored to be a trainer as part of the launch of the ACE Leaders Project, a program developed by the Institute of International Education Sub-Saharan Regional Office and supported by the Packard Foundation. Most of the training days took place in rural Rwanda on Lake Muhazi – which was a beautiful place.

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ASU Lodestar Center

SEPTEMBER 3, 2014

Nonprofit Leadership Alliance ASU Lodestar Center The origin of the word “intern” goes back to the Latin and French meaning: to restrict or confine within prescribed limits, as prisoners of war, enemy aliens, or combat troops who take refuge in a neutral country. Include them in staff trainings and invite them to high level meetings.

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Eric Jacobsen Blog

APRIL 25, 2024

Grossman : Managers may struggle to identify burnout due to various reasons such as lack of training, high workload themselves, or simply not knowing the signs and symptoms of burnout. Today, I asked David Grossman of The Grossman group: Question: Why do you believe so many managers do not recognize burnout in their employees?

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MARCH 20, 2018

These “unassigned” prospects immediately become “assigned” because staff members with minimal training can substitute for gift officers and manage the cultivation process. Given that nonprofits are so under-resourced, replacing interns with bots might be provide a big boost in productivity for some. But it requires careful thought.

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Whole Whale

JANUARY 17, 2024

There is a massive risk with using LLMs that train on your data, and part of that risk is that we don’t fully understand the scale of that risk as it gets bigger. This is a potent metaphor as LLMs (Large Language Models) are described as being trained on oceans of web and other data. Bigger is different.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

SEPTEMBER 12, 2013

To create the report, an international body of experts in education, technology, and other fields convene on a wiki to review research, practice, and significant trends. As a practitioner, what interests me most using the data to gain insights about student interaction with material and courseware and tracking results of training.

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Gyrus

APRIL 14, 2015

As a youngster, I asked my dad how they worked, and he verbally described in exact detail the process of an Otto cycle internal combustion engine. How many of us have had to sit through PowerPoint presentations, and thought a picture would work better, or watched a training video and wanted the steps and instructions written down?

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MARCH 1, 2016

In a couple of weeks, one of the sessions I’m facilitating at the Nonprofit Technology Conference in San Jose is called “ How To Be A Wizard at Tech Training.” Our session will change the way you design and deliver technology trainings. 8 Tips for Designing Powerful Nonprofit Training Workshops. Design Labs.

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Eric Jacobsen Blog

FEBRUARY 13, 2024

You also ensure internal coordination of activities among team members. Marshall won an award for excellence in organization development from the American Society for Training and Development. You also monitor progress and ensure integrity in the team's operating processes.

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NonProfit Hub

OCTOBER 3, 2016

Nonprofits must improve their internal communications and nonprofit management to stay ahead of the trends. Further job training, professional development and even incentive-based pay benefits are other good places to start, among other areas that Pitman discusses in this episode. Marc advises you to just wait and see.

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Greater Giving

SEPTEMBER 12, 2023

Conduct staff training. Conduct staff training. After introducing the concept and purpose of AI, train staff on how to use the specific tools that they’ll use for fundraising. This includes providing them with educational resources and hands-on training. Clearly explain the purpose and benefits of AI tools.

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sgEngage

MARCH 7, 2024

Regular training for staff on the nuances of fund accounting can also help prevent misunderstandings and ensure compliance. Training your accounting teams on the importance of granularity in financial reporting and the use of resources like the UCOA can significantly improve your financial management practices.

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sgEngage

SEPTEMBER 25, 2023

Make information readily available to internal stakeholders so it’s easier for people to do their jobs. Talk to your funder, peers, and internal experts to ensure that you understand the language of grants and other funding sources. Foster strong internal partnerships. Will this help you launch a program or expand your reach?

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VisionLink

AUGUST 31, 2023

This position maintains existing processes, develops new processes to support internal coordination and external communication with customers, and develops and documents project plans and project milestones. The PM documents project specifications and manages custom projects as well as new customer launches.

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Association Analytics

JUNE 21, 2023

Provide training opportunities for employees and review your taxonomy from time to time to update any new processes. You may also consider training for all employees to become more familiar with how your association uses data. In this scenario, the data is there, it’s more likely a matter of internal culture and possibly budget.

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