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The Role of DEI in Today’s Nonprofit

NonProfit PRO

Recently, a master’s level student and her professor at Mindanao State University in the Philippines asked me to lecture their class on nonprofit management principles. Since I enjoy teaching, I loved this class interaction.

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NYU Guest Lecture: Data for Strategy Building and Storytelling

Amy Sample Ward

Last week I had the huge honor of guest lecturing in Laurel Hart’s class for the masters course in Corporate and Organizational Communications at NYU’s school of continuing studies.

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Social Fundraising 101 – Are You In?

NonProfit PRO

This 10-lecture series will help you understand the past, present, and future of peer-to-peer fundraising, what elements are critical to its success, and where the landmines might be. Peer-to-peer fundraising dissected and explained. Social Fundraising 101 will prepare you to create, lead, or improve your peer-to-peer fundraising program.

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Social Fundraising 101

NonProfit PRO

This 10-lecture course will prepare you to create, lead or improve your own peer-to-peer fundraising program. Through this course, you will understand how to increase revenue, retention, and acquisition while learning what the people who fundraise need - a conversation that matters to them. Course is applicable for CFRE credits.

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Understanding Donor Intent and How to Honor It

Wild Apricot

Imagine for a minute that your old college has asked you for a donation to help renovate a lecture hall. Having fond memories of your post-secondary years and wishing to help improve the experience of current and future students, you happily make the.

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Guest Lecture: NYU – Data and Storytelling

Amy Sample Ward

Date : April 28, 2011. Location : New York, NY. Topic : Nonprofits & Social Media. Description : This class is part of the Master of Science in Public Relations and Corporate Communication program at NYU.

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Trainer’s Tip: Your Room Set Up Can Make or Break the Learning Experience

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

As a long-time trainer, professor, and teacher, I feel strongly that interactive learning activities – going beyond the death by Powerpoint Lecture – is the key to retention and application for participants. Your room set up can support your instructional activities that engage participants or get in the way.

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Receiving the 2011 CASE Award for Enterprising Social Innovation

Beneblog: Technology Meets Society

As part of receiving the ESI Award, I was thrilled to deliver the 2011 Annual ESI Lecture and to meet the Fuqua School’s community. I hope that in my lecture, I convince my listeners, especially students, that they don’t need technology degrees to succeed in high tech.

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KAUST Winter Enrichment Program 2013: Beginner’s Guide to Social Media

Amy Sample Ward

The course will include a lecture providing insight into the best practices of featured tools, and a hands-on learning component to help participants explore the tools directly on their laptops or in small group facilitated discussions.

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Day at University of Washington

Beneblog: Technology Meets Society

Leaders to Legends Breakfast Lecture Series

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Day at University of Washington

Beneblog: Technology Meets Society

Leaders to Legends Breakfast Lecture Series

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How to get your educational nonprofit into classrooms, without leaving the office

The Nerdy NonProfit

Teachers can work with students on a particular subject and have live video lectures bookend the units.

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Digital Analytics Basics: Free Online Academy from Google

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

They are also working on software that uses this approach in the classroom and takes the passivity and lectures out of classroom instruction. In the 60 minutes piece, it is referred to the flipped classroom or peer instruction a mindset that directs attention away from teachers and puts it squarely on the students and their learning.

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Flexible Space: The Secret To Designing Powerful Training

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

Certain room set ups encourage interaction between the participants and the workshop leader, others do not. The ability to “shift” delivery formats – from say an interactive lecture to small group activities helps students pay more attention. If you are trying to do an interactive lecture, it dampens interaction.

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Caltech: Founding Values

Beneblog: Technology Meets Society

Richard Feynman once tried to reduce an advanced physics concept to a freshman lecture. The first lecture I heard as a freshman at Caltech was delivered by Feynman on the topic of liquid helium three, and I was certain he did understand the topic! That’s the Caltech advantage!

