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How to Design an Effective Nonprofit Staff Retreat: A Lesson from Life

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

How to Design an Effective Staff Retreat: A Lesson from Life – Guest Post by Karen Axelson from ETR. These steps reinforce the content, skills and information from the learning event. They remind participants of what they learned, and encourage them to apply new skills, even though they are no longer in the learning environment.

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Interesting Uses of Technology: Virtual Libraries in Second Life

Tech Soup

She is using the virtual media capabilities in Second Life , among others, to navigate her continued research. Success in Second Life. "Second Life libraries are examples of immersive learning environments ," explained Dr. Hill. " Dr. Hill shared some of those educational spaces in Second Life.

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Volunteer Training: Exceeding Expectations

Volunteer Hub

Here are a few additional benefits hands on training provides: Provides supporters with a safe learning environment. Offers supporters the opportunity to collaborate and learn from others. Consider providing volunteers with skill-development opportunities that can positively impact their life outside of volunteerism.

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At AFP Lead in Houston, Nonprofit Leadership Alliance students prepare for leadership liftoff

ASU Lodestar Center

We spent the day grouped with new leaders in the nonprofit sector learning vital skills for leadership and management. We listened to lectures, participated in reflections and had the chance to hear about real life experiences in the sector. Friday morning, the conference began again bright and early (at least to college students).

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A nimble approach to training and customer success

Nimble AMS

Trailhead is an online learning environment that offers developers and administrators a guided learning path through the key features of the Salesforce platform using a series of interactive, online tutorials. Learn more. Check out these resources to learn more about Nimble AMS customer success.

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6 Ways to Keep Corporate Partners Engaged During COVID-19

Classy

After roughly a year of managing the impact the coronavirus pandemic has had on business operations and daily life, nonprofits might be wondering how to continually keep their partnerships feeling meaningful and impactful. Together, Little Kids Rock and JBL distributed free headphones to kids in schools across eight cities.

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Developing staff technology skills in your nonprofit

NTEN

Maybe it imparts knowledge, but people can’t transfer that to a real-life environment. Match the learning environment as closely as possible to the environment where people must apply the skill. Tech training that actually works Let’s face it, a lot of technology training is garbage.

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