Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JUNE 11, 2013

Stanford University lecturer Laura Arrillaga-Andreessen teaches students at Stanford about how to master philanthropy. The author of the book, Giving 2.0 , has just released all her teaching notes and syllabi, along with philanthropy library. The goals for the Giving 2.0 3) Giving 2.0: 3) Giving 2.0: 3) Giving 2.0:

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Eric Jacobsen Blog

FEBRUARY 25, 2021

Storytelling is a skill. A skill like any other skills needed for successful selling. Paul's Sell with a Story book includes : Model stories Skill-building exercises Enlightening examples from Microsoft, Costco, Xerox, Abercombie & Fitch, Hewlett Packard, and other top companies. If you have not read it, please do.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

DECEMBER 31, 2013

I taught social media integration and “ Train the Trainers ” workshops for trainers who would be delivering the curriculum throughout Tunisia. Teach: This is my passion, my calling, and my professional work. Most of work projects are capacity building and training other trainers. Year in Review.

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Eric Jacobsen Blog

OCTOBER 11, 2020

Storytelling is a skill. A skill like any other skills needed for successful selling. Paul's Sell with a Story book includes : Model stories Skill-building exercises Enlightening examples from Microsoft, Costco, Xerox, Abercombie & Fitch, Hewlett Packard, and other top companies. If you have not read it, please do.

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Eric Jacobsen Blog

MARCH 20, 2019

In The Way of the SEAL: Think Like an Elite Warrior to Lead and Succeed , ex-Navy SEAL Commander Mark Divine reveals exercises, meditations, and focusing techniques to train your mind for mental toughness, emotional resilience, and uncanny intuition. Mark : Yoga is the oldest warrior development program known to man. Any idea why?

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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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Eric Jacobsen Blog

JANUARY 4, 2014

In The Way of the SEAL : Think Like an Elite Warrior to Lead and Succeed , ex-Navy SEAL Commander Mark Divine reveals exercises, meditations, and focusing techniques to train your mind for mental toughness, emotional resilience, and uncanny intuition. Mark : Yoga is the oldest warrior development program known to man. Any idea why?

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

APRIL 24, 2011

In my interview, I shared that I didn’t know a modem from microwave, but that I had the passion and curiosity to learn and teach others. They hired me and it turned into a decade of learning and teaching others (artists, arts organizations, and arts educators) how to integrate this technology into their work and organizations.

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Connection Cafe

DECEMBER 11, 2020

For some of your opportunities, you might need to interview or screen a volunteer before they can participate. Consider interviewing volunteers with a video chat or conferencing tool, like Zoom or Skype. For instance, create a specific group for those who are skilled in coding and web design. Take your training online.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

NOVEMBER 12, 2015

When thinking about adding mobile/online polling to a training, you have to think like an instructional designer for it be effective. Help participants self-assess their skills or attitudes by seeing aggregate data on the screen together and have it be catalyst for reflection. I told them to come back at a precise time.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JANUARY 5, 2012

Content delivery is less important then the skill to making sense of it and that needs to be what “classroom time” is about. It’s more fun to teach this way and more fun to learn this. Allan Gunn from Aspiration and his legendary facilitation skills and knowledge. That’s the theory at least.

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Allegiance Group

MARCH 14, 2024

For instance, onboarding volunteers can be incredibly taxing, often involving paperwork, training, and background checks. Ensuring volunteers get the proper training is critical, especially if working with children. The software can also hold training programs and learning modules to get volunteers up to speed.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

APRIL 3, 2013

First I had to “ Stop Fearing the Spreadsheet ” and then started to interview nonprofit data nerds about their Excel secrets. You can follow this syllabus to boost your skills at all stages of the data analysis process. I call these “housekeeping skills” because these techniques keep my data neat and tidy.

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Qgiv

OCTOBER 27, 2021

These volunteers should have the time, skills, and interests to help you provide programming and services to your beneficiaries. This will influence how many volunteers you’ll need to recruit and train. This is a great way to find volunteers with skills that can benefit your organization in a variety of ways.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

APRIL 27, 2012

Last week, I had the pleasure of working with a group of Population and Reproductive Health grantees from Pakistan on 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.

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Forj

JULY 25, 2017

Dr. Hicken and I interviewed one of the three editors who put this book together, Mary G. In our interview, Dr. Hicken and I prompted Dr. Turco to discuss editorial decisions and specific chapters she felt deserved special call out for the readers of this blog. Turco why their team of editors felt there was a need for this book.

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Eric Jacobsen Blog

JUNE 9, 2014

In The Way of the SEAL : Think Like an Elite Warrior to Lead and Succeed , ex-Navy SEAL Commander Mark Divine reveals exercises, meditations, and focusing techniques to train your mind for mental toughness, emotional resilience, and uncanny intuition. Mark : Yoga is the oldest warrior development program known to man. Any idea why?

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Eric Jacobsen Blog

JANUARY 1, 2018

Storytelling is a skill. A skill like any other skills needed for successful selling. Paul's Sell with a Story book includes : Model stories Skill-building exercises Enlightening examples from Microsoft, Costco, Xerox, Abercombie & Fitch, Hewlett Packard, and other top companies. If you have not read it, please do.

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Connection Cafe

APRIL 28, 2020

sign up) to ask for donations (see our “No Money, More Problems” webinar for how), or host fundraising-specific events like multi-day virtual galas with different speakers, trainings on best virtual fundraising practices and webinars with donor special guests. – Plan a weekly “teach in” series about COVID facts and advice.

