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Is the Higher Education Pipeline Shrinking or Just Taking a Nap?

sgEngage

People have been choosing to have fewer children, and that decline has significant implications for educational institutions worldwide. Re-evaluate your messaging. The phenomenon of our shrinking school-aged population is well documented. Adapt your marketing. Does it convey a unique advantage to potential applicants?

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How do you create a culture that is not afraid to fail (or be more receptive to social media?)

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

A few weeks ago, I had the pleasure of hearing Michael Quinn Patton , an evaluation guru, speak at the Packard Foundation. He described the challenges of adapting evaluation methods to non-Western systems in developing countries because evaluation has traditionally been deeply rooted in the Western ways of thinking.

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Member Round Up: Research galore, a handy handbook, and sandcastles as therapy

NTEN

Speaking of volunteers, Wild Apricot ''s post, The Mission Driven Volunteer, discusses a new definition and new models of volunteering. In a refugee camp in Jordan, Mercy Corps is putting the desert sand to use to help children displaced by conflict to feel like kids again. Get the full description and sign up for the webinar here.

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Member Round Up: Research galore, a handy handbook, and a sandcastles as therapy

NTEN

Speaking of volunteers, Wild Apricot ''s post, The Mission Driven Volunteer, discusses a new definition and new models of volunteering. In a refugee camp in Jordan, Mercy Corps is putting the desert sand to use to help children displaced by conflict to feel like kids again. Get the full description and sign up for the webinar here.

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Tech Across Your Org: Program and Fundraising Innovation Sprung from an Internal Technology Project

NTEN

We do this in in urban settings in Asia and Africa, where children live at the intersection of two streets: (1) worst water quality conditions and (2) greatest degrees of poverty. The children living here are our exclusive focus. In the end, we believe that children and donors are both better served.

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Games for Change Keynote: James Shelton, US Department of Education

NTEN

They can't build the schools and they can't train the teachers fast enough to replicate our model. And we don't need to do it for some of our children, but for all of them. I think the cross section of everyone getting into the development and gaming means we will need to evaluate what is quality and what isn't.

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