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Top 10 interior design Apps – Free home design & decorating Online

Find the free stuff

From simple cooking lectures to do your bridal makeup, the world of applications has really made lives easy and simple. Currently, the applications available on Android and IOS devices helps most of us to save time, effort and money doing things we normally could not do. The good thing is that with the help of.

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Public speaking for change

Beneblog: Technology Meets Society

on choosing to be a nonprofit or a for-profit, based on my For Love or Lucre SSIR article 9/26 Kicking off the Stanford Social Entrepreneurship Lecture Series 10/1 Speaking at the Disability Rights Advocates board meeting 10/5 Duke Fuqua MBA High Tech Club Panel (Cloud Computing /Social Entrepreneurship panels) 10/5 Duke CASE Award for Enterprising (..)

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Giving 2.0: The MOOC Launches Today: Sign Up for Free

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

The lectures are brief, fun conversations in the forums, and worksheets are great. Each week is packed with content and activities as well as video modules exploring that theme. See you at the Giving 2.0 Training Design'

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Incorporate These Three Learning Styles When Teaching Employees Something New

Eric Jacobsen Blog

Lectures and class discussions are effective training tools. They do well in independent environments where they set their own pace. Auditory learners learn by listening. These employees are “tell-me” learners, who thrive in classroom settings. Group reading out loud and listening to tapes are both effective methods for presenting material.

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Trainer’s Notebook: The Importance of Hands-On Learning

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

As a long-time trainer, professor, and teacher, I feel strongly that interactive learning activities – going beyond the death by Powerpoint Lecture – is the key to retention and application for participants. Your room set up can support your instructional activities that engage participants or get in the way.

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Nonprofit Technology Training: Book List

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

Interactive Lectures by Sivasailam Thiagarajan. If you teach in higher education, you most likely will find yourself having to deliver a lecture. This book gives lots of methods to become a more effective trainer by ditching the lecture format. What books about learning and instructional design are on your book shelf?

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New on SSIR: Slacktivism, the gateway to change?

Amy Sample Ward

I recently did a guest lecture at The New School on the topic, I’ve had countless conversations with colleagues and friends, and I’ve been capturing ideas and questions to myself on scraps of paper everywhere. My guest lecture notes cover the first point, and today I want to share a few ideas about slacktivism as a gateway to change.

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The Science of Nonprofit Video Engagement: How To Use Emotion to Increase Social Sharing

Nonprofit Tech for Good

Their work has been featured in The New York Times, NPR, CNN and AdWeek and Doug is a guest lecturer at Stanford University on the power of storytelling for nonprofit organizations. He and his team work with nonprofits across the U.S. and around the world to create award-winning videos that drive results.

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Quality massive open online courses MOOCs learning technology

Gyrus

Gyrusaim's massive open online courses MOOCs allow the student to react and practice before the next lecture who have a unique learning style can experience it.

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Lame spam of the day: boundless online grant applications

Robert Weiner

I cling on to listening to the newscast lecture about receiving boundless online grant applications so I have been looking around for the finest site to get one. My first thought was that "boundless" online grant applications meant "endless", which would be horrifying. But maybe they mean "for unlimited amounts of money".

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March Cause Awareness: Women’s History Month

Qgiv

Do some research and see if there are any organizations or schools near you that are hosting workshops, lectures, film screenings, or other educational opportunities you can attend! Support women-owned businesses Women-owned businesses are a vital part of the economy , employing 10.1 million workers and generating $1.8

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The Sit-Ins: A Story of Creative and Strategic Struggle

DipJar

Museum programming, which included films and lectures, was also moved online. The development of a planned virtual tour — created to the same standards as the in-person version — was accelerated by COVID.

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[PODCAST] What’s Next? with Kathleen Janus

NonProfit Hub

Kathleen “Kelly” Janus is a social entrepreneur, author and lecturer at Stanford University’s Program on Social Entrepreneurship. , Randy and Kathleen Janus talk about social entrepreneurship and how it can be used to tackle some of society’s grandest problems.