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Tech Soup

MAY 20, 2009

Technology and youth can go hand in hand… if you have the right tools, techniques, and training. They are teaching skills that not only captivate the imagination, but create general technology awareness, and build skills for developing a college portfolio and securing internships. Space is limited, register today

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Bloomerang

MAY 24, 2021

Do this via survey, focus group, or one-to-one interviews. Solis says successfully navigating the novel nonprofit economy will require a “new operating system” in which skills like creativity and innovation will be at a premium. Do you have needed staff and volunteer resources, including plans to train, engage and retain them?

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Tech Soup

APRIL 29, 2013

Although the challenges differ by region, the outcome is the same everywhere: young people are simply not gaining the 21 st century skills and experience required for today's workforce. Through the program, the native San Franciscan learned valuable business skills, received tech training, and made job connections.

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Eric Jacobsen Blog

OCTOBER 10, 2016

Storytelling is a skill. A skill like any other skills needed for successful selling. Paul's new book includes : Model stories Skill-building exercises Enlightening examples from Microsoft, Costco, Xerox, Abercombie & Fitch, Hewlett Packard, and other top companies. It didn’t take long). That wasn’t fair.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JANUARY 27, 2010

Cliff Atkinson's new book, The Back Channel is a must read for anyone presenting at conferences or planning trainings in age of social media. But what's even better is that this wasn't an isolated training, it was part of an new online community called Engage365 which runs on a platform called " Conference 2.0 ".

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Forj

APRIL 22, 2021

From investing in upgraded LMS technology to creating a learning business plan to instructional design, each task involves a specific skill set that the average association professional may not have. You don’t know what types of training would be most beneficial for your members. Virtual event planning.

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Have Fun - Do Good

JUNE 20, 2006

As I mentioned in yesterday's post, I splurged and got the interviews I've been doing for my podcast transcribed by CastingWords, so I'll be posting an interview each day this week. Yesterday I posted the transcript from my interview with Ilyse Hogue of the Rainforest Action Network. I like CastingWords overall. Britt Bravo: Hi!

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NonProfit Hub

MARCH 26, 2015

Engagement starts from the recruitment of volunteers and includes training, retention efforts and also appreciation. What skills are they trying to gain when they are giving to your organization?”. A HALO staff member will then conduct a phone interview and bring in the volunteer for a face-to-face interview with employees.

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Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

MARCH 19, 2007

Being an independent consultant was, for me, a way to feel like I was using my skills for the greater good. I decided several weeks ago, for a variety of reasons, to retire my independent consultant hat. Whatever emerges next, you’ll hear about it, for sure. (In In other words, no I don’t exactly know what I am doing next, yet.)

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NonProfit Hub

MAY 1, 2015

Fulwider said it might seem like a “Herculean task” to build a pool of candidates, but it will take some time to get to the point where you are interviewing candidates and turning quality people away. We’ve all been in positions where we have interviewed for a job and we’ve talked a good game,” Fulwider said. “I

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Eric Jacobsen Blog

JANUARY 31, 2016

Drawing on extensive research, including a comprehensive, original workplace survey and in-depth interviews with Millennial managers, Millennials Who Manage , offers teaches Millennial readers how to overcome workplace perceptions and become great leaders. What makes you believe this?

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

OCTOBER 18, 2006

I met Laura at Boston Podcamp very briefly and grabbed her card so I could catch up with her for an interview for Blogher. ve presented my 15SecondPitch workshop at: Streetwise Partners and the National Foundation for Teaching Entrepreneurship. Why did you launch your company? After 9/11/01 in New York, the economy was truly dismal.

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ASU Lodestar Center

JANUARY 11, 2013

the number of individuals receiving the services, number of trainings provided, number of animals rescued, etc.). Outcomes usually imply changes in behavior, condition, skills, attitudes or knowledge in the individual, community or other target population. An Interview with Ken Berger, president and CEO, Charity Navigator.

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Bloomerang

AUGUST 2, 2022

Writing is a skill learned early in life, and most of us disliked writing and grammar classes as much as we disliked eating vegetables. A single compelling press release might land you a national television interview that leads to 100 new donors and $100,000 in funding. That won’t cut it. That won’t cut it. Is the text well formatted?

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Amy Sample Ward

JUNE 6, 2011

We we use the “with” instead of the “for” perspective, we are able to see skills and contributions the community can make, opportunities for growth outside of your programs or your walls; we are able to see that we are part of a solution and not responsible for engineering the entire fix. But, we have to train them! Remember the car?

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Nonprofit Tech for Good

DECEMBER 14, 2022

They can be a video interview with the donor about the mission. If you are with a job training program, maybe you make a bookmark that is focused on job interview tips. Plug donor skills into the work. Free access to trainings or programs that normally have a fee. These need not look like a commercial.

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Non Profit Quarterly

AUGUST 25, 2022

Research backs up their claim: Studies show that incarcerated individuals who participate in prison education programs are 43 percent less likely to return to prison than those who did not enroll; yet, only a quarter of people in prison participate in vocational training programs.

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Have Fun - Do Good

APRIL 25, 2008

The following is an edited transcript of an interview I did with her on March 25th, 2008 for the Big Vision Podcast. Then, I moved into the world of teaching. That is a project that trains low-income women, or no-income women, to tell their own stories through audio documentaries. Participate in workshops, lead a workshop.

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