Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

SEPTEMBER 12, 2012

At this year’s Council on Foundations conference in New Orleans, I had the honor of doing a mini-workshop for CEOs of Community Foundations as part of a half-day pre-conference session organized by the Knight Digital Media Center called “Digital Strategies for Community Foundations.”

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Bloomerang

JULY 19, 2023

Due to this collective mastery, your work offers an invaluable skill set that uniquely positions development professionals for leadership at nonprofit and philanthropic agencies. Do you serve K-12 students? Development professionals make a transformative difference in the success of nonprofits while honing essential leadership skills.

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AccelEvents

MARCH 8, 2021

The virtual summit offerings might include multiple speakers, product demos, session topics, workshops, and other ways to connect with both the presenters and attendees. Virtual Workshops & Webinars. Virtual workshops are virtual meetings that focus on providing smaller bites of content to potentially smaller audiences.

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Qgiv

FEBRUARY 26, 2024

Your participants get the chance to showcase their unique skills–whether it’s singing, dancing, or any other talent they’d like to show off. Students can raise money by selling products from a selected catalog that they can hand out to potential buyers. Brochure fundraiser Brochure fundraisers are a great option for schools.

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AccelEvents

MARCH 8, 2021

The virtual summit offerings might include multiple speakers, product demos, session topics, workshops, and other ways to connect with both the presenters and attendees. Virtual Workshops & Webinars. Virtual workshops are virtual meetings that focus on providing smaller bites of content to potentially smaller audiences.

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Saleforce Nonprofit

MAY 26, 2022

We invited WEF attendees to take a break from the hustle and bustle by going on a guided walking tour where they would hear from students and activists about their sustainability journeys at several stops connected to climate action, on both a global and a community level.

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Saleforce Nonprofit

SEPTEMBER 8, 2022

Find out more about our core products, including: Recruitment & Admissions, Student Experience, Advancement, Marketing & Communications, and K-12. After breakfast, head to Thursday’s education keynote at 9:00 AM, which will be all about wowing your students for lifelong success. Education: Power the future-ready institution!

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Connection Cafe

MARCH 11, 2019

Engaged current student and future alumni supporter : My daughter gets very excited when she hears talk about the university she’s attending. That’s because her university has done a great job of engaging her while she’s still a student. Engaged student and alumni turned non-supporter : . She will be one of the 26.3%

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Saleforce Nonprofit

SEPTEMBER 8, 2022

Find out more about our core products, including: Recruitment & Admissions, Student Experience, Advancement, Marketing & Communications, and K-12. After breakfast, head to Thursday’s education keynote at 9:00 AM, which will be all about wowing your students for lifelong success. Education: Power the future-ready institution!

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

AUGUST 17, 2017

Take for example, Fulbright Finland where I did a workshop with their staff about personal branding and professional networking. And, it pays off as students perform better on educational tests than their peers in other European countries. Taking brain breaks is an important work skill as well.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

AUGUST 20, 2014

Over the last 25 years I’ve been doing training, I’ve learned different and applied different methods from either being a “student” in a training facilitated by someone using a method, being trained in the method, co-designing with others, and designing and facilitating my own sessions. Facilitated Listening Skills.

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EveryAction

OCTOBER 31, 2016

Launched in 2012 by music legend Lady Gaga and her mother, Cynthia Germanotta, the Born This Way Foundation develops programs that support its mission to connect young people in safe ways and empowering them with the skills and opportunities that will inspire them to create a kinder and braver world. Children's Literacy Initiative.

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Bloomerang

SEPTEMBER 12, 2023

Training and capacity building: Offer training programs, workshops, and resources for journalists to improve their skills, adapt to new technologies, and stay competitive. Collaboration with academia: Partner with educational institutions to create programs that benefit both students and local journalism.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

NOVEMBER 18, 2014

The workshop used design-thinking based on Luma methodology to help participants develop a communications strategy for measuring impact. The process took participants through an assessment of the problems facing them, collective brainstorming, and prototyping. The hot button issue was capacity, skills, and lack of resources.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

FEBRUARY 18, 2014

Our session will share lots of great advice about what to do before , during , and after leading an effective technology training. Using the ADDIE for designing your workshop, you arrive at the “E” or evaluation. Can participants apply the skills?” What part of the workshop was most useful to your work?

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JANUARY 4, 2017

This past year took me to London to teach nonprofit leaders at workshops on digital strategy hosted by LinkedIn and Social Misfits, and to Cambodia to teach a series of workshops for Women’s Rights NGOs hosted by Wake International.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JANUARY 23, 2014

Graduate Students at MIIS Class Doing Group Exercise in Flexible Classroom Space. The ability to “shift” delivery formats – from say an interactive lecture to small group activities helps students pay more attention. Join me for a FREE Webinar: Training Tips that Work for Nonprofits on Jan.29th

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The Storytelling Non-profit

OCTOBER 5, 2021

But as I tell my students and clients regularly, writing to raise money is a learnable skill that you can master. Well, really the first bullet point of that process should read fret about my skills as a writer and whether or not I can pull this off, worry I can’t top what I’ve done before, worry that what I write will tank, etc.