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Back to School: New Tech for the Classroom of the Future

Byte Technology

Online resource EdSurge has even compiled a five-point list for educators to help understand and begin merging VR into their lectures and lab exercises as well as how to create their own custom-made videos as supplements to their normal teaching routines.

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Curious: My Word of the Year

Media Cause

After the 75 minutes of lecture and one-on-one discussions, it was clear what my word needed to be: . Mindful––great, but maybe a little too zen for my world. . And then I took a class on inquisitive leadership at COA, an organization that has created workshops for emotional fitness and resilience. What a wonderful little idea!

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How To Create A Welcoming And Productive Work Environment

Eric Jacobsen Blog

With 30 years of experience bridging gags in diverse workplaces, and as a sought-out lecturer and a TEDx speaker, Kriska provides expert insights and actionable strategies in her book to help you: Effectively repair division. Recognize warning signs. Proactively create opportunities.

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AI for Nonprofits and Social Good: Link Roundup

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

She was also interviewed on the City Arts and Lectures podcast recently and well worth a listen. AI Now Institute Co-Founder, Kate Crawford, shared the top line trends as a thread on Twitter.

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How To Unleash Your Full Potential

Eric Jacobsen Blog

Higgins is co-founder and CEO of private investment firm RSE Ventures and a lecturer and Executive Fellow at Harvard Business School. Embrace crisis : What initially seems unendurable may turn out to be the catalyst that takes you to the next level and unlocks your full potential. He was a guest shark on ABC’s Shark Tank seasons 10 and 11.

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How To Create A Welcoming And Productive Work Environment

Eric Jacobsen Blog

With 30 years of experience bridging gags in diverse workplaces, and as a sought-out lecturer and a TEDx speaker, Kriska provides expert insights and actionable strategies in her book to help you: Effectively repair division. Recognize warning signs. Proactively create opportunities.

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Peeragogy: Self Organized Peer Learning in Networks

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

On Monday, Rheingold delivered the UC’s Regents Lecture , “Social Media and Peer Learning: From Mediated Pedagogy to Peeragogy” prior to working with a group of students in a seminar and launching a process to co-construct a peeragogy handbook/sourcebook. What struck me was his authentic co-learning process with his students.

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8 Tips for Crafting an Appealing Year-End Email Appeal

The Modern Nonprofit

Treat your Email like a conversation rather than a lecture. But the truth is, this gratitude should be the first thing you discuss in your email, setting the tone for the rest of the appeal. Your appeal should focus more on your supporter than you.

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4 Clever Ways to Recruit and Retain More Members at Arts & Cultural Organizations

Connection Cafe

Bonus points if they’re accompanied by a related lecture and/or snacks.) I f your organization is in a big city — or if you just have a lot of visitors — special access to exhibits with smaller crowds is a major draw for potential members. . We purchased a membership on the spot , and I know we weren’t the only ones. .

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New Benetech board member, Robert Wexler

Beneblog: Technology Meets Society

Rob is also a lecturer at Stanford Law School where he teaches the Law of Nonprofit Organizations. He’s a principal at Adler & Colvin, San Francisco's top law firm specializing in nonprofit law. His practice focuses on tax and corporate matters for nonprofits and their donors.

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How To Create A More Inclusive And Diverse Workforce

Eric Jacobsen Blog

With 30 years of experience bridging gags in diverse workplaces, and as a sought-out lecturer and a TEDx speaker, Kriska provides expert insights and actionable strategies in her book to help you: Effectively repair division. Recognize warning signs. Proactively create opportunities.

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A reflection from two talks

NCE Social Media

Social Media and Fundraising – Guest Lecture at Point Park University from Dave Tinker, CFRE. Just because one network is best of agency X doesn’t mean it will be the same for agency Y. If you want to see my slides from the two talks just look below. It depends.