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Finding The Best Board Retreat Facilitator – 9 Things To Look For

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Have you ever sat through a board retreat and spent more time watching the clock, daydreaming, and checking texts than listening to the facilitator? Did your last facilitator stand behind a lectern and drone on like a record playing in slow motion? Facilitate and engage with confidence. Make the day fun. Credibility.

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June Cause Awareness: LGBTQIA+ Pride Month

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But there’s more to Pride Month than just fun celebrations. Their approach is holistic, with a variety of programs focused on cultural arts, wellness, and social justice. It is a celebration of the LGBTQIA+ community in Madison and also exists to support artists within the community.

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Using Design Thinking for A Foundation’s Investment Strategy

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

I was thrilled to work with the Brainerd Foundation staff to help design and facilitate a design lab using techniques based on Luma Institute methods earlier this month. Here’s what I learned about the facilitating design thinking processes: What Is A Design Lab? How do we leverage the “rain” of culture change?3.

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Traveling Postcards: Interview with Founder, Caroline Lovell

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By slowing down and making a piece of art for someone, we provide a personal connection to the issues and to individuals and create opportunities to see our commonalities despite geographic or cultural borders. Yet, I wanted to be that artist and still do. What is your favorite Traveling Postcards success story?

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How Can Nonprofits Switch From Scarcity to Abundance Mindsets When It Comes To Self-Care?

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

This makes it difficult for staff to strike a meaningful, sustainable balance between work and self-care because it does not permeate a organization’s culture or fundamentally change staff behavior. Recently, I had the opportunity to facilitate two design labs with nonprofit professionals. Practicing self-care is an abundance mindset.

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Guest Post by Stacey Monk: Dogooders Won’t Change the World (Alone)

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

And I think it’s good that we’re building such a fun, vibrant community…but not good enough. They’re jocks, geeks, artists, musicians and cheerleaders…and we need their help. This is about facilitating discovery, nurturing trust, sharing experiences, and light-weight focused request/responses.”. Generic license ).

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Traveling Couches and other Emergent Surprises Courtesy of an Open Platform

Museum 2.0

What started as a fun personal project for her will hopefully become part of our permanent history gallery--a space we are trying to make more interactive over the coming years. the most powerful evidence of it happening is when our active role as designers/facilitators becomes invisible.