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Tech Soup

FEBRUARY 3, 2015

Toronto, Ontario: Tech Connect Workshop. Orlando, Florida: Workshop: Must-Use Apps and Tools for Every Nonprofit. Cleveland, Ohio: Tech4Good Cleveland — Social Media Workshop. Busia, Kenya: Teaching Mobile Apps Development to High School Students. Tuesday, February 10, 2015. Houston, Texas: Monthly Meetup.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

OCTOBER 28, 2013

Participants from a nonprofit work on their network map during the workshop. Last week was a busy week, after keynoting the Nonprofit Solutions Conference in Kansas City , I facilitated a one-day workshop for the Center for Nonprofits on developing and measuring a sustainable integrated social media strategy.

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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.

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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. Workshops, Keynotes, Webinars, and Conference Panels: This year I did over 75 speaking engagements and presentations. Learn: Learning is not just for kids or students.

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Whole Whale

NOVEMBER 8, 2022

DREAM’s annual report is doing everything right: beautiful images, student stories, and (of course) thanking their donors. We especially love how they paired a full-page image of a student with key stats that support the organization’s overall mission, a mix of showing and telling. Check out the annual report template!

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Tech Soup

MARCH 29, 2016

Kibiribiri, Uganda: Building Capacities of Teachers and Students in Digital Storytelling. Washington, DC: Workshop: Crafting Powerful Stories. Washington, DC: April 26 Workshop: Crafting Powerful Stories. Building Capacities of Teachers and Students in Digital Storytelling. Friday, April 22. Saturday, April 23.

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Have Fun - Do Good

MARCH 16, 2011

They provide homeless teens with professional skills training and therapeutic experiences. She is also a Penn student and a current Top 15 National Finalist for the Washington Campus Compact's Students in Service Awards , as well as the winner of a DoSomething Grant.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JULY 2, 2012

After I finished teaching an intensive Networked NGO workshop for Packard family planning grantees in Delhi, I headed to Bangalore to visit my friend and colleague, Rufina Fernandes where I conducted a social media workshop for staff and teachers and got see a start up education company and its CSR program, close up.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

NOVEMBER 2, 2016

As a trainer, one of the most exciting parts of working on a book is developing instructional materials based on the content and leading workshops to help put the ideas into practice. Over the past six months, I have been developing and piloting workshops on self-care and we-care as part of the leadership development training I do.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MARCH 31, 2014

GlassLab ( [link] ) explores the potential for existing, commercially successful digital games to serve both as potent learning environments and real-time assessments of student learning. SimCityEDU has been piloted by over 100 teachers and 3,000 students. Games provide tremendous opportunities for learning about real-world issues.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JANUARY 4, 2016

I also taught networked leadership workshops as part of a larger team working with different social change networks. In the US, I gave workshops at nonprofit conferences in Iowa, San Antonio, Iowa, Tahoe, Palm Beach, Miami, and San Francisco on networked leadership skills.

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ASU Lodestar Center

OCTOBER 16, 2020

ECB involves a series of steps taken by an evaluator (internal or external) to build evaluative knowledge and skills, create a culture of continuous learning and accountability, and make resources readily available. Answer questions like: Did participants’ attitudes, knowledge and skills change? Guide to building evaluation capacity.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MARCH 5, 2014

The session will cover what to do before, during, and after leading an effective technology training and provide lots of practical tips that will help you design fun, interactive, and highly effective technology training workshops. John Kenyon and I wrote guest posts on the NTEN blog that will give you a flavor of what the session is about.

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The Science Behind Engaging your Supporters

NOVEMBER 27, 2018

The Alliance Management Institute (AMI) is a capstone experience for students seeking the Certified Nonprofit Professional (CNP) credential. Our institute is designed to advance the skills and knowledge of nonprofit professionals, volunteers, board members, and community leaders. Alliance Management Institute (AMI). Feb 21 - 24.

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Have Fun - Do Good

NOVEMBER 13, 2011

Dance 4 Peace is a conflict resolution, and civic education program that promotes empathy, understanding, mediation skills, anger management, and emotional and civic engagement through dance in youth around the world. ." -- Sara Potler Sara Potler is the Founder and CEO of Dance 4 Peace. Today, the program works in Washington, D.C.,

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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. The instructor’s role should be to facilitate this understanding for their students, not dump content on them. They gave the students tests based on content and scored them.

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Tech Soup

AUGUST 19, 2011

You could start off by downloading the curriculum on the My PC Program page , or you could take a look at the class handouts on the My PC Student page. My PC: 3 Hour Series Workshops A series of 3-hour basic computer and personal enrichment workshops designed for less tech savvy adult learners.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MARCH 25, 2014

Her photoshop skills were used in service of the star wars theme, including adding a red hat to Yoda. It is the trade off between doing a conference panel VS a workshop, perhaps this topic would have much more effective a pre-conference workshop. . — Rachel Hassinger (@solidarity4just) March 15, 2014.

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Everyaction

DECEMBER 12, 2017

The Alliance Management Institute (AMI) is a capstone experience for students seeking the Certified Nonprofit Professional (CNP) credential. Our institute is designed to advance the skills and knowledge of nonprofit professionals, volunteers, board members, and community leaders. Alliance Management Institute (AMI). Feb 15 - 16.

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