ASU Lodestar Center

NOVEMBER 2, 2022

Gabriella Billett President, Nonprofit Leadership Alliance Student Association at ASU. AFP Lead is a national conference where the best and brightest fundraisers gather to learn and share about their successes and trials in the nonprofit sector. In 2021, I was a student new to the nonprofit sector and unsure of my place.

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Socialbrite

JANUARY 15, 2021

T he biggest asset of a nonprofit or social enterprise is its employees. The tendency of a nonprofit organization (NPO), the vast majority of which have modest resources, is often to pass on this knowledge verbally when it would serve the organization better to codify it. How nonprofits can take advantage. Revenue generation.

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Classy

MARCH 24, 2021

The coronavirus pandemic has brought the power of corporate partnerships with nonprofits front and center. Businesses are able to help nonprofits fill financial gaps when donations have waned, and nonprofits have helped businesses find ways to actively support their communities during the public health crisis.

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Volunteer Hub

MARCH 3, 2022

Developing a training program that exceeds the expectations of volunteers will impact retention, engagement, and referral sources for your nonprofit. A study, performed by Middlesex University for Work Based Learning, found that 74% of people felt they weren’t achieving their full potential due to lack of development opportunities.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MARCH 31, 2014

So, I’m thrilled that community manager, Meghan Ventura, who is responsible for cultivating the community presence of Games for Change agreed to write this guest post about nonprofits who are using games for social change. And, don’t miss this special offer: Get 10% off tickets with the code beth_g4c14. You can register here.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JUNE 6, 2018

Note from Beth: Blocking out time for your nonprofit’s staff to do planning and work on areas like organizational culture is essential for success. These steps reinforce the content, skills and information from the learning event. They emailed a checklist “so our retreat learnings, connections and commitments stay alive.”

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

SEPTEMBER 1, 2009

The online conference is for the "Tech Responsible" individual within any nonprofit. It is a learning event to help you better understand how to manage technology. What You Get: Knowledge and skills from top experts and leaders in nonprofit technology. Affordable professional development in an interactive learning environment.

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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. You also need to consider the learning environment, any constraints, the delivery options, and the timeline for the project.

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NonProfit Hub

MAY 16, 2014

They’re no stranger to a fun and engaging learning environment. Introducing the first article in our series about the importance of nonprofit workplace culture. We’re interviewing real nonprofits that use these tactics and have experienced real results. But often, nonprofit organizations settle.

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Tech Soup

JANUARY 22, 2013

It often surprises people when I mention that education accounts for fully one-fifth of nonprofit activity , second only to human services. This site carefully aggregates and vets educational content from places like the nonprofit Khan Academy , PBS Kids , Discovery Channel , and other reputable online educational sources.

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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 course is about how to leverage networks and social media for learning and impact.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

SEPTEMBER 12, 2013

That sounds like the title of a report that NTEN might produce that surveys the technology landscape and nonprofit usage and provides an overview of what technologies nonprofits should be looking at in the next 1-5 years. It is particularly relevant to those who are using online learning environments.

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Nimble AMS

MAY 20, 2019

In Salesforce’s 1-1-1 program, the company donates 1 percent of its time, 1 percent of its product, and 1 percent of its money to support nonprofits. Salesforce offers myTrailhead, which allows you to customize the Salesforce Trailhead learning environment with your own content and branding. Fun and easy product training.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JUNE 25, 2007

For all my blog readers and participants on the NTEN Nonprofit Webmasters Affinity group who left comments, made suggestions, pointed me to resources, and shared screen captures of their stats. And yes, learning is time consuming and you can't really master a topic like this in 90 minutes let alone create a media piece.

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Tech Soup

JANUARY 20, 2010

A nonprofit organization with 13 full-time and 7 part-time staff, Holden aims to provide a safe, open-minded learning environment for students who haven't had success in public schools or elsewhere. With her family's support, Krystal applied to study at Holden High School , an alternative school in Orinda, California.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JUNE 13, 2007

Mentioned recent studies about taking laptops out of the classroom and there is a problem with using old metrics and it is important to look for new metrics and rethink learning environments in general. New learning environment puts games at the center. It is a new form of teaching, not just skill-based learning.

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Tech Soup

JULY 25, 2012

"The digital revolution is changing the hierarchy of information," said Dr. Valerie Hill in her recent visit to the Nonprofit Commons. She came to the Nonprofit Commons to share her areas of expertise in media literacy, human-computer interaction, and the impact of the digital revolution on education and libraries.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MAY 14, 2009

for online community managers or what education technology bloggers like Stephen Downes call " Personal Learning Environment." It strikes me that this a fantastic model for professional development 2.0

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JUNE 23, 2007

First, I've been following the recent stream of posts about "personal learning environments" but haven't delved in depth yet. Take for example this piece of learning about conversational screencasts. I was delighted to discover Stephen Downes screencast created with Camtasia for several reasons. tools I use.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

OCTOBER 19, 2006

These are complex learning environments where young people are making decisions, learning and collaborating with peers, etc. Learning is happening outside of school and it needs to be understood better. "It is important to recongize that these are complex learning environments and information systems.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

OCTOBER 14, 2005

I was reminded yet again about the importance of play and experimentation as part of the online spaces, particularly those that are learning environments. Video makes your story so much more alive and can enhance a nonprofit's telling of their story. Download pumpkins-apples-not-blogging.wmv.

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Gyrus

APRIL 5, 2018

In this search for information, it is vital to focus on the objectives you want to achieve by the e-learning courses or training. How about, will it work within your pre-existent learning environment? Outside of these answers, there is one more thing that you will definitely need to know. Any guesses?

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JUNE 15, 2007

Allan Benamer writes about " Party 4A Purpose " a new events sites for nonprofits. He describes it as Evite-Meetup-Upcoming for nonprofits. Since the software is alpha, Allan raises some important questions about whether the site is reinventing the wheel or filling an important need in the nonprofit sector?"

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Non Profit Quarterly

DECEMBER 15, 2021

Nonprofits and technology often don’t mix. The nonprofit landscape is littered with abandoned grant-funded and poorly maintained tech projects. It isn’t because nonprofits are fundamentally inept with technology, however. Ultimately, tech platforms require too much time and care to be just a side-project for most nonprofits.

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ASU Lodestar Center

APRIL 22, 2019

And yet, according to that April 2019 HBR study, Educating the Next Generation of Leaders , “the most difficult skills to teach, measure, or even articulate are leading, communicating, relating, and energizing groups,” all of which require collaborative learning environments, individual coaching and personalized learning plans.